EVERY PATH IS A MYSTERY! - PEGLIN

[@galithir5393]

Fun fact: that orbelisk event near the beginning? If you have an orbelisk already when you get the event, it instead offer to upgrade all your pebballs to obelisks. Of course, if your pebballs aren't level 3 then you'll have a bunch of 0/0 orbelisks and immediately lose like I did, but still potentially hilarious if you can quickly upgrade them

[@DeltaEntropy]

Yeah… I made that same mistake…

[@Skulker42]

Man, seeded runs are such a neat addition.

[@philonius_]

That comma is doing a lot of work...

[@PierceArner]

My gods, the speed of the healing at 28:03 is delightfully absurd! I honestly have to just gush about this run. Having Tom defy his normal play to go all in on Pebballs just to end up with Orbelisk AND double all the orbs to kick off Stage 1 was just _ridiculously satisfying._ Taking the Infernal Ingot lifesteal relic being counterbalanced by the Cake for FINALLY keeping the Egg with that Durable Peg healing to chew through the whole of the Ballista Army really made for a stand out for Stage 2. And then our precious boy Bouldorb arrives in Stage 3 along with Popcorn, and then Tom gets the Upgrade All Pebballs after the most risky health sacrifice upgrade play, followed by the flawless Summon Orbelisk chain for that insane healing. My gods. Amazing. What a game!

[@Harkzoan]

Can't believe we finally get to see Tom use the egg correctly

[@ultrahevybeat]

Damn, you spoiled it

[@Bertaroo1]

This is the comment I needed to watch this all the way through 🎉

[@PierceArner]

So much finally came together for this run!

[@Neomagi125]

And still got to keep an egg for himself!

[@mk0664]

@@ultrahevybeat why would you come to the comments before watching the video? You are just asking to be spoiled.

[@eviem5658]

You’re travelling down an empty board, question marks all around. The squelch of slimes can be heard in the distance. Further down the track a figure lurks. The path gets shorter and shorter. Pebble after pebble weighs you down, but still you collect more. You have reached the end of the path, the lumbering form of Betsy the Leshy creeps into frame. Is that the Forest Boss, or are you on… a Mystery Quest!

[@davelevelsup]

I would Love to be on Mystery Quest, But as an American I think they'd have to cart in one of those school TV trolleys, My Face on it like a brain in a jar, hell, If you find a Futurama setting Ill be a brain in a jar, Play myself lmao

[@factor1956]

My heart melts every time Tom’s wayward son returns to him

[@Emile50]

I kinda just want a plain black shirt with a big picture of bouldorb on it. No context, nothing else. He doesn't need introduction

[@pizzapielemon]

"please roll me and my son again"

[@Bongthroat]

On the back it can say "my sweet boy"

[@Emile50]

@@pizzapielemon oh lol, now I'm imagining a polo shirt, but instead of the regular logo it's bouldorb and below it, in fancy script, it has that line written there

[@Cosmic_Tortoise]

26:45 The perfect stop before the boss, with the perfect irony.

[@Koreanspree]

12:39 "I'll do it" ah the illusion of choice

[@SlavaRybka]

>downsides to getting Summoning Circle On higher levels of crucible you get trash orbs in starting sack, and if your sack is small there's a chance summoning circle turns one bad orb you'd rather skip into two bad orbs in a row that you'd have to shoot at least one of them unless you have extra discards. Happens quite often actually

[@redoli2]

HE DID THE EGG THING!!

[@danielgold9487]

25:00 Boldorb is really your son, it usually kills me on that stage hitting the red bombs, yet you hit 0 of them lol

[@ImmortalAbsol]

Btw, if you hadn't already defeated all the ballista minions (I can't remember) there's an achievement for doing so, but achievements are disabled on custom seeds.

[@sorenfirestar2657]

Dude I can't believe Tom never got the even that turns all pebballs into orbalisc. That's brutal.

[@kylesbigolduck]

and he unfortunately didn't get the hero's backpack

[@Sc0ts]

Finally, the orbalisk run I wanted to see

[@livid_spider]

I know if you can tank the ballista boss long enough for all the minions to come out and die you get an achievement, but it has to be a non seeded or modified run

[@RedxMage11987]

You know what I learned in Peglin today? If you destroy the bombs inside the navigation after getting a treasure/relic space, you get a bonus free relic...

[@Theelordchaos]

Me and the missus make a date night out of your peglin vids, we love to have dinner with tom

[@holotori_senior_admin_teno]

You could set the speed up to x3 for those longer bits with durable. Always seen you on x2. Also, I had a very neat Pebble run this past weekend. Got the same "catch the pebbles" event, then "duplicate all orbs", then the sling (all Pebbles +1/+2) and that one artifact that gives an orb +1/+1 for each orb following of the same type. And eventually an Overwhammer, which was the icing on the cake.

