His Fate in Small Hands

[edgy nexus]

Hosted by @civic shuttle

[civic shuttle]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/138932917

Latest chapter

New chapter tomorrow!

[past idol]

[civic shuttle]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/139398649

New chap!

[grave rune]

Hi

[civic shuttle]

Helloooo

[grave rune]

Liked this chapter! And the underclocking stuff

I can see why Sig might be concerned though

[civic shuttle]

Thanks!! And yeah underclocking… I mean, I feel like it’s not inherently a bad thing, but would be easy to… abuse? Become dependent on?

As we see pebbles doing here, though to be fair he has a pretty good excuse

(They all do)

[grave rune]

yeah

just let the world pass you by

[civic shuttle]

All too tempting when facing eternity

[civic shuttle]

Plops this here

[grave rune]

[civic shuttle]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/139741237

[civic shuttle]

A fluffy and a lump

[grave rune]

why you so eyes lump...

[civic shuttle]

He lookin

I like how she thinks of lump as a silly dumbass but it’s actually a terrifying ten foot crocodile dragon she casually bappin on the nose

[civic shuttle]

Why do discord hosted images get eaten after a while if you use them for ao3?

I can still see them where they’re posted on discord, they just stop working on the fic itself after a while

Maybe I should make a tumblr or something

[grave rune]

Thing is tumblr compresses images

I think

IIRC

[civic shuttle]

Hmm. Imgur then?

[grave rune]

Maybe, have no experience with that service though

[acoustic karma]

imgur was always kind of bad, one arg I follow use filegarden (after all his images were gone because it's link from discord), another option is neocities

[civic shuttle]

I ended up just sticking the images on my dA stash for now

I didn’t want to do that, as I haven’t touched my dA in years, but… it’s easiest

So the pebbs/arti pic in chapter 2 is finally fixed lol

[civic shuttle]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/139923361

Latest chapter c:

[grave rune]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1188220195429425172/1226029653232455680/Tumblr_l_272643013793258.gif

(Real)

[civic shuttle]

HES SO STUPID FR FR

[grave rune]

He literally turned off his brain give him a break

[civic shuttle]

no, I turned off his brain

[grave rune]

Exactly

[civic shuttle]

engages in victim blaming

I wish I could turn off my brain ever time I have an existential crisis he should be thanking me

[grave rune]

Dam

[past idol]

for discussing new chapters i shold use the spoiler warning in case someone hasnt read it yet, right?

[civic shuttle]

Up to you, since it’s your story. If you’ve got a twist or something you’re worried about spoiling then the tag certainty won’t hurt

[past idol]

oh no i mean the hfish chapter 10. ik its a channel just about the fic but in case someone hasnt read the lates chapter i shouldnt spoil is my guess

[civic shuttle]

Omfg I thought I was in stories-discussion lmao

Yes please tag!

[past idol]

lmao

will do

[civic shuttle]

Total brain failure there wow me

[past idol]

because i have to say, ||pebbles after just waking up, blasting an infants brain made me laugh so hard. then i was sad arti was mad but i still found it funny in the end||

[civic shuttle]

Bless him he’s so dumb

I’m glad you are finding it as funny as I did

[past idol]

also small name spoiler but ||winter ||might actually be my favoutit oc ever. usually i have problems getting into the stroy for ocs but it just feels so natural and shes really fun to read

[civic shuttle]

AWW that is so sweet of you to say??

I love her she’s so baby. So stubborn. I really can’t wait for future events where I think she can shine more

[past idol]

what would you choose?|| your own body parts or blue fruit?????||

[civic shuttle]

A fair bargain

She paid for those

[past idol]

she will live so defenetly worth it

[limber ridge]

I don’t have the energy to make actual fan art.
Anyways if lump had dreams it would probably be this.

This is also so I can have the thread open.

[civic shuttle]

Lump dreams of food!! Wehh this is so cute

Tysm

[limber ridge]

[grave rune]

nom nom

[civic shuttle]

I did a draw but it’s a spoiler

[civic shuttle]

Yeah I’m gonna say no double chapter this week I’ve ended up pretty busy this week so far

I also wanna edit both the next chapters before I post 11

I’m so excited to drop this one though :3c

[silk stirrup]

Take your time, looking forward to see it!

[worn tree]

this it?

[civic shuttle]

This what? :0

[worn tree]

can confirm
seems I have gone through all of it and will now have to wait for more

[civic shuttle]

Ohh yep! That pic was in the latest chapter

Next chapter Saturday!

Tysm for reading ✨

[civic shuttle]

her brother c: trying to draw the dang pelt on her too but I’m struggling, it’s so big on her

[obsidian epoch]

Read the first chapter. Really like the way you present the introduction to the story. Really enjoyed the archived thread:3

[obsidian epoch]

What a cutie :3

[civic shuttle]

Aww thanks!

I have Big Plans :3c

Each chapter so far starts with an archived log as an intro and will continue to do so up to a certain point

The logs are my favorite thing to write

[obsidian epoch]

I can read that. They are fun ^^

[civic shuttle]

If you do continue to read it I’d love to hear your thoughts! (No pressure of course)

[grave rune]

I’m a sucker for iterator chats ngl

[civic shuttle]

They’re the best

And doing them every chapter like this helps me set up themes, as well as give some insight to past events/the personalities of the local group

I try to make each one either chew on a theme that’s relevant to the chapter, or give some context to its events

There’s been a couple where I needed a log and took a chapter theme and made one, and probably would not have ever written that log otherwise

I’m having fun!

[grave rune]

I’m glad

I’m especially partial to the coin flip one

[civic shuttle]

That’s my FAVE! The first chapter log is my second favorite because it sets up so much for future events

It was also one the first things I wrote

I wrote the ending, and then I wrote that log :3c

So I guess I wrote the ending and beginning first hehe

[obsidian epoch]

I have bookmarked it and will continue once I will be able to ^^

[civic shuttle]

Again no pressure to!

But I hope you enjoy if you do c:

[civic shuttle]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/140403658

New chapterrr

[silk stirrup]

YAY

[grave rune]

||rip pebbles||

[silk stirrup]

||So those were the two slugcats you drew. Interesting||

[civic shuttle]

||yes!! Sig’s weirdos.||

[silk stirrup]

||Yetiwigs are a neat idea by the way||

[civic shuttle]

Oh thanks!! I wanna draw them

I had a doodle somewhere but I’m disorganized and can no longer find it

They’re related to dropwigs, obviously, but instead of hanging down and pouncing they have sticky flexible spines on their back that collect snow. In the summers those hairs collect debris instead, but they are less effective at camouflage without the snow, so they’re very dependent on eating enough in winter to last the warm months c:

It makes dense snow terrifying

[silk stirrup]

So they attack once you step on them?

[civic shuttle]

Or near yes

They also have bad eyesight because they tend to just sit under piles of things, keen sight isn’t terribly useful

They are vaguely based on yeti crabs appearance-wise

[tawny viper]

More motivation to get up to date with it!

[civic shuttle]

I’m so happy people are reading it

[tawny viper]

Hm so winter's chapters and FP's chapters are not in the same timeframe it seems?

Also I guess NSH has his own spearmasters now?

[civic shuttle]

They are not

||not sure if I will expand in-fic or not yet about sig’s scugs, but they are related to spearmaster yes||

They also have no fucking social skills ||all up and breathing in her face|| do better sig

[tawny viper]

||red + blue = purple no way this is just like SM 🤯||

||they do have mouths tho from what i've gathered so that's cool||

[civic shuttle]

Yes they do c:

[tawny viper]

Oh also there were mentions of some one-off chapter about FP's administrator, where is that?

[civic shuttle]

It’s in the the series the fic is posted to!

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4061635

The drawing of them I didn’t have time to finish

[tawny viper]

||Why do they have the spear holes on their backs o_o||

Also uhh "do you have games on your phone?"

[civic shuttle]

mouthbreathing

||they go spiny for defense. Like a porcupine||

[tawny viper]

Welp, now i'm sad again

[civic shuttle]

Mission success

[silk stirrup]

I liked this one

[grave rune]

if i may muse; ||five pebbles (alive, out of his can) is gonna run into winter at some point and winters gonna freak tf out||

[tawny viper]

What is winter even carrying, some data (that is not a pearl but eh?), slag reset keys (if they were sent by pebbles then it does not make sense?) or something else?

