Gesture of the Drowned

Stat
 Cooldown Reduction

The **Gesture of the Drowned** is a lunar item in Risk of Rain 2.

The first Gesture of the Drowned reduces the holder's equipment cooldown by half, but activates it as soon as it is ready.

Subsequent Gestures reduce equipment cooldown by 15% each, the same amount as a .

## Math

The equipment cooldown is determined by the formula `cooldown ⋅ 0.5 ⋅ (1 - 0.15) ^ (amount - 1)`

* If the player has any , add that amount to the amount of Gestures of the Drowned (as long as the player has at least one Gesture).

## Interactions

* Only  active equipment will be activated by this item. The secondary equipment will not be used until it is swapped to via . This can be exploited to avoid the automatic activation for certain items, such as the .

* Despite inheriting any held equipment,  turrets will not activate any equipment even under the effects of this item.

* will not fire unless it has a target.
	+ If multiple charges are stored with , all charges will be rapidly used back-to-back when a target is acquired.
* also will not fire unless it has a valid target.
	+ will be rapidly used, filling the chat with text messages. This may obscure helpful information, such as when teammates ping valuable information.

* will always be active, making it difficult to purchase items, since any gold the player collects will be immediately consumed.
	+ In later stages this is generally a non-issue, since enemies will drop much more gold than The Crowdfunder will consume.
	+ Enabling the Artifact of Sacrifice also removes this issue, since the player will not have to spend gold for chests.

* In conjunction with enough Fuel Cells and/or additional Gestures (or  and enough kills before the effect expires), it is possible to keep certain item or equipment buffs active continuously.
	+ This includes , , , , ,  (for interactables within range), ,  (multiple uses stack),  (multiple uses stack), , and  (since the effect will never end, the player will never be afflicted with Tonic Afflictions, until they swap equipment).
* can not be activated the Gesture of the Drowned, due to it activating automatically upon purchase.

## Lore

```
Fossils. Remnants. How cruel.

This moon once housed life. Life that you may have held dear, had the timing been right. But our timing was wrong. We were born much too late.

Now, it is just calcium to me – and irrelevant to you. Isn’t that right?
```

## Version History

Anniversary Update
* Major Content
	+ Added New Lore Entry: Gesture of the Drowned
* Quality of Life
	+ Update visuals to match other assets

Early Access Scorched Acres Content Update
* Gameplay Changes
	+ Cooldown Reduction: 50%(+50% per stack) ⇒ 50% (+15% per stack)
		- *GoTD, unlike most other Lunar items, doesn’t have stacking drawbacks, and should therefore stack more like a Tier 2 in power.*
* Bug Fixes
	+ Fix equipment targets not being updated at the moment of firing (i.e  not being able to select targets with Gesture)

Early Access Patch (Build ID No.3830295)
* Bug Fixes
	+ Picking up new equipment with Gesture of the Drowned no longer fires every frame

## Trivia

* The item being a nautilus shell and the item's title containing "Drowned" could possibly be a reference to a challenge from the original Risk of Rain, "Sleepin' With The..." in which the player had to kill 20 Whorls by drowning them. Additionally, to "drown" the Whorls, the player needed to knock them off of cliffs. The unlock requirement for this item requires the player to do the same to 20 Hermit Crabs, another shelled creature.