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The Abyssal
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The Abyssal

Description
The Abyssal

A sea-born sorcerer brought in with the tide.

The Abyssal is a fully fleshed-out custom character with a primary focus on deck control and mechanic synergies rather than raw power.

https://discord.gg/rJg2dwCySw - Join the official Abyssal Discord community server for all the latest updates, balance / strategy discussions, and centralized place to post feedback and bugs!

Don't forget to hit the thumbs up button in steam workshop if you like the mod!

Watch The Abyssal Being Played!
https://youtu.be/p0Ne6ljCyng - Watch Baalorlord play The Abyssal!
https://youtu.be/nhsD6jDGk2k - Watch Jorbs play The Abyssal! (the bug Jorbs encounters in the Donu/Deca fight has been resolved)
https://youtu.be/uhU-mHPbvq4 - Watch the dev play The Abyssal!

Features of the Character:
  • Custom animated character sprite
  • 80+ cards, with new artwork
    (mostly AI art using Midjourney, some custom art, and a few public domain pieces)
  • 11+ new relics
  • 2 new potions
  • Currently available in: English, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
    (if you're interested in translating, leave a comment below!)

Mechanics:
  • Use your starter relic to get a Cannon to fight enemies with, or defer it until a later act to get a more powerful Cannon
  • Attack enemies with Cannonball cards which become more powerful with your Cannon
  • Apply Ink to enemies to reflect their damage back on themselves
  • Manipulate and control your deck through Bury and Dig mechanics, discarding cards from your draw pile and returning/upgrading cards from your discard pile
  • Lure powerful beasts to fight for you by putting debuff cards in your deck

Credits:
  • My wife (various art and character sprite)
  • Laertes / Arch / Vex'd / Dayvig / ITstumbler / Osprey (playtesting)
  • QuestLion (Russian translation)
  • Rita-B (Simplified Chinese translation), edits by Lastcel
  • The StS #modding-technical community on discord (for answering lots of questions)
  • JohnnyBazooka89 (for his StSModdingToolCardImagesCreator tool[github.com])

Other Notes:
  • This piratey-themed character is not a rip off of JohnnyBazooka89's The Blackbeard, and I didn't know anything about that character until after this was finished. I should have known before starting that there would already be a pirate mod in the community! Anyway, this obviously borrows from the same generic pirate tropes but this should be the only dimension along which they are similar (although I have not played The Blackbeard extensively)
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Ｒ妹迷路中 Apr 14 @ 10:00am 
非常好玩的一个mod，碎心很轻松，埋藏和挖掘系统做的很有趣，就是有点割裂，非常依赖诱饵钓到的螃蟹来进行联动，在前期只有一张埋葬牌的时候这个太关键了，有螃蟹就可以通过埋藏螃蟹挖掘埋藏牌来埋藏两次，不然一次就直接断掉了，这是唯一挖掘和埋藏的联动了。到后面埋藏牌和被埋藏牌多了能循环上了很好玩，古代地图和破釜沉舟的配合很棒，感觉比较类似卡组弃牌的弃牌贼，由于没有其他爆费手段，除了锻造减费之外可能会比较依赖埋葬体系，这样导致朗姆酒和黑胡子幽灵有点意义不明。另外消耗金币的两张牌需要一张牌配合但是不成体系，太亏了，很可能完全不会拿，最后墨水体系我没太玩明白就算了，纯玩埋葬体系强度就很爆炸了
The Scrapinator Feb 28 @ 11:03am 
this is a great case of ai art being 100% fine most just dont have the talent nor money or some times time to make so many artworks for a game like this the card art being ai just makes sense and is not even distracting
piggy252525 Feb 11 @ 10:05pm 
"with a primary focus on deck control and mechanic synergies rather than raw power." that how literally every sts character works lmao
UlyssesK402 Jan 31 @ 9:22am 
Wound up killing the Heart with a deck that had a lot of those ink cannonballs. Area damage, area "block," and more area damage still. As long as I had more, they were all I needed.
Tafnir Dec 31, 2024 @ 10:00pm 
One of the most user-friendly mods I've played, with some of the most unique mechanics I've ever seen. Great work!
The AI art is mostly okay. A lot of people are blowing it out of proportion on both ends. Personally, however, I got to hand it to your wife. Her art style in particular blows everything else out of the water.
Ithilian  [author] Jun 28, 2024 @ 9:53pm 
@dumory glad to hear you are enjoying it! The card art can be found by converting the mod jar to zip (just rename it .zip) and then you can find the images in PirateMod.zip/thePirateResources/images/cards (although these are pretty low resolution and cropped to fit the cards). If you are looking for any particular ones I may have the originals somewhere. Ping me on discord and I'll see what I can find =)
dumory Jun 28, 2024 @ 6:07pm 
hey, great character. where can i find card's art? i would like to save some xD
Team Siren Jun 5, 2024 @ 6:47pm 
This is one of my favorite slay the spire mods! I saw it in a baalorlord stream a long time ago and thought it was awesome. I think the artwork is really cool regardless if its AI or not, and its a pretty cool example of how AI can be used to help people create things regardless of their art skill or budget

Awesome mod bro!
Ithilian  [author] Apr 30, 2024 @ 2:14pm 
I appreciate the support and feedback, whether positive or constructive. I understand AI art is a controversial topic and I'm not trying to push an opinion on anyone one way or the other. I also think the ethics of AI art is really complicated, and I could easily write 20 pages of thoughts on it.

To be completely transparent, I am just some guy that made a mod, and I do not in any way profit from the hundreds of hours I put into this project. IMO, the art in Abyssal is significantly better than I had hoped, but yeah it's not amazing hand drawn art. I would love to have someone like Anailis Dorta do hand drawn art for all 80+ cards, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Richard Apr 27, 2024 @ 6:45pm 
@Flapjaw, if it is an "eyesore" for you, how about you just don't play it?

Creator of this fantastic mod, please pay no mind to that troll, this character is awesome