lore-discussion

[long bloom]

that is a proposed explanation

not canon yet

[eager bluff]

moons haunted

[long bloom]

byeah the idea is that the monsters would be tailored specifically to your fears

[long bloom]

[paper latch]

so peak

wb shimmer

does it have lore

im guessing its the poorly disposed remnant of some god although that would be unoriginal

[split mortar]

Think this all we got rn

[noble falcon]

You see, Yharon dropped a big ol’ shaker bottle of G-Fuel Lunar Pillar Punch flavor while he was trashing his desk after losing to Malenia again, and it all pooled together underground and that’s what it is

[long bloom]

[paper latch]

april 1st

is it still canon

i mean i think it is, thats interesting

[split mortar]

Mayhapse
@cosmic zenith

[raven brook]

i mean, they have weapons

plus realistically he is a tinkerer he'd do mor estuff than just, videogame mechanic reforge your weapon modifier

he could make gadgets and tools for others, in fact some of the items he sells are that

people often dont look at thing sfrom a in-universe perspective when it comes to topics like these

i think its safe to say that obviously the npcs would sell items and exchange services between themselves and not just you

[eager bluff]

yeah his dialogue tells you the kinda shit he makes

[split mortar]

Tinkerer does not even only do reforges he also sells stuff

[eager bluff]

"I just finished my newest creation! This version doesn't explode violently if you breathe on it too hard."
"Now would be a great time to tinker a pinwheel accessory!"
"You know, that mining helmet-flipper combination was a much better idea on paper."
stuff like this

[jagged mulch]

we never see anyone use rocket boots doe

and it safe to assume that the amount of money we give the tinkerer for reforging god-tier weapons is likely more then whatever money gets around the local npc economy

[eager bluff]

we also dont see anybody take a shit aside from the terrarian but that doesnt mean other people dont use the bathroom

[split mortar]

we never see anyone use rocket boots doe
And we don’t see a lot of shit thats hinted at in terraria like princess trying to have peace meetings with the event moons iirc

[jagged mulch]

fair

[raven brook]

again

gotta look at things from a in-universe perspective

[jagged mulch]

but it's safe to assume that the goblin probably has way more money then anyone else

[raven brook]

terraria is a video game it obviously cant show the ins and outs of every little interaction

[eager bluff]

tax collector

[jagged mulch]

especially from all that reforging

[raven brook]

i think tax collector and princess

[eager bluff]

also princess yeah

[jagged mulch]

you say that as if the bandit litterally only steals form the goblin

[raven brook]

based on the travelling merchant's clothes he seems to be rather wealthy too, plus he sells alot of "fancy" items

[eager bluff]

then by that logic the bandit is the richest

[raven brook]

i doubt bandit would be the rcihest since i think goes kinda against the entire point of their existence

[jagged mulch]

I adress that myself in the orginal statement of the point

[eager bluff]

anyways yeah it isnt

[raven brook]

most broke npc is probably like, idfk dryad or witch doctor

i dont know if theyd even regularly use currency for anything

[split mortar]

Princess is also possibly the richest due to being actual royalty

[raven brook]

yeah princess is literaly royalty so id say shes probably the richest

[split mortar]

Angler mayhapse

[raven brook]

maybe too

[jagged mulch]

like, mechanically, every npc that isn't the angler has infinite money

[raven brook]

yeah but this isnt talking about videogame mechanics

[jagged mulch]

exactly

[raven brook]

❓

what are you trying to say here

[eager bluff]

because if you get tax collector generally im making 10-20 plat from him over the course of the playthrough and he doesnt give ALL of the money he collects to you

[split mortar]

This feels like theres two different interpretations of this convo going on at once

[west plume]

did u not consider calamitas who is a nomad at the time you meet her

[raven brook]

could also be the case but i do like to headcanon calamitas actually has some money that she uses to occasionally buy some supplies for herself and stuff

while dryad and witch doctor feel like theyd intentionally not engage with it

she'd probably still be on the lower end tho

[west plume]

dryad and witch doctor are probably both barterers and have personal possessions or commodities they use to trade

[jagged mulch]

the brimstone witch ( who gives you 30 plat, when you beat her) is paying way more rent then everyone else

because 30 plat is a shit ton of money

[raven brook]

i dont think bosses dropping money when you kill them is diagetic in most cases because it kinda dosent make too much sense if you stop to think about it for even a bit

[west plume]

i don't think calamitas actually had a million dollars in her pocket when you defeat her

[raven brook]

or enemies in general for that matter

tyhe economy would kinda be completely broken if you could just go around killing green slimes and become rich from it

[split mortar]

Calamitas might also just be able to make money out of mana

[wanton pendant]

It's clearly the life insurance payout form her brother's that she was saving for college, duh.

[raven brook]

dude money creating spell sounds insane

[eager bluff]

why does killing eye of cthulhu give me 600 dollars? i dont know! but it does!

[west plume]

the eye of cthulhu's pocket change in case it wanted to buy a burger

[raven brook]

happens to the best of us

[split mortar]

And she is the brimstone witch

[split mortar]

Could not digest the gold coins of other people it ate

[west plume]

she isn't able to do that. the best she might be able to do is exhume money but then it becomes evil and demon infested which isn't good for trade

[eager bluff]

yeah shes the brimstone witch not the shadow money witch

[raven brook]

ok i get that the burger is worth 5 dolalrs but heres a deal

i only have 3, but they're evil dollars

surely that counts[

[jagged mulch]

isnt she rather like, unskilled at casting most types of magic that isnt brimstone and necromancy

[west plume]

i have 3 dollars that kill you. these are worth a lot of money you know

[jagged mulch]

isn't that a direct fact mentioned in the lore

[split mortar]

That was the case when she just got her powers over a decade ago iirc

We do know her ice magic is p good iirc

[raven brook]

she can def use other magic types but she is by far more proeficient in brimstone and necromancy yeah

[eager bluff]

no she still isnt very good at stuff that isnt brimstone and necromancy

[jagged mulch]

really?

[raven brook]

she did freeze permafrost

[long bloom]

she made cryogen

[raven brook]

in the, cube

[eager bluff]

she was trained by john ice magic

[raven brook]

though it may have been a joint operation

[west plume]

the brimstone magic also seriously disrupts her ability to do normal magicks most of the time because it operates by ice crown adventure time rules

[raven brook]

thats kind of hilarious to think about

[west plume]

she can cast regular magicks but it's with a difficulty buff and she is also plagued by visions constantly which makes it more difficult

[eager bluff]

like shes just intermediate at most magic

[raven brook]

calamitas and permafrost are reverse simon and marceline

[split mortar]

Calamitas vs ice king

[eager bluff]

siffrin gun

[split mortar]

Why the o react???

[long bloom]

e

[split mortar]

Whar

[raven brook]

o.e

youll figure it out

[split mortar]

Ovaries exploded…

[long bloom]

whar

[west plume]

huh

[long bloom]

thanks discord

[split mortar]

Whuh

[raven brook]

the old ice father is the one that's still fairly sane while the emo dark magic daughter is the one that has her mental health be fucked over by magic

[eager bluff]

shes passable at it but for anything that isnt brimstone or necromancy anybody that dedicated time to actually learning that magic would beat her

[raven brook]

checks out yeah

[jagged mulch]

now that we are mentioning it

how does magic work in calamity anyway?

