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New Save + Instant Grand Slam + Bastard's Beacon (cheating in 250 candles to afford this).

Now that we have beaten the game with a fresh save file. Can we do it w the Bastard's Beacon of all things in this universe?!?!
The Unusual suspects can do anything, but I'm really not sure about this one chief.

Rules:
- Brand New save profile
- Instantly attempt a grand slam
- HOWEVER, we cheat in 250 candles to buy the Bastard's Beacon after the Prologue before beginning Act 1. For the Spice 👌
- Thus locking us into Unusual Suspects (PD, GR, HWYman, MAA). (can technically swap for Duelist w DLC as she's part of the starting roster now).
- This means it will be a total of 7 runs (Prologue, then instant reset to buy Bastard's Beacon and then Acts 1 to 5)
- Which will be 7 runs in total (proven via the profile summary afterwards)
- These 7 runs are in this order: Prologue-Instant reset to buy BB-Act1-to-5
- In the prologue to farm for more candles, technically I can unalive 3 characters for more candles. With new thinking behind unlocking trinkets, I may do this, maybe.

Bastard's Beacon details
"No mercy here.
- Enemies have +100% Chance to be Ordained
- Lair Bosses are always Ordained
- Wandering Bosses have increased chances to appear
- Confession bosses gain unique buffs
- Confession Flame effects are unchanged by this infernal Flame"

- P.S. I am using the ingame cheats after editing the ironcrown.dll files, purely to speed the game up (and now to cheat 250 candles in for the BB infernal flame), anyone who has played this game knows how incredibly slow this game is (unfortunately there seems to be tonnes of graphical errors).
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Notes:
- So enemies being ordained, makes region 1 much harder as expected
- So now stress is less important, health, healing and damage are much more important to upgrade relevant skills (so not mastering Bolster straight up for region 1).
- The unique buffs for the Act 1 boss are essentially more damage and health, which may be too rough, I assume that after beating region 1, the next barrier where I'll likely die will be this boss fight, I'm not looking forward to that, it's going to be a rough fight I imagine.

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Originally I thought about this idea after seeing the concept of beating Hades 1st go, w no upgrades.
After googling, saw on reddit that Sivy17 successfully completed this challenge already.

After posting my results on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/darkestdungeon/comments/1bi9a5b/new_save_grand_slam_fresh_profile_start_cleared/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), there have been some more interesting challenges that have come up. Like this challenge for example! Suggested by redditor KlinkKlink.

There is also the sinister 4 Back-to-Back grand slams w all the heros roster. Suggested by redditor BouldersRoll.
Which is terrifying to think about, but on my other save file where the 1st grand slam was successful, I'll give it a crack and if that fails I might wait to return to that due to the immense time needed for such a challenge (keep in mind 4 grand slams back to back means 5 acts done 4 times over. Even BouldersRoll has not been successful in this endeavour yet.

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