Taunter's Tongue | Elden Ring Wiki

What a great way to show everyone that you are coward scum than using this with your buddies then turning it off, preferably in a small area with the most cringe meta weapons possible.
Wish I could see taunters tongue users irl so I can avoid them. Blues in this game are also noble AF.These boys sure do need protection.
The only change needed is that these clowns could damage each other but that's never gonna happen.

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Does this basically make it the same as dark souls for a singleplayer host? If it does I might have it on for my next run, I'm not a pvp'er by any means, but I don't mind a couple of invasions here and there

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they removed the cool part of the dried finger and left in the part where people abuse it to gank

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I'd love to see this enable friendly fire between host/phantom/hunter. Watching audience pathway gankers try desperately to not 2 shot eachother would be too sweet.

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why couldn't they just have kept the player count from ds33 for elden ring?

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I don't think anyone would complain if this item was removed. There should just be an item like dried fingers in DS3 which enables a second red while also allowing another phantom to be summoned. Taunter's Tongue is just cancer and ruins invasions. At level 125-150 every other invasion is either a rune arced bonfire duelist with 2x your flask or 2-3 sweatlord gankers ready to chase you down with poking weapons.
I can't understand how Fromsoft managed ruined the multiplayer in this game so badly.

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singlehandedly ruined meta level invasions. nonstop anti-fun ganks and duels that turn into ganks when the host starts losing

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*gets summoned to first step* Defeat GGEZ, Host of Fingers

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Really wish there was an option that turned off hunter summoning. Dont summon me mid game so you can leave me to deal with ganker 1 and 2. I always try to leave when I realize its just someone wasting my time when I could be trying to help someone struggling with a dungeon or field boss and got invaded. But also: invaders, tip: if the blue severs out, you still get flasks. Go after the taunting host instead of chasing me down while I'm literally trying to help ya

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playing through the game in ng+ at level 90 with this on summoning random people as I went was some of the most fun I had in this game, merging PvP into PvE unlocks a whole new dimension to the game.

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Needs a rework badly. Impractical for use by solo players, and way too easy to abuse for ganking.

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Just don't use this. You invariably get the one invader that plays catch me if you can while waiting for the other one to show up so they can swoop around taking potshots when anyone gets low on health. Not fun for hunters, not fun for invaders that can't get a good fight and die 5 in a row while the second guy buzzes around. You won't get the cool 2v2 you want.

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Great item. If you have time to waste. Find a high spot you can only get to with a horse. Turn it on and waste the time of griefers who don't want to use the pvp arenas. 10/10 would recommend. Poke your head out now and again to make em waste mats trying to get you

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Best used for 2v2s imo. using it as a solo player is super overbearing, and using it with 2 phantoms is just ganking.

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Beat the game without even knowing this item exists

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boy i love how gankers who spam the tongue on and off get infinite priority for invaders over actual players

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Yeah, let's allow this to be turned on/off because the most toxic grieferes don't have enough power as it is.

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The two ends of the Taunter's Tongue spectrum are "playing solo, get invaded every 2 minutes by multiple red phantoms" and "playing with two gold phantoms, get invaded every 2 minutes by one red phantom" and neither experience is fun. Sorry, did I say "spectrum?" I meant binary. When it's good for invaders it's insanely good, when it's good for hosts it's insanely good. Needs a serious rework to be fun either way.

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got ganked in murk water cave recently by someone using one of these bad boys. They had CROSS-NAGINATA and Vykes spear. as well as bull-goat set. they watched me spawn in as if they knew exactly where to stand. I was blocked in a very tight spot so it was an easy kill for them. This was at level 33 by the way.

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Where is six player from

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Can anyone confirm that the taunter's tongue still works in map sections where you have cleared the area bosses? I've sat alone in limgrave for 20+ minutes waiting for an invader at rl 150. The First Step is gank city at rl 150. I get plenty of action in Farum Azula where I haven't killed the godskin duo yet.

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doesn't seem to work if the boss of the area is already dead, wish I could host a fightclub at shaded castle, the lobby with the statues makes for such a good arena

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I hope this gets reworked. Using it as a solo player is just so overbearing. its almost impossible to progress

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I miss being invaded in solo :(

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Pure cancer mechanic. actually ruins pvp on pc. gank. duel. gank. duel. where are the actual players???

