#h1-story-discussion

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atomic forge
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first time i went through the game i beat her the first 5 times i fought her in a row

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really liking the increased difficulty

neat crow
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Glad that you're enjoying it! I started a new save recently too, managed to clear Meg on the 5th run (2nd or 3rd Meg attempt, had some bad luck with boons)

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Huge difference from when I first played at launch though

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Took me somewhere around 35 runs

atomic forge
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haha ive somehow got worse

normal talon
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why was meg in zag's room 👀

neat crow
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Reasons

atomic forge
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i've ONLY seen meg, no sign of thanatos or the other furies. Do I not have enough heat?

visual laurel
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You might not be far enough into the game

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How many runs have you played?

atomic forge
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um 15 runs?

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lemme check this pool thing

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18 escape attempts

visual laurel
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Yeah, you're too early in the game

atomic forge
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😅 oof

visual laurel
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just keep on keeping on, you'll get there eventually 😛

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should be plenty of story elsewhere to keep you busy till then

atomic forge
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oh hey i just encountered one!

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Me entering the room: Oh hey meg, new outfit?
Oh wait...

harsh sleet
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good luck finding thanatos

barren perch
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Question

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is there a specific way to trigger thanatos showing up or do i just need to keep playing

visual laurel
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You just need to keep playing

barren perch
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ty

visual laurel
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If you're too early in the game, he won't show up, and he also won't interrupt boss battles or non-combat rooms

barren perch
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cool

visual laurel
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so if you go to more normal combat rooms you have a better chance of seeing him

barren perch
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i've met alecto and tis, and beaten the hydra multiple times so i was wondering if there was a trigger

snow brook
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You need at least 23 escape attempts for him to start showing up 😃

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So if you are there then it just a matter of time.

barren perch
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i'm at around 50 hah

visual laurel
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there might be some narrative triggers, i'm not too sure

barren perch
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probably are

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there have been conversations about him already

visual laurel
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yeah i was about to say

barren perch
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with hades and wossname

visual laurel
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probably just a matter of time then

barren perch
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dream guy

visual laurel
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hypnos

barren perch
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right

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...meg's sisters are nasty

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not sure who's hardest to fight though

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maybe alecto?

snow brook
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I think the big issue is remembering their patterns. They all have some similar attack animations, so keeping them properly separated in your noggin is the way to success.

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For my money, I really dislike Tisi's final phase, where she puts you into a tiny little box. But I also always have 50% Whipped Frenzy so I have a bit if a different perspective on it.

barren perch
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anything with deflect makes Tisi a lot easier i feel

lunar kiln
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Shield destroys her

bleak osprey
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whipped frenzy tisi sounds like my worst nightmare

barren perch
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i thought that no longer had deflect by default?

lunar kiln
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No but it blocks the majority of her attacks

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Without you even trying

barren perch
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mmm

snow brook
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Yeah but I am always on bow. Whipped Frenzy Tisi is indeed spooky, until you get the timing down to just instantly send her into her invuln phase.

barren perch
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just hold down M1, yeah?

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or primary attack

lunar kiln
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Nah just keep using bull rush

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Whipped frenzy alecto is something though

barren perch
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i'm not confident enough in my runs to start investing heat

marsh prawn
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I, surprisingly enough, havent found Tisi or Alecto super hard but it’s because of the build I run I’m aware of that

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Just ease into ease into it señorsalsa better to start using heat when you feel comfy

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Record scratched myself

marsh prawn
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@barren perch dont know wha you're running now but i always rec spear + titan toppler. I'm bad at games and it seems to work anyway

barren perch
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i'll try it out when i get back this weekend

marsh prawn
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I dodge and attack constantly. What is an attack pattern? I just dont know. Hope it works for you and if it doesnt thats chill

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I like that this game has multiple viable builds

harsh sleet
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is there a date like you get with dusa with anyone else

lunar kiln
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im gonna assume "date" means a lounge conversation

harsh sleet
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It’s a Date

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hades is a dating sim you didn’t hear?

rapid zinc
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Achilles gets one

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So does Orpheus

lunar kiln
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zag to hades: i'm going out
(cut to sisyphus' room)
zag, holding hands with sisyphus: ...on a date

harsh sleet
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LMAO

rapid zinc
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Canon

runic terrace
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definitely canon

harsh sleet
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when sisyphus gets his youtuber face reveal i might die

rapid zinc
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It's already confirmed (through his model and dialogue) that Sisyphus is ripped, I can't wait to see his beautiful face

harsh sleet
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you know who else is ripped

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athena

runic terrace
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athena vs sisyphus arm wrestling

bleak osprey
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everyone is ripped

harsh sleet
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thanatos is also ripped but part of me doesn’t want to accept that

bleak osprey
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accept it

drifting citrus
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every guy in this game is ripped

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that’s what makes it so good

honest coral
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oh no, he's hot

digital crag
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arm,,,,, is classic

spring scaffold
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And then Apollo's gonna come in and just be a cute chubby guy.

digital crag
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listen if apollo's buff i'm going to be actually mad

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what did he get buff from?? playing the lyre?? benchlifting prophecies?? petting sheep? get outta here

honest coral
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powerlifting sheep

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And chasing hermes

bleak osprey
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takes a lot of strength to break so many hearts

digital crag
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dionysus is already way more buff than he has any right to be but at least i'm relieved he didn't turn out to be danny devito

runic terrace
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dionny devito

marsh prawn
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Apollo got ripped to punch hermes for stealing cattle

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I wish we had dionny devito

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iasip intro card The Gang Kills The Hydra

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Hypnos Is Not Ripped and he will never get ripped

spring scaffold
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At some point, Zag is gonna make Hypnos bench press in his sleep so he can get ripped too.

marsh prawn
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Never

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Tho i will allow hypnos being able to bench press zag and nobody knowing How

normal talon
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hypnos is gonna have to condition himself to do pull ups in his sleep

drifting citrus
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if orpheus isn’t at least as ripped at zeus i’m rioting

runic terrace
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thats too ripped!!!! glue him back!!!

lunar kiln
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orpheus should be ripped to break the skinny court musician stereotype

drifting citrus
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m o r e

bleak osprey
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noooooo he's too dainty-sounding to be ripped

lunar kiln
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there are buff guys with high voices

bleak osprey
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it'd be like if hypnos looked like a weightlifter

marsh prawn
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Ripped 👏🏼 Orpheus

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Hypnos skips arm day

rapid zinc
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Hypnos skips every day

lunar kiln
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are you perhaps afraid of buff orpheus

rapid zinc
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No, Orpheus can be ripped as heck, but Hypnos is a twig

marsh prawn
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hypnos is busy being 2cool4school

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Buff orpheus or burst

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Hypnos cannot get buff while composing the hottest punkfolk hit of 436 bc

digital crag
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Flashbacks to ripped tariq memes back in the day

west umbra
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@spring scaffold cute chubby guys are better than ripped guys fite me fall of soliam 4 masteries all talismans

drifting citrus
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all bois are good

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unless they are red and wavy

digital crag
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It's more about having Some variety

west umbra
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yeah I have nothing against ripped guys at all

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the character designs in this game are fantastic

digital crag
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Tho now I'm less mad about achilles being huge because he seems like he was once the type of person to wear muscle shirts that say SUNS OUT GUNS OUT

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when he was young and alive

west umbra
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it's just that cute chubby guys are more, uh, attractive to me xP

spring scaffold
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Why would I fight you on this? I genuinely want the one dubbed "most beautiful of the gods", usually pictured as a pretty ripped dude, to be chubby, because chub is good.