John Terraria gets good at magic by buying equipement, crafting stuff and eating magic stuff. they don't permanently learn any spells

Seems to me like the Terrarian is actually a shit ass-mage who gets by via using the magic in other things like tomes and staffs and the like

its not like the proficiency mechanic still exists, so like??

do other characters have mana? do they have more then 400 mana?
Do they also have magic equipment?

[eager bluff]

they have mana they probably have magic equipment

[long bloom]

mana is stored in the bones

[wanton pendant]

All the magic schools are gone so you don't have a formal magic education so you just gotta make stuff up.

[raven brook]

i mean

im pretty sure magic schools exist water wraith

[raven brook]

do other cahracters have mana
absolutely

[jagged mulch]

like I get that

[wanton pendant]

None in the war ravaged continent of 'Yourworldnamehere'.

[raven brook]

do they also have magic equipment

[jagged mulch]

but the question is about the mechanics of magic

[eager bluff]

mana is an inherent part of biology in calamity

[wanton pendant]

At least none you every visit in game.

[raven brook]

probably to varying degrees

[long bloom]

water there's 3 more inhabitable continents

[west plume]

magic schools are gone
you can cast magic you read about in tomes what r u talking about

[jagged mulch]

we only have limited data points, the most detailed one being John Terraria

[split mortar]

Dungeon does not seem like a school

[jagged mulch]

this is absolutely true

[split mortar]

Yeah thats why it exists

[west plume]

if the terrarian can learn how to cast water bolt from da dungeon i'm pretty sure other learned mages are able to learn how to cast magicks from higher education whereever yharim hasn't destroyed the education system

[eager bluff]

theres a headcanon around that beginner to intermediate level mages use books and whatnot as foci for spells where it just helps with channeling the magic but as they improve and get better control they dont need the foci as much or at all

[raven brook]

thats a neat headcanon

at first you gotta have the book in hand constantly to cast shit but as you get better at it you can just do it from memory basically

[jagged mulch]

the thing is, you can only cast a spell from a tome if you have the tome open

all npcs that use magical attacks do so seemingly innately

we don't see the wizard use a flower of fire to cast his spells for exemple

[west plume]

invoking from an open book is different from memorizing it i feel

it's like asking someone who hasn't learned calculus to do calculus without a textbook vs with a textbook

?

we don't see the wizard use a flower of fire to cast his spells for exemple
i'm pretty sure the wizard and permafrost just Know and could probably break down to you how to cast various elemental magicks since it's their area of study

you have to use an attuned object because you are not an 80 year old wizard

[long bloom]

is there a difference between magic and magicks or are the words interchangeable

[west plume]

interchangeable

[long bloom]

👍

[jagged mulch]

my apologies for the crudeness I displayed

it was rather unbecoming

mana also seems to have connections to the stars

[west plume]

stars have mana as a component but mana is an innate aspect of the universe that just kind of collects naturally

[jagged mulch]

considering the amount of magic equipement and buffs tied to the astral infection, fallen stars and what not

[long bloom]

stars are literally balls of mana yes

[split mortar]

Stars are
Made of mana thats why

[split mortar]

Fallen stars are well
Stars

[jagged mulch]

so mana is somewhat analogous to light in the sense that it's thanks to the entropy difference between the visible light emitted by the sun and the IR that the earth emits that is resonable for the local violation of the second law that allows for life to exist

[light linden]

just had a thought

outside of the whole attunement thing, did auric have any disadvantages?

[split mortar]

Hard to be subtle with it you just sorta kill whoever you use it on

[west plume]

you can't touch people with it without killing them instantly

[long bloom]

given how it's the strongest metal on terraria by a landslide i don't think any possible disadvantage matters at all

[light linden]

like does it rust?

is it heavy?

[west plume]

in order to shake hands with someone, yharim has to take a glove off

[jagged mulch]

like outside of requiring a cosmic anvil or more powerful crating station to use?

[light linden]

does it lose strength when cold or hot?

[simple tangle]

Just put a glove on top of the armor ez

[jagged mulch]

probably not

[west plume]

the other person accidentally touches the cuff and their hand blows off instantly

[wanton pendant]

Also probably takes ages to get in large quantities without either being best friends with a dragon or being REALLY careful.

[split mortar]

Looks at auric exploding you through the armour

[split mortar]

A glove aint stopping the racist metal

Or is it elitist

Idk

[long bloom]

both

[light linden]

does it pollute the air around it?

[jagged mulch]

considering you need god level crafting stations to use, we can infer that it is borderline impossible to shape

that being said, you can melt auric ore into auric bars with a mere titanium forge, so its likely not anymore heat resistant

[split mortar]

Yharim losing his auric armour because i used a post plantera flamethrower on him

[thick slate]

make a big titanium forge to fight yharim in

[split mortar]

True

[jagged mulch]

that being said, because the bars are used in the highest tier of cooling cell, it likely very resistant to thermal gradient stresses, cold brittleness, and maybe even more exotic phenomenon around fermi-dirac and bose-eisenstien condensates

[west plume]

why didn't dogma and war just fight yharim inside an active volcano? are they stupid?

[wanton pendant]

Providence had it booked for her aura farming session.

[thick slate]

is providence the piccolo of calamity

[jagged mulch]

Yharim had obsidian skin potions

[worldly spindle]

Yharim survived being burned alive once already

[long bloom]

barely

[thick slate]

finish the job

[split mortar]

Must try again to see if it was a fluke or not

[thick slate]

he got lucky

[cosmic zenith]

?

[jagged mulch]

@light linden apon further reflection, the fact that auric bars can be made in an titanium forge is likely as a result of the fact that the recipe requires dragon soul, which likely serves as a processing aid

I say this in light of the fact that making auric plannels ( which is likely just auric ore mixed with stone to make paneling) requires a cosmic anvil, despite the fact that titanium bricks only require furnaces and even Uelibloom bricks only needing a titanium forge to make

I am aware this is likely for gameplay balancing purposes, but it does suggest that

1. Auric ore is essentially impossible to process and purify with without actual dragon souls
2. Auric bars are nigh-impossible to work with, without using the pressures and conditions found in dying stars ( e.i a cosmic anvil or dreadons forge)
3. If your not attuned to it, it tries to kill you

theses are massive disadvantages that would make it's use essentially impossible for anyone who isn't either a God or buddy buddy with a dragon to use, acquire and do anything with auric materials.

[split mortar]

Is your shimmer thingy real or was it another elaborate hijinks from you

[cosmic zenith]

What would be the point in telling you that?

:)

[thick slate]

nerd

i could auric with my bare hands

[jagged mulch]

Ok

👍

I believe you

[thick slate]

thank u

[light linden]

@cosmic zenith what do you think?

I could see it being very heavy personally

[jagged mulch]

It also seemingly constantly emits energy

Which means if you had an auric glove and you touched an electronic device, it would likely short circuit it

[thick slate]

auric is like shitty vibranium

[light linden]

still think making auric and vibranium touch would look pretty

[thick slate]

purpl

[brazen citrus]

ourple 🟣

[light linden]

also might create enough heat to melt the planet

[thick slate]

the whole thing

i think one of them just blows up

[cosmic zenith]

Not really I think

[west plume]

the downside is mostly just that it's inconvenient and unsafe

[wanton pendant]

This is why lead is better. It's only unsafe.

