#First MSC run as the Garfield slugcat

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I entirely forgot I could post here! I just recently finished a Hunter run with success, so I decided to move onto Gourmand as my first DLC run.
Since I haven't posted until I was well into the run, I'm going to post a recap. Apparently I can't post it all at once, so I'll post it separately

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  • I am 10 cycles in but had some deaths
  • Started in Shaded Citadel and the first thing I crafted with what I had around me was a lantern. Convenient!
  • Stayed for about a cycle or two before deciding to leave. I thought I would go to the Shoreline, but changed my mind and went "let's go to the Industrial Complex".
  • A few deaths later, I make it there and nap in the shelter right past the gate.
  • My next shelter choice was the one under the broken bridge west of where I was. It took a couple of attempts - notably, I was just 1 room away from where the shelter was but a blue lizard was in the way and I wasn't able to get past it that time - but I eventually made it. I noticed I was making Nomad progress and that it didn't reset by not going through a gate.
  • Went out and died some more. What usually killed me was either a lizard or a scavenger; one time I saw one and I tossed them a pearl, but instead of picking it up, it moved away and eventually speared me. Jerk.
  • Made my way to the Outskirts, to the first shelter you would normally use when starting out as Survivor or Monk. Another Nomad pip.
  • To progress the Nomad passage, I decided I would go to another region. Deciding on which one had the closest available shelter, I chose Farm Arrays. I learned the hard way that I was just about short on karma and died to a lizard before I could make it to a shelter. Oops.
  • After the embarrassing situation with the Farm Arrays gate rejecting me, the only other choice I had for the Nomad passage was the Drainage System. So that was where I went. Turned out I was short on karma again because I happened to lose a level on my way there. I backtracked to the nearest shelter to gain it again.
  • Returning to the gate after a nap, I was able to pass and even had a squidcada on me. I had two paths to choose from to get to my next shelter; one had a salamander in the way, so I decided to back away and take the other path. The other path's obstacle? A red lizard. No thanks. I went back to the first path and used the squidcada to distract the salamander so I could get past it. Got to my desired shelter.
  • For the next and last Nomad progression destination, I chose the Garbage Wastes. I have not headed there before on any run, but I heard it was gnarly due to the rot and stuff. I figured out a route, even getting past a monster kelp... but had to get past an underwater section to get to the gate. I drowned on the first attempt because I missed a small space with air in it. The second attempt went better and I made it to the gate.
  • Latest status: currently located in the shelter just past the gate into the Garbage Wastes. I don't know what's waiting for me, but the Nomad passage is complete and I'm thinking of going to the Shoreline now... or back to Shaded Citadel to make my way to the Memory Crypts.
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Also, whenever a lizard grabbed me, I waited for any moment where it would drop me so I could escape. On one occassion in the Industrial Complex, a blue or pink one (I forget which) grabbed me and was slamming me all around in a vertical corridor. I was waiting for it to drop me, and eventually it not only let go but ended up killing itself in the process as it fell and my fat slugcat body crushed it to death. If that wasn't an amazing turnout, then I don't know what is.

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I've trekked my way through the Garbage Wasted back to the Shaded Citadel. I'll have to make a lantern again, especially because the only path forward leads to dark rooms.
Perhaps I can get a flashbang, or I'll get lucky and regurgitate a lantern or something I can use to make a lantern right away

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I have also made friends with the scavengers, it can get better but so far they're my allies

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I briefly went out of the shelter and came back to pick up my stuff, but because my belly was full, it thought I was going to hibernate and I had to exit. And this happened more than 30 seconds into the cycle, so now that counts as a loss. Thanks.

