Infinite money and extra health and easy Luck Ups (up to 15 or so) right off the bat. Today was attempt number who-the-fuck-knows-anymore for Delirium with Keeper.Īnd in the very first floors, I get Greed's Gullet and Swallowed Penny. So I'm still playing on PlayStation 4 (Afterbirth +) and still missing some very annoying completion marks: Delirium with Keeper, and Ultra Greedier with The Lost, Keeper and The Forgotten. A perfect snowball like that only comes by once in a blue moon. I console myself with the idea I got one step closer to closing this book, but it's bittersweet. I actually managed to make a correct risk assessment, got greedy and deliberately walked back into danger. It happened so fast, I didn't even have time to process my feelings. Something about that hanging sword just scrambled my peripheral vision, just the tiniest bit of visual noise to make me miss that guy. I just don't know how I missed him, but I'm blaming Damocles. I'll just obliterate these guys, starting from the one to the right and my heart sinks, because it's too late before I notice the one that spawned above me is right next to me, charging. "You know, I could get a couple Soul hearts from Mr. I actually get through a few rooms, and I peer at my Alabaster Box.
I start to move through the floor to keep looking for the boss. Ok, I'm on Womb 2 and see the Challenge Room. I'm doing my damndest to focus and not make stupid mistakes through Womb 1. And I forgot to mention I picked up an Alabaster Box at some point. One down, and I'm gunning for a Hush > Satan > Lamb > maybe Mega Satan because I might be able to save the Chaos Card for his door if can I ace Hush. I eventually pull through and get Lost Contact for my trouble, omg. I actually was a fraction of second away from dieing to a Blighted Ovum that spawned on top me, if hadn't just been skittish and moving by instinct. Except sometimes you get Gurdy or three Gurglings/Turdlings/Hollows occupying those spaces. So I want to stay near the middle, but maybe closer to the top or bottom so I can have more room to maneuver around the bosses on either side.
On the other hand, you can't see if Monstro 2 spawned off screen and is revving up brimstone. On one hand, standing at the far side keeps enemies all one side. Constantly second guessing where I should stand as the next wave spawns. I think I'm about 1/3rd through the Boss Rush so I'm tenser than ever. Oh shit, is that The Blo- Holy Mantle shield broken. I pick up Cain's Eye and Rotten Tomato so I've upgraded my quadruple auto-aim Tech X volleys to sextuple shots and I can melt bosses well enough but it's still nothing insane, at least 3-4 volleys of Tech X shots to take down some of the beefier bosses. The Boss Rush room with Damocles is so cool. "Boss Rush Boss Rush Boss Rush" it's the red variant of Mom at the end of Depths 2 (Necropolis 2?) and it's a little scary but ultimately uneventful. Oh yeah, a shop had a Holy Card so that's pretty cool too. Godhead, two Halos, Revelation, some other things that aren't as big a deal. I pop Diplopia on the twin pedestals in the room and now I see 6 angel room items. Items are pretty cool at this point, but especially the first Angel Room I get after this point. I forget the exact order, but roughly in a sequence I get a hold of Damocles, Diplopia and There's Options. So I grab and hang onto Chaos Card because deleting an endgame boss is too good to pass up. I get Era Walk, 2 of Diamonds and Chaos Card. Fourth floor Challenge Room has a booster pack and even though I don't have my Mantle on anymore I usually have a good feeling about Booster Pack.
Third floor treasure: Tech X and I'm starting to believe. I'm doing a regular route because I'm too much of a coward so I figure no need to take extra risk on ALT floors. This time I'm feeling it, so I pop it right away. I usually try to keep the Holy Card both as a self imposed incentive to train taking no hits and to save it on the off chance I find one of the items that let me exploit the Holy Card some more. I'm closing in on all marks completed, with mainly the funny kids left with a lot to do (tLaz, tLost, tJacob) and I know it'd be a hell march leaving them for last so I decide to give tLost some time.