Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
After the madness that comes from experiencing the Frost Moon for the first time, everyone takes some time to prepare for the next attempt. This eventually leads to getting more Dungeon loot and learning why a Summoner should probably hang around with someone that can pull aggro.
After the madness that comes from experiencing the Frost Moon for the first time, everyone takes some time to prepare for the next attempt. This eventually leads to getting more Dungeon loot and learning why a Summoner should probably hang around with someone that can pull aggro.
![Spelunky 2 Online with Werbad! Part 13: Some Sorta Win
0:00 Child Stuck Again
1:03 climb down yourself
1:32 on proper Sceptre usage
2:13 City of Gold antics
2:52 stupid wordplay
3:25 save that turkey whatever the cost!
4:20 got a light?
4:44 1/100 chance
5:13 automatically-resolving incidents
5:53 outro
[date recorded: 14/02/2021]
Slowly more work on the backlog - might be done by the end of 2022! This was a single run that I ended up recording most of the bits of, with some silly little antics. Spelunky 2 Online with Werbad! Part 13: Some Sorta Win](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZeMSN5ijC5g/mqdefault.jpg)







![Void Stranger - Final Guardian of DIS
This was a long time coming, though not for a lack of trying! It turns out when you face a final guardian, theyre not going to be easy to defeat. Sure, theres a fast way out of this fight; and god knows that a (relative) newbie will be more keen to take the faster option when presented to them. But sometimes, what you want to do is just have a big, long, arduous combat with someone who vehemently defends the gate.
(also, spoilers aside, there is a fair bit of flashing near the end of the video - not full-screen stuff, but there are plenty of things that are looking to strain the players vision during the final sequence - please consider yourself warned about this!)
Hopefully with this little string of text, the rest wont be so easily seen by accident. This is a video for the fight with Cifs Lord form - though if you know the backstory of this character, youll know this is only a simulacrum. The fight can be rendered null and void (hah) if you just go up to the correct option and lop their damn head off with the Void Sword. But Cif wants a fight, and didnt pour all those points into Bluff, Disguise and Stealth just to have a visage thats brushed aside as fake - best to give em what they want, no?
Specifically, this shows the intro to the fight, and the sixty-death-long speech that plays as you try, die, and try again to outlast the final Void Lord, before the successful run at 27:15 that winds up taking three and a half minutes to play out. Considering this took nigh on fifteen hours? Thats less than 0.5% of the footage I collected thats ultimately interesting to watch if youre not a fan of failure (though if I wanted to make some sort of guide to show the myriad attacks, Im not gonna be lacking in images...)
With some little notes for clarification, for those curious:
• Cif requires 16 hits to start the phase transition, and a further 13 hits to start the final phase; I dont recall if damage from Phase 1 carries to Phase 2
• You can phase-skip, ignoring Phase 2 (and its transition) to go straight to the jump-rope section if you deal 29 hits before Cif can prep the next attack (though this is difficult to pull off - missing the window means having to see the regular phase transition as well as having to deal the 13 hits for Phase 2 again)
• Cifs HP cant be drained for a quick-kill; you HAVE to jump the rope
• Damage dealt during the phase transition is ignored, presumably to keep people from refilling the arena for free
• This video doesnt have all of Cifs attacks - I strove to avoid Phase 2 as much as I could once I had a plan of action, and whilst most of their attacks are just beefed up in some way, there are also some new attacks that dont get shown, such as a move that transforms a few panels into zap-panels
• Yes, the game does in fact expect you to jump those last two lines in pitch darkness - its thematic!
• Once Cifs speech is done, they start sparkling, as a hint that something is up with one of the Big Cifs options; if you dont WANT to run the full fight, run up when theyre charging up a cast, and introduce them to your sword. You dont get the end screens and it feels rather anti-climactic, but you can then go to the next area.
And now, for the sake of completeness (and to let people see the full speech): timecodes!
00:00 Intro
00:24 Cif Appears
01:35 Add...
01:50 Long time ago...
02:14 You created me and my sisters.
02:21 Nurtured us.
02:36 Guided us.
03:04 You made us immovable.
03:30 Everlasting.
04:13 So that wed be able to continue your work...
04:24 Manusya.
04:44 Their minds are so frail.
05:02 So volatile.
06:16 So misguided.
06:39 So easily frustrated.
07:02 Theyre lost.
07:23 And even then...
07:31 Their dreams are filled with stars.
07:48 Time and time again...
08:10 They reach for them, fruitlessly.
08:25 Repeating their mistakes.
09:15 Even in death.
09:32 They never learn.
10:00 They never give up.
10:56 Why?
11:17 What drives them?
11:29 I gazed the stars.
12:02 I studied their movements.
12:31 I named all of them.
12:46 I was unable to find any purpose in them.
12:52 What is it that I...
13:02 ... We lack?
13:38 Finally I realized it.
13:48 Even the brightest star...
14:15 Eventually burns out.
14:40 Just like manusya.
15:40 Their feeble life...
16:17 Gave them meaning.
16:31 Gave them purpose.
17:21 Gave them a reason...
17:38 To shine even brighter.
18:31 Me and my sisters...
18:40 Were unable...
19:03 To bask in the light of the stars.
19:12 Our very existence...
19:45 Desecrates them.
20:04 Were beings of dark.
20:12 Beings of endless despair.
21:25 Or so I thought.
21:42 A wistful feeling...
22:09 Started to grow inside me.
22:21 Was it hope?
22:38 Love?
22:46 Or something else?
23:09 Add.
23:29 Im not sure...
25:04 If this is the answer...
25:23 ... You were searching.
25:56 Its all I have left now.
26:11 Ill make sure youll see it.
26:42 Let me show you...
27:08 Your evening stars light!
27:15 [ More than fourteen hours later... ] Void Stranger - Final Guardian of DIS](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cH3tOLe3TjE/mqdefault.jpg)

