#secret-stories-misc
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Go ahead, I'll lend an ear
So, ever play roblox?
There's this game on there called deepwoken
It's pretty fun, and it has an interesting setting with interesting lore, more than you'd expect of a roblox game
Ofc, the lore is also a mess of "This was confirmed by a developer to be true/false with no consideration of past lore"
It's mostly coherent tho
One particularly important detail is that magic is done through manipulation of a force called the song, which permeates everything in the world
Magical "spells" are called mantras, and are referred to as the words of the song
Attunements are just elements with fancy names
And finally, individuals in deepwoken also draw power from oaths. When someone swears an oath, they vow to follow a certain way of life, and in turn the oath grants them power
For example, someone who has sworn the oath of the Jetstriker vows to run freely across the land, and they gain various movement related abilities in turn
Sorry for the lore dump, now here's the actual story I wrote
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Something to keep in mind is that all these things I've just described are also game mechanics. Deepwoken is a video game
Nice
It literally just a short one shot anyway
@fringe anchor its real now

Good enough 
Proto Oneshot lore is off the shits
There they are
Very nice robot
You may have gotten mandelad but at least i felt recognized

And recognized you shall remain
I have alot of works
Alright
Sorry for trashing book club, tree 
Also yeah, sorry from me too
It’s okay, the garbage everywhere makes a very RW vibe 
Do you happen to have Arti as your favourite scug?
She’s up there 
Depends on how you define favorite
Tied with Saint for my favorite to play
Loose and more emotional than logical
Yep, that's what I expected after reading your message
Literally me 
But I like spears and riv a lot lore wise too
Saint’s lore is too vague and Arti’s is a little basic imo
Call me strange but I feel like Riv is lonely in a lore/timeline sense
Yep
Exactly
She’s right at the precipice of the apocalypse
Her campaign does feel the loneliest imo
Idk why but Spearmaster and Arti are in the past, Gourm + base game is the present and Saint is the future
Rivulet is just kinda there
Fits with alot of their depictions making them some kind of freak or outsider
Oh my god I got totally mandelaed
True
Piotr has never commented or replied or anything
Though I like spears as the total freak
I like fishstick for that reason too
Two outsiders joined together
Fish stick is very nice 

Hallo
Crisb 

The "dairy-style" writer
Fish...stick...
You noticed?
I still havent changed it lmao
Yeah i review comments when i wake up
Should i be serious and change it or should i be silly and never change it
More recyclable than ink and more environmentslly friendly
Where's the fridge then?
Unparalleled in it 
Anyways
Livestock in Rain World 
Cows? beef canon?
Wait. Would the benefactors drink vegan milk?
They drink nectar
Soy milk
Probably comes from the silly tube guys in Farm Arrays
Yeah those ones 
Oh
I hced those as tubers
Anyways
I'm probably gonna head in to sleep cuz it's 1:37 am exactly
See y'all tomorrow
AHHHHH
KURT VONNEGUT MENTIONED
Ice nine is real 
I love how astronomy sends me on the craziest wikipeida rabbitholes
@iron totem i have some writing advice for you specifically


I will be using this in my futute work. Thank you piotr we all chorus.
i am enraged by the usefulness of this poster
im prout of the art i made today (it is in #offtopic-art-gallery★ )

came up with a funni art idea
its like a short comic about all the Iterators in my AU having a "Trama Meeting" where they all talk about their problems, and just halfway through it cuts to the future with everyone just sitting in awkward silence with Saint just stealing food in the background
¤ @limber hazel .¤
What
¤Self-reminder that colin planned chef to make ice cream.¤
Zeeljod 
To be honest Chef has all the ingredients for ice cream
All he needs is.. ice

