Editing Ascension (section)

=== Later ascensions: Guardians and score ===

Once you've walked the Door at least once, the gate changes:

* All 10 '''Guardians''' must be defeated again (they reset with everything else — see below).
* Your live '''Ascension score''' (see '''[[#Sparks and the score|Sparks and the score]]''' below) must reach or exceed a rising '''bar'''. The bar starts at 0 and, after each ascension, is recalculated from that ascension's score as ''min(score × 1.3, score + 3,000)'', rounded to the nearest 100 — so it always climbs, but a big score jump is capped at +3,000 per cycle rather than compounding forever.