#innocence won't save you
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fair
i'm mainly worried about the reblog functionality
if that goes too i am leaving
oh that'd be something too much for me too
layout changes are annoying but i'll deal
the dealbreaker is if they fully turn tumblr into social media and not a blogging site
Oh dear, before anything, don't point your lance at it and don't make direct eye contact. Stand your ground though, since it's just rocks I suggest don't run away yet, let's see what its intention...
this interaction is basically
innocence: ah fuck a scav
you (as an overseer): ok don't aggro it—
scav: HOLY SHIT AN OVERSEER
innocence: FUCK SHIT NO
¡¡Hola, Stardust!! Esta pregunta es opcional, te la envío en caso de que quieras escribir algo en chino hoy.
Cuando escribes alguna historia, ¿te gusta pensar en qué patrones de habla tus personajes...

i made a pillowfort account as a back up, and i'm setting up IWSY stuff over there
it is. going.
images don't work very well
i can't make it any smaller
…sorry. I will go look around if there's clean water pool nearby....
(it is pretty funny how much overseers in game so often just doesn't observe scavs from a safe distance)
it was not your prompt that caused that to happen, if it felt that way
scac sees overseer and goes ballistic
LMAO YEAH
(yeah I understand, roleplaying overseer being apologetic for just, go up next to a scav lol)
i'm not dead i swear, just swamped by school work 
…sorry. I will go look around if there's clean water pool nearby....
Your overseer, peeking out from the base of the growing tower now that the scavenger is gone, waves its body in a way that implies...
oh also
i changed my mind entirely about tolls
they just don't exist anymore, not in the same way that they do in the game
i do have a somewhat lengthy explanation of why, but the very short version is just that tolls like that really only work if the world is 2d, and IWSY works in 3d

would appreciate if this was boosted
ok did that, so let me think next input. Holy crap scavs makes me feel like how they described chimpanzee, if you don't be careful around them you get your face ripped off
one thing I learnt about monkeys in general is that if you are giving them something you don't retract your gift in the middle of giving. I got bitten on my arm like that when I was 2 or 3.
Maybe walk around the tower in a wide circle? Ok I will go hiding nearby, be careful!
yeah that sounds like scavs
accidentally spawned a pearl too close to them, tried to take it back, and they merked me on the spot
Maybe walk around the tower in a wide circle? Ok I will go hiding nearby, be careful!
The scavengers chitter agitatedly as your overseer pops out of the ground, but none make any moves towards you or...
ok, I anticipated this (scavs getting a spear, not a primitive saw though), this is very dangerous. I have to make the next move very, very careful.
- Pops out next to the white scavenger* Ohhh primitive tool making! What did they made their saw out of, and how!?
- Pops out next to the white scavenger* Ohhh primitive tool making! What did they made their saw out of, and how!?
The white scavenger shrieks and leaps away as your overseer abruptly pops out of the...
poking this so it doesn't disappear on me
Follow them?
m fuck it I’ll just dump this here
I made this a while ago but I don’t know if it ever got to you and I was too shy to actually. post it here but that was a stupid move in hindsight
if discord fucked the transparency uh. oh well
oh! you!
yes it did get to me, kite relayed it to me
it's really good, thank you so much!
fair!
i will get to this in a sec, as a reminder to self
Follow them?
You allow the scavengers to get a head start, adjusting your senses as you wait. The four constantly glance back at you as they scamper off, but they seem slightly less afraid of you....
'a sec' two hours