west umbra
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ah yeah true

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I forgot that about Apollo

harsh sleet
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wait danny from game grumps has a shirt that says “i flexed so hard the sleeves came off”

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achilles ?

rapid zinc
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👀

digital crag
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Yeah.....!

fiery lotus
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To me Achilles being buffed is a given. I mean, he was an unmatched warrior and prepared his whole life for the war.

west umbra
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+ Fixed a rare issue where Slothful (Chaos) curses could break the Asphodel 'river crossing' encounter

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zag just tries to get to the boat

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but it leaves without him

bleak osprey
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oh my god is that,,, actually what happens

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or, well. happened.

runic terrace
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when the bus leaves w/o u

bleak osprey
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+ Fixed an issue where the Bone-Hydra sometimes spawned more heads than expected

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ayyyyyyyy

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i helped!!!!

runic terrace
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haha you do that!!!!

abstract flame
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slothful causing the boat to leave without you is exactly what happened

bleak osprey
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oh my god

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i wanna know if anyone caught that on a recording because that sounds amazing

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"come baaaaaack"

granite pebble
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Question: Furies are, in game, daughters of Nyx or born from blood of Uranus?

bleak osprey
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my assumption was the latter

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tisiphone's codex entry mentions tales of the Furies having come from the spilt blood of the eldest of the Titans, and Nyx says Megaera is a daughter to [her], as [Zagreus] is her child

granite pebble
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Oooooh thanks.

bleak osprey
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ie: not actually her child

granite pebble
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Yeah, yeah, got it first time, but again thanks

bleak osprey
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there's no need to be so dismissive, dude, i was just making my point a little clearer

granite pebble
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.......... Did it really sounded like that?......better to remember to add ":D" next time.......... sorry

frozen jolt
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oh i remember seeing someone on reddit say the boat left without them, glad that was fixed lol

marsh prawn
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@granite pebble also greg confirmed that nyx wasn’t the furies’ mother in the game

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So it’s textually in the game and also confirmed by narrative team i guess

harsh sleet
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uhhh new thanatos animation

digital crag
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whaaaat

spring scaffold
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Who cares about Thanatos, give Dusa more animations!

granite pebble
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Like wiggly snakes on her head?

spring scaffold
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Dusa doing a flip stumptHeart

granite pebble
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Before fliyng away?

lunar kiln
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let hypnos floss

amber canyon
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Im pretty sure Dusa doing a flip is called a "Barrel Roll"

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In fact, she could even say, when rolling away, "Heads are about to roll"

runic terrace
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um, im dusa , and- and youre on- youre watching disney channel!!! (draws mickey mouse w a snake)

rare torrent
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Snakey Mouse

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Mickey Snake

runic terrace
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snickey

digital crag
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snickey snouse

knotty shore
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ricky rat....

harsh sleet
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“who cares about thanatos”

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me

sick grove
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Not Thanatos :^)

eternal radish
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Hypnos wants to have Thanatos... ||kill everyone at the same time to save time. Why? Cause he just wants to spend more time with his brother. || #Caring

drifting citrus
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oops

visual laurel
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spoiler tags can't protect you from proxy gkdfjgfd

drifting citrus
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||never mind the fact that it would create a lot more work for hypnos, which means he would gladly work overtime to give his brother a break||

spring scaffold
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This is why Hypnos is awesome and Thanatos is awful.

lone bane
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Well, after whining about it, I just beat Hydra on attempt 29, and I gotta say, ||Hades talking about how the place is actually under rennovation was way more work than I thought would be put into an Early Access game||, and I wanna see what's under those sheets!!

visual laurel
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👏 👏

full pike
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So I notice a new reward type in the codex, but I haven't actually seen any new type of loot . Has anyone found it yet?

runic terrace
visual laurel
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try using the challenge gates

full pike
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Ahhhh

potent cove
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Umm...

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|| (Walks into Zag's room after a pretty disappointing run to find Meg standing at the foot of the bed) ||
My exact thoughts, in full:

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|| "What the Hell?, that's Meg, Why's she here?
Is this meant to happen?

Why is she so close to the bed!?!
This isn't going where I think it's going, is it?!
No, they wouldn't do that, they wouldn't dare give this game an adult rating, it would severely limit their audience!
Wait, this game does already have some swearing in it right?, maybe they'll just have some suggestive dialogue then fade to black, that would just about squeeze through the censors I guess
Ooh, that would really tick off the Dusa shippers!, it's not gonna be pretty in the discord if this happens!
Unless... I accidently triggered it by talking to Meg loads and there will be other scenes depending on who you prioritise?
Okay, I'm probably over thinking it, that spot is probably just the default 'insert NPC here' spot for this room
But come on!, the SGG guys are smart, they have to know that looks suggestive, if she really is just here to chat, why not put her in the actual centre of the room!?
(clicks next)
(Zag politely asks if she is just snooping around or if she needs something)
Oh come on dude! I know I said I liked that you were polite to people and showed the other characters genuine respect, because it's actually quite rare for protagonists in action games but now is not the time for calm, understated reactions God damn it!!
Your (probably) Ex is standing in your room, uninvited, at the foot of your bed!
Show an appropriate level of emotion! ||

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|| (she replies that she's just there to collect some of her stuff)

Ooh, okay, it's an "ex comes to your house unexpectedly after several months to grab all the belongings she left behind" scenario,
Fair enough
Wait, what's she gonna take?
Is the room gonna change in some way?
Is she gonna take one of the decorations on the wall?
No, wait, I bought those, they can't be hers, never mind
(she tells him he's let the room go to hell)
Oh for goodness sake, they're not gonna make a joke about the fact she said hell are they?, the humour in this game is pretty on point for the most part but the repetition of the same 3 or so basic jokes is getting kinda annoying
(no joke is made, she just leaves) ||

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...
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WELL THAT WAS A FAT LOAD OF NOTHING!!
What the hell SGG?, You're not even gonna tell us what she took?
You huge teases!"

spring scaffold
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She took a raccoon of hers she was hiding under your bed.

visual laurel
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my theory is she actually didn't leave anything and she stole something of yours

runic terrace
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its megs turn to hold the sandra

spring scaffold
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SHE STOLE MY ORB WIFE? gilmanrage

visual laurel
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sandra's in better care now lbr

potent cove
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That entire exchange took around 15 to 20 seconds btw...

runic terrace
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yeah meg and sandra can salt like nobody's business

digital crag
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i ship it

visual laurel
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same now that i think about it

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it's pam and sandra but updated for our modern hades-containing world

runic terrace
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sandras shadehearts for meg's lovely voice

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TBH only meg hates herself less

digital crag
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they both know a thing or two about eternal service for a pretty mean dude

runic terrace
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"you remind me of someone i knew a thousand years ago except less depressed"

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and yyyyup

visual laurel
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hadeum murr

runic terrace
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soliamoustache

digital crag
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halloumi murr

visual laurel
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gkdfhgkjdfgkdf

runic terrace
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halloumi??? like the cheese

digital crag
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his horns are moustache shaped

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listen i just got out of the shower and i'm still a bit light headed from not being able to breathe properly in there

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there's more steam than air in there

runic terrace
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deep breaths jan

drifting citrus
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the fact that the main symbol of hades's architecture comes from his beard is hilarious to me

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"sir do you want some decoration"