[grave rune]

it is round, and i imagine larger than a pearl

i think warm as well

but otherwise the reader does not seem to know

[tawny viper]

Wasn't it also glass or at least transparent? Maybe there is something inside?

[silk stirrup]

||I had a feeling she would visit pebbles, will be interesting to see the story lines converge||

[tawny viper]

If it's warm then it might be some organism (no mentions of any source of nutrients or anything tho) a neuron(s) (for whom?) Or it's just a really large pearl

[tawny viper]

I think the whole pebbles visit thing was foreshadowed before and also those two storylines are not within the same timeframe

[civic shuttle]

Yessss speculation

This is everything I wanted

The sphere will be explained very soon…

[median arrow]

i've been guessing for like half a dozen chapters that the little Courier is a descendent of Arti
child only makes me believce more

[obsidian epoch]

Hrr, I really have to continue reading it

[worn tree]

pebbles is dead... how sad

[grave rune]

five pebbles is dead... looks to the moon play random fate

[past idol]

ok first congracts the newest chapter was very good but i really want to talk about the one shot with wish

ive only read that today and it was so good????

like i love the way pebbles is written as an actual god which might sound dumb but i think its not often done so it was a nice change of pace

also wish just like winter is a really good oc and i wish (lol sorry) to know more

and when|| pebbles actually allowd wish to work in his chamber unlike before ||that was very nice

also that wish pitied the iterators right away! actally someone who realises that they are being cruel

and then their is|| mass ascension|| of course

i always like to read how everyone interpretest that part of the game and i like the fact that not all of the anscients are on board with it

really great chapter and really great one shot

[civic shuttle]

That one shot is my fave thing I’ve written tysm

I love wish ;v;

And pebbles is a ‘god’ but it’s a kind of hollow worship, more of a formality

The Iterators are such a weird combo of god, child and parent in this messed up scenario the ancients created

[past idol]

yup and i love it. i usually only use the child parent aspect because to be completly honest i have no clue how i would write the god aspect

also the formality thing is so real.

they want to ascend and so the follow their own rules strictly

but thats pretty much it

[civic shuttle]

The worship thing is another decoration like the endless titles and honors

[silk stirrup]

What I find interesting is that most iterators didn't like the ancients according to moon

[civic shuttle]

As well as a method of encouraging emotional dependence from the Iterators

[silk stirrup]

She compares them to skin parasites 😆

[civic shuttle]

They were Annoying

Pebbles seemed to like them well enough

Or at least appreciated being needed

[past idol]

i think pebbles likes their culture and their discussions about him and other stuff but i dont think he actually likes them all that much

[civic shuttle]

Pretty much

[past idol]

oh yeah and that of course

i like the dialouge for the pale green (i think) pearl where some ancients discuss that they need to sinlence a certain house cause they work in a way that displeases pebbles but if you give the pearl to him his just kinda amused about it all

[civic shuttle]

Yeah that’s mostly what I mean

It doesn’t seem like he LIKED them so much as they didn’t bother him much

Unlike moon who seemed to be actively annoyed by them

[past idol]

i think unlike pebbles she also really dosnt like working all that much

if i post my moon pov chapter i will include that but i think while pebbles works to much and cares to much moon does to little in both aspects

she just wants to watch the wildlife and not solve their problems but as their creators and parents she respects them at least a bit

[civic shuttle]

Moon is just very chill. She seems happy to vibe in her chamber and probably didn’t like the problems the ancients constantly brought to her

[silk stirrup]

Some of the ancients opposed his construction as it was built right over shaded citadel, a religious site.

It is the exterior pearl

[past idol]

yup one of my favaorit peaces of confirmed lore

[civic shuttle]

Pebbles’ construction was very dramatic

[past idol]

their is also a short white one giving more context

wait i will look for it gimmi a sec

[silk stirrup]

Shows how they moved away from spirituality to relying on their technology

[past idol]

uh yes and the usage of gold masks instead of the usal bone masks too

[past idol]

"We, of the Five-hundred-and-ninety-second High Convocation of the True Anointed Citadel, do hereby demand, with full force of Law and Religious doctrine, an Immediate end to construction of the Apostate Superstructure Abomination. To place shadow upon the Divine Body of the True Anointed Citadel is outrageous blasphemy and cannot be tolerated, no matter the circumstances..." Clearly this was ignored.

That one

[civic shuttle]

Yep the drama

[past idol]

i live for it

tbh i could go on and on about all that but i think thats the wrong channel for that. sorry for kinda not keeping it thread related

[civic shuttle]

No worries I like discussion :3

[civic shuttle]

Chucks this here as well

[grave rune]

Flowers :)

[civic shuttle]

pwetty flower

[grave rune]

https://tenor.com/view/flower-dancing-dancing-flower-yellow-flower-golden-flower-flowey-gif-26132632

(Idk man just looked up flower in gifs and found this)

[civic shuttle]

flowey

[obsidian epoch]

Just finished chapter 4 and kudos where kudos have to be given. The way you wrote around the administrator's lost message for Pebbles, impeccable. All those feelings that poured over me, beautiful. I read your notes and I have to say you NAILED it!

[civic shuttle]

Ahh tysm!

Man I really loved writing all the Wish stuff. I even wrote him his own one shot that covers his life/relationship with pebbs and the origins of that pearl

I recommend reading it after chap 7, you can find it as the next work in the series c:

I really appreciate your kind words

[obsidian epoch]

:3
Also I am kinda jelly. You manage something beautifully i hugely struggle with. Write an established character you are not the grandaddy from in a way that feels organic and right.
(One reason why my own characters won't interact with official characters from the game. Because i would botch it)

[civic shuttle]

Well the nice thing with RW is so many of the characters are very lightly characterized in-game

So you can kind of interpret them however you like

Pebbles and Moon may be the only exceptions, but even then there’s still a LOT of wiggle room with them

[obsidian epoch]

I tend to disagree. They nonetheless have fractions of a personality that seeps through every action. Especially pebbles is such a loaded with regret character that you can hardly squeeze him into anything

[civic shuttle]

If you ever wanna bounce an interaction off me so I can give feedback on how I think a canon chara would respond, I’d be happy to help!

[obsidian epoch]

I would appreciate that :3

[civic shuttle]

Yes pebbles is probably the most heavily characterized chara in game. But that makes it all the more fun to dig into that trauma and imagine how he would respond

That’s why he’s my fave and why he’s my main character

He’s so damn interesting

[obsidian epoch]

I however have one question regarding timeline stuff, given that arti is interacting with him but he is already in the later stages of his life (the ones I haven't seen yet in game). Arti is already ooold here, yes?

[civic shuttle]

Nope, this is right after arti’s campaign

Pebbles already has rot and is fighting it at this point in game

It’s just been a long ass time because. Iterator lifespans are nuts

I know a lot of storytellers tend to have the canon scugs exist in the same time period (or close after) but I’m going with hundreds of years passing between them. If not longer

Time period-wise, pebbles has rot, and moon has “just” collapsed (it has still been a while)

[obsidian epoch]

I see. Just was confused by the sentence that his legs have already been consumed by the rot

[civic shuttle]

“Crawling up and down my legs”

[obsidian epoch]

Structure legs, not puppet legs

[civic shuttle]

The Mobile cysts

And pebbles has been flushing rot out into garbage

The legs are not consumed c:

I can see how it would be confusing though

[silk stirrup]

Exterior has rot during arti's campaign

[obsidian epoch]

I still need a bit to wrap my head around iterators being structures and not only their representation

[civic shuttle]

Rot is preset but he’s not in near danger of collapse

This is still “early” rot. Regardless, it hurts and parts of him are already being consumed

[obsidian epoch]

Got it

[civic shuttle]

[obsidian epoch]

Also the courier scenes with the lizard family are in an odd way cute

[civic shuttle]

Cute widdle death machines 😄

I like to think of yellow lizards and scugs as the perfect analog to wolves and humans

Pack predators that could be tamed/domesticated under the right conditions

Still, god. Imagine instead of wolves we tamed 10 foot crocodiles…. Yeesh seems a lot more dangerous

[obsidian epoch]

I sometimes come across a youtuber on shorts with giant pet crocodiles. Oddly fun to see him patting these murder machines

[civic shuttle]

Out of high school I worked at a reptile-focused pet store for a couple years, and my coworker ended up getting a caiman. It was cool holding it when it was young, but man… so not work the risk of a bite as they get bigger.

