7. Burning Sea/Bay - Shadowcloaked Swimming Bosses?

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Burning Sea/Bay - Shadowcloaked Swimming Bosses?

Burning Bay/Sea - Red runekey - two bosses?

[Corbon Loughnan]

Burn Bay/Sea SOB Island level Errata.

Background:
There are three issues:
First, the island has two different names, Burning Bay and Burning Sea
- one on the game-board Map and one in the rulebook for the island
level map.
Second, uniquely among levels with multiple leaders there is no
instruction for getting the red runekey. In every other level with
multiple leaders there is a clear instruction for getting the red
runekey - usually, but not always, by killing all the leaders.
Third, the leaders on this level are Master Spiders. They also have
ShadowCloak. Master spiders have Swim.
While the leaders start a long way from the water, they are fast and
quite capable of getting to the water (especially as there are two of
them). Once they get to the water they are almost invulnerable with
the combination of speed, swimming and Shadowcloak. Unless a hero has
Keen Sight (ignore shadowcloak) a hero must swim out into deep water
in order to attack them - whereupon they can easily move swiftly far
away.
The Revenge, BTW, is almost unable to maneouvre much on island, and
certainly cannot get adjacent to the leaders if they make it to deep
water and move to the edge of the map.
This may be intended. Or it may be an oversight. It is very easy for
even copper Bosses to be effectively invulnerable on this level. If
they either lost the Swim ability, or did not have shadowcloak (there
are plenty of trees around to provide shadowcloak if they stay ashore)
then there would not be a huge disparately in possibilities on this
level.

Question 1:
Is Burning Bay and Burning Sea the same location?

Answer 1:
A1. Yes
A2. No (please provide explanation!)

Question 2:
How is the red runekey obtained at the Burning Bay/Sea level?

Answer 2:
A1. By killing both leaders.
A2. By killing either of the two leaders.
A3. Some other method
A4. No red runekey is necessary. The cavern entrance on this level is
unlocked.

Question 3:
Are the (Master Spider) leaders at the Burning Sea/Bay supposed to
have both Shadowcloak and Swim abilities?

Answer 3:
A1. Yes - harden up heroes!
A2. No. Remove the Swim ability from these two Leaders as they are too
heavy for swimming.
A3. No. Remove the Shadowcloak ability from these two leaders.
A4. No. Remove the Swim ability from (leader 1) and the Shadowcloak
ability from (Leader 2)
A5. Yes. However the Leaders from this level may not move off the
island
A6. Something else?

[Corbon Loughnan]

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