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"make it my beard, but upside down"

runic terrace
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maybe he put a plaster wall bit under his mouth and let the hair grow around it

cold canopy
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hades was the kid who always drew the super s in school but it was the super beard instead

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it looks pretty similar

digital crag
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...... :3c

cold canopy
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oh my god did i subconsciously reference a tweet of yours jan

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AHHH I LIKED IT TOO I DID

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im so sorry i would have linked it

runic terrace
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HJFHJFHJFHJ

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jan brain

digital crag
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great minds produce the same garbage

cold canopy
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it was only like 2 weeks ago how did i forget like that

runic terrace
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bc the past seven days were a thousand years long

cold canopy
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ugh i didnt wanna admit it but yea

runic terrace
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anybody in this server got a time machine

visual laurel
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god. right

runic terrace
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were gonna do it over again

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but better

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HADES: MUR2R DEATH^2 K2LL: COMING SOON 2 THEATERS

drifting citrus
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more like hados amirite

runic terrace
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HADOS!!!!!

visual laurel
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murder death kill........2!!!

runic terrace
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TWOsiphone! alecTWO! and thanaTWOs!!!

cold canopy
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achillthrees

runic terrace
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whoAAAAAA

drifting citrus
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hypdos

runic terrace
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HYPDOS...

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achillthrees is when changing the timeline to save the week goes wrong and achilles careens off course and we have to put him back while saving everyone else too

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like we sit back and go we did it!! we made a second mdk!! and then achilles is like trojan war? whos that and we go NOOOO

spring scaffold
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Trojan war? More like "la Guerre de Trois".

visual laurel
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oh my god.

rapid zinc
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Trojan War more like Troy Story

runic terrace
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JHGFFVHJFHJFJ

cold canopy
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oh thats good

normal talon
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NICE

rapid zinc
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Sub 15 (even if by less than a second) is impressive!

deep temple
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Thanks!

eternal radish
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I just missed getting a 10:30 run, because I stood in too much Hydra damage.....fastest run of my life, and I missed it by 5% >_<

harsh sleet
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24 whole hours without seeing thanatos i think im@going crazy

ivory spire
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I've seen him twice since the update happened.

harsh sleet
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i’ve been too busy to play :(

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damn you school i don’t need an education

runic terrace
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thanateacher

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hello class today were learning about DEATH

harsh sleet
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he’s the type of teacher to give u a detention@for drinking without asking permission

runic terrace
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if ur realy thirsty hell give u a water bottle but tell u sternly after class not to tell anyone he gave it to u

sleek cape
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I've seen him 3 times

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And when it's in aspho it's really hard to beat him

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Armor and he just one shots

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Meanwhile I'm whittling away at 1000 health enemies

normal talon
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i saw him twice in one day of playing and i was like i’m blessed to death

sleek cape
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Literrrruly

honest coral
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Got a super clean run with sword

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Lost a bunch of death defies in asphodel so I lost some time to play it safe

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But I killed alecto at 3:07, final time was 7:30

shy socket
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I never see Thanatos, since the update i had like a dozen runs, but he showed up only twice

bleak osprey
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he's a busy boy

harsh sleet
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hes busy buying soup at hot topic

limber sage
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soup as black as his tears and as deep as his empty heart

sterile plover
limber sage
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\o/ Congrats!

honest coral
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Congrats chucka dusa

sterile plover
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I didnt know Duo abilities were in the game, the synergy was amazing!

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Thanks!

bleak osprey
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they got added in the last major update

honest coral
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Deadly reversal is incredible

sterile plover
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after a deflect i was doing like 250+ damage per spear throw and taking out hyrdra heads in like 3 or 4 throws. after making it all the way to hydra so many times it feels so good to finally beat it

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just checked, 41 attempts shadeembarassed

bleak osprey
rapid zinc
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F

sterile plover
digital crag
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f

bleak osprey
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idk why i put that in this channel, i meant to put it in gameplay,,

rapid zinc
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F

sterile plover
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its chilled, Daedalus Hammers are a secret

harsh sleet
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i play hades and have a stopwatch on to count how long it takes to find thanatos

bleak osprey
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hey thanatos stop bullying your brother,,

tardy tundra
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SHOOM

runic terrace
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SHOOM!

maiden wharf
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shoom!

runic terrace
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who would win:
-all the new character writing in the entire murderdeathkill update
-one shoom!

harsh sleet
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fjdmgfd

rapid zinc
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Shoom, every time

maiden wharf
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sisyphus canonically shoomed on thanatos

runic terrace
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remember last nights convo about going back in time a week to rerelease this update? were calling it the shoom update

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(bursts into sgg from a week ago) im from the future you gotta change the name to the shoom update

harsh sleet
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woah jesus tisi just became butterflies?

runic terrace
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tisi 🦋 wings? wings?

rapid zinc
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Tisi and Alecto turn into bats I think

harsh sleet
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oh

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it looked like butterflies GWqlabsKek

mystic tusk
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butterflies = bugs

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bats = bugs

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therefore bats = butterflies

rapid zinc
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Bats = Bugs this is true I'm a Bugs major

runic terrace
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bats = cute
tisi = cute
bats = tisi

rapid zinc
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Bugs = Cute too, coward

runic terrace
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youre right i need to make peace with bugs

harsh sleet
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youve clearly never woken up next to a spider

rapid zinc
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Something can be cute while also invading your personal space. You gotta tell that spider to mind your boundaries

snow brook
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Like Dusa cuddling you in the middle of the night.

runic terrace
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dusa sleeping and her snakes tongues flickering out as she snores

snow brook
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Do you think her snake hair hibernate during the winter?

rapid zinc
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Dusa has to wear a hat that keeps her snakes from drooping everywhere while they slee🅱

harsh sleet
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THAN

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it wont LET ME GIFT HIM ANYMORE

runic terrace
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throws ambrosia at him but he just poofs away

harsh sleet
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IM

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OW

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HES HURTED MY HEART

runic terrace
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hes hurted a lot of hearts 😔

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thanny is literally the most powerful character in the game bc his power extends to real life

bleak osprey
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throw an ambrosia at thanatos while he's porting out and you just hear "WHAT THE--" and then the little fwoomph of him vanishing

harsh sleet
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i guess i HAVE TO NOW

snow brook
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You think Hades can deal 9999 damage at once?

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Friggin' doubt it.

runic terrace
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AAAGHH I HAVENT SEEN THAT YET AND IM (COVERS EYES BUT KINDA PEEKS)

harsh sleet
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SORRY

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FGHNJF

bleak osprey
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oh hey they fixed the extra line

runic terrace
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😭 what a guyyyyy

harsh sleet
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spoilers chat i thought everyone would be safe rooCry

runic terrace
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yeah its my fault for hangin in here 😂

harsh sleet
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ok mood

rapid zinc
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NPCs are impervious to damage when attacking. Bouldy is the most powerful character because it won't even let you pretend to hurt him. There is no "impervious" shield because he is too powerful to even comprehend harm

bleak osprey
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the screencap i have of that line has an extra line after "voluntarily"

runic terrace
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oh?