And we aint getting ice until a 10000 years later in saint campaign
¤Saint:¤
Wouldn't the warmth from other iterators across the globe warm the planet?
I think you need to kill a few more 
¤While it this Iterator existence depends of keeping the eternal winter in north pole.¤
The violent quest for ICE 🧊
Quite the chilling idea
"Traveller come, we must kill Pebbles, Moon, NSH, and Suns to put this land in eternal winter just for ice cream"
Traveller: 
¤Ice Cream: Dead Iterator brand.¤
Bubble fruit as Milk alternative
Sugar from poleplant
Eggbug's eggs
Any fruits for flavor
can use his trusty grinder to also churn the ice cream
Will the carnivore slugcats love some noodlefly ice cream
Mmmm yummy flavor of child neglect
???
Why are you guys trying to murder the iterators?
For ice cream of all things?
Iterator cans is the reason winter doesnt happen
Cus of their heat
No winter no ice
No ice no ice cream
Force the iterator to make ice
Convince Arti that it's worth it and bingo
Pebbles is now your giant ice machine
Five pebbles can becomes a fridge
Huh good for him
Good for him..
Mmm ice..
🧊
Pebbles gets chill (literally)
Moon forcing everyone in the local group into a “Trauma Meeting” and they all try and ignore Sliver not taking it seriously and they can’t kick her out because Moon says that everyone has to be present
Shes Simping
I’m writing random ideas my tired brain is giving me incase I cook with some of them
Good luck
At the very end where all the Iterators finally meet up in the void sea, the find Sliver just sitting at a table waiting for them, Pebbles eagerly asks how they found the Triple Affirmative and Sliver casually responds
“Huh? Oh I did it by accident, like, one second I was going through calculations and simulations cuz I was bored and then BOOM, I’m here”
And Pebbles is just stunned and mad for some reason
Its just Moon trying to get Pebbles to eat spaghetti after his Rot Crisis
Wind also dosnt like Spaghetti, but that’s just because Wind dosnt know what a Fork is
Chopsticks can work too
Wind thinks that Spoons are the only type of silverware
What about knives?
Wind uses a file to make the edge of the spoon sharper
FILE?
Sometimes NSH’s as well if he’s feeling a bit devious
What are they making, claws?
Mhm
To fight each other
Also Fun Fact: 5 Pebbles uses Nail polish
Why? Idk, but that’s why he has long sleeves, to hide his hands
Why hide the beauty? Shame?
You can blame NSH
Last time 5 Pebbles did anything with his appearance, Sigs copied him the next day no matter how stupid it was and 5 Pebbles was disgusted at Sig’s complete lack of embarrassment
Oh Nish, when will you ever cease to be so irritating?
Also because NSH also uses Nail Polish and 5 Pebbles fears that if sigs found out Pebbles also uses nail polish, sigs would stop using nail polish and then he would just look weird
Which is ironically funny since in the AU, No Significant Harassment loses his hands in Saints time
WHAT
Lore???
???
Bro gets condemned to a wheel chair
Was he eated by a red lizor?
"Mauricio, I can't- I can't move it move it anymore, Mauricio-"
Howw???
“Moon! I can’t- I can’t make Slugcats anymore… Moon!”
Do you know how Void Fluid is really acidic right?
Oh no
Well Iterators in the AU have Void Fluid as blood, there the few things that can actually contain Void Fluid for like- indefinitely
"My legs are broken, the kneecaps are stolen, i'm forever bound to a chaaaaair" /lyr
Wind suffers from Internal Bleeding-
"I don't know the season, or what is the reason, I can't seem to feel my leeeeggggsss!"
So they're just melting???
Constantly?
I don't remember the rest 
Oof
“My Hands are gone, my arms don’t belong, this isn’t fucking fair~!”
Here ya go
Winds reference sheet
Yea idk why I hated wind so much-
You sure it's hate?
Innocence got off, basically Scot free besides some mental trauma
They're missing a damn foot
CONPARED TO EVERYONE ELSE-
THATS bassically Scot free
What's Suns, Nish and the other two got?
If missing a whole damn foot is relatively minor
Here’s Sigs-
Oh damn
arrrr pirate 
Oh my god/ Cheese is here to admire my Joker Harrasment /j
Also good Sig taking care of his weird rat son
:)
how to summon me:
- mention sig
- say my name
- mention japan
LOOK CRISPY, SUNS IS IN KOREA!
You know what I take it back
SUNS was the one to get off easy
Just with a lot more Trauma then Inno
THEY HAVE NO STOMACH??
i took it
ITS FINE

