i wish there was more dialogue for drawing at bad times with bosses prospector: "no cards on the first turn, y'hear!?" "ye've gotta draw you a card first!" angler: "no fish yet. too soon." "get fish first. play next." trapper: "ye can't draw a card yet." "grab yerself a card before you play anythin'." i'm not on act 3 yet so i can't really say what their dialogue would be, but these are a few examples
@@maskedman8405 no clue to be honest "y-you can't.." *"you cannot draw a card yet."* "first.. first you must.." *"draw a card."* and the bold is the small dude?
I’m wondering what was the old data anyways? Is it a glitch, a beta form of the game with programming smashed together in hopes it would work, spawning a living game. Or was it something darker, a force of a nature even? So many questions and so little answers, what a wonderful game.
@@maniacalmurderer4123 well from what we’ve seen it was likely a combination of an incredibly powerful thing and dark/illegal stuff that gamefuna was attached to.
I find it interesting that they appeared to be ready to continue the fight past the second round until they realized they found (created?) a piece of the OLD_DATA. The only other person who's ever done that is Leshy, when performing the Moon boss fight.
@@minetech4898 I was more referring to the fact that Leshy moves the fight to a third phase, not the OLD_DATA part. The Mycologists seem able to do that too, taking another turn even after being defeated twice, before realizing they have produced an OLD_DATA fragment from their fusions.
The mycologists don’t care about the game, they just care about their experiment. If they hadn’t found that fragment, the fight likely would have continued until they did.
That's a very interesting lore thing. First, this can't be a fight planned by P-03. He is basically making lore up from scratch, he won't be able to act this fight out. Mycologists actually hacked him. Second, hacking into P-03 is probably a very challenging task, knowing about his hacking skills. Yet, mycologists managed to hack him. They are probably something more than just Leshy's characters.
The theory suggests that they are Hitlers scientists that made the OLD_DATA prototype and, in some way, became immortal as hitler became the bone god(master? I don't remember his name) because they looked for immortality in that code and, in some way, found it
Irl there are fungi that literally take control of insects. Not quite the same as hacking a robot, but I'd say them being able to take over P03 is a nod to those kinds of irl fiungi.
That's probably because of the Daus' importance to the code. So... SPOILERS AHEAD: Shit to note about the Daus: 1-The Daus is a type of Card in german playing cards, equivalent to the Ace in french decks. 2-There are 4 suits of german cards (much like french ones), one of which being bells, with the Daus of Bells (represented by a wild hog holding a bell) being the most valuable card. 3-In the game of cards Karnoffel, the Daus is used as the namesake, the Karnoffel. 4-Inscryption's OLD_DATA is the virtualization of a code writen in a deck of cards which Hitler carried when he died, said code being known as THE KARNOFFEL CODE. 5-Upon finishing the game, the only visible fragment of the Karnoffel code opened by Luke is a real life Daus of Bells. 6-The Daus and a Gem Detonator are the 2 cards Mycologists uses to create the OLD_DATA, ALLWAYS. This is not random. 7-The Daus notably despite being a normal legendary during act 1, doesn't appear during Act2, and during Act3 it only appears during the secret boss. So yeah, safe to say P03 can't change the Daus because it is quite literally a core component of the Karnoffel code.
considering what we know now about the Karnoffel Code being a deck of cards found on Hitler's body, I stand to wager that the Mycologists were, at one point, real people. The fact that they are uniquely shown as real people on PO3's screen, as well as their German-scientist-codedness maybe suggests that the Code/OLD_DATA has the ability to capture souls as well, kind of like Leshy's camera does? Who knows lol
Prepare for a bit of a deep dive, and this won't make sense unless you're into the ARG: The implication that the character who combines and experiments on cards is the most eager to discover the karnoffel code makes me feel that the code is less "lethal weapon" in the traditional sense and more some eugenics-y information the world is better off without, something gained from some of the immoral WWII experiments on people (think of the experiments Nazis did on twins, trying to make artificial conjoined twins by stitching them back to back). That's also kinda backed by the german doctor aesthetic and german sounding voices they have. That's all I really have but its food for thought.
the OLD_DATA seems powerful, but i always felt it was more a forbidden power thing rather than a weapon. it can bring things to life apparantely, as evidenced by the game itself, but because im 90% sure the OLD_DATA was constructed by satan himself nothing good is gonna come of that
so this karnafol code seems like human mutation/ability enhancer/super soldier making/ formula...which when digitized became key part of making npc and other charechters into sentient and powerful Ai...or karnafol is nazis attempt to create skynet...
The best part about this boss is that when you beat him the cards on your side that were fused actually get turned into a card called "Mycobot". It's basically a guaranteed win for act 3
Something I think most people wouldn't know unless you intentionally played or looked up the ARG for Inscryption. At around 3:26 when the Mycologists combine The Daus with another card at the end of the fight. The Picture in the background relating to the OLD_DATA is a picture of Führerbunker, or Hitler's Bunker and place of Death. Cause of the Karnoffel Code relating to the order of cards he supposedly had in his pocket. Just fun history tidbit while also tying into the ARG.
