BR Writeup

~~LT&T~~

Content Exploration: Allows you to go on brief "quests" capstoned by a boss.  The boss rewards are not tradeable, so you need to either own the IotM or use a daypass to do this stuff.

Ascension Relevance: Owning the IotM gives you a pair of Your Cowboy Boots that you can pick up from the LT&T office at no turn cost.  The boots are a customizable accessory that lets you put special snakeskins and spurs onto them.  They're pretty nice, but the accessory slot might be pretty crowded in unrestricted.

Farming: There's not much farming relevance with this IotM.  Your Cowboy Boots are almost definitely outclassed by other accessories and there isn't too much of a market for the LT&T items.

~~Deck of Every Card~~

Content Exploration: Owning a Deck of Every Card (Deck) lets you draw 15 cards per day or cheat and pick a card of your choice at the cost of 5 draws.  Most of the appeal comes from fighting random monsters from phylums, checking out some novel combats, some nice 20-turn buffs, or picking up some of the skills without having to rely on the luck of the draw.

Ascension Relevance: You'll basically always want to cheat to pick the cards you want.  The biggest target is The Tower, which is a free tower key.  Some other nice things are +100% item drops, an item with an autosell value of 10000 meat, 3x stone wool, or 1 of each ore.  It's slotless and doesn't cost a turn, so that's really nice.

Farming: One of the cards you can pick is a weapon with +50% meat drops.  Another one is +10 familiar weight.  While it's not *amazing* for farming meat, you can get ~30k meat passively each day just by owning the Deck.


~~Witchess Set~~

Content Exploration: Allows you to fight up to 5 Witchess monsters of your choice.  The Witchess monsters are all free fights.  They each have a unique drop that's pretty nice.  There are 5 simple fights and 3 fights that require thought and effort to win.  There are also 150 Witchess puzzles that you can try to solve using some fun mechanics.  They're not only for a fun side game - completing daily puzzles increases the power of Puzzle Champ, a buff that increases your familiar weight.

Ascension Relevance: Five scaling free combats each day is already nice, but the ability to pick the one you want to fight and copy / digitize it for later is even better.  The most ascension-relevant drops are Sacramento wine (EPIC booze with +50% item drops for 50 turns), Jumping horseradish (+100% meat for 50 turns), Greek fire (+25 ML and +10 stats per fight for 25 turns), and the Witchess boss gear (+5 muscle / mysticality / moxie stats depending on the equipment you get [along with other things]).  Puzzle Champ caps out at +20 familiar weight, and being able to have that at your disposal is useful.

Farming: You can easily generate some additional income by selling off consumables gained from Witchess monsters.  Puzzle Champ will help to increase your familiar weight and the free fights can generate whatever free fights do.

~~Heart-shaped Crate~~

Content Exploration: This IotM is pretty linear.  You get three free fights, a piece of melting equipment, a 50-turn buff, and a gift item.  You can also get three daypasses from this IotM that are going for a good amount in the mall, so you'll recoup some of the cost with that.

Ascension Relevance: Each of the equipment pieces give +25% experience to a certain mainstat.  These help with levelling.  You can choose from either +10 familiar weight, +10 stats / fight, or +50% item drops for 50 turns.  The gift items are surprisingly relevant, with one of them being a chocolate (giving 3 / 2 / 1 adventures depending on how many you've eaten that day) and another being the LOV Enamorang (which will make you encounter the monster you use it on again in 15 adventures).  You also have the three free fights, and those are nice.

Farming: One of the equipment pieces (LOV Earrings) gives +50% meat drops.  You can also grab the familiar weight buff for even more generic farming goodness.

~~Robortender~~

Content Exploration: This familiar, in addition to being a leprechaun, will drop certain items depending on the phylum of the monster you fight.  The first drop is guaranteed, and the later ones drop less often.  You can mix the special ingredient it provides with a base booze to get an Awesome size-1 drink with a 40-turn effect.  You can mix this drink with a fruit / soda water to get an EPIC improved version of the drink.  You can feed the Awesome or EPIC drinks made with the special drops to the Robortender itself to grant it up to 5 passive effects in combat.  The most popular ones include it being a 1x fairy, a 2x leprechaun, dropping candy, dropping "I refuse!" items, and/or breathing underwater.

Ascension Relevance: (based on my experience) You typically wouldn't be running this too much.  You'd likely want to grab one or two specific ingredients and drink them for their buffs.  For a lower-tier account, you might benefit from running this a lot in order to fuel your diet.