How was Suns getting off easy?????
TF U MEAN ITS FINE
Would you like to see Pebbles?!-
ya
Pebbles got the worst
Yes

did pebbles change
i remember drawing him once
it took like 5 minutes but i did it 
Slight Body horror spoiler
No not really
i see 
I still have that saved btw

I save all fanart I get cuz it makes me feel warm and fuzzy
Yikes
What's Moon?
Weh
Easier to draw
i just thought of inno like three weeks ago and they already different
Moons doin well
She’s just old
grandma
She’s canonically 43
Nice old lady
damn shes young
And her weird glowy children
Their her little nurses
she does look good for 60
70 - 80
Aww that's cute
She had a special one that has a medic hat like Inno that Hunter gave her
I gotta find my Hunter drawing gimmi a second
Me when jazz:
Yeehaw cowboy
I like the little nurse, they're cute too
Oh yea!!!
I almost forgot about Sliver of Straws sheet
Challange 70 spoilers

Just a little gal in a dangerours world
I THOUGHT THAT SAID SHITTER OF STRAW 
"Kill me? Motherfucker. See what happens then!"
ooooiu cool!!
Since humans normally can’t hold objects in their stomach, depending on what they store, it’s either in a big pocket on their shirts, of they give it a piggyback ride
“normally”
Spearmaster still can’t hold objects because their clothes don’t have pockets
youre telling me not everyone can do that?
Lmao
cough gourmand cough
youre telling me you dont keep a bag of holding in your stomach? 
Tarrare moment
bad of holding lined stomach...
pathetic
Oh yea there was also this I did which was basically just Past and Future versions of the Iterators over that Undertale “It’s you!, it’s still you” Mirror thing
its a nice idea actually . but. ou
Try swallowing a rock and tell me how that goes

Christopher?
Indeed it did
christopher
No it's funny
depends on how large the rock is 
dont tell them about christopher
No need to apologize
its our little inside joke
I keep forgetting the Lore of my Sliver in the AU is batshit insane
Brick sized, if we're going by slugcat scaling
yeoiuuch!!!
Lore drop when?
i actually started tweaking when i say sig
im starting to wonder if its still platonic
im sure theres people who could do it though
somewhere out there
the humble plane eater:
Tarrare could
That guy is insane
i mean Whole
Wait fuck I don't think I can mention thst
Hello
What's happenig
alright
Like-
Apparently not everyone thinks that Sliver found the Triple Affirmative but was so split on it that they literally Split into two beings, one not wanted to ascend and the other wanting to ascend
But they didn’t carry their beliefs over, so the one that wanted to not ascend, craved ascension, but was unable too due to not truely being whole
While the other that wanted to ascend, didn’t, and instead helped others to ascending
This is how The Saint and The Void Worm came to be in the AU-
Ah
Pretty interesting take
Very different from the usual
augh look at you people making actual aus
i just made toxic yaoi and killed one of the yaoiers
I just write funny cat
Indeed
What's your AO3 handle?
I'm not on ao3 (yet?)
Ah
Fun fact:
in the Wattpad I’m writing, I have planned that when Hunter delivers their Pearl to Moon, Saint feels a tinge of jealousy and they don’t why
The reason why was because Sliver and Moon were Dating, and then Sliver Kurplunked-
she said yet, boys (/gn). get your ao3 pages ready
They explodeded
I think I'm gonna write more than half of a chapter before posting anything
slivermoon 
Real
oh
@swift badge slivermoon mention
They reason why they were dating is also pretty funny
Basically boiled down to
SOS: “Hey Moon, you know that thing that the Ainchents do when they like each other?”
LTTM: “Yea, it’s called dating, why?”
SOS:”We should totally do it too! I’m bored and I still haven’t gotten that peak with the game Sigs said he would send me”
LTTM: “I don’t know… what if The Ainchents find out!…”
SOS: “We say it’s a method to try and find the Solution, duh. you should try lying more”

