Nuclear Autumn
Nuclear Autumn is the Autumn 2016 special challenge path, introduced on August 15, 2016. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "The rest of the planet was very recently destroyed by nuclear war, and the Kingdom is experiencing the very early stages of the apocalypse.."
Restrictions
- Stomach and Spleen are limited to 3 each, and Liver is limited to 2 (you become overdrunk at 3.)
- You may only consume size 1 foods, booze and spleen items. Trying to consume any larger items results in this message:
- Your mutated throat is too narrow to swallow that much. Try something smaller.
- Your Fallout Shelter replaces The Campground. As a result, you are unable to access your Garden, Workshed, Telescope, etc.
- However, your Source Terminal will appear in your shelter, if you have one.
- The Meatsmith, The Armory and Leggery, The General Store, Doc Galaktik's Medicine Show, The Hermitage, The Bugbear Bakery, and the three Guild Halls are all unavailable.
- Standard restrictions apply while Nuclear Autumn is the current challenge path. These restrictions will be lifted on November 15, 2016.
Skills
- Permanent skills are not available.
Divergences
- On ascending into Nuclear Autumn, the player encounters War Apparently Changed.
- The Council gives you a Desert Bus pass at level 11.
- The Black Market is unavailable: you find the forged documents when you find the market.
- You approach the door of the market and find that it's boarded up. You sigh in frustration as you kick a rock, but then you whoop with excitement as you realize that there were some forged documents hidden under the rock you just kicked!
You acquire an item: forged identification documents
Skills
Players begin the path with two skills, dependent on class
- Seal Clubbers start with Extra-Thick Skin and Comically Oversized Fist.
- Turtle Tamers start with Overactive Pheromones and Dislocatable Jaw.
- Pastamancers start with Aluminum Nerves and Noodly Arms.
- Saucerors start with Self-Lubricating Feet and Hollow Canines.
- Disco Bandits start with Two Right Feet and Finger Knives.
- Accordion Thieves start with Double-Eidetic Memory and Ultrasonic Ululations.
Additional skills may be acquired by mutating rads that drop from combat.
Rad Sickness
Unfortunately, the nuclear annihilation world is only the start of your problems, as you're left to deal with the fallout - figuratively and literally. As you fight monsters, you'll gradually accumulate Rad Sickness, which reduces your stats.
- Winning a fight against a monster will increase your level of Rad Sickness.
- The amount of Rad Sickness you accrue per fight is based on the number of turns you've spent this given ascension. Fights start giving 0 Rad Sickness, and the number increases by 1 for every 50 adventures thus far spent. For example, if you've played 210 adventures in this particular run, you'll be gaining 4 Rad Sickness per fight.
- Each point of Rad Sickness reduces your buffed Muscle, Mysticality and Moxie by 1 point.
- Rad Sickness can be cured by resting in your Cryo-Sleep Chamber, located in your Fallout Shelter, or by consuming a bottle of Rad-B-Gone.
- Rad Sickness gain can be prevented entirely through use of Rad-Pro or a lead umbrella.
Rads
On the bright side, not all of the radiation is strictly bad. Winning combat against monsters also grants you rads, which can be used to purchase various skills. You'll acquire (1+X) rad from every fight, where X is floor((total fights this run)/50).
| Name | Type | Price | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
 Boiling Tear Ducts
|
Combat 10 MP |
30 | Hot damage |
 Projectile Salivary Glands
|
Combat 10 MP |
30 | Sleaze damage |
 Translucent Skin
|
Combat 10 MP |
30 | Spooky damage |
 Skunk Glands
|
Combat 10 MP |
30 | Stench damage |
 Throat Refrigerant
|
Combat 10 MP |
30 | Cold damage |
 Steroid Bladder
|
Buff 30 MP |
60 | +50% Muscle |
 Extra Muscles
|
Passive | 90 | +50% Muscle |
 Magic Sweat
|
Buff 30MP |
60 | Damage Absorption +100 Damage Reduction: 10 |
 Flappy Ears
|
Buff 30MP |
60 | +2 resistance to all elements |
 Adipose Polymers
|
Passive | 90 | Damage Absorption +100 Damage Reduction: 10 |
 Metallic Skin
|
Passive | 90 | +2 resistance to all elements |
| Hypno-Eyes
|
Passive | 90 | +50% Moxie |
 Self-Combing Hair
|
Buff 30 MP |
60 | +50% Moxie |
 Intracranial Eye
|
Buff 30 MP |
60 | +50% Mysticality |
 Mind Bullets
|
Combat 10 MP |
60 | Stuns opponent |
 Extra Brain
|
Passive | 90 | +50% Mysticality |
 Internal Soda Machine
|
Passive | 30 | Spend 20 meat to recover 10 MP |
 Extra Kidney
|
Passive | 60 | +100% Adventures from booze |
 Extra Gall Bladder
|
Passive | 60 | +100% adventures from food |
References
- The name of this path is a play on nuclear winter.
- The intro adventure, path reward, and new campground are all references to the videogame series Fallout.
