Corroded Destiny

[steady whale]

my number went up today, very satisfying. Thank you number goblins

[unique patrol]

More! Page 22 now :3

[steady whale]

I wish you ever more numbers

I use my double kudos sparingly >:3c

[unique patrol]

Hehe

[steady whale]

Secret power. Logout -> kudos. Don’t tell

[unique patrol]

Also, speaking of NSH.
Given the timeline I have set up, it is quite certain that Hunter might be already in production. Suns and NSH might have discussed the slag key plan together, but it is obvious that the situation was a rush job helmed by NSH alone.
...
||I might have here a reason why it was a solo job||

So yeah, ||If I want to include the two later they actually serve as a good storytelling device.
To cite my buddy:

'That makes me think of something.

Harassment soloed his project to save Moon. He even left Suns out despite planning it during a chat with them. Only said that he already has things in motion. And while Sig may possibly be the best iterator around at purposing loyal messengers, his sloppiness almost resulted in a critical failure of the mission. What if Hunter succumbed to rot in vicinity of Moon's puppet?

Sky, another biologist, however, recognizes his lack of skill and gathers help from other iterators. There are now 4 iterators working on saving Gales, not counting her.

Which is interesting, considering Harassment is very social, and Sky is not'||

||Sky, Suns and Sig all represent different mantras of helming such a project.

Sig: Confidence and brashness, resulting in a loyal turbocancer patient

Suns: Cautious planning and perfecting, even if perfection is faulty

Sky: Aware of shortcomings. Uses non optimized material and jumps over his shadow to make it work. Has however the advantage of using the mutation grid he perfected resulting in a high malleability of Irradiant unlike Spearmaster.||

[unique patrol]

scary wall of censored text

Also for those checking in on the thread later. A little boost to the link to the newest chapter 12
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55635643/chapters/143732959

[unique patrol]

…not getting better. Head still too big

…I really should start using refs. Can’t just wing it with a body type I am unfamiliar with <.<

[unique patrol]

…looks too cursed

[unique patrol]

Thinking about skipping a certain thing for chapter 13.
||I stopped chapter 12 with Sky filling in Suns about what happened.
As I want to avoid regurgitating everything I might start the next chapter with suns digesting the situation via introspection after Sky told them everything
Like starting with Suns' personal impression of the situation instead of working towards them understanding it||

[harsh abyss]

I’m gonna lay off of drinking any more condiments for now, because I need to ketchup on the current events.

[harsh abyss]

Also I have an AOOO or AO3 account now yay!

[unique patrol]

Woo! Welcome to the text side

[harsh abyss]

Yay! Thanks! What does the text side mean? Do you mean the ability to create and post texts, due to me now having an account?

[unique patrol]

Welcome to the dark side equivalent

[harsh abyss]

Yay! Thanks!

[unique patrol]

I like to repurpose such little cites some times

For better or worse

[harsh abyss]

Repurpose cites?

[unique patrol]

Using established sayings and adjusting them to the situation at hand

[harsh abyss]

Oh! Okay! I occasionally do that as well! The saying “my sweet Summer child”, I usually replace it with “my sweet Winter Hatchling”, because one of my characters is a dragon. Technically uh.. like four of them actually.

[unique patrol]

Also, one funfact.
Given I already plan to expand the scope a tiny bit with the decision to do occasional perspective shifts and write out of the pov of all 5 main iterators I may have to design a few more OCs to make some perspectives work.

One I definitely have to design is Suns‘ local group’s administrator. Because a Lives pov without any administrators besides Sky would be very boring

[woven cedar]

||Suns joined the party!||

[unique patrol]

||Party exceeded 4 members, please select your groups
Group 1: Suns and Sky
Group 2: Whisper and Lives
Reserve: Gales||

@woven cedar Answered your comment. Covered quite a few interesting topics and I got a bit carried away

[woven cedar]

||Folder systems? So more like she never had the reasons to call for the memory rather than that she forgot? Hmm||

[unique patrol]

||She never noticed they have been tinkered with||

[woven cedar]

||!! Gales!, Quickly! Check the metadata!||

[unique patrol]

Also, just a question out of curiosity. What did you think of my interpretation regarding why ||Spearmaster is designed as they are? For me their entire design screams ‚I want to combine as many sins in one, so rejecting one means rejecting all ‚||

[woven cedar]

||It's a refreshing take! I also never thought of the reasons behind the design that way, but that actually makes some sense to think maybe Suns did base the design on the 5 Karmas, especially considering his position in your story||

[unique patrol]

||It can also explain why Spearmaster was the 7th iteration of the messenger project despite them using existing research from NSH. Suns probably tried at first to create a being that can’t sin. But one who can’t sin, can’t live.||

[static pecan]

||spearmaster is optimized for sinning||

[woven cedar]

||I think I did talk about this a little yesterday in the main chat, but it's wrong to think and label the 5 Karmas as sins in the first place||

[unique patrol]

||Optimized for sinning but also optimized to abide any sins||

[woven cedar]

||By that I meant the Ancients||

[unique patrol]

True that

But the ancients are a screwed up species, nuff said

[woven cedar]

||Conflict, Yearning, Connection, Caution, and Self-preservation are all the nature of life, it's abhorrent to completely deny them.||

[static pecan]

||honestly the 5 karma seem like basic things needed to survive but pushed to the extreme||

Yeah

[unique patrol]

Also, one thing about the situation.
||Suns can’t undo what they did to Spears. That sin persists and can only be soothed.

Sky actually could undo his sins given his mutation grid reacts on influence and adapts. … Suns will be either upset or relieved. Probably both.||

[woven cedar]

Rather than pushed to the extreme, id say it was more like the Ancients 'vilify' these concepts

[static pecan]

||why upset? Cause it can't be done remotely?||

[unique patrol]

The more easily to be explained, the broader you can expect your preaching to reach

[woven cedar]

Wait, what am i saying, that's the same thing as push to the extreme lol

[unique patrol]

Because Sky does arguably horrible things to irradiant and could dodge out of the resulting consequences by simply changing her diet

[mental cosmos]

Brain did not brain.

[static pecan]

||hm okay maybe i misread it idk i understood this as "sky could undo spearmaster"||

[woven cedar]

||both mistakes were stemmed from ignorance, but Sky has someone to tell him about it before it's too late I guess||

[unique patrol]

||True. Sky‘s mutation grid does weaken with age. Suns may urges to push him to hurry for Irradiant‘s sake, so he can at least undo the radioactive aura of hers before she will be stuck with it.||

[static pecan]

||oh so you can partially undo less severe mutations?||

[unique patrol]

Well, not quite. ||A full undo is not possible. But he could nudge the aura into a someway less aggressive state||

Radioacidic scug won’t shift colors, that’s for certain.