PEAK
"We should date."
"Yes."
omori

AUGH I JUST CHECKED MY INBOX
WHY IS MY ONESHOT OF PEBBLES AND ARTI MORE POPULAR THAN THE ACTUAL AU 
eh whatever

Innocence is a pretty sad case in the lore
Their a medical facility so they feel the need to make sure their friends are ok
Finds out one of their friends has cancer
Announces that they do have cancer to try and help them
Gets blocked and deeply hated
Hates themselves as a bad doctor
Refuses to talk to anyone else
Curse of Writers
YES
FINALLY
SOMEONE ELSE HAS AN INNO THAT DIDNT MEAN ANY HARM
That's just sad
Moon does try to talk to Innocence
But um-
You know
Pebbles kinda disabled her communication so she could only hope other people were consoling Innocence
Jokes on Moon, Innocence was getting hated by everyone else that wasn’t in the Local group, and the Local group went “Someone else will talk to them” or “they just need time”
my sig acrually tried to talk to inno about it because they were one of the few people that didnt treat him like a child because of his silliness 
she tried to talk to the orhers about it but they werent hearing her out because, like i said before, the others treated her like a child
and they rhought he just didnt understand
but he did
they were the ones that didnt understand
Damn
Also damn
The last thing Innocence heard before the Comunication towers stopped working was, I believe
“Moons not responding…”
And the Innocence was left alone
For thousands and thousands of cycles Innocence thought everyone hated them
Until Moon got Comunications again and sent everyone a message after sending pebbles a personal one
The messages outward though had to be small cuz of detoriating machinery
Oh my god how depressing is your AU?
yes
Everyone got their own heartfelt letter like response, Innos was
“No body hates you, they never did hate you, I will always care for you”
“how much depression do you want?”
“all of it”
Depends
Do you want to know more about the Iterators, the creatures, or the other version of the AU where the world of Rain world is condensed into a city
Yes
Maybe start with the base au tho
dont be shy, share the miros vulture lore again 
They all hold roughly the same amount of depression in each version
What's it about?
WHAT
:)
WHAT IS THE MIROS LORE?
:)
I had to literally ask the limit on how graphic I could say it was
I'm just writing the weird cringe warriors au that every fandom has for some reason. sweats
OH
wait lemme go find the message rq
Yikes/10
I have this entire non-rw universe thing with a bunch of different species and sometimes I wonder if I should make designs for the rw characters as those species and dragons and stuff
Sure
I'd check it out
I love drawing them every chance I get
They look like Neko Arc
Oh yea
I never said it in the lore but
The Lazer cannon is actually Miros Vultures other eye, just in a robotic arm on their back
Since KV,s have lasers come out of their eyes, they just mechanically enhanced Miros Vultures to deal damage
This also means that their non broken goggle has no eye behind it
Thought I'd share this
Honestly the Miros Vulture just sounds kick ass in this AU
I also just love drawing Miros Vultures as Cryptids where you never seen them unless they want you dead specifically
Unless Spearmaster is there
Then it become PERSONAL
A Frankenstein's monster not by s mistake but because they refused to die
casually spawns in

Not for long
Cheese
qhar
You're a monk already-
They sent me the picture
Yea I did
what
One of my iterators 'reinvented' miros vultures by just slapping wings on a regular-looking miros and giving it a lighter
They still need a name
whay picture
Still can't post images 
Also I have a deepfried version of it
That one
oh 
Please send
shapes and colours
MORE LIKE INCINERATED
can you soil that for eyestrain please 
ITS THE LAST IMAGE CREATURES SEE BEFORE SAINT ASCENDS THEM
TF KINDA DEEP FRYING IS THIS?

(Eyestrain soiler)
NOOO MY EYESTRAIN

YAY ITS BACK
Oh I also have this image
I find this really funny
Indeed it is
Ok
We’ve crossed the line
Err Sigidi dum dum yes
Hold on lemme get something real quick
I sentence you to GW_B03 In Spearmasters time as Monk
This is not a coalescipede btw. It's a whole centipede, not a centipede made of many tiny spiders
what have you done to him
Lmao
MURDERER
also his name is herald
⊗ me now for typing that
I plan to do SilverMoon art tomorrow just for you
And because I want to draw lesbians
Mostly the second part
hi herald 
Woah
W
I can only see like half of my screen so it was just entirely yuri for a moment
I present: my favorite letter to exist, the multiocular O. (yes it's a real letter
Y U R I
I keep seeing Crispy status and I think “Damn, I better start drawing SilverMoon before I forget”
And the. I forgot and made a custom Cookie Run Kingdom Cookie instead
My god it's back!
Looks like a mutated karma 6
random image I have