[thick slate]

heavy and kills you

[noble falcon]

Me when I dangle a big boulder with a tiny string to finally defeat the dastardly roadrunner

[thick slate]

buddy is not expecting the boulder to catch his foot and drag them down the cliff

[light linden]

that is genuinely surprising

I'd expect it to be heavy

[agile matrix]

weight is not a disadvantage

it is merely a tradeoff

[noble falcon]

No don’t worry because I’ll be really far away with a big pair of scissors

[cosmic zenith]

It's probably average in weight

[cosmic zenith]

*Depends

Weight is a disadvantage, but it often is tied to more durable materials, which serve as a balancing advantage

[long bloom]

how heavy is cosmilite

[cosmic zenith]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

We haven't discussed this in-dev to length

[long bloom]

figured

[noble falcon]

The way I see it, none of the endgame metals can be that heavy if you can still zip around like a madman while fully encased in it

Either that or the world of calamity naturally ends up with the player being built like Super Macho Man, which is absolutely a possibility

[wanton pendant]

Have you considered that by the endgame you must be really strong because you're after getting the workout of a lifetime fighting literally everything that looks at you funny?

[trim edge]

if moon lord and the pillars are no longer related to space does that mean astrum deus won't drop pillar fragments in the future

[dusk laurel]

astrum deus likely wouldve lost it anyways

[long bloom]

very likely

[dusk laurel]

when its eventually remade with the rest of the astral

[wanton pendant]

Astral Infection... will be good!?

[trim edge]

does eol's appearance hint at what gods she's the daughter of or is it just from the hallow

[dusk laurel]

we have no clue tbh

she just showed up and started siphoning power from the sun

thats kinda it

[long bloom]

shrug

[wanton pendant]

No way to tell. Divinity isn't genetic.

[noble falcon]

Literally girlbossed too close to the sun

[raven brook]

the pillar drops never had anything to do with lore to begin with

its just there to make farming em less annoying

[light linden]

it can be depending on what it is made into

[leaden fern]

Yharim is at it! watch out! they're reconstructing V2 from Ultrakill!, strike back and demolish your home country's capital building in Lego city.

[light linden]

I doubt every person bonded to an auric dragon preferred to use a giant greatsword while wearing platemail armor

[leaden fern]

bottom text

[light linden]

e.g. they might like a shield but if auric is heavier than average

could make it hard to put on a shield

[raven brook]

From what i was saying in calamity update talk

I think some people within the lore circle are far too pedantic and strict on the term "god" within calamity's context to the point they fail to realize there is actually nothing really wrong with calling beings that haven't ascended using the ritual "gods" in the right context

Astrum Deus was worshipped as God and thus likely was reffered to as one, and the same could be said about other beings

the usage of the term God as to refer to ritual-ascended beings would likely be popularized and become prevalent due to their influence and impact worldwide, yes

but it dosen't mean that would be the only and exclusive definition of it

As long as you make it clear to separate between ritual ascended and "god" asj ust a general term with a similar definition to what it is in Real Life there's literally nothing wrong with it and even in-universe people would refer to other beings as gods too

[dusk laurel]

i think it sorta parallels how the naming convention for dragons is confusing because auric dragons at times are just referred to as "dragons" while their descendents are called "offshoots" despite both being genetically dragons, and the only distinction being that the auric dragons have auric souls, hence the name

and then also some older offshoots are genetically very close to the auric dragons either by being descended from them or being from the same generation, like where do they fit in, calling them offshoots of real dragons is kinda funny

[cosmic zenith]

I give them a break because that rigidity is unfortunately precedented

[raven brook]

yharim himself even calls the ascended gods "falsely divine" and refers to deus as "god without sin" or whatnot

which, yes

very much implies that
a. he acnowledges astrum deus as a sort of god
b. he acnowledges the ascended gods as "falsely" divine, which obviously makes sense given its yharim but naturally implies the idea there are other forms of divinity

[cosmic zenith]

We need to make flexible uses more identifiable ingame if we are to nurture the habit of not taking such terms at such face value

[raven brook]

signus, astrum dei, anahita, and other icons of worship could be seen as "gods" in the right context

[raven brook]

I will say i think specially within these circles it's in part due to the community surrounding it

[young socket]

brimstone elemental...

[raven brook]

Many people incuding myself in the past have been pedantic about it

[cosmic zenith]

Even I have been pedantic about it

I'm a very methodical person

[raven brook]

And it generated a self-sustainable cycle of telling anyone who calls anything that isnt a ascendee a god how they're actually wrong and thats not a god

[split mortar]

I mainly attempt this by being rigid in the god definition
Calling deus a thing worshipped like conveys exactly what it is and gives a clear distinction it is not an ascended entity that has a domain
It is late so sorry if it seems i did not read your messages but
Is the issue with being rigid in definition or when others give people shit for not also being rigid in definition

[cosmic zenith]

Having reliable demominations is useful

[dusk laurel]

i think all of us atleast once have done it

[cosmic zenith]

But I'm also a sucker for the development of culture, and rigid terms are fairly unrealistic

[raven brook]

also yeah garion brought up something that i think makes alot of sense

who is to say xeroc even called himself a god to begin with

i mean, why would he

from what we know about his character, he does not seem like the type of guy to say "yeap im god look atm e im god wahahah"

[young socket]

it was all dogmas fault

[raven brook]

why would he loudly proclaim his godhood after ascending, megalomaniac style

[glacial rampart]

when Xeroc ascended he probably went "ok time to turn off the fucking preheat"

[young socket]

im calling it

[raven brook]

ifa nything i think

YEAH

as i said

i think its MUCH more likely

for dogma to have ACTUALLY been the first to call himself god

that fits him like a glove

[dusk laurel]

everything about dogma screams that he would do smth like that

[wanton pendant]

I feel like Yharim would create a term to refer to things worshipped but not gods to differentiate them (and prevent his men from hunting down non-actual gods like the Brimstone Elemental).

[young socket]

dogma being like "noooooo i wasnt the one who coined the term it was our ex buddy xeorc"

[raven brook]

he literally calls astrum deus a god with no sin

[young socket]

"im not being egotistical i swear!!!"

[split mortar]

He also hunted elementals after brimmy woke up

[dusk laurel]

his domain is literally dogma, he presented himself as a godly figure most likely, he wass in control of the "god society" faction, he killed the dragon of faith after believing the dragons were no longer able to protect them, hes one of the oldest gods and probably treated the dragons like gods and would adopt the same position once he took over, and he literally tried to make a "god king" whatever that is from whoever they chose to take yharon's soul

like this guy

perfectly fits the bill

[visual kiln]

pomb

[raven brook]

hi azzy

[raven brook]

rad my

read

[split mortar]

Cheese can you please answer my question asked in the later half.

[raven brook]

the latter

the definition itself isn't even rigid in the game

at the very least,

[split mortar]

Ah ok

[raven brook]

there are things pointing to how it isn't intended to be

ofc, it could be communicated better

but again

yharim himself Literally calls Deus a Sinless God

and calls the gods Falsely Divine

[visual kiln]

YESYESYESYESYEYSEYSYEYSEYSEYSYEYSEYSYEYSEYUFIEUFGPNOIEMFWEMP}MOEGKRDFMGKSD"LFlgmt]pohms]pmpgkla,thmslkg,;l,;lnal;,gf;d,

[raven brook]

this explicitly makes it clear it is not a single definition and all other ones are automatically wrong

[glacial rampart]

is this what they mean by love wins

[split mortar]

So does yharim see deus as actually divine then is smth i wonder

[wanton pendant]

Or I suppose 'god' was a common term for worshipped beings but gods like Dogma had propaganda campaigns to shift the definition to being ascended people.