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interesting

bleak osprey
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it's not actually said out loud, so i bug reported it as a mismatch

rapid zinc
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Yeah, I also got "cease this nonsense"

runic terrace
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patch update: thanny got nicer a little bit

bleak osprey
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hgkdjfhg

runic terrace
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jkgjhgjkgjk

bleak osprey
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he did NOT

rapid zinc
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I had the sound off so I didn't hear the mismatch

bleak osprey
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.....god, i really, really need to organise my screencaps better

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i have 266 screencaps that's just. dialogue.

harsh sleet
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im gonna get back to the house and hes gonna slap me into olympus

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thanks for doing my job for me than

bleak osprey
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plus 21 that are from before the game had a built-in screencaps feature i think

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or just before it started numbering them or whatever

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that's not even all of them.....

amber canyon
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Im a bit late, but Im pretty sure they do split into butterflies, not bats

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Its kind of a big motif of the patch for some reason

harsh sleet
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I HAVE A SCREENSHOT I WANNA SCREAM OVE R AM I ALLOWED

rapid zinc
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YES YOU ARE

bleak osprey
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i'm looking at the death animations and they're too bulky to be butterflies

rapid zinc
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Maybe spoiler tag it tho

bleak osprey
amber canyon
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Hm

amber canyon
#

Yeah those look like bats

#

Are Tisis the same?

harsh sleet
#

THATS THE LINK TO IT

rapid zinc
#

YEAH I GOT THAT DIALOGUE AND SQUEAKED

harsh sleet
#

IM SCREAMING

bleak osprey
#

so far as i can tell

#

they're a bit..... neon green, i'd have to extract the frames and check on a darker bg

sick grove
#

Whenever I finish a Than room I like to walk with Than to the exit. He could port instead of pathing, but he doesn't, so as not to be rude I walk with him.

#

This is the truest moment of bonding with Than, 10/10 will always walk with him.

lunar kiln
#

i have 532 hades pictures

#

help

runic terrace
#

something that haunts me at times is whether ive drawn more pictures of pyre things than there are art assets in the game itself

#

hades is a harder race because they keep adding stuff but pyre? i might have surpassed

rare torrent
#

You have ascended!

#

Even further beyond the concept artists!

shrewd arrow
#

@bleak osprey send me these interactions

bleak osprey
#

no

shrewd arrow
#

:(

#

so much lore...

#

but I need to play the game to get it

#

how sad

bleak osprey
#

that's usually how it works, yeah!

harsh sleet
#

you should make a google drive lol

bleak osprey
#

i don't want to though

harsh sleet
#

understandable tbh

atomic forge
#

I'm at a little over 20 runs and still havent bumped into alecto, tisiphone, or thanatos

#

any ballpark of when i can expect to see em?

visual laurel
#

Thanatos starts showing up after run 23, I believe

#

Not sure about alecto and tisiphone, probably depends on how many times you've beat Meg

atomic forge
#

I see, thanks 😄

harsh sleet
#

thanatos shows up if you make a summoning circle with black candles and put a hot topic t-shirt in the middle and sing mcr welcome to the black parade

#

trust me i tried it

atomic forge
#

Ayy just got my first victory against the Hydra

visual laurel
#

Nice!!!!

#

Oh btw I think there are narrative triggers for thanatos showing up too - convos about him for example, tho idk which ones or if they're ambrosia-gated

fair light
#

Hey, for what it's worth -- normally we like to avoid providing design detail that isn't in the game, though I can confirm in this case that there are no narrative triggers for Thanatos showing up.

#

Events that foreshadow certain characters or events generally are set to expire after those events, rather than being necessary for those events to occur, if that makes sense.

#

We try to be 'realistic' about it in the sense that, if the event specifically involves an action on Zag's part, then that action can be required -- e.g., you do have to defeat Meg enough times to set the events in motion where her sisters return. But if it's something that would happen without Zag's intervention, it will just happen on its own.

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A specific example is when the Lounge opens up early on -- the closing of the Lounge is in the backstory. You can have conversations about it that give some insight into why it closed, but it will reopen no matter what. Intro conversation with Dusa varies based on whether you engaged with those events or not.

#

Our general intention is for the narrative to be opt-in as much as possible -- we don't want players to engage with the narrative out of a sense of necessity, but simply because they want to.

#

Hope that helps give a sense of how we're thinking about this stuff at the moment!

digital crag
drifting citrus
#

👀

visual laurel
#

cool

sleek cape
eternal radish
#

@fair light says - "...we don't want players to engage with the narrative out of a sense of necessity..."

neat crow
#

That's there mostly as a joke

#

I guarantee you it will change when the game is released or later in EA

eternal radish
#

Yeah, of course, my post is also in gest. Jon Hamm is never angry 😉

frozen jolt
#

i know this was vaguely related to your previous messages, but please take off topic things to #off-topic-discussion in the future!

rotund lagoon
#

I noticed that the special for the rail gun is kinda slow. What if it was faster if there was more distance between you and the target. Or faster the closer you are to your target. It would make using it a little bit more dynamic.

frozen jolt
#

it was actually just sped up in a recent patch haha

#

I thought it was fine even before, honestly

#

I haven’t played the new one

haughty oriole
#

what happens when you talk to daddy hades 999 times?

runic terrace
#

you die in real life!

#

just kidding

lunar kiln
#

Hades shows up in real life and shames you for dying ~1,1k times

runic terrace
#

(stares at him) d.....dad? youre here?

frozen jolt
#

ah, my dad is disappointed in me! it’s just like real life

runic terrace
#

i have my dad saved in my phone as hades anyway what if i thought it was him and picked up the phone and loganvoice is like BOI and im like WHOA WHO ARE U

#

sidenote im not a boy but i feel like hades' BOIIII is gender neutral disappointment hgfchfcghfcgh

haughty oriole
#

xD

visual laurel
#

@shut patrol for me though on the funny side it's orpheus' I mean we're dead! We're fine!

runic terrace
#

shoom!

visual laurel
#

fhfjfhdjg

runic terrace
#

meg's battle lines are also something hhfhfjfhjhj

visual laurel
#

for like heartwrenchingness maybe zag being like I don't want anything to...happen when he's worrying abt achilles

#

also What can I say lad? I loved him with all my heart

runic terrace
#

YEAH THOSE R BOTH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#

the other line that makes me (grabs my heart like im dying) is zag's "that almost contained all of the components of a compliment!"

visual laurel
#

some of those new than lines rly hit the zag Soft™ voice too and it's like "oh i'm die????"

#

anytime zag makes the switch from like tough guy backtalking and killing wretches to Soft™ it destroys me

bleak osprey
#

_( :(」∠)_

#

....

#

there we go

#

zag's Soft™ voice makes my heart hurt

runic terrace
#

HGFFHJFGHJFJ

visual laurel
#

I thought of you and hoped you'd understand. 😭 😭

#

its not even the words so much it's just the tone.......

runic terrace
#

and tbh the then ill say it for you. goodbye, zagreus in return is cryingcat

lunar kiln
#

i'd like to mention another iconic moment

runic terrace
#

the song of achilles
oh my god...

visual laurel
#

oh kam did u not remember

runic terrace
#

wow he really went for it

#

I DID NOT

visual laurel
#

yeah that reference is in there fhrjgkg

runic terrace
#

zag: oh, id love to hear the song of achilles
orpheus: (turns into madeline miller) yeah so-

visual laurel
#

orpheus singing like "if it's a parody, satire, or transformative work it falls under fair use! (sings the entirety of song of achilles)"

runic terrace
#

YEAH!!!!

