Z is for Zootomist

Z is for Zootomist is the Spring 2025 special challenge path, introduced on February 15th, 2025. This path adds variant rules and restrictions to an ascension run. Its description in The Bureau of Reincarnation reads "You are experimenting on familiars and choosing some to graft on to your own body."

Divergences

• Your adventure begins with [[‎]]

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See The Council of Loathing/Z is for Zootomist.

Rewards

• Finishing a run while it is the current special challenge path -- between February 15th, 2025 and May 14th, 2025 -- gives players 50 (in Normal) or 100 (in Hardcore) extra karma points the next time they visit Valhalla.
• Players will receive a Thwaitgold ??? statuette upon defeating the final boss.
• 11 familiar hatchlings
  • plover's egg

Ascension Paths
Boozetafarian	Teetotaler	Oxygenarian
Special Challenge Paths
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