DRUGS
DRUGS
DRUGS
Since I’m bored
Pick a number between 1 and 10
10
You guys get 10 random facts of the City AU
Yay!
Time to wait for another essay
Dancin
(neither of those are my creations btw, I downloaded shimejis (which are like lil desktop pets))
Should I go do this
- There is no French
- There is a Daddy Long Legs living in the sewer System that Rivulet likes to have tea party’s with
- Guardians in the depths prevent Void versions of creatures escaping the void sea
- iterator structures are massive factory’s with the Puppet Chamber being a sort of Office
- Spearmaster is Australian
- Everything either hates, is scared, or chill with Spearmaster
- Hunter is considered a “National Treasure”
- Red Centipede and Red Lizard are dating [Love Redrum]
- Rivulet can speak fluent Scottish
- Saint has Echo Robes in their closet and has to sweep up all the petals it keeps producing, giving them to Monk as fertiliser
Yes
Praise be to the destruction of France!
In my defense of these facts
I did say Random
France got saintblasted it seems
YEEE
Mouth is wet
Here’s a Bonus Fun Fact!
Rubicon is a place. Rubicon is a person. Rubicon dosnt care if you’re guilty or not. Rubicon likes to see you run. Rubicon will always catch you. Rubicon is only held back by the balance of the Cycle
Rubicon needs a snickers
Rubicon has a fire as hell design
That I don’t have saved to my phone for some reason

Gimmie a quick
Rubicon
HOLY DAMN
stares at yall like this (spoilered for a buncha eyes)
????
SEE
I have seen
No like-
“You see! Rubicon is insane, Rubicons got that drip”
¤Saint: This Ascension is sponsored by Xbox Live.¤
"I have only one thing that can reagin your love…
XBOX!"
Rubicon is the only Humanized Region out of all of them to actually be Canon to the other AUs
Including the City AU and the Normal AU
Who's this fella?
Rubicon flicks their wrist and the guardians fold
O_O
Guardians in the Human Au are more like golems btw
Yummy
Have leaf :p
Yaya another crow!

Corvid mafia
Damn Hollow how long is your essay?
Not as long as me!
I’ll come up with new lore right now!
Takes big gulp of Writing juice
I forgot to write I've just been lurking
Lmao
Oh my god I just wanted to know the name of the eye boi
I forgor their name but they're from corru.observer. They... used to be someone's romantic partner but shit happened (both them and their partner are from an alien species obesk, which have kinda sludgy bodies but hard "brains" (mindcores), and are also kinda telepathic. Oh and if you think every technology is alive in RW, that's not even close to what corru.observer has. Literally all obesk technology is alive, literally.) (Corru.observer soilers ahead in case anyone's interested: ||basically, at some point in the story, a mind sound thing happens, which kinda causes most of the technology to go rogue and attack the actual obesks, and if they destroy the mindcore, the obesks are dead... until, the mind sound thing happens again, this time "zombifying" the dead obesks. also this is VERY simplified||)
Thank you Hollow
My dog is harassing me help
I will not be unspoiling
actually idk if corru is even available on phone...
?
Is it a game?
What's happening over there?
I mean in theory it is since it's a website game but idk how fun would the experience be
Damn
I have planned in the FOAP Wattpad that only Rivulet and Saint go into Submerged Superstructure to deliver the Rarefraction cell to the heart
I.mn the heart, Saint has one spare bubble weed left before they put the cell in and flood the heart, Rivulet and Saint get swept by the now functioning gravity pump and flow upwards through the arteries to Moons Coty, Unlike Rivulet though, The bubble weed dosnt hold out as good as Rivulet can, Causing Saint to slightly panic, watching the bubble weed slowly run out before a sudden turn through a pipe causes it to be ripped out Saints mouth, Saint finds it hard to keep their eyes open, unable to hold their breath for any longer, they let go, water filling their lungs as Rivulet makes sure to keep a tight hold on them, Finally making it out into the exit pipe, Rivulet quickly does CPR on Saint coughs up water and complains about a broke. Rib, but ends up fine
Gonna go spoil myself real wuick
There it is!
Always good to spoil yourself
She was stood on me and licking my headphones
She's run off to do whatever now though
you can watch a playthrough I think, if you'd wish to see the whole game
Gonna go eat your plants
Okay then
Is it called corru.observer?
💔💔💔💔💔 my plants
Not s typo?
Yea, corru.observer
I cast the curse of eep unto you
Night
Thanks
I remember saying I would write a bunch over the half-term break and getting to Tuesday and suddenly moving house
Oof
OH MY GOD ITS VOIDKATS SIG

