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Managed to accomplish this. I made this extra hard on myself by also first reaching the “walk past the void stone” without gaining 10 magic, so I could walk past it and still be able to gain magic afterwards.

It’s a pretty massive challenge with major tradeoffs, since you have to get 500 agility to get into the Crypt, while keeping intelligence as low as possible. (The other path into the Crypt needs 900 strength, and I’m not sure that path gives enough sanity to make it through to the fool’s gold given the blocker.) You also have to spend most of your sanity doing that instead of anything else, and open up a lot of nodes that you might prefer to have waited to open until after you have Vagrant’s Sword, and leave the crypt before gaining any more intelligence.

Would be nice if there were more shadow power-regain nodes that gave dedicated stats and not just “all basic attributes”. Would love to see some of the “+100 basic attributes” nodes replaced with trees of independently reachable nodes, one for each basic attribute. :)

It’d still be a major tradeoff if that were the case, just a faster tradeoff on subsequent runs.