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Managed to regurgitate a lantern and fill my belly fully. Now's a good time to hibernate

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I have made it to the shelter before the start of the memory crypts. This is gonna be a doozy I can already tell

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I made it to the gate first try... and then I fell into the pit trying to jump onto a pole

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It took a few deaths - fewer than last time, if I'm not mistaken - but I made it past the crypts and slept in the shelter past the gate. Perhaps luckily for me, I happened to find some baby centipedes in the flashbang chamber which I hadn't seen in my other attempts earlier today and they're what allowed me to save the game instead of starving

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garfield slug

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yea sometimes i just sit at the entrance before fully going in

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Today, I start climbing the Leg. I have little food alas, but I'm certain I can manage

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Hi white lizard. Apparently I couldn't kill you and you went into a den within one second of grabbing me

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Since I'm getting low on karma, here is my plan: hibernate near the bottom entrance and use a passage to "warp" to the same shelter to max out my karma and get past the gate, then hibernate in the shelter after. After that, the karma I have shouldn't matter for the rest of the section

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I made it to the shoreline precipice - just in time as well, as the electric sparks were about to start up. I'd been heading to the 5P entrance but realized I was gonna go to a closer shelter and wouldn't have time to make it to the farther one, so I swiftly made my way back

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bottom entrance? from what direction were you traveling

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but u made it to shoreline precipice anyway
i kinda want to go there i dont think i did

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My other option would've been the Wall where the gate requires minimum karma, but that's a lot of scaling for Gourmand and I wanted to try and grab a neuron to make myself glow anyway

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ohh yea the precipice was on the way

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I went to the precipice for the purpose of getting enough food for the journey, I discovered that there was a popcorn plant there

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The only thing is I'm still some karma short and I don't think I wanna do the karma starve glitch

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So when I get to the gate of 5P, I'll use a passage to restore karma and food so I can take the shelter there

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Alright, I am going to continue now. Time to eat the popcorn plant and hopefully make it to my next destination safely

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This cycle isn't very long I'm afraid, so I will have to make haste

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There is a daddy long legs camping an exit. Great

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I died. Ironically, not to the DLL but by falling off while trying to get away. It grabbed me with a tentacle and I accidentally threw the spear the wrong way

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I am back to where I died, and DLL is right on top of the karma flower

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It would seem like I may not need a passage after all, depending on how this next part goes - I will have max karma with this next shelter, and I have slime mold available in a nearby room

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I am inside 5P now. I even have some slime mold on me

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Time for the hard part: getting past all the stuff

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I have taken a nap in a shelter in Unfortunate Development, and now comes the hard part I mentioned

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After a few more deaths, I am now in the Memory Conflux. Time to go to 5P and hear what he has to say

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5P is done, and apparently he only raised my karma by 2 and also unlocked something

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I feel like I need to know, like what prompted it and what it means

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tbf im also on gourmand first playthru LOL but im playing it super slow

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Yea i know i got past that

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Im jusr exploring atm

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Gonna catch all echos

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Its funny

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He's kinda hard to control lol

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Lol did u saw the canonball option

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So funny

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I did! Iirc it causes you to drop

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Ok, I think I'll continue with the Gourmand. I shall grab the echo at the Wall, then head for the Chimney Canopy

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I could go and use the echo effect to kill a vulture or two

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I am now in Chimney Canopy, and here I'll try to kill some vultures

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Hmm. Apparently the echo isn't active right now. My karma must be too low

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So I'm in Sky Islands trying to make a jump, and I throw a rock to boost myself. As I wait for the yellow/orange lizard to leave and prepare to jump again, an explosive spear literally comes out of nowhere and kills me, lowering my karma even lower.

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I'm friends with the scavs, so I wonder if the rock I threw just so happened to hit one off-screen

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Finally made it to a shelter, and I guess I'll use a passage now so I could do what it is I wanted to do

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I used a passage and selected my shelter... and then I pressed the start button and it immediately took me to the main menu

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I pressed continue and it acted as though I never used a passage :(

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I have my setup now for the vulture massacre and mask farming. I'm not actually sure why I want to do this, but I guess it works

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Perhaps I could use the corpses to generate some items

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I'm gonna head off to the Shoreline, that's where my next meal is

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Just had a monster kelp on the way that almost got me. As I contemplated how I was gonna get past it with just a rock (I accidentally threw and lost my spear somewhere in the room), the scavs came to the rescue and threw an explosive spear at it

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I'm at LttM and about to leave to try and get glow weed... Damn I'm getting too lazy to document my run lol

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So there is a scavenger with glow weed. I'll go and see if I can't trade for that with a pearl

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Ah yes, I drop a pearl and I'm given a glow weed but the slugcat accidentally grabs one of their spears instead and now they think I tried to steal

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Seems I'm back in the scavs' good graces as I have The Chieftain again

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You require a lot of spears to get out from here

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In general

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ST fuckin sucks

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ST?

