AAC Heavyweight M4 (Savage) Part 1

• Directed Grotesquerie spawns a snake head on a random cardinal on the player's body. The snake head turns alongside the player. At the end of the effect's duration, the snake head shoots a conal AoE wherever it is facing (Hemorrhagic Projection).
• Bursting Grotesquerie triggers a simple spread AoE at the end of the effect's duration (Dramatic Lysis).
• Shared Grotesquerie triggers a 4-player stack at the end of the effect's duration (Fourth-wall Fusion).

Next, spawns 4 Phagocyte Spotlight AoEs in a specific order. All AoEs spawn on intercardinals. The first two AoEs spawn close to the center of the arena, the last two close to the outside. The placement of the first AoE determines the placement of all remaining AoEs. If the first AoE is northwest, the second AoE is southeast, the third northeast, and the fourth southwest. Each AoE leaves behind a blob on the ground. This blob has no effect for now, but approximately 20 seconds after the AoE resolves a tower (Roiling Mass (α)) spawns on that position.

Finally, the Lindwurm casts Cruel Coil, trapping all players within the center of the arena as he coils around them. The only way to exit the coil is through a narrow gap on a random intercardinal. Every five seconds, the Lindwurm spins, which rotates this gap 90° counter-clockwise.

Debuffs

Each individual Bonds of Flesh α has a different debuff timer, ranging from 26 to 41 seconds, and pairs with a corresponding Bonds of Flesh β with the same timer. All players are also granted a First in Line, Second in Line, Third in Line, or Fourth in Line based on the timer of their debuff (from shortest to longest).

When a set of Bonds of Flesh α and Bonds of Flesh β debuffs expires, those debuffs turn into Unbreakable Flesh α and Unbreakable Flesh β respectively, causing both players to be tethered to each other. The new debuffs have a duration of 20 seconds. Failing to cleanse the debuff by breaking the tether causes both players to die. A tether can be broken by establishing sufficient distance between the two of them compared to the initial distance when the tether went into effect. The distance needed is roughly equal to the total diameter of the coil that players are trapped within.

Breaking the tether triggers a Dramatic Lysis (Tether) (a small spread AoE inflicting Magic Vulnerability Up) on both players and spawns a tower on the Unbreakable Flesh β player which resolves shortly after.

This spawns a snake head on their body that always faces a specific cardinal, independent of character rotation. There are always two players whose snake head faces the same direction.

Additionally, snakes spawn and burrow through the arena in specific locations. One always spawns center. Four more spawn in either all intercardinals or all cardinals. Shortly afterwards, they destroy that section of the arena, plunging players who are still there to their deaths.

Shortly after the arena is partially destroyed, Mitotic Phase resolves, which briefly binds all players and spawns a tower some distance away in the direction the player's snake head is facing. The distance is equal to the length of arena that was destroyed, which means that, if a player's snake head faces towards another platform, the tower will always spawn in the exact location on that platform as where the player is on their platform.

Towers resolve while players are still bound. All players also deal damage and inflict Magic Vulnerability Up in a radius around them (Dramatic Lysis) while this happens.

Bind then dissipates and the center of the arena is restored, but not the other destroyed sections.

Additionally, all players are inflicted with Bonds of Flesh α.

This mechanic begins similarly to Grotesquerie: Act 1 (5 back-to-back Phagocyte Spotlights followed by a Ravenous Reach). There are two major differences:

• The arena is still partially broken as a result of Grotesquerie: Act 3.
• Instead of half the players being required to stack for Shared Grotesquerie in the Ravenous Reach safe spot, the non- Bursting Grotesquerie are now required to stand in the Ravenous Reach AoE to cleanse Rotting Flesh. Like Bursting Grotesquerie, this is also a spread. Failing to cleanse Rotting Flesh inflicts Damage Down.

Bonds of Flesh α

Unbreakable Flesh α

Exactly 2 of these orbs will be purple. The rest will be green.

The Lindwurm always spawns 2 orbs at a time. These two orbs may either both spawn on the same side or on different sides. Purple and green orbs can spawn alongside each other, even when both orbs spawn on the same side.

At the end of the cast, the Lindwurm begins to chuck the spawned orbs at players in the order they were created. The orbs target the players closest to the center of the Lindwurm's hitbox, with one caveat: the western orbs only target players on the west side of the arena and the eastern orbs only target players on the east side of the arena.

If two orbs spawned simultaneously on the same side, they target the closest and second-closest player on that side. If a purple and green orb spawned simultaneously on the same side, the topmost orb targets the closest player and the bottom-most orb the second-closest.

Both purple orbs are guaranteed to always spawn on the same side. It is not possible for a purple orb to spawn west and another purple orb to spawn east.

It is possible for all sets of orbs to spawn in same-side pairs. It is also possible for all orbs to spawn in opposite-side pairs. A mix of both is most common, in which case the number of same-side pairs and opposite-side pairs is equal on both sides.

All orbs are spread AoEs that deal heavy damage. The purple orbs deal tankbuster-levels of damage. All orbs inflict Poison Resistance Down II.