1 Leper vs the Final Boss

Leper can not only one-shot the final boss, he can also one-man it.
This took so many attempts it hurts just thinking about. To give an idea of the RNG at play here, if Leper gets afflicted at any point in this fight the run is over, there's no way for him to heal off the stress fast enough. It took around ~40 tries to get the perfect run, but it was worth it in the end.
I love the idea of Leper sacrificing himself and facing the eldritch horror on his own so others don't have to suffer. It's beautifully poetic.

[@borgsie]

To all those who were saying or about to say "this is modded/cheated run": 1. Read the description of the video. He said it took him more than 40 Lepers to succeed. 2. Base Virtue Chance is 25%. The Hero's Ring trinket adds 25% to that. I didn't see his Quirks, but Irrepressible may be in there. That's another 5%. There's no Valiant Spirit Town Event (15% Virtue Chance) so the total chance to get a Virtue is minimum 50%, maximum 55%. 3. Color of Madness DLC added a new mechanic in which Virtuous characters can still get stressed to 200. If they do, the character loses the Virtue and the Stress Meter goes back to 0. 4. When the above happens, a character can get stressed to 100 again and another Virtue check happens. He explained that in some of his tries he gets unlucky and the Leper got afflicted, which is pretty much game over for that try. 5. This is the only run in which the Leper succeeded 3 Virtue Checks out of 40+. Pretty fascinating, and honestly not that hard to achieve. Every time he loses his Virtue and goes to 100 stress again, he has at least 50% chance to get Virtuous. You can easily make that 70% if you lock the quirk Irrepressible and do the dungeon with Valiant Spirit Town Event active. All of you can do this yourselves if you have the patience to grind a lot of Lepers.

[@thickveinysausage3062]

Pinning this so people might hopefully get the answers they're looking for, seeing as how nobody bothers to read the description. Someone in the comments asked for a screenshot of the leper used in the video. This was some time ago, but thankfully I still have the screenshot. (He got perfectionist and steady after killing the final boss, how fitting) cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/453299613903093762/676550881306607617/unknown.png His quirks aren't the best, mainly because I stopped caring after having to level up the 30th leper from lvl 0 to lvl 6 only to have him die in less than a minute. To further clarify the Leper in this video does not have Irrepressible and using Shard Dust to refresh your moves gives you a -10% virtue chance debuff that lasts the entire duration of the quest. So his virtue chance is actually 40%. You can give him a Tentacle Idol to further boost it to 60%, but I didn't have it at the time because I had lost it in a previous failed attempt. Speaking of failed attempts, if you ever wanted to make yourself hate a video game this is the perfect challenge to do it with. As mentioned previously, some of the failed attempts aren't even a minute long because what would happen is they'd get afflicted and get a heart attack all in 3-4 turns. There's no way to outheal the stress if you get afflicted and no way to kill the enemies fast enough to speed through the 1st phase. Secondly, virtues can and will be lost throughout the duration of the fight, especially during phase 2 where the Ancestor can just decide to hide in the back and spam Embrace Futility over and over. Meaning you have to gamble on another resolve check. Not all of the 40 attempts involved virtues, at first I tried builds that focused more on killing the clones faster with Hew, but those attempts would always end the same way, dying to stress and bleeding out. None of what's going on in the video is impossible, nor is it difficult to pull off, it's just slamming your head against a brick wall until it eventually gives. If anyone has any further questions they're free to ask me. Edit: 11/25/2020 An option I wasn't aware of at the time was the ability to stack -stress received buffs from having the character pray in the Abbey. This reduces the amount of stress the leper takes down to ~2-3 and could allow for a more aggressive approach without having to worry about stress piling up. I am planning on remaking this video in the near future. Hopefully the new approach will be more consistent.

[@AshtranDubs]

@@thickveinysausage3062 What were the trinkets used?

[@thickveinysausage3062]

@@AshtranDubs Hero's Ring ( + 25% Virtue Chance) and Ancestor's Signet Ring ( +10% PROT +10 Accuracy)

[@rareroe305]

#3 is the one I was wondering about. I only have vanilla DD, so I was like "Why did his stress reset?"

[@koanos2448]

@@thickveinysausage3062 How many resources were sacrificed for the failed Leper runs?

