Tilde

Kept the vault's chests forty years. One of them kept her. Feeds her gear to a chest. It bites for her.

Skill: Fetch

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Tuppence bites the target for 200% of its bite. If that kills, it brings back a piece of gear.

Tuppence bites twice over: 60% of your power plus arcana, and 2% more for each tooth. It is one physical blow, so armor soaks it, and it can't crit. If it kills, a piece of gear drops into your stash, etched a quarter of the time, on top of whatever the kill drops anyway. A minion or a summoned enemy brings back nothing, and neither does an undying enemy that only rises again. Like every skill it costs mana only: it has no cooldown and does not end your turn.

Passive: Tuppence

After each ATTACK her chest bites the target for 30% of power + arcana, +1% a tooth. Drop gear on her portrait to feed it teeth.

Tuppence bites after every ATTACK: your target, or the first enemy standing if your strikes killed it. A bite is one physical blow of its own, not a strike: armor soaks it, it can't crit, nothing that rides on your strikes comes with it, and it is weakened when you are. Tilde can't absorb: her portrait is Tuppence's bowl (see below).

Specialization: Watchdog

ATTACK no longer sends Tuppence. GUARD does: it bites every enemy for 80% of its bite.

ATTACK no longer sends Tuppence. Every GUARD does: it bites each enemy standing for 80% of its bite, so 24% of your power plus arcana with no teeth and 56% at 40. GUARD still restores armor, gives mana and halves the enemies' blows, so her safest move becomes her blow. Feeding works as before.

A specialization replaces the passive; you play one or the other. Tilde's opens when Tilde's own best floor is 20 or deeper, and you switch it in the hero's details at hero select. The Daily Descent and the Season Descent always use the base passive.

Tuppence and its teeth

The first time it matters on a run with Tilde, the game tells you:

Tuppence eats gear: drop a piece on her portrait to grow its teeth.

Feed it gear and it grows teeth. Drop a piece on Tilde's portrait, or tap "Feed" on the piece's card, in a fight or out of one: from the bag, from what she wears or from the stash. It eats the piece ("Tuppence ate it: +3 teeth") and the teeth stay for the run. A worn piece takes its stats with it, as a sale would. The tooth on the corner of her portrait counts them.

Rarity fed	Teeth
Common	1
Uncommon	2
Rare	3
Epic	4
Legendary	5
Mythic	6
Gilded	6

At 40 teeth it eats no more: "Tuppence has all its teeth". What a tooth is worth:

Teeth	Bite	Fetch	Watchdog
0	30%	60%	24%
10	40%	80%	32%
20	50%	100%	40%
40	70%	140%	56%

Shares of your power plus arcana: the bite after each ATTACK, Fetch's, and Watchdog's on each enemy. Tuppence shows what you have fed it:

Iron0 to 9 teeth

Brass10 to 24 teeth

Gold25 teeth and more

Base stats

Tilde starts every run with +22 health, +4 armor, +2 power, +1 arcana, +5% crit chance, +50% crit damage, +3 mana, a Rusty Shortsword and 30 gold (more with the Endurance trial or the Pilfered Crown). Everything else comes from gear. What each number does is on the stats page.

Good with

Hero select names three sets that suit Tilde. Any hero can wear any set; these are a starting point.

Mawborn Bite back.

2+5 thorns, +8% leech.
3Kills let you devour: heal 15% health and gain +10% power for this battle.
5Enemies that hit you are bitten back for 50% of your power.

Kingsguard Guard the hoard.

2+20% armor, +20% gold find.
3Gain armor equal to 4% of your gold.
5Once per battle, when your armor breaks, pay 10% of your gold to restore it fully.

Gilded Money is power.

2+30% gold find.
3Gain power equal to 2% of your gold.
5Strikes have a 25% chance to mint a coin: gold, and a bonus hit.

What the bosses say

Each boss has one line kept for Tilde, said once, at the start of a fight.

Boss	The line
The Tallyman	The chestkeeper. Forty years of keys, and one blank tag. I filled it in.
The Rat King	Chest-woman. Your little box bit three of us. We have not forgiven it.
The Old Sow	Chest-woman. We are in the same trade. Only I keep what I am given.
Mother Brine	Your little box would sink so beautifully. Let me keep it for you.
The Drowned Organ	Chestkeeper. Your box snaps in time. It would make a fine drum.
The Hermit	Chestkeeper. Your box has a shell. So do I. Mine is bigger.
Avarax	You kept my chests, keeper. Now give me the one at your heel.

Unlocking Tilde

While locked, hero select says: "Beat 5 Coin Mimics to unlock." Slay 5 Coin Mimics on the battles you win. A Coin Mimic is the elite of the free Cellars' floor 5 (and of floor 9 half the time), and one chest in four is one, so she comes in the free game. The Coin Mimics are counted on every battle won, a Daily Descent's or a dive's too but not a seed-code run's, and she joins you when a normal run ends.

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