#

NHVNHVHJVHVHJ DARREN'S BIGGEST CHALLENGE YET

#

KEEPING UP THE FALSETTO FOR A LIKE 200 PAGE BOOK

lunar kiln
#

oh god i'm looking thru my hades pictures and i just connected two dots

runic terrace
#

oh?

lunar kiln
bleak osprey
#

i've connected the dots

lunar kiln
#

"i like statues"

runic terrace
bleak osprey
#

yeah of course he does

#

statues don't move

runic terrace
#

statues are just asleep

bleak osprey
#

perfect chance to nap

#

speaking of which i got another conversation between hypnos and thanatos and i just

lunar kiln
#

a secret interaction that unlocks once you unlock all skelly statues where hypnos learns about them and tries to commission some for himself, culminating in a tender hypnos x skelly romance

bleak osprey
#

he's a sleepy boy than!!!! don't be mean!!!!!

runic terrace
#

you know what? im on board with hypnoskelly

bleak osprey
#

kam we can't be friends any more

lunar kiln
#

DSFGHFG

runic terrace
#

it kills hypnomeg AND skelly/achilles its tactical

bleak osprey
#

i'm sorry that's just the way it has to be 😔

runic terrace
#

jhghjfhjfhj

lunar kiln
#

hypnos: are you a training dummy cuz i keep hitting on you

runic terrace
#

skelly: yes

lunar kiln
#

also id like hypnomeg on the only condition that hypnos starts wearing off on meg and she starts talking like him

#

meg: you ready zag? let's get this bread
zag: i donT KNOW WHAT thIS MEANS

#

meg trying really hard to be Cool

#

i mean she is cool but like. she slowly begins to think memes are cooler

runic terrace
#

hypnos and meg date for about a week before she dumps him over the worlds tiniest argument but she can never escape that memes are cool now

lunar kiln
#

^ THIS

#

theyre still friends in memes though

runic terrace
#

they are

visual laurel
#

you've got a friend in meme..........

#

meg, hitting zag so hard he flies back into the previous chamber: yeet

lunar kiln
#

LISTEN this would 100% make hypnos feel less lonely from thanatos ignoring him and zag being away most of the time

runic terrace
#

IT WOULD JGHJFJH

visual laurel
#

poor hypnos he just cant friends good

runic terrace
#

HES GOT A MEME FRIEND...

visual laurel
#

but tbh none of them can

runic terrace
#

hades characters ranked by how good they are at making friends go

visual laurel
#

meg and than are like, have seen real living people and kind of understand but hypnos is just like commenting on how people died is all i know so maybe. make it funny??

#

ghdkghdj oh god well

#

dusa

runic terrace
#

ok yeah dusa #1

visual laurel
#

i assume we mean chthonics

runic terrace
#

mhm

visual laurel
#

god they're all so standoffish i think zag is in second

#

who's worse at making friends, meg or than

#

my personal opinion is that it's than

#

meg scary but she has, like, a work mode and a free time mode

runic terrace
#

than is bad at making friends yeah

visual laurel
#

i'm like pretty sure zag is the only person than talks to for anything other than work fhdjgkg

bleak osprey
#

really, thanatos "care about people but absolutely never let anyone know this fact ever and vehemently deny it every time it comes up" hadesgame can't make friends

#

a shock

runic terrace
#

i know right

visual laurel
#

...scratch that, don't tell anyone about this.

#

i know we were just talking abt john mulaney "i'll hold all my feelings right here and then i'll die" but

runic terrace
#

ill just keep all my feelings right here, and im death.

visual laurel
#

yes

#

forever

bleak osprey
#

i'll keep all my feelings right here, and then everyone else will die.

visual laurel
#

FHDKGHD YEAH everyone else dies so nobody can see he has feelings

lunar kiln
#

me: oh my god thanatos you're smiling!!!!
thanatos, in the most deadpan tone possible: your time is up

harsh sleet
#

i’m just imagining meg in her like calm collected voice going “yeet.”

digital crag
#

dramatic pause.....yeet

harsh sleet
#

also than has a grand total of 0 friends

runic terrace
#

he has u

digital crag
#

gosh i hope than gets a theme song to play in his challenge rooms in the future......

runic terrace
digital crag
#

something with a little bring me to life flair

#

a little waker-upper

runic terrace
#

mod that sticks WAKE ME UP when he shows up

harsh sleet
#

thanatos theme is megalovania-

stark tulip
#

“THIS AINT A SONG FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED”

runic terrace
#

thanny just emits good charlotte's broken hearts parade wherever he goes

stark tulip
#

yesssss

#

Alternatively it’d be really funny if he just played popcorn constantly but not necessarily on brand

digital crag
#

Popcorn??

#

Why popcorn in particular....

stark tulip
#

Idk popcorn has that funny popping noise

#

The song I should specify

digital crag
#

We're talking about that song right- yeah

#

I only know it from that niel cicierega mashup

stark tulip
#

To be fair I’ve only heard it once outside of that lol

digital crag
#

It would be on point if he emitted ambient floor corn all the time

stark tulip
#

aaaaaaaa

runic terrace
#

shades crawling behind him eating the popcorn

lunar kiln
#

hey what's charon's favorite song

#

p-paper boats

#

because he has a boat. floating on a stream,

harsh sleet
#

AAAA

#

THANATOS HAS BLESSED ME SO MUCH RECENTLY

#

:(

bleak osprey
#

syd

#

hey syd

#

hang on wait your gift would fit better in fanworks

harsh sleet
#

AAAAH I GOT ORPHEUS TO SING

#

OH HE SEEMS SO HAPPU

feral scroll
#

Thanatos be like
Hey
you're doing good
I can't officially help you but I can challenge yo

#

you*

#

Also, lowkey thinking that the fact that Hades is so against the idea of Zag leaving is that he's trying to keep up appearances

#

He has to be the bad guy so to speak

harsh sleet
#

zag: look than i didnt ask you to-
than: ITS NOT LIKE I CARE OR ANYTHING. GO OFF AND ESCAPE SEE IF I CARE

feral scroll
#

Zag: Hey, this was fun, maybe we could hang ou-
Than: WHOOPS MY EDGE-O-METER IS GOIN OFF THE CHARTS GOTTA GO KILL SOME MORE STUFF

normal talon
#

saw than today

#

my day has been blessed

feral scroll
#

Yeehaw

harsh sleet
#

MOOD

sleek cape
#

We stan Than

lunar kiln
#

we sthan

harsh sleet
atomic forge
#

Can anyone tell me what is the last artifact in the codes?

harsh sleet
#

points at my last message

atomic forge
#

wut?

#

what do you mean?

bleak osprey
harsh sleet
atomic forge
#

wait do you mean the onions?

bleak osprey
#

yes

#

the onion has a codex entry now

atomic forge
#

but i have gotten em before

#

oooooooooooh

bleak osprey
#

yeah they didn't have one before.

atomic forge
#

so i need to get em again?

bleak osprey
#

yes

atomic forge
#

oof

#

how do you get them again?

