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v0.1.0
Choose Your Covenant
Each class alters your starting deck and grants unique dark passive traits.
Blood Witch
Sacrifices health to harness blood and split active balls.
Starting Deck:
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Blood Sacrifice
Blood Echo can be cast using 5 HP if Blood is insufficient (< 100 🩸).
Blood Echo
Duplicate and split all active balls in mid-air (Cost: 100 🩸).
Grave Knight
Fires heavy armored projectiles, taking less damage from the Pit Maw.
Starting Deck:
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🦴
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Iron Vessel
Vessel damage from dropped projectiles is reduced (takes -6 HP instead of -8 HP).
Iron Verdict
Slam all active balls downward and empower them to crush armor (Cost: 80 🩸).
Plague Doctor
Spreads infection, triggering chain explosions on volatile cysts.
Starting Deck:
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Rot Spore
Shattering a Cyst Peg triggers a chain reaction, spreading rot to 3 random pegs.
Outbreak
Seed 3 rot infections and trigger decay on all rotted pegs (Cost: 80 🩸).
Exorcist
Purifies cursed pegs to fuel holy spells and blast adjacent anomalies.
Starting Deck:
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Pure Path
Purifies hit Cursed Pegs into Blood Pegs safely, gaining +2 Blood. (Halo triggers explosions).
Revelation
Purify all cursed pegs on the board and boost all active balls velocity (Cost: 80 🩸).
Butcher Saint
Shatters pegs to carve meat chunks, pulling projectiles downward using chains.
Starting Deck:
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Carve
High chance to spawn temporary meat bounce chunks when pegs shatter (25% base / 50% with Apron).
Meat Hook
Pulls all active balls downward toward the catch bucket with chain visual effects (Cost: 80 🩸).
The Ritual Sanctum
Channel your Cursed Ashes to bind new covenants, expand the relics pool, and fortify your vessel.
★ SANCTUM BLESSINGS RESTRICTED IN DEMO ★
Cursed Ashes:
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Grave Knight
Heavy projectiles, reduced damage from the Pit Maw.
Exorcist
Purifies cursed pegs, boosts active projectiles.
Butcher Saint
Spawns meat slab obstacles, hooks balls downward.
Plague Doctor
Spreads infections, detonates cysts.
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Parasite Crown
Leech healing also infects a random peg.
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Vesper Chimes
Cleansing a room in 3 or fewer shots awards +35 Gold.
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Butcher's Apron
Shattered pegs leave temporary meat obstacle bounces.
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Tombstone Shard
Your first shot in each chamber creates a temporary tombstone bumper.
✨
Hallowed Halo
Cursed pegs purified by the Exorcist explode, destroying 3 neighbors.
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Gargoyle Eye
Aiming projection predicts 2 bounces instead of 1.
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Decay Flower
Infects a random peg with rot at the start of each level.
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Saw Ball
Cuts through multiple pegs before bouncing.
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Hellfire Ball
Ignites pegs and explodes on final impact.
👁️
Eye Ball
Cyan projectile. Grants Eye Sight accuracy buff on peg impact.
❤️
Vessel Fortification
Increases Max HP by +10 per level (Max 5).
Level: 0 / 5
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Marrow Enrichment
Start runs with +10 Gold per level (Max 5).
Level: 0 / 5
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Ritual Codex
Aiming and Cleansing
Aim using your mouse cursor, or rotate the launcher using the A / D or Left / Right Arrow keys. Hold Shift for precision micro-stepping.
To fire, click your mouse or press Spacebar / Enter.
Your main objective is to destroy the glowing gold Ritual Pegs. Once they are all cleared, the chamber is purified, and you can descend deeper into the crypt.
The Catch Bucket
A moving metal basket slides along the bottom of the screen. If your projectile lands in the basket, it is returned to your Ammo Bag for a free shot and grants you +5 Gold!
Vessel Lifeforce
If a projectile falls past the bottom of the board and misses the bucket, it is devoured by the Pit Maw, draining -8 HP of your Vessel Life. Protect your vessel!