[raven brook]

definitions of "divine" vary

it is a being of great power that is worshipped as a religious icon

so by all means yeah it can be seen as a form of deity

the dragons, also could be

[leaden fern]

so how powerful is yharim?

[dusk laurel]

he is powerful

[split mortar]

He is top 3/4 of the verse

[raven brook]

strongest mortal

[glacial rampart]

he likely doesnt view it as a literal divine god but i wouldnt be surprised if yharim respected the creatures as a higher being given
"god without sin"

[raven brook]

y eah it does seem like yharim respect's deus

[leaden fern]

mister satan from dragon ball ahhhh character

[raven brook]

not really

[leaden fern]

yeh

[raven brook]

theres like, 4 characters in the entire setting we know of that are stronger than him

hes the final boss for a reason

[split mortar]

Not really i dont see mr satan being top 4 in the verse

[raven brook]

anyways

[leaden fern]

hmmmm xeroc?

[raven brook]

yes he's one of them

[leaden fern]

god?

[raven brook]

read hte other thingies too ,,,

[raven brook]

wdym by god

[split mortar]

1. Xeroc
2. Prime Moonlord
3. Noxus
4. Yharim/Zeratros

[wanton pendant]

God from the Bible isn't a Calamity character.

[dusk laurel]

God is not a character because even if it existed it would not be relevant

[raven brook]

As in is Xeroc a god? yes

[leaden fern]

oh i see

god as in like the creator of the world of terraria

[raven brook]

there is none

[split mortar]

That does not exist

[wanton pendant]

He's still not here.

[eager bluff]

if there is one it wont be written about

[raven brook]

and if there hypothetically was some sort of creator, it is not part of the story

[eager bluff]

you can write one for fanfics but for the story as it is in calamity it holds no bearing and wont be discussed

[leaden fern]

alr, there definintely must be but there isn't a place for it since we've never known about it or probably isn't relevant

[raven brook]

definitely

no not really

[split mortar]

there definitely must be
No

[raven brook]

hypotehtically it Could exsit but theres literally no reason for why it also couldn't

[wanton pendant]

Calamity's world was actually made by the ACME.

[dusk laurel]

can we kill you

[wanton pendant]

No. :/

[raven brook]

thank you for the input wwg

[split mortar]

Imo
Themes n such is a good reason to say why an infinitely all powerful being can’t exist

[leaden fern]

yeah so just so we're cclear

yharim is void

:)))))))))))))))))))))))))

[wanton pendant]

What?

[dusk laurel]

this vexes me

[young socket]

dies of death

[visual kiln]

yeah

[split mortar]

Yharim is not ceaseless void

[pulsar ocean]

Were the legs 90% of moonlord’s power

[split mortar]

Thats a different thing

[leaden fern]

like 99.9999999998% brother

[raven brook]

Yharim also isn't the fourth layer of the abyss

[leaden fern]

yharim is comfirmed to be yharim then

[split mortar]

People tend to lose a lot of power when their legs get cut off, tends to be enough they die.

[visual kiln]

yeah thats me

[wanton pendant]

Yeah, he is.

[visual kiln]

i did

[raven brook]

i love when this chat goes from actual productive conversation to whatever this is ❤️

[leaden fern]

yay I did it, I know calamity lore now :DDDD

[visual kiln]

i dont rlly have anything to say rn aboiut it

[west plume]

moon lord has ribs exposed and is still the strongest vanilla boss u gotta give him some respect

[visual kiln]

other than i agree

[raven brook]

yay!

[split mortar]

Yeah genuinely what the fuck happened

[raven brook]

a new user joined and started being a internet funnyperson

[wanton pendant]

Theology got brought up in Lore chat again.

[dusk laurel]

this channel for some reason always devolves like this

likemost of the time whenever smth happens it gets interrupted it feels

[split mortar]

Yeah seems so

[visual kiln]

moon lord ribs

what is moon lord made of

[pulsar ocean]

Ribs

[split mortar]

Distortion flesh

[visual kiln]

could u eat him or would u die of toxic chemicals n stuff

[split mortar]

Idk

[raven brook]

I wouldn't eat anything from the distortion

[pulsar ocean]

Everything is a cycle

[leaden fern]

epic lore moment : SCAL IS BALD:D

[split mortar]

Coward

[dusk laurel]

why r we eating things again

[raven brook]

Though Braelor probably had to so, i figure its edible, to som extent

[west plume]

i think it is inadvisable to eat ridiculously old rotting distortion meat

[raven brook]

its also rotting

forgot about that

yknow

[split mortar]

The distortion is rotting?

[pulsar ocean]

So if it wasn’t rotting it’d be good to go

[wanton pendant]

Maybe Braelor just ate his armour.

[raven brook]

no, ml is

[wanton pendant]

That stuff is probably edible.

[raven brook]

hes fucking cut in half

[west plume]

i'm unsure

[raven brook]

and has been sealed in the moon for, a long while

[visual kiln]

would moon lord be full of parasites and stuff

[split mortar]

We are already suffering from one randomiser please do not add to it

[raven brook]

anyways funny idea but what if the way things from the distortion are perceived in the overworld is vastly different when they're actually within their home realm

[wanton pendant]

They'd probably suffocate.

[wheat walrus]

wahr

[split mortar]

Been on the moon for ages so not any new ones i imagine

[wheat walrus]

what

[pulsar ocean]

It doesn’t matter

[split mortar]

Replying to my message above

[raven brook]

wrong reply

[wheat walrus]

confusion

[leaden fern]

I ate your lore

[wheat walrus]

wym

[split mortar]

Someone here already derailing stuff a lot by being random can you not add to what going on

[raven brook]

What if you were to fight moon lord, devourer or signus within their home realm they'd be far more abstract and esoteric in their appearance

[wheat walrus]

oo

[split mortar]

Cheese was replying to my message above

[raven brook]

User respectfully i can't speak for everyone but i dont find hte random shitposting funny its just kinda disruptive

tryna have actual conversations here

[wanton pendant]

We've looped back to Cthulhu.

[visual kiln]

tadc abstractions imo

[wheat walrus]

i see

[visual kiln]

i wish cthulhu was a name for moon lord still tbh

[split mortar]

Azzy this applies to you too

[dusk laurel]

yk now that its simmered in my head more, the implications of the shimmer once being very common all across the underground implies the world was alot more magical back then if the unexplained substance was everywhere

[raven brook]

Azzy did you just say that because my message ahd the word "abstract" on it

all of the tadc abstractions look the exact same and their design isnt even particularly esoteric or abstract funnily enough

not really comparable at all i dont think

[pulsar ocean]

Me seeing horrors beyond my comprehension (I don’t get it)

[split mortar]

Oh true
Mana tends to go to conglomerate into one place i wonder if it seeped deeper into the planet

[visual kiln]

no im saying that bc i think an appearance inspired by tadc abstractions would be rlly cool for them

[raven brook]

they're called abstractions because of what happens to the characters mind, not because of their appearance

[young socket]

there are two types of fantasy genres
some day the dragons may return and the world will come back to a more magical state
HOW THE FUCK DO WE GET RID OF THESE FUCKING DRAGONS

[wanton pendant]

Calamity is both.

