touching books is almost never a good idea, ditto for shelves, ditto for shit like weird altars and stuff like that. Oddly, this counter attack is not triggered by riposte, but if Wilbur is killed, then the Swine Prince will rage permanently for the rest of the fight.

Wilbur can safely be stunned, so long as the skill does no damage. No one got close to contracting Afflictions, the healing flowed like water, and enemies vanished in double quick time. If u dont want to do it then as a general rule u dont want to touch everything since half the curios are a mixed bag if u dont have a 'key' item for them. The Swine Prince will immediately counter attack the entire party with a crushing strike if anyone dares to harm his little buddy. Almost the entire dungeon went like a breeze. U can check on official wiki, there's a full list of curios and what does every item do on them, and it's technically not spoiling + some interactions are really unintuitive

Btw how bad is it to attempt to open like every curio (i know that crates and backpacks are probably like 99% safe but i mean the books and closets etc) unless i'm doing badly in the current run Swine Prince gave me my first 3 hero deaths, my Maa managed to win the fight but only because he survived 5 death checks.

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