Host-hopping finally feels like cheating (good)

The egregore's whole identity is that it has no body of its own, so the run had to feel like borrowing, not switching characters. The breakthrough was embarrassingly simple: the possession leap now keeps your momentum and converts it into the new host's strongest stat.

Jump out of the toad at apex and into the hound, and the hound lands already sprinting. Bail from the hound into the golem and the golem hits the ground like a thrown brick — which now breaks the floor, which is sometimes exactly what you want.

What broke

• The parasite could possess the bonfire. The bonfire is not a host. The bonfire is checkpointing.
• Hound + water = a pathfinding tantrum we're keeping as a feature flag.

Next up: making the swamp react to which host you've been overusing. The mangrove keeps score.