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yeah i chugged in your forced liurnia sweatlord duel, what are you gonna do about it?

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With this item you could make any spot you want a pvp arena, it’s a fight club to go.

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should enable team damage between hosts/phantoms/hunters. then gankers will need to exhibit some restraint to not two-shot eachother

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I like summoning randos and playing through the map with this active. 2v2 fights while the enemies are milling about is utter chaos and I love it

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Sometimes I'll turn this one and watch reds and blues fight each other while exploring.

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From really needs to address the priority that taunter tongued hosts get over normal players. I can't even remember the last time I invaded players genuinely playing the video game and not dueling in the lake with some ultra sweaty setup.

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Mmmm yes I love forced 1v1 encounters in Liurnia its so fun I want to smash my head into a rock.

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To quell the afk farming issue, from could add diminishing returns on the runes gained from invaders with this active. idk what else they could do since there seems to be an unending amount of spots where these people set up

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maybe I’m toxic but I love using this with a level 400 arcane frost +bleed build and caving in their skulls

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I really wish they would have left solo invasions as they were before. Now the choice for me, someone who likes getting invaded, is either to be invaded non-stop or not to be invaded at all. Much of the suspense and unpredictability that came with being invaded in previous games is gone. Now I know that I'll likely be invaded within a minute of using this item and I won't stop being invaded until I disable it.

If this didn't completely disable the invasion cooldown timer that would be a step in the right direction. At least the invasions wouldn't be non-stop then. If you want to reset the timer you should just have to use it again or they should add the Dried Finger item from Dark Souls.

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why tf can you turn this off while in multiplayer? gankers eat your heart out ig

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If I invade at the boilprawn shack i'll just immediately finger sever>recent players>block. I don't invade to bonfire duel, I invade to spank ganks. summon randoms or blues at least ffs.

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Use this item to enable normal difficulty

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Beware anybody with the name "TaunterRun" or anything to that effect. It's almost always some toxic trash bonfire dueling or ganking to make it seem like they're not bonfire dueling or ganking.

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FYI all "duelists" that use this to fight invaders are either naive or griefing. They have every advantage imaginable. They will almost always be higher level, have more flasks, have access to rune arcs, and if they want they can turn the tongue back on for hunters, in which case hunters always have priority over other reds.

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Is there a particular reason I can’t turn this on ever?

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I was summoned to a gankers world with another finger, we didn't help them with invaders and watched, they ended up dying on the 3rd invader, we cheered for the invader who killed them

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It would be nice if they gave some kinda of bonus, like extra rune gain and/or item discovery, but couldn't be turned off until death. Incentivizing solo players to use it would also give hunters a renewed purpose, as currently they are kinda just worthless except for ganking.

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there are two types of taunter tongue players: the wholesome gankers and the rune arced 14 estus ""honor"" duelists

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So much better now with the 1.06 patch to invade anywhere. Now I'm not getting the same invader over and over like before. I've been doing a playthrough with this always on and it's been great.

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DO I need this thing to invade another World? I'm merely trying to complete Varre's quest at Rose Church and I have to invade someone else's World three times. Been trying to invade for days and nothing. Put my strongest weapons in the chest. I'm lvl 58. Tried at the Academy main gate, First steps, and outside the church of Elleh. My internet commection is NAT 3 but I've never had issues playing online in other games. Any suggestions? Thank you

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I remember getting summoned and my host wanted to gank but there were no invaders online

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No point to this since 90% of the invaders you get are twinks now using the most broken things out there. This game has the worst balance of any soulslike.

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if you’re decent at pvp this is good for racking up some extra souls, preferably around mid-level since builds are less sweaty around there

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This thing turns people into gankers because invaders are usually min maxing everything with their builds. In a 1v1 they get stomped.

So they eventually just summon phantoms and gank.

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If I use this to get invaded while playing solo, can I still use spirit summons? Or is summoning prevented or they get unsummoned upon invasion?