@@ThePelum I already know everything about the Karnoffel Code and the OLD_DATA, I read up on the ARG. What I’m asking is for you to explain what you mean about the “picture in the background”. I don’t see it.
@@yoniqu1222 Okay NOW I kinda see it, but that’s only because I was told to look for it. I thought it was like, kinda cracked glass before. It’s REALLY hard to see the actual door.
For anyone unaware, you get this boss by fulfilling all of the Mycologist’s requests in Act 2. He appears after you eliminate two or three bosses, but you can take duplicates of requested cards and turn them into “Spore” creatures with perked up abilities. One for each Scrybe’s deck and lo, you get the key you saw unlock the gate. This boss- THIS GAME… Is incredible!!
P03 must have built in a protocol into him that tells you that you can't draw on your first turn if you do so regardless if he's active or not, that shall be my explanation of how he managed to do that
My headcanon explanation for why P03 can still enforce the rules is that they were hard coded into his character. The OLD_DATA definitely played a part in creating the 3D forms of the Scrybes, but originally they were created to play the game, so maybe the rules of the game were more solidly implemented/secured/etc. Idk just my little headcanon.
You know, I saw that Ourobot with 0/0 and I was like "How do you have it as a 0/0 at this point in the game still" before looking closer and realzing it was actually 340/340 just the number didn't fit lmao
No. In fact whatever merged card you end up with at the end you get to keep as an extra card. So I got another super powerful card. Not that it matters. This was the last fight for me in act 3.
The Mycologists are struggling to recreate or discover the old data through combining cards and I just happened to randomly find like 3 pieces/pictures of it while walking around the edge of the areas in Act 2 XD
So the background of the OLD.DATA fragment was a picture of the Füherbunker a bunker used by Adolf Hitler and Hitler's place of suicide in 1945. So maybe GameFauna has something to do with the Nazis? Also the mycologist could actually be two of his scientist/surgeons who did experiments with twins to attempt conjoining them? Maybe they wanted to find the remaining data they can get of their former master and probably someone they worshiped? So basically GameFauna could be in support of the Nazi or even be what is left of it after WW2, and inscryption was there attempt to bring back the idea but the idea of the game to act as bait to lure people kept changing, from act 1 to act 2 and finally act 3. Act 2/3 brought Po3 and the other(seemingly including the mycologist) to sentience with Po3 attempting the goal of spreading OLD.DATA to start a Nazism rise, but after all that they realized it would get them into deep water before it could grow so they burned the place with all evidence of the game and labeled it as an accident, it killed Kaycee which adds to the accident idea, she probably buried it from orders by GameFauna, but gave it's spot on a carb pack to expose them. (maybe she actually burned the place down to destroy the game and forgot the buried one she was going to use to expose them). That's why they killed Luke after they found out about his copy of inscryption, because they realized it wasn't a good idea so they didn't try to make it back and actually tried to remove all evidence of it's existence
Not nazi enough, but russiean-related was discovered after reaching and finding some secret codes from all the game and decoding an old data file show a conversation between some expected russian about karnofeel code
@@oxob3333 oh so it's Soviet related. I still think the mycologist might be two of Hitler's scientist, I mean who else would conjoin cards like how they conjoined twins. Maybe they were captured I'm not a lore master who goes deep into the lore, I just saw the background of the old data fragment and it put itself together in my head. So all of this could be wrong and the mycologist are just game characters
@@derpyaxolotl7683 If you're really interested, there's a big youtube channel called The Game Theorists that has covered most of the known story across a few different videos.
My theory is: Micologist's were game funa developers, they got fired and they went mad, since we can see their faces when we fight them. But this is just speculations almost without any proof.
I think we might have some nazi stuff going on.. • they sound German like • the use of the ‘twin’ parallels • the mention of the karnoffel code Im thinking the old data will be revealed to be related to WW2 and game funa in some way..
@@Timetraveler2411 we already found out from like some months ago that it was all linked to WW2 and some people already hard cracked to found out the secret console and dialogs about the old data but eh sure
This could basically mean that Mycologists exist in the real life, since we know that PO3 can acces the IRL cameras, that means that Mycologists are technically sitting in front of a PC and trying to reach for the old data. But the question is, if they are humans why are they merged together. Upd: i have a theory that they were involved into development of the game, because lets look at it from the realistic perspective: How can you hack a game that is literally single player and does not involved in any kind of multiplayer activities, (i know that they appear in Act 3 where we can turn on the "multiplayer", but they also appear in act 2 where they somehow hacked the game and gave us glitchy key.) So my theory is that they are the one of the devs of Inscryption and made some kind of virus that allows them to access anyone's machine that has Inscryption on it. Maybe they are trying to investigate on what the hell is going on like Luke is trying to do. ARG SPOILER ALERT: I did not watched anything about ARG but i know what its about. Its about the location of Hitler's corpse. So my theory is that ARG was made by the Mycologists so that GameFuna will not kill them and people will know about Funa's strange activities.
