Corelyn jen Bellor

Oriens Workshop 16 - 4-Person (Normal) / 8-Person (HM/Ex) Trial 

Location: Beneath Castrum Oriens, Workshop 16

Quest: Aether De-anima-ted
"The Xth Legion's dangerous Project Anima is nearing completion. Its lead engineer, Corelyn jen Bellor, has developed some mysterious breakthrough that could provide the Empire with another powerful means of destruction they hardly need. The project must be stopped at all costs and Bellor captured or slain before whatever horrible creation she's creating is complete!"

Music:
Dialogue: Kiss of Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VMhVBUuM8

Phase 1: Steel Reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL7evVWK1gA

Phase Switch, Phase 2: Ultima 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrtICZyzNo


Pre-Fight Dialogue:
"There truly is not much I can say that would not sound overdone, but... consider me surprised that this caught anyone's attention, let alone enough for... this." v
"But consider for a moment that we fight for a same cause. We both seek to eliminate the eikons that plague the land, do we not?"

Dialogue Choices:
1. "Yes, but not like this!"
2. "We don't need the Empire's help."
3. "That's not all this will be used for and you know it."
4. "..."

Responses:
1. "Then what would you do? Struggle for eternity until this very star is devoid of life? I can't let you stop my work!"
2. "Then you are a stubborn fool. Fine, then! If this is what you savages want, then you will have to go through me."
3. "I... I know. But this war must end, one way or another, as must the eikons. I am sorry. But I cannot let you stop this project."
4. "Your silence will not intimidate me. If you mean to stop this project, then you will have to kill me. Prepare yourself."

Combat Dialogue:
"Bloody barbarians! It's always 'Fight first, logic later!' Be that way, then!" - Fight Start
"Stay back!" - Magitek Shield Pulse
"Ugh... You won't find me so simple a target!" - First set of Magitek Bits
"Why... won't you... listen?!" - 55% Health, before Phase Switch
"You've forced my hand. This ends now!" - Phase Switch 
"Impossible! H-how did...?!" - Surviving Phase Switch
"Damn your ignorance!" - Survivor's Guilt
"We could be allies! We could save this world, all of us!" - 10% Health 
"I... I never wanted... this..." - Defeat

Fight:
Phase 1: Corelyn: Architectus
Corelyn engages the party, shielded by a magitek barrier and wielding her gundagger, Anthyllis. She will fire shots at random party members, and will toss ceruleum grenades, as well as summon magitek bits to impede players.

Invulnerability - Corelyn rendered invulnerable by her magitek shield. Lost after Magitek Shield Pulse is interrupted.

Auto-Attack - [Instant, Global CD] Corelyn thrusts Anthyllis at the highest enmity target.
Rosefire - [Instant, 8 sec CD] Fires a pink-hued round at a random ranged target. Deals moderate damage and leaves a dispellable "Burns" debuff.
Ceruleum Grenade - [4 sec cast, targeted AoE, 12-second CD] Tosses a ceruleum grenade at a targeted party member, causing an explosion with a 10-yalm radius. Does heavy damage and leaves a 30-second heavy debuff. Targeted area will burn for 15 seconds afterward with Burning Ceruleum.
Magitek Bits - [Instant] Calls out Magitek bits that fire beams across the field. Beams deal heavy damage and inflict vulerability for 1 minute. 4 are called per cast. Cast with every 15% health lost until 55% (total 3 times, 12 Bits).
Magitek Shield Pulse - [3-second cast, interruptible, 10-second CD] Causes a burst of energy that will stun all players within 5 yalms. If this is interrupted, it will disable her Invulnerability buff. If it is used successfully, Corelyn will regain invulnerability.


Ultimate/Phase Switch: Leveller
At 40% health, Corelyn overcharges her shield and uses a teleporting device. Alarums are set off, and two Saboutaged Reapers appear. Sabotaged armours will cast photon stream on a 15-yalm line toward the highest enmity target for each. If kept close to one another for more than 10 seconds, they will self-destruct and deal lethal damage to all players. If not killed within 30 seconds, Leveller will trigger the self-destruct as a bomb slowly descends onto the field with a pulsing damage radius.