For once, you actually get to watch the rain outside. The lightning flashes grew annoying quickly, but you gave up on trying to turn down your light sensitivity after the eighth flash. The walls are...
from tumblr: "#do yall think we should try to make another bomb? #or get another neuron"
consider how innocence is just going to recover from poison, not going to risk double de-buff
Maybe their little burrow curves upward, that they have an air pocket? Though that's going to be annoying for them when they get out after rain.
Maybe their little burrow curves upward, that they have an air pocket? Though that's going to be annoying for them when they get out after rain.
There is likely a portion that's elevated relative to...
>Clean yourself?>Now we are getting some rest, maybe clean the mud a bit? We can always find some water later but it would make you feel better now.
(really can't think of anything useful)
you can just talk to them, but fair 
ok wait wait let me revise that
i'll get to that when i'm done studying
,,,, i'll get to it after my final 
did not get to this, but Did write more logs for background info
it's coming together
newest log is 3 pages long. if that means anything
Now we are getting some rest, maybe clean the mud a bit? We can always find some water later but it would make you feel better now.
You almost forgot about that. You pull your lance closer with a...
i need to do something about the player turn out
yeah... I feel like I couldn't think of any good actions to make
there's a 104 followers on the blog, and it's only you playing
it's really not fair to you
i don't really know what to do tbh. the promo post certainly brought in new followers, but no new players
I was going to bullshit something but right as I'm writing that finally a good idea came to me (this is what happened to my writing for the most part funnily....a good idea usually comes when I let it sit for too long and comes when least expected it)
So Innocence, when we get into Pebbles' facility, do we go see Moon first or Pebbles? And which route do you have in mind?
(I was going to list out names like shorelines and shaded citadel but I just realized these are probably not places actual names...like Side House to industrial complex)
ohh you're digging into the good stuff huh 
So Innocence, when we get into Pebbles' facility, do we go see Moon first or Pebbles? And which route do you have in mind?
...
Is there a point in seeing Moon? She's dead.
That is the point of this...
1523.881 - CLOSED GROUP [WEMANYCHILDREN]
WeManyChildren group, participants: Clandestine Question, Nine Silver Linings, No Mournful Night, Unparalleled Innocence
NSL: [An image of a scavenger.]
NSL:...
ok so first off I'm looking at game map, probably the safest way for Innocence is to go through farm array-outskirt-industrial-chimney canopy
usually the fastest way for me as hunter is farm array-sky island-chimney but I died on the two jumps there way too much time so it's probablly not a good option
also what is the time period Innocence at? In terms of game slugcats
:) you don't know!
one final thing about route planning is that I'm not sure if Innocence can make to that tall wall pipe that requires a backflip(that's the thing that I'm considering writing my WOTS story-iterators probably couldn't climb poles since they don't have slugcat's grabby little feet), if your story world has it, but I wouldn't worry too much once they gets to Five Pebbles, or maybe even just his facility ground, his overseers noticed Hunter and artificer pretty fast, there's no way he'd ignore a fucking iterator coming his way
i think, and i mean this as gently as possible, you should let go of the in game maps and geometry
nah you can just straight up telling me that, it's ok
IWSY is a game set in a 3D world that explores a lot of the world that the game itself does not let us see
sky islands isn't a death pit fiesta, i can say that much
oh that's good, that's good
have to clarify that there aren't no death pits
but sky islands is pebbles' comm sector, after all
it's not all disconnected machinery
not little floating archipelagos
still very tall buildings
also I like NSL, very nerd
also you are correct. climbing poles will Suck, Immensely
silver is the nerdiest nerd to ever nerd
the triplets came online in uhhhhhh
in 1522, unsure when
mid 1522
so approximately a year
i actually literally just realized that, but honestly he would do that
“nuh uh”

they're all so silly i love them i suuuuuure hope nothing bad happens to them
:)
You eventually gave up and turned off your visual faculties anyway. Turning them back on now, you wince at the sudden influx of light, shielding your face from the glare. Ugh. This is why you don't...
part of me says it's too dangerous. But other part is too curious not to
someone else already suggested going in to explore before i uploaded this, i'm just waiting for them to give input on if they still want to do it
I'm going to wait for 2-3 days if they have a kind of input they want, then I'm just going to leeroy jenkins into that hole
LMFAO
use > something something
huh
actually no I’m gonna backtrack hard before I do something stupid uhhh sorry ignore that
if you don't do it before 2-3 days I might do something even stupider
I’m pretty sure the result is gonna be innocence in the hole anyways
iterators be like “I’m godlike in comparison” ok. get in the hole
to be fair, holes does have an allure to it
why have can when you have hole
their chamber is like a hole think of it
you're right, it needs to be smaller