@@LeSWG there's a case of someone who had 2 faces, a second one grew of the back of his head, it could cry or laugh without any sence, also he worked in a circus. Aswell, tumors can grow teeth and eyes if given enough time, but idk.
The mycologists in this instance give me such a StarCraft 1 Terran unit vibe. Like the Goliath or Siege Tank portraits of hardened soldiers in a small mechanical space. If that makes sense.
It took me two tries with this boss...but I absolutely loved it. They were playing you, but there was no malice in it. You were just a tool for their experiments and curiosity like you always have been
Y'all don't know half of it I had a 223/223 orobot on the field when the mycobot got made and now it's a insanely powerful 3-drop And you've got a freakin' powerful orobot, too! How much power is that?! 3140?!
I have read some comment mocking P03 for saying that you can’t draw on your first turn. However, this is because this is a rule of Karnoffel and therefore part of the Old Data, which can not be altered, destroyed or deleted.
Ah, I never saw what card they fused at the end. When I fought him, my abomination in the center had both Sentry and Deathtouch, so his cards died immediately.
I mean, will he find this? you have to put your cursor over a blank spot to get to this area, yes he did get the key but to use it you have to find this place so...
I saw in his vid he did get the purple key on his first run but knowing about the hidden places in act 3 idk. I didn't even know how to get the purple key until my 4th play through so I have high hopes for him.
I have my doubts. He’ll probably find the regular secret rooms, but the secret route for this boss is placed diagonally so even if you glean that it’s the same place as act 2 you might struggle to find the right spot. I wish him luck though
Do it. It's only about 20$ and between getting all the achievements in the main game and completing the 12 challenge levels in Kaycee's mod I've spent about 88 hours playing it. Well worth it.
I was confused when suddenly a new and real life face appears on PO3's face, then I realized it was the Mycologists due to the two faces and the shrooms
Theres a theory that the Mycologists are actually from a different Daniel Mullins game. Spoilers for "The Hex", Seriously check it out its amazing. The theory goes that once Rootbeer Reggie uses the Hex to Kill Lionel Snill, Reggie and Jerimiah use Lionel's body as a vessel (Hence the mushroom head on the side) and with the Hex (Or some other power) they Jump games into the copy of Inscryption that we witness Luke play. and with said mushrooms and knowledge of Technology and Video games they hack P03 to gain the fragment of the OLD_DATA so they can use it and study it for themselves. With the Power of the Hex and the OLD_DATA, who knows what they could do Keep in mind this is just a THEORY. Not set in stone at all, Might not even be correct at all but its thought provoking.
Knowing where the old data came from and who was involved in its creation...oh God I can never look at the mushrooms again without knowing the implications...
The thing that I find most interesting is that all these entities that seem to have little to no connection to the actual Inscryption game (him the wood carver and the bone lord I think?) still have masks and mechanics in Leshy’s game. Which begs the question of how he knows about them.
Ouroboros have no damage, Ouroboros havce infinite damage. Ouroboros becomes stronger everitime it dies, Ouroboros always dies, Ouroboros always comes back. Ouroboros even made it back as Ourobot with all its dead from the firts Act
Ourobot is actually a 340/340 but in act 3 the cards glitch out with a number that big so the "34" part of 340 is bumped up to the sigils area so you only see the "0" part. In act 1 I got into a sacrifice loop with another card. I spent probably 30 mins getting Ouroboros to 336/336. I did this to get the achievement of dealing over 666 damage.
When I first saw your Ourobot I thought he was done for until I saw that it's attack and health values were zero. But I guess the dev didn't expect for it to be abused just as much as the Ouroboros.
Ourobot and Ouroboros are the same card. Ourobot has the same stats that Ouroboros did previously. It's a 340/340 but in act 3 thats too big of a number so the "34" of 340 is pushed up to the the sigils spot. If you look closely you can see the 34 overlapped by the sigils.
@@JBassmaster888 That's interesting because I thought the dev would've just had the cards as separate entities. But I guess it saves on code to just have the same cards but with a different look.
@@PetrolHeadMotorsport I think the point is that there is one card that goes through the entire game that you can buff the shit out of if you get the chance. The only reason it was named differently was becuase P03 is a robot so all they cards have robot names.
P03 really just fought back control for a few seconds just to tell you, “You cannot draw a card on your first turn”
lol yah. I didn't even notice that. Such a control freak.
i wish there was more dialogue for drawing at bad times with bosses
prospector: "no cards on the first turn, y'hear!?" "ye've gotta draw you a card first!"
angler: "no fish yet. too soon." "get fish first. play next."
trapper: "ye can't draw a card yet." "grab yerself a card before you play anythin'."
i'm not on act 3 yet so i can't really say what their dialogue would be, but these are a few examples
@@theman933 well, there's the mycologist here. Assuming you've met them, what would you suggest?