#

i haven't gotten them in such a long time

#

it was failing something

bleak osprey
#

fail a perfect clear challenge in erebus, through the heat gates

atomic forge
#

can you elaborate?

bleak osprey
#

.....i mean i don't know how

atomic forge
#

It's just i have no clue what Erebus is

bleak osprey
#

put heat into pact. go to heat gate, big burny hole in floor. go inside. get hit. collect onion.

atomic forge
#

or a heta gate

#

heat*

#

ooooooooooooh

#

so that's what they are

#

but wait

#

wasn't there another way

bleak osprey
#

no

atomic forge
#

of getting the onion?

bleak osprey
#

not any more

atomic forge
#

i am sure that i have gotten it another way tho

harsh sleet
#

'not any more'

atomic forge
#

cuz i have never gone through those

bleak osprey
#

perfect clear challenges used to pop up randomly

atomic forge
#

oh

#

oof

bleak osprey
#

but now they don't, which i told you

atomic forge
#

yea gotcha

#

aight thanks

#

guess i will have to handy-cap myself for this one

livid arch
#

Is there any way to reach the wine cellar next to the lounge? yes or no

bleak osprey
#

i mean you can dash behind the counter to check out the shiny dot and get a line from the storyteller but no, you cannot get in

livid arch
#

I always look for something up on the edges, something to dash to, use

old frost
#

First clear with Gun! I thought I wouldn't make it because I got 4 wave heads in the last round,,,,

neat crow
#

Congrats!

harsh sleet
#

noice

#

i rlly need to try out the gun more

old frost
#

It's really fun to use with the dio boon

shrewd arrow
#

We need

#

A scythe

#

for zag

#

Thanatos should give Zag his scythe

old frost
#

pleas

harsh sleet
#

but then what’ll than have

#

his bare hands

bleak osprey
#

sord....

neat crow
#

Than will have Zagreus' heart in his hands, it's fine

harsh sleet
#

he has my heart too if he wants it

neat crow
#

His actual, bleeding heart, though. That's the only way Than is giving up his scythe Kappa

visual laurel
#

"trade you"

#

please, though, if anyone is a bleeding heart around here, it's Than

slim tangle
#

PPFPPTPTTPF

#

WHY IS APHRODITE FOLLOWED BY ARTEMIS

#

OH IRONY

#

(Followers of Artemis are actually known to almost reject Aphrodite entirely, shutting themselves from any romantic relationships)

#

(This puts Aphrodite and Artemis on bad terms with each other)

frozen jolt
#

yes, they dislike each other

#

the dialogue in the game reflects this as well

swift lark
#

Is there a list of all the Duos?

bleak osprey
#

they’re not all in one place afaik but the god pages on the wiki list their duo boons

swift lark
#

Thanks

#
Hades Wiki

Boons are upgrades given by the gods in order to help Zagreus escape the underworld. They can be obtained as rewards for clearing a room marked with the respective god's symbol or purchased for 200 from Charon's shop. While they are permanent for the duration of a run, and c...

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found it

hushed yew
#

nyx just told dusa not to talk to zag damn nyx i trusted you dusa

runic terrace
#

ppl who were watching me stream: bear with me a moment computer died

rapid zinc
#

F

#

Hopefully it remembers you beat Meg, though

runic terrace
#

HDJFJ HOPE SO

#

aaaand were back!!

rapid zinc
#

The Kam adventures continue!

hushed yew
#

gg

rapid zinc
#

It was fun! Thanks for the stream!

runic terrace
#

thats all! It was more fun n chill than i thought, thanks everyone who watched squirtnya

hushed yew
#

yea it was v nice to watch and now im inspired to do a stream myself

runic terrace
#

yessss!!! live ur streams dreams

#

aaaaah i didnt realise u had to select video saving i wanted to watch my run.....aw well, next time :3

knotty shore
#

not sure if they’re still on spoilerwatch but do you need to beat the hydra for the two other furies and thanatos to show up?

bleak osprey
#

i don't think so

knotty shore
#

if that’s the case i’m just sooo unlucky when it comes to getting them to spawn LOL

visual laurel
#

You may not be far enough into the game

#

Thanatos takes about 23 runs at minimum to show up, I think we decided

knotty shore
#

ouch

#

i’m at 30 escape attempts LOL

#

haven’t beaten the hydra yet though

visual laurel
#

and alecto and tisiphone probably rely on you having beaten meg a certain number of times

harsh sleet
#

[sniffs around chat]

#

did someone mention thanatos

knotty shore
#

that definitely makes sense, i’ve only beaten meg a handful of times

#

thanatos love is at all hours of the day

harsh sleet
#

true!

sleek cape
#

We stanatos thanatos

normal talon
#

it's always love thanatos o clock

mystic tusk
#

well I don't like thanatos!!!

harsh sleet
#

why :(

mystic tusk
#

I thought the shield heat sink was easy points but regardless of that and/or armor he just blasts 'em

#

by shield I mean the pact resist instance of damage

neat crow
#

Death Insurance

mystic tusk
#

thank you

#

I haven't gotten a win against thanatos since the first time I met him in tartarus

neat crow
#

Out of curiosity, what weapon(s) do you normally run? And are you always playing on some level of heat ?

mystic tusk
#

honestly I run whatever has dark thirst on it because I find it keeps it interesting

neat crow
#

Fair enough

mystic tusk
#

the heat level varies, though

neat crow
#

In general, it's hard to win vs Than if you don't have high DPS and/or AoE capability

#

But there are some strats you can employ

#

Baiting spawns outside of Than's death AoE range is one

mystic tusk
#

yeah, but it's kind of a win - win in the end

neat crow
#

Actively targeting enemies that either he isn't targeting, or else ones that he is but are close to death already

mystic tusk
#

even if you don't do anything you get the room reward

neat crow
#

True

mystic tusk
#

I was most frustrated by armored skullcrushers, but I think that was before the most recent patch

#

but, again, at worst, you get the room reward for free, and at best, you get a centaur heart too

neat crow
#

At worst you die, but that can be said of any room squirtdevious

mystic tusk
#

if only we had a protagonist that was used to dying

neat crow
#

I know, right?

#

I still have to die in a Thanatos room so I can get the convo(s)

mystic tusk
#

ha!

neat crow
#

And I also have to finish my intentional throwing of Erebus rooms to get my Codex back to (almost) 100%

#

15 more failed attempts notlikeblob

#

It's painful

spring scaffold
#

What, there's more after the 5 onions?

neat crow
#

Y E S notlikeblob

#

I was so sad when I saw that after my initial run of bombed Erebus rooms

mystic tusk
#

is there any amount of dialogue you can trigger with the sisters? I think it's just a collection of challenges and responses currently, because they're not allowed in the house, right?

#

sorry I just got Al again and am feeling bitter

neat crow
#

As far as I know, yeah

#

Can't gift the other two Furies notlikeblob

#

It pains me

#

I feel like Charon and Tissy must get along famously with their verbosity

mystic tusk
#

honestly, Tis speaks to me

spring scaffold
#

Yes, she does.

mystic tusk
#

she knows what she wants and gets to it

spring scaffold
#

All characters do, actually.

