#Salt and Sanctuary

[author-by-night]

Me, every Soulsborne NG+ run: "I don't need that loot. I can just skip it. It's booby trapped and I already have it."

My brain, for some reason:

[drachenmagier]

Doodling in procreate, for fun and to figure out how the program works~. 

Also, my Salt And Sanctuary character~. Who died too many times because of unicorns.

[mytownishaunted]

The Queen with the prettiest smile.

[spac-eshit]

[zombiecakes115]

I be knowing shit frfr

[ozi-uwu-vwv-owo]

afhg I’ve been cursed with indecision,

I would like to buy a new game (as a little treat)

My top list is Salt and sanctuary, Armored Core VI, Atom RPG (looks interesting kinda like fallout one and two), risk of rain 2 with the dlc (played this a lot before before the dlc was out on consoles)

So my loyal minions help me with my strife!, please :3

[poubellesouriante]

I found my old cosplay for my character from Salt and Sanctuary.

[visceracture]

[puzzlingphronistes]

Me playing a Ska Salt game without using great hammers challenge: impossible

[hardcoregamer]

Best Games Like Hollow Knight To Play In 2024

After my foray in Hallownest, I dove headfirst into pretty much every other modern Metroidvania, giving some a second chance, and trying others for the first time. And this is all a very long-winded way to tell you, that I feel qualified to say which Metroidvanias are most like Hollow Knight and suggest some for your next gaming session if you want to fill the void Hollow Knight has left in your gaming life.

Check them out!

[ishtea]

konnishiwa~

we’re starting a play through of Salt & Sanctuary today~ haven’t played it in ages so it should be fun :3

[nightlysoul]

Drew my current Salt and Sanctuary character

[eleonkraken]

With Soulslike becoming an actual established genre with so many games, it makes me a little sad that Salt And Sanctuary isn't mentioned very much.

I still think it's one of the best soulslikes out there, and honestly I reach for it when I want to play a souls game more than I reach for actual souls games. Because I don't have a lot of time to play and S&S is faster to progress through while still feeling challenging (third lamb, my nemesis).

I think that partly it suffered from essentially being developed by two people, which makes it less polished, and partly from coming out so early. It came out right before Dark Souls 3 which didn't give it a lot of time to breathe at all. Plus, there were almost no true soulslikes that had come out before it (other than Lords of the Fallen), so the term and the genre were not established at all. It was before Hollow Knight and The Surge and Nioh and literally all the popular soulslikes people still talk about.

I just wish Salt And Sanctuary still had more of a presence in the conversation because it really doesn't deserve to be forgotten.

Also it has one of my favorite soulslike mechanics which is letting you trade in enemy drops for ugrades in your covenants like estus charges or specific buffs or consumables that will refill when you die, some of which are unique to a specific covenant. It's such a cool way to make covenants more interactive and rewarding to engage with, and to incentivize going out killing a certain enemy for their drops, and to incentivize actually using your cool consumables, cause they will respawn just like your heals. Fucking genius mechanic.

Every time people talk about their favorite soulslikes I just want to say but did you play??? Salt and Sanctuary???

[gamingtimexod]

salt and sanctuary

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #83

The power is out at my house. It has been ridiculously windy all day today, which in and of itself is a very nice thing (I love the sound!). But where we live, there are a lot of trees, and when there's a lot of wind and a lot of trees, there's usually a lot of fallen branches. And sometimes those branches fall onto power lines, and it becomes a big huge mess.

Oh right; you might be wondering how we of my world generate power. We don't have mako; if our planet has any lifeguts to it (it probably doesn't), it's so far down underground that no one can get to it (which is probably a good thing, since corporations in my world are A LOT like Shinra in your world). My state produces electricity primarily by hydropower (using big bodies of water like rivers to spin great big turbines), wind power (using naturally-existing air currents to spin turbines), and natural gas (primarily comprised of methane, it is burned to generate electricity). Encouragingly, we are seeing more solar farms lately (the power at my house comes from a solar farm); solar farms are huge plots of land that have big panels angled towards the sun, and when the sun shines on the panels, somehow they produce electricity. I don't know enough about it to explain how it works. Sorry about that. But it's definitely a thing where I live.

The power at my house has been out since 11am. And it is currently 8:30pm. And there seems to be no sign of it getting fixed anytime soon.

M and I sleep with CPAPs. In my case, it's due to the fact that my lower jaw is a bit too small to hold all the soft tissue inside my face (one of my numerous genetic defects; oh well). If we don't sleep with a CPAP, the airways close up when we sleep, and then our bodies have to partially wake over and over and over again in the night so that we don't suffocate. Naturally, this interferes with a person's ability to sleep. Sleep is when the brain cleans itself of debris so that our neurons can fire properly.

