Keep It Guessing

For Rune-blade in The Rune Colossus (The Clockwork vault, room 160). This guide earns Keep It Guessing. The Steam and mobile builds track achievements; the web build does not.

Not filmed yet. This route was checked by replaying it through the game’s own achievement judge, which awarded the achievement, but no video of it exists. The turn list below is read from that replay.

The rule

Win The Rune Colossus (room 160); at least two distinct damage-school categories deal positive damage to the boss; zero guard-blocked hit attempts against it. Hits from the same school count together as one category.

Before you begin

The verified run used the Rune-blade kit after 159 draft picks, one for each earlier room, in the order below. Every pick is one the game offered at that point. A different draft gives a different kit, and the script may then need changes.

The script

step right
step right
face right
cast rune throw
face right
cast lunge
face up
cast rune throw
face right
cast reaping cut
face right
cast thunder blade
face right
cast reaping cut
face right
cast thunder blade
face right
cast reaping cut
face down
cast lunge
face down
cast overload cut
step up
face up
cast rune throw
face up
cast ricochet rune
face up
cast rune throw
face up
cast ricochet rune

Enter it exactly as shown, keeping the indentation, and press Play. The verified run took 17 turns, 31 executed instructions and 31 rows and finished with 32 HP.

Turn by turn

1. Turns 1 to 2: Step right (2 times).
3. Turn 3: Cast Rune throw. Rune throw hits the Rune Colossus for 14.
4. Turn 4: Cast Lunge. Lunge hits the Rune Colossus for 11.
5. Turn 5: Cast Rune throw. Rune throw hits the Gear sentry for 14; Thorns hits the Rune Colossus for 1; Thorns hits the Gear sentry for 1; Thorns hits the Gear sentry for 1; You lose 2 HP to the Rune Colossus; You lose 5 HP to the Gear sentry; You lose 5 HP to the Gear sentry.
6. Turn 6: Cast Reaping cut. Reaping cut hits the Rune Colossus for 24.
7. Turn 7: Cast Thunder blade. Thunder blade hits the Rune Colossus for 21; Thorns hits the Rune Colossus for 1; You lose 7 HP to the Rune Colossus.
8. Turn 8: Cast Reaping cut. Reaping cut hits the Rune Colossus for 24.
9. Turn 9: Cast Thunder blade. Thunder blade hits the Rune Colossus for 23; Thorns hits the Rune Colossus for 1; Thorns hits the Gear sentry for 1; Thorns hits the Gear sentry for 1; You lose 7 HP to the Rune Colossus; You lose 5 HP to the Gear sentry; You lose 5 HP to the Gear sentry.
10. Turn 10: Cast Reaping cut. Reaping cut hits the Rune Colossus for 24 and it dies.
11. Turn 11: Cast Lunge. Lunge hits the Gear sentry for 11.
12. Turn 12: Cast Overload cut. Overload cut hits the Gear sentry for 43 and it dies.
13. Turn 13: Step up. Thorns hits the Gear sentry for 1; You lose 5 HP to the Gear sentry.
14. Turn 14: Cast Rune throw. Rune throw hits the Gear sentry for 12.
15. Turn 15: Cast Ricochet rune. Ricochet rune hits the Gear sentry for 9.
16. Turn 16: Cast Rune throw. Rune throw hits the Gear sentry for 13.
17. Turn 17: Cast Ricochet rune. Ricochet rune hits the Gear sentry for 5 and it dies.

What to watch

• The Colossus has to take damage from at least two different schools, with no hit blocked by its guard. The verified run hits it with Rune throw, Lunge, Reaping cut and Thunder blade (turns 3 to 10) and no hit is reported blocked.
• The gear sentries are killed after the Colossus. The room ends with 32 HP.

If it does not unlock

The achievement is checked on a replay of a won run. Win the room with a script that follows the rule above; a run that does not meet every clause wins the room and earns nothing.