i don't think i know that meme 
me neither
oh good you haven't seen the horror manga
it's going to be this image except instead of 'dark' it's 'hole'
OH
WAIT I JUST REALIZED
I GET IT NOW
wgat
OH THAT ONE
horror manga about holes
LMFAO
autocorrect fucked me over
wait it's about what
basically acting on intrusive thoughts
AUTOCORRECT IS A CRUEL GOD 
... huh
you can find it online, I think some imgur link still works
but yeah thinking about if innocence going to the hole or not, probably they won't get stuck, since scavs are smaller than iterator puppets
it's more deadly if scavs are still sleeping in there right
innocence gets in the hole and is immediately given the gift of spear in the face
go ahead, get in the hole
WHEEZE
ah everyone shares a braincell/j
I use tumblr but that's not me
the innate desire to get in the hole
might have been someone from another server where i also shared that picture then LMAO
hole is clearly the best choice
also seeing the ask with Pebbles overseer, I'm considering asking Innocence to do fortnite dance when we finally encounter one /j
but for real I suggest we should discuss on what is the funniest thing we could get Innocence to do when Pebbles first sees them
LMFAO
i mean yall overseers can Definitely fortnite dance with the pebbles overseers
innocence themself will require some Convincing
I guess we can at least dab
flip them off
*the pebbles overseers. flip off the pebbles overseers
maybe something that doesn't just set Pebbles off? Consider last time Pebbles heard of Innocence they released his pictures. Could use something real funny so that he couldn't be too mad at Innocence.
fair enough
Pssst Innocence. Innocence. Go in the hole.
You are curious... You turn your auditory sensitivity up as high as it will go, straining to hear anything inside the burrow. You hear the sounds of...
wet beast
yall get this too because it came up elsewhere
relative elevations of the local group and the movement patterns of the rain clouds they produce
the red square is the farm sector
it's why there's mud everywhere 
the stars aligned to dictate that,, innocence is getting extremely muddy
this is them
absolutely pissed off in the slop/ref
ooh a map!
also count me fourth because I also wants to see the bedding. Could be fun to tell Innocence to roll in and getting beddings alongside mud to stick on them.
LMFAO
yes exactly
Yooo this quest isn't dead even though I died for a few months
I know the inspect bedding suggestion went through, but mine would be
> Give yourself a mud bath because mud is good for your skin (not that you have skin, but, you know)!
(Annoying Innocence 101)
Maybe search the bedding if there’s anything of worth?
You rifle through the bedding briefly. There's nothing of note in here. The scavengers appear to have taken all their belongings with them, and...
i need to sleep, so i'll get to your action later KADW
“I should’ve cleaned the mud off”
the next suggestion:
at least farm array have some pools of water around
can’t wait for this to happen with innocence/j
Give yourself a mud bath because mud is good for your skin (not that you have skin, but, you know)!
You glare down at the overseer. It's the same one every single time, telling you to do some stupid...
no mud bath 
I'm thinking of getting out of that hole since we have seen how it is made~~, getting a mud bath anyway, and there's nothing to steal~~

but I'm going to wait a bit just in case anyone else want to do something
yeah they're getting a mud bath whether they like it or not
there's another action in the queue, i just haven't got to it yet because it's 2 am and i need to sleep Badly
It’s the same one every single time, telling you to do some stupid shit like this.
Pure gold
Innocence and their overseers have an understanding

be careful, else you get stabbed/j
made this 3 days after the original joke maybe I am late
LKNAFJKGIOKJLSA
wait oh that's their head
for a moment i thought you drew them as a batfly
because of the pebbleflies mod. they look Exactly like that but instead it's a pebbles
don't tempt me

