Old Red

Old Red
"Young bullets should heed my teachings."
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Dialogue:	Old Red/Dialogue
Unlock:	Rescued from a Cell
Location:	At random throughout the Gungeon and in the Bullets Past

Old Red is a merchant NPC in Enter the Gungeon and Exit the Gungeon.

Old Red is blind (or at the very least heavily visually impaired), and though his allegiance lies with the Gundead, he is unable to see clearly enough to tell who he is selling to- leading to him merely empowering the Gungeoneers he desires to stop. As such, many of his lines of dialogue are sagely advice for younger Bullet Kin, rather than anything pertinent to a Gungeoneer.

Function

Old Red runs a small shop within The Gungeon, offering passing Gungeoneers a variety of Blank themed (ammolets, Elder Blank, etc) items in exchange for . He does not appear in the Breach or Underbreach.

Enter the Gungeon

Old Red also appears in the Bullet's Past as a dialogue NPC, giving The Bullet a wooden, unpowered Blasphemy and explaining his inability to wield the weapon. Despite heavily resembling Old Red, this depiction of the character is coloured Grey, and was unconfirmed to be Old Red until Exit the Gungeon, in which Old Red has a line of dialogue relating to an 'old head wound', alluding to the place in the head that he has been stabbed by Blasphemy.

Click 'Expand' on the below table to view Old Reds item pool

Guns and Items Sold
Icon	Name	Quality	Type	Effect
	Blank "Banish Bullets"		Pickup	Can be used at any time to erase all enemy bullets in the room and push back all nearby enemies.
	Armor		Pickup	Appended to the end of the players health. Blocks one hit and triggers a blank effect when broken.
	Huntsman "Axes of Evil"		Gun (Semiautomatic)	Fires a shotgun blast of bullets. Reloading swings the gun, destroying nearby bullets. Increases curse while held.
	Chaos Ammolet "What Can Will"		Passive	Blanks have a chance to poison, freeze, and ignite enemies.
	Copper Ammolet "Blanks Ignite"		Passive	Blanks have a chance to poison, freeze, and ignite enemies.
	Elder Blank "Excommunicate Bullets"		Active	Activates a blank. Increases curse.
	Frost Ammolet "Chance To Freeze"		Passive	Blanks have a chance to freeze enemies.
	Full Metal Jacket "Automated Defenses"		Passive	Automatically uses one of the player's blanks if they are about to take damage, preventing it.
	Gold Ammolet "Blank Damage Up"		Passive	Increases blank damage.
	Holey Grail "Withered Vessel"		Passive	Upon taking damage, triggers a full screen Blank effect and refills 50% of the ammo of all the player's guns. Increases curse.
	Lodestone Ammolet "Blank Knockback Up"		Passive	Increases the knockback of blanks.
	Owl "Hoots And More"		Passive	Follows the player, firing bullets at enemies and occasionally using short-ranged blanks.
	Relodestone "Magunetic North"		Active	While active, attracts nearby bullets and converts them to ammo.
	Table Tech Blanks "Flip Clarity"		Passive	Flipping a table activates a free blank.
	Uranium Ammolet "Blanks Poison"		Passive	Blanks have a chance to poison enemies.

Notes

• It can be inferred that Old Red is a living Blank, as he sells items mostly related to blanks, he appears on Blank Shrine, and the Blank Generation synergy turns the blank companion into a small version of Old Red.
• It is possible that Old Red's blue appearance is due to him being a ghost. As seen with Ser Manuel, Blockner, and Gungeoneers in Co-op mode, ghosts in the Gungeon universe are often portrayed as Blue. Additionally, the fact that Old Red seems to 'die' during the events of the Bullet's Past would support this- though ultimately it remains unconfirmed.

Gallery

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  Idle

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  Shaking head (after a failed purchase)

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  Talking

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  Striking a pose (after a purchase)

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  Old Red's non-spectral form, as seen in The Bullet's past.

See also

• NPCs
• Merchants