[wheat walrus]

this chat is so peculiar everytime i look at it it's either inactive or the activity is so creatureous

[split mortar]

Can this chat please lock in

[west plume]

dragons didnt go nowhere

[raven brook]

I think multimedia designs would be really interesting

[split mortar]

The super magic ones did

[icy veldt]

Calamity is the latter, except they already accomplished all but one of it

[wanton pendant]

They went straight to Hell.

[visual kiln]

chat is half conversation half people complaining about shitposting and then theres like 1 guy shitposting

[raven brook]

Going out of the box of the usual terraria spritework and having stuff that involves 3d models, photoshop collages, etc

[visual kiln]

love to see it

[visual kiln]

mhm

[split mortar]

Tsuki also did it

[west plume]

you guys see draconids in modern day kind of like how people saw birds as not really dinosaurs for ages because they werent cool enough

[raven brook]

Mainly saying this becasue

the few distortion designs we HAVE seen

aren't really particularly esoteric or abstract

i mean heck

[split mortar]

I do not think the dragons could break the laws of thermodynamics and rebirth

[wanton pendant]

Yeah, but the modern ones are lame and don't wield nigh unlimited control over anything.

[raven brook]

ml is kind of a extremely basic design lets be real

and thats not something calamity can change

So i was wondering if maybe, when they're actually within the distortion

they'd look different

[young socket]

hes basically like teal cthulhu but with eyes on his hands i think

[raven brook]

and their appearance as we see it as a result of them "adapting" to ourr reality's laws

[visual kiln]

maybe ml is like a mech suit being piloted by some abstract thing

[dusk laurel]

azzypost

[split mortar]

No real basis on that and would feel unnecessarily convoluted imo

[visual kiln]

if that were the case then cal could change that

[young socket]

maybe youre just a bone mech using flesh armour

[visual kiln]

for example

[raven brook]

I really like my explanation because it allows for the designs of the distortion creatures we do have to remain as they are while allowing for the actual distortion to be far more funky while still being narratively consistent

[glacial rampart]

also something that everyone gets wrong about like "creatures beyond your comprehension" is not just 'you cant tell what it is' the whole thing is like. you can see it. you can see all of it. the fact that you can understand what this thing is and the fact that it is so beyond what you've ever seen is what drives you insane

u dont just look at cthulhu and go insane

im bad at explaining but like

[raven brook]

I'm ngl i don't even care much about the eldritch horror beyond my comprehension whatever thing

In fact i think it has become kind of a buzzword

[glacial rampart]

true

[raven brook]

I don't really care about the distortion fitting that description

[dusk laurel]

cthulhu is like the opposite of horrors beyong my comprehension

its just a guy with squid features

[raven brook]

I just think it would be really cool if it was a very alien place in the sense it's surrealist and esoteric unlike anything in the overworld

[visual kiln]

it'd be cool if the distortion looked otherworldly

like actually alien

[raven brook]

A inspiration i had was madoka magica labyrinths

stuff like this

specially the 2nd image

that is sooo distortion to me

usage of multimedia art in distortion would be awesome imo

[split mortar]

Fun fact i do not really know whag sureealist or esoteric lile mean
Googled esoteric and like 70% of the uses of the word do not seem like they fit

[leaden fern]

quick question...

[wanton pendant]

Looks like Giygas.

[frozen zodiac]

oh that's a dead god

there is a dead god at the bottom of the distortion

[raven brook]

surrealist = surreal, not conventional, intentionally bizzare

[split mortar]

Ah ok

[leaden fern]

I get why scal is powerful but yharim might just be like us, the player... right?

[wheat walrus]

The thing with lovecraftian horrors is that they're so greater than life that what makes you go insane is the realization you and everything that surrounds you is so little, right?

[raven brook]

you could call felix colgrave's animations surrealist and esoteric4

[wanton pendant]

Yeah, he'll be a really strong human.

[glacial rampart]

yeah

[wheat walrus]

gotcha

[leaden fern]

so is he humna or a terrarian?

[raven brook]

there is no "terrarian" species

[wanton pendant]

Terrarians are humans.

[raven brook]

human or terrarian means the same thing

[leaden fern]

Iwas gonna say that

[visual kiln]

not necessarily imo

[split mortar]

Yharim is attuned to yharon and so unlike us can use auric without mock attunement and has lengthened vitality
But other then that he worked for it hard so yeah theres much more similarities then scal ig

[leaden fern]

yeah

[visual kiln]

terrarian means from terraria (planet/world/whatever)

imo

[raven brook]

I mean theroetically if there were humans from outside of terraria

[crude light]

oh

[dusk laurel]

agree

[raven brook]

It can be both really

[visual kiln]

a cat is a terrarian

bc it originates from terraria

[fierce pagoda]

Hello everyone

[split mortar]

I do not use it in this context

[wanton pendant]

Hello.

[fierce pagoda]

whats crackaloring

[split mortar]

Terrarian

[raven brook]

the same way that "martian" refers to the little green guys

[wanton pendant]

Horrors beyond comprehension.

[visual kiln]

wii sporst

[split mortar]

Also what

[raven brook]

but technically you could say scutlixes are also martians but they're not little green guys

they're martians in the sense they come from mars

[leaden fern]

hmmm maybe draedon and/or scal (maybe dog) might have done a little silly thing with yharim... you know... the usual "I'll give you this just in case" powerup.

[raven brook]

draedon did

[wanton pendant]

Draedon did.

[raven brook]

none of the others did

[visual kiln]

whalefall type dimension would go crazy

[leaden fern]

draedon did

[wanton pendant]

Calamitas would never.

DoG probably just can't.

[leaden fern]

scal is a child, no one toucheh the chilh

[raven brook]

no shes not

shes like 28

[wanton pendant]

Not anyone, she's 28.

[frozen zodiac]

idk what if dog messed up and one of the gods somehow survived in the distortion and is biding their time to strike back

[raven brook]

shed kill yharim herself if hse could

[dusk laurel]

scal hasnt been a child in like a decade

[raven brook]

and dog has no real allegiance towards Yharim and is only working with him out of mutual benefit

[glacial rampart]

respectfully nobody thinks you are funny

[wanton pendant]

Have to be one hell of a god.

[split mortar]

Draedon gave yharim the exo tech augmentations on his armour
Calamitas left over a decade ago and left, plus yharim aint a mage
What can dog even do, he is technically still aligned though ig

[leaden fern]

in what way?

[fierce pagoda]

oh boy

[young socket]

i mean

braelor survived for quite a while

could be like one of dogs early victims where he was kinda cocky

[raven brook]

Calamitas left over a decade ago and left

[split mortar]

Even if they did survive they would prob die to noxus

[wanton pendant]

There is nothing mere about that mortal.

[long bloom]

hello what are we lore discussing

[raven brook]

i think youd di a typo

[split mortar]

Its near 2am sorry

[wanton pendant]

Something.

[raven brook]

its ok happens

[young socket]

maybe even straight after he got his armour he got an ego boost and didnt properly finish one of them off before distortion banishing them

[visual kiln]

nervous gulp

[young socket]

theres nothing mere about gods either

[raven brook]

cries

[frozen zodiac]

dont get TOO cocky star fox...

[wanton pendant]

Still would have to be on the high end to be where Braelor reasonably is.

