Dark Gyffte

Dark Gyffte is the Spring 2019 special challenge path, introduced on February 15th, 2019. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "Live a grim facsimile of life as a powerful Vampyre."

Restrictions

• None of your permed skills are available.
• No class can be picked during reincarnation. Instead your class will be Vampyre, which has its own distinct skill set. Your main stat is Mysticality.
• Stomach is size 5.
• Liver is size 4. Players will become intoxicated upon reaching a drunkenness level of 5.
• You cannot eat non-blood food:

You aren't interested in non-blood foodstuffs.

• You can not drink non-blood booze:

You aren't interested in non-blood beverages.

• You may only consume foods and booze crafted from blood bags.

Craft blood bag with:	Result	Type	Adv. gain
wad of dough	bloodstick	food, size 1	11 Adventures
batgut or ratgut	actual blood sausage	food, size 1	14 Adventures
plain snowcone	blood snowcone	food, size 1	17 Adventures
blackberry	blood roll-up	food, size 1	20 Adventures
filthy poultice or gauze garter	blood-soaked sponge cake	food, size 1	23 Adventures
fermenting powder	bottle of Sanguiovese	booze, size 1	11 Adventures
spices	mulled blood	booze, size 1	14 Adventures
glass of goat's milk	Red Russian	booze, size 1	17 Adventures
Any dusty bottle of wine	dusty bottle of blood	booze, size 1	20 Adventures
carbonated soy milk or Monstar energy beverage	vampagne	booze, size 1	23 Adventures

• You do not have access to any familiars. Trying to bring a familiar with you will give the message:

Familiars can't abide your spooky presence.

• Many non-vampyric means of restoring HP (such as healing items) don't work.
• Since you cannot join a guild, you do not have access to any zones that require a guild quest to unlock.
• Vampyres cannot enter The Sea. Clicking 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.

• Standard restrictions apply while Dark Gyffte is the current challenge path. These restrictions will be lifted on May 15, 2019.

Divergences

• Your adventure begins with Intro: View of a Vampire.
• Your max HP is based off your base Muscle stat, not your boosted Muscle stat.
• Various bosses have been replaced by monster hunters:
  • Steve Van Helsing or Steve Belmont replaces the Boss Bat in the Level 4 quest.
  • Ricardo Van Helsing or Ricardo Belmont replaces the Goblin King in the Level 5 quest.
  • Jayden Van Helsing or Jayden Belmont replaces the Bonerdagon in the Level 7 quest.
• Your avatar is replaced by:

Skills

Vampyre skills consume HP instead of MP. The Vampyre skill tree is accessed in Torpor, which you can reach by retiring to your coffin at your campsite for 1 adventure or by losing in combat. Learning a skill reduces your pool of available base HP by the amount indicated. Unlike other classes, Vampyres can reconfigure their skills freely while in Torpor, learning and unlearning any skills so long as they retain a base HP greater than zero.

• Vampyres also start out with the skills and [[]].

You begin with two skills:

• Dark Feast – Deals damage and regenerates up to 30 HP from monsters with less than 30 HP.
• Wisdom of Countless Centuries – Passively grants +3 stats per fight

Rather than purchasing new skills for meat, you may learn skills from 3 trees while in Torpor: Beastcraft, Haemoturgy, and Aesthesis. Each skill you learn costs some of your maximum HP.

Each normal (softcore) Dark Gyffte ascension completed grants +20 max HP, and each hardcore Dark Gyffte ascension completed grants +40 max HP.

You can skip ranks within a skill tree.

Rank	Beastcraft				Haemoturgy				Aesthesis
	Name	Cost	Type	Effect	Name	Cost	Type	Effect	Name	Cost	Type	Effect
1	Savage Bite	10 HP	Combat 3 MP	Deals double your buffed Muscle as damage	Blood Spike	20 HP	Combat 3 MP	Deals buffed Mysticality +20 as damage	Piercing Gaze	20 HP	Combat 3 MP	Deals buffed Moxie +30 as damage and delevels by 25% of that amount
2	Crush	20 HP	Combat 10 MP	Deals 75% of a monster's HP in damage (up to 200)	Blood Chains	15 HP	Combat 5 MP	Stuns an opponent for several rounds	Perceive Soul	15 HP	Combat 15 MP	Memorizes the pattern of a monster's soul, making you more likely to encounter it in the future.
3	Baleful Howl	30 HP	Combat 30 MP	Banishs a foe for the rest of the day	Chill of the Tomb	10 HP	Combat 7 MP	Deals buffed Mysticality +30 as Cold damage and staggers	Ensorcel	20 HP	Combat 30 MP	Binds an enemy to your service, gain an ensorcelee that has effects in combat
4	Ceaseless Snarl	15 HP	Non-combat 10 MP	+30 Monster Level	Blood Cloak	20 HP	Non-combat 10 MP	-Combat Frequency	Spectral Awareness	10 HP	Non-combat 10 MP	+2 Elemental Resistance to all elements
5	Wolf Form	20 HP	Non-combat 10 MP	+150% Muscle +150% Meat Drops	Mist Form	30 HP	Non-combat 10 MP	+200 Damage Absorption, +20 Damage Reduction, +4 Elemental Resistance to all elements	Flock of Bats Form	20 HP	Non-combat 10 MP	+150% Combat Initiative +150% Item Drops
6	Preternatural Strength	15 HP	Passive	Your Muscle cannot be lower than your Mysticality	Madness of Untold Aeons	25 HP	Passive	+150% Mysticality	Sinister Charm	15 HP	Passive	Your Moxie cannot be lower than your Mysticality
7	Flesh Scent	5 HP	Passive	+100% Meat Drops	Hypnotic Eyes	5 HP	Passive	You can Darkly Feast on enemies with up to 100 HP, and Feasting Darkly is more effective	Batlike Reflexes	15 HP	Passive	+75% Combat Initiative
8	Ferocity	10 HP	Passive	Your combat skills do 50% more damage	Macabre Cunning	20 HP	Passive	+5 Stats per Fight	Sharp Eyes	30 HP	Passive	+100% Item Drops
9	Intimidating Aura	30 HP	Passive	Gain 2 more blood bags from the Blood Bank each day	Sanguine Magnetism	15 HP	Passive	Recover some HP after each combat	Spot Weakness	15 HP	Passive	Weakens foes at the start of combat

• Note that base HP is only increased by base Muscle. Effects and enchantments that increase maximum HP do not increase the pool of base HP available to learn skills.
• Losing ends combat and costs an adventure, even if it was a free fight. Unlike Ed the Undying, you will not return to the fight. After exiting Torpor, you will regain full HP and will not be Beaten Up.

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See The Council of Loathing/Dark Gyffte

Rewards

• Finishing a Dark Gyffte run that began while it was the current special challenge path -- between February 15th, 2019, and May 15th, 2019 -- gives players 100 (in Hardcore) or 50 (in Normal) extra karma points the next time they visit Valhalla.
• Players will receive a Thwaitgold mosquito statuette each time they complete a run.
• Players will receive a Booke of Vampyric Knowledge each time they complete a run.

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