Can't defeat the blue horrors at Governors...

[Snail]

So I enter the basement at level 6, encounter some sort of ritual, and theres like 15 heretics and a pillar that summons blue horrors and chaos spawns.

I figure I'm super underleveled because I can't even come close to killing the heretics, forget the 2 60 hitpoint horrors or the 150 chaos spawn that appears at round 4.

I can't leave the planet to level up, heal or get a 6th party member. I came here because it was the only planet that had quests, so I figured thats where I needed to go. I'm playing on normal.

Any advice?

[phantommail]

If you have troubles with horrors - shoot the mirror before the fight.

[zpc]

Best advice I can give here is to do the planet after having done everything else in that sector.

[Daliena]

That area should be optional, first of all. And if you shut down the AA gun upstairs (kill the crew -AND- blow it up with a demolition check afterwards) you're allowed to go back to the ship and travel around.

Secondly, as Phantom said, the mirror can be shot in the pre-battle dialogue choices to stop it from turning the neutral blind madmen into Blue Horrors (unless you happened to choose poorly for your background like I did on my latest character - it seems to make your character freeze up and lose that opportunity. Awkward.)

As for the Chaos Spawn, their appearance is down to severe RNG. Every fighting cultist present (not the neutral madmen) has a 30% chance at the end of their turn to start praying. If they do, and they're not dead by the start of their next turn, the game rolls on a table with a few effects, one of which is a 10% chance for the cultist to turn into a Chaos Spawn instead. So either hope for luck, or do your best to focus and gun down any cultist who starts praying as often as possible.

It can turn into a hell of a show - I was there at level 9 and I had two Chaos Spawn pop up, a pair of Blue Horrors, and I ended up triggering Perils of the Warp which "helpfully" dropped a Bloodletter on top of Idira to add to the mayhem.