@@maskedman8405 no clue to be honest
"y-you can't.." *"you cannot draw a card yet."*
"first.. first you must.." *"draw a card."*
and the bold is the small dude?
@@theman933 smart!
The fact that the mycologists actually had a real life face compared to the other digital characters in the game is actually menacing.
Is it just me or did the big face on the mycologist looked like Chevy Chase?
@@Rickdicuosoit the character design is really streets ahead.
@@Rickdicuosoit it looked to me that the mycologists shared a face with the guy from the DoD that you give in act two
@@pryordevine3855 DoD?
@@marciahincapie5421 department of defense
P: "MY CPU... MY SYSTEMS... EVERYTHING... I CAN'T MOVE AN-"
"oi you can't draw a card on your first turn"
Priorities
If there is one thing you can count on it's P03 telling you you misplayed.
@@jetsetdizzy9433 Well, there is also literally a counter for "misplays" on Kaycees Mod.
“Total Misplay”
"YOU'RE A TOTAL MISPLAY"
Honestly knowing the mycologists experiments were trying to recreate the old data is interesting as hell
I just feel that was only put in place to put in the ARG numbers unsuspiciously. Not really intended lore, but still interesting
I’m wondering what was the old data anyways? Is it a glitch, a beta form of the game with programming smashed together in hopes it would work, spawning a living game. Or was it something darker, a force of a nature even? So many questions and so little answers, what a wonderful game.
@@maniacalmurderer4123 probably something from the karnoffel code cards found in hitlers corpse
@@maniacalmurderer4123 well from what we’ve seen it was likely a combination of an incredibly powerful thing and dark/illegal stuff that gamefuna was attached to.
@@maniacalmurderer4123 My guess was always that the old data was unfathomable, Lovecraftian knowledge, transcribed into a physical medium.
even when posessed, PO3 doesn't let you draw on your first turn.
Based
Another reason why he is my favorite scrybe
“i don’t care if i’m not controlling my body, you can’t draw a card on your first turn”
"WE JUST GOT CONTROL OF THE ROBOT! FULL CONTROL!"
p03 five seconds later: “You cannot draw a card on your first turn”
“I don’t care about my life, I don’t care about your life, the only thing I care is that I must tell you you are stupid.”
Extremely in character for P03 to summon up the strength to resist to be condescending in a card game
I find it interesting that they appeared to be ready to continue the fight past the second round until they realized they found (created?) a piece of the OLD_DATA. The only other person who's ever done that is Leshy, when performing the Moon boss fight.
When does he do that? Unless you mean the deathcards?
@@minetech4898 I was more referring to the fact that Leshy moves the fight to a third phase, not the OLD_DATA part. The Mycologists seem able to do that too, taking another turn even after being defeated twice, before realizing they have produced an OLD_DATA fragment from their fusions.
The mycologists don’t care about the game, they just care about their experiment. If they hadn’t found that fragment, the fight likely would have continued until they did.
Leshy have a 3rd round because he brought another candle while the mycologists continues the fight at will though.
Leshy's piece of the old_data was the static-y card
The Way how the mycologists had this animated face that looked like a real picture felt pretty uncomfortable
It is a real picture, in the credits it says they were played by someone
and their "grunt voice" when they speak, too.
I may be wrong but from what I know it was an actor combined with editing
@@Timetraveler2411 no shit Sherlock
I love the look of it
NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE SHARD OF THE OLD_DATA CARD THEY FOUND HAD THE SAME ABILITY AS THE DAUS, A CARD WHICH ENDED UP BEING PART OF THE ARG
A daus and a gem detonator were used when making the card
@@thanoid2373 I wonder what's the deal with the gem detonator...
Also, the Daus is literally card in Karnoffel
Watch game theory's last theory about inscryption
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That's a very interesting lore thing. First, this can't be a fight planned by P-03. He is basically making lore up from scratch, he won't be able to act this fight out. Mycologists actually hacked him.
Second, hacking into P-03 is probably a very challenging task, knowing about his hacking skills. Yet, mycologists managed to hack him.
They are probably something more than just Leshy's characters.
I mean, they do have hacksaws after all
They are the only one not at Leshy's cabin in act 2. Maybe they "hacked" Leshy as well.
The theory suggests that they are Hitlers scientists that made the OLD_DATA prototype and, in some way, became immortal as hitler became the bone god(master? I don't remember his name) because they looked for immortality in that code and, in some way, found it
@@user-kk9xt5yp9e the bone lord, afaik
Irl there are fungi that literally take control of insects. Not quite the same as hacking a robot, but I'd say them being able to take over P03 is a nod to those kinds of irl fiungi.