[woven cedar]

||like introduce something to disable part or the expression of her genetics code?||

[unique patrol]

Yep

As long as the cells are still young

After all

I called her Glowcat in the fist iteration of her :p

[woven cedar]

Nightcat's nemesis

[unique patrol]

First name of her was simply Glow before I went down the acid route

Which sounds so wrong out of context

[unique patrol]

Funny number acquired

[steady whale]

I like glow as a name honestly I think it’s cute

[static pecan]

Some nickname by gales maybe?

[unique patrol]

<.<
I have an idea how to us that nickname, but you won't like that trail of thoughts

[unique patrol]

Crazy Soul just wrote the first 900 words of chapter 13

[unique patrol]

Lil sketch I might refine for chapter 13.
One Decision, Three Consequences

Anything to say, Drymm? :P

[inner steeple]

❗ This choice will alter the game's outcome

[sterile briar]

Wait, that might actually be one of my favorite piece of art by you right now, and its only a sketch!?
I dont even know why, but im excited to see it in full

Also cute Suns design

[unique patrol]

[unique patrol]

The guilt of a simple decision weighs heavily and reaches far

[sterile briar]

just one question, the left on is Gales right?
at first i thought it was nsh since the other two are pebbs and moon but then i looked closer and the head symbol is way to round for it to belong to nsh. or am i just stupid

[unique patrol]

The left is gales. Yet another victim of suns sharing the genome rewrite pearl with pebbles. A downwards cascade. Because moons collapse occupied Lives that much that she now is unavable to use her maintenance drones for gales and only noticed the damage after they had to tell her

[sterile briar]

yikes, even more guilt for suns

[unique patrol]

And all that from them being a sliverist and sharing the theories of a peer with pebbles

[sterile briar]

tsk tsk tsk

Suns arc will definelty be one to follow with interest

[unique patrol]

Indeed
…
Hmm, wonder how the fact that ||Sky is a sliverist|| might play in in the future
Although I am not 100% sure if I wanna keep that early characterization or change it

[sterile briar]

huhhhhh???

you cant just drop that on a poor person

||not sky, noooooo. my boy!!!||

[unique patrol]

I talked about that prior to starting the novel.
||Not the death is the solution Erratic Pulse suggestion but much rather the believe that the great problem is solveable, but includes the possibility of great sacrifices||

After all one of his favorite phrases is : I will succeed, I can only succeed.

[sterile briar]

yeah i like that
||not all sliverists need to look for a way to die directly||
i just think its funny that now my favorite oc and favorite og are both ||sliverists||

[unique patrol]

…I need a pseudonym

[sterile briar]

||for sky?||

Sprunghafter Impuls /j

easy

done

[unique patrol]

He has no fantasy, so that could actually be plausible:p

[sterile briar]

Bahahah

that would be so dumb

In the end he just calls himself
Another Pseudonym/Second Name etc

[unique patrol]

Insertion Name

[sterile briar]

or even worse, he just steals some poor souls name

[sterile briar]

yes please!!!

[unique patrol]

Pff

It might be a tad too silly

[mental cosmos]

Help, brain not braining.

[unique patrol]

Yes?

[mental cosmos]

I thought I was in the main channel, my bad.

[inner steeple]

Another Iterator

[unique patrol]

Perfect. AI

[inner steeple]

OH GOD

[unique patrol]

Soo, wrote another 600 words and am now at 1400 for chapter 13. taking my Bluetooth keyboard with me in the train was a good idea

[inner steeple]

Soulwing rn:

[unique patrol]

Not anymore, left the train :p

But yeah, as far as things go. Chapter 13 will likely close the ||first Suns focus and allow for a small time leap afterwards in the scug agenda. ||Who will take the lead after that is still up for debate, will however probably be ||Gales and Breaker||

||The scug training will be continued in the second section side foci||

[unique patrol]

Artwork for chapter 13 finished.
||Guilt is a paralyzing state, renders you unable to move on. Too much of it and you might never recover.
But what if there is a light to lessen the burden, to repent?||

[inner steeple]

All these chapter drawings are making me so hype for my own, like holy shit...... I can do that too

The lighting here is to die for

[unique patrol]

Hey, don't undersell yourself. You are so much better than me

[inner steeple]

Uno reverse card

[unique patrol]

no u

Also. Thats all you get from me drawing FP :P

[steady whale]

makes me wanna draw for mine but then I remember I'm lazy as heck

[unique patrol]

Don't make me force you, banan. :3

[steady whale]

ehhh its not just laziness. I would love to do the kind of full bg art you do but idek where to begin

I should probably take, like, an art class or... something at some point

[unique patrol]

Never took one myself

[steady whale]

years of exclusively doing no bg character art have cursed me

I know nothing else

[unique patrol]

Me as well. CD caused me to try to innovate

Also, banan. Wanna know why I write so fast? The main reason?

I crave more comments

[steady whale]

ME TOO but I'm just struggling with these latest chaptersss

but.. attention... banan loves attention...

I'm glad to see you're getting more comments though!!

[unique patrol]

Well, only on the day I am uploading a new chapter tho :p
You see my issue?

[steady whale]

I crave comments and number. number must go up

Want number go up? must post more chapter.

Chapter, however, does not want to written

at least we have nice consistent CD uploads :3 at least for now!!

gonna miss em when you gotta take a break for uni

[unique patrol]

Mhm. Now banan, go and write! I know you can do it. Your pebbles is immaculate

[steady whale]

I'm trying!! I wrote more

still not in love with it though...

[unique patrol]

I know i won't be able to fully resist. <.<
Maybe write 300-500 words as a reward after a day of learning

[steady whale]

it's so hard when you're in the writing groove not to let it distract you from responsibilities...

[unique patrol]

I know ;.;

[sterile briar]

eats picture and runs away

[steady whale]

YO SHARE

[sterile briar]

no

[unique patrol]

Children, behave. There are after all seven red sins

[sterile briar]

nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom

all gone

[steady whale]

Dungeon!! A thousand years dungeon!!

[unique patrol]

Glutton and Envy

[sterile briar]

going Karma 4 all the way

[unique patrol]

Other thing. A question

As of currently, which iterator of the story (including suns) is your favorite and of who do you want to see more?

