Pear, Boss 2

[battleshipmod]

You look at the odd collection of taco and honey-related artifacts you’ve excavated out of the soil and wonder what Professor Fuzang will make of it. You decide to start by bringing him the coins you gathered along the way, though, and save the best for last.

When you enter the Pear Wiggler, you find it surprisingly muddy. Before you can figure out what’s going on, though, the Manager sets upon you. “There you are! All those hotpot fumes made the golems start tracking mud everywhere, so corporate hired an octopus, but this octopus is completely useless! Go teach it, or at least distract it, or we’ll never make it through dinner!”

Something crashes. The Manager swears and rushes off.

You step a bit further in, and see the giant octopus from earlier perched atop the pear juice fountain. It, too, has a giant pear on its head. Professor Fuzang is looking at it with some concern.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. You plonk your coins in front of him. “Professor,” you plead, “in lieu of payment for the coins, would you please help distract the octopus?”

“Oh, of course,” he replies, “and please, just call me Fuzang.”

He stretches out and takes to the air, performing a brilliant dragon dance in the mist of hotpot fumes, completely bewitching the octopus for the moment. You sigh with relief and get started planning other distractions. Maybe you could also teach the octopus something?

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Pear Boss 2 progress tracker

Pear Collection | Prompt Collection (AO3) | Prompt Collection (Automagic App)

The boss starts with 350,000 hit points. Your Coin count of 54300 grams, plus overkill equivalent to 8400 grams, reduces that to 287,300 hit points. For the rest, members of Team Pear post works to their team’s collection.

During boss battles, works score points. Works in a single medium (only fic, or art, or podfic) may claim a maximum of 10,000 points; works scoring more than 10,000 will count as 10,000 points.

Works in multiple mediums may claim a maximum of 10,000 points per medium, with each medium capped at 10,000 points (ex. 2000 points of fic + 14,000 points of art = 2000 + 10,000 = 12,000 points).

In addition to points, there are boss-wide goals for AO3 labels, such as “F/F works” and “M-E rating.” You must collectively achieve these goals to complete the boss. Each work counts once towards a boss goal.

Fic and podfic are worth 1 point per word, using the AO3 wordcount.

Images are worth 500 to 2500 points. List the points earned in the author’s note to make sure the mods score your artwork correctly. Each image (or panel or frame) in a work is scored as follows:

Art has a base value of 500 points for a single character, vehicle, or structure depicted in monochrome lineart with a blank or solid color background.

Additional points may be layered on for complexity:

• 500 points for the second character, vehicle, or structure depicted in monochrome lineart
• 250 points for each additional character, vehicle, or structure after the first two
• 250 points for each character, vehicle, or structure depicted in more than one color
• 250 flat points for shading
• 250 flat points for a detailed background

Full-color art styles that do not use lineart (e.g., painting, pixel art) will be scored equal to the point value of a character with lineart and color, e.g., 750 points for each of the first two characters in full color and 500 points for each character in full color after the first two.

No individual image or panel may score more than 2500 points; any score greater than that will be capped at 2500 points. Unique, separately created images may be combined in a comic or compilation, for which each image will be individually scored (maxing out at 2500 points each) and the scores added.

Tags are irrelevant during boss battles, as long as the work fulfills a request.

During a boss, each team member is capped at 50,000 points, with no cap on the number of works.

Team members (and only members of that team) should post works to their respective team collection.

Good luck!