[@tomcruise1492]

leper : *gets his flesh stripped off of his bone, ripping through it's armour* "1 damage"

[@vitorsamuel777]

''Its rotten as fuck anyways you can have it."

[@pinguin4898]

@@vitorsamuel777 when your necrosis already torn your body apart and someone tries to rip it off commpletely at least it doesn't hurt when you don't have it

[@BuriedFlame]

"She turned me into a newt!" "A newt?" "....I got better..."

[@sheenovh1182]

tis' but a scratch

[@le_mothman]

the ancestor: *turns him inside out* The Leper: "must be a Tuesday"

[@mrmagpie6684]

"Unmake me. Refashion me. Tear me asunder. But know this: you cannot break what is already broken."

[@agrihonoberjorn1612]

mrmagpie I am powder crush me and I will reform again tear me and I will rejoin flay me and choke on my ashes

[@janesmith1840]

If you came up with this yourself, well done. It's perfect.

[@brodiewilliams8191]

@@agrihonoberjorn1612 ...Daddy

[@catsndogs98]

“You cannot break what is unbreakable,”

[@ranaoblivious2122]

@@catsndogs98 "And you can't break what was broken"

[@cyboygaming1925]

The ancestor/The heart of darkness: Uses Know this,embrace futility,unmake them all,etc Leper: *Bold of you to assume I give a shit*

[@averybishopmartin6964]

Leper: I'm already a dead man walking. But I will go down fighting.

[@Sam-ep2yo]

*(The futility of struggling against the being that has shaped humanity for eons is unveiled)* *_Dodge_* "Nah" "What...what do you mean, 'nah'?" "Nah miss me with that futility shit"

[@jacknagel9387]

@@Sam-ep2yo Mans broke the outer god's ankles, the shame is immense.

[@garrangery8180]

"who are you, mortal, to challenge the god who made you?" "A Mortal, and a Corpse"

[@BuriedFlame]

_"Dead man walking..."_

[@chamwae3572]

No living men can defeat me! I am not alive.

[@cmdrnervousenergy5133]

What is a king to a god? - asked the ancestor What is a god to a non-believer? answered the leper

[@ouzdrej1796]

@@cmdrnervousenergy5133 jeez hits hard

[@macmusial3644]

Me: Wait, don't you need a stress healer? Leper: Heart Attacks ARE my stress heal.

[@zombieboss5178]

Didn't know getting a heart attack while virtuous negated the loss of health, and made you lose all stress and your virtue, ya learn something new everyday.

[@justinjakeashton]

@@zombieboss5178 Yeah, unless you read the wiki, you probably won't encounter this because who the hell gets 400 stress in a normal playthrough?!

[@zombieboss5178]

@Justin Jake Ashton But, what if you have someone who is virtuous and are at a really high stress, and you don't want to have to Inspiring Tune them 50 times to get them down low again, that way you can have that person be targeted, possibly with an anti or with a self mark they have. It's small, but isn't the chance of getting that 5% crit on your lone Leper low? But you still hit it because you BELIEVE!!! :D

[@Flikanik]

@@justinjakeashton Me lol I was just playing killing everthing I come across thing from star collector etc I would activate altars to kill the shambler my hero got virtuous but later got stressed so much that he lost it i thought these things were common normal gameplay. Later on I read all those comments about the game. Others: oh no the collector/shambler Me: ah yes yet another trinket to claim My favorite party got wiped later on because "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer"

[@peachtheciver468]

LOL

[@boyinutil]

Leper enters the heart's chamber* Ancestor appears* Boss music starts* Ancestor frowns and mutters silently -This isn't my music!!!

[@le_mothman]

how does this comment not have more likes?!

[@teagandavis5882]

I don't understand why this isn't a top comment

[@123GOHANZ]

*The only thing they fear is you starts playing* Ancestor: Wait a minute...

[@empressofhearts7300]

@@teagandavis5882 So... Heard of the "boss theme" memes?

[@roetemeteor]

YOU CANNOT KILL ME. *I AM OMEGA*

[@noahwestman8080]

Ancestor: "R E F A S H I O N T H E M" Leper: "Ah, that really exfoliates the skin."

[@silverseth7]

1hp is rubbing hard with soap with grit in it.

[@Chrisbun1]

"Spare the others, I am ready." - Moments before being sent alone.

