Old Red

Old Red is an NPC that sets up shops in the Gungeon, where he will sell items, guns and pickups. This merchant will sell blanks, armor and blank-related items, such as Ammolets. He starts appearing after being saved from a cell in the Gungeon Proper, Oubliette or Black Powder Mine. He states he is nearly blind, which would explain his name being Old Red, instead of Old Blue, and him mistaking the player for a bullet kin.

Items Sold in the Gungeon

Icon	Name	Quote	Type	Notes
	Huntsman	Axes Of Evil	Semiautomatic	Fires a shotgun blast of bullets. Reloading swings the gun, destroying nearby bullets. Increases curse while held.

Icon	Name	Type	Quote	Effect
	Chaos Ammolet	Passive	What Can Will	Blanks have a chance to poison, freeze, and ignite enemies.
	Copper Ammolet	Passive	Blanks Ignite	Blanks have a chance to ignite enemies.
	Elder Blank	Active	Excommunicate Bullets	Activates a blank. Increases curse.
	Frost Ammolet	Passive	Chance To Freeze	Blanks have a chance to freeze enemies.
	Full Metal Jacket	Passive	Automated Defenses	Automatically uses one of the player's blanks if they are about to take damage, preventing it.
	Gold Ammolet	Passive	Blank Damage Up	Increases blank damage.
	Holey Grail	Passive	Withered Vessel	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	Passive	Blank Knockback Up	Increases the knockback of blanks.
	Owl	Passive	Hoots And More	Follows the player, firing bullets at enemies and occasionally using short-ranged blanks.
	Relodestone	Active	Magunetic North	While active, attracts nearby bullets and converts them to ammo.
	Table Tech Blanks	Passive	Flip Clarity	Flipping a table activates a free blank.
	Uranium Ammolet	Passive	Blanks Poison	Blanks have a chance to poison enemies.

Trivia

• 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.
  • While this is likely, it is also very much possible that Old Red is the ghost of The Bullet's mentor, who looks identical to Old Red, except that he is gray (when a character dies in the game, they come back as a blue ghost. This is shown by Ser Manuel and Blockner's ghosts). The mentor dies in the beginning of The Bullet's past while giving The Bullet the wooden Blasphemy.