The Muster-Sergeant
Boss · The Muster Yard · band B, The Ante-Hell
Where The Muster-Sergeant waits
The Muster-Sergeant holds the gates at depths 1,600, 1,800, 2,000 in The Muster Yard, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Uncounted.
What The Muster-Sergeant is
The Muster-Sergeant is a Knight: it swings a sword, and the body asks for fast builds beware: the more you swing, the more it hits back — and it wards off blows from afar. As a boss it wears the type's defences at 35%, carries no status of its own, and enrages below half health: it hits harder and moves faster.
The Muster-Sergeant by the numbers
The card at each gate — health, damage per swing, armour and the modifiers it rolls — straight from the game's spawn table. On the floor the boss leads with 60% of the card's health and 60% of its damage, before the road's own pressure.
What those modifiers do
OF SHOCKING DEATH- leaves a pool of lightning where it falls
LUCKY- 15% of its blows land twice over
THICK-SKINNED- Overwhelm and armor you ignore count at half
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
SUNDERING- every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s
OF FLAMING DEATH- leaves a pool of fire where it falls
PIERCING- penetrates 25% of your resistances
STORMSHIELDED- +75% lightning resistance (capped at 75%)
BARRIERED- Opens behind a barrier worth 25% of its health
WITHERING- every blow leaves damage over time on you: 15% of the blow each second for 4 s
OF DAMAGING- the pack within 4.5 tiles hits 25% harder
FIREPROOF- +75% fire resistance (capped at 75%)
OF PRECISION- the pack within 4.5 tiles crits 15% more often
Modifiers are rolled per depth and are the same for every player. Bosses always carry at least 3 and never a pace modifier (SWIFT, BRUTE), so a boss's swing rhythm is its own; of the seals only the walls — BLOODLESS, INERT, ASHEN, ETHEREAL, DENSE — ride a boss. The full list is in Enemy modifiers.
At its first gate The Muster-Sergeant leads with 25,876,942 health, against 26,876,852 for the leader one floor above, and swings every 1.25s.
What a gate floor is
A gate is a floor like any other, with the boss leading its last pack. Nothing below it opens until the floor is cleared. A lost floor costs nothing; you can fight it again. How a floor is fought is under Combat.
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