Dude, P03 is an absolute control freak, he literally cut back into control to say “you can’t draw a card on your first turn”
The thing that is crazy about the Mycologist is that they aren’t any Scrybe’s henchmen. Kind of like the bridge builder.
they even have their own huts wich make me think they are on the same level of power as other scrybes
I find it interesting that they had a standard daus on hand. Wasn’t robotized or anything, just had the blue glow color scheme of disk cards.
That's probably because of the Daus' importance to the code. So... SPOILERS AHEAD:
Shit to note about the Daus:
1-The Daus is a type of Card in german playing cards, equivalent to the Ace in french decks.
2-There are 4 suits of german cards (much like french ones), one of which being bells, with the Daus of Bells (represented by a wild hog holding a bell) being the most valuable card.
3-In the game of cards Karnoffel, the Daus is used as the namesake, the Karnoffel.
4-Inscryption's OLD_DATA is the virtualization of a code writen in a deck of cards which Hitler carried when he died, said code being known as THE KARNOFFEL CODE.
5-Upon finishing the game, the only visible fragment of the Karnoffel code opened by Luke is a real life Daus of Bells.
6-The Daus and a Gem Detonator are the 2 cards Mycologists uses to create the OLD_DATA, ALLWAYS. This is not random.
7-The Daus notably despite being a normal legendary during act 1, doesn't appear during Act2, and during Act3 it only appears during the secret boss.
So yeah, safe to say P03 can't change the Daus because it is quite literally a core component of the Karnoffel code.
Honestly, the images and voices of the mycologists creeped me the fuck out. No seriously, if a movie had them as monsters i would shit myself
I honestly love em. Their voices and character design is interesting as hell
@@Soulliom Indeed
Their voice kinda reminded me of the yelling guy from Mondo Medicals.
considering what we know now about the Karnoffel Code being a deck of cards found on Hitler's body, I stand to wager that the Mycologists were, at one point, real people. The fact that they are uniquely shown as real people on PO3's screen, as well as their German-scientist-codedness maybe suggests that the Code/OLD_DATA has the ability to capture souls as well, kind of like Leshy's camera does? Who knows lol
well all of the scribes instruments can also capture souls in one way or another
@@Bruhmomentos0979 that is true
I literally know nothing about the lore so this could very well be true.
their voicelines sound like garbled german as well
@@sashimimisha I as a German can approve. Their mumble has a slight German ring to it ngl.
That initial scream they did genuinely scared me on my 1st playthrough
Same
When i saw the Ourobot with zeroes i was like "hol up what the.." and after the Ourobot struck it came to me that he's 100/100, holy shit
Prepare for a bit of a deep dive, and this won't make sense unless you're into the ARG:
The implication that the character who combines and experiments on cards is the most eager to discover the karnoffel code makes me feel that the code is less "lethal weapon" in the traditional sense and more some eugenics-y information the world is better off without, something gained from some of the immoral WWII experiments on people (think of the experiments Nazis did on twins, trying to make artificial conjoined twins by stitching them back to back). That's also kinda backed by the german doctor aesthetic and german sounding voices they have. That's all I really have but its food for thought.
When you fight Leshy's second phase in act 2 he also has stitchwork in "your cards"
the OLD_DATA seems powerful, but i always felt it was more a forbidden power thing rather than a weapon. it can bring things to life apparantely, as evidenced by the game itself, but because im 90% sure the OLD_DATA was constructed by satan himself nothing good is gonna come of that
How do they have German sounding voices, it’s blown out static and groans
so this karnafol code seems like human mutation/ability enhancer/super soldier making/ formula...which when digitized became key part of making npc and other charechters into sentient and powerful Ai...or karnafol is nazis attempt to create skynet...
@@kolinnitruc8692 If you listen closely, you can hear a slight ring of German
The best part about this boss is that when you beat him the cards on your side that were fused actually get turned into a card called "Mycobot". It's basically a guaranteed win for act 3
Most creepy boss, their faces, their voices and the sound. So really and distorted at the same time.
This game is majestic!
Something I think most people wouldn't know unless you intentionally played or looked up the ARG for Inscryption.
At around 3:26 when the Mycologists combine The Daus with another card at the end of the fight. The Picture in the background relating to the OLD_DATA is a picture of Führerbunker, or Hitler's Bunker and place of Death.
Cause of the Karnoffel Code relating to the order of cards he supposedly had in his pocket. Just fun history tidbit while also tying into the ARG.
Would you mind elaborating on this?
@@cerebralcloud92 look up Karnoffel Code arg, it's like an hour long but it explains everything quite well
@@ThePelum I already know everything about the Karnoffel Code and the OLD_DATA, I read up on the ARG. What I’m asking is for you to explain what you mean about the “picture in the background”. I don’t see it.
@@cerebralcloud92 look at the card's background
@@yoniqu1222 Okay NOW I kinda see it, but that’s only because I was told to look for it. I thought it was like, kinda cracked glass before. It’s REALLY hard to see the actual door.
