Update

So I completed the Pastamancer run, but didn't ascend just yet.
I've been maneuvering for Trophies and Tattoos:
- belatedly, I got the Oyster Egg Day "Grass" Tattoo
- today I completed the 30 changes required for the "Gender Bender"
- I'm up to 227 brownies (only 193 more!)
- And I've acquired 23 red balloons (only 76 (or 7.6m) more)
- My stabbat, who's going through the hole with me, has 225 kills (out of required 400).

And unless that comet screws up the moon phases royally, I'm getting 6 gloomy black mushrooms in a few days as well.

After that, probably straight into the 6th and final run. Or, maybe test the waters a bit first, with a softcore run of some kind, follow by a HC SC run.