[sterile briar]

sky fave, suns and lives wanna see more

but i can feel the whisper withdraw, havent seen my girl in a while

so actually i only wanna see more of suns and lives since they are still the newest, but overall probably whisper

[static pecan]

Hm yes i would like to see more of gales /j

[steady whale]

sky

I love socially inept dorks

[unique patrol]

Mhm, mhm. Got it.
Ok…

1. Push the creation of Suns‘ adminstrator up to be able to explore lives more.
2. oh Whisper, my hypegirl … if I only knew how to best capitalize on you in a focus…

[sterile briar]

administrator stuff is always great

i love all the different interpretation for ancient lore, probably even more than the iterator concept in general

[unique patrol]

True. Well, there are plenty of ancient hot takes coming up as gales proceeds. :3

[sterile briar]

gonna eat that all up

[unique patrol]

Tsk tsk.

[steady whale]

agree with this where whisper??

she's the only one I've drawed where is she

[unique patrol]

She was around only a few chapters ago. ||Sky sent her off after teasing him to work on the neuron.||

Chapter 11 even, very recently

[steady whale]

it's been so long...

[sterile briar]

ok im about to go on a little mini rant regarding whisper.

It just feels so long since weve gotten anything from her since shes been there from the beginning, she was the second major character we got so now that shes stepping back for a second so others can be introduced its really noticeable.
Gales obviously doesnt have that problem being the main character and all and Sky is getting his development not only when he is the pov but from everyone else since everyone seems to be interacting with him, even the scug (believe me im living for all the syk content, espeacially if you really plan to make him a ||sliverist||).
Then there is Lives, im also starving for any content that regards her, but i dont think thats really fair since she just joined the story.
Suns doesnt need to much development to make us understand how they work so developing them early on is easy and you can just skip to all the story stuff already. Like you can simple say sth about Suns feeling guilty and we all just know why, no exposission needed and that is always good.
And im realizing right now that i wanted to talk about Whisper and i kinda lost focus, whoops but it kinda helpst to explain a point i have with her.
Right now she definetly has the most, i wouldnt call it boring, but more simple story line. All the other characters have all this set up where you can only be excited on how it will pan out, but since Whisper is already like Gales best friend Gales doesnt describe her in all these interesting ways like she does with the rest (also means no real conflict between them/ also am i like the only one that wants to see the two kiss just me??? pls no. i need some whisper gales shippers here )
But back to the point. Gales obviously has like the entire plot to explore her. Sky has his 'be better at emotions' and eventually the ||sliverist ||thing (but i dont really count that yet since you still decide if you actually want to use that or not)

word count end

have to send the first part already

ok continure

and lives has her relationship with gales and the local group drama on the side.
suns also has a lot of plot since they are a cannon iterator so they just get all the downpour lore plus additinal stuff

But whisper? She had her little moments at the beginning, but her biggest moment definetly was the one with Breaker. I kinda wish we got to see more from her perspective at that moment since it might have been some huge angst potential (and i live for angst) but i digress.
She seems to maybe have some anger issues? If thats intended than that might be an iteresting path for her to go. Also since Gales will probably interact more with scavs we might see Whispers return to a more prominant role there

Tbh i dont even think its that bad? Like you obviously still set up your characters and whisper already got her time to shine. Shes just stuck with the least things to do (unless its working in the story, like why is she working on everything while others can just focus on one thing, my girl is being overworked ) but from all your shared plans so far this story isnt ending anytime soon. might even still count as a prolouge at this point, so there are still so many things that could still happen

I guess her missing just sticks more out since shes been there from the start

[steady whale]

(whisper/gales shipper raises hand)

[sterile briar]

YESSSSSS

[steady whale]

my lil lesbian heart craves the ship

[sterile briar]

(lol that just were 600 words, if only i could write like that when im writign my story )

[steady whale]

the FEELS demand WORDS

[unique patrol]

I agree with the fact that Whisper does have her issues in keeping her interesting from that point on. I pushed her into the support role because her skills are less required than in my initial plans on how to get Gales moving. She will have in future Sky and Lives foci more chances to be the token emotional supporter and glue that keeps the group together.
The issue with the scavenger storyline is that Whisper is essentially cut off from Gales now, with the only active communication being Suns' chat 1.0 device.
Lives has maybe a solution to establish some connection with Gales, but Whisper?
...
Not.
...
I am honestly a bit stumped on how to keep her interesting, not to mention integrate her in the current major plot-lines. Maybe that will change once I get to the first Lives' focus, given they are after all a tag-team. But till then? .... IDFK!?

[steady whale]

(also soul you won't see a passionate rant like this about something a person isn't passionate about. I count this rant as a massive win)

[unique patrol]

Mhm

[steady whale]

hmmm

[sterile briar]

as long as you dont completly sideline her i dont think you should try to force her in. if you have plans for her later that use her later

[unique patrol]

I have plans, many plans. But most of them only come to fruition after Gales has left custody

[steady whale]

make her the primary receiver of sky's scug rants I suppose... but I guess suns is there for that now

poor whisper is really out of the loop isnt she :C

[sterile briar]

then keep it like that. your story right now is great and while i do miss my girl im mostly not to bothered by her absence. the stuff thats happening right now works just like it is

[steady whale]

definitely one of the more challenging things about having a large cast is keeping everyone relevant

sometimes characters just need to go on the backburner for a while

[sterile briar]

as long as their not completly side lined theres nth wrong with that

[steady whale]

Even more difficult when dealing with iterators who are very stuck in their cans

[unique patrol]

Hmm ... out of the loop you say. Well, that does give me ideas for a small expressive focus on her frustrations with that. Her being not necessarily necessary to save her best friend, unable to check in on her due to her being out of overseer distance and not in Suns' reach and general frustrations with the situation and the fear of scavengers coming for her besides breaker.

[static pecan]

Hm yes the whole point of CD is to get gales over to whisper

[steady whale]

right??

[sterile briar]

so they can kiss /j

[steady whale]

is this not the goal??

[unique patrol]

whistles

[steady whale]

why even be off the string if you're not even gonna kiss your not girlfriend

I'm just sayin, it's pride month

[sterile briar]

im gonna be 100% honest, i forgot that

[static pecan]

She seems kinda ADHD so uh, tough spot, eh?

[sterile briar]

but seems like we get whisper back as a major character at some point

[static pecan]

"It's pride month, Whisper, you know what that means"
"Huh, do you want me to, like, make gay chemicals"

[sterile briar]

now if only i could draw...

