“I’ll come back to that later”
*comes back to it later, forgets, gets chomped*
I remember finding my first mimic. I learned basically immediately that there was zero downside to attacking every single chest I saw
They were cruel to deter this strategy in dark souls 2…
I did it on my first run, only to realize after a few chests that I was destroying the contents.
It took me longer than I should to question it: “Wait, why are there so many chests with ‘rubbish’ inside?”
You can also spot mimics because they breathe, their model gets bigger and smaller on a cycle.
I tried to apply this logic to the dnd campaigns I am a player in… It didn’t work as well, the DMs did not get the reference.