Mainstat keeps decreasing and I have no idea why

The character is an AT in aftercore and just broke prism yesterday. I normally run VMF in aftercore and the script aborted because the character had less muscle than required to equip the garbage sticker.

I didn't see how that was possible with a level 24 character but it was true. Muscle was 70.

Troubleshooting steps so far:

Stage one of troubleshooting:

- Stripped the character of all equipment
- Checked current buffs (nothing amiss)
- modtrace muscle (all positive effects)
- Ran 100 turns in the Haunted Gallery
- Character is now at 63 muscle

Stage two of troubleshooting:

- Re-equipped the character
- Changed the familiar to the Frumious Bandersnatch and equipped it with the cimsilion jub-jub bird
- Ran another 75 turns in the Haunted Gallery
- Character is now at 8 muscle

I've run a number of turns manually and see nothing that would indicate why this is happening.






Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

I see Bloodbathed in your active effects. You're using blood cubic zirconia's skills, which cost (an increasing amount of) substat points each time.

Huh. I did not realize that and I never manually used any of the BCZ skills. I suspect that it is left over from the AT run and using autoscend that made the skill active and then "normal" MP burning trying to keep active buffs active.

Further investigation seems to indicate that this is an unexpected interaction with Zargon's Mercenary Mood script trying to increase ML but not realizing the steep cost associated with the Blood Bath buff.

Thank you!!!