It had a dog toy though it played with and it was the cutest damn thing

[obsidian epoch]

aww

[obsidian epoch]

Frozen, hair standing up straight. I finally caught up, read chapter 11. The figures are so mysterious yet familiar, what more do Rodney and Fender have to say to courier? The story is getting hot, both of them. I feel a climatic yet sad final arc approaching. What a good run! I really enjoy both sides even if couriers was fairly slow.

Sorry, couldn’t resist the robots buddies.

||Their description is so disturbing. I can’t help myself but to think of revenants, clinically dead but restless, unable to move on. Trapped in the now. I don’t know why I am having this assumption.||

[civic shuttle]

Is this a Robots reference? that is hilarious

Red n Blue squad

You guyssss I’m so excited for next chapter things are coming together

Last chance to take a whack at guessing what the sphere is

[silk stirrup]

||The triple affirmative ||

[proud kindle]

"She was holding the glass sphere, now, warm against her chest, and felt it pulse beneath her hands, just barely."

I'd guess either a purposed being, a rarefaction cell, or something new we haven't quite seen before.

[tawny viper]

something tells me it's a warm sphere made out of glass

[civic shuttle]

slightly warm.

But ding ding you got it

My mystery unraveled

[grave rune]

Iterator Defibrillator

[civic shuttle]

CLEAR!

[obsidian epoch]

Pebbles missing humor sphere. Now eternally warm and chuckling for all the centuries of missed jokes. His final stage

[proud kindle]

Ah, yes. A lost P.E.B.B.L.E.S. personality core. . .

[civic shuttle]

Sig delivering Pebbles a sense of humor, after all this time

That’s the fic

Pebbles: dies laughing

[obsidian epoch]

That’s the reason for iterators immortality. Cursed to live until they find the aspect they have been lacking all life. The thing they should iterate instead is their own

NSH‘s end will be the last humor humored. Harassment will die when they become Pebbles

[tawny viper]

Wait weren't they sent by FP? Did he remove his humor to maybe get it back again after a while? Lmao

[civic shuttle]

Haha yes, the couriers were sent by FP. But man, I’m just the author, don’t blame me for inconsistencies

Sig sending FP a sense of humor is Canon now

Making me rewrite my whole damn fic—

[obsidian epoch]

It is a very sig thing to do

[civic shuttle]

Feelin nervous about this chapter lmao

[grave rune]

you got this

embeds arent working

[civic shuttle]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/140864797

[grave rune]

read the pebbles section ||the first one; apparently there's two this chapter ooo||

AUGH

[civic shuttle]

AUGH!

[proud kindle]

Wait, what did you mean by ||Finally, the sphere... Pebbles.||

I'm assuming that ||that was pebbles in some shape or form. If so, then what was he doing being toted around as his core?||

[civic shuttle]

||What is he doing indeed?||

||yes, that’s him.||

[grave rune]

||heehee hoo hoo pebble egg||

[civic shuttle]

||EGG||

[grave rune]

||peggle||

[civic shuttle]

||he was just a widdle wormy all along||

[grave rune]

||damn bitch what did you do to be so far away from home||

[civic shuttle]

||What he is|| will be explained in more detail next chap

[grave rune]

cant wait

||also fucking love the librarian, want to give its fleshy form a hug (so long as it doesnt hurt) (dont worry ill ask it before i do so) ||

[grave rune]

[civic shuttle]

||it’s basically a big wet intestine worm thing. If you’re into that I won’t stop you ||

Poor thing. Someone help it

[grave rune]

||pebbles better make it spider legs and eyes so it can move around and see the world||

[civic shuttle]

||finger hovers over the angst button||

[grave rune]

||librarians gonna die isnt it||

[civic shuttle]

Are you accusing me of causing my characters pain?

I would never

[silk stirrup]

||So what is the sphere? I didn't quite catch it||

||A librarian?||

[civic shuttle]

Hmmm is it too vague? ||It’s Pebbles||

How can I make that clearer 🤔 it will be explained pretty thoroughly next chap

[silk stirrup]

||It is pebbles? I though you meant it was signed to pebbles 😆 ||

||And how did it end up so far away? Will be interesting to see||

[civic shuttle]

Maybe I’ll add something at the end to make it more clear hm

[silk stirrup]

Things being confusing or unclear isn't necessarily a bad thing

[civic shuttle]

I did intend the reveal to be here, though

[proud kindle]

It took me a second to pick on that it was FP, but it was mostly down to "Well, how would he leave?" Then I realized that he had actually just packed up and left

[civic shuttle]

||Pebbles: just fucking leaves||

[proud kindle]

Seems rogue iterators seems to be a common theme here...

[civic shuttle]

He’s not as cool as renegade though

Also someone please appreciate my use of ||literal worm off the string (coincidence)||

[obsidian epoch]

You are playing with my feelings, you know that?
||The librarian is making me tear up more than I like to admit. A purposed organism which is alive, feeling. The silence when it finally got asked a real cry for help, not a mindless question of information but a direct begging addressing the librarian as a living being. The break I guess was it vehemently trying to break free of the shackles and answer truthfully, consciously. In a poem because it has no voice of its own. And when Pebbles acknowledged it, and asked it in a personal manner it did go above and beyond to help its fellow prisoner of purpose. God, I hope the librarian receives its reward and gets to move on. And here I thought an iterator is a miserable existence...sheesh.||
How are you doing that? I rarely tear up when reading stuff but every pebbles section is a fight to contain the sheer suspense!

As for courier.
||How cold. Spearing Sig. poor buried iterator just wants to help. And red and blue are such ... I can't even imagine how they look? With removable exterior bones? I imagine them like a combination out of a marionette made of goo, held up by an insect-like outer bone frame. I ... what are they? ... wait ... red and blue ... godcreations. Don't tell me Sig got so lonely and desperate he purposed lookalikes, stand-ins of those he lost, he couldn't save. I ... if that is the case I think telling Sig's view could be even more dreadful, pulling on more heartstrings than you are already am doing. What ... ... the suspense is killing me.||

[civic shuttle]

They’re not bones, winter just doesn’t have a better word for them

They grow spears like spearmaster :3

[obsidian epoch]

Far less ghast like than I had in my head

[civic shuttle]

Spiny

[civic shuttle]

Actual horror novel lmao

[obsidian epoch]

That ... makes the courier part far less existential horror for me. But my point stands. I think ||they have pearls embedded in their body containing what Sig has left of memories of his friends||

[civic shuttle]

I may or may not have the chance to get into their backstory a little

[obsidian epoch]

:3

Dinner <.<

[civic shuttle]

We’ll see!

[obsidian epoch]

But for real. The librarian deserves a sketch, banan

[civic shuttle]

It would need to be colored to get much out of it! It’s basically just a big stained glass box with a nasty thing inside

I might though

[obsidian epoch]

But it is a major character at this point. Not that we have a very huge cast in pebbles part :p

[tawny viper]

Bets on ||him transferring his conciusness to a body like the librarian||

||also spearing the overseer was rude||

[tawny viper]

Nothing beats A Fucking Gun (TM)

[civic shuttle]

Poor thing. It was helpful

||she can’t have Sig’s eyes on her, though :(||

[proud kindle]

This must be confidential then.

[civic shuttle]

[tawny viper]

||wait actually now I realize the title makes full sense, his (pebbles') fate is literally in small (winter's) hands||

[proud kindle]

Yup. I've suspected a solution of some variety to be delivered, not Five Pebbles himself

[grave rune]

cant wait for next chapter

[civic shuttle]

[civic shuttle]

I’m excited for it too! It’s written but i don’t have any others ready to go after it so I will probably wait until I have more of a backlog before I post the next

Schedule was fun while it lasted

[tawny viper]

Another thought:
||the couriers. They were sent somewhere with pebbles, his return to his can was not intended. But where was he headed to? The iterator staging grounds perhaps? Hell, what is winter gonna do? The sphere does not seem like something that can be just plugged in but hey i'm not the author here||

[civic shuttle]

These questions will be answered very soon!

||Can pebbles’ god complex handle being a worm?||

He has the biggest fucking ego lmao I love doing this to him

[tawny viper]

||"would you still love me if I was a worm 🥺"
-pebbles i think||

[civic shuttle]

Omfg

[tawny viper]

||oh wait no they were totally headed to the staging facility to get pebbles transferred to a new puppet, for sure. Maybe artificer's pup was one of the first couriers idk||

[civic shuttle]

Next chapter’s intro, courtesy Piotr08

[tawny viper]

||WAIT THEY ARE SIBLINGS NO-||

[civic shuttle]

Haha sibling love!!

