WTF is wrong with the Inner Sanctum?!

[Petresko]

On Hard Mode, TWO TIMES I reached the inner sanctum, walked over the seals to open the door to Alexander and the shadow kills me as I step out of the seal room.
WTF am I doing wrong?
I'm sick of being sent back to the beginning of Choir.

Edit : Managed to save up to Inner Sanctum.
It's not the shadow, it's the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sanity ... How the ♥♥♥♥ do you get past Inner Sanctum without losing all of it?!

[Justice]

Try stand near candle after using 1st seal until you regain enough sanity to survive insanity death

[Petresko]

Originally posted by Justice:

Try stand near candle after using 1st seal until you regain enough sanity to survive insanity death

That doesn't work.
I spent 10 minutes near every candle and it stays at "Head is pounding, hands are shaking"

[Child_of_Thessia]

Hi, i did it for exactly 10 minutes. Look at the video hard mode on you Youtube, there is one. Switch the light off in room 1, stay on the sign, the other one goes dark. Do the same in the other room. Stay on the sign maybe for 15 secods more, it take a little bit until the door is going open.All with your lantern if possible. Dont stay to long and look how your sanity is. Then run and go to the final. It works, believe me.

[Petresko]

Originally posted by Ambivalent Guy:

Hi, i did it for exactly 10 minutes. Look at the video hard mode on you Youtube, there is one. Switch the light off in room 1, stay on the sign, the other one goes dark. Do the same in the other room. Stay on the sign maybe for 15 secods more, it take a little bit until the door is going open.All with your lantern if possible. Dont stay to long and look how your sanity is. Then run and go to the final. It works, believe me.

I go to the first room. Crystal Clear. I step on the sign, lantern on - Head is pounding.
If I go and do the same in the next room my sanity goes "..." .
IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS the shadow enters, while I'm on the seal and my sanity drops to 0.

It doesn't work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OofXPgRjMDo
^^^ This is what you're talking about right?
His sanity goes from Crystal Clear to "Slight headache" not "Head is pounding". He has one more sanity for whatever reason.
I don't.
I can't pass the Inner sanctum.
Sanity goes from Crystal Clear to Head is pounding. It's impossible to pass the 2nd seal with that sanity.

I followed the exact steps from this walkthrough before I wrote this post.
Either Crystal Clear isn't 100% and it can be like 99,9% or some ♥♥♥♥ hidden value or it's just s**tty, poorly-edited level design.
If you need to memorize and time every quest completion event at the end to get past this level I say it's broken and not worth anybody's time.

[Ume Ito]

I died twice to this part on my Hard Mode playthrough and on my third time, I literally just afk'd around some lit candles for a long while. I forgot how long but it was certainly way past 10 minutes.

Then I did the second room no problem.

[Nemesis' Toy Boy🍆]

I remember when I finished the hard mode shortly after its release I camped longer near lights then I played sometimes (it really felt like it lol) to be sure. The sanity can get better reaaaaaally slowly if you just stand afk in the light... I had trouble with the sanity in the last part before you meet Alexander also but it worked with camping near a candle or torch for a long time.

[Boolitzz]

I had the same experience too I died at the seals as well just wait till your sanity goes back up to slightly headache It actually regains your sanity but a very slow process you just gotta give it time and you'll be good chief.

[Ladez]

I had the same problem until I followed this approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOnRWMKrix4

The Inner Sanctum rituals are giving a lot of people trouble because you have to have "Crystal clear" sanity when you ENTER the Inner Sanctum to be safe(without candle camping). The problem is the scripted sanity modifiers. When you complete the orb in the Chancel(DO GEARS FIRST) the orb will explode after about 13 seconds. At this time the barrier drops and a timer starts that will give you a sanity boost in about 6 seconds maxing out your sanity(NICE). The problem is that entering the tunnel triggers a guardian event(flesh) that damages your sanity after about 1 second. So to survive you NEED TO

-Damage the gears.
-Complete the orb
-Go past the tunnel barrier AS SOON as the as you hear the orb explosion sound(it's safe then).
-Wait for the sanity boost(white flash) BEFORE you open the inner sanctum door.

If you do that you will have bypassed the sanity damage pitfall and will be able to enter the Inner Sanctum with "Crystal clear" sanity.

Note: I did this without lantern to show that you can literally leave it off the whole time with this method and be safe but feel free to use it.