[@treko3000]

@Ork Trukk Drivah if u have over 100 percent resist

[@treko3000]

@Ork Trukk Drivah I play with mod characters one has over 600 percent bleed resistance base stat btw

[@JK-ni1qe]

Gives me chills

[@treko3000]

@@JK-ni1qe what does

[@toolatetothestory]

Well, his wish was fullfilled. And he did well :3 Like the King he is.

[@BLACKIR0NTARKUS]

And to kill a god, they sent a man. For when his judgement came, he was not found wanting.

[@blackirontarkus2672]

Nice suit.

[@lonewanderer798]

"This is getting out of hand, now there's two of them!" -Sen's Fortress Golem probably.

[@abobo5863]

@@blackirontarkus2672 as if 1 tarkus wasnt enough

[@sethhaag4885]

Sauce?

[@cultistaautista]

As far as battling twisted infracorporeal entities who control matter, and mind to some extent, the leper fighting the heart of darkness is as canon as it can be, since he has nothing to lose, not even his life as it's soon over anyway, not his memories as he's suffered all life long, not his body or form as his flesh is decaying, and his mind cannot be broken, since he "understands that adversity and existence are one and the same". Meaning lovecraftian horrors have next to nothing on him, aside from brute force.

[@Aodhan_Raith]

The scariest opponent is one that has nothing to lose.

[@VinsBloodshotEye]

And even then, it's shown here that brute force is the least effective way to fell him.

[@c-arfredvillaluz7961]

I feel like that's something you can say about every hero in Darkest Dungeon, although to some varying degree

[@snkybrki]

@@c-arfredvillaluz7961 Yeah, no-one's really having a good time in the CumZone estate.

[@c-arfredvillaluz7961]

@@snkybrki sending everyone to the brothel for stress relief be like:

[@ThisMelonHead]

This leper is the darkest dungeon equivalent of the doom slayer

[@TheDebu666]

There is a zombie Slayer skin where the Slayer looks like a undead inside. My headcanon was Slayer looks like this after years of battles. Kinda makes a nice contrast to Leper

[@kamilslup7743]

That is an ordinary leper, all of them can be this busted.

[@jg8060]

Gattsu

[@oscarvera2085]

Three.... Three damn virtues in a row...

[@diogocampinho3846]

with virtue trinkets equipped

[@oscarvera2085]

@@diogocampinho3846 Yeah, but space meth reduce the virtue chance

[@zeeb2190]

How?!

[@oscarvera2085]

@@zeeb2190 RNGsus was on his side

[@ErPiova]

So yea, y'know that stress thing? 'cause I sure dont

[@jesamoko4083]

It is undying. Crit for 51 damage. "The leper dosent care."

[@LuisMendez-ru7nj]

Giga CHAD moment.

[@sirgideonofnirtheall-knowi1881]

Deathseeking man brawls god, Does not die.

[@Joker-no1fz]

LOL

[@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2]

Both poetic and ironic

[@wiktorsiadul4319]

My boi leper out here teaching the final boss that overconfidence is a slow and incidieous killer

[@intenseavarice34]

And that monstrous size has no intrinsic merit

[@brenkrasmer]

@@intenseavarice34 Well, unless inordinate exsanguination be considered a virtue...

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

@@brenkrasmer I freaking love this community.

[@bettycestmonnom614]

confidence surge as the ennemy make some crumble

[@TheDave1769]

Best comment ever.

[@krisonveloc25]

This should be what's Berserk Guts vs God hand looks like

[@le_mothman]

you mean that isnt what I just watched?

[@coder4202]

Except guts got almost every bone broken for trying just to reach one of them?

[@Aripuni1]

It Would be perfect if he using Berserk Guts skin

[@classycatvidplace959]

​@@coder4202 You mean that one time long before he got the berserker armor? Guts got a thousand times better since that. But yes he would still get wrecked.

[@cultistaautista]

There's a semi-canon heart of evil in Berserk, the source of God Hand's power, so there's a possibility that he'll fight it after the godhand itself

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

When life everlasting meets decay never-ending.

[@BuriedFlame]

It's like McDonald's food without the paper wrappers.

[@Thedodogos]

The ancestor should have spoken those words

[@pyroparagon8945]

I like how being skinned and gutted alive and then put back together with "unmake them" and "refashion them" does 1 damage.

[@cookingpot3990]

I mean, he's a leper, how much damage could that do

[@BuriedFlame]

It's the *thought* that counts...

