House of Slime

House of Slime is a relic that modifies how the ball interacts with the playfield by making the walls and the bottom bouncers markedly more elastic. It appears as an equipable relic and affects every ball that contacts the left/right walls or the lower bouncer pads for the remainder of the run. The effect changes bounce physics so shots remain in the board area longer, increasing the number of ricochets and opportunities to hit pegs or trigger other on-hit effects.

Because the relic specifically increases elasticity on the side walls and bottom bouncers, it alters common shot outcomes: straight shots are more likely to rebound back into the field instead of exiting at the bottom, and angled shots off walls travel with stronger, livelier rebounds. This makes multi-hit combos and peg-clearing strategies more consistent on boards with clustered targets or when aiming for particular peg patterns near the edges.

Practical uses and interactions:

• Extended dwell time from repeated bounces increases the value of effects that trigger on peg hits, such as damage-over-time, chain reactions, or score bonuses tied to multiple contacts.
• Pairs strongly with items that benefit from prolonged ball presence: Ambiguous Amulet, Inconspicuous Ring, and Pocketwatch. Those relics or items gain more uptime or trigger more often because balls spend more time ricocheting inside the board.
• Combining with wide or high-spin shots amplifies the chance to repeatedly strike high-density peg areas; conversely, very narrow, straight plunges lose some of their predictability because increased bounce can send the ball back into the field rather than out of play.
• Boards with many wall-adjacent pegs or bottom-bouncer placement become notably easier to exploit; use aimed ricochets to convert side channels into extended clear opportunities.
• The relic does not change peg hit damage directly and does not affect top bouncers or other non-wall collision behavior.

House of Slime is useful whenever prolonging ball activity yields greater benefit—score runs, relic synergies, or clearing compact peg arrangements—and should be favored on boards where wall and bottom-bouncer contacts are common.