I'm gonna hope you didn't walk in while followed by the crab and was instead exploring when it came it.

Also, what items did you have? Apart from the already mentioned use-the-key there may have been other options. The blue crab moves slower than the player which allows some room to play with.

I see. Yeah I wasn't quite sure from your description and only briefly looked at the image so I didn't even notice it was a gif

They are showing without the item because that gets randomized each game. Open the journal while in a run and you'll see all ID'd items filled out fully

I'm a big fan of the hawk. With speed upgrades it can more than keep up with your RoH, you can use it to see into rooms without having to expose yourself, at which point that projecting+arcana can do some fine work

That's the thing though, I can imagine reasons, but none of them seem consistent with the other choices and specified rules "i assumed they wanted to be with me" and "would try to be as safe as possible"

I have to ask though, why No on the Succubus?

Even nicer: if there is a piece of tall grass next to water, just walk around it while hitting. Step, hit, step, hit etc. until it's done. There are a couple cheesier solutions depending on what you have (e.g. rose and bow)

Consider a network tap. Should by design be invisible to the program being examined.

Yeah, I noticed you invested a fair bit in a wand compared to my direct RoH RoSS approach

Yup. Had some time to kill offline so I just ascended that run, I'll probably drop a post as well

My first 7 (IIRC) chal wins were with that combo, I had some experience with what I was doing.

Congrats. I have the seeded RoH + RoSS run unfinished, just about to do alchemy prep before I go kill Yog. I will note that food has been no issue, as I write I've explored all floors and have 19 rations and miscellaneous other food.

I know it didn't give you all info in the log, but IIRC it did have hit chances and such, correct?

There was a fork that gave you much more info, not sure if it's still active.

I will also note, the game doesn't use raw RNG, it tweaks it a bit to achieve a significantly lower chance of "cursed RNG"

I got one in an hour over on Discord

I also got PGC-BTP-MTC from ifritdiezel in the Discord, with the rings properly accessible.

Honestly the run is fairly easy, if anything I'm going through too fast (thus low level so a bit behind on talents). Also I should have kept the rotberry for grass generation, ultimately I can deal without it, not using tipped darts is a shame though.

I just need something to kill crabs early on. Beyond that the goal is to avoid melee

Huntress with early RoSS and RoH (and maybe transmute for a better tier 1 weapon) might be able to do it, barkskin to cover for armor and point blank talent in place of melee weapons.

Maybe I'll give it a shot when I don't feel like doing standard challenges

Items dropping on a chest is not a new thing, presumably you just haven't encountered it before

Rare but it happens... time to put the corrosion wand to work then