Talk:Midnight Helix/@comment-33780977-20180929223359

'Rancid Bait Meat only lures the Dragon if the Gorecyclops is non-hostile, or absent. (If meat is placed in the presence of a hostile cyclops, and the Helix exited and re-entered the Cyclops will be replaced with a Cursed Dragon.) '

1. There you are ;)

2. The rule of substitution, as I call it, works all over the isle. There may be some glitches making, say, Death, spawning right  in the middle of Gorecyclops fight (like I've seen yesterday, for the first time, cause ... Bitterblack DLC), but generally Necros won't spawn if one fights the area boss/es and will substitute these enemies if the bait is put (either by player or game).

BTW The game very "liberally" determines if one fights the boss (or any other enemy), especially at Bitterblack - it takes ~10 seconds without enemy seeing the Arisen and you are formally "disengaged", even though enemy may still attack and battle theme won't dissapear. Yes, it concerns necrophages too. And yes, one can save in this situation.