[steady whale]

time to learn

give the people what they want

[unique patrol]

Ga - Y
Beautiful Gallium-Yittrium

[sterile briar]

im not learing, but im gonna draw some cursed stuff anyways

[static pecan]

Same

[sterile briar]

4 years of art classes, where all i could draw was backgrounds, only for me to now sit on a pc and sribble with a stupid mouse

[steady whale]

I drew with mouse for years and years

[static pecan]

Tbh i did not enjoy art classes at school

[steady whale]

don't let your dreams be dreams

[sterile briar]

they sucked

the reason i stopped drawing

but im trying to get back into it

[unique patrol]

Art class was fun

[steady whale]

I hated art class cause I didn't want to draw fruit or mountains I wanted to draw goth cats

[static pecan]

I mean i get the fun of drawing and stuff and i kinda wanna do it (besides the sucking at art part) but the stuff in art classes is just not it and sometimes was not what i wanted to do or not interesting

[unique patrol]

Got to design our dining room with my favorite subject: me :p

[static pecan]

Like I really did not enjoy painting that much

[steady whale]

peak

[static pecan]

face reveal

[unique patrol]

Well, 2015 me reveal :p
Although my face still hasn't changed much

[inner steeple]

I've been wondering this ever since you showed me but are those art class props or were you Genuinely wearing those

[steady whale]

this is clearly everyday dress.

[inner steeple]

Idk if I'm being american but they feel proplike aaaa 😂

[unique patrol]

Yes to both

I send you a dm with the ref image

[static pecan]

The 19-20th century PI drip

[steady whale]

confused in american

[sterile briar]

should have put in some sandals with socks, would be in the next art gallary for sure then

[static pecan]

Time for me to make my departure

[unique patrol]

I showed you the costume I wore when I was playing the dictator in theater. That's the only time I pull off the sock/sandals combination

[sterile briar]

true

[steady whale]

socks/crocs is the way to go

[unique patrol]

Heathen

[inner steeple]

True dictator garb

[steady whale]

don't knock it till you croc it

[inner steeple]

Only with crocs will the opposition know you're serious

[sterile briar]

huhhh???

where did the fill bucket on paint go???

i dont wanna fill all the stuff in by myself

[steady whale]

ms paint?

[sterile briar]

i think?

the one you get for free

i dont have a art programm

[steady whale]

my ms paint has the fill bucket...

[sterile briar]

wait i found it

im dumb

[unique patrol]

Anyway. Back on track. We derived a bit.
Whisper. Whisper oh Whispy.
I have such a fun thing planned for you. A thing I can't even talk about here because it is such a huge spoiler. Where you can use your knowledge of Void-chemistry to do fun stuff.

But even that requires Gales to hurry the frick up and leave her can. Gales, you hold your non-girlfriend behind

[sterile briar]

da vinci who?

now guess on which one i didnt even try to shade

also, omg, definetly absolutly real spoiler for chapter 57 where gales visits whisper and then they kiss

[steady whale]

Now kith

[unique patrol]

Awwwww, you have my huge respect for creating something actually decent with MS paint

[sterile briar]

decent might be a bit much

[steady whale]

Who says you can’t draw this is cute

[unique patrol]

It is decent

[steady whale]

And with a MOUSE

[unique patrol]

Just look at gales. Tinker a bit more with that representation and we have a working in-game sprite

[steady whale]

Also soul we need a lineup of the iterators (mostly so we can see how small gales is)

[sterile briar]

please give full body whisper sheet

i had no clue what i was doing there

[unique patrol]

Have a few decent views, both with and without cloak

[sterile briar]

did you ever post the last one before?

i dont remember seeing that one

[unique patrol]

The last one? Very long ago when I figured out what to do with the inverse legs/arms

[steady whale]

Those teeeepy toes how does she stand lmao

Girl’s a ballerina

[unique patrol]

Like the third image of her I drew

[sterile briar]

wait yeah i found it

just wiped that image out of my head ig

[unique patrol]

Pff

But really, Amany. That is so sweet :3

[sterile briar]

got to give some 'good' (its the effort that counts, at least the one on gales, sry whisper) art back when i get to consume all the awesom stuff you put out

thats not even a joke with the effort. 40 minutes on gales and then like 10 on whisper

but i always hated drawing anatomy and gales has the cloak so in that case it makes sense

[steady whale]

Idk I think you did a really good job…

Would be happy to see more art from you :3

[sterile briar]

to be fair i could have done better mouse fricking sucks

[steady whale]

Mouse DOES suck

[unique patrol]

Draw pebbsi and overseer now for beyond the shell

[sterile briar]

lol

gimmi a sec

i did some doodles

wait how do i get them on pc???

ehhh

whatsapp web it is

[unique patrol]

My new profile pic is golden. YOU! DEW IT!

[sterile briar]

i drew that one in like 5 minutes after i was done with the plot since i was bored

dont look at arti, she looks cursed, i just cant draw scugs,

BUT

i also really cant draw detailed iterators either

[unique patrol]

Hey!

[sterile briar]

there is only one thing in rain world that i can draw

KABOOM

so much more fun to draw

[unique patrol]

The ceo of cursed scugs approves your attempt

[sterile briar]

i will take this aproval with great honer

and another little cursed one on my school paper

idk why, i just really like the rot

design wise, story wise, everything wise

[unique patrol]

Rot is fun

[sterile briar]

its soooo cool

i really need to get back into drawing

helps that i dont have a certain teacher breathing down my neck

any art programs to recomend?

[unique patrol]

I have a few. Funds?

[sterile briar]

one time payment

[unique patrol]

That rules out CSP even if it is technically one time (per version x.0)

I have a special love with a very obscure art program I used for a year. Can be bought for an apple and an egg

Paintstorm studio

Has a beautiful brush feeling

[sterile briar]

will remember that!

first tho i need a way to draw with a pen

my friend still wants to bring over a thing for that

still have to test it

[unique patrol]

Huh, Paintstorm is now not the cheap service anymore I remember it to be.
Got my licence for 10 bucks.
Now it is at 50 bucks

[steady whale]

I use csp and I like it a lot. I used to use sai

I wish I knew some free ones that were actually good…

[wet cedar]

…yarr…

[steady whale]

I yarr’d my sai back in the day

[sterile briar]

paint /j

[sterile briar]

whoops my reply didnt work

[wet cedar]

I know some people who can make some good stuff on paint- but they all have like brain parasites or something

[unique patrol]

Sheesh, Paintstorm got some really cool features in the past two years

[sterile briar]

yeah i saw some, those people are insane! how do they do that!!!

[steady whale]

I do pixel art in paint

[wet cedar]

Like I said, brain worms

[steady whale]

That was like my primary thing many years ago. Did lots and lots of pixel art

[unique patrol]

Welcome, cy

[wet cedar]

I should joined a while ago

I actually really like this fic a lot

[unique patrol]

Glad to hear that :3

[wet cedar]

Also, nice pfp

[unique patrol]

Anything/anybody in particular?

[wet cedar]

I did laugh when I saw that image in the fic

[unique patrol]

Hehe.