#

Except for Cerberus.

pallid tangle
#

I just realized that the final boss can be Cerberus. Im gonna cry if i will need to kill him even if not forever

hushed yew
#

oh no

#

i doubt it'd be cerb, i'm pretty sure hades mentioned at some point that the land is inescapable, and that he knows it from experience, so it may turn out that there is some ancient power keeping them all in the underworld
hades didn't get to rule the land of the dead by choice, after all

#

i think that fighting a titan would be neat

harsh sleet
#

persephone for final boss GWqlabsKek

harsh sleet
visual laurel
#

😭 yeah when you clear all his dialogue...tragic

harsh sleet
#

screams

#

i beat hydra,, with heat on,,,, with only 5 boons im

#

I COMPLETED THANS CODEX ENTRY TOO

#

i have.. no reason to talk to him any more....

hushed yew
#

eyy gj!!

harsh sleet
#

ty!

nimble trellis
#

So, Meg told me that it was not my own strength that allowed me to defeat her, but the strength of Nyx's mirror. So I've been playing with no mirror bonuses for a while. I beat her, and she appeared in the house, but there was no acknowledgement in her dialogue.

harsh sleet
#

shes too proud to admit it

nimble trellis
#

That's a good way to think about it, thanks

tulip hare
#

Hades will probs be the official last boss, kinda want boons from him though, dunno how that would make any sense tho

drifting citrus
#

maybe persephone is the last boss? or an unlockable boon-giver

digital crag
#

m.......mom

tulip hare
#

I wonder if Zag can bless himself, that could be cool

drifting citrus
#

mom is beating me up

#

please don't send me back to hades

tulip hare
#

like the gods found out they were deceived, now you have to carry on by your own power or something

drifting citrus
#

all the olympians become secret super-bosses

digital crag
#

supergiant final bosses through the years
-rescuing a nerd
-beating up a nerd
-playing relationship counselor for an old goat man
-your mom

bleak osprey
#

it would really, really suck to suddenly get stripped of all the powers you've been building up over the course of the run

drifting citrus
#

LMAO

bleak osprey
#

and, like, not in a good way

tulip hare
#

yeah, they have the shoulders of giants thing

drifting citrus
#

"mom why are you doing this"

#

"mom i have 160 heat please don't"

digital crag
#

are the giants ........ perhaps, super

bleak osprey
#

not in a "ooh what an interesting twist" way, in more of a "ugh, but i was enjoying being super powerful and now i'm just back to being A Dude" way

tulip hare
#

I feel like they could stripl away some of it, when you pick a god over the other thingie

#

yeah the zag boons would have to be pretty strong to justify it

#

Make your own custom pantheon by stealing the other gods boons? :p

digital crag
#

why is than so american

#

he sounds.... distinctly not even trying to do the fake brit midatlantic accent

cold canopy
#

huh true

#

hypnos doesn't really either

digital crag
#

hypnos: wow i can't believe we're the only two people who talk normal in this house

cold canopy
#

hypnos probly spoke more like nyx originally but mimicked his cool older bro

neat crow
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They've said in an AMA that the Chthonic gods all have American-esque accents, and the Olympians have Fantasy British accents

sick grove
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I sometimes wonder how Nyx got in contact with the Olympians, and wonder if it's similar to those dial-in-boons the gods drop us along the way.

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Can everyone do that?

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Zag comes home after a long day of trying not to die, is told to go to his room.

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Notices a 'boon' floating in the center of his room.

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Shhhhhwaaaaaahhhhh noise plays out

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Hades appears, too stubborn to get up from his desk so he had to phone in to give Zag some more antagonizing.

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"Honestly Zag, are those clothes piled in the corner? I think one would start with keeping an orderly room before trying to tackle leaving the underworld."

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Boon menu appears

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Onion.

  • Gives you an onion.
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That's it that's the interaction.

amber canyon
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Yeah, which is why Zags was a bit of an oddball

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Anyway, given that its Nyx

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I imagine she just manifested close to them

sick grove
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Anywhere the light doesn't touch, that kind of thing? In a shadowy patch of some tall building?

amber canyon
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Also I imagine gods can just effectively call each other

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Nah, just at night

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She is the Night

sick grove
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There's that line in the flashback, about Hades having papers from the Olympians requesting his summons that he's ignored.

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Though Than can just poof where he pleases, so maybe it's just a Zagreus-demigod thing.

somber gull
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Whoops

bleak osprey
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to clarify, the flashback line is simply about correspondence with the olympians, not summons

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There is not much of any import there. Ledgers and administrative paperwork. Correspondence from Olympus which he had ignored.

sick grove
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Yeah. I meant to point out that communication was less of a boon-thing, and more of a 'oh, they write letters, too'

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I still like the idea of Nyx manifesting in shady corners to give gentle words of wisdom

amber canyon
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You just go out at night and bump into Nyx

livid arch
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Guyss, what did Magerra take from Zag's room?
I wasn't expecting her to be there and was taken by suprise

amber canyon
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Her stuff

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Its basically just solid confirmation that they were an item at one point

harsh sleet
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she stole sandras orb

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and now theyre best friends

livid arch
honest coral
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I've noticed the text before

bleak osprey
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together with his brothers zeus and poseidon and his sister hera

drifting citrus
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maybe it's a myth they put back there

bleak osprey
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it's about the defeat of the titans

hollow garden
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yeah thats what i would guess

drifting citrus
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i'd love to see demeter as a olympian, if only for the dynamic of ||grandma and grandson-she-doesn't-know-is-her-grandson||

atomic forge
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^

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I would honestly be really disappointed if she never makes it in

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I'd rather see her than Hera

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I feel like it might even be appropriate for Hera to not involve herself whatsoever, given that Zeus is invested

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I think Hermes could lead to some really awesome movement speed boons

digital crag
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i want to go fast

atomic forge
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I can just imagine Hermes wrath hehe

drifting citrus
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z o o m

marsh prawn
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Hermes please

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All i want is hermes

honest coral
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f a s t

marsh prawn
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Let hermes and hypnos meet i ask for very little

lost gorge
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N Y O O M

livid arch
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Has anyone else seen food as a reward? its my first time seeing one in 100+ runs

neat crow
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It's only available from exiting an Erebus room

drifting citrus
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s h o o m

full basin
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Has anyone actually seen Thanatos? I've been doing a couple runs to get a feel for the new update, and I've seen the other Furies but not Thanatos

hushed yew
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yea a few times actually

frozen jolt
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I saw him twice since the new update but then after the patch that increases his appearance frequency I haven’t seen him even once

full basin
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Where do you find him?

hushed yew
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he just pops up randomly when you enter an encounter chamber

full basin
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O ok. Guess it's back to the grind for me then

hushed yew
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good luck

full basin
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Thanks!

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Ok I love Chaos and giving him Ambrosia till max heart rank was totally worth it.

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Now for the rest of the gods

neat crow
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I love Chaos, they're great

full basin
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Right they/them how could I forget

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They're awesome and really sweet when you get that final heart

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Still really trippy to look at tho

neat crow
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The visual effects and the audio processing are top notch katesNice

full basin
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Yuup

atomic forge
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Is it possible to encounter Thanatos twice in a single run ?

neat crow
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Not as far as I know

rapid zinc
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It is, and it used to crash the game

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It softlocked the second confrontation because, since he was an NPC, you could only talk to him once per run. You could not leave. I speak from experience.

bleak osprey
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i don't think it's possible to see him twice, if it was at some point then not any more

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MaxAppearancesThisRun = 1,

amber canyon
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It was possible as a bug

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It no longer is

bleak osprey
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i mean it also makes sense for him not to show up more than once

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don't mind me just passing through again

amber canyon
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"Forgot my keys, my bad"

knotty moss
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can someone tell me whats the other new keepsake, i got thana's

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i see nobody in the codex i could gift to yet

visual laurel
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There was only one new keepsake for this update

knotty moss
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hmm

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uh

visual laurel
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There is a new codex entry, for the onion

knotty moss
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idk i would have to start up to be sure but i dont think i have the onion if its a keepsake

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is it from hades?

visual laurel
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No no

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It's not a keepsake

drifting citrus
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hades doesn't give one

visual laurel
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It's an item

drifting citrus
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^

knotty moss
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wait if the wiki wasnt updated in the past few hours i should have all of the keepsakes on there

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lemme look at the page

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it looks like i didnt gift dionysus

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but idk in the game it showed me a have gifted him

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also should i write in tech support for the 5th weapon not appearing?