When Saboutaged Reapers are defeated, they remain where they are, and will still self-destruct if brought too close together. After 30 seconds, if both are defeated when Leveller's timer expires and the bomb touches down, they will still explode, but will one-third damage.


Phase 2: Corelyn: Animatus
Corelyn reappears, having donned modified Garlean armour and wielding her gun-rapier, Dianthus. She no longer possesses her magitek shield, but deals increased damage and has higher resistances. She no longer calls Magitek Bits, tosses Ceruleum grenades, or uses Magitek Shield Pulse. However, Rosefire is now Empowered Rosefire and she gains new abilities from wielding the prototype Anima Module.

Aetherward - [Instant, 10 sec rotation] Every 10 seconds, Corelyn becomes resistant to magic, physical melee, or physical ranged attacks and takes 50% less damage from that source until a new resistance is gained.

Auto-Attack - [Instant, Global CD] Corelyn thrusts Dianthus at the highest enmity target.
Empowered Rosefire - [Instant, 8 sec CD] Fires a pink-hued round at a random ranged target. Deals slightly more damage, knocks back 10 yalms, and leaves a much more potent, but still dispellable, "Burns" debuff.
Survivor's Guilt - [5 second cast, 15 sec CD] Corelyn unleashes a storm of charged thrusts and slashes in a 10-yalm radius. Deals heavy damage, knocks back 10 yalms, and leaves a stacking damage down debuff for 1 minute.
Ruination - [Instant, 5 sec CD] Corelyn blasts the highest-enmity target with concentrated, unstable aether, dealing moderate damage and applying a stacking vulnerability up debuff (max 5) for 12 seconds.


HM Differences:
Mechanics carry over from Normal with the following differences:

Phase 1: 
Rosefire/Ceruleum Grenades - Rosefire will leave small burning areas on the ground under the target hit. If the Burning Ceruleum areas from Ceruleum Grenades and Rosefire touch, they explode and deal heavy damage to the entire area.
Magitek Bits - 2 extra Bits spawn each time Bits appear.
Feedback - When interrupting Magitek Shield Pulse, the interrupter will be knocked back 10 yalms and suffer a stacking vulnerability debuff for 30 seconds.

Ultimate/Phase Switch:
Magitek Cannon - [4 second cast, 15 sec CD, 10y radius] Saboutaged Reapers will fire a magitek cannon at one player at random.
Leveller - Leveller increases the explosion range of destroyed Saboutaged Reapers by 15 yalms.

Phase 2:
Ruination - Now deals very high damage damage and inflicts a potent, but dispellable "burns" debuff on top of vulnerability.
Survivor's Guilt - Now reduces all targets hit to half current HP and applies a 1 minute febrile debuff instead of damage down.
Ceruleum Grenade - Still used from Phase 1.


Ex Differences:
Mechanics carry over from HM with the following differences:

Phase 1: 
Security Bit - [3 second cast, 5 sec CD] A permanent, non-targetable Magitek Bit will hover above Corelyn, targeting a random player and firing a beam in that direction.
Magitek Bits - Bits are now shielded from ranged attacks and can only be damaged within 5 yalms. Players within 5 yalms take persistent electric damage every 2 seconds.

Ultimate/Phase Switch:
Imperial Mechanic - An alarum is raised and an imperial mechanic will appear with each armour, casting repairs on it that must be interrupted. This is a high-HP add that can only be killed by Leveller.
Leveller - Leveller increases the explosion range of destroyed Saboutaged Reapers by 20 yalms. Safe spaces are very small.

Phase 2:
Ruination - Ruination will now instantly kill a target still affected by the "burns" debuff.
Magitek Bits - 6 Magitek Bits are summoned at 30% health and then again at 15% health.[/b][/b]

Spoiler
Mechanics:

This battle is a rhythm game~!


Phase 1 - 100-75%:
Even tempo, 4-note chords.

Phase 2 - 75-25%:
Faster tempo, 5-note chords.

Phase 3 - 25-0%:
Much faster tempo, 6-note chords.