YEEEEE

dies from no nitro

:(

Dies as well
Finally found my passport after looking for it for a couple of days 
Decapitated winter head: felt edition 
I had hidden it way too well
Oh nice, awesome
Gonna try and do the whole winter this time 
Video isn't loading to me right now since the server is kinda unstable
Much easier to work with than clay, but it takes longer
Always happen when we ping rain world news
Aw bummer
Poor scug died 
rip
Scug was gotten by the revolution
YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSS
Reverse Artificer
Or just Rivulet
Using slugpup rng manip to guarantee a slugpup
NOOOO
???
Here
How to do it
You sleep in a shelter at a specific time to guarantee a slugpup in a shelter of your choosing
Not hard to do either
Such yappers
What kinda speedrun needs that?
Any%
Works for surv, hunter and gourmand any%
I think
I haven't speedran in forever
ah crap I had the will to write earlier but I decided to squander it 
Got this funny clip a while ago
I like how pebbles follows me with his eyes when I'm doing it 
if you know how to do it (I can't even slide leap without simplified moveset)
I can't slide at all since I don't even have RW
huh
Takes a bit of practice.
No shame in using simplified movement, though

I didn't learn how to slide until my 3rd hunter playthrough
Didn't learn more advanced tech until last year
Have you tried rw?
No 
Or are you mostly interested in the lore/world and not so much in the gameplay?
I'm broke and don't have a console or PC with which to even play
I do want to try the gameplay
Purely a fic reader 
And having an actual map would be nice
damn...
And writer
And writer 
https://noblecat57.github.io/
there's this really really good map
An online interactive map that includes every region and slugcat in Rain World: Downpour. - github.com/rain-world-downpour-map
What's the difference between this one and the DP map miraheze uses?
This map let's you pick inv for instance
Let's you look at the rooms too
So good for getting references of rw rooms without going in game, good for looking at lineages and item spawns
It's quite detailed
You can even see room tags like what rooms are performance heavy (only realized when you're in them, like deer rooms)

Or what rooms are batfly swarm rooms
You’re mad

You should know my old phone was even worse to write on than a normal one

Feels weird to think it's this close already
I remember when it was just announced
Torn on whether to spoil the lore for myself as soon as possible or complete the campaign (whatever may be there) and look at it then.
i was gonna make a song parody of hell is forever but its rainworld is forever and the extermination moving up part would be the watcher being released soon but now its far too late to actually release it 
dont ask why this randomly popped into my head
Such is the place where crack comes from

Anyways who wants to hear my idea for a crackfic about Rivulet

dont be shy share with the class

Okay, basically
It's a modern AU
And Ruffles is currently engaged in wha any fine young man does

hi tree
Crime
It's crime
Yoo holy shit payday
Me
fred
Sorta
G
H

H
H
H
AN HFISH REFERENCE?!!?!!?!??!??!??!!?
Anyways so Ruffles is doing what all fine young men do and is currently pirsting a cargo ship
meeee!
wh-what? 
I was tryna mention a certain sea
To make comparison to the RW world I have in my head
But it got muted for trying to circumvent the rules
Okay
im sorry
I guess I gotta be more vague
Anywyas
so Ruffles is commiting crimes with his pirate gang
In a warm ocean/sea
Nope. You won't get in trouble as long as you don't try to bypass the filter
In this case the filter caught a false positive
I wasn't trying
Literally got surprised by that
ya we take stuff like that into account 
shadow jumpscare
most autoblock activations we don't take action on, since most people don't bypass it
Ah
oh shit, shadow's here?! i gotta dash i don't want to be seen by an admin 
So you guys won't smite me out of existence?