Farming: The Robortender having the potential to be a 2x leprechaun is what pushes it above almost every other familiar for Barf farming.  There's not much else to say apart from it being a very powerful meat provider.

~~Source Terminal~~

Content Exploration: This is one of the IotMs that's mostly known just because of its sheer power and versatility.  To start off with this explanation, you can (and definitely should) install some special source terminal chips to increase the power of this.  You can get most of them in the mall.  Now to get into the explanation of what this can do.

You can extrude up to 3 items per day.  You have a choice of a Browser Cookie (size-4 EPIC food), Hacked Gibson (size-4 EPIC booze), Source Shades (an accessory that helps with extracting), and some other less-useful things.

You can choose between 6 combat skills.  With an upgraded Source Terminal, you can have two of the skills active at once.

	~Digitize: I'll just open with this one.  This makes it so you'll encounter the monster you use it on every (7 / 27 / 37 / 47...) turns after digitizing it.  You only have three digitizes, so you'll probably want to choose carefully.  You can reset the digitize counter by casting Digitize on another monster (or the same one), but there's no way to stop future monsters from appearing at their set intervals unless you do this.

	~Extract: This is what gets you the currency of the Source Terminal: Source essence.  You can cast this once each combat and you'll get 1 to 3 source essence from doing so.

	~Duplicate: This will duplicate the monster you're currently fighting against.  To simplify this, imagine that you're suddenly fighting two of the monster at the same time.  It'll have doubled HP, Attack, Defense, and items to drop.  If you were to duplicate something like a Dairy Goat, it'll now have two goat cheeses in its drop pool.

	~Portscan: This triggers a fight with a Government Agent when outside of The Source path.

	~Turbo: This increases your max MP by 100% and restores 1000 MP.  Once the combat you're in ends, you'll be granted an effect that gives -50% max MP and +15 hot damage / hot spell damage.

	~Compress: This just deals 25% of a monsters HP as damage and staggers them.  Much less exciting than the above skills.

You can choose a 100-turn buff up to 3 times each day.  These include:

	+30% item drops
	+60% meat
	+50% meat
	+10% critical hit chance / spell critical hit chance
	+5 prismatic damage
	+3 stats per fight

You can choose a 200-turn buff to receive after RO.  These include:

	+5 familiar weight
	+25 ML
	+3 prismatic resistance
	+100% all stats

Ascension Relevance: Yep - that was all the Content Exploration section.  As you might be able to tell, this is an incredibly versatile and powerful IotM for ascending.  Digitize alone would probably push it up pretty high in the power rankings, but being able to get 12 organ space filled with EPIC consumables is very good.  There's also all the effects and other things it can provide.  A very common tactic to do with this IotM is to Digitize a free monster (like Witchess ones) to burn delay in zones while also getting lots of their consumables.  Of all the IotMs you listed, this is almost definitely the most useful one for ascending.

Farming: Being able to Digitize a high-meat monster like the Knob Goblin Embezzler is very good for liquid meat farming.  There are also free useful buffs to utilize.

~~Time-Spinner~~

Content Exploration: Like the Source Terminal, there are a few different things that you can choose to do with this IotM.  To start off, using this in combat delevels by ~5% and staggers.  You can use this item from your inventory to bring you to the meat of the IotM.  You have 10 total minutes (the resource of this IotM) to utilize however you wish.
You can "Travel to a recent fight" and fight a copyable monster currently in your combat queue at the cost of 3 minutes.
You can also use 3 minutes to "Travel back to a delicious meal" and effective "copy" a PvPable food item you ate that day into your stomach.  If you ate a Browser Cookie, for example, you can use 3 minutes to eat another one at no item cost.
You can spend both an adventure and a minute to go into combat with one of a few different monsters.  This can be fun, but it's not very relevant.
You can spend 2 minutes to go "Visit the far future" and play something like a text-based game that can reward you with a consumable.
You can spend 1 minute to send a Time-Spinner Prank to a player of your choice.  This is a free fight that has your playername and a message of your choice.

Ascension Relevance: The main things to utilize from this are the fight of your choice and the food duplication.  A popular way to use this was duplicating Toast with stench jelly in order to force even more noncombats.

Farming: This doesn't provide too much for farming purposes.  You can get some passive income off the consumable from the Far Future and by duplicating some food, but that's mostly it.


If you have any other questions, just let me know!