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{{Challenge Path Description
|image=gdclock.gif
|name=Live. Ascend. Repeat.
|season=Fall 2017
|date=August 14, 2017
|desc=Time keeps repeating over and over and you need to break out.
}}
== Restrictions ==
* Banishing, olfacting and other similar effects don't do anything.
* All item drop rolls are going to be 50 (out of 100), so either you have enough item drop to make things drop... or you don't.
* Food, booze, spleen and such will always give average results.
* The RNG is seeded the same for each player on each turn #, so barring conditional adventures, everyone will get the same encounters and monsters on the same turn # if they go to the same zone.
* + and - combat doesn't do anything.
* Wandering monsters and fights from familiars and such won't happen.

== Divergences ==
*Your adventure begins with [[Live. Ascend. Repeat. (adventure)]].
* The first [[Semi-Rare_Adventures|Semi-rare]] is at turn 76, and future ones are +110 turns each time

== Strategy ==
* Every player will have the same turns in the same order, so tracking / spading will be incredibly useful. There is a [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQk1ANU-Uu4VrY5i7KDwPIrDQg37atFGIV1xra1nMfI/edit?usp=sharing spreadsheet in progress here] where players are contributing information.
** Note that [[delay()]], [[Floors and Ceilings|floors and ceilings/caps]] are still in effect, which can cause deviations from the expected sequence of encounters. Delayed encounters will not appear until the player has spent at least 5 adventures in the zone. Capped encounters are forced after a certain amount of turns spent in the zone (i.e. [[screambat]]s, [[dodecagram|friar]] [[box of birthday candles|noncombat]] [[eldritch butterknife|encounters]], etc.).
* Item drop rate is normally determined by taking the base drop%, adjusting for your +item% (i.e., if the base drop rate is 20%, and you have +100% item drop, 20% + (20% x 100%) = 40% adjusted drop rate), and comparing that against a randomly generated (1 - 100) roll. If you've reached a 40% adjusted drop rate and the internal random roll is lower than 40, you get the item; if it's higher, you don't. This path sets all of those internal rolls to always be 50, so the +item% needed will always be [half the normally required amount] - 100, and can be reliably calculated as follows:

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|- style="background-color: #DDDDDD"
!Base Drop %
!+Item% Needed<br>To Guarantee Drop
!Examples
|-
| 1% || +4900% || [[spice melange]] from [[giant sandworm]]
|-
| 2% || +2400% || it'll come up eventually!
|-
| 5% || +900% || first chance at [[blasting soda]] and [[Bottle of Chateau de Vinegar|vinegar]]
|-
| 10% || +400% || [[filthworm hatchling scent gland|filthworm]] [[filthworm drone scent gland|scent]] [[filthworm royal guard scent gland|glands]], [[Swashbuckling Getup|pirate outfit]], [[Frat Warrior Fatigues|Frat Warrior]] and [[War Hippy Fatigues|War Hippy]] outfits from drill sergeants
|-
| 15% || +234% || [[A-Boo clue]]s, [[rusty hedge trimmers]]
|-
| 20% || +150% || [[tomb ratchet]], [[harem pants]], [[harem veil]], [[evil eye]]
|-
| 25% || +100% || [[bird rib]]s, [[lion oil]], [[stone wool]]
|-
| 30% || +67% || [[star]]s, [[line]]s, [[hot wing]]s, [[The F'c'le|F'c'le]] quest items
|-
| 35% || +43% || 
|-
| 40% || +25% || [[goat cheese]], [[bowling ball]]s
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| 45% || +12% || 
|-
| 50+% || +0% || first [[bubblin' crude]], [[Gnollish toolbox]], [[tires]], [[Pygmy witch surgeon|gross doctor disguise]]
|-
|}

* Equipment and items that give you +item % will therefore be highly useful - see [[Maximizing Your Item Drops]] for more info.

==History==
*A trivial update on August 18, 2017 removed randomness from semi-rare timing, blasting soda & vinegar drops, and [[Macrometeorite]] results.
*A trivial update on August 22, 2017 removed randomness from [[The Big Book of Pirate Insults|pirate insults]], several candy sources, [[Lovebug abilities and encounters|lovebugs]], [[Dog Needs Food Badly|8-bit Weinerdog Pixels]], and [[worm-riding manual page]]s.

== Rewards ==
*Finishing a Live. Ascend. Repeat. run that began while it was still the current [[special challenge path]] -- that is, between August 14th, 2017, and November 14th, 2017 -- gives players 100 (in Hardcore) or 50 (in Normal) extra [[karma]] points the next time they visit [[Beyond the Pale|Valhalla]].
*Players received a [[perfectly fair coin]] the first time they completed a run while it was the current challenge path.
*Players will receive a [[Thwaitgold time fly statuette]] each time they complete a run. 
:*Players in Hardcore gain the stainless steel equipment for their class.

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