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{{Challenge Path Description
|image=gelatinousdude.gif
|name=Gelatinous Noob
|season=Spring 2017
|date=February 15, 2017
|desc=You're a gelatinous cube with aspirations of humanity. Hungrily absorb items to gain power!}}

==Restrictions==
* You cannot eat, drink, or consume spleen items normally:
::You're not sure why humans are always putting things in their mouths.
* Consumption restriction is implemented by imposing a size 0 stomach, and spleen and a size 1 liver. This means that [[Prepare your Meal|non-standard ways of eating]] will not work, but [[ice stein|some non-standard ways of drinking]] will work and make you instantly overdrunk. So... consider nightcapping maybe?
*Skill-granting items cannot be used:
::Nah, you'd just get the pages all sticky.
* Wearing equipment provides the attack/defense power, but gives no bonuses from ''regular'' enchantments.
** This includes familiar equipment, Valhalla rewards, rollover adventures.
** Unique and unusual enchantments with specially coded effects will generally still work.  For example, items like the [[KoL Con 13 snowglobe]] that give post-combat drops will activate. Combat skills granted by equipment also remain available, as do [[outfit]] bonuses. Choice adventure and quest interactions involving equipment remain unaltered.
*You cannot adventure in [[The Sea]]. Attempting to talk to [[An Old Man]] gives the following message:
::That shack you saw on the main map was just a picture of a shack drawn on the ground.

==Divergences==
*Your adventure begins with [[Welcome to the Kingdom, Gelatinous Noob]].
*[[The Council of Loathing]] has [[The Council of Loathing/Gelatinous Noob|different text]] reflecting your new class.
*Starting items are a [[dirty bottlecap]], [[discarded button]] and an [[interesting clod of dirt]].
*Upon freeing King Ralph you [[Finally Human|finally become human]] and choose one of the standard classes. If you choose a Muscle-based or a Mysticality-based class, your Moxie will switch with your new class's main stat.

==Skills==
Gelatinous Noob is a moxie class and has the ability to [[pickpocket]]. They also begin with a few active skills:
*[[Gelatinous Reconstruction]] (3 MP) - Removes Beaten Up and restores some HP
*[[Gelatinous Punch]] (5 MP)
*[[Gelatinous Headbutt]] (15 MP)
*[[Gelatinous Kick]] (30 MP)
As with all class-based paths, you have no access to your permanent skills, nor to guilds.

===Absorbing items===
You can absorb any items that are [[:Category:PvP Stealable Items|PvP stealable]], as well as Gift Items and the three starting items. Items that cannot be traded, or which cannot be discarded may not be absorbed. 
* Your absorption organ has a capacity of <code>2+level</code> items per day, to a maximum of 15 absorptions at level 13. 
* On rollover, your absorption organ is emptied. Maximum absorption is unchanged.
====Absorbing equipment====
Absorbing equipment grants you the enchantment bonuses of that equipment, until rollover.
* Familiar equipment is considered a non-equipment item for this purpose.
* Only standardized enchantments can be absorbed, while unique and unusual enchantments (which still work when the item is equipped) generally can not be absorbed.
* You can absorb multiple instances of the same item for stacking bonuses.
====Absorbing other items====
When absorbing non-equipment items, instead of providing whatever effect they would normally provide, grants Gelatinous Noob-specific passive skills. These skills persist through the rest of the ascension, until you free the King and stop being a Gelatinous Noob.
**This means consumables with effects will not grant their effects, consumables that drop items will fail to drop those items, and anything else (such as Drippy Juice for access to [[The Drip]]) will also not be conferred.
* The skill granted is the skill id specified by the item's descid % 125 + 23001.  See [http://noblesse-oblige.org/ezandora/GelatinousNoob/index.html Ezandora's super helpful list of Noob skills] for a list.
* Absorbing an item that grants a skill you don't have gives a base of 0 adventures and 0 stats, while absorbing an item that grants a skill you already have gives a base of 5 adventures and 50 stats. Both are modified by skills that increase gains from absorption.
* Six items, obtained from the [[Robortender]], give combat frequency modifying skills instead:
*:[[bottle of gregnadigne]]: [[Bendable Knees]]
*:[[cocktail mushroom]]: [[Retractable Toes]]
*:[[shot of granola liqueur]]: [[Ink Gland]]
*:[[bottle of novelty hot sauce]]: [[Frown Muscles]]
*:[[limepatch]]: [[Anger Glands]]
*:[[baby oil shooter]]: [[Powerful Vocal Chords]]

===Skill progression===
You gain 1 skill point for each [[Ascension#Normal Difficulty|normal]] (softcore) Gelatinous Noob ascension completed and 2 points for each [[hardcore]] Gelatinous Noob ascension completed, up to a maximum of 20 points. At the start of subsequent Gelatinous Noob runs, you can spend these points to acquire skills from the list of skills you acquired by absorbing items in previous runs.

This path's skill bucket is [[Gummi-Memory]], sold in [[Mr. Store]] for one [[Uncle Buck]]. It grants 5 skill points (up to 20) in your future Gelatinous Noob runs.