[@Naxthural]

I mean if you think about it, since he's putting you back together, does it *Really* do much damage?

[@BuriedFlame]

@@Naxthural One to way to take something apart. A bazillion ways to put something back together again. And if there's parts left, you did it wrong.

[@himedo1512]

@@BuriedFlame there are a million ways to take something apart. Shotgun, C4, nuclear bomb ect...

[@enteryournamehere7275]

Many fall in the face of Chaos But not this one, not today...

[@lowlydovahkiin8084]

Many fall in the face of chaos, but this one met it face to face and sent it whimpering back to the void it crawled out of.

[@adventure_skaut]

honestly,i see the leper as a man of unbreakable resolve even in his comic you get the impression that hes some sort of hero,blighted by leprosy yet still fully himself on the inside a man who`s every day is torment,yet he keeps fighting and never gives up an indomitable individual and for that,i respect him

[@chamwae3572]

A very darksoul like hero.

[@FrancoisMarchant]

His comic reminds me of Ashitaka, from Princess Mononoke. Some sort of prince banished from his land because of a disease, and trying to find purpose before it consumes him.

[@ehaydon3491]

If I remember correctly, he was a very well loved king, but became afflicted with leprosy. He self exiled to protect his people from the disease.

[@eintorpid9101]

Technically, the main killer of leprosy is that it kills the nerves, allowing people to far more easily wound themselves and not know it. A rat can chew off your pinky toe and if you don't look down you simply wouldn't notice it, which would later lead to untreated infections and bleeding. So really he'd be rotting, but he wouldn't really feel much pain.

[@rungrankibagami9510]

Darkest Dungeon have comics?

[@lich.possum]

I've always loved how the leper puts his guard down to take the blow instead of raising a defense.

[@kamilslup7743]

Similarly, the flagellent raises his arms, kinda screaming "gimme more, shithead"

[@jahnukainen_8912]

"Behold the heart of the world! Progenitor of life, father and mother, alpha and omega! Our creator, and our destroyer" ... *Focused* "The storm infuriates the sea..."

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

“Today is the day that the world’s heart breaks. Today, the father will perish and the mother will die by her children’s hands. Today, the alpha will end and the omega begin. And most of all, today, our creator and destroyer will know of its destruction it itself created. For I am a whole being torn asunder by my parts, and You. Will. Know. My. Pain.”

[@lowlydovahkiin8084]

​@@apollyonnoctis1291 please make a book mate. Please.

[@lemon9.9]

9:45 the flesh is immortal, it is undying *1/4 of its health bar disappeared after one attack

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

Leper: My flesh is dying, it is mortal and decaying. Allow me to share with you this agonizing truth…

[@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2]

My guy… I know you’re hating anime but stop, just ignore them, it’s easy.

[@lemon9.9]

@@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2 lmao it's not a character from anime, it's from a bartender game so they are wrong regardless 😂

[@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2]

@@lemon9.9 LOL I GET IT NOW

[@intenseavarice34]

It is true when they say: "Monstrous size, has no intrinsic merit"

[@notsocrazytank707]

Well, in this case inordinate insanguination is indeed a virtue

[@jakekals8416]

“1 Final Boss vs the Leper”

[@dominicarps715]

"1 Final Boss vs The Heart of Darkness"

[@hoonty4890]

Makes me proud how alive darkest dungeon still is

[@algirdas25pl31]

moding comunity will keep it alive a for a long time

[@AgarthianTrapstar]

@@algirdas25pl31 AND we're holding out for DD2.

[@Malpheance]

If it makes you happier I purchased the game. Along with one of the DLCs since I had the money. Is crimson court good by the way? I went with colour of madness due to reviews but I don't really know.

[@algirdas25pl31]

@@Malpheance Crimson court is good, it adds dedicated dystrics (buldings that add passive bonuses) one unqiue class And region dungeon with a new breed of enemies(stun or kill them asap) All thinks add force a you to use new tactisc,

[@Malpheance]

@@algirdas25pl31 I was a bit erm... Let's say "intimidated" by the negative reviews... Let me ask this, is it... Is it fun? I enjoy colour of madness and the vanilla game.

[@Nick_Whiskey]

man's last words were "fog before sunrise; summer before the fall"

[@ezergilechimekazikura6855]

What makes a king? Some believe, it is the birthright, some believe, that becoming one is fate's design. History shows, that both are not wrong. But history also shows, that it matters not, as long as the King's name can unite people.