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Oh sump tunnel

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I just realized

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Guess since I'm here, I might as well go through it however I can

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Is it at all possible to go to VS_A10 from VS_B13 or do I have to take the detour every time? At a glance it doesn't seem like the pole is reachable

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It should be possible if a couple spears are used to climb the wall then hop over

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It seems I'm escaping sump tunnel, via the detour anyway

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Now I just need to find the next shelter without dying

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I have no idea where I would put the spears in VS_B13 to go up

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I got grabbed by a black lizard while trying to save a scavenger... and the other scavenger didn't do anything

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I was so close to the room with the shelter

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Nuts. I was caught again. They were camping an exit each time

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Finally made it, with 4 rain pips to spare

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Now where to? I kinda wanted to head off to the subter

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Had a bit of a thought. I might head up into the Sky Islands so I can kill and eat a yellow lizard for my food quest

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That is not a pipe I can scale with wall jumping

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I have finally gotten up the pipe and to the shelter at the SI gate

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Some good news and bad news!

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The good news is that my food quest is nearly done

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The bad news is... the last thing I need is either an aquapede or a red centipede

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I'd just been in pipeyard trying to maneuver around one multiple times while trying to get to SI

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Just loaded in and there's a shelter failure... thanks

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At least I'm in Farm Arrays now, so I'll grab spore puffs and then seek out a red centipede

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I just barely made it to a shelter in the nick of time. I couldn't get across some worm grass because I apparently didn't pack more than 1 spore puff and I spent one summoning a deer

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It started raining and I was ready to give up but didn't, I got underground and it started flooding, I ended up reaching the shelter on my last bubble

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The poor guy was hyperventilating after all that :(

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Gonna continue my journey now. I have to find a red centipede and hope the spore puff I have on hand will kill it

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Killed and ate a red centipede. Now, I need to find the nearest shelter

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And I just died to a regular centipede. Even though I just stabbed it with a spear at full power

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Found it again after dying to a regular centipede again before I could even get to my karma flower. Evidently, just one spore puff isn't enough

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Centipede sucks

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Yea get 3 if possible

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Spore

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I could do it with 2, I did it first try and then a regular centipede killed me despite having speared it unexhausted into a wall

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It looked pretty dead, then somehow it grabbed me and shocked me and then went limp

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Yea i usually like

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Make sure they dead

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Sometimes they take awhile to "bleed out"

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Check map to see their icon go a bit dull

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I speared another one and it didn't die, it looked like it went limp then it got back up again as if nothing happened

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Luckily it went the other way and I was able to eat the red corpse, though I kinda glitched under it and couldn't get out so I used the dev console to get un-stuck

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I just barely made it to the shelter on the last two rain pips, the mushroom I consumed helped me to evade the dropwip camping the shelter

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Anyway, now's the time to go to OE

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Ah yes, I both stab and hit the dropwig and it doesn't die

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It just died to worm grass instead

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I just died to a small patch of regular worm grass :/

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I don't know how, I guess gourmand got exhausted

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And on such a long cycle after having made it past some stuff too

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That is the BIGGEST shelter I have ever seen

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oh ur quest is done?

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I'm about to see what's gonna happen

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I do already know that the food quest unlocks ||slugpups||, but I'm interested in the ending

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And that is the Gourmand campaign

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And this is my tally! Spoilered just in case

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Yippee

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Since this run is done (unless I decide to go for the ascend ending as well), should I close/lock this? Or do I leave it?

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Its fine!
You can also use this just for all campaigns or bave seperate ones for each campaign, whatever you prefer :3

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Ye I was thinking of having separate threads for separate campaigns, e.g. I was gonna start Rivulet next and make a thread for this one

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Either way this was a fun journey

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I killed so much crap lol

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congratz