iteratorfly mod would be so funny though, legit
LMAO I GUESS
instead of eating her neurons, you eat her!
hang on i have a gif related to that
I love this gif actually
bug in a maze,,, and slugcat eats bugs
LMFAO?
All warnings pertaining to Innocence Won't Save You still apply to this quiz, ie unreality, some psych horror, extensive discussions of grief and death, etc. Also, this is iterators only, because even with just the iterators as answers there's 13 possible results lmao. If I include the non-iterator characters we'd be here all day. | For the unin...
i will . get to the actual actions later today
oh that was someone else then
hm?
someone else got silver
fair point!
I'm impressed it managed to get like everything wrong/silly
LMAO
yeah that's happened to me before
des has shown up a few times in the story
if you'd like to compare things to that
I think I've read everything I can about iwsy already
uh I'd say that I am not a CQ kinnie
fair
the italics are scaring me?/j
oh no like genuinely, sometimes these things are inaccurate
oh I know I just think it's kinda funny just how inaccurate it was

surprising considering my kinlist
not sure actually
i can snag you innocence's
sure
||My dearest. Your existence is not any more of a mistake than mine is. You are allowed to be here, to exist as you are. You are brave, strong, and kind. I know you will go far.
Release yourself. Allow yourself to live. I know you can do it.||
ah
🫵 me
DGSDGFDSH
getting validated as a ui kinnie today/j
FAIR
for future reference
just like me frfr on my way to kin all the character I should Not

Welp, looks like we may have exhausted this area. Maybe you should try to find some scavenger footprints and follow them?
You half-hop, half-slide out of the scavenger nest, looking around....
I'm a little tempted to steal the porls. But I'm not that foolhardy to do that. How far is it hanging from the ground? Maybe Innocence can read it without taking these off.
Also I got lttm on the quiz..... wow
are you the keysmash 
do you want them to take it or just read it?
yes
just reading. I'm not letting them become the second blue pup
I mean like, can Innocence reach those pearls without pulling them off the string? Then I might consider doing an action
yes they are
yessss
Peaaaarls. Want to try read them? Don't pull them off though, I will be lookout for any scavs coming through.

wow okay. the dice really want this to be an important pearl
1/9 chance and i rolled a 9
now I'm a bit scared. If this is another Days' pearl I can't fault Innocence for stealing that. But I mean, stealing from scavs.....
Peaaaarls. Want to try read them? Don't pull them off though, I will be lookout for any scavs coming through.
Why not. You scrape more mud off your hands. You're curious too, you have to admit. These...
{Pearl found in Unparalleled Innocence's farm sector.}
[time data corrupted] - PRIVATE
Seven Red Suns, Five Pebbles
FP: what did you think of my argument?
SRS: Quite sound! You’ve clearly put a lot of...
...other people screaming at Innocence....
:)
Yooo I got Moth
Quiz was wild, was not expecting that haha
I actually felt concern for Anonymous Quiz Voice
I ran the quiz with one of my main oc and it still comes out as looks to the moon. Huh. (I mean it came from self insert so I guess that's going to happen)
Now I'm going to try it with my local group ocs
Looks to the Moon seems to be the most popular result
On the other hand there are some characters who didn't get any at all (rip)
lol yeah
Interesting one
Victim blaming? Standing up for themself? Seems like a lot of people got mad at Innocence for something
Anything to do with their predecessor, I wonder...
Poor them
Anyway, > Let's get out of here before the scavengers notice your grubby fingers on their pearls! Tally-ho!
of course my oc whose motif is sun got SRS result
LOL
expect the unexpected with anything IWSY related 
a lot of people are getting moth, i'm surprised
posted a controversial opinion on twitter/j
3 month old infant gets on twitter and posts 'sliver of straw was a traitor' /j
... okay not that young
3 year old toddler gets on twitter and posts 'sliver of straw was a traitor'
ngi mindset/j
LMAO
Let's get out of here before the scavengers notice your grubby fingers on their pearls! Tally-ho!
"'My grubby fingers?'" you echo in a mutter, but step away from the pearls regardless. You agree, you...
“‘My grubby fingers?’”
lmao
> Nonaggression go! Slowwwwly and carrefulllly put the tip of your lance into the ground, so they know you're not a threat. ...Actually, is this a toll? Do they want payment? We have plenty of goodies to trade. (Just not the pearl, because they can take that over your COLD DEAD BODY.)
Action scene incoming? Will we finally get to test our LANCE OF DOOM on a WORTHY ENEMY?
Also, since I just thought about it, do modded regions have any chance of appearing in this story? Lush Mire Lush Mire Lush Mi-
i've considered it!
so far though no, because i don't really know where they could be situated
like LW is fantastic but i have no idea where it could possibly be located on a 3D map
SH and DS are a bit of a stretch to connect
and GH. which is even weirder
however
i will say that PA is loosely implied in IWSY
mostly because there's honestly no way to confirm which direction innocence will be approaching pebbles' can from
could be the vanilla leg, could be the PA leg, could be a third leg. i actually don't know yet
i mean yes there is. but also no
we don't know where the vanilla leg is besides the fact that it's in shaded
and IWSY's shaded is Fucking Gigantic
hello!
hello