[raven brook]

byeah anyways i hope the distortion is funky and surreal

i know that alex wnats to do smth like thta for the distortion

[visual kiln]

whos alex

[raven brook]

dunno abt the others but distortion is so far away we'll see it when we see it

[long bloom]

looks at leegrid

[dusk laurel]

carnymassacre

[visual kiln]

oh

[raven brook]

azzy i literally told u this like 2 days ago

:p

[young socket]

qgiasf

[long bloom]

[dusk laurel]

i think most people do tbh

[long bloom]

leaked distortion concept art

[dusk laurel]

i think ive seen half of the active devs here say they want to see that happen, if not more

[dusk laurel]

this is literally the worst timeline

[wanton pendant]

Where's the DoG arena, the only thing in the dimension?

[split mortar]

I really should work on my ideas for a fan take on the distortion
-# hope fan take is the correct term
Would help serve as some practice on fucked up weirdness i plan on writing even later in the future

[raven brook]

I know everyone wnats to do Not purple rock land

[long bloom]

that is the dog arena

[raven brook]

but idk abt specific visions

[raven brook]

crispy art

[long bloom]

:true

[split mortar]

Ah thats where i recognised that

[dusk laurel]

this is what the majority of the fanbase thinks the place looks like

[glacial rampart]

this is that one place from madness combat 😭✌️

[long bloom]

[west plume]

DoG is sort of just a mascot for yharim's military

[visual kiln]

sorry i forgor

[raven brook]

its ok

[long bloom]

wouldn't yharon be the mascot

[wanton pendant]

Stole Yharon's job, the scoundrel.

[west plume]

A Mascot

[raven brook]

not really yharon is like

[west plume]

not The Mascot

[dusk laurel]

yharon is like second in command if not equal to yharim i thik

[raven brook]

I wouldn't call Yharon a mascot the entire crusade is centered around him and he'd probably be much more akin a figure of worship or praies if anything i feel

He'd be held in way oto high a pedestal to be called a mascot imo

[long bloom]

i more meant icon

[raven brook]

icon i can see yeah

[visual kiln]

this randomly put into my mind a calamity mascot horror au idea

[west plume]

Withered Draedon

[wanton pendant]

Five Nights at Yharon's.

[raven brook]

swamp devourer

aurictrap

[frozen zodiac]

the scale of mascot horror designs
regular yharon plushie
whatever
whatever
full scale realistic scary as hell dog that was somehow meant to be for children

[west plume]

calamitas is the nightguard

[wanton pendant]

So THAT'S what she was doing during those 12 years.

Is Permafrost the phone guy?

[gritty kraken]

Focus C

[frozen zodiac]

(context)

[glacial rampart]

getting chased by the thing on the very right would fuck me up if the game atmosphere was good

[crude light]

i could take ir

[cloud ibex]

you are horse

[crude light]

i can not escape the accusations anywhere i go

[spare pier]

Yo ask me questions

[cloud ibex]

are you horse

[spare pier]

No I'm a fish

[cloud ibex]

fuck

[icy veldt]

Would a horse + a fish be a hish or a forse?

[thick slate]

question

[split mortar]

What is darksun fragments

[spare pier]

Come on ask me more questions I'm tipsy

[thick slate]

what does tungsten taste like

[cloud ibex]

ruh roh

[spare pier]

Bullshit we don't know how to explain

[thick slate]

i wish i was tipsy

[spare pier]

Forse

[spare pier]

Tungsten duh

[split mortar]

Does the distortion celebrate pride month

[spare pier]

No they're homophobic

[split mortar]

Dang

Is shadowspec canon or gay

[spare pier]

Gay

[thick slate]

what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow

[long bloom]

how heavy is cosmilite

[spare pier]

Heavier than your mom

[long bloom]

[spare pier]

2

[split mortar]

Could i chew cosmilite like indium

[spare pier]

Yeah shore

[cosmic zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-impossible-marvel-shocked-gif-15104180

[split mortar]

Aerialite or auric whats more used for beds

[cosmic zenith]

Distortion spoiler (the final version will probably be a bit different anyways):

Aerialite

[hollow pivot]

Is it an African or European Swallow?

[thick slate]

unladen

[thick slate]

what is ts

[cosmic zenith]

Distortion Shrine

[split mortar]

Seems like its the distortion???

[thick slate]

why not purple and purple

[raven brook]

i dont think its literally the distortion cuz that

probably ahstn been developed yet 😭

[long bloom]

wrong. distortion update tomorrow

[raven brook]

it being distortion related does make my original guess seem even more likely though

[hollow pivot]

Here's what it looks like with higher exposure btw

[real silo]

Malevolent shri

[raven brook]

i dont think the higher exposure really helps much but yeah

[cosmic zenith]

Crazy

[real silo]

Isn't that the build in the uhh what was it

[raven brook]

like you can tell what blocks its made of already

[real silo]

The newsleter

[raven brook]

nah

diff thing

[hollow pivot]

We can see the sun now 🧠

[cosmic zenith]

Do you really think I'd have hid something through exposure....

[dusk laurel]

no

[glacial rampart]

of course, scott cawthon

[cosmic zenith]

Also yeah we haven't figured out the sun yet

[raven brook]

something sigma adjaent

[glacial rampart]

sigma

[dusk laurel]

👹

[thick slate]

sigma

like from overwatch

[long bloom]

hmmmmmm

[hollow pivot]

I see the similarities.

[thick slate]

loll

[raven brook]

yeah those aint the same

[cosmic zenith]

Took you guys long enough lol

[long bloom]

it's literally the same except the decorations

[cosmic zenith]

But the real question is which came first

[long bloom]

chicken

[thick slate]

eg

[hollow pivot]

It is?

[raven brook]

stip i know what you are you just reused a build and replaced the tiles for a newsletter

[cosmic zenith]

Remember, there are no accidents

[young socket]

neither this is one of stips pranks

[hollow pivot]

The sun?

[long bloom]

[young socket]

that was

not meant to ping

but whatever

[spare pier]

Sorry guys I spilled paint on Stip's latest building :(

[cosmic zenith]

I've been possessed by the Ogsculians

[long bloom]

if that's the sun then why's there such a stony area on the surface

[hollow pivot]

it's a building that has stone

[rain osprey]

except when DTD kills Yharon in 2:37

that one's definitely an accident

[spare pier]

No it's a very important part of God's plan

[thick slate]

by drake

[cosmic zenith]

Name one time where one of my grand sharings was accidental and ultimately inconsequential

[rain osprey]

Stip, what are the lore implications of every DoG drop being better on Exos than Yharon

[spare pier]

Worm tastes better than dragon

[rain osprey]

Ok I'll stop apologies

[young socket]

yhorm

[dusk laurel]

yhorm was intentional trolling

[cosmic zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-sure-about-that-gif-17735709754501735355

[dusk laurel]

😢

[long bloom]

#justiceforyhorm

[real silo]

Dog has been planning draedon's downfall ever since he called him a fatass chud

[cosmic zenith]

Yhorm definitely wasn't accidental, that's for sure

[cosmic zenith]

Draedon is more proficient with the familiar, which is why his pursuit of knowledge is also a pursuit of control

[rain osprey]

🔥

THAT'S MY MOTHERFUCKING WRITER 🔥 🔥

[spare pier]

That's my mother respecting writer

[cosmic zenith]

Says the person who kindly provided a fantastic bit of lore for the loreheads this upcoming update

[rain osprey]

hehe

[long bloom]

horrible hog lore??

peak

[raven brook]

lore on the fucking hog update

[cosmic zenith]

Hoggers

[raven brook]

shit's fucked, ain't it?