I know the meme is romantic though pff

[tawny viper]

Uh insert "i'm doing my part" here

[obsidian epoch]

Hehehe. I have a theory. ||What do you use worms for? right, bait. This is a lure to catch a new host.||

||And what lives in a deep sea? Right, void worms. Evolution to the biggest worm, part 1||

||Or leviathans as the unholy variant||

[grave rune]

||Five "I struggle to accept being a bug" Pebbles finds out he is, in fact, an invertebrate||

[civic shuttle]

||Bug in a maze. Worm in a case.||

[civic shuttle]

Solution found: become worm. Triple affirmative?

[grave rune]

reject modernity, return to invertebrate

[civic shuttle]

Spines are for the weak

[obsidian epoch]

Spines and bones can break. A worm will never bound to pressure

[civic shuttle]

You may squish me, but I will always bounce back

[past idol]

||ok so my brain melted when we got another pebbles pov followed by another winters one in the same chapter, also if pebbles and arti dont get some kind of happy ending together but instead stop talkink i will cry
also pebbles is a worm???? i thought he was the shpere. or is there a worm inside the sphere???||

[tawny viper]

I think it's the last one

[past idol]

ig we will see next saturday, cant wait!

[tawny viper]

Uh i think the schedule has been taken to a back alley and shot

[past idol]

only time will tell, at least im motivated now to actually continue writing on my own

[queen flume]

i am going to be reading all of this today out of excitement for what ther eis to read

[past idol]

uhhhh have fun

[queen flume]

ty

[civic shuttle]

Story link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/137144554

So you don’t have to scroll through a spoiler minefield here haha

[queen flume]

i already got it dw! and i avoided spoilers >:]

i was going to ask if you could helo me in stories discussion, im in a rock and a hard place unfortunately😭

[civic shuttle]

Happy to help, might need more info though

[grave rune]

You could ask for the link to get pinned

[civic shuttle]

Just @ a mod? Or courier?

[grave rune]

Courier

[civic shuttle]

Story link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54164113/chapters/137144554

[untold bough]

done :3

[civic shuttle]

You da bes

Now I have a pin to edit for all my pinny needs

[untold bough]

[worn tree]

that was a good chapter just finished reading through all the discussion you guys have been doing on it (I think?) I'm very curious how we got here but I think I get the general idea of what's going on waiting time
this story is fun! thanks for coming up with, writing, and sharing it!

[civic shuttle]

Thank you so much!!

Much more to come :3c

[grave rune]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHFwjlFqZeg i think yall'd like this song

Winter by Yabadum

[civic shuttle]

I did, in fact, like the song

[queen flume]

sorry that im late but I enjoyed all the chapters! I dont havw a favorite chapter because theyre all so good!!

[civic shuttle]

Aw thanks for reading! Was that you who left a comment?

[queen flume]

no, i dont have a guest acc, but I could make one until I get my ao3 acc!!

[civic shuttle]

You don’t need to haha! Just curious because someone mentioned they were from here and I didn’t recognize the name

Guests aren’t accounts, though, you can just leave a comment (it asks for your email to avoid spam and so that you can get an email notif if your comment gets a reply)

[queen flume]

ah i misunderstood

[civic shuttle]

No worries!

Tysm for reading

My brain is stupid

They said they were from Reddit not here lmao

I’m just gonna go with the default “I blame my dyslexia”

[queen flume]

its valid

/lh

[mint nova]

and now this shall show up in my list xD

thank you for showing me that lol

[civic shuttle]

Ofc thanks for hanging out!

[mint nova]

happy to whenever I can and am not working

which is sadly most of the time lol

[civic shuttle]

No worries we’re not super active here :p

Little itty bit of discussion when a new chapter comes out

[mint nova]

based on what you said a while ago....do you actually have the whole story written already and are just drip feeding new chapters every so often?

or is it like, rough drafts

[civic shuttle]

I do not have the story written!

I have an outline, as well as a few chapters pre written that are much later down the line containing important events

I do have some drafts too

The ending chapter is written, along with a couple i’m very excited to get to

[mint nova]

I'm very excited to see where it goes then! Im always down for more Arti and Pebbles

[civic shuttle]

I hope you enjoy where it goes :3c

[mint nova]

forgive me for asking what does ":3c" mean as opposed to ":3"

[civic shuttle]

Kitty w a paw :3c

Litterally meaningless I’m just a dork

[grave rune]

i am partial to >:3c
extra mischief

[tawny viper]

So the c is the paw?

[civic shuttle]

:3cccccc

[tawny viper]

I think you need to get that checked out, that's not natural /j

[civic shuttle]

:3ccccc

[grave rune]

milipede or smth

[civic shuttle]

One angry kitty, many paws

[past idol]

wait ik im late because i havent been all to active for the moment but did i miss something or why was there no new chapter last saturday? did you just take a break or did i skip over sht important

[civic shuttle]

I mentioned in the notes! I’m off schedule for now because I’m a little too busy atm

And I wanna build up a chapter backlog again :3c

[past idol]

ah ok yeah i didnt see that

[civic shuttle]

Hopefully I will be able to do a schedule again soon

[past idol]

im taking time of too right now. all im doing is planning casue i got an idea for a FULL story so i want it to be really good but ive been writing a concept for the last three days and im still not halfway through TvT

[civic shuttle]

I feel this… I want to be multiple chapters ahead because I keep thinking of things I would have changed in earlier chapters as I’m writing

[past idol]

oh im planning every chapter right now and the only thing ive actually written is a one of scav king pov because i found a way to write it really cool, i really like how it turned out but its the only thing i have right now

[civic shuttle]

I find it a really good motivator to write later chapters first. Stuff I really wanna get to!!

Or even just parts of later chapters

[past idol]

same, it also helps be with forshadowing certain stuff and i love to do that

[tawny viper]

AU speedrun any%

[civic shuttle]

The ending few paragraphs were the very first thing I wrote

[tawny viper]

interesting approach

[modern dew]

Ooo there is a lot here

[civic shuttle]

Link to first chap is pinned!

[modern dew]

man this is GOOD

[civic shuttle]

!!

[modern dew]

I wasent initially sure this would be my kindof thing but the writing quality is top notch and I'm hooked

[civic shuttle]

Tysm I’m doing my best!

IMO I feel like it gets better in later chapters, too when we get some momentum going

[tawny viper]

Honestly I got hooked from the start but I did think Winter was an ancient or a scav for a solid 30 minutes lmao

[modern dew]

I'm not sure the weather cycles and the time measure cycles are super different?

[tawny viper]

I guess a cycle is like a day and a year has got 365 cycles, like irl?

[modern dew]

Actually the time measurement of pearls seem to indicate that a year might have 999 cycles

(so calling it a year dosent make sense)

and also a "Cycle" might be much longer then a day

We essentially have no idea

[civic shuttle]

:3

A couple chapters ahead of where you probably are actually has my thoughts on exactly that

In the preceding author’s notes

Chap 5 I think

[modern dew]

... Is... Is artificer adopting five pebbles?

[civic shuttle]

It explains that a ‘year’ (this is what I call is for… just for ease as a writer’ is ~999 cycles

[civic shuttle]

Which means winter is long

Replied to wrong thing w/e

Is arti adopting pebbles?

[modern dew]

Yeah I had said that because I read chapter 5 I am reading chapter 5 right now

I read fast

[civic shuttle]

You do wow!

But yes I assume for sake of my sanity that a day is roughly equivalent to one of ours and a year is 999 days (cycles)

[modern dew]

I mean Local genocidal rat woman adopts local giant edgy supercomputer being eated by cancer is strangley very wholesome

I like ^_^

[civic shuttle]

Pebbles: if this rat wants to do my chores who am I to say no?

[tawny viper]

And turns right into ||"Please please please PLEASE STAY I NEED YOU TO HELP ME"||

[modern dew]

I beleive this is supposed to be tamper?

[civic shuttle]

Can also be used to mean “moderate” or “lessen/calm”

Basically she’s saying that it’s unnatural to alter your own mind in such a… direct, robotic way (which is kind of ironic, no?)

[civic shuttle]

Thanks for looking out though :3 I’m sure I have missed things

Also you really do read fast omg!

