Swarm type boss.monster type could be anything really I originally thought Lichens…
Basic idea is that Alpha Squad discovered Lichens are more intelligent than thought, and are more aggressive. They not only attack Spiral Knights on sight and merge to become stronger but have begun organizing the,selves while being led by a mysterious new type of Lichen. (potentially another boss down the road?)
The fight is on a large mobile platform/train. It is a timed/survival fight as players will see the clockworks go by in the background with animations of spiral knights battling in the background. Players must maneuver on the platform to avoid not only attacks from the Lichens but pieces of clockworks (telegraphed obviously) that can randomly be passed and knock our heros around hurting them…and the Lichens as well.
Lichen types will vary and the front of the platform/train must be reached before the timer reaches zero…
I'd be up for that but it seems like there'd be no middle ground, it'd either be too easy or too hard. We also for the most part have a survival battle in the Roarmulus Twins. The only thing that would completely make it a survival battle is if you couldn't hit the twins with your weapons at all, thus leaving it all up to the missile fire.
Since we already have a Slime boss it may as well be a bunch of crazy Devilites running around, throwing all their office junk at you. Another thing that'd have to be added is some kind of quota of monsters you have to defeat so that you can't just Shivermist everyone and run behind them. Unless there's some other way around it.