[long bloom]

hogdate

[spare pier]

That's right. Hoglore

[cosmic zenith]

I haven't done much for this update lore-wise

[west plume]

complete and utter hogwash

[rain osprey]

there isn't a ton of lore in this update, tbf

[cosmic zenith]

But Archon System did! They're peak

[spare pier]

Yeah, most of it has gone on backend stuff

[long bloom]

i would hope not 💀

[west plume]

Origin of Hogs

[spare pier]

Wait no Stip we didn't make stuff for this update........

[west plume]

This happened millions of years before the Dragons rose to power...

[spare pier]

It's all preparation for the next

[thick slate]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-ishowspeed-speed-stream-ishowspeed-stream-speed-nod-gif-1082323842437565509

[young socket]

the lore writers are washed theyre not making new brand new lore for the next update

[rain osprey]

the little bit i submitted to you isn't about the hog anyway, it's something else

[spare pier]

Well ok there's Text going in this update but not Lore

[raven brook]

tag yourself

[cosmic zenith]

Meanwhile I'm plotting and scheming in the background

[rain osprey]

nefarious

[spare pier]

Which we (Archonlings) are writing

[rain osprey]

DAMN IT TRIANGLE

[raven brook]

personally i'm feeling very red river hog rn

[plucky juniper]

btw do not forget the peccaries

[west plume]

not a suid

[plucky juniper]

the pig's weird cousins from america

[spare pier]

Don't call them weird

[cosmic zenith]

Me showing up to dev lore chat with 17 pages worth of lore for devs to read

[spare pier]

They're trying their best

[cosmic zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/ufs-peak-suggestion-gif-3273778067553303027

[plucky juniper]

holy shit i can post images now

[spare pier]

The imager

[west plume]

do you want to continue posting images

[spare pier]

We're still tipsy btw

[raven brook]

this chat is so orange

[eager bluff]

yeah image posting is only blocked in cut

[spare pier]

Yes, I love orange

[rain osprey]

me showing up to provide excellent feedback (i have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the conversation is even about)

[raven brook]

i have a bottle of vodky cocktail on the fridge, i'd join you but unfortuantely my face is kinda dry right now so drinking alcohol is not a good idea

😔

[cosmic zenith]

Roxy, you should punch someone
Tipsy gives melee bonuses....

[spare pier]

True

[plucky juniper]

fuck

[spare pier]

Open your windows

I'm coming

[plucky juniper]

ROXY POST THE HAIR EXPLODE GIF

[west plume]

How is Alcoholism explained in Calamity Mod Lore?

[spare pier]

Uuuuuh

[plucky juniper]

THAT IS MY MOOD RN

[rain osprey]

chat, is there a lore reason the bottle calls to me

[eager bluff]

the buffs are too good

[eager bluff]

you need buffs

[spare pier]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol

: thumbsup

[dusk laurel]

roxy how does hermes file his taxes

[wanton pendant]

Alcohol gives debuffs, fake fan.

[spare pier]

Really fast

[west plume]

In real life, bottles of alcohol speak sweet nothings to me and tell me to drink them. In game, they don't speak at all. Is there a reason for this?

[cosmic zenith]

Yes

[plucky juniper]

eyo

[eager bluff]

yeah its because evil nefarious esrb rating of doom and despair

[cosmic zenith]

12 hours of gaming a day keep the voices away

[rain osprey]

also the sentry sucks

polyp launcher is so much better

[glacial rampart]

bountiful harvest when half the things it added are removed now

[plucky juniper]

sucks to be you man

[wanton pendant]

Will the Hog Wild update address Yharim's crippling gambling addiction?

[plucky juniper]

it carried my ass

[west plume]

no we're adding more gambling actually

[cosmic zenith]

We should make a mage weapon line smh....

[rain osprey]

no, that's extremely lore important

[spare pier]

Do not speak lies about the golden hero Yharim

He has no such thing as a gambling addiction

[west plume]

Lord Yharim has no vices.

[cosmic zenith]

I do wonder which is coming sooner - my dev weapon with a Sky Update, or my dev vanity with an Underworld Update

[plucky juniper]

this is true because if the casino tried to scam him he'd probably just obliterate them

[raven brook]

Give me 500 Dollars.

Currently, Calamity Mod does not give me 500 dollars. I think it'd be beneficial for my enjoyability of the mod if i was given 500 dollars.

As the priority of the mod's development should be making a enjoyable and unique experience, i think this would be a good chance, as it would both be a unique (Only i get 500 dollars) and enjoyable (i enjoy money) feature.

[rain osprey]

she said golden instead of auric. yharim has been rewritten to no longer use auric, quick everyone update your notes

[cosmic zenith]

I really hope I eventually get both irl ngl

[rain osprey]

write that down write that down

[light linden]

I uh

[cosmic zenith]

It would be cool as fuck

[light linden]

is this a bad time?

[plucky juniper]

"the house always wins" mfs when i have an auric dragon as my best friend:

[west plume]

Put this in the lorewriter approved lore doc

[raven brook]

I think the chat is just going insane right now yeah

Do you have any actual lore-related questions

[wanton pendant]

Updating lore document as we speak.

[long bloom]

@spare pier approve my lore doc

[spare pier]

Approved

[eager bluff]

"the house always wins" my ass i punched the house and it lost -Yharim, probably

[cosmic zenith]

How many pages does the lore doc have

[light linden]

yes

[spare pier]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-boom-knuckles-approved-approved-stamp-i-approve-gif-10897403971127807694

[wanton pendant]

Like 90.

[cosmic zenith]

One day

[raven brook]

ok guys slow down

[cosmic zenith]

Mark my words

[rain osprey]

ok everyone get serious. we're serious developers

[raven brook]

we have actual lore questions on the way

[cosmic zenith]

Go on, Thunder

[light linden]

just curious about a small detail about draedon

[cosmic zenith]

There will be an update with so much background lore and worldbuilding that its doc will surpass the lore doc in length.

[plucky juniper]

can you forward my suggestion:
please kill the new polterghast lore where it turns out yharim doesnt have the whole blame and its partly statis's fault; this ruins polterghast's whole point and makes me want to consume the souls of an entire country to become an undead spirit abomination

[light linden]

did he use the dubious plating before working with yharim?

[cosmic zenith]

Probably

[raven brook]

Forward to where im just a girl

[glacial rampart]

tufffff

[raven brook]

I wonder what the actual like. name of dubious plating is

Like it's clearly an alloy

I feel like draedon probably wouldn't all the alloy he made the Dubious Plating

[long bloom]

Not Wulfrum

[raven brook]

true!

[plucky juniper]

will do

[spare pier]

Trusty Plating

[light linden]

my guess is that it's partially brass

[raven brook]

i can see that yeah

[rain osprey]

dubious is more in the sense of "it's scrap metal. you're not really sure what it came from, and you'd rather not ask"

[eager bluff]

i assume dubious plating is just rusted to shit

[raven brook]

yeah this makes sense, is about what i figured

its just little scrap pieces of whatever draedon used to make his shit

[light linden]

also since we were talking about the distortion for a bit

[visual kiln]

hi

[raven brook]

hai azzy :D

[tropic depot]

fuck you azzy explodes you

[wanton pendant]

My actual lore questions is, as always, what the HELL is going on with the moon.
Like, that thing is totally alive and evil, I just can't prove it.

