The Long Way Up · published
This one is big, and most of it comes straight from the players who reached the summit in the first week.
THE DEEP CLIMB
• From floor 300, foes can carry one of six marks: Stormclad, Venomous, Mirror-boned, Qi-hungry, Stone-hided, Grudge-bearing. Every mark is announced on the fight card before you engage. Read first, then fight.
• Elites fight back with arts of their own, and wardens carry two. Every art is announced one exchange before it lands.
• A fight that costs more than a third of your health leaves a wound: a dent in your max HP that only a restoration floor or a sanctuary rest can close. Rest means something again.
• Companions no longer slip past the tower's measure. Fights with an ally at your side stay real fights.
• From floor 400 the peddler takes bribes: pay stones for a fresh curio offer, at a price that climbs with each use. Your late-game fortune finally has somewhere to go.
HONESTY
• Curios show their math: how many you hold, what the stack truly totals, and keystones admit they only count once.
• Heart resistance shows when it is pressed against its realm cap, at the gate and in the sidebar.
• Elemental curios show their real value when your roots divide or reject them, greyed and explained.
• When the tower has risen to meet you, the fight card says so.
CHOICES
• You choose your origin anew at each rebirth, with your roots named before you commit.
• The summit wish must be sealed before it counts, and the Hall of the Ascended remembers each wish in full.
• Arts granted by curios can be ordered in the auto-battle list like any learned art.
• The demon road now steels the heart through defiance. Still the riskier path, no longer a trap.
TIDIED
• Two innate trait pairs could cancel into free stats. You found it, we priced it.
• Past floor 200 the sidebar lists fold away, the codex, goals, and world open centered, and the reborn find their door waiting at base camp.
• A soul born after another's ascension no longer inherits its ancestor's records. New souls start their own ledger; the account's true legacy, the deeds, the wishes, the Hall, still follows.
• Dropdowns no longer vanish on dark themes.
Thanks for climbing, and keep the reports coming!