[wet cedar]

Uhhh I really like the weird green scug and the big scavenger

[steady whale]

That’s because it’s good

[wet cedar]

I hope they team up at some point

[unique patrol]

That is a possibility for certain. Team up, i don't know yet, but that they might encounter each other, that I know

[wet cedar]

Or they fight

[sterile briar]

drama

[unique patrol]

||Breaker bringing the spoils of a fight with Irradiant to Gales, proudly presenting the content on his spear. Gales get reminded why whisper and co hate scavengers.||

[wet cedar]

[unique patrol]

You wanted them to fight, live with the consequences

[wet cedar]

Bu-but the Slugcat always wins, right?

[unique patrol]

Sure, let's go with that.

[wet cedar]

Obviously they’re going to do that thing that superheroes do whenever they meet each other for the first time, where they get into just enough of a fight to show that they’re both really cool and fairly evenly matched, before they realize that they’re actually on the same team and they band together

[unique patrol]

Good fight, shake on it.
Radiation cancer spreading scug touches scavenger

My wit is dying fast. Have to wake up in less than 5 hours.
I will call it a night. Will return soon.(in 6 Hours)

[wet cedar]

[sterile briar]

[unique patrol]

[sterile briar]

well now that all that is done i should really continue my script

just lovely

[mental cosmos]

This is adorable.

[unique patrol]

Small writing session before university concluded. Am now at 2100 words and mostly finished up the first section. Have also a nice idea for the second session that should please a certain Amany here

[sterile briar]

||sliverist or whisper! sliverist or whisper! sliverist or whisper!!!||
(or sth else)

[unique patrol]

Wont say

[sterile briar]

damn it. your getting over your tendencies to spoil.
dramatically leaves
I will get you next time

[unique patrol]

You won’t have to wait long. I think I can release the chapter by the end of the day

[sterile briar]

im never not going to be suprised by how quick you always write

[unique patrol]

Sit down, pour down 500-1000 words.

Secret tec: use the crainium to write the script in your head before you sit down

A little pre writing meditation helps enormously

[woven cedar]

Excuse me, you finished another chapter already??

[unique patrol]

Not yet

[unique patrol]

Now that was a rush of speed! Wrote on the way back a good 1000 words in 40 min. The second section of the chapter just WORKS. Mhmm, I like it already, only a tiny bit more.
3100 words now

[unique patrol]

Chapter 13 is live. We are about to up the pace

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55635643/chapters/143909665

[sterile briar]

!!!

i wanted to start writing right now

guess not

[unique patrol]

you still could

[sterile briar]

well of course

but now i have a chapter to read

ive already delayed writing for 5 hours now, whats a bit more

[unique patrol]

Heh

[sterile briar]

i do have to say, the writing style for the ||whisper ||section just felt really nice to read.

scratched the brain (lol) in all the right places

[unique patrol]

The words just poured out

As I said, I made the entire second section in one go on the way back from university

[sterile briar]

if you get to the point were you dont stop then your usually going to get great stuff out of it

sadly i have problems staying focused so i never really get into it

[unique patrol]

I have the best time when writing in a way that doesn't allow for distractions ... which means not at my pc :p

[sterile briar]

curse you perry the pc

always distracting me when im trying to write

[unique patrol]

Also, this is all your fault. I originally planned a different ending for the mini arc. ||The chemist (not biologist, tsk) returned for a little update on her doing. They might have undervalued her role when proposing her to the role as junior assistant. Girl knows her neurochemistry.||

[sterile briar]

never was great at either chemie or biology, whoops

but great chapter as always
im trying to stop getting myelf distracted. I still have so much to write

[unique patrol]

Then go and write. Or I will kick you out of this thread

[sterile briar]

well thats a way to get motivated

give me a goal and i will try to achieve it!

[unique patrol]

Not that I can in the first place

[sterile briar]

ok question, should i finish the scripts for chater 7 and 8 or write chapter 6?

i need goals to reach, they motivate me

[unique patrol]

Write 6, I wanna read!

[sterile briar]

got it

how much?

i will have to go to bed early today since i have an early shift tomorrow tho

[unique patrol]

As much as you are able to :3

[sterile briar]

got it

mission starts now

you get your report at 8pm

[unique patrol]

Hehe

[static pecan]

"If I am getting it right (I think idk), I am currently the only one..."

Pursue

Don't need that comma after pearl

New ones from scratch?

"To raise spearmaster to be the inpressive friend they were (are?) for suns"?

"Piece of data, which had helped them..."

I think you could also merge the sentence with the data and the next one to make it flow better but then that would make a huge sentence which would be an issue?

On the global forum?

Comma after them maybe?

Not sure about the "do notice"

"Being way more of a danger to the enviroment hereslf"?

"Currently experimenting with some more..." is what you meant i assume?

[unique patrol]

Yeah, that chapter needs a bit more work. Got also content wise feedback from my bud.
Seems like I was a bit too rash

[static pecan]

"And as far as Suns was concerned that radiating aura would render her future life to be quite a lonely one."

"Read their concerns"?

"Let me lay out an opportunity for your concerns, instead."? I mean i think I get what this sentence conveys but not sure

"Abilities is possible"

"That path of undoing mistakes closes down when the subject gets too old, however"

"We could finish the delivery"

You can throw out the "do" in the last sentence i think? Also comma after cycles i believe

Criticize?

Move now to either the end of its sentence or to after "I"

Already either after "sky" or "groundwork"

Hmm where have i heard of this creature before

[unique patrol]

Wonder where

[steady whale]

||Yayyyyy more whispy!! ||

Girl really do got anger issues

[static pecan]

"Which would only rarely find use"

[steady whale]

Excellent chapter. I love that we’re getting so much suns and spearmaster involvement, and I can’t wait to see SM and irradiant interactions…

Let’s see if banan can get a chapter out before you get out another one

[unique patrol]

[steady whale]

Also you made good use of whisper here, ||designing the neuron fly|| was that already planned?

[unique patrol]

Also banan

Thank you

[static pecan]

||smooth neuron fly brain||

[unique patrol]

I brattily copied your two half-chapters method of telling stories. It is a blessing to write without losing drive. Because if you do, you just let the secondary story take over something to give you new drive to the main section

[steady whale]

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I immediately started struggling as soon as winter’s pov was axed

It really is so nice to just. Cut

[unique patrol]

Yes, it was, but Amany forced my hand. I originally planned it after the first time acceleration but Amany was right that Whisper needed some setup first before the pacing speeds up. Give the girl what to do

[steady whale]

Good choice

[static pecan]

Oh, so there will be a jumpcut to the future?