[modern dew]

||The pup Arti adopted, its winter's ancestor, innit?||

[proud kindle]

||Unconfirmed, but likely, yes. All comes down to who Courier Zero is, and what Pebble's mission was.||

[civic shuttle]

:3c

I have thoughts I cannot say

[proud kindle]

You know... if only there was some kind server to post your ideas in. . . Eh. I might just be hallucinating again.

(Do as you want. Just intrigued to see where this ends.)

[civic shuttle]

Carefully crafting my twists and story trajectory. It will not be spoiled!

[civic shuttle]

Forgot to put this here

[worn tree]

hm

[tawny viper]

Crop fail detected

[civic shuttle]

Ohh nooo

Oh no you can see my battery :’c

I’m gonna get doxxed

(This is what I get for writing on my phone)

[obsidian epoch]

Hacker voice Now I know where to go to give this Author a hug

[tawny viper]

I know your timezone and your phone service provider, expect a visit from me soon /j /nsrs

[civic shuttle]

Oh noooo

Well, it was only a time before my rabid fans came after me

[tawny viper]

The final chapter is not safe >:) /j

[civic shuttle]

It dies with me!!!

[grave rune]

Bump

[dire fossil]

I finally caught up.

And I am pleased beyond words.

Only four stories have given me shivers like this - Rain World, OMORI, this, and another bit of fanfiction.

[dire fossil]

I want to give Pebbles a hug. But even more so, the ||Librarian||.

It hurts.

Winter needs a hug too, but after ||she speared the Overseer||, I’m not so sure I want to do that.

Not risking getting killed, thank you.

Maybe I will.

[civic shuttle]

Ahh I’m so glad you liked it!! That’s high praise

||librarian|| was a surprise hit they were originally intended to be more of a plot device than anything (and a kind of mirror for pebbles to bounce his feelings off of given… what he is) but then… oh no baby has feelings

[dire fossil]

This fic is worthy of it.

[civic shuttle]

I’m doin my best

[dire fossil]

I'm doing my best to write, too, but not much has come out of it!

[civic shuttle]

This is just me venting my rainworld (and purposed organism) obsession

[civic shuttle]

This remains to be seen from what you’ve said of your concept it sounds like you’ve got cool ideas

[dire fossil]

Enjoy pretty little scug I made hasty additions to.

[civic shuttle]

I’ll give c2 a read as soon as I can

Omg this art is so cute??

[dire fossil]

Scug generator.

Did some "work" on it.

[civic shuttle]

Ohhh

Didn’t know there was one :3

[dire fossil]

What do we think about the patches of orange?

The cruder patches were my additions, as well as the little glare in the eye.

[civic shuttle]

Very cute. Blue and orange can be a super nice combo in the right shades (which this is)

[dire fossil]

She is a creature I'm planning on introducing later down the line...

[civic shuttle]

!!

[dire fossil]

Maybe not as pretty when described, though.

The gill-fur combo makes no sense, but we can keep that to ourselves.

Scug generator is in the archived #rw-pride-gayllery★ channel.

It still works.

[rustic saddle]

Creator! Stop introducing spoilers of my tale to others!

I beg of thee, if thou want any semblance of activity, then stop spoiling things all around!

[civic shuttle]

Otters have fur :3 though it’s pretty short

[dire fossil]

Yes, Horizons.

[civic shuttle]

Maybe fluff despite being water critter because of the environment getting colder

(Though blubber would make more sense. Gimme chonky water scug)

[rustic saddle]

Thank you, creator. Now, keep to your promise. You have a job to do.

[dire fossil]

Yes, Horizons.

[dire fossil]

I mean, you can make one. I think.

Not sure if there's a Gourmand preset, though.

[rustic saddle]

Focus.

[dire fossil]

I should, see you all!

[civic shuttle]

Augh. I have a new Idea that is actually already conveniently set up by my earlier chapters, but would require some rewriting of the next chapters I’ve written… meaning more delay, but I really like the idea ahh

[tawny viper]

You be the judge of that

[civic shuttle]

I hate going so long without uploading a chapter but… I wanna do it lol

[dire fossil]

I went without a chapter for over a month.

People still read it.

Go for it.

[errant narwhal]

If you already knew you'll be more happy with that, then just do it! anything for a good story!

[obsidian epoch]

If it is an ingenious idea I am all for it!

[grave rune]

Dew it

[civic shuttle]

pff I woke up at like 4am last night apparently and jotted down some random hfish notes in with no context and now I'm looking at them like... but what did I mean by this

I only vaguely remember waking up

[grave rune]

i cant say that has happened to me before, specically barely remembering writing something down

[civic shuttle]

I can tell what I was going for with one but not the other

maybe I'll wake up again with the epiphany

I do wake up and write notes fairly frequently but usually i include a little more context than this...

I lied, I'm looking at my other ones and there's next to no context, I just remember what I meant

rip this one might be a loss some of my best ideas come from these notes somehow

[tawny viper]

Wakeup-induced writing frenzy

[civic shuttle]

wake up, write three garbled sentences, roll back over

[tawny viper]

Write at night, try to decipher at day

[civic shuttle]

I’m getting some really kind comments still on latest chap pressure’s on though, hope second half lives up to the first

[worn tree]

I believe

[obsidian epoch]

It will. Lovely to hear it

[tawny viper]

chapter 12.2

or maybe 12 and 1/2

[civic shuttle]

Hehe

Second half of whole story :3

[tawny viper]

can't wait ||for pebbles to get un-wormed||

[past idol]

||Wouldnt you still love him if he was a worm ||

[civic shuttle]

brb taking pebbles to the vet

[tawny viper]

uhh

there, happy?

[civic shuttle]

Hehehe

[grave rune]

sorry we ||had to euthanize him. he had like all the diseases||

[tawny viper]

unfixable

[obsidian epoch]

But doctor, his diseases were all in perfect balance! cue mr burns medical checkup scene

[civic shuttle]

NEGLIGENCE!!

[grave rune]

my man neglected his own health

[civic shuttle]

He was just a scare puppy :’(

He didn’t mean to murder his sister give himself rot

[dire fossil]

Your honour, it is preposterous to assume that he killed his sister gave himself Rot with the intention to do so.

[obsidian epoch]

I toppled my sister and all I got was this lousy rot makeup

[dire fossil]

Pebbles, you aren’t helping.

It’s more difficult to defend someone who has confessed, in court, to crime.

[tawny viper]

"Your honour, how could it have been a murder if the person in question did not die?"

[obsidian epoch]

"Your honor, how can you be sure that I am the culprit when the victim has not enough brain power left to even remember yesterday. The pears she uses as memory support are no valid evidence."

[dire fossil]

“Objection, your honour! These data graphs show significantly increased water consumption coming from the can of Five Pebbles, and show a significant drop in water intake by Moon, though not for lack of effort. The pumps have been working twice as hard - but she has been receiving only a fraction of the water. He and Looks to the Moon share the same ground water - and his pipes are planted deeper than hers!”

[obsidian epoch]

"Hold it! The true culprit is the Ancient imbecile who designed the pump network in the first place. Every engineer with half a brain would have noticed the lakes that would form in the future around the cans. My client and the victim both are surrounded by water they can't access.
If a simple raise of water intake can cause such grave consequences, who is to blame? The engineer! I propose a posthumous stripping of their names.
Take that!"

[tawny viper]

Posthumous execution

[grave rune]

AU where Moon takes Pebbles to court, I see.

[dire fossil]

That actually sounds fun.

Might try to do for an April Fools' prank.

[obsidian epoch]

court consisting of purposed miros lawyers

"Your honor, the defendant literally built the court!"

[dire fossil]

Reminds me of this - https://youtu.be/KTZ_dV1O9Ho - likely what Pebbs would do after the judge convicts him.

[civic shuttle]

I’d read this

Doesn’t have to be April fools can just be for fun lol

[tawny viper]

The next step in the miros branch of wildlife

[civic shuttle]

Pops this here

[civic shuttle]

Kinda feeling like I should edit c13 because it’s a bit… exposition-y maybe

Which isn’t my favorite :/

[past idol]

oh yeah, its kinda hard to not exposition dump sometimes. Personally, i think its not the worst, but i also ended up making my first three chapters pure exposition

so maybe im not the best judge there

[civic shuttle]

Yeah this is the first chapter where I’m not switching between perspectives halfway

So it’s kinda different for me lol

First chunk is mostly just pebbs freaking out. Second is him going through the other docs

[past idol]

im sure you will be fine

till now the qualitly of your work has been through the roof so i dont think it will be bad

also pebbles freaking out? heck yeah

[civic shuttle]

Aw

[obsidian epoch]

you got it!