===Skill Matrix===
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==Strategy==
* It's best to take the skills that give more adventures per absorb as early as possible, to best take advantage of it. A good start is [[potted cactus]] -> [[dirty bottlecap]] -> [[hermit permit]] -> [[baconstone]] -> [[LOV Enamorang]].
* The core set of skills to speed up your run are stats per fight, item drops, meat drops and pickpocket chance. If you're not getting the jump to pickpocket, consider picking up some +init, which is helpful in a couple of zones anyways. If you're dying to monsters, pick up +moxie or +100% HP. Consider "perming" the following list of skills to ease advancement:
**all 5 +adv skills
**all 5 +item% skills
**[[Arrogance]]
**[[Beating Human Heart]]
**[[Pathological Greed]]
**[[Sunglasses]]
**[[Thumbs]]
**Many of the +stat per fight skills are available for low meat costs at the start of a run, which removes the need to perm them.
*Since the initial combat skills all do [[Weapon Damage|physical damage]], you will need some elemental bonus damage for physical-resistant monsters (e.g. at [[A-boo Peak]]). Either pick up one of the passive elemental damage skills or absorb equipment with a bonus to gain that bonus until rollover, if you cannot [[Summon Love Stinkbug]].
*Survivability is also enhanced by wearing high power hats and pants, as these have higher DA. Equipment found in [[The Armory and Leggery]] may be unenchanted, but is still good for their [[Damage Absorption]] values. [[Bankruptcy barrel]] is a decent starting pants with 100 DA, no equip requirement, and basically no cost real or opportunity because the other two items would be even less useful.
* Remember that not every absorb needs to be for a new skill -- absorbing an item for which you already have the skill gives 5 extra adventures over a new one, which can help make daycount. 
* Although you cannot benefit from normal enchantments, hardcoded items with nonstandard enchantments or effects that still apply:
** The [[gravy boat]] will reduce evil.
** You still get stats and items from the [[KoL Con 13 snowglobe]].
** [[Cowboy Kick]] is still granted by [[your cowboy boots]], and is supplemented by appropriate spurs and/or skins. [[Rotting cowskin]] is very good for being an extra source of deleveling.
** You can still bust ghosts with the [[protonic accelerator pack]], and take blobs of their energy.
*** The [[frigid derringer]] will provide high damage, ease of hitting due to being a ranged weapon, and a stun effect.
*** [[Mr. Screege's spectacles]] provide Meat and items.
** You can still get the item drops from the [[Clan Floundry|Floundry]] equipment, if not the effects themselves. As a ranged weapon, the [[bass clarinet]] is a decent choice. The free [[white pixel]]s are obviously a plus.
** [[Loadstone]] can still attract extra fasteners in [[The Smut Orc Logging Camp]].
** [[Blackberry galoshes]] still increases the exploration rate of [[The Black Forest]].
** [[Antique machete]] still makes [[dense liana]] encounters free.
** [[Attorney's badge]] will block attacks.
** [[UV-resistant compass]] still increases the exploration rate of the [[The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert]].
** Outfit effects apply.
* If you have the [[Intergnat]], you can get one yellow ray per day by buying [[viral video]]s.
** If you have the [[Mayo Clinic]], you can get one single additional yellow ray by using a packet of mayo, then using a [[mayo lance]]. Make it count, because being unable to eat means you can't ever de-mayo your mouth-approximation!
* There are not many possibilities for -combat chance: [[Rational Thought]], [[shoe gum]] (once per day), [[cuppa Obscuri tea]] (once per day) and [[worst candy]], if you can get it from [[KoL Con 13 snowglobe]]. This is somewhat mitigated by the [[Robortender]] drops, although quest planning is still advised.
* There are not as many sources of ML as in other paths. For leveling, this can be made up for by buying the +stats per fight skills. For the areas where you need +ML, consider the following sources: [[perfume of prejudice]] (5), [[detuned radio]] (10), [[Internate Debatable]] (10), [[WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA]] (20), [[Greek fire]] (25), [[monsters.enq]] (25), [[cuppa Mediocri tea]] (30), [[Emotional Vaccine]] (30). You can also absorb equipment to push you over a threshold.
* While you can't use [[Transcendent Olfaction]], there are still many other ways of fighting the monsters you want: [[Digitize]], [[Duplicate]], [[LOV Enamorang]], the [[Time-Spinner]], [[alpine watercolor set]], [[print screen button]] and [[Nosy Nose]].
** As with every path with wanderers (Digitized or enamorang'd), you can save turns by fighting wanderers in areas with delay(), as all fought monsters, even free wanderers, burn it. Consider Digitizing many [[Witchess Rook]]s, as Greek fire is the only useful Witchess drop for blobventurers, and grants a generous amount of bonus substats.
* Since you can't eat pies, remember to do the [[Daily Dungeon]] early and often (enough).

==Rewards==
*If this is your first run as the Gelatinous Noob, opening the [[letter from King Ralph XI]] unlocks a new class [[tattoo]]. There is also a sparkly tattoo available upon completion of a hardcore run as a Gelatinous Noob.
*Finishing a Gelatinous Noob run that began while it was still the current [[special challenge path]] -- that is, between February 15th, 2017, and May 14th, 2017 -- gave players 100 (in Hardcore) or 50 (in Normal) extra [[karma]] points the next time they visited [[Beyond the Pale|Valhalla]].
*Players will receive a [[Thwaitgold amoeba statuette]] upon defeating the [[Naughty Sorceress (3)]]. 
*Learning all of the passive Gelatinous Noob skills entitles you to a [[Gelatinous Hubris|trophy]]. (The six active skills that affect [[Combat Frequency]] are not required.)
**Given how the trophy takes a minimum of 7 days to acquire, getting it in Hardcore is a good opportunity to go for [[Gourdcore]] and possibly [[Golden Meat Stack]]. 

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