[unique patrol]

Nope

It is just that the first 13 chapters went down in 10 cycles.
I will introduce now bigger gaps now that it got set up to give the scug time to grow up

[static pecan]

Ah

[unique patrol]

So yeah, every mini arc will now do a jump of let's say 100-200 cycles while the secondary stories fill in the gaps

[unique patrol]

I think you should return to that as soon as you have finished the chapters you want together

[steady whale]

I may or may not. We’ll see how things pan out

[unique patrol]

I mean I did abandon it also in the meeting chapters because it fitted

[steady whale]

It made more sense when they were separated by time and distance

We’ll see.

[unique patrol]

But most importantly, ask yourself. which way is better for you to write?

[static pecan]

Can't keep it on a cliffhanger forever

[unique patrol]

Torturer.

[steady whale]

:3c

[steady whale]

Is that a challenge

[static pecan]

No it's a threat /j

[unique patrol]

Just tuned in. HFisH took the bet to focus on pebbles until it caught up with the literal cliffhanger.

Winter is coming

Heheh, yep banan.
Gales is now in the situation she hates the most, which she exclaimed earlier quite loudly.
||Why did she played it down in the first place? Yes, so that others won't take pity I her and give her the bad kind of attention. Now all get to do stuff to help her making her all anxious. Even Lives||

[static pecan]

"Gonna not report on my issues, will tell you guys how it goes"

...

"Hopital"

[steady whale]

||Gales being a little lives fangirl brings me joy I ship that too||

[static pecan]

||Wait how do you ship her with 2 characters at once||

[steady whale]

I’m flexible

Let me explain. You see, I am gay

[unique patrol]

Policules are a thing

Local group, more like local ship

[steady whale]

No no, I ship them both, but not together

[static pecan]

Wait aren't you she/her?

[steady whale]

Gay isn’t gender specific

[unique patrol]

Gay is an universal term

[steady whale]

I’m a gay lesbian

[static pecan]

Oh I thought it was gay for male and lesbian for female

Gotcha

[unique patrol]

Gay means happy, nuff said

Anyway

[unique patrol]

Needs .. more .. Lives + Whisper .. interactions So

[static pecan]

Hm this is going in an interesting direction

[steady whale]

Stop I can only be so gay

[unique patrol]

In general. Lives is after all whisper's senior

To be clear.

They are a 'local group'

[static pecan]

So whisper is in lives' local local group, aka not one of the 5 she was assigned to oversee but her actual local group?

[unique patrol]

Means Sky and Gales are neighbours (island + shore)

And Whisper and Lives are neighbours (both in a mountainous region)

They are somewhat close together, but far away enough to technically be not local groups, but two groups of two who joined up.

[steady whale]

They’re a bit odd though yeah? Because they’re separated by greater distance than typical group

Oh yeah

Bruh you’re gonna make gales climb a mountain aren’t you

[woven cedar]

||That pic with the three silhouettes behind Suns goes so hard...||

[steady whale]

RIGHT this is best art he’s done so far it’s so good

[static pecan]

||"we are going to beat you to death"||

[unique patrol]

Hence why Suns ||mentioned that Lives using her maintenance drones to control Moon's collapse was such a big deal. She needs time to restock and Gales is further away than any other Iterator, plus on an island.||

[unique patrol]

||All the lives I ruined||

[woven cedar]

I'm kinda spoiled on the first half so not much to say but this is also establishing how Sky is very proficient with biology/genetics...
||A random thought but what if he had info in that golden pearl... What kind of things he could accomplish with that... Maybe nothing at all, but maybe ....||

[unique patrol]

A rule of thumb in the house Soulwing. The most recent is usually the best :p

[sterile briar]

i said the same thing

also whoops, got distracted, back to work

[unique patrol]

I have a fun one I want to do next

Featuring Gales and Suns :3

Oh wait

There we go

[steady whale]

I hope suns keeps reaching out to her… she’s all alone

[woven cedar]

||If whisper actually manages to make a relatively portable fly(not even have to be moving by itself, just small enough) that is both a storage AND a processor, she will actually solve the problem of worms on strings...||

[woven cedar]

||Maybe Breaker the scavenger will pay her a visit soon...||

[steady whale]

I think gales was uniquely designed to be able to be detached though

[unique patrol]

That's the topic I want to cover in that picture. ||A split art picture with both holding the broadcast orb, one half glowing blue, the other half glowing orange, of them chatting with each other.||

[steady whale]

I just commented this!! I hope so

[unique patrol]

Precisely

Her solution is graspable. The others...ehhh

[steady whale]

With time, and the dissolution of taboo, maybe

[unique patrol]

Maybe. But an universal worms of the strings scenario would kinda make the endgame of this story pointless.

[steady whale]

Is the endgame what we talked about before?

[woven cedar]

||Hmm true... Also no matter how compact it is, the fly probably can't ever measure up to the full memory array+processing strata I guess.||

[steady whale]

||theres no replacement for a can. v_v||

[unique patrol]

Kinda. The endgame is still very malleable as I have only planned a few things past the mobilisation of gales.
Especially as I still haven't played saint

[steady whale]

I’m down for another brainstorm sesh if you are >:3

[mental cosmos]

What do you do during them?

[woven cedar]

saint doesn't add all that much to the lore tho

[steady whale]

Suggest/discuss random ideas and ask questions

[unique patrol]

I mean you saw the capabilities of the current iteration of the neuron brain. 100 Zetabytes. Way stronger than a human brain (1 petabyte estimate today)
But she will lose the ability to have access to laboratories, assemblies and a static broadcast system. Also no holographic screens

[steady whale]

No screens?? How will she play minesweeper?? Girl gonna lose her mind

[unique patrol]

Imagine Whisper with no holoscreens to demolish:

[steady whale]

Iterators are the ultimate iPad babies

[unique patrol]

Oh god. And that was already proposed in ...when did rain world released?

2017 ... yeah, that was before the iPad babies revolution

[steady whale]

It was not. I’d say around 2010 onwards

[unique patrol]

I had my first I pad in 2015. and the first ones were soooo slow

[mental cosmos]

I can basically see the individual pixels on my old iPad.

[steady whale]

I mean who needs an attention span when you can attend to a thousand projects at once with your computer brain

[mental cosmos]

Iterators have ADHD, but it works out for them.

Because they can actually process all the thoughts barraging at them.

[mental cosmos]

Do they even have minesweeper?

Well, this is why canon-divergence exists, people.

[steady whale]

Iterators process so fast that a game of pong must be going at lightspeed lmao

[unique patrol]

That fic likes to use underclocking to create meaningful situations

[woven cedar]

Moon on that dominoes game between her and Pebbles be like: come on, pebb, I calculated all the ways this can go already

[unique patrol]

Pebbs, be a bit less b4okem, will you?

