Gesture of the Drowned

The Gesture of the Drowned is a new lunar item in Risk of Rain 2.

The first Gesture of the Drowned reduces equipment cooldown by half, but activates it as soon as it is ready.

Math
The Equipment cooldown is determined by the formula


 * If the player has any, add that amount to the amount of Gesture of the Drowneds (As long as the player has at least one Gesture)

Interactions

 * Only active equipment will be activated by this item, the secondary equipment will not be used until it is swapped to via . This can be exploited to mitigate the automatic activation for certain items, such as the.
 * will not fire unless it has a target.
 * will be always active.
 * In conjunction with enough, additional Gestures (or and enough kills before the effect expires), you can obtain the respective stat bonus infinitely for certain items or equipment.
 * This includes, , , , , (for Interactibles within range), ,  (multiple uses stack),  (multiple uses stack), , and  (since the effect will never end, one will never be afflicted with Tonic Affliction, until you swap equipment).
 * The will instantly activate and explode, likely killing the player.

Trivia

 * The item being a nautilus shell and the item's title containing "Drowned" could possibly be a reference to an achievement from the original Risk of Rain, "Sleepin' With The..." in which you had to kill 20 Whorls by drowning them. Additionally, To "drown" the Whorls, you had to knock them off of cliffs. The unlock requirement for this item requires you to do the same to 20 Hermit Crabs, another shelled creature.