The map is broken up into a theater-esque layout. Y’raja will be positioned in a large inner circle while players must file into either of two connected platforms. There is a panel on either side that a player must activate to begin the encounter.

These sections will have three circles on the ground with corresponding symbols. Players need to run across these glowing circles to play notes that match the chords Y’raja plays. (There will be a timer element on the UI in additional to a visual cue to denote exactly when players should hit their respective notes.) The ‘notes’ are only marked by sound and symbols. The order of these are randomized each time you start a new instance, and players are constantly being cycled in and out to attack Y'raja (minus healers), so every player should memorize every symbol and its note at the start.

Whenever the party fails to match a note (not the chord as a whole), the raid will receive Dissonance. After Dissonance reaches a certain amount of stacks, the raid will wipe to Y'raja's signature attack, The Godsrain.

Y’raja directly fights two people at a time in this encounter. A tank and a DPS are chosen at random after a series of chords are successfully completed (I was thinking maybe around 3-6). This is marked by a buff called Harmony. Once Harmony runs out, the chosen duo is launched back to their respective platforms.


Here's a dumb diagram:



Important Attacks/Debuffs:

Harmony -- A temporary buff that increases damage output by 25% (while temporarily replacing Dissonance… solely for the sake of logic). This is to account for the fact that only two people can fight her at a time. Only people with Harmony can activate the jump pads to Y’raja’s platform. Has a duration of one minute and fifteen seconds. When Harmony ends, both players are launched back to the platforms they came from.

Drifter's Scherzo -- Basically an OP Wanderer's Minuet that's actually useful. A 30-second buff that increases Y'raja's damage output by 50%, while lowering her defense by 50%. This buff also enables her the ability to use 'Drifter's Lament'.

Drifter's Lament -- An attack with a 3-second cast time that will one-shot the DPS. It can be stunned or silenced.

Dissonance -- A permanent debuff that is placed on the entire raid 1 stack at a time. Dissonance occurs whenever the raid misses a note. After every series of 5 chords, Y’raja performs 'Godsrain'. If the raid has more than 6 stacks of Dissonance, the raid wipes.

Godsrain -- Operates just like Sagittarius Arrow (BRD LB3), but it effects the entire raid. All players are showered by a torrent of magical arrows, dealing damage that healers can easily handle. Once that ends, these arrows explode. The damage dealt by this explosion multiplies based on the amount of Dissonance stacks the raid currently has.


Strategy:

Chords:
Each DPS will eventually be chosen to go with a tank to fight Y'raja 2 on 1. To account for the cycling in and out of people, every party member must know their symbols/notes. To help with this, parties should refer to 'note circles' as 1-6. Station a party member at each note. Tanks just wait on standby and take over if a DPS on their side must leave to fight Y'raja.

As the fight goes on, the tempo and complexity of note combos increases slightly. Just pay attention and you're fine.

2v1 Duel:
All the DPS needs to do is DPS. The tank's job is just to hold aggro, help DPS, and stun Drifter's Lament. Easy.


Note: If a fight like this actually existed, there'd be probably colors and/or visual cues to accommodate for the colorblind and hearing impaired.

Spoiler
[youtube]grlI6R7D6Xo[/youtube]Once Alyx reaches 5% life, the shade of her mother imbunes her with untapped potential, giving her full life once more and starting the last phase. It retrains the Mana bombs as the second but now on occasion, her sisters will join in and apply their special abilities, with Gaia's being cast last and only lasting for twenty seconds.

At seventy five percent, Alyx will gain a shade of herself that will echo her Ruin III spell that cannot be tanked and will fire off at range. It's weaker than her main Ruin so do not feel overwhelmed

At 50% she will summon another shade that will cast a Lava Bolt onto a location where the farther you are the less everyone takes. It comes in once every minute until the end.

At 25% Alyx will infuse herself with the power of her elemental crystals. All abilities up to this point stop casting and being used but now she has a saber of all six elements imbuned. From there it's a burn phase while still matching the colored bombs accordingly.