[inner steeple]

||WHISPERRRR||
||Providing a touch of emotion and personality to the impassive work of Sky, keeping her friend's needs and wishes at the forefront, mmmMMM||

[mental cosmos]

Probably not the best idea to mention it, despite the fact that I adore the work myself.

[inner steeple]

||Kiss when ||

[unique patrol]

Better safe than sorry then

[inner steeple]

||Never thought Spear would be the kind to enjoy interacting with slugpups, but I likey||

[mental cosmos]

Just know - I love it too.

[unique patrol]

||Spear is to Suns as much of a therapy scug as Suns is to Spear a therapy itty. They both soften up in retirement ||

[unique patrol]

Of course. Can't trust Sky with passionate work after all. He is a genius, but a ground work genius

[static pecan]

This is the goal of the fic, duh /j

[unique patrol]

We have no mouths but we must kiss

[steady whale]

Ah, this is my tactic haha

[steady whale]

It’s pride month. You know what that means

[unique patrol]

Very popular

[woven cedar]

inb4 some of us change the fic category from Gen to something else

[unique patrol]

Reserved for the spin offs in 4 years

[inner steeple]

What
You want me to make, like, gay neuron flies or something

[steady whale]

Give the queers what they want!!

(Also this is your story don’t let my dumb ass influence you to include ships unless you want to haha)

[unique patrol]

Oh, your dumb ass' ships are quite coherent with mine :p

[steady whale]

[unique patrol]

Although Approaching Whisper has also a fun dynamic :p

[steady whale]

This is true, but if sky gets between our girls I will knife him in an alley

[unique patrol]

Jokes on you. His sorry ass is bolted to his room. Will never be in any alley.
You got empty threads, old woman!

[steady whale]

I refuse to explain my means.

[unique patrol]

Aight

No suns ships yet

[steady whale]

(Sky)

[unique patrol]

Fair

[inner steeple]

Ship is too strong for us mortals to comprehend, will immolate us with its presence just like seven approaching suns

Maybe Spear and Irradiant will be wingscugs

[woven cedar]

suns x ||self-forgiveness||

[unique patrol]

The ultimate ship

[wet cedar]

Read the new chapter
Spearmaster is gonna become Dadmaster

[unique patrol]

The Daddest of them all

[unique patrol]

A little quick sketch

[sterile briar]

wait, omg, thats so cute

[unique patrol]

20 min

[sterile briar]

bruhhh

you know what i spend my last 20 minutes drawing

[unique patrol]

Creating something very charming:3

[sterile briar]

like you even shaded the light of the 1.0
thats some dedication for a quick sketch

[sterile briar]

eeeehhh

well

maybe dont look into the HFiSM thread for a while

[unique patrol]

I stand corrected

Something extremely charming

[sterile briar]

definetly

[unique patrol]

Hey, I criticize according to the current skill ceiling of the artist

Mine is quite sloppy

[sterile briar]

i swear im better than that

its just the mouse

and the fact that i cant draw anything that is alive

im only good at landscapes and shading

[unique patrol]

Do I have to pull up my cursed scugs again?

[sterile briar]

well true

but what about your old pfp

that was a pretty good scug???

[unique patrol]

That was from banan

[sterile briar]

ohhhh

whoops

[sterile briar]

nevermind than

[static pecan]

My 2 options are mouse (shit precision) or the pen that comes with my phone (can barely stabilize my arm)

Both have their use cases

[sterile briar]

what uses does the mouse have?
i genuinely cant see any pros to it

I hate drawing with mouse so much

[static pecan]

Actual stability compared to my 2nd option (phone pen)

[static pecan]

Fun fact try pressing the arrow keys in MSpaint

[sterile briar]

well yeah, phone pen, but now imagine an actual drawing pen

[static pecan]

But money

[sterile briar]

well dont mind if i do

[unique patrol]

Whistles Boy do I have a deal for you

[static pecan]

Like I mean a pen that comes integrated with the phone, not just a phone pen

[static pecan]

Also what point in buying if I will get barely any use out of it I imagine

[sterile briar]

lmao, never knew that was possible

[unique patrol]

I still have my old drawing screen I want to sell

[sterile briar]

but kinda useless unless you want to draw for ages

[sterile briar]

Soul right now:
mission failed, we'll get em next time

[static pecan]

Well idk i mean ignoring the obvious (striking a deal in discord, surely this is a great idea), I don't know what use it will have since like. Yeah I draw. Poorly. Once in a blue moon.

[unique patrol]

My sales pitch can use some work

[static pecan]

Jumping on the opportunity

[unique patrol]

But yeah, I have here a Huion GT-220 sitting around I just can't get sold

[static pecan]

Yeah i mean while it does sound nice idk if i will have much use out of it

Also that retail price holy fuck

[unique patrol]

Yep, bought it for 550 € 7 years ago

Trying to sell it now for 175€ because I decided to upgrade my screen

[static pecan]

Yeah that's like way more than i would imagine spending on something for entry-level stuff, sorry

[unique patrol]

Fair. :3
Although there is one cool thing about these drawing screens

[steady whale]

I know someone who makes banger art on their phone by drawing with their finger

[unique patrol]

I use mine as primary screen :p

[steady whale]

Still can’t believe it

[unique patrol]

I know several

[sterile briar]

i know none

[unique patrol]

People who are way better than me and that with a finger and a dream

[static pecan]

I mean main issue is stability i think

[steady whale]

I use an apple pen and my iPad

[static pecan]

Also my hand is shaky

[steady whale]

I used to use a fancy tablet on pc but idk using the iPad makes it easier for me to just pick up and draw wherever

[static pecan]

Hm i reckon i do have an old tablet i could refurbish but my pen is not compatible with it i believe

[static pecan]

Huh that's cool

[steady whale]

I rest my hand on the iPad screen when I draw for stability

[static pecan]

Yeah but then you would need some gloves or sth

[steady whale]

Or on the side of it

Nah it works fine

I also have a paper texture screen protector that makes it feel nicer to draw on

[static pecan]

Idk i'd have to mess with stuff

But that's overlooking the main issue:

I am DOGSHIT at art

[steady whale]

I literally rest the side of my hand on the screen as I draw with no issues or special settings

[static pecan]

Does that not mess with the inputs?

Anyways afk

[unique patrol]

You wouldn't believe how often I heard that before. And some who said that to me are now better artists than I am.