[errant narwhal]

Expositions aren't necessarily bad if they are warranted, I think.
But it's fine if you don't like that method too. Just take your time until you feel satisfied with the result!

||mini panic, i thought ch.13 was out and I didn't notice—||

[grave rune]

(Pff)

[worn tree]

that's me every time people start talking in here

[civic shuttle]

waiting on c13 to go through proofreading. If it's good to go I will try and post tonight :3c

[silk stirrup]

Yippie

[obsidian epoch]

ohhhh!

[civic shuttle]

Anyone willing to give the (still not final-edit) c13 draft a once over? I’m really just trying to see if it’s too confusing, because it’s kind of intended to be but… I don’t want it to be toooo much

I only need like. Maybe one or two peeps

[obsidian epoch]

gimme!

[civic shuttle]

Will dm :3

[tawny viper]

Would love to but it's way too late for me to be doing that, guess I will wake up to the finished one (hopefully)

[civic shuttle]

Unless I decide it does need major changes then yea!

Appreciate the interest regardless. Get some sleep!

[tawny viper]

Perhaps

[tawny viper]

Thanks

[errant narwhal]

Just woke up so not sure if too late, but i would be happy if i could help!

[civic shuttle]

Too late! Just posted. you'll have to settle for the polished version :p

[errant narwhal]

||holymoly, you just took 'Worms off their strings' to the super literal conclusion huh. Can't say it is a complete surprise, but the execution was superb, bravo!||

Will comment properly on ao3, if that's alright?

[civic shuttle]

I love comments ❤️

[civic shuttle]

Hehe we gettin silly w the tropes

Or are we getting way too serious?

[errant narwhal]

Nothing wrong with that. And the source materials are pretty serious!

[civic shuttle]

I was very tempted to tag this fic with worm off the string but it felt disingenuous because it’s really… not

Not in the way people expect

[errant narwhal]

||because... By nature they can't be 'off the strings'? Even with the alternative they'd depend on the new 'strings' that bound them in a way anyway? Idk just musing along||

||or maybe there was no string||

[civic shuttle]

||Yeah normally the tag implies mobile puppets||

Which… is very much not what this fic is

||worm swaps strings doesn’t quite have the same ring ||

Though, who knows what might happen in the future?

[errant narwhal]

||yeah... Being a literal worm very gives the sense of helplessness... A very strong contrast/irony of the picture of 'iterators are godlike beings'||

[civic shuttle]

||pebbs probably wouldn’t admit it but he has a god complex. Get dunked back to earth, buddy, you a worm||

||also, that kind of kinship he felt for the librarian…||

I’m hoping, when everything is said and done, there will be enough little hints I’ve spread around that will make for a fun reread

[errant narwhal]

||I assumed that stemmed from Pebbles absorbing the perceived expectations from his creators... Which could or could not be true at all....||

[civic shuttle]

I think he maybe took it a little more to heart than a lot of iterators did

And it seems he felt some amount of genuine pride and sense of meaning from the purpose they were given. He didn’t take mass ascension well

It’s been a downslide since then…

[errant narwhal]

"I have not been okay for some time, my citizen."

Quite literally
...nah, that's understatement..

[civic shuttle]

I’ve had some fun really thinking about how each iterator really feels about their purpose and current… lack of one

It helped me get their characters nailed down in my head

[civic shuttle]

At least he can admit it

All those logs insisting to his friends that he is fine

Progress?

[errant narwhal]

None?

[civic shuttle]

He’s fine, obviously

Dunno why arti is so worried :’3

[errant narwhal]

... A little bit on this... I might have planned some very awful thing(s) for Moon in my story...

[civic shuttle]

Oh nooo

How could you be mean to your characters

We don’t like… love the drama… or anything

[errant narwhal]

i swear it will make sense in the end! But maybe not entirely justified...

[civic shuttle]

Very curious where your moon fic is going. Can’t wait to see :3c

And marooned ofc

[dire fossil]

Some Iterators in mine will die.

Trying to not give away too many hints, but, well…

They didn’t bring it on themselves.

[dire fossil]

This sounds sarcy as fuck.

[civic shuttle]

I would never be mean to mine

[dire fossil]

Sure.

I’d never kill my characters for my own entertainment.

Right?

[civic shuttle]

All my characters are having a good time.

Look how happy chapter13 is

[errant narwhal]

Don't worry, my Moon won't die, Pebbles hasn't even been born yet to cause so
|| ||

[civic shuttle]

No one can bully murder moon but pebbles!

It’s a sibling’s privilege

Bedtime for me though :3c glad you liked the chapter, than you for reading

[errant narwhal]

Goodnight!

[dire fossil]

Guten Nacht.

[worn tree]

just read the funny iterator talk before well we get back into whatever is currently happening and

[tawny viper]

||MOON! MOON! I'M A FUCKING WORM, MOON!||

So anyways now I wonder if ||Winter brought back pebbles-worm cause he was already at the staging facility and wanted to go back (likely good outcome) or cause they failed to deliver him there (pebbles will be PISSED)||

[worn tree]

alright yes very good

[errant narwhal]

||I'm afraid of the worst outcome: they did successfully reach the facility, but it was in an unrecoverable state of disrepair, and so there was nothing to be done but bring him back...||

||and i know it's only natural because the sheer length of the passage of time, but I have a soft spot for Arti and Pebbles-Arti interactions, and I think she might already be gone by the time of Winter but maybe not, since SM was still around...||

[tawny viper]

||or was sm around? Those two slugcats were like sm, but they weren't sm, dunno if sm is alive||

[tawny viper]

||nooooo pebbles' gonna have a gamer rage||

[errant narwhal]

||dont take away my copium! ||

[dire fossil]

Perhaps ||Spearmaster's descendants||?

Or their siblings?

[tawny viper]

||Those two are Sig's so I guess cousins maybe?||

[dire fossil]

Sounds feasible.

I don't think ||Spearmaster could perform mitosis||.

[obsidian epoch]

||Worm through strings incoming. The pre-ancient connection network sounds like a fun rollercoaster for a wormy boi.||

[tawny viper]

Clearly something went wrong as I don't see ||the connection Network being used by Winter. Also it ain't pre ancient, isn't it?||

Also I wonder if ||pebbles orb will just pop in and out of place lmao||

[civic shuttle]

Feral for the speculation

[civic shuttle]

Don’t give SRS ideas

[dire fossil]

You know, you might enjoy Oppsian's Doctor MOTH.

[civic shuttle]

Is that a rain world thing?

[dire fossil]

Yes.

[tawny viper]

Fucked up purposed organisms cause Why Not™

[civic shuttle]

I am kind of obsessed with rw purposed organisms…

[errant narwhal]

arent that, like, every rw organisms

[silk stirrup]

Yes

Here is some rain world concept art if you are interested: #vanilla-lore message

I liked the chapter, Banan! Well done.

[civic shuttle]

Omfg I’ve never seen this concept art??

AHH THE MIROS LEGGS

[civic shuttle]

Thank you I had very mixed feelings about the chap but it seems like people liked it, so I’m happy!

[proud kindle]

I thought you did good here! Always a bit difficult to appreciate art when you're the one making it.

[civic shuttle]

Imposter syndrome.

I also spent so fucking long editing/rewriting it was soooo tired of looking at it by the end 😭

But thank you 🙏 I appreciate the reassurance

[worn tree]

[civic shuttle]

The temptation to tag this fic with “worm”

I de-sillied the tags a while back though

[obsidian epoch]

Tag it with 'Even Iterators need a vet visit' :P

[civic shuttle]

Suicide solution: dewormer

Heck what if we just dump some dewormer in the void sea

[obsidian epoch]

All it took was one harmless pill

[civic shuttle]

Do we break reality

[obsidian epoch]

Break the multiversum

[civic shuttle]

“Well thurs your problem, bud. It’s got worms”

[obsidian epoch]

no wonder, you kept dumping all those sinful ancients in it. No wonder it is all contamined

[dire fossil]

Rest in peace, HFiSH.

I loved you and I killed you.

[proud kindle]

Context for those not in the loop: #stories-discussion message

[grave rune]

you fool! HFiSH is not a fish! the worms here are symbiotic!

[civic shuttle]

Maybe pebbs is actually an eel?

