You know you're playing Inscryption too much when...

Reason #20: You buy chocolate Easter eggs for your egg deck, but are disappointed when they don't hatch into chocolate creature cards.

You know you're playing Inscryption too much when...

...you can never look at a pair of pliers the same way again

...you see a car with a Buick logo and think "Sacrifice car for three blood"

...you cheer when all the menorah lights are lit and think "Nine lives, I rock!!"

...you watch a hockey game just because one of the teams has a "Flyer" logo
...and wonder why they don't just skate over the defenders
...but you are excited that they have an orange Urayuli mascot named "Gritty"[www.nhl.com]

...you never, ever, want to have an eye exam
...or dental work done

..."Ouroboros: not just for it's own breakfast any more."

...you see the stoats at the zoo and wonder why they aren't talking back to you

...go into a restaurant and order "Fresh fish, easy choose"

...you try talking to the jars of green goo on the shelf in Biology class
...and check the anatomy skeleton for loose teeth

..."STOAT" is always your first guess in Wordle

...you put beaver-dam and growth sigils on the same creature just so that you can snicker when the resulting dams grow up (hint: they *don't* become "Elder Dams" but rather something far more terrifying, see below**)

...you ask for a cuckoo clock for your birthday
...and search it for hidden objects

...you watch a nature documentary and recite the stats and sigils of every animal that you see

...playing Inscryption (especially Kaycee's mod) is like eating hot peppers...
...it hurts so bad while you're doing it...
...but you just have to have one more try...
...just...one...more...game...

...you come up with pet names for your cards

..."Wait, you mean there's a second Act in this game?"

...you put sigil stickers on your car to make it go faster

...on St Patrick's day you ask a bottle of green beer to paint a card for you
...and you're not even drunk

...buy chocolate Easter eggs for your egg deck...
...but are disappointed when they don't hatch into chocolate creature cards...
...maybe you should have bought 1 to 5 of each kind of chocolate egg?

...you buy an Eeyore pinata, but are disappointed to find it's not full of the Prospector's cards

...the comedy/tragedy mask logo at the theatre reminds you of Leshy

...you have to look up what exactly a "Stoat" is

...for that matter, what the heck is a "Daus"?

...you want to learn how to make oil paintings...
...and practice by painting Inscryption cards over and over again
...but are disappointed that nothing ever comes out of the paining

...you ask your Literature teacher why Jason didn't just trade the Golden Fleece for a rare card

...you notice that squirrels always run away from you

...you go into a toy store and ask to buy five stoat finger-puppets...
...and quickly add, "Don't ask what they're for."

...you want to visit Rhinelander, Wisconsin just because they have a Hodag statue[en.wikipedia.org]

...you call the card painter in Kaycee's mod, "Vincent van Goo"

...What the heck does "Finicial" mean?

...you get bored and start editing the savefile to give yourself a custom deck
...you get bored with that and start hacking the game directly

...you get dressed up for a Halloween party as an ijiraq...
...by wearing your normal clothes...
...but wearing a pair of red-tinted glasses

...when you saw the coronation robes you yelled,"stoat coat!"[en.wikipedia.org]

...you realize that House Hufflepuff's heraldic device is a stoat...
...PO3:Hufflepuff, Leshy:Ravenclaw, Magnus:Gryffindor, Grimora:Slytherin

...someone cuts you off in traffic and you yell, "Total misplay!"

...you ask for a film camera as a holiday present
...but forgot to ask for a roll of film

...you get into historical card games when you find out that the Daus is an inside reference to the Medieval game of Karnoeffel[www.parlettgames.uk] and was lifted from a 16th century card illustration[en.wikipedia.org]

...you make custom holiday cards for your friends with stats, portraits and sigils

...Eggs-eggs-eggs...eggs-eggs-eggs-ter-minate!...EGGS-TER-MIN-ATE!

...you daydream about buffed Mantis Gods

...you try to insert the word "Stoat" into all your conversations:
..."Don't forget to get Brussels Stoats at the market..."
..."and a box of stoat-meal cereal."
..."I'd like a Guinness Extra-Stoat."
..."Just leave a Po-Stoat Note on her desk." (Post-it Note)

...you go to a local garage sale just hoping that there are Inscryption booster packs for sale

...talking about "sacrificing squirrels" is normal lunch conversation

...your friends ask you to play cards with them...
...and you are puzzled that the cards don't talk back to you
...and you use a bottle of white-out to change the number of hearts on a card
...and you cut and paste a four and five of diamonds together to make a nine of diamonds
..."What do you mean, I can't say 'Go fish' in poker?"
...and you call the four suits, "Spades, Clubs, Diamonds and Health"
..."Hah! My Queen of Spades is actually an Ijiraq in disguise!"
..."Does my totem give all of my spades cards regeneration?"

...you vaguely remember life before Kaycee's mod

...you feel uneasy watching commercials for flame-broiled burgers showing lots of hungry people waiting for them to cook

...you finally get the xkcd comic about Mycology[xkcd.com]

...your mouth ached when you went past the "Scale of Justice" statue at City Hall

...you ask your Astronomy teacher how many health points the Moon actually has

(**give up figuring what an "Elder Dam" becomes? Mouse over the black square here ->

[bored_ralsei]

this was the most cringe thing i've ever read, and it feels like seeing someone unironically take a sip of energy drink and say "LEVEL UP!!!!11!1!!!!1!!" but like, in a good way

[Penguin-Wizard]

thanks for the W halloween costume

[IceHippo]

To everyone that continues to read this guide and give it awards, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! This was just going to be a quick beta test for me, but several guides and hundreds of hours later, Inscryption became one of my all-time favorites. I hope you've enjoyed the game too and that this guide has put a smile on your face today ;-)

[TarrWasTaken]

[wylaner]

god... water wall.

[jadetater]

god dam,.,.,.

[Emet]

-_-

[ACE]

I daydream about buff mantis gods every day dawg I don't even play Inscryption THAT much bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ;-;

[IceHippo]

Thank you, Restfur! Yep, that's me!

[Restfur]

You know you're playing Inscryption too much when you can list these many ideas 😭