[@splinte111]

missing the power glove

[@Loreroth]

He litterally says that he might need to go into settings to increase the speed

[@DarkfireTaimatsu]

Who knew we'd finally see the egg quest on a run where we can't tell what any of the paths are~?

[@Ryo242]

Congrats on the "correct" usage of Egg.

[@Unholydrizella]

One day I’ll find a girl that looks at me the way Tom looks at Bouldorb

[@hamm1337]

Eggory Tom finally got to have his cake and eat it to!

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

5:49 I love it whenever the editors cut out the music to highlight what Tom is saying

[@beanbag-crowsnestgaming1268]

Was great to meet you yesterday Tom! thank you for being so nice and humble. Really made our holiday/birthday outing as we really didnt expect to see you. Dont give up on pacific drive! you can do it!

[@1001Bastiano]

I was watching/listening to this in the background and just hear Tom go "A nice tight ballsack is ..uhhh.. where my enthusiasm lies

[@epochx7157]

Who knew a game about balls would have it's craziest run locked behind all nuts.

[@akareject]

Its the dream run that has been prophesized!

[@PierceArner]

The scribes rejoice and the minstrels will long sing of this blessed day!

[@anonymousmaelstrom9530]

I really want to see some sort of health build purely based around having more health and healing for whatever reason

[@teph1256]

I just did a run and got basically every bomb related perks. I killed the dragon by sending hundreds of bombs for like a solid 3s of bomb throwing animation.

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

17:22 What a fuckin' payoff! We've been waiting for this for so long and it came at the perfect time

[@Derpingmuffin]

Woah sick! This poglin video was totally bombkers!

[@Legault397]

5:45 the saddest thing about deckbuilders is that in most of them you want to make your deck as small as possible which is really too bad. Part of the reason Balatro is great honestly

[@LaughingThesaurus]

It's totally possible to make a deckbuilder where it's okay to have a large deck, it's just everyone's too busy being Slay the Spire. For instance, not being able to reshuffle your discard pile (or applying severe penalties if you have to-- let's say, in Peglin, you skip 4 turns if you run out of orbs in your deck, instead of just 1), or giving the player a lot of shuffling and redrawing (for isntance, if peglin gave you 2 skips per turn by default, instead of just 1). I will say Monster Train's pretty good for allowing you to build a big deck! It's a sort of tower defense game, where, if you summon a minion, its card is removed from your deck. It also rigs the draw system so that you draw certain minions guaranteed each turn. If you don't have enough minions in your deck, you genuinely just cannot win, since that's a pretty large source of damage, too.

[@antacs2672]

@@LaughingThesaurus I mean, small decks are not even that good in StS. Sure it's fun to put together a tiny deck that cycles quickly and one shots bosses, but it's far less consistent run to run than building a larger deck that has all the tools you need. Look at players like Jorbs who have ludicrously high winrates for A20 Act 4. He regularly has 35-40 card decks.

[@jamesmarlowe57]

i just noticed that the cursor crosses it's fingers after you fire. that's amazing~!

[@kezmsfilms1300]

Daily reminder that Tom is an amazing person and to thank him for all he has done/will do - Day 1627 Are you firing balls at numerious enemies? Or are you on a Mystery Quest? XD Ha ha, damn I'm loving these seeds. Funnily, not as many relics as I would expect with all the mysteries Oh damn it has been a long time since we've seen a Orbelisk, good to see it back, and really back XD quite the Pebble build, would have been made even better with that Suffer the Sling relic THE EGG, FINALLY THE EGG COMES HOME, And what a Relic it is :D perfect indeed Bouldorb never misses a trick XD best boy here to help God, that end XD, I really thought Tom was cooked

[@greennumber7aimcom]

These 'all nodes are the same' runs are perfect for Tom and his navigation skills

[@SullySadface]

I would not have expected that particular orb to be that useful, but here we are.

[@mzjalic324]

Orbelisk run, getting the cake, and various hyjinks? Yes please! Absolutely amazing run!

[@TheChronova]

"Everything's a mystery to me!" -Cosmo

[@KyleKidd]

God I love peglin

[@MrHypnotube]

The cake isn't a lie.

[@daili4917]

If you see a pebball, pick it up, and all through the run you'll have total a n n i h i l a t i o n.

