I am Mog Anarchy, and I like to play games. Whether they are old, new, retro, modern, online, offline, console, computer, critically acclaimed or notoriously bad. Here on my blog, I rant about, review, trash talk, praise and generally talk about all of my favourite and least-favourite games. I also write my own guides on how to accomplish tricky tasks, show off my creative endeavors and challenge myself with crazy in-game tasks. I also have a bunch of gaming merchandise which I am glad to show off. So drop me a comment, I love hearing your questions, criticisms, comments and general gaming discussions. :)
Hello; I am Cat Chaos - master of ridiculous challenges. This year, I’ve come up with some serious gaming tasks for our good friend Mog Anarchy. Today, I’m going to explain to you, the rules of my first new challenge: The Sliming Of Isaac.
What is The Sliming of Isaac? Mog is playing The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth. Mog must play asIsaac on hard mode and make it to The Chest. If Boss Rush, Hush or Mega Satan are available, she must fight them. Mog must explore every unlocked non-special room before attempting the next floor. Mog is not allowed to purchase items from the devil room, but angel room items are fine. Every time Mog takes damage, I shall keep a note of it on this on-screen tally. Every hit of damage taken will add 500ml of gunge to the accumulated total that Mog will have dumped over her at the end of each level.
What counts as taking damage? Anything that causes Isaac to cry out in pain - with the exception of health down pills. Sacrifice rooms, blood donation machines, cursed rooms and self-inflicted damage all count, however. Let's begin!
Yep, I've gotten myself into something gungey again... Ash and Shelly set up a game of sorts for me in the back garden - a vat of 36 litres of gloopy, black gunge - in which they buried foamy letters that spelled out names of video games. How was I to retrieve these letters? With my FACE, of course! More specifically, my mouth, lips and nose - I had to plunge my head right into all the goop and suck, slurp, push and nudge the letters out of the mess and onto the table - where I could rearrange them into game titles. (Simply click on the photos below to enlarge 'em!)
Round 1 - DRAGON QUEST
I could have dunked Ash in the gunge for this! Could she possibly have buried the letters any deeper? I practically had gunge up to my ears while searching through the slop to find these letters - and she chose such a damn long name! But, I did manage to scoop them all out and work out the game - and right off the bat I was totally gunked up - my fringe, especially.
Round 2 - ROCK BAND Thankfully, Shelly is a bit less sadistic than Ash and didn't bury the letters so deeply in the gunge. Both of them however did hold the letters under the gunge and give em a good squeezing. Being foam - they absorbed a bunch of goop, which naturally ended up in my mouth when I took hold of them with my teeth... Round 3 - BRAID Not only is Ash super sadistic - she's also a cheater! Before we set the game up, all three of us came up with a long list of games we could physically spell out with the foamy letters (we only had one of each letter and one of each number) - we came up with about 30 different ones - it would still be somewhat of a guess for me to work out. Braid wasn't on the list! Ash just realised she could spell that at the last minute! So not only was I covered in gunge, dizzy and disorientated from all the head dunks, I had to unscramble a word I didn't even know was on the list!
Round 4 - HOTEL DUSK Wearing goggles unfortunately was a double-edged sword. I needed to keep gunge out of my eyes - despite gunge being safe for skin and it being made of food-grade ingredients, you don't really want it in your eyes - it stings a little bit. Every time I dunked my head, I had to scrape the slime off of the goggles so I could bloody see! I wanted to be able to see, but gunge is super sticky, and clings to everything in sight! (No pun intended!) Round 5 - SONIC R At this point, all of the gunge I'd ingested was getting to me. Yes, gunge is made of food-safe ingredients - but it feels like glue! Imagine getting a gob full of glue over and over! Uncoloured gunge doesn't taste of anything, but adding paint as a colour - ergh. A few dry heaves later - I fished out the final set of letters - game over, I win! It's not fair! I retrieved ALL of the letters and figured out ALL of the anagrams - but they still plonked me down in the green patio chair and dumped all 36 leftover litres of the oozing, black slime ALL OVER ME! I didn't take long to end up completely covered - my whole face, head and torso - some even dripping down my arms, running down my legs and slopping into my shoes... Yuck!
As always, all of this lovely gunge was supplied by GungeSupplies.com - it's HEC powder you simply mix up with warm water and add your own colour to - easy to make, and despite the mess it makes, it cleans up easily too.
It may come as no surprise to regular readers, but I like to put myself into embarrassing situations for the amusement of my fans. After all, it was only the other month I was eating 34-year old bubblegum. I'm a big fan of Portal. I'm also a fan of getting messy for fun. Thus, it seemed only a logical choice to combine the two for my latest silly video project I like to call: Portal: Still A-Slimed! So, my challenge was to see if I could sing the "Still Alive" theme to Portal while being doused in slime the signature Portal colours; blue and orange. Did I manage it? See for yourself:
Yup, that was very messy, wasn't it? That was approximately 24 litres of goop dumped over me there. :) Here's some snapshots, exclusive for my lovely blog readers:
For those of you who are interested in getting slimed yourself or sliming somebody else, I got the packets of slime mix from a great UK site: messysupplies.com - the slime I used was of the natrosol variety, thick consistency. You can choose whatever colours you like - mine were fluorescent blue and fluorescent orange. A few hints for those of you wishing to get slimed - wear a bathing costume underneath your clothes. It made cleanup so much easier. Also, slime is stupidly slippery; I literally had to crawl out of the pool onto a towel because I couldn't stand up. I also recommend you keep some clean water and a towel on standby to wipe your eyes and face if you need to. Also, old towels are ideal to prevent slipping everywhere. I also wore an old pair of glasses. They cleaned up well, but it was just an extra precaution. :) What did the slime feel like? Surprisingly heavy, to be honest. Also, it was warm, as the directions said to mix it with warm water. I've been slimed with cold slime before; and I have to say I prefer it warm. It's far more pleasant.
About an inch of slime in the pool :)
What did the slime taste like? Slightly soapy, but nothing too unpleasant.
The force of the orange slime almost knocked my glasses off!
Does it sting if it goes in eyes/ears/nose? In my eyes, yes it did a little bit. But not as bad as shampoo. Up my nose, it just felt like really thick bogies. I didn't get any in my ears, so I can't comment on that.
Old towels are a godsend
How did we clean it up? Well, because the slime was so thick, I was able to scoop 3/4 of it back into the buckets. Then it was a matter of sluicing down myself, the buckets and the pool. The slime was easily diluted down with water while Shelly washed my hair and rinsed out the clothes I was wearing.