For anyone unaware, you get this boss by fulfilling all of the Mycologist’s requests in Act 2. He appears after you eliminate two or three bosses, but you can take duplicates of requested cards and turn them into “Spore” creatures with perked up abilities. One for each Scrybe’s deck and lo, you get the key you saw unlock the gate. This boss- THIS GAME… Is incredible!!
P03 must have built in a protocol into him that tells you that you can't draw on your first turn if you do so regardless if he's active or not, that shall be my explanation of how he managed to do that
Theory*
@@PolishEntrepreneur woah no shit, not like I made this comment to share a joke
I honestly believe it is because he is built different
Mycologists are either impossible or uber easy
I dunno but the fact that P03 will just uncorrupt just to say "bruh you can't draw a card yet" is hilarious to me
Even in the mists of being taken over, PO3 still needs to remind you of the rules
You’re the first person I’ve ever seen defeat them without the bomb+nano armor combo!
Yeah but with an Ourobot stats beyond game’s comprehension
@@sashagornostay2188 ouroborot tho lol
I beat it in 2 turns with ouroboros on my one
It also gave me another ourobot because it combined it with 3 other cards
I don't have the video of this public, but if you all don't mind once I have it ready I'll link it here
My headcanon explanation for why P03 can still enforce the rules is that they were hard coded into his character. The OLD_DATA definitely played a part in creating the 3D forms of the Scrybes, but originally they were created to play the game, so maybe the rules of the game were more solidly implemented/secured/etc. Idk just my little headcanon.
I like how they make ourobot even more powerful
SO THIS IS WHAT THE PURPLE KEY FROM ACT 2 IS FOR! DAMMIT NOW I GOTTA PLAY THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME AGAIN
You know, I saw that Ourobot with 0/0 and I was like "How do you have it as a 0/0 at this point in the game still" before looking closer and realzing it was actually 340/340 just the number didn't fit lmao
i love how po3 unhacks himself just to tell you not to draw cards on the first turn
This was the one missing boss from leshy's part of the game. Glad to see it's part of P03's part
They are there in Act 2 tho, like they're in this small island between Leshy's Island and Grimora's Island.
@@Xenon8836 he meant has a boss fight, like The Angler, Prospector and Trader/Trapper.
TwO iNtO oNe!
tWo InTo OnE!
If I would have to be honest, I am actually terrified by the design and audio of the mycologist. Especially 0:20 is such an effective scene!
I like how the mycologist existed in all the places.
I always thought of them as an unofficial 5th member of the masters
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Flora one
This is deffinitely the most scary fight in Inscryption. The music and visuals work so well together, especially in contrast to the rest of the act 3
God damn are the voices for the mycologists cool as hell
Good to know that PO3 is feeling good enough to enforce the rules
I thought that if your cards merged in the second phase of the boss fight you lose those cards permanently.
No. In fact whatever merged card you end up with at the end you get to keep as an extra card. So I got another super powerful card. Not that it matters. This was the last fight for me in act 3.
At least I don't think you loose the cards. I know Ourobot stays at least. I can't check because I've already cleared my save data for this run.
@@JBassmaster888 They're so hard I don't blame anyone who did them last.
@@JBassmaster888 I know for sure they at least take talking cards permanently. Lost my Stimulation loving boy…
Mycologist: "We have full control on the robot"
P03 later: "You can't draw a card on your first turn"
Brother: What the fuck are you talking abou-
Me: TWO INTO ONE!!! TWO INTO OOOOOOO
TWO INTO ONE!
I was like "why is ourobot 0/0?" "Oh, (34)0."
Anyone else notice how the first mycologist no longer stutters?
The Mycologists are struggling to recreate or discover the old data through combining cards and I just happened to randomly find like 3 pieces/pictures of it while walking around the edge of the areas in Act 2 XD
"Two into one!" *proceeds to combine four cards*
It's crazy to hear the "Uberbot Activated" boss theme during this boss fight.
I still question how these guys were able to figure out how to hack into p03’s body.
Old_data
So the background of the OLD.DATA fragment was a picture of the Füherbunker a bunker used by Adolf Hitler and Hitler's place of suicide in 1945. So maybe GameFauna has something to do with the Nazis? Also the mycologist could actually be two of his scientist/surgeons who did experiments with twins to attempt conjoining them? Maybe they wanted to find the remaining data they can get of their former master and probably someone they worshiped?