Cursed Ammunition
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Blood Drop
Standard bounce weight. Generates double blood (+4 🩸) when hitting pegs.
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Bone Ball
Heavy weight, lower bounce. Deals 2x damage and instantly breaks through multi-hit bone pegs.
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Leech Ball
Lightweight. Heals +3 HP for every 5 peg hits in a single shot.
🕷️
Spider Egg
Splits into 3 crawling mini-projectiles upon its first collision, clearing out massive clusters.
⚙️
Saw Ball
Shredder weight. Pierces through up to 3 pegs, dealing double damage (2 HP) per hit.
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Hellfire Ball
Fiery weight. Ignites pegs in a wide cluster, and detonates them when caught or lost.
Living Peg Behaviors
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Ritual Peg
Primary target. Must destroy all of these to cleanse the room. Generates high score.
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Blood Peg
Standard tissue. Dissolves in one hit, granting blood resource.
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Bone Peg
Armored skull structure. Requires 2 hits (3 under Marrow Rot) to shatter unless struck by a Bone Ball.
☠️
Cursed Peg
Occult seal. Explodes on contact, draining your Vessel Life by -8 HP.
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Cyst Peg
Volatile bladder. Detonates in a wide area-of-effect explosion, destroying nearby pegs.
❤️
Heart Peg
Flesh cluster. Heals and repairs all damaged nearby Bone Pegs if not destroyed quickly.
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Burning Peg
Ignited state overlay. Detonates in a fire blast when Hellfire Ball finishes its flight.
Class Active Abilities
Every peg hit generates blood for your pool. When your pool has enough blood, click the active power button (or press Spacebar / Enter) to cast your unique class spell!
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Blood Echo (Blood Witch)
Cost: 100 🩸 (or 5 HP)
Duplicate and split all active balls in mid-air to trigger massive cascades.
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Iron Verdict (Grave Knight)
Cost: 80 🩸
Slam active balls downward, empowering them to crush bone pegs in a single hit.
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Outbreak (Plague Doctor)
Cost: 80 🩸
Seed 3 random peg rot infections and immediately decay all rotted pegs on the board.
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Revelation (Exorcist)
Cost: 80 🩸
Purifies all cursed pegs on the board and empowers active projectiles with speed/bounce.
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Meat Hook (Butcher Saint)
Cost: 80 🩸
Spawns red chains to pull all active balls downward toward the catch bucket.
Curses & Relics
Throughout your run, you will collect powerful Relics that modify your physics and bullets, but beware of Curses which impose hazardous board traits (like heavy gravity or tremors).
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Ritual Options
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A Dark Offering
Choose one relic to bind to your covenant
The Plague Crypt
Choose your path through the crypt. The final boss awaits.
❤️ 100 / 100
🩸 0
🪙 50
Score:
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Plague Crypt - Chamber I
Ritual Pegs Remaining: 0
🪙 50
Altar of the Crimson Mother
A dark hum fills the air. A sacrifice is required to draw the Mother's eye.
Sacrifice Life
Pay 25% Current HP
Gain a Random Relic
Blood Infusion
Pay 100 Blood Pool
Purify 1 Curse
Dark Bargain
Accept a random Curse
Relic Draft + 30 Gold
Leave Unmarked
Free
Walk away, untouched
The Bone Merchant
"Souls, gold, marrow... everything has a price in the deeps."
❤️ 100 / 100
🪙 50
❓
Occult Mystery
A dark presence calls out to you...
VESSEL SHATTERED
Your blood feeds the Cathedral. Your soul remains bound to the pegboard.
Chambers Cleansed: 0
Ritual Pegs Broken: 0
Gold Harvested: 0
Cursed Ashes Harvested: +0
Final Score: 0
CATHEDRAL CLEANSED
The Meat Cathedral collapses in splatters of crimson rain. You have survived the descent... for now.
Total Score: 0
Remaining Life: 100
Relics Collected: 0
Cursed Ashes Harvested: +0
Vessel Life
Your health points.