Nonaggression go! Slowwwwly and carrefulllly put the tip of your lance into the ground, so they know you're not a threat. ...Actually, is this a toll? Do they want payment? We have plenty of goodies...
oo
I kind of understand why they are so aggressive now toward Innocence now
Like an alien just goes up to you and offer a lollypop, it's sus as heck
To that leader scav the white scav is like the scientist dude in Prometheus movie that sees a alien snake and offers his hand up and coos at it
innocence and that scav apparently
LMFAO

Try not to move and let the scav do its thing? You might scare it if you move and you also might get speared.
Like last cycle, the instant your overseer pops out of the ground, the scavengers all...
Behind you!
wait , i'm kind of dumb ,, what are we supposed to do? should I fill out a form or anything to be an overseer?
oh no you just. go lol
like what solaris was doing
though i'll be getting to solaris' action first
aight!
Behind you!
You turn, grabbing your lance as you do. The source of the commotion is a mud lizard, one that has a scavenger's arm in its jaws. It clenches down harder with a growl, almost drowning out...
maybe help bring the scavvies to a safer place?
sure
aighty !!
love sitting down to write something and then realizing i’m railroading the fucking story
last one for this scene i promise. and then yall get free reign to look around this next area
the issue is that i have guidelines in my head for what is Going to happen, but the end result of it being actually written doesn't always follow said guidelines because sometimes the story flows better if i change it
but i feel bad taking away agency from yall
but this is just for this scene, because i had it planned out. the upcoming scenes will be a lot more variable and dependent on what yall are doing
yall ready for chekhov's baby scav?
at the very least i hope yall find what's been happening in scene 11 so far interesting
maybe i wory too much
good god how long is this
this is probably going to be the longest status update yall have got so far
Try to bring the scavvies to a safer place!
Despite your overseer popping up right in the middle of the crowd of scavengers, they don't react to its presence. Understandable, really. They have bigger...
who's betting this is 3k+ words 👍
aight hang on
This tunnel isn't muddy, so you manage to avoid falling flat on your face as you wriggle into the burrow. You do, however, collect a generous amount of soil on your grime coated puppet and cloak. You...
:V
You could give the scavengers the pearl if you can! It'll probably make staying with them easier considering that scavengers will think of you as a friend if you give them a pearl!
A pearl. You do...
they probably were missing the context of which pearl it was
it's been uh
over a month?
since that pearl was brought up. probably longer honestly
oh right, maybe mark that pearl as [Day's Pearl] in their inventory?
also probably too early to try take some fur from that blue eye baby
probably yeah, i’ll change that later
I remember them talking about taking some dna off blue eyed scavs, though now I remember they also commented on it is useless now without their can
yeah there’s no way for them to analyze anything as just their puppet
I mean they can keep it for later
right
quick poll of sorts: how would yall feel about moving operations here to a private server?
i still want to have this thread open in main in case new folks stumble in, but i've been playing with the idea on and off for a while now
ehhh tbh I kind of got cozy on this thread. I can just pop in rw main server and check on all those galleries or this thread. Maybe do an actual poll, put the link here and on tumblr for people to vote? Also how would the private server function?
effectively the exact same as here, just on a private server
and possibly with additional channels for dedicated chatter
that'd be good, separate general chat and a announcement/update chat
yeah
i’d much prefer to have a server for the story , rather than a thread

