Return the Key
Gain 100 Gold.
Gold+100
What the game says
The stranger thanks you for your help, and rewards you handsomely.
Mysterious KnightThe Lantern Key
You come upon a faintly glowing key and go to pick it up.
“Been looking all over for that key! Now if you don't mind...”
This person looks like bad news but maybe it's not good to be judgy.
“Been looking all over for that key! Now if you don't mind...”
This person looks like bad news but maybe it's not good to be judgy.
The stranger thanks you for your help, and rewards you handsomely.
The stranger looks at you menacingly. It seems like only one of you is making it out of here with the key.
FightMysterious Knight 101 HPGold+10 to 20 for the win
Co-op voteOne vote is drawn, applies to allWhat you can obtain
Card
RewardFor the win. Choice: Fight
Gold
10 to 100 GoldChoices: Return the Key / Fight
Where it appears
How ? rooms roll ›
What each choice does
Keep the Key
Fight to obtain the Key.
What the game says
The stranger looks at you menacingly. It seems like only one of you is making it out of here with the key.
Fight
Which option to take
The key is worth it: in Glory it guarantees War Historian, Repy, which trades the key for two relics and two potions or for History Course.
Return the Key
Gold+100
Fight Keep The Key
Our pick- Fight if you can block about 21 on turn one and survive 30-plus damage turns while chewing through 101 HP behind Plating.
- Take the gold when your deck is slow or your HP is low; losing this fight ends the run.
How it plays
Return the Key
Ends the event and pays 100 gold.
Keep the Key
Leads to a single Fight option, a combat against the Mysterious Knight: 101 HP (108 on Ascension 8) with 6 Strength and 6 Plating from the start.
He opens with Ram for 15 (17 on Ascension 9), then picks at random between War Chant for 3 more Strength, Flail for 9 twice (10 twice) and Ram again.
Flail and Ram can repeat twice in a row, War Chant never repeats, and every hit is raised by his Strength.
Winning
Winning gives normal combat rewards plus a Lantern Key card for each player.
The event does not resume after the fight.
Changes by version
- Reduced hitch on Punch Off and The Lantern Key events
- Fixed typo in Lantern Key event
- Fixed an issue where, if the player visited a combat-style event without actually starting a combat (i.e. choosing "Return the Key" at The Lantern Key event) and then visited the Merchant immediately after, throwing a Foul Potion at the Merchant would not grant the player any gold
All 10 patch notes7 older
- The Lantern Key event's special card reward's text now fits properly into its button when playing in Korean
- The Lantern Key is now a combat-room-style event
- "Return the Key" option gold reward changed to 100 Gold
- Guarantees first Act 3 unknown room is War Historian, Repy event
- Players can no longer mash "Fight" choice in Lantern Key event
- Added temporary background art
- Changed The Lantern Key event's History Course relic: no longer plays cards from two turns ago if you did not play cards the previous turn
Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.
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