Trade the item effect for a locust
Charged Abyss consumes room pedestals and creates persistent red locust familiars. You give up the normal collectible effect. Some absorbed items have special locust behavior, so inspect the particular item.
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Repentance · Pedestals and locusts
Tainted Apollyon:
Abyss and permanent locusts
Compare taking an item with making a locust, and check linked choices and room triggers before using Abyss.
Understand the system
Decide what the pedestal should become.
Linked choices remain one choice
A linked set offers alternatives, such as a take-one Angel Room selection. Abyss consumes one choice and removes the other linked options. It does not turn every alternative into a locust.
Taking triggers can still fire
Absorption counts as taking the item for room triggers. Using Abyss on a Boss Rush choice starts the fight. In combat, your locusts charge in the firing direction rather than acting as normal tear projectiles.
The Abyss icon links to Tainted Apollyon's starting pocket active. Examples use Repentance rules and exclude the Repentance+ locust rework.
Practice the decision
What changes after this action?
These are fixed teaching examples with stated conditions. Choose an action and compare what you have before and after it.
Tainted Apollyon
Absorb one independent pedestal
Before
Abyss charged; one free unlinked pedestal; below the familiar cap
After
Pedestal consumed; one persistent locust added
The original item effect is not acquired. Its pedestal instead becomes a locust, which may have item-specific behavior.
Check before acting: Compare the actual item effect with the value of another locust first.
The Abyss icon links to Tainted Apollyon's starting pocket active. Examples use Repentance rules and exclude the Repentance+ locust rework.
This reference does not read your save, calculate a crafting recipe or simulate an arbitrary inventory, health bar, queue or combat state.
Before the next action
- Read the item effect first. Consider what the build needs before trading a useful utility or defensive item for another attacker.
- Look around the entire room for other pedestals. Separate independent items from linked alternatives, and check whether taking anything starts a fight.
- Activate only when you accept the conversion and any trigger. Leave room to aim the locust attacks and dodge after combat starts.