All of the stuffScene: Adventuring group comes into a brightly colored room. There's a large table with multiple glasses, mugs, cups, and all kinds of various drinks ranging from water to wine and amazingly comfortable chairs. A lone buff Keeper Miqo'te in white heavy armor in a carbuncle themed mask is currently sitting at the table. He speaks in a deep and slow voice and waves to the table in a lazy fashion "Please, sit with me. Have a drink. I needed the company". 

Typical combat route:
After about 10 seconds of nobody taking the bait, he stands. "I take my job as ambassador seriously. I insist you become comfortable, and I said sit". Again, he begins to speak after a few seconds. "So, you haven't come for leisure... You've come to fight, then? It brings me no joy, but so be it. I won't deny you the chance to seek your pleasure".

He pulls out a large club and smashes the table sending drinks and cups flying, opening the fight with an AoE. "If you do not wish for leisure, then show me what you take enjoyment from!" The first phase is fairly straightforward tank and spank with occasional adds, giving your party compliments for working together as well as they are, calling out specific character names for healing the most damage, dealing the most damage, or taking the most damage (he will randomly switch targeting between who is in the first and second aggro positions, meaning both tanks need to have good aggro or a party member will likely be killed). The higher you are on the aggro list for your specific job's mechanic, the more likely he is to call out their name. This is important for the next phase.

The first phase switch is at 75% hp. He will then say one of three phrases: "Who among you prizes shielding your allies from harm?", "Who among you prizes spilling your enemy's blood for your allies?", and "Who among you prizes renewing your allies?". At this point, only the people who he named in the first phase can interact with him or other party members. The first indicates tanks, the second indicates DPS, and the third indicates healers. If someone attacks him that he either hasn't called out or is the wrong job, he will counter-attack them for heavy damage and knocking them to the edge of the area saying "I have taken measure, and I find you lacking". Attacking twice in this manner without being heavily healed is a guaranteed player kill. Depending on your role when he calls this, you have different tasks. Tanks need to weather his attacks for a certain amount of time. DPS has a mini-DPS race depending on the amount of people he called out. Healers will need to heal themselves/each other. He will alternate between Phase 1 mechanics of calling out players and calling out specific jobs. If there is a large discrepancy in the abilities of party members, this phase takes longer as he is more likely to keep calling out single players rather than the group to attack and interact when he has a job called out. Occasionally he will call out a specific player that is severely lagging behind in their area and say "You do not find joy from battle. You and I are kindred spirits", and will give them a buff.

The third phase starts at 30% HP. The room will grow dark and he slips his mask to the top of his head, saying "The brightness hurts my eyes. This displeases me". He will begin attacking with more vigor within the darkness. Around the outside edge of the room are blue carbuncle lamps that give off a soft blue light. By turning on the carbuncle lamps you slow him down but the lamps don't stay on for very long. Players now need to balance between all three mechanics until Aziraya is dead. Upon dying he says "You have shown me what you seek in life. It saddens me to see you wallow in the vice of your wrath, but I will not begrudge you for seeking it".

The general idea is that all of the characters in the fight are working closely together without the ability for one person to simply pull ahead of the others or to carry them.

Easter Egg route:
When he invites all of them to sit, everyone should sit in a chair. At this point he will take off his mask and pour a drink for a random player at the table and hold up an empty glass. Everyone must do a /handover emote to another player (as if pouring them a drink), and the random player poured for at the start must do it toward him. Players have 10 seconds to do the /handover as well as a /joy after being poured for. 

-If someone doesn't do a /handover emote or doesn't respond with a /joy emote after being poured within the time limit, he will hit them with the giant club and mention something about gratitude, instantly KOing them. Players knocked out in this way won't get any reward for completion of the Easter egg portion.

-If everyone did a /handover emote but not everyone was poured for (such as multiple people pouring for a single other party member on accident), he will remark, "There are some among you who haven't been served...". The party has another 10 seconds to make sure the person is served and they have emoted their thanks. If the party fails, he will wipe the group other than the people who haven't been served saying, "You think yourself better than another? I will not have that stand at this table" and then the normal fight sequence begins.

Upon successful completion of the Easter egg portion, the fight will be considered a success. He will then give everyone a journal named "Simple Pleasures" that can be exchanged for various things from an NPC merchant, chiefly among them is a sleeping emote.