[steady whale]

Where’s Jake the dog when I need him

[steady whale]

Doesn’t seem to tbh I’ve always done it

[unique patrol]

True! Boy, lemme show you something

My very first attempt at a human character, back in ... 2019? Yes, 2019

The art is arguably bad.
Although it still holds some Charme

[sterile briar]

how did he drink from that glass that his face ended up like that

[unique patrol]

Canonically messy vampire with no regard for decency. One of my first OCs. Nebris

Anyway, that is off topic

@sterile briar

[sterile briar]

ohhhh that one

yeah i remember that

[unique patrol]

I watch it twice daily

[sterile briar]

but thats a whole ass animatic. i cant do that

[unique patrol]

In the end only 9 images

[sterile briar]

ok so another thing for the check list

[static pecan]

That's above the normal intake, you should get that ckecked out /j

[sterile briar]

repaint my two paint thingies and make a nine frame animatic with that sound the second i get a good art programm

[unique patrol]

The second time someone animated something for me

https://youtu.be/2ZXKk6WTwss?si=B-MHTsP-lC-MISAB
Still hold it so dearly. Thank you, @thin frost <3

[inner steeple]

Mmm yes puts note on calendar

[unique patrol]

Wait no

Don't you dare

[static pecan]

Whoa this is very well made

[unique patrol]

IKR?

[unique patrol]

Colors added

[static pecan]

Neato

[unique patrol]

letter buddies

[unique patrol]

Work on chapter 14 of my fic is going swimmingly. The first 850 words are done :3

[harsh abyss]

I’m gonna be taking a break for a while, I’m going through some stuff right now. I hope you all understand.

[steady whale]

Hope you’re okay. Take care of yourself, don’t worry about the people here.

[harsh abyss]

For the first part, I am not. For the second part, thank you.

[steady whale]

Wishing you the best.

[harsh abyss]

.. thanks..

[unique patrol]

Good luck, omega. I wish you strength and courage

[harsh abyss]

.. thanks..

[unique patrol]

Wrote a bit more. A nice session of 1000 words, digging deep in a personal headcannon of mine.
With a bit luck will I be able to release chapter 14 today or tomorrow.

[steady whale]

The roll continues

[unique patrol]

Slow roll

[unique patrol]

Yawn
Well, I am nearly done with chapter 14, Another nice session of 920 words finished, chapter nearly done. (currently 2850) Tomorrow I will finish and edit it and also finish the corresponding image.

Disclaimer: Progress after chapter 14 will be way slower. I will only work on it when I actually have used the better half of the day for exam preperations. Will however return to it at the 19.07., after the last exam of mine. So don't expect a new chapter all 3 days for the next month. Maybe one per week till the 1st, then none at all till the 19th.

[wet cedar]

That’s all good! You’ve gotten your readers hooked, right, so now you can let it rest for a while, to build up demand

[unique patrol]

We will see about that. I try to be cautiously optimistic about it, but I do suffer from certain fears. One of them being the fear of being forgotten. Was actually my driving force in me becoming such a decent artist. I always worked on getting better, never stagnate in my skills to not become irrelevant. It is now better, but still somewhat present

[wet cedar]

Hey, seriously though, don’t sweat it. People wait for months on a fanfic update. A couple weeks isn’t going to make everyone forget.

[woven cedar]

Similarly, but also the fear of being a disappointment especially when leaving people wait for a while...

[woven cedar]

That's completely logical, but fears often aren't logical unfortunately

[unique patrol]

It took me years to realize that my DM friends are still my friends when I not send every other day a new picture reminding them of my existence. I'm just in the lovely position of being an introvert and friends to many other introverts, forced to step into the boots of an extrovert to hang out with them.

[woven cedar]

Mood lmao

Sometimes I get called out in my irl friend group chat that I'm an extrovert spy or something like that

[unique patrol]

pff

Also, forgot to share it here. Progress

[unique patrol]

Chapter 14 is done and edited. Only the image is still missing

[steady whale]

[unique patrol]

Halfway done.
Love it always to show how it looks shaded and unshaded

[woven cedar]

Oh, seeing in-progress images to compare like this really makes the shading more distinct

Also literal halfway

[unique patrol]

Fullway

[static pecan]

okay that's a big leap in progress, i think

[unique patrol]

it is done

and the chapter will follow in a minute

[woven cedar]

How to achieve this speed...

Are you living in a different timeframe than us mortals

[inner steeple]

Soulwing secretly an iterator

[unique patrol]

I am ignoring my duties to learn for my exams. I do not recommend

[woven cedar]

Not so implausible at this point

[unique patrol]

Chapter 14 of Corroded Destiny. The first significant time leap in the entire novel. Not the last either.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55635643/chapters/144177298

[inner steeple]

||(Points at Whisper and Gales) ||
||Suns avoiding Lives because they feel responsible waaa||
||Fucked up secret shrine let's GO Suns, your religious ass is in for a wild ride||
||NEW FRIEND LIZARD ||

[woven cedar]

ah, the surprise revelation....

[unique patrol]

I never can interpret the ....
is that an expression of being disappointed or what?
||Well, at least the first hint||

[unique patrol]

Now I have to learn how to draw lizors as well >.>

[inner steeple]

Ask banan, you remember the wonderful scug advice she gave

[woven cedar]

oh usually I used that to indicate a trailing off I meant to use that as 'that makes me think rather a lot'

||or sometimes it does indicate my disappointment at myself tho||

[unique patrol]

Pff. Well, I had to drop the first hints eventually:3

[unique patrol]

Another fruit tip, here I go

[unique patrol]

Anyway. This might be one of my favorite chapters to date :3

Was a blast to Write

[static pecan]

Mmm yes will read later

[steady whale]

Well, first you draw a banana

[unique patrol]

[static pecan]

And then the rest of the slugcat?

[woven cedar]

the answer to all your problem

[unique patrol]

Potassium

Makes you wonder why his fate doesn't feature monk, the living banana

[steady whale]

Okay let me explain

Hope that helps

[unique patrol]

That made me chuckle more than it should :3

[steady whale]

[static pecan]

Whoa okay.
"Suns did hear from Far Whisper as well."

"Sky mentioned"

[unique patrol]

I shall wait till you are through it :3
Much appreciated as usual

[static pecan]

I assume "it is"? Unless intentional idk

Wait actually hm i wonder if this would go faster on PC

[unique patrol]

Snipping tool for the win

Also intentional

[static pecan]

aye

"Suns knew next to nothing from Five Lives Unbound, however."

"Of course her idol did so much work"

also, maybe "their meeting" instead?

wasn't it "precipiece"? (nevermind it's correct) also shouldn't the "the" have a large T since it is a custom name of sorts?

your generation was

is a shrine

a tenth

not sure here. "if my section is as big as all yours combined"?

[unique patrol]

Typo

[static pecan]

"purpose, that smaller shrine was..."

||sinning shrine yooo||

||wait shit is the gales bodydouble theory actually very plausible||

huh

maybