Tablet of Truth event art, Slay the Spire 2

Tablet of Truth

You defeat a pair of Guardian Kin and make your way into a protected vault.

Inside is a tablet with familiar inscriptions. Your intuition tells you that this language can be deciphered rather easily... However, once you begin deciphering you'll be locked in.

The tablet gives off a soothing energy and you can smash it to receive its healing energies instead.
As you begin deciphering the tablet, the Kin's Mantra speaks to you.

“The Truth is everything...”
You feel faint from all this reading!

Heroes weren't meant to read for such an extended period of time...
You're barely holding on...
The tablet is nearly deciphered. The Mantra holds the truth...

THE TRUTH!! WHAT IS THE TRUTH!?
In a trance, you decipher the remaining text, abandoning mind and body. The spiritual pursuit of the Truth is all that matters.

Or does it? One final word remains...
It will cost everything.
Everything was spent to decipher the Final Word and you black out...
When you come to, you realize something is etched into the floor.

“Air”
You stop all this reading and deciphering. Your body normalizes, though you can't help but wonder what the Truth was.
The tablet is smashed to pieces, energy expelled from the tablet seeps into your body.

You feel refreshed!
Individual choiceEach player picks their own

What you can obtain

Upgrade
Random cardChoices: Decipher / Continue Deciphering / Keep Deciphering / KEEP DECIPHERING
Upgrade
All your cardsChoice: Lose Everything
Heal
20 HPChoice: Smash

Where it appears

How ? rooms roll ›
Act 1Overgrowth

What each choice does

Decipher

Lose 3 Max HP. Upgrade a random card.

Max HP−3UpgradeA random cardDeathCan kill you

Each time you Decipher: A Decipher costs Max HP and upgrades a random card. The cost is 3, then 6, 12 and 24. The fifth takes all your Max HP but 1, upgrades every card and ends the event. You can give up before any of them. A Decipher kills you when it costs as much Max HP as you have, or more.

  1. DecipherLose 3 Max HP.
  2. Continue DecipheringLose 6 Max HP.
  3. Keep DecipheringLose 12 Max HP.
  4. KEEP DECIPHERINGLose 24 Max HP.
  5. Lose EverythingLose all but 1 Max HP. Upgrade ALL of your cards.

Continue Deciphering

Lose 6 Max HP. Upgrade a random card.

Max HP−6UpgradeA random cardDeathIf your Max HP is 6 or less

Give Up

Stop reading the text and leave.

What the game says
You stop all this reading and deciphering. Your body normalizes, though you can't help but wonder what the Truth was.
What the game says, screen by screen
  1. As you begin deciphering the tablet, the Kin's Mantra speaks to you.“The Truth is everything...”
  2. You feel faint from all this reading!Heroes weren't meant to read for such an extended period of time...
  3. You're barely holding on...
    The tablet is nearly deciphered. The Mantra holds the truth... THE TRUTH!! WHAT IS THE TRUTH!?
  4. In a trance, you decipher the remaining text, abandoning mind and body. The spiritual pursuit of the Truth is all that matters.Or does it? One final word remains...
    It will cost everything.

  5. After the fifth Decipher

    Everything was spent to decipher the Final Word and you black out...
    When you come to, you realize something is etched into the floor.“Air”

Smash

Heal 20 HP.

Heal20 HP
What the game says
The tablet is smashed to pieces, energy expelled from the tablet seeps into your body.You feel refreshed!

Which option to take

One step, maybe two: 3 Max HP for a random upgrade is fine, 9 total for two is still fair early in Overgrowth. Never take the third; 12 more Max HP is a rest site of healing for one random upgrade.

Decipher

Max HP−3UpgradeA random cardDeathCan kill you

Smash

Heal20 HP
  • Smash if you are hurt.

How it plays

  • Decipher is a chain. Each step costs Max HP and upgrades one random upgradable card: 3, then 6, then 12, then 24.
  • The fifth step costs everything but 1 Max HP and upgrades every card in your deck.
  • After each step you can Give Up and leave.
  • If a step's cost is at least your current Max HP, the option warns that it will kill you, and it does.
  • Smash: heals 20 HP and ends the event.

Changes by version

  1. 18 Dec 2025"Smash" option: healing2520Internal playtest
    "Smash" option: healing decreased from 25 to 20
  2. 11 Sep 2025ChangeInternal playtest
    Changed Tablet of Truth event (previously Perilous Prospects): the fifth option leaves you with 1 HP
    NamePerilous ProspectsTablet of TruthInternal playtest
    Changed event name from "Perilous Prospects" to "Tablet of Truth"

Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.

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