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I wanted to make a hide and seek character (using the tongue and hiding somewhere). I had a lot of fun with that in ds3. But the invaders kept finding me super quickly. I didn't understand. Then i invaded someone to see what was up, and whaddaya know. Invaders have a literal marker showing the location of the host. :(

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Weapon upgrade matchmaking doesn't work with this game as open world. At release it was fine, people were going through everywhere getting upgrades properly. nowadays it seems if you do the same for fun you get locked out of getting invaded. I have a +9 standard weapon and even though there is iji selling up to +4 somber right next to carian manor I never get invaded there at level 55, taunter's tongue on solo/coop it doesn't matter. It's one of the best invasion spots too.

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Using this a lot as a solo host, I'm never getting 2 invaders for some reason. They load in one at a time, and maybe the fights are just ending too fast, but I want to get ganked by better players than the Pve players. I'm not getting 2v1 just 1v1's back to back. I'm not good enough to beat the superganks and they normally are just spamming rivers or stars of ruin, invaders have cooler builds normally.

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No matter what I do, I can't activate this item. Even entering a new location I havent been to before (Mountaintops, Snowfield) it is still greyed out in the multiplayer menu.

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Dear people who are under lvl 30 that have more than 6 heals as an invader plus endgame gear please get a better hobby than griefing low levelers of course you're gonna win with your jar cannon vs my scimitars does it really make you feel that good?

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Why doesn't this work when you killed the area boss(es)? As if they needed other ways to further **** on this games PvP :(

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Apparently if you kill the area boss you can no longer be invaded in that area I tested this out with three different files in limgrave if you kill the night calvary you can no longer be invaded there i think it’s a bug but you would have to move to a different area to be invaded so don’t kill the area boss

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True words have never been spoken

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Just why does it not work if I killed the are boss(es)? so stupid.

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Lenin’s Rise campers are a different breed.

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This is the best way to get consistent reliable GOOD PvP outside of the raya lucaria duelling location. It's like the Blue Cipher Ring, but way better.


Just turn the tongue on and bam, instant battle wherever you want. No more dealing with AFK farmers, no dealing with clueless PvE players, no 3v1 ganks. Just you and another PvPer who is significantly more likely to know how to fight than a host following his summons around. You can even turn the tongue off after the first invader spawns in to ensure that it stays 1v1.


IMO if you're invading normally rather than calling invaders using the tongue, you're deliberately shunning fighting players with PvP focused builds in favor of targeting randos. AKA, you're a wuss.

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so... I just can't activate it somehow. I can invade normally but the game won't let me use the tongue. what am I doing wrong?

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Got tired of invading end game gear, gank squads at RL40. Decided to use this instead. Works well to get some nice 1v1

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Yes it does

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Both Furlcalling Finger Remedy and Taunter's Tongue are active.. nothing.
What's up with this? Lvl 150 if that matters.

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Does this only attract invaders in places with a living area boss that allows summoning of Co-Op players? Because if so I may need to finish this playthrough for NG+ since I've killed just about everything in the game already. I've gone to multiple locations I cleared with remedy and this active and no one has shown up

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Change the tongue to be activated from sites of grace - no more torrent, no more afk demi-humans hiding on pillars.

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I've done some testing with this on a level 400 char and going by the rune drops I get from invaders, assuming it's 15% of their most recent level up cost, it seems like this allows invasions from enemies all the way up to level 713 because I sometimes get around 1.3 million and that would pretty much correspond to 15% of the highest level up costs. Also getting as little as around 130k, so it seems like 301 or 306 is the lower bound.

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Does area boss still need to be alive?

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How to get unlimited runes afk

1) Get this
2) Get white cipher ring
3) Go to the horse jumping area under first step cliffs.
4) Activate this.
5) Go afk.
6) Profit!

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As a duelist who appreciates invaders with manners, I absolutely love this thing, and I think invaders love me when they see that instead of a gank squad, its a polite person. Duels have never been more fun when you have the power to control when you're open for them, and the setting.

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For some reason it stopped working for me in limgrave but works everywhere else. The game thinks I’m being invaded but nothing happens and nobody shows up. I guess some kind of bug ?

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Odd question, but has anyone tried to see if this works on pulling NPC invaders you may have missed by accident and locked yourself out of?