[@GameJam230]

The thing is though, since it uses a set seed, every random event will always be exactly the same every time you play it. The events use the same random seed as far as I'm aware, and when you have a choice between two random events, it is only the illusion of choice, because they generate the event using the current seed, the spaces aren't pre-generated on map loading. So going full right would give the same results as going full left.

[@BriskKnuhm]

Can't wait for this pretty goofy map!

[@DeltaEntropy]

Tom finally uses the most powerful relic in the game. You love to see it.

[@Tomixx1199]

the cake is not a lie Tom!

[@darcyglavine5860]

that was a great run... you dont see a pebble run work very often.. that was nice

[@Emile50]

I loved this run

[@mpm165]

I wish this game had a relic where you could swap your ball rather than discard it. It would make that summoning orb ridiculous

[@mintymedicus]

Great to see Tom playing with a large ball-sack. If only we could also get some videoes of failed runs, with maybe multiple runs a video.

[@fiofofionomoto]

Ooooo mysteries!!

[@PierceArner]

The tiny groblin ventures once again towards the question mark before him, beckoned by the allure of the unknown. What lies ahead is impossible to tell and his curiosity is racing with anticipation. Will there be enemies, a miniboss, a treasure chest, is it another Pebball, or is he on a… *_Mystery Quest!!_*

[@Hyperbolicbackhole]

I'd love if there was a way to make each area twice as long or something like that.

[@DannyIO]

Finally, egg

[@MatBoni]

amazing run

[@BoredGamerUK]

Could it be a fortune cookie?

[@smallymcsmall7065]

"Hitting the good stuff is like... Good." - Tom, 2024

[@jonesy3million26]

Well done Tom! You put on a marvelous display and got the cake as well! I tell you the kids will be bouldorbing in the streets tonight!

[@Baaphel]

Just completed a run with the same orbelisk bonanza, right before this upload =)

[@InfernalDevice]

Angory Tom drinking game: Down a shot every time he says "Is there a world...?" in a video. :) I can't feel my legs anymore, and my eyesight is all blurry!

[@AlanW]

Tom is definitely all-nuts!

[@MrTuneslol]

I can't wait to see the wacky seeded runs that we can see you play through. I'd _super_ love some members superchill streams of like cruciball or playing cool different seeds people have found. Plz papa, I beg of you 🙏🥹

[@mrharvest]

Somehow all question marks made it less fun because you got fewer relics than usual. There was one relic I was really hoping you'd get: Hero's backpack. It buffs your orbs based on how many consecutive orbs of the same type you have. It does have an anti-synergy with Summoning Circle though, it works best if your sack is full of just peballs, for example.

[@levioverturf9435]

It happened. The goal has been achieved Cake, is ours

[@Dr.Death8520]

The cake is ~~not~~ a lie!

[@Rain0T]

i wonder if it's possible to get the chef a second time and get a second cake?

[@nerdlord7994]

I wonder if you could’ve gotten the cake twice since you had two eggs

[@WuxianTec]

Man this run is *NUTS*

[@mrphlip]

I'm still annoyed that when I tried this seed, I managed to get to the end with three eggs, and still haven't managed to get the cake...

[@BanthaBoi]

We desperately need an endless mode!

[@luuksimons6369]

i love your amazing video's

[@Gallaelwyd]

I shall consider this a bloat build if you don't do a run where you just accept an orb every time they're offered

[@Raida7]

Orbelisk!

[@ShadeScarecrow]

Personally love the special life steal relic (that halves your hp). Has always done me good. Unlike the friggin gift that keeps on giving, which has just ruined some of my runs, and is generally more of a nuisance than helpful.

[@JamesLaChance1]

4:06 arkham henchmen be like

[@TheChronova]

5:48 huh?

[@redoli2]

WHEUP

[@TomPokys]

Now, I did enjoy the video but it's been at least two videos since Tom told us about playing with balls and I kinda miss it

[@risjut2146]

Stoned!

[@dagansmith5354]

what a good game :)

[@ch0arrim]

Morén peglin!!!

[@Kujanx20]

not discarding lvl 1 pebble for a lvl 2 or 3 that is next kinda hurt unless he is after gold

[@SentientSeaweed]

Please Tom I'm begging you, read past the first interesting relic, it hurts so much seeing you pass up build relevant relics cause u saw a different good one before you read them

[@Golden_Raijin]

Ladies, find you a man who talks about you like Tom talks about Bouldorb

[@ninjafahita]

Bam! First

[@PierceArner]

Blammo!

[@megapyro88]

It's shocking how fucking terrible Tom is at this game.

[@Bongthroat]

I tried this and got four mirrorb events in a row 😅