The Scholar

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## Scholar

Defined by their ways; enveloped with varying capabilities and remote by all means. A messenger, bringing what's left to those which remain. Embark your enlightenment, scholar.

The Scholar is one of three new playable **slugcats** part of a WIP Deluge mod. They start in **Outskirts**, This slugcat is very weight and has an abundance of abilities, many they will obtain along their journey.

## Food

7 food pips are required to hibernate, while up to 2 may be stored for the next cycle. Scholar's food is similar to Monk, Survivor and Rivulet, as it can eat all, but the bodies of slain creatures. Food items such as gooieducks only give one food pip opposing to the normal two. Holding up and grab with two inedible plants will cause the scholar to combine them into a meal granting one food pip. Food is generally easier to get for the scholar as its high speeds and longer than usual cycles allow it to obtain it faster, this along with its ability to make food out of inedible flora also accommodates to the general effortless. Maintaining food becomes more difficult due to a portion of the scholar's abilities requiring some amount of food to preform. This is also why the food requirement is high.

## Opening

The introductory cutscene shows them and their familiar journeying from their homelands with the two ending up in the area both the Survivor and Monk were separated from their families in. While both climbing the upper rebar as a storm begins to build up, a vulture sweeps by and grabs the scholar's "friend." The Scholar reacts by leaping toward them, but falling down into the lower drains. They are then shown waking up the void sea. The sequence is then cut to a void worm staring at them from behind to which the scholar looks back. Then cut to the scholar looking at a karma 5 symbol and then karma 2. The Game starts with the scholar entering a pipe into an **Outer Expanse** gate that leads to **Outskirts**, with it then closing as rain begins to come.

## General Changes

* Scholar can't visit echoes until they reach karma 9.
* It will take Scholar all 16 echoes to reach full karma (9 base/dlc, 7 modded).
* Gooieducks only provide 1 food pip to Scholar.
* Scholar is the lightest of all slugcats that makes carrying certain objects harder for it.
* Scholar has two exclusive echoes, North Denoting Spotlight Financing Broad Black Gloom and 17 Straws Submerged Amidst Never Ending Nectar.

## World Changes

* Predators are more common and difficult
* Outskirts has altered by time and become overgrown with lots plants along with many rooms having been changed by destruction and the area around the Farm Arrays gate has completely imploded, making access to Farm Arrays unavailable. The place now generally represents Outer Expanse also sharing the same pallet (53). Some entirely new rooms can be accessed. North Denoting Spotlight Financing Broad Black Gloom can be found to the western dead end, in the collapsed room which had a pit with worm grass to the bottom.
* The eastern side of Industrial Complex has become darker and increased in more foliage, along with the bridge to the Collapsed Architecture being collapsed, forcing the player to continue up or down. Completely new rooms can be found.
* Undergrowth has stayed the same besides its open air rooms originally with snow and snowfall no longer having any along with more growth.
* Shoreline has become covered with much more flora and has a new pallet similar to Outer Expanse (54). Rivulets spirt can be found here in the Looks To The Moon subregion.
* Silent Construct has formed into "Collapsed Architecture" due to the passage of time degrading it further and having become lush and overrun with life.
* Sky Islands has altered, becoming overgrown with flora with many rooms having been changed by time, being in worse condition. Some entirely new rooms can be accessed. Saint as an echo can be met here.
* Farm Arrays remains unchanged with only the room outside the gate to Outskirts being collapsed into the ground, making it inaccessible.
* Atop the transport tower of Garden Sector a blue slag keys reset neuron can be found.
* **Four Needles under Plentiful Leaves** can now be found on the right side of Outer Expanse atop from the lower entrance of Sunken Pier (OE\_RUIN02).
* Fringes, Black Urban and Sparkling Gaze are the only Regions with the original cycle duration.
* Many lizard species have become limited among most regions and replaced with greater evolutions of them, this entails base game/dlc lizards.
* Cycle duration is increased in places which lethal rain can occur.
* Both Looks To The Moon and Five Pebbles are ascended.

## Abilities & Attributes

### Stats

 Spear Damage
 Speed
 Mass
 Loudness
 Crawling Stealth

### Movement

Scholar has great mobility and is generally exceedingly mobile alike Rivulet, though they can't move as fast in water opposing to them.

## Trivia (Lore)

  SPOILER WARNING: Scholar
* Upon Scholar meeting the incapacitated puppet of Five Pebbles, the screen will be covered with the void sea effect for a moment and Five Pebble's and Looks To The Moon's spirit will appear and give the last pearl they'll need to be granted to their full abilities, also reaching karma five.
* Once The Scholar reaches Revising Synthesis, the Blue overseer which follows it will lead them to a slag neuron reset key found in Garden Sector, which they can bring to Revising Synthesis to revive to a decently operative state with 6 neurons, alike moons state.