Pliskin

"Moans and cries, lost in the darkness..."

Fears, regrets, delusions and the hope of redemption, that are driving forces that brings these poor wandering souls to our Estate. However in this remote place where many evils roam the land and corruption plagued the countryside, where something far worse sleeps in the depths of the Darkest Dungeon, where boundary between our world and unseen realms from beyond as withered down to a thin veil, it becames harder to separate what is real and what is not, what are creatures of flesh and blood or figments and delusions of a mad mind. Sometimes the fears, regrets and delusions your employees brought with them take on a life of their own and have potential to become something far deadly.

Ever since the arrival of Shieldbreaker something else also has come the Estate. She may have found something when she was lost in that accursed desert and she may unknowingly brought it with her to the estate or she is trying to run away from it but it keeps fallowing her relentless. However, whatever it may be, only thing is clear, it has slithered its way into the Estate and now it is lurking just out of sight, hiding in the underbrush, behind rocks and in the twisted shadows of your Estate waiting to strike your heroes at night.

It seem to be an illusion given power and form by the Shieldbreaker’s fears and delusions or some otherworldly creature that feeds on the fear and delusions of the Shieldbreaker manifesting themselves as the thing she fears the most. The Estate is already drenched in the fears and mad delusions of your heroes that it has become the new feeding grounds of this thing.

The Pliskin is an cobra of unusual size, this poisonous fanged desert reptile is quick to strike and sink its fangs deep into the flesh of your heroes.

Behavior and Strategy
The Pliskin is a beast enemy that appears exclusively in the Shieldbreaker DLC. It only appears in nighttime ambushes when the Shieldbreaker is present. They will disappear after a while, and seem to be an illusion given power by the Shieldbreaker. It's acts very much like the Spitters since it either bites from the front row or spits in the back. Both attack apply powerful blight damage.

Defeating the group of snakes brings great rewards, as they may drop a Aegis Scale when they die, as well as a diary entry for the Shieldbreaker. The entire party also receives a quest buff for -15% stress except for the Shieldbreaker who receives -33% stress and +3% CRIT. However, the battle will end if the Shieldbreaker becomes afflicted, and failing to disperse the illusion will cause a terrible quest debuff on the party instead, causing the same amount of stress to be increased with the Shiledbreaker losing 3 ACC instead of CRIT.

Abilities
Apprentice =

Veteran =

Champion =

Related Enemies
Rattler Adder

Trivia

 * The name of this enemy is a reference to Iroquois Pliskin, an alias used by Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2, which in turn is a reference to the Snake Plissken, the protagonist of the movie Escape from New York.