[@cestlavie5063]

I see your inspiration. And did you pick a great one to be inspired by.

[@somedude1331]

Eldritch god gets Nae nae'd by some hobo with a sword

[@notverifiable3731]

Not a hobo because he was a king But he is indeed a terminally ill veteran

[@MrCh0o]

@@notverifiable3731 Who's to say a king can't become a hobo? Although I guess they usually ended up dead before they had a chance

[@Dreadought]

@@notverifiable3731 What's a king to a god? And what's a god to a non-believer?

[@kingcalibur413]

@@Dreadought *WHAT IS A MAN-*

[@theangrywig3905]

@@kingcalibur413 A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS

[@JudgeNicodemus]

"I didn't hear no bell!" -One brave leper

[@acssination8541]

Is that a criken refference

[@church6882]

@@acssination8541 South Park

[@HylianDefender]

The honeybee to his nectar, by the queen's command.

[@zweihander7825]

Never forget the name "Brimou", children, for he dug into the earth's core itself to save us from its heart. He fought the creator, that which made even him, and won. "And we will be returned to it, in ti-- *BRIMOU CRIT-KILLS THE HEART, LEAVING ZERO CORPSE AND SAVING EVERYONE FROM THE HOPELESS LOOP*

[@unknownentityenthusiast6765]

Hamlet man on several doses of space meth obliterates eldritch being, more at 7.

[@lukelblitz3627]

brimou however,is not aware that the earth he stands on is literally made as a egg for the heart,and accidentally destroys the entire planet with one single sword swipe

[@snakeorbreak6258]

@@lukelblitz3627 "oops"

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

Brimou: “You are no god, for if there was one, he would not condemn good men like me. You are just a parasite, a vile heart that has been hollowed out by a gluttonous longing for the lives of others, lives you can’t enjoy, emotions an abomination like you can never understand. So try and take me, take my memories, but you better be truly hungry, because the pain I have gone through, the things I have lost, the friends and family I have lost, the knowledge I have of adversity; knowledge that will make egotistical, parasitical false deities like you burn from the inside out. Today is the first day I finally live again, and will be the last day you experience the egotistical belief of being undying, for your heart will beat no more.”

[@alilweeb7684]

"Against all the evil we will send only one man" rip and tear lepper

[@91Turles]

Who would win? Eldritch God - Heart of the World, progenitor of Life, Father and Mother, Alga and Omega, Creator and Destroyer. Or Leper - strong boy with broken sword

[@anonylemon9823]

I think you mean Hobo with Leprosy

[@datkhornedog899]

Exiled King

[@minmangful]

Dark Souls Speed-Runners be like

[@matheusfelix5700]

guts

[@alejandronieto4212]

The winner is: Rain in the forest.

[@malakarvonstroheim5372]

HoD: I'm your creator, your beginning and your end! Leper (A man whose skin falls off on a regular basis): Is that so? Well then i have a few words for you, but i don't think i'm gonna need my mouth to pronounce them

[@Wastelandman7000]

I think I shall express them with my sword.

[@meem4606]

*In the Hamlet* Dismas: "Did I just hear thunder?" The heir: "Oh, that's just the leper. He doesn't have an inside voice.."

[@viktormizak7054]

I didnt know that if you had a virtue that it would consume at 200 stress

[@ununicorniocon2gbderam787]

it does not actually consume the stress, it takes the virtue instead of having a heart attack

[@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv]

@@ununicorniocon2gbderam787 but after a heart attack doesn't stress go to 170, not 0?

[@amihopes1235]

@@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv after a heart attack when not being virtuous, yes. But when you are virtuous it basically tanks everything and the stress is resumed(and the hero doesn't go to deaths door). But the virtue is also taken away and once the hero reaches 100 stress there will be another vibe check

[@DuckieMcduck]

This came with the DLC. Previously, if you got a Virtue it would cap stress at 100 and never go above that. Obviously the DLC accompanies some new combat stuff to help offset that.

[@mattriusblack2461]

Summer before the Fall.

[@CamiloFHSC]

Leper enters the room. Ancestor/HoD: Wait, why am *I* hearing boss music?

