Advancing through the ranks of the underworld

[schneefink]

After a few escapes on my new Hades save file I went back to my original one, because for obvious reasons runs there are easier and sometimes I just want to play to relax. After exactly 400 runs, and 115 697 enemies slain, I am now an Alpha Shadow. (Even Hades commented on it: "You are advancing through the ranks of your position, and returning to our realm the vast resources you have claimed. As well you ought. Carry on.") My latest run was on Rama, with Tempest Flourish, Tidal Dash, Razor Shoals, Sea Storm and Splitting Bolt, that was fun.

I have also started playing Gone Home, several years after I got it as a gift (iirc that was actually the reason why I got a Steam account back then.) It is veery slow in comparison. I enjoy it, but only in small doses. When I started playing every time I took something/opened something/turned on the lights I put it back the way I found it, but by now I lost patience for that. I enjoy putting together the story from snippets, but there are many drawers to open. I just discovered the map to several secret rooms, will check those out next time.

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[james]

I was playing my second save file last night and was finally able to get Hypnos' stupid autograph and all he did was say "Wow, thanks!"

Like I let Theseus and Asterius kill me several times! I literally had to stand there in the arena and let them kill me! For a "wow, thanks!"

(I haven't given him enough nectar yet, in case he's due to give me a companion.)

[schneefink]

I didn't even get a "thanks," just multiple "wow"s ^^
My favorite result of getting the autograph for Hypnos was Theseus' reaction the next time I saw him - totally worth it just for that.

[james]

Oh yeah! That was awesome. (I heard that and started saying 'Zag say no say no say no' and he did yay.)