Grey You

Grey You is the Spring 2022 special challenge path, introduced on February 15, 2022. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "Resistance is goo-tile."

Divergences

• Your adventure begins with Your Friend Goo.

• You have no organs, instead you absorb the item you attempt to consume.
  • "You absorb the...."
  • Each item can only be absorbed once in a Grey Goo lifetime. "You've already absorbed this pattern of atoms."
  • Absorbing food grants you +2 maximum HP, booze gives you +2 maximum MP, and spleen items give you +1 maximum HP and +1 maximum MP. You do not gain stats or adventures from consuming food or booze.
• You have no mainstat, and the mechanics of stat gain have changed.
  • At the end of combat your nanites absorb the remains of your opponent, granting you adventures or increasing one of your stats.
  • You do not gain experience from other sources, including consumables, usable items (like Baseball), combat encounters, non-combat adventures (such as That's a Tidy Bowl, Man! or The Institute for Canadian Studies) or The Shore, Inc. Travel Agency.

• You start with only one path specific skill: Pseudopod Slap
  • Further skills are gained by post combat absorption.
  • Non-goo skills are not accessible, and you can't use skillbooks such as the Emotion chip. ("This is not how grey goo acquires knowledge.")

• You start with only 5 max MP, this is not tied to your myst. Post combat absorptions increase this.

Skills

Skills in Grey You are gained by defeating certain monsters. There are 53 in total numbered 27000 -27052.

Name	Description	Source
Pseudopod Slap	Deals 10 damage	Starting skill
Hardslab	Deal your Muscle in physical damage.	Remaindered skeleton
Telekinetic Murder	Deal your Mysticality in physical damage	Crêep
Snakesmack	Deal your Moxie in physical damage	Sewer snake with a sewer snake in it
Ire Proof	Serious Hot Resistance (+3)	Raging bull
Nanofur	Serious Cold Resistance (+3)	Ratbat
Autovampirism Routines	Serious Spooky Resistance (+3)	Spooky vampire
Conifer Polymers	Serious Stench Resistance (+3)	Pine bat
Anti-Sleaze Recursion	Serious Sleaze Resistance (+3)
Microburner	+5 Hot Damage	Cobb's Knob oven
Cryocurrency	+5 Cold Damage	Knob Goblin MBA
Curses Library	+5 Spooky Damage	Lihc
Exhaust Tubules	+5 Stench Damage	Beanbat
Camp Subroutines	+5 Sleaze Damage	Knob Goblin Harem Girl
Grey Noise	Deals 5 damage plus any bonus elemental damage you have	The Boss Bat
Advanced Exo-Alloy	Damage Absorption +100	Knob Goblin Elite Guard
Localized Vacuum	So-So Hot Resistance (+2)	Cubist bull
Microweave	So-So Cold Resistance (+2)	eXtreme cross-country hippy
Ectogenesis	So-So Spooky Resistance (+2)	Claybender Sorcerer Ghost
Clammy Microcilia	So-So Stench Resistance (+2)	Malevolent hair clog
Lubricant Layer	So-So Sleaze Resistance (+2)	Oil slick
Infernal Automata	+10 Hot Damage	Demonic icebox
Cooling Tubules	+10 Cold Damage	Ninja Snowman Weaponmaster
Ominous Substrate	+10 Spooky Damage	Animated ornate nightstand
Secondary Fermentation	+10 Stench Damage	Drunk goat
Procgen Ribaldry	+10 Sleaze Damage	Smut orc screwer
Solid Fuel	+10 Adventure(s) per day	Knob Goblin Alchemist
Autochrony	+10 Adventure(s) per day	Zombie waltzers
Temporal Hyperextension	+10 Adventure(s) per day	Pr Imp
Propagation Drive	+20% Item Drops from Monsters	Junksprite bender
Financial Spreadsheets	+40% Meat from Monsters	me4t begZ0r
Phase Shift	Gives Effect: Shifted Phase (10 Adventures)	Spectral Jellyfish
Piezoelectric Honk	Gives Effect: Hooooooooonk! (10 Adventures)	White lion
Overclocking	+X% Combat Initiative (Scales with your Muscle)	Big Wheelin' Twins
Subatomic Hardening	Damage Reduction: X (Scales with your Muscle)	Pooltergeist
Gravitational Compression	+Y% Item Drops from Monsters (Scales with your Mysticality)	Suckubus
Hivemindedness	Regenerate Y MP per Adventure (Scales with your Mysticality)	Mind flayer
Ponzi Apparatus	+Z% Meat from Monsters (Scales with your Moxie)	Anglerbush
Fluid Dynamics Simulation	Regenerate 8 HP per Adventure (scales with muscle?)	Carnivorous Moxie Weed
Nantlers	Deals your Muscle in damage (includes bonus damage)	Stuffed moose head
Nanoshock	Deals your Mysticality in damage (includes bonus damage)	Jacob's adder
Audioclasm	Deals your Moxie in damage (includes bonus damage)	Spooky music box
System Sweep	Deal your Muscle in physical damage If this defeats the enemy, it is banished for the rest of the day	Pygmy janitor
Double Nanovision	Deal your Mysticality in physical damage If this defeats the enemy, get +100% item drops for this fight	Drunk pygmy
Infinite Loop	Deal your Moxie in physical damage If this defeats the enemy, you gain 1 muscle, mysticality and moxie	Pygmy witch lawyer
Photonic Shroud	Gives Effect: Darkened Photons (10 Adventures) 40 MP, Monsters will be much less attracted to you	Black panther
Unused Combat Selfbuff
Steam Mycelia	+15 Hot Damage	Steam elemental
Snow-Cooling System	+15 Cold Damage	Snow Queen
Legacy Code	+15 Spooky Damage
AUTOEXEC.BAT	+15 Stench Damage	Flock of Stab-bats
Innuendo Circuitry	+15 Sleaze Damage	Astronomer
Subatomic Tango	+20 Adventure(s) per day	Fan dancer

Text

See The Council of Loathing/Grey You

Strategy

Breadth-first traversal; one-time adventure absorptions await in most zones, so roaming far and wide is the key to early turngen (and early class skill acquisition).

Rewards

• A class tattoo is obtained when starting the path.

History

Ascension Paths
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Special Challenge Paths
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