Grey You
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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 |
Restrictions
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.