i dont really check the rw server , only for this and to check the jolly co-op thing
yeah fair
tbh this is the only reason I'm still in this server
I don't mind either option though
fair lmao
this is in part driven by like. i still want discord to be available for players if something ever happens and i leave the server
a private server would ensure that, but obviously the initial move would be a bit awkward
ah no i’d just make my own
more comfortable for me that way
i have one i was planning on converting regardless
Maybe you should try to interact with the scav kit?
Maybe... maybe you should. You slowly crouch, putting your lance down and moving closer to its level. It continues blinking at you, seemingly...
we have officially breached 50k actually
also my dumbass forgot i was going to attach a log to this
hang on
oh wait no i already shared it
never mind!
response on tumblr about having a dedicated server is pretty positive
any of yall know if we're allowed to link an external post that contains a server invite link
i'd rather not have to DM yall individually
i could just ask staff for permission but i'm lazy
eh. better to ask anyways tbh
woo !!
okay let's. see how i'm going to work this out lol
You should try to learn how the scavengers communicate.
You've been trying to. Now that you know they have language, you could learn it. It will just take time to start to understand them. You know…
uh wrong kind of link
You should try to learn how the scavengers communicate.
You've been trying to. Now that you know they have language, you could learn it. It will just take time to start to understand them. You know a...
this is what i wanted
Draw on mud for now, or some characters, since they know a bit of your citizens' written language. We can learn about those signs along the way.
Do they? It's been a long time since they've been in...
gonna periodically bump this so it doesn't get too buried 
poke. update hopefully today
adding thread
oh hi
you exist in multiple places now 
Hey innocence, you uh, try trading. Or do we not need anything else?
You were going to trade the bomb you have. Though... pulling an explosive out in such close quarters might require a bit of...
This looks and sounds super fun! ^^ I'll have to read more about it, but it sounds really cool from what I've seen already! X3

oh this got buried again 
i don't have pin perms so
not too bothered about it honestly
:V i live
There's a low hum of activity in the settlement (it should be called as such, really) when you come to again. You see conversations happening with slow, calm signing and hear the low burble of...
https://innocence-wont-save-you.tumblr.com/post/732488539896414208/i-guess-the-only-thing-you-can-do-now-is-have
this goes here as well i just forgot 
I guess the only thing you can do now is have them escort you for now.
You don't object as the scavengers lead you out of their home, stepping across the still wet soil-mud mixture and climbing up...
Finally, some noticeable progress. No time to be dawdling, let’s a go!
You quickly dust yourself off before continuing onward. The sky is clear above you as you make your way up the next set of...
You could probably reach that tuber and take it. Be careful though, don't wanna fall in some worm grass.
The grass is easy to deal with now that you have your lance. Making wide sweeping cuts with...
GET IT! BEGIN THE DOGPILE!
Several of your overseers immediately swarm the tuber, surrounding Five Pebbles' overseer. It spins in place, looking around at your overseers, all of which are larger than...
Hewwo? Mr. Five Pebbles awe you there UwU
Your second overseer lets go, and a third one sidles up, wiggling early before it touches tendrils with the blue overseer. You huff briefly at the message it...
no update, will get to that hopefully tomorrow, but:
https://innocence-wont-save-you.neocities.org/scenes/Scene12
this now exists 
Can we keep it? Or at least have it tag along for a cycle?
Your overseers abruptly clump together, aggressively discussing amongst themselves. One reacts angrily, waving its tendrils furiously in...
:V this is very much getting updated
hi!
Notice
I'm going to be moving all operations for IWSY off of main, to the main IWSY server here: https://discord.gg/3th6wPup4e . Future updates won't be posted here, so this thread will eventually be archived. If you want to play but don't have tumblr, your best bet is the server.
... at least until i figure out how to add commenting functions on the website
https://innocence-wont-save-you.neocities.org/scenes/Scene12 which is here (links to current scene)
but either way, i'm moving stuff out of here. don't expect to see future updates in this thread 
silver?