From the challenge sheet
I think they're right /silly
yes 
lmao dont worry about it
Anyways so Ruffles shoots up an entire cargo ship
Shadow isn't scary 
it's not like i main this channel or thread anyway 
And then he and his gang start doing gang stuff
Breaking shipping containers and stealing shit and generally doing what criminals do
Then sn international law enforcement force shows up, headed by Artificer and Watcher
Crime, apparently
I’m sorry, I was doing a little extra self-crime for fun 
Do they put a tomahawk right into the cargo ship's aft
That would be really funny

(The missile)
Epic firefight ensues where Ruffles guns down Artificer's wife (oh yeah she works with Arti)
but its very tired 
Our regularly scheduled crime can commence as planned though 
oh okay 
And Arti nearly goes ballistic but gets wounded in combat by a stray boolet
Get a better missile 
Badabing badaboom Ruffles is eventually apprehended
🔥

Absolute cinema
New fic idea: rivulet gets blasted by a JDAM
(kudos if anyone knows what this is referring to
)
wow i have no idea what that is! 
I have no idea 
I do 
I guess I gotta write Ruffles and Arti having a firefight now
It'll come out on April first I hope
oh okay
"Hi cheese, I'm Saint of the FBI."
Joint Direct Attack Munition (guided bomb) 
Saint would be the type to collect taxes
Did not see 
but its fine cuz rivular can just run away cuz they have that ability now cuz i say so 

dont let them see the art misc

Are the Ancient’s gold masks a taxable asset? 
Yes
wait
Do they serve a religious purpose?
yah
erm ackchually theyre bone
They do, but arguably wealth is a sin so like
It’s a tax taken by the church
A titheable asset
oh yeah that reminds me
ive always wondered
like
if therapy exists in rain wor for the ancients
how would i work
like
Is wealth a sin?
would they try to guild them towards ascension?
I just wrote therapy being skewed
i think it would fall under gluttony 
All therapy leads to ascension
“I’m sad”
“Suicide.”

I mean, ascension isn't death. It's beyond life and death (my opinion given the evidence in game)

