Guard

The prison guard is one of the first foes encountered in Fear & Hunger. He is formiddable opponent greatly representative of the things one might except deeper in the dungeons. He is a weaker version of the Elite guard.

Location & Behavior
The guards are the first enemy encountered after entering the main gates to the dungeons, on the Level 1 Entrance. More are featured in the Level 3 Prisons and Level 7 Catacombs. Guards encountered at level 7 may be pollinated.

Upon seeing the player, he will instantly give chase at a pace slightly faster than that of the player.

Strategy
The guard either wields a meat cleaver (leaving one of his hands free) or a crossbow, if found in certain areas such as the prison. It is advised to always hack off the hand holding the cleaver or crossbow first as any hit you receive from them have a high chance of either cutting off one of your arms (meat cleaver) or causing bleeding (crossbow).

The guard wielding the meat cleaver will use its free hand to attempt the ability Mad Dash from its second turn - a coin toss ability, which, if successful, unleashes a series of consecutive hits at the player that are often high damage and likely to kill the player.

The best way to avoid this is to guard after cutting off the meat cleaver arm. The coin toss attack will be completely avoided. This can then be applied every second turn afterward to negate the guard's attacking (if his empty arm is still intact).

The guard occasionally uses the ability "Stinger Thrust" with his stinger, which deals moderately high damge.

After both the hands and the stinger have been cut off, he will attempt to tackle the player, which deals relatively low damage, but may defeat a worn-out character.

Another way to take him down is by using the Kiting strategy.

Death Sequence
If the player is defeated, instead of the standard game over, there is a chance that the player will either have their body thrown into the meat walls of Level 2 Blood Pit with both legs disabled, or carried into the cells of the Level 3 Prisons, where they are raped by the guard, causing both of the player's legs to be disabled and the anal bleeding status effect.

Loot
These are the various sets of items dropped by the melee variant: If you have the Assassin's handbook and Skinning knife, you can also skin the guard to obtain a Guard skin.
 * Meat Pie and Moldy Bread
 * Meat Cleaver and Loincloth
 * Small key
 * Arm, Leg, and a Skeleton Arm