So basically GameFauna could be in support of the Nazi or even be what is left of it after WW2, and inscryption was there attempt to bring back the idea but the idea of the game to act as bait to lure people kept changing, from act 1 to act 2 and finally act 3. Act 2/3 brought Po3 and the other(seemingly including the mycologist) to sentience with Po3 attempting the goal of spreading OLD.DATA to start a Nazism rise, but after all that they realized it would get them into deep water before it could grow so they burned the place with all evidence of the game and labeled it as an accident, it killed Kaycee which adds to the accident idea, she probably buried it from orders by GameFauna, but gave it's spot on a carb pack to expose them. (maybe she actually burned the place down to destroy the game and forgot the buried one she was going to use to expose them). That's why they killed Luke after they found out about his copy of inscryption, because they realized it wasn't a good idea so they didn't try to make it back and actually tried to remove all evidence of it's existence
Not nazi enough, but russiean-related was discovered after reaching and finding some secret codes from all the game and decoding an old data file show a conversation between some expected russian about karnofeel code
@@oxob3333 oh so it's Soviet related. I still think the mycologist might be two of Hitler's scientist, I mean who else would conjoin cards like how they conjoined twins. Maybe they were captured
I'm not a lore master who goes deep into the lore, I just saw the background of the old data fragment and it put itself together in my head. So all of this could be wrong and the mycologist are just game characters
@@derpyaxolotl7683 If you're really interested, there's a big youtube channel called The Game Theorists that has covered most of the known story across a few different videos.
mycologists: taking full control of p03
p03:NO SHUT UP YOU CAN'T DRAW TWO CARDS
The faces remind me of StarCraft 1 character models and old computer game close ups. Except cranked to eleven. That is terrifyingly terrific
God sometimes you forget just how sick the music in this game is
I wonder what would happen if you tried combining a Gem Detonator and Daus yourself during your turn, if it even is possible to get a Daus in Act III
just having the 343 attack ouroboros got me
the old data fragment contains the daus.
the d a u s
My theory is: Micologist's were game funa developers, they got fired and they went mad, since we can see their faces when we fight them. But this is just speculations almost without any proof.
I think we might have some nazi stuff going on..
• they sound German like
• the use of the ‘twin’ parallels
• the mention of the karnoffel code
Im thinking the old data will be revealed to be related to WW2 and game funa in some way..
@@Timetraveler2411 it is in the arg
@@Timetraveler2411 we already found out from like some months ago that it was all linked to WW2 and some people already hard cracked to found out the secret console and dialogs about the old data but eh sure
Oh.. I literally did not know about that…
Maybe they broke some sort of rule within Gamefuna? This game is so mysterious.
Some crazy overkill damage
This one terrified me.
This could basically mean that Mycologists exist in the real life, since we know that PO3 can acces the IRL cameras, that means that Mycologists are technically sitting in front of a PC and trying to reach for the old data.
But the question is, if they are humans why are they merged together.
Upd: i have a theory that they were involved into development of the game, because lets look at it from the realistic perspective: How can you hack a game that is literally single player and does not involved in any kind of multiplayer activities, (i know that they appear in Act 3 where we can turn on the "multiplayer", but they also appear in act 2 where they somehow hacked the game and gave us glitchy key.) So my theory is that they are the one of the devs of Inscryption and made some kind of virus that allows them to access anyone's machine that has Inscryption on it. Maybe they are trying to investigate on what the hell is going on like Luke is trying to do. ARG SPOILER ALERT: I did not watched anything about ARG but i know what its about. Its about the location of Hitler's corpse. So my theory is that ARG was made by the Mycologists so that GameFuna will not kill them and people will know about Funa's strange activities.
Probably one of there experiments they decided together on
@@groupdg if you are talking about why they are merged together then, i dont know, imagine how people react to them if they are actually merged IRL
Just realized these guys are named after people who study mushrooms.
@@LeSWG there's a case of someone who had 2 faces, a second one grew of the back of his head, it could cry or laugh without any sence, also he worked in a circus.
Aswell, tumors can grow teeth and eyes if given enough time, but idk.
Inscryption has to be one of my favorite games
They gave me Entrapta vibes, y'know? Whoever was in charge, they didn't care, as long as they got to do whatever they liked
MatPat: *Kicks down door*
"A fragment of the old_data, eh? A STRING OF NUMBERS, EH? "
I think someone said the fuhrer bunker is on the card. I can barely see it.
The mycologists in this instance give me such a StarCraft 1 Terran unit vibe. Like the Goliath or Siege Tank portraits of hardened soldiers in a small mechanical space. If that makes sense.
Man i’ve been looking for these two throughout act 3 can’t believe i missed this on my first run
It took me two tries with this boss...but I absolutely loved it. They were playing you, but there was no malice in it. You were just a tool for their experiments and curiosity like you always have been
Y'all don't know half of it I had a 223/223 orobot on the field when the mycobot got made and now it's a insanely powerful 3-drop
And you've got a freakin' powerful orobot, too! How much power is that?! 3140?!
1:59
Me: Why would You make a 0/0 Ourobot with that many sigils?
2:52
Oh...
the rabbit hole goes deeper....
Wow all of leshys dudes or what ever now officially have there own boss fights
I have read some comment mocking P03 for saying that you can’t draw on your first turn. However, this is because this is a rule of Karnoffel and therefore part of the Old Data, which can not be altered, destroyed or deleted.
Are we not gonna talk about the stats of the ourobot? cause i think he spent 4 WEEKS GETTING THOSE STATS
it's nice to see them again
*Two Into One!* Two Into One!