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i have an old save

sick grove
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5th weapon doesn't appear unless you've hit specific requirements

knotty moss
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i mean there is a random dude on twitch who got it to appear, he was at the "zagreus gets to know his mother" cutscene

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i just beat hydra for the 3rd time

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just now

rapid zinc
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Nice!

knotty moss
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what do i need to do for it to appear?

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also is it any good?

rapid zinc
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The 5th weapon appears after you have all 4 other weapons. It's called the Adamant Rail, and is in my opinion very good

frozen jolt
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also it requires 8 keys to unlock

knotty moss
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yea i saw that on that guy's stream

atomic forge
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@rapid zinc This Weapon is like a big gun?

knotty moss
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yea it is

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it can fire bullets and bombs

atomic forge
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I didn't have
Know about the requirements

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It just showed on the hall

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I never used it

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I'll give a try

drifting citrus
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@errant musk I saw your post about Scourge of the Furies's time signature! Listening to it, I believe the first section is either 4/4 or 2/2, and the second section is alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8

visual laurel
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I agree, it's a limping meter of some sort, which is great!! i've been waiting for some of those balkan dance time signatures to show up in the soundtrack, lol

digital crag
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sky dance with electric guitars

errant musk
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These ones are easy. Now try and understand the bit in the later stage of the melody.

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@visual laurel
Balkan makes sense, since Greece is close by.

visual laurel
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Yeah, I know, haha. I had been talking when the game came out about how I hoped Darren would take some insp from the region

errant musk
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I don't really know regional music that well, so this is more of a surprise to me than to some other people.

rain zenith
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According to the March Road-Map, the 8th Olympian will be added at some point in the future. What is the overall consensus on who it would be? There are 12 Olympians in the game, 7 of which are already Boons and the eight is Hades. So we have 4 left: Hera (Zeus's Wife, goddess of Marriage, Children) Demeter (Lover of Zeus and Poseidon, mother of Persephone, goddess of Fertility, Agriculture, Nature and Seasons), Apollo (Son of Zeus, Artemis twin, god of light, poetry, arts, music, healing) and Hermes (Messenger of Gods, god of travel, commerce, thieves and games).

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Personally, besides Hera I think all the other 3 could have very interesting and unique boons. Demeter is especially interesting due to the connection with Perspephone. Hermes could have the boons focused on Dash and there are many ways Apollo could be designed.

drifting citrus
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Hades isn't an Olympian because he doesn't live on Olympus, he's a Cthonic god. The 12th Olympian is Hephaestus, god of fire (i think he was cast out in one myth, but returned to olympus in another)

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I personally want Demeter simply for the dynamic between her and Zaggyboi

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I don't think Hermes would be focused on dash because every Olympian has a dash boon, he'd probably have something to do with movement speed. Maybe he could take on an elemental twist as an air god (though i don't know what mechanical role that would play)

digital crag
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gotta think out there

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god of travellers, boons that affect room choices or your literal traversal through the world

winged hazel
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I'm thinking apollo's next, gotta have both him and artemis

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IDK what they'd do for him though, something related to sun/light probably

zenith lichen
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He gives you a lamp

amber canyon
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He makes you sparkle

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Thats it

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Thats all he does

winged hazel
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you sparkle and blind enemies

spring scaffold
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You make enemies sparkle.

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The more sparkles there are on screen, the higher the reward will be.

winged hazel
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Both you and your enemies sparkle. All of the particle effects slow down the game, and therefore allow you to play the game in slow motion

zenith lichen
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Apollo just gives you bad fps 😄

rapid zinc
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I need Apollo for that good good sibling interaction

winged hazel
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I need Demeter for the L O R E

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Though something tells me her presence in the game will be more like Hades

drifting citrus
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hera as a boss when

winged hazel
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I’m getting sick of hydra every time so just stick her in Asphodel

cunning needle
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demeter just gives grandma candy

drifting citrus
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imagine opening up a zeus boon and hera is just staring at you

cunning needle
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maybe hermes just gives speedrun advice

runic terrace
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hermes changes ur timer to make u appear faster :p

elfin shadow
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Don't Forget about Hestia. One of the elder gods. She sometimes resides on Olympus as well. Making her the 13th Olympian.

knotty shore
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apollo gives zagreus boy tips to hit on achilles

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hestia would be fun because of the Glorious Glock you can get

rare torrent
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Achilles said Hestia used the Adamant Rail.

knotty shore
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yeah the Glorious Glock

runic terrace
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storyteller: come on, please, i love alliteration

digital crag
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Revolver Hestia

winged hazel
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Gotta protect the hearth somehow

digital crag
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Authorized to protect the hearth with lethal force

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Bruce Willis is Hestia in
Die Hearth

lost gorge
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I’m betting on Demeter, because of Persephone’s inclusion

drifting citrus
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which brings up the question: does demeter know where persephone is?

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cause she ain’t in hell and i don’t think she’s on olympus either

winged hazel
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I don’t think Demeter will give you boons actually, I think she’ll be more of a story character

drifting citrus
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she better give me a good trinket >:v

winged hazel
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Maybe something like a small bonus to room rewards because of the whole harvest thing, if she doesn’t end up giving boons

drifting citrus
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maybe she figures out zag’s true intentions and tries to help him there

zealous flower
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I just haven’t seen enough of her yet but does Tisiphone ever say anything other than murderer?

rapid zinc
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She says Murder, too

zenith lichen
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Also Mr

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And mmr

lunar kiln
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also she has a cute laugh

errant musk
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Poor Tis is completely deranged...

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It saddens me.

atomic forge
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My waifu

onyx spoke
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hey does anyone have a screencap of alecto saying "I've always wanted to kill a god"

bleak osprey
onyx spoke
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thanks so much

atomic forge
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Hero

undone orchid
cunning needle
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meg is so hard to have conversations with

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on the rare occasions when i fight her, when i get back to the house she's talking with someone else

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please.....please let me fill up my codex and also give you presents because i love you....

subtle cradle
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👆

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for some reason Megaira was always my favourite Erinys ever since I started researching them

lunar kiln
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Here's my character design analysis

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Meg is blue bc she's chill

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Alecto is red bc she's angry

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Tisiphone is green because it looks nice on her

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But she's chill the rest of the time

runic terrace
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tisiphone is green bc shes working to stop climate change

lunar kiln
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(tisiphone voice) mmmm...mmmmmore renewable energies

spring scaffold
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Corpses are renewable fuel for the underworld.

errant musk
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Okay. Remember us figuring out the signature of the Scourge of the Furies?
So, the final part almost before the repeat has a very weird switcheroo of time signatures. I will shorten the description of them from, say, 6/8 to just 6, for ease. Now, that part has signatures 6-4-6-5 6-4-6-5 6-4-6-6-8-8.

limpid grotto
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unrelated to this, if Persephone DID escape hades, does that mean there's no more winter and fall?

drifting citrus
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maybe that’s what the war’s about

runic terrace
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thats a p sweet way to live tbh

harsh sleet
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my meme didn’t send

regal plover
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Is there a thread or channel that is just screenshots of the run info screen right after killing the hydra? Or any interest in such a thing

rapid zinc
regal plover
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Yeah, I was thinking more of a channel without commentary and just the images

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Maybe there is a way to filter in discord for images in a channel

runic terrace
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there is!

regal plover
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Discord is the best

runic terrace
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put that in the search