[worn tree]

eel

[grave rune]

eels are just fish that returned to worm

[civic shuttle]

Acronym was clearly planned from the onset. I am a master of foreshadowing

[tawny viper]

🇭 🐟

[civic shuttle]

The h stands for… him

[worn tree]

does this count as fan art

I...

[civic shuttle]

I WILL FUCKING TAKE IT

made me laugh thank you

[worn tree]

[civic shuttle]

This is technically my second fanart

I love all doodles and will cherish them

[tawny viper]

Okay that gives me an idea

[worn tree]

[civic shuttle]

Pebbles wormsona

Release me from this mortal coil!!!

[dire fossil]

Mortal coil.

I see what you did there.

[civic shuttle]

A draw

Just in time to bump

[obsidian epoch]

Aww

Hello winter, moin ||Five wormies||

[worn tree]

your art is so lovely

[tawny viper]

Oh right i am reminded of a question
||so the main systems nexus or however it was called. Did pebbles not know about it till now, was it hidden from him, did he not know the purpose of it or something?||

[civic shuttle]

Completely unaware

Puppet blueprints the iterators had omitted it

[civic shuttle]

Thank you

[errant narwhal]

||Not sure but does pebble in that form even have eyes?? ||

[civic shuttle]

No head or eyes

just a wormy fleshy thing

Or maybe it does and it’s just curled up out of view, up to you

[errant narwhal]

||...yikes. in comparison to what the full iterator form is capable of... this is some Fate he suffers alright....||

[civic shuttle]

you can maybe see why he’s upset

Guy with a god complex confronts what he actually is at least in part

[civic shuttle]

Have an extremely rough and noncanon doodle of scuggy snuggles

We all know that pebbles would never SIT on the FLOOR

[silk stirrup]

Aww

||Which are these, arti, their pup and another one?||

[civic shuttle]

Arti pup and winter

There now she’s fluffy so you can tell :3

[tawny viper]

||so does time still pass for him while disconnected or is he kind of comatose?||

[civic shuttle]

Gonna find out :3

[tawny viper]

||yeah but would he not notice a connection or infrastructure or anything? Or was it well hidden or forbidden or sth||

[tawny viper]

||"You have been transporting me for two. Whole. Years. This is totally unacceptable"||

[civic shuttle]

Can’t trust your slaves purposed Scugs to do anything

[civic shuttle]

Anyone wanna help me figure out how to write five pebbles in RW language/symbols

Obviously it doesn’t have to be correct it just has to look feasible

Has anyone done translation for the text we see or?

[tawny viper]

I think I had something like that on hand, one sec

https://www.tumblr.com/ikayblythe/740930409476554752/a-new-transliteration-of-the-rain-world-scripts
Should be this? Did not look much into it but seems pretty comperhensive

[civic shuttle]

I wanna stick it on the sphere here if I finish the draw

Thank you!!

[modern dew]

Finally realised that there was a new chapter since I last read and like, damn

Its gooood

||The more I think about it the more I suspect the ancients might not have lied about the Iterators being Divine though||

[civic shuttle]

Glad you enjoyed!!

[modern dew]

||Of course, in rain world the most divine creature is the worm||

[grave rune]

forgot embeds don't work

[civic shuttle]

Lined it

I really gotta figure out how to draw bg’s lmao

[worn tree]

very nice art

[obsidian epoch]

Aww

[modern dew]

Its AMAZING art

[mint nova]

Even without a background it looks awesome c:

[errant narwhal]

Very nice!
||Her Burden is (not) Light.||

[civic shuttle]

She’s really not having a good time

Surely everything from here will be smooth sailing?

[errant narwhal]

So I did a little rereading
||And that dream Winter had... "Destination, unreached" "the origin lost" oh no oh no no no||
||Does this mean... They never found the facility? Or the origin here refers to the can? Was the mission taking Pebbles to the facility or returning Pebbles to the can? Ahhhh||

[civic shuttle]

||yes the couriers never made it to the facility. I intended this to be more clear but most people don’t seem to have picked that up… I think I might need to rewrite a little haha||

[errant narwhal]

||Oh haha I thought it was a suspense of 'did they or did they not?' with the failed part could be the return trip instead. But i guess it makes more sense this way since the return destination probably couldn't be 'Lost'||

[civic shuttle]

I mean if it’s more fun that it’s unclear maybe it’s a happy mistake haha

[grave rune]

||i personally like the vagueness, or that question being answered eventually||

[errant narwhal]

||but there's gonna be a happy ending, right? ||

[grave rune]

"sorta fix it"

[civic shuttle]

I’ve written a sizable chunk of a one shot that shows what happened to the couriers

So I will probably post that at some point… when relevant

[dire fossil]

Left.

[grave rune]

||honestly what i think what happens (with the current knwoledge we have) is that the couriers sort of lost their purpose, went to some random iterator and they were like "hey this says five pebbles he's in that direction" and the couriers are like "ohhh so we go there"||
||I can only imagine what it will be like for five pebbles to wake back up in his rotting corpse of a can... if that's whats gonna happen||

||i can imagine him just. sobbing. so much effort for nothing||

[errant narwhal]

||If his reactions to the truth before were that bad, this time it's gonna be way worse... And this time who could be the anchor for him to hold onto? he and Winter barely or even don't know each other. Could she even comprehend the reason when he does breakdown and sympathize with him, considering his given 'duty' was also indirectly the cause of her sufferings too .... ||

[civic shuttle]

Hmm I wonder if you’re right?

[worn tree]

OOOOoooOoOoOoOooo

[tawny viper]

||Her Burdern is some asshole in a sphere||

[worn tree]

[obsidian epoch]

Ohh, I get it now
||The risk of relying on a purposed species with mouth to mouth history. A multi generational play of silent post that ended in a U-turn. Poor Pebbsy ... (Bit of a bummer however that this implies that Wish's wish was outwished ;.;||

[tawny viper]

... attempt 2?

[obsidian epoch]

||Given that winter is in the snowy part, means quite advanced in time I don't think Pebbles would bank on the facility still being functional after that much time has passed.||

[tawny viper]

||"i'd like to request a refund for my messenger as it failed to do its taks"||

[obsidian epoch]

|| "Am I still allowed to trade in my messengers ... grand ... great grand daughter? ... Is that scug even related to my messenger? No? Fuuu!"||

[silk stirrup]

||Throw him in the void sea 😆
I wonder, what would happen if you switched the core of two iterators?||

[tawny viper]

||I imagine nobody would want to do that, also, don't know what exactly that core does and is it compatible with other cans||

[silk stirrup]

||Wait, since pebbles removed his core, doesn't that mean gourmand, survivor, monk and riv's campaigns would be heavily changed or not exist? No sweet reunion moment ||

[tawny viper]

||i mean we don't know when did he make the decision to move but yeah, could have a big impact||

[obsidian epoch]

I believe Banan mentioned to me some time ago that she only putted Saints campaign in brackets to make the story work. We will see if that still holds now.

[errant narwhal]

^for some reason the wall of spoilered text above is so funny to me

[obsidian epoch]

It is

[civic shuttle]

banan loves the theorizing…

[tawny viper]

Average SCP article

[civic shuttle]

[REDACTED]

[grave rune]

Oh boy I love [REDACTED]

[obsidian epoch]

I [REDACTED] this story

[errant narwhal]

Totally (not) real snippet from the next installment of H🐟

By order of the Historied Institute of Hands Across Time, the following information is CLASSIFIED
[Data expunged]
[Data expunged]

[past idol]

all caught up and i have to say
||bug in a maze. worm in a case|| might be one of my favorite lines ive ever got to read

[mint nova]

The historied institute of hands across time has allowed the partial declassification of the following:

giant wall of black text

Has like one dudes name and thats the only thing not blacked out

[civic shuttle]

I loved writing this line thank you

That small chunk of the pebbles freak out (the realization) was one of the earliest things I wrote actually

I split it in half though and used part of it in chapter 12 (and then edited a bit)

[obsidian epoch]

Nuu, Five pebbles got split into Ten Granules

Then Twenty Grains of Sand, Fourty Specks of Silt and finally Eighty Hints of Clay

(If we use fusion however: Two-point-five Cobbles and One-point-two-five Boulders )