[@leonedevaudier76]

*Vorts theme intensifies* I AM VIRTUOUS BEAST

[@tubalcainalhambra9627]

More like "why am **I** hearing boss music?"

[@Pigmedog]

you still foolishly consider yourself an entity seperate from the whole? leper: Yes.

[@PsychoMonkeyxx]

*THE KING.*

[@lthereader5670]

“Heavens do not fear me because I am a god, they fear me because I. AM. A MAN!”

[@Postie1994]

Now imagine Leper with a non broken sword.

[@franconunez925]

He could have a real accuaracy!

[@The_Drake_That_Saw_Some_Shit]

He could split your screen.

[@notverifiable3731]

Truth is... If the sword is not broken, the Leper is broken

[@franconunez925]

@@notverifiable3731 yeah, i'm impress how he can see a thing with that iron mask and probably any illness know for the man and monster.

[@MineSlimeTV]

@@Shadowlurker4897 ooh how so? Didn't knew of this particularity

[@ABC-qd5oc]

Leper: ignores ancestors messages Ancestor: Why do i hear boss music?

[@matiassilva713]

He already lives in misery, no sorrow or damnation will stop him

[@darkranger116]

casts unmake them all the leper : IT HURTS SO GGGOOOOOOODDDDD

[@maximCS2002]

The ancestor of the ancestor came to beat him up for making his mansion dirty

[@cobbl3r]

"Fine. I'll do it myself."

[@datkhornedog899]

This is the wrath of the Light upon Darkness.

[@nastyrodriguez]

A forgotten and rotten king Is still a king

[@Wastelandman7000]

"Rush in and die, dogs-I was a man before I was a king!" -The Road Of Kings The Phoenix on the Sword with Conan by RE Howard

[@martinomironi192]

Fear the man who has nothing to lose!

[@botep5529]

"A battle between two foes. One a terrible unyeilding force that strikes fear into the minds and hearts of men, attacks endlessly shattering the resolve of mortals sending them to flee with their minds crumbling into madness" "The other is the heart of the world"

[@grimrose0]

Once a king, always a king. But honestly, as someone who always uses Leper in my main squad, he is stupidly powerful and is well known to have the best damage output amongst all the vanilla Heroes. He's a force to be had, so when I saw it took 40+ tries, I actually expected it to take LESS tries. People don't give Leper enough credit.

[@nunyabusiness3957]

Leper after making the frontline dissapear in one hit: "What backline?" Jokes aside I love pairing him with a Bounty Hunter to yank those squishy stress casters up into Chop range with Come Hither.

[@hans3519]

Fun fact guy made mod that basicly turns the leper into GOD getting a repost, can heal and destress other party members, damage is jacked after he hit the gym, his repost ability sends him into the front line even at pos 4 going to pos 1, and i think lastly he can tank even more crazy and yea. I think leper with this mod as my cannon did what he normally did but would go as far as fist fighting bears so a family of 3 can get their favorite honey jar back

[@nikolaosboukouvalas449]

"Took 40 lepers for this run to succeed" Honestly now, did you save dupe, or did you really level 40 lepers for this vid?

[@thickveinysausage3062]

I leveled up 40 lepers, it's why there's a 4 month hiatus between videos

[@nikolaosboukouvalas449]

@@thickveinysausage3062 I admire your patience and dedication. I'd just save dupe and probably give up halfway through :P

[@thickveinysausage3062]

@@nikolaosboukouvalas449 I'm a very stubborn human being :D

[@MultiJuan182]

Plot twits, he's a leper too

[@SafakulanSafak]

I really wonder your response when 39th Leper is killed :)) @ThickyVeinySausage

[@jax-hy]

As soon as the remake them starts leper is just like "Well it's not like I could have gotten worse"

[@user-cb4vt3qm3j]

Gotta love the end of the second phase with the Leper and the Ancestor trading Intimidation and Embrace Futility - they don't really fight, they try to stare each other down and see who flinches first. The Leper does not flinch.

[@reubenbailey7491]

The god of everything and also the destroyer of everything Vs. One sick boye

[@somebodyyouknow5813]

Alternative title: Pariah recites poetry and philosophy as he folds God

[@roobs2976]

"The reaper is well known to me. I do not fear him."

[@feferson492]

what is a king to a god huh?

[@le_mothman]

aperantly their undoing

[@normalname3623]

what is a god to a nonbeliever

[@kratoserick]

His name might be Brimou, but he seems to be the true incarnation of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem. What a fucking legend.