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I use this with my friend to 2v2 in limgrave with funny builds. So many anti fun 1 hit bleeders, moonveilers and carian glitch abusers though.

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It seems like this might pull invaders from anywhere regardless of where you are. I used this and was constantly being invaded one after the other. I lost most of them but if you set up camp near a grace then respawning is no big deal you just pick up and try again. 1v1s are a lot of fun!

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This sh*it won't work anymore.

I'm tired of invading and being fuc*ed by 3 trolls who spam **** and think they're any good I want 1v1 but I simply can't summon. And duelists are rare.

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I'm not getting invaded anymore. I used to host endlessly fighting clubs but now and don't get invaded! I think it could be my level (251) but who knows. Just don't work anymore

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Invade some one and then get slammed by 3 co op players because no one uses this.

Put down a duel sign and then realise it’s still a 1v3 game.

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The most useless tool in the game and the reason why pvp is so onesided why whould I every uses this when there’s no incentive whatsoever for the host.

DS3 has a item simmiler but it let you bring in a third co op This dosnt do anything for the host so pretty much no one uses it.

So yeah that’s why invaders are always running sole against 3 players. It just feels too okesided Ian all?

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If you're a dumbass like me that couldn't figure out why it wasn't working, you need to use a furled finger first.

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Quick question,
Does this remove the ability to summon two phantoms? If not then surely you could just summon the two and the then gank the single invaders with no chance of a second.

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Quick question,
Does this remove the ability to summon two phantoms? If not then surely you could just summon the two and the then gank the single invaders with no chance of a second.

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Why can't I use this item? I want to be invaded. I dont wanna waste my finger calling or whatever they are called. I don't call othera for coop. I just want people to invade me. The item is greyed out and I cannot use it

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Simple fix is that, using the tongue once without any cooperator present enables the classic solo invasions with CD. Using the taunter's tongue again or using it with a cooperator present enables double invasions with no CD. Simple opt-in opt-out option for players while also retains the original function

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I wish there was a middle ground item where I could still get invaded but it did not remove the CD between re-invasions. Because honestly I like getting invaded now and then but now when I use this item and people start invading me it's non stop till I die to somebody. As soon as I beat somebody (if I manage to do so since I'm not optimized and worse than many invaders at pvp) then another one pops up in less then 20 seconds. Simply put, I can never move forward in the map.

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At least just let me permanently turn it on or off, like the cipher ring.

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I’m level 180 on my main and using this at Chruch of Elleh gets me invaded within 10 seconds. Just in case someone is like me and just wanted to know the best places to duel

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does this thing work when the area boss is defeated?

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How do you get rid of it? I don’t want to be invaded without permission

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I think the invasion system is fine, the problem (IMO) is that the open-world areas are poorly suited for invasions. I actually like that the host has a phantom the majority of the time, it incentivizes the host to journey through a level in spite of an invader's presence, only to walk into an ambush.

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im 153, using this on the first step grace gives me pvp non stop, thats where most people are pvping now, the very first grace outside after u get out of prologue

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0w0

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Does this remove the level cap for players? When my friend uses this at level 30, people with end game gear always invade and its not fair.

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It doesn't seem to work ever.

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Does anyone knows the % Rune reward on this?

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So basically if you think you’re hot shyt then come invade me? Instead of me coming to gang up on you? So it’s like a reversal for griefers lol

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Honestly I am having a great time with this item. I farmed about 10 levels worth of souls with this thing. Just use it near a grace spot, preferably with no or weak enemies nearby. That way when you eventually dies, your runes are dropped in a safe place.

Also if you combine this with the Mimic's Veil with the item that calls in hunters and find a nice hiding spot, you can watch the invaders run around confused while hunters come to kill them for you. Sometimes the invaders even kill each other. And each time an invader dies by any means or they use the severing finger, you get runes and the item to enable the tongue.

Although that probably won't work in the future once the player base gets smaller and the people that are left wise up about what is happening. Still I had a blast with this item XD

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when solo you can use this to get one invader then use it again to cancel the effect (for 1v1s)

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I used this and waited for over 20 minutes without being invaded... Is it not working?

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