[light linden]

I still REALLY want glowing plants or trees from the distortion that we can take to the real world

[eager bluff]

moons haunted

[cosmic zenith]

I also intend to make some sort of doc artbook of all my research and designing surrounding environmental storytelling, narrative intention, inspirations and all that jazz because I just find those that I do read (like Silksong old stuff, RW Watcher concepts) fascinating and I also want people to appreciate the research complexity along with me

[raven brook]

moons evil

[tropic depot]

moons evil

[spare pier]

Statis is only at fault because he quickened the process, he wasn't the one who shoved thousands of prisoners inside a dungeon where half of them died of starvation

He just lit the match on the pool of oil

[wanton pendant]

That's what I've been saying!

[raven brook]

this will be fun

[light linden]

please give me this

[plucky juniper]

okay phrasing it like that works better

[tropic depot]

I will 100% be reading

[light linden]

I love glowing plants so much

[spare pier]

Like Polterghast would've happened whether Statis raided the Dungeon or not

He just made it happen sooner

[rain osprey]

fly me to the moon
so i can kick its fucking ass
let me show you what i learned
in my moon jujitsu class
in other words
fuck the moon

[plucky juniper]

because rn im still smouldering from the horror of cheese's "Except he fucking lied about that too and was also just guilt tripping you lmaooo"

[west plume]

The Moon is hungry. The moon is also thirsty.

[cosmic zenith]

This is already a sort of thing that I had in my head for SSO because there's always extensive research in my development style, but I didn't get to record it, and I haven't really gotten a similar opportunity since

[light linden]

also roxy I'm curious about something regarding the polterghast if you don't mind

[plucky juniper]

@raven brook another amidias abomination will arise in retaliation for this horrid comment.

[glacial rampart]

what is this polterghast thing brainstorm lore

[plucky juniper]

One day.

[spare pier]

I'm borderline drunk I ain't answering ya now

[light linden]

gotcha

[west plume]

tá

[spare pier]

Xorrecot

[light linden]

@cosmic zenithyou.

[spare pier]

Corrector

[cosmic zenith]

?

[rain osprey]

LMAO

[wanton pendant]

Brainstorm revealed a mysterious, unseen ninja killed a lot of people in the Dungeon.
Obviously, this is Statis.

[plucky juniper]

yea that sounds about right

[light linden]

given enough time could polterghast even slightly stabilize?

[spare pier]

Polterghast is stable

[cosmic zenith]

Stabilize in what sense?

[plucky juniper]

presumably Yharim's crusade killed a lot of therapists. given the state of the world, its likely that no therapist even exists in the heartlands

that said, if one existed, they might have a shot at stabilizing polterghast

[light linden]

become less mindless ghost monster

[spare pier]

No

[wanton pendant]

I don't think it can not be mindless or a ghost.

[west plume]

The Greatest Psychiatrist in History vs Polterghast

[light linden]

and just become ghost monster

[rain osprey]

i think the problems is not that it's mindless, but it has way too many of them

[spare pier]

That's like asking if a bear can spontaneously develop sapience

[cosmic zenith]

It would probably dissolve/diminish over time, but not "stabilize" emotionally

[plucky juniper]

strongest amalgamation of angry phantasms versus the weakest therapist

[young socket]

i think itd be more accurate to call polterghast a mindfull ghost creature

[light linden]

I do wonder if the dungeon would become a place like the crags eventually

[young socket]

get it

[rain osprey]

👻 <- full of mind

[young socket]

cuz its made a lot of soula

[eager bluff]

nah

[light linden]

just supercharged with a specific type of magic

[young socket]

do u get it guys

[west plume]

being completely and totally incoherent is sorta the same thing as being mindless tho

[wanton pendant]

Yes, we get it, into the vat of acid.

[spare pier]

You know what?

[young socket]

@rain osprey KILLS YOU

[spare pier]

You her a Brazil react Tsuki

[plucky juniper]

okay polterghast could be cool but i have a more pertinent request of calamity mod

[wanton pendant]

They have one thought, and that thought is revenge.

[rain osprey]

you can't kill me in any way that matters

[plucky juniper]

can you get the draconic cult to create more half-dragon monstrosities

[rain osprey]

i'm far too annoyting for that

[young socket]

I WILL MAW YOU TO DEATH

[eager bluff]

crags became like that because it had a huge blast of a single type of magic over a fairly prolonged period of time relative to how long magic usually lasts

[spare pier]

*Maul

Dumbass

[wanton pendant]

*Mall.
Coconut.

[west plume]

horriblehog

[hollow pivot]

[young socket]

shut up ur drunk

[hollow pivot]

Embed Fail:

[spare pier]

Nope

[eager bluff]

there isnt this kind of magic blast present in the dungeon

[rain osprey]

yet. be the change you wanna see in the world

[wanton pendant]

Did a god kill Permafrost's family?

[spare pier]

I ain't even drunk

[plucky juniper]

roxy are ya sure

[spare pier]

Just a tad tipsy

[plucky juniper]

tipsy?

yeah i count that

[eager bluff]

you outright said you were drunk earlier

[spare pier]

No I said I was almost drunk

[eager bluff]

like 2 minutes ago earlier

[west plume]

HELLO ALL OF ARCHON SYSTEM
CAN YOU put more stuff into the lore repository

[plucky juniper]

sorry this is what happens when alcohol does not tempt me in the slightest

[spare pier]

NO OUR LAPTOP FUCKING SUCKS

[plucky juniper]

everything that contains alcohol i assume will turn me drunk

[spare pier]

We'll see what if we can do somethin about it tomorrow tho

Our roomate is majoring in programming he can prolly help

[wanton pendant]

Vinegar?

[plucky juniper]

sour.

[rain osprey]

rubbing alcohol does not get you drunk

speaking from experience

[eager bluff]

sounds like a skill issue to me

[spare pier]

If that works out we can finish the Yharon document this week

[plucky juniper]

to be fair "alcohol" can refer to a lot of things

[west plume]

that's wood alcohol and they have to purposefully make it bitter to stop people from drinking it

[cosmic zenith]

I probably am not going to be available tomorrow but let me know when you are available for repository stuff

[plucky juniper]

LMAO?

[wanton pendant]

Will Yharon finally do literally anything?

[cosmic zenith]

I need to port that one doc to the repository

[spare pier]

Bro he's doing fucking everything now

[cosmic zenith]

I might also have more stuff ready somewhat soon

[rain osprey]

no

[spare pier]

Yharon stocks are on the rise

[long bloom]

peak

[spare pier]

Invest in Dragoncoin

The lore writers need money

[wanton pendant]

I'm getting mixed messages. Yharon either does nothing or everything.
I will stick him in a box to be sure.

[cosmic zenith]

I spread the Draconic Era brainrot to Archon System

[rain osprey]

i'm not really even sure why i'm in this coversation

[spare pier]

It's ok so am I

[rain osprey]

i'm not a writer lol

[west plume]

me neither

[rain osprey]

you do more writing than me

[cosmic zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/feeling-so-wawa-rn-rain-world-rainworld-inv-enot-gif-14187650054940823122

Fun fact

Over the last few weeks, I've downloaded four movies, bought 2 videogames and learned the basics of several architectural movements throughout history for the same of lore writing/worldbuilding/environmental storytelling

[wanton pendant]

You're telling me Goths are coming to Calamity!?

[cosmic zenith]

I'm not telling you anything :p

[rain osprey]

i am

we're adding a hot topic prefab in hell

[wanton pendant]

The place with the hot sauce?

[rain osprey]

yeah

[agile matrix]

have you ever played the binding of isaac and taken a horse pill in game

get that announcer to say this