[@stealthguy7249]

there alone he stood, his resolve unmatched.

[@attackoncake4851]

1:18 "We shall not survive, this I know." Given the situation it's like he knows his fate is sealed, yet knows that he has to put this abomination down. It has to end here and now, to save everyone that he holds dear.

[@robertcontento7748]

Amongst the local man kills god jokes, people screeching at the top of their lungs until they're purple in their faces that leper still isn't viable anyway no matter what anyone else says you found this comment talking about how much they love the ancestor's sinister laugh along with the music and sound effects

[@Nen_niN]

This is the fourth most powerful team composition, right after double, triple and quad leper

[@hcaelBBleach]

Favorite character AND my fav colour. Just what i needed to see today

[@methanesulfonic]

Unnerfed, Unbalanced.

[@alexdimitropoulos3657]

i'm choking dude!

[@vassalofthenight9945]

I thought fourtwoflow was the best player but right now i have to reconsider

[@thickveinysausage3062]

You can't imagine how big of compliment that is. Fourtwoflow is the person who got me into Darkest Dungeon :D

[@roguenarakdimitri3817]

Ancester : I fear no man. Also Ancester : But that THING (shows leper)... It SCARES me.

[@Wastelandman7000]

What does a dead man have to fear from a pretend god? HAVE AT YOU!!!

[@roguenarakdimitri3817]

@@Wastelandman7000 seeing the lines of leper in game he might say that

[@Aibadenshi]

So he the true heir of this place.

[@grahamkolb2916]

This leper HAD to have a +virtue chance quirk locked in, right? Otherwise odds of getting 2 virtues is 16%, and odds of getting THREE virtues is 6.4%. I guess with the quirk it would be 25% and 12.5%, still kinda insane, not even counting having everything else in the fight go right (dmg, accuracy, ancestor moving into attack range)

[@georgiykireev9678]

Your math is a little off. The base virtue chance is 25%, he has a ring for +25%, the quirk gives another 15%, and there's also a town event for 15% more. That's an 80% potential virtue chance, totaling out to 51,2% chance of 3 virtue procs in a row. Not too bad if you think about it.

[@RenShinomiya121]

@@georgiykireev9678 well the one who played this did said he retried this 40-50 times to get this run.

[@thickveinysausage3062]

I had the virtue chance quirks locked in on some of the previous lepers, but even there's no guarantee they'll get virtues. It was just a matter of me bashing my head against the wall until it eventually broke.

[@MLBlue30]

@@thickveinysausage3062 I see. How many men does it take to chop down a god.

[@drakkiusgaming]

@@MLBlue30 40 from what he said in another comment

[@xXFuzzeeXx]

*"Spare the others... I am ready."*

[@knightchef]

Of the non modded classes, leper is my favorite.

[@djgamer5458]

Toss a coin to your lepper The man who saved all of time and space

[@set-afro0689]

Heart of Darkness: *"I AM THE CREATOR AND THE DESTROYER OF THIS WORLD. YOU CANNOT MATCH MY POWER IN THIS HERE DIMENSION"* Leper: "You're talking like I give a shit"

[@ChaosAndLawsStupidJourney2]

My man killed off an eldtritch horror with a comically large knife

[@lucho6883]

Many have fallen in the face of chaos. But not this one. Not today

[@randomstupiddude3565]

Seems like he won't forever...

[@pedrochindi7853]

I only know this game from hearing of it and from a "Silence Wench" meme, I don't know what any of the numbers in the screen mean. But this madman of a Leper killed what seems like a god-like thingy alone, so he gets my respect for that

[@Sludgedump]

"Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today."

[@hamburger_04]

Why do I feel like lepers can't get negative wen stressed out

[@alfredoaaron2664]

Cos they are kings

[@karl_fookin_tanner9605]

they wuz kangs

[@shrimpboom8]

*Kills THE eldritch horror with nothing but a broken sword and an unbreakable will* "Summer before the fall."

[@georgeleonard3474]

So just to be clear, is this a situation where quad leper would have worked as well?

[@thickveinysausage3062]

Yup. Already done it with quad leper.

