This seems to be thematically weird, considering that defeating the hands in a fair fight results in something that rewards you for running away. Are you sure it's not a bug, Al?
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Poked Kinak about this; it does seem likely a typo. Will report back shortly.
So, this is purely speculation, but I'd guess this skill, Run from Regret, comes from dying to the unforgiven hands many times without a containment suit and adding to its smoke A LOT.
Why? I suspect there's some kind of running HP total for the unforgiven hands that carries over from battle to battle. I dealt it 40 damage with a containment suit, and then 80+ damage in one go with a containment suit, and I died both times from its end-of-round effect. Next round, I stalled for two rounds and then did exactly 19 etheric damage and it died and I got chains of regret. So feeding it a lot might actually result in another resolution.
Second theory- it involves running away from the hands a bunch, but it must be a lot of running, because I didn't get the skill from constantly fleeing this thing while trying to do other things in the church.
Third theory, and now that I think about it, most likely- Failing to run away from the hands and dying to its normal attacks. That would probably make the most sense, thematically, and it even has a tight hold attack (I'm not sure which one) to facilitate this!
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I'm up to 60 times running away from them, though I haven't been sticking around to get hit by anything first. I figure I'll keep doing that for a bit longer, but if I get over 100 times without a result I'll probably write it off as a dead end.
I've also been repeatedly offering forgiveness to Sofia after hearing her story, just in case persistence does anything there. Only up to 15 times on that, since I've been boosting my chance of etheric encounters to try and get more of the hands.
Edit: So, testing so far:
Straight up run aways: 60
Running away after hitting the hands to create some smoke: 41
Repeatedly forgiving Sofia: 32
And I once got killed because a chain caused me to get grabbed by the hands and I couldn't get away.
From that, it looks like simply running away isn't the path toward getting this skill.
A follow-up: I tried getting grabbed by the hands and then repeatedly attempting to run away. Managed to get grabbed on the first turn by just passing, then nothing else but failed attempts to flee. I had my melee defense up high enough that they weren't able to kill me, and after 6 rounds of failing to run away they just dissipated and gave me the Spark of Forgiveness skill.
Ryufury says he got this by choosing to kill Sofia in the old cathedral.
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