Personally I don't like ascension being a good thing given what it drives Pebbles to do and how the iterators affect the world
But it's also more interesting than "hur durr final death"
I mean, that is a selection of that person’s finest memories
I love ascension. (I'm very vanilla fan)
it says its all memories
Rare person who can delineate between Base Game and Downpour spotted
Clearly it’s not an unbiased view and they’re making a decision to leave despite this
They donated all the wealth and left some of their select memories behind
I dislike ascension, but I like to treat the concept of it as being much better than living. But the people who haven’t ascended can only see the downsides to it (Loved ones being permanently gone.)
In this vessel is the living memories of Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel, of the House of Braids, Count of 8 living blocks, Counselor of 16, Grand Master of the Twelfth Pillar of Community, High Commander of opinion group Winged Opinions, of pure Braid heritage, voted Local Champion in the speaking tournament of 1511.090, Mother, Father and Spouse, Spiritual Explorer and honorary member of the Congregation of Balanced Ambiguity. Artist, Warrior, and Fashion Legend.
Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel nobly decided to ascend in the beginning of 1514.008, after graciously donating all (ALL!) earthly possessions to the local Iterator project (Unparalleled Innocence), and left these memories to be cherished by the carnal plane.
The assorted memories and qualia include:
Watching dust suspended in a ray of sun (Old age). Eating a very tasty meal (Young child). Defeating an opponent in a debate contest, and being applauded by fellow team members (Late childhood/Early adulthood).
..."
...and the list goes on. I'm sorry, little creature, I won't read all of this - the list is six hundred and twenty items long.
Sh pearl
I mean, it’s equally as unknowable to them as death is to us
If someone tells you that there’s a higher afterlife when you die irl, would that make death okay?
If it means destroying the world and climate maybe
Exactly how I see it.
Furthermore, there’s the implication that the void just shows what you want to see — Surv sees monk and fam, even though none of them had ascended before
Btw, how do you make death hold narrative weight?
Same goes for Arti and her pups
We can assume all benefactors have experienced death at some point
It's described as a vague feeling
All they know is that when you die, you wake up again but how is a little vague
But nobody has experienced ascension
Just like nobody irl has experienced death
It’s the same idea
In my case, I can’t. Unless the threat of death is permanent. Let me think for a moment.
#vanilla-lore message
I think this post explains my view pretty well
Me when I steal over 50% of my lore thoughts from sunfish
/silly /hj
They have experienced deeply spiritual things, though, and unlike real life they have very concrete proof.
Like the karma flower dialogue
This is a hallucinogenic plant. They used to call it a 'Wheel Flower'. It became the symbol for enlightenment as it momentarily enables a creature to let go if its carnal self, and to contact the selves of other planes - dreams, memories, imagined worlds.
My favourite piece of dialogue in the game
Visions they get when they’re high? I don’t think that’s any more concrete than we have for irl afterlife 
They can detect karma with karma gates
Do research with qualia and FP can give you karma
Mark of communication persists through death
They do know about the cycle, yes
But they don’t really know what happens after ascending
Karma flower spawns where you died. It's not just a hallucinogenic plant
Just as we don’t know what happens after you die
The karma 10 symbol is on it too and both ancients, benefactors and scavengers use this symbol
This is one thing I’m terrible at, but I’ll double down on having death be something terrible. Have whatever dies be something the reader cares about. You, the reader, don’t want X to die, I guess.
Spoilers for SiTS
||Sunrise in The Scrapyard handled this well, I believe, but I’m not sure if that potential death happened in view||
They don't, but they are aware of the spirituality of the world. All creatures are to an extent
My take on the lore is the most simple and the objectively correct:
FUCK THE LORE
I'LL MAKE IT UP MYSELF
rainworld lore hurts my brain 
Who cares 
Hence why ascension is final death I'm CoG:R
What is SiTS?
I’m always going to be a final death theory supporter for ascending 
My fic 
yeah
sunrise in the scrapyars
scrapyard
you should rea dit
rea dit
resdi to
Sunrise in The Scrapyard 
Okay then
Banan agrees with you too
Gonna add it to me backlog
Of 16 fics
Most of which are over 40k words long
:(
anyways its like yeah, i understand the simple stuff like pebbles was angy and desperate 
but what does everythign mean from the cycles and ascension

Deep down, I aspire to get the lore so wrong that I get whined about like how some people talk about RW YouTuber lore videos.

FURRY WHY DOES INV REMEMBER BEING IN RUBICON???
People won't do that with fanfiction sadly
/silly
Unless it's hate mail
RW lore too broken 
I did that once 
Commenters on ao3 are generally quite nice 
im convinced videocult was high on the most potent shit for hours because what is even happening 
Someone told me a series was [a very not good slur] once
Joar had malaria and james was in a freezing basement in boston during rw's development
First hate comment ever and I love it
I'd share my comment but it's against the rules
Because of where the comment comes from
Yeah, please don't (don't share slurs either)
RW hasn’t reached that level yet. Look at anything The Elder Scrolls related by Michael Kirkbride if you want to see something truly crazy.
Still, we don't really want people to post screenshots of slurs 
Oh and it also included some words that are also against the rules
So I can't :/
Damn

wh-what?
On my way to drop a 5k essay on why your interpretation is wrong /silly /j
do it coward /j
Off the string iterators. How blasphemous /silly
Technically it’s going to be [spoiler]
BANAN WHY DID YOU SPOIL [SPOIL]?
Damn my tea tastes awful
dw first [spoiler] will [spoiler] before the [spoiler]
STAHP
MY ENJOYMNET IS BEING RUINED
Here’s an example.
Altmer and Breton mage art. Non-kirkbride
Now let me find the kirkbride concept art.

I HAVENT READ ANYTHIGN YET
Yess worms off the string
You’ve had long enough!! ||why did you click the spoiler!||
Now here is the kirkbride version.
Cool art
:MONKWAIL:
oops
Hot Take: Worms Off the String isn't interesting without the buildup to the hopping off the string part
Creepy
Take I see a lot, actually
Not that hot. Lukewarm?

