[@kratosorokai1546]

the leper is really a king for the people even sacrificing himself to fight of the eldritch horrors of the land

[@egilleinarsson8793]

BRIMOU SLAYER OF BRIMSTONE

[@teckdeck6480]

T-poses for dominance

[@WoofForTheEmperor]

This space kokain is really unbalance

[@Dr_Weirdoo]

Me in My first succesful run HoD: DIE!!! BE UNMAKEN AND YOUR REMAINS FORGOTTEN!!! Leper: nah (267 crit)

[@lich.possum]

That's not one leper. That's The Leper

[@talonhemminger3953]

It took 40 Lepers to make this attempt, the 41st survived. "Hide behind the mound of dead bards!"

[@Arthutstut641]

Ancestor: "The flesh is immortal, it is undying.." Leper: *Crit 51*

[@Alexl23l273]

Victory. A hollow and ridiculous notion.

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

I know this is late to the party but I really enjoy this concept, others have stated this more poetically but even purely by mechanics and attacks alone this is what I consider the canon ending. After decades of failed attempts and hundreds dead one of the last men on earth found the Darkest Dungeon. There this leper, this dying man walked into the abyss with a singular purpose. His mission was a long dead promise to a decreased grandchild of the very man who awakened the heart of the world. Every strike the heart stuck did nothing, as there was nothing left to take. His flesh molded and ashen being ripped apart caused him no pain and his mind was too empty for this horrible living nightmare to corrupt or destroy. 40 men laid dead around the heart, 40 men fell to the madness that lurks just behind mankind's thoughts. But not this one, not today.

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

As the putrid heart fell, it cursed the man, enraged by the wretched and insignificant think that would dare strike it. It was a god, and what stood before it was nothing compared to its might and majesty. The dying man simply kept swinging their blade, kept chopping through the Heart’s godly flesh. Every blow the heart dealt to the man, deadly to most men, barely scratched them, for their was nothing left to make bleed, no wounds that could be further opened. For the first time, the heart, deep within itself, began to feel a new emotion, one that it hated the moment they first felt it: fear. A being that surrounded itself with death-a being that gleefully caused death-was wracked with fear now that he was the one staring down the barrel instead of his prey. First, it remained calm and above the man. Then, it grew annoyed. Then infuriated. Then it began cursing the man. Then it started pleading. Then begging. Then cowering. … The battle was almost through, and the horrid heart realized: it was going to die. “You dare strike down your maker?!” It screamed, “I am immortal, an unending constant! It is an exercise in futility! I will always return, as long as men have darkness in their hearts and curious minds!” “Then it is a shame that I am the last man left.” Spoke the Leper, “I will die here, but my grave is big enough for two. I will bury you alongside me.” The man drove his broken blade deep into the heart’s core, and as the heart let out a screeching death rattle, the dying man let his disease finally take him, his duty finally done, and his debt finally paid. With that, the hateful heart beat no longer, never to rise again. Its hatred was buried alongside the last man. Humanity did not live to see the sun rise again, but the civilizations and races that lived after would. Children born with new and innocent eyes lived to see a world free of humanity’s sins and regrets. Humanity died in the dark, so that their descendants could enjoy the light.

[@siegebreaker4177]

Leper's heart: 'Stops beating' Leper: ''Oi, stop that'' Leper's heart: ''ok''

[@theshaboodle8713]

"You know this is an exercise in futility that will end in your death. Return from whence you came, diseased one." "You don't understand. I've been dead for longer than you can imagine. Today is the day I live." V I G O R O U S

[@DylanJo123]

Lisa the Painful reference?

[@ben-chan420]

Naming my Lepers Brad from now on

[@moonlordgaming4537]

@@DylanJo123 yep

[@meem4606]

Seems to me like we have good taste in rpgs

[@acssination8541]

Damn send shivers down me spine

[@Predator20357]

My dude Leper is taking those hits by the chest, what a champ

[@larrytheslayerguy4999]

Local man becomes protagonist of a JRPG

[@Z7Games]

BF: Babe come home, I'm alone. Me: I'm battling an eldritch abomination of immeasurable power. BF: I'll wear that choker you like. Me: 11:05

[@notsocrazytank707]

NOOOOHOHOHOOOO

[@karurukakaruru]

Many fall in the face of chaos...But not this one, not today.

[@bordo899]

This world doesn't need a hero. he needs a professional ...

[@yumpatMEOW]

Damn I never knew you could "consume" virtue and reset stress from 200 to 0