[random pine]

||Artificer: "Gimme language"||
||This poor Courier😭Who sent her and her family on this mission, I just wanna talk||
||God the interactions between FP and Arti are so damn CUTE, yes, get adopted you sad sad robot||
||NSH having to keep gently reminding Wind about Administrators ||
||Arti is such a golden retriever, I'm crying||
||HOOOOOH WHAT DID WISH WRITE||
||As an Arti enjoyer, Arti's investment in Pebbles warms my cold dead gamer heart||
||Lump my beloved||
||COURIER I AM SO PROUD OF YOU FOR TRADING, YOU GO GIRL ||
||NSH: Don't do drugs underclocking, kids||
||"Not that he would have been able to use it regardless, given his Rot and utter lack of friends" Pebbles confirmed to have never touched grass||
||UNPARALLELED INNOCENCE ||
||Ohoho Librarian? 👁️||
||Has Winter been carrying a cell this whole time??? :O||
||Please NSH, Crown would love to know the color of a vulture's egg ||
||The bluefruits 😭 Yes, Winter very much deserve those after that||
||That baby just got an encyclopedia downloaded into its brain ||
||SPEARY?!?!?||
||F in chat for all abandoned purposed organism everywhere 😔||
||Awww white liz Another friend for the Friend passage||
||FIVE PEBBLES......................................||
||THE LIBRARIAN. HOLY SHIT||
||Omg there are baby vultures||
||UHHH I THINK I SEE WHERE ALL THE WORM MEMES ARE COMING FROM||
Ohhhh my goodness. Wow, amazing, just damn. I have not binged a story this hard since high school

I feel like my life just changed LMAOOOOO

Eagerly awaiting the next installment, though please do take your time :3c

[worn tree]

welcome to the ||H||fish gang

[worn tree]

[random pine]

🐟

[civic shuttle]

DRYMM SPOTTED

I am fucking living for this commentary I am feral

Play by play commentary every writer’s dream ahhh

[dire fossil]

I like this.

Drymm practically went through the same thought process as I did.

[civic shuttle]

@random pine WORM!! #1225605782347972652 message

[dire fossil]

I await Pebbles’ burst of rage.

His fury at the little slugcat ||that brought him back||.

[civic shuttle]

I’m on track rn!! Tysm for reading

[dire fossil]

And then the realization that it wasn’t the poor critters’ fault.

[civic shuttle]

How many scug lives is pebbs gonna fuck up in pursuit of… whatever this is

[dire fossil]

The only thing left to do is either lament, or try again.

I don’t know if he could even do either once he ||returns||.

[random pine]

DUDE?!????!!

[civic shuttle]

BRO!!

[random pine]

Gnarly as hell, I love it so much

[civic shuttle]

Okay Mr god complex, take that

You just a wormy boy

[dire fossil]

I wonder if the little thing is actually alive after all that time.

[civic shuttle]

Would be a hell of a way to end the fic

[random pine]

"Oh...." End credits roll

[dire fossil]

By all means, go ahead.

However you decide to end it, I’ll read to the end.

[civic shuttle]

I wanna post a gif but embeds don’t work grr

[random pine]

I'll click on it 🥺

[dire fossil]

We’ll click on it.

[civic shuttle]

Wait why did that work

[dire fossil]

Oh, no, it works!

[civic shuttle]

I don’t understand you discord…

[random pine]

Omg

[worn tree]

[dire fossil]

Well, I believe files work, but links don’t.

[civic shuttle]

I tried a file and it didn’t work (tested on my test server I use for this exact purpose)

But the copy/paste does

I no understand

[worn tree]

yeah here's an example of it lying to me (I can't dm Blu I can't send them an invite!!!!!)

[civic shuttle]

Lies!! Make sense, discord!!

[worn tree]

yeah

[dire fossil]

Discord? Making sense?

No, I don’t think it ever will.

[obsidian epoch]

Boy oh boy. Drymm literally got consumed by the story

[random pine]

Very much so, 'tis good story

[tawny viper]

Assimilated into the story

[dire fossil]

There's supplemental material.

Wish's part of the story.

How did I not see this?

[obsidian epoch]

Wish's one shot is by far the best aspect of it. And that is coming from me, who adores Pebbles in Fate over everything

[dire fossil]

The misgivings of being not early enough to be there from the start, but also not be there when it's already done.

[civic shuttle]

I’m sad a lot of people missed the oneshot! Maybe I should have incorporated it into the main story but I didn’t want to mess with the flow

[errant narwhal]

Add some CSS code so that chapter note is bigger!

[obsidian epoch]

Edit the pinned message to add it

[civic shuttle]

I should probably just direct link it in the chapter note and maybe add one to the end of the last chapter too idk

It’s okay if people miss it just kinda sad cause it’s my fave :’3

[dire fossil]

It is my favorite part of the story.

[modern dew]

Since I read the last chapter I've had something in mind I've been wanting to express. Have some simple fanart of two completely normal worms meeting 🙂

[civic shuttle]

This is so simple but I love it so much??

Like idk the scene is so well captured here

Why does it give me feels

Pebbws hatch… ascend

[errant narwhal]

Liberation from the form that limits him so much.

[obsidian epoch]

||What goes at that point through the void worm's head.
"How ... am I supposed to drag that down? My tendrils are bigger than its entire body."||

[civic shuttle]

He just wanted a choice :c

Wehh Simon tysm I love it

[tawny viper]

||skewered||

[obsidian epoch]

final fate: bait

[modern dew]

Your welcome!! ^_^

And thankyou ❤️

[errant narwhal]

||or just use the waves from their movement push Pebbles around ||

[random pine]

Heartrending, in the best way

Pebb indeed hatch

[civic shuttle]

I just realized I never posted this here. Idk why but I remembered it just now lmao

It was in response to this comment:

[worn tree]

beautiful

[tawny viper]

This is now how lump looks cannonically

[civic shuttle]

Extremely rough sketch yay

[errant narwhal]

Is that Scout? They kinda look nervous being there

[civic shuttle]

Scout is constantly on the verge of panic lmao

I might make it more dopey honestly

[errant narwhal]

Also, congrats on passing the exam!

[civic shuttle]

Ahh thank!

One more certificate off the degree checklist

[median arrow]

lizors...

[errant narwhal]

Another hurdle passed, many more looming on the horizon such is life I guess

[civic shuttle]

But now I’m gon sleep

Night :3

[worn tree]

[dire fossil]

Lump looks rather indignant.

[civic shuttle]

She did call it fat

[worn tree]

is she wrong?

[worn tree]

don't look at me like that (also hello! how are you doing? )

[civic shuttle]

Doing good :3 hope you are too

[worn tree]

I'm ok

[worn tree]

hmm maybe I should try drawing some hfish themed art that could be fun
but... maybe I shouldn't be saying this then you might expect me to do it! then I might not and then you will just be waiting and and a-
love the story so far hope you are well!

[civic shuttle]

If you did I would be very happy! But of course no expectations or pressure ❤️

[worn tree]

yeah! think my only problem is I'm not sure how good I am at drawing fluff and I'm pretty sure a bunch of the characters are fluffy based on the drawings I have seen hmm... that means I should probably practice that...

[civic shuttle]

draw em smooth I don't mind

or ~expand your horizons~ (I say as someone who refuses to learn to draw backgrounds)

[worn tree]

yeah

so in case I do... do you have any refs

[civic shuttle]

unfortunately only the images I've posted here I really need to draw more

[worn tree]

it's fine
I love the few drawings I have seen from you!

[civic shuttle]

❤️ appreciated

I don't draw as much as I used to but all my drawing spoons recently have been used on this and rain world in general

[worn tree]

spoons... you been drawing spoons /silly

[civic shuttle]

🥄

[civic shuttle]

if I can just finish this scene.... new chapter soon

if this scene continues to be a little bitch then idk

[random pine]

Banan, thought you might like to know this whole time I thought your pfp was some kind of fucked up ice cream sundae... for some reason... but now I see it's your dog................... I'm so blind

[civic shuttle]

WHAT

can you please illustrate what you mean I have to know

[random pine]

EXACTLY, NOT EVEN I KNOW
Yeah hold up I'll try it

[civic shuttle]

“Fucked up ice cream sundae” new insult just dropped to hit my dog with

[random pine]

Behold my vision

[civic shuttle]

I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND…..

literally crying at this image omfg

I JUST SEE HIS STUPID FACE…

[random pine]

I DO TOO, NOW

[civic shuttle]

I am losing my mind at this image

[obsidian epoch]

Handsome

[random pine]

Blease I can't be the only one

[civic shuttle]

The things we accept in our brain omfg

this melted pile of ice cream as a pfp 😂