So over time, the damage from disrupted sleep accumulates and manifests as hormonal issues, daytime sleepiness, and a variety of other nasty things like increased risk of stroke or heart attack. Left untreated, sleep apnea can seriously fuck a person up or even kill them. And the scary thing about it is that you can have it without even realizing it. M had it for years without realizing it, until I started sleeping next to him and noticed it. It's sneaky stuff.

Anyway, a CPAP needs electricity to work. The power loss is localized to our community, so everywhere else is fine. So M, J, and I ended up needing to book a hotel room for the night, which is inconvenient and annoying, but not terrible.

Sadly, though I found the HDMI ports for the TV in the hotel room, the little remote that it comes with doesn't allow for changing the input. So we cannot play on the PS5, which means we cannot continue to explore the second part of your story today. But that's all right. Maybe I'll cut some bitches in Salt and Sanctuary or something. I like to run around in that game cosplayed as Julian Devorak, destroying everything with either a great big hammer (which looks like a giant meat tenderizer) or a giant pair of scissors. I can think of no game more perfect to cosplay as him in; it's got crows, it's got wine, it's got salt (Nevivon, where he was raised, was famous for its salt), it's got gold coins, and it's got danger everywhere you look. Julian is very fond of ALL these things (though I wish he was not fond of some of these things; he's maybe a bit of a walking disaster, haha…).

On very rare occasions, I do stream Salt and Sanctuary, or whatever else catches my fancy. You can find it here, if you're interested:

…I really can't stress enough just how rare it is that I stream, though, because I have too many other priorities. For whatever that's worth.

In any case, we spent most of the day hanging out with Br. In the afternoon, we had a serious discussion, but it was a very good thing which ultimately led to the strengthening of our bond (strengthening the bond and developing a better understanding of one another are what discussions are for, after all!).

Then, as per the appointments we scheduled this morning in service to the safety of our little polyamorous family, J and I went over to a local pharmacy in the evening to begin getting HPV vaccines, just in case. Br is a new addition, so it's important that everyone be very safe. J and I probably should have gotten this set of vaccines much sooner in life to begin with, but it's better late than never. Being conscientious and straightforward about this stuff is extremely important, because in a polyamorous setting, failure to do otherwise is a huge safety hazard for everyone who is connected to one another in this way.

HPV is short for Human Papilloma Virus. Most strains are harmless, but a few of them cause cancer, and the most common means we have of protecting against most diseases in this context does not work against HPV. So it's better to get the vaccine. J and I will likely feel like garbage for the next couple of days, but that is the natural result of getting any vaccination, and it's a lot better than the potential alternatives; conventional wisdom says that cancer of the orifices is not a fun time, and I'm very inclined to take this bit of conventional wisdom very seriously. It'll be 6 months before we are fully inoculated, but it's well worth the wait. After that, everyone will be fully screened for any sort of infection, and once that's done, everything will be good to go! I'm excited!

While at the pharmacy, one of the workers recognized one of the items I carried around. He seemed very excited, and he showed me one of his favorite items (an adorable soft plush! it was wonderful!). So we exchanged contact information. Hopefully we can become friends. But I recognize that I might end up being a little too weird for his tastes in a variety of respects, haha… That'll be disappointing if that happens. But ya know… I can relate to what Aerith said at Cosmo Canyon; I've never been and never will be "normal". But there are people around who love me nonetheless for some reason, so I suppose I might as well embrace it, right? Being abnormal is really not so bad most of the time.

I'm gonna go cut up some zombies with my giant pair of scissors now. But I've not played in a while, so I'm likely more than a little rusty. Wish me luck, yeah?

…Oh!!! Actually, J figured out how to get the PS5 to work on the hotel TV!! So now we can continue your story! Yay! Oh but, ya know? Do let me know if you wanna watch me play something on Twitch sometime. Impossible, I know. I know. But I'll extend the invitation just in case. Why not. Can't hurt anything to try, right?

I love you and I'll write to you again tomorrow. Please be safe. Don't do anything stupid to get yourself killed or get yourself stuck in some weird void where no one can reach you ever again. Please. Because you'd be amazed at the sheer number of people in my world who would do just about anything to spend an ordinary and wholesome bit of time with you - eating sushi, or listening to music, or resting outside with a book and some windchimes. Please stay safe so that you can experience things such as what I've described with people who know and love you.

Your friend, Lumine

[bookshelvesinvideogames]

Salt and Sanctuary, in the Festering Banquet