NPCs

The Future adds three NPCs that can be encountered throughout your runs, with two of them appearing exclusively in the new area.

Steven Gate

Steven Gate

Steven Gate has a 33% chance to appear in a random dead-end room on Caves/Catacombs/Flooded Caves II or Mines/Ashpit II. When interacted with, he will have a few lines of dialogue that are different depending on the character you're playing as. After the dialogue is complete, Steven will open his mouth, revealing a portal to The Future.

List of unique dialogue lines

Character	Dialogue
Isaac	mmmmmmmm! you reek of sadness! please poke your head into the future!
Magdalene	need a professional opinion would i look cute with a bow? ... i’ll take your silence as a yes
Cain	oh cool pirate costume arrrrgh! there be loot yonder step inside into ye abyss and... damn. lost it okay, you can go
Judas	a fez? really? not sure how out of style that is but I hope you dont leave a bad aftertaste
Blue Baby	you seem familiar you dont happen to have a ball problem, do you? … the smell is telling me otherwise
Eve	you look a lot like my ex! well, minus the dead bird she sure was a demon in disguise, though ... get in here before i change my mind
Samson	hold your horses, pal im in pretty high demand you gotta wait at the back of the line- hey, whered everybody go? you killed them all? figures
Azazel	*gasp* a vampire! i dont have my garlic! or my stakes! but i know your one weakness you cant come in without being invited! ill even do this to prove a point
Lazarus	you afraid of death? i know a couple of guys theyre all about it figured youd like to meet them
Eden	i see you! behind the screen youre slouching sit up straight!
The Lost	AH! i didnt notice you come in dont do that next time
Lilith	must be nice having friends oh me? yeah i got tons do you wanna meet them?
Keeper	hey man you alright? you look parched do you need a glass of water? my friends could probably go get one for you
Apollyon	you upset me how does a statue walk? thats not my business to pry but they might ask you
The Forgotten	spooky scary skeletons! send shivers down your spine! shrieking skulls will shock your soul and seal your doom tonight! im not being skeleton racist, am i?
Bethany	can you read? could i ask for a favor i need you to do my taxes before friday in return ill show you a cool place here, ill pay upfront
Jacob & Esau	what? theres two of you now? one was enough, lets be real i understand the struggle though there are alot of me as well
Tainted Isaac	my third eye is twitching are you ready to receive our gift?
Tainted Magdalene	christ, what happened to your hair? car accident? bar fight? mauled by a mutant bear? if youre on the run, then get in here i swear i wont rat you out
Tainted Cain	you remind me of someone he was missing an eye as well if you see him... tell him i said hi
Dark Judas or Tainted Judas	youre not one of me, are you? no, i didnt think so but you could be youd fit right in
Tainted Blue Baby	oh my god yknow what just– just get in here. you REEK im gonna need a mint after this
Tainted Eve	you remind me a lot of myself sad, depressed, miserable… ... you should reconsider this
Tainted Samson	somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed a case of the grumps! piss in the cereal! ...for the record, those were all jokes lighten up, jeez
Tainted Azazel	sorry about the wings must hurt like a bitch! ouch, and the horn not having a good day, huh? maybe things will get better in here
Tainted Lazarus	wait, im confused so are there two of you? or is it just a split personality? which ones the real deal?
Tainted Eden	ive had tons of people walk into my mouth you though? just dont mess up anything in there or else
Tainted Lost	man i havent seen anyone in a while where is everyone? someone usually visits by now making me kinda... *yawwwwwn*
Tainted Lilith	oh! whens your baby due– oh. whoa okay just make sure you treat that... thing with respect and dont feed it after midnight!
Tainted Keeper	hey now, not anyone can just get in here for free theres a toll! thirty bucks, pay up what? its only pennies down here? whatever! keep your change
Tainted Apollyon	hey... a fellow portal brother where does yours lead? it only pulls bugs out? thats lame check mine out
Tainted Forgotten	haha look at this guy sitting on the floor, cant even move what a loser ... sorry. guys like us gotta stick together
Tainted Bethany	into future blind many and many and more rapture be confined you like that? i wrote it myself you seem the bright and intelligent type well, for someone with a hole in their head
Tainted Jacob	keep that thing on a leash, man oh wait you do i dont allow pets but... you seem responsible

Hungry Steven

Hungry Steven

Hungry Steven is a beggar-type NPC that appears exlusively in The Future, found randomly in regular rooms. When approached, a dialogue box will pop up, depicting a random passive collectible that the player already holds. Touching the NPC will remove said item and after a short period of chewing, the NPC will spit out another, random item from any of the following Item Pools:

• Treasure Room
• Shop
• Devil Room
• Angel Room
• Secret Room

After spawning an item, the NPC will disappear.

Hungry Steven can be bombed, which has a 33% chance to kill him. If that chance fails, the NPC will glitch out and the item in the dialogue box will be rerolled to another item in the player's possession. If the NPC is killed, it will drop either a single Soul Heart or 1-2 random Pills.

Scalper Magoo

Scalper Magoo

Scalper Magoo is an NPC that appears exclusively in The Future, found only in Secret Rooms. When a Secret Room is entered for the first time, Scalper Magoo will appear in the middle and spawn 5 random purchasable items or pickups with randomized costs. If the player has traded items with Hungry Stevens before entering the Secret Rooms, the items on Scalper Magoo's sale can appear as the items given to Hungry Stevens, allowing to get these items back.

Scalper Magoo cannot be killed but bombing him will cause him to grimace and increase the price of all items he sells by a random amount between 1 and 3 coins.

Leaving and re-entering the Secret Room will cause Scalper Magoo to disappear along with all his offers and make the player unable to interact with them anymore.

Trivia

• If Steven Gate did not spawn in the second floor of chapter 2, the player may go to the second floor of chapter 2.5 immediately after, allowing for one more chance for finding the NPC.
• If Steven Gate is spawned directly in The Future and then interacted with, he will have a unique dialogue:

hey buddy, what do you think youre doing here?

you want to go to the future? again?

dont think about it too hard...

...

were stuck in a loop, steven

• If the player has no passive items collected, Hungry Steven's dialogue box will rapidly cycle through all passive items in the game (including modded items).