Journeyman

Journeyman is the Summer 2022 special challenge path, introduced on May 15th, 2022. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "Journey to out-of-the-way places to find your skills."

Restrictions

• You cannot enter The Sea:

  That shack you saw on the main map was just a picture of a shack drawn on the ground.

• Consultations with your guild trainer are curt and unproductive:

  You may not learn skills on this path..

Divergences

• You start with no skills. Regardless of your class and permanence.
  • Moxie classes are still able to Pickpocket.
  • Conditionally granted skills like Steal Accordion are available.
• You gain skills by exploring seldom-essayed zones of the Kingdom.
  • Noob zones: Noob Cave, The Dire Warren
  • Marketplace quest zones: The Overgrown Lot, The Skeleton Store, Madness Bakery
  • Knob nethers:The Knob Shaft, Cobb's Knob Laboratory
  • Island areas: The Obligatory Pirate's Cove
  • Pandamonium: Infernal Rackets Backstage.
  • (The order of skills gained in each zone are different for different players.)
  • The skill is awarded in a NC, (this occurs every forth adventure in the zone.)
  • The Gnomish trainers Gnirf and Melvign can bestow skills (if accessible).

Rewards

• Finishing a Journeyman run while it is the current special challenge path -- between May 15th, 2022, (and August 15th, 2022) -- gives players 50 (in Normal) or 100 (in Hardcore) extra karma points the next time they visit Valhalla.
• Finishing a Journeyman run also gives a The Big Book of Every Skill.
• Players will receive a Thwaitgold ????? statuette upon defeating the Naughty Sorceress.

Ascension Paths
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