Mycologists:"we have taken control over the robot, complete control."
Po3:"you can only draw one card at a time bro"
TWO INTO ONE! TWO INTO ONE!
Ah, I never saw what card they fused at the end. When I fought him, my abomination in the center had both Sentry and Deathtouch, so his cards died immediately.
Imagine if you can see the fused abomination from those fusion in 3D form
mark is gonna flip…
I mean, will he find this? you have to put your cursor over a blank spot to get to this area, yes he did get the key but to use it you have to find this place so...
@@timothyt666 bruh idk… i hope.
I saw in his vid he did get the purple key on his first run but knowing about the hidden places in act 3 idk. I didn't even know how to get the purple key until my 4th play through so I have high hopes for him.
@@JBassmaster888 he has been exploring quite a bit so I have the feeling that he will find it
I have my doubts. He’ll probably find the regular secret rooms, but the secret route for this boss is placed diagonally so even if you glean that it’s the same place as act 2 you might struggle to find the right spot. I wish him luck though
Now I wonder what it would look like if the other Act 1 bosses were real people.
This is terrifying.
The music is badass
Its a shame you don’t have a DR FIRE ESQ. !!
well now I want to get the game myself
Do it. It's only about 20$ and between getting all the achievements in the main game and completing the 12 challenge levels in Kaycee's mod I've spent about 88 hours playing it. Well worth it.
yeah u should get it its rly good
100% worth it, i got it myself, and ive really enjoyed it!
honestly I initially thought the second head of the mycologists was a woman until this fight
I was confused when suddenly a new and real life face appears on PO3's face, then I realized it was the Mycologists due to the two faces and the shrooms
Theres a theory that the Mycologists are actually from a different Daniel Mullins game.
Spoilers for "The Hex", Seriously check it out its amazing.
The theory goes that once Rootbeer Reggie uses the Hex to Kill Lionel Snill, Reggie and Jerimiah use Lionel's body as a vessel (Hence the mushroom head on the side) and with the Hex (Or some other power) they Jump games into the copy of Inscryption that we witness Luke play. and with said mushrooms and knowledge of Technology and Video games they hack P03 to gain the fragment of the OLD_DATA so they can use it and study it for themselves.
With the Power of the Hex and the OLD_DATA, who knows what they could do
Keep in mind this is just a THEORY. Not set in stone at all, Might not even be correct at all but its thought provoking.
I just like the lore gimmic of Mycologist
Like, outside of old_data shenanigans- his...their's fighting and look embodies their experiments
Knowing where the old data came from and who was involved in its creation...oh God I can never look at the mushrooms again without knowing the implications...
creepiest boss imo
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
Two into one!
Now miker needs to know about this
Man these edibles ain’t shi-
I did not know you could break the money counter that bad
"There's no way this is rea-
*THE HOLOGRAPHIC KEY"*
The thing that I find most interesting is that all these entities that seem to have little to no connection to the actual Inscryption game (him the wood carver and the bone lord I think?) still have masks and mechanics in Leshy’s game. Which begs the question of how he knows about them.
Everyone is talking bout the part where PO3 is like: "Cant play, Haven't drew." Yet im wondering how the Mycoligists of all people survived.
Maybe they were never actually in the game, but outside of it
Wait how did you do so much damage? For the cards it doesn’t look like you had enough attack power to do a lot of damage. Can you please explain?
Ouroboros have no damage, Ouroboros havce infinite damage. Ouroboros becomes stronger everitime it dies, Ouroboros always dies, Ouroboros always comes back. Ouroboros even made it back as Ourobot with all its dead from the firts Act
Ourobot is actually a 340/340 but in act 3 the cards glitch out with a number that big so the "34" part of 340 is bumped up to the sigils area so you only see the "0" part. In act 1 I got into a sacrifice loop with another card. I spent probably 30 mins getting Ouroboros to 336/336. I did this to get the achievement of dealing over 666 damage.
@@bobnorris8520 Yeah knew about that, just didn’t see it’s number.
@@JBassmaster888 Ah okay, that’s interesting.
I got my ouroboros up to 1300 in act 1. You can do a simple two card combo with an undying black goat
Cool
When I first saw your Ourobot I thought he was done for until I saw that it's attack and health values were zero. But I guess the dev didn't expect for it to be abused just as much as the Ouroboros.
Ourobot and Ouroboros are the same card. Ourobot has the same stats that Ouroboros did previously. It's a 340/340 but in act 3 thats too big of a number so the "34" of 340 is pushed up to the the sigils spot. If you look closely you can see the 34 overlapped by the sigils.
@@JBassmaster888 That's interesting because I thought the dev would've just had the cards as separate entities. But I guess it saves on code to just have the same cards but with a different look.
@@PetrolHeadMotorsport I think the point is that there is one card that goes through the entire game that you can buff the shit out of if you get the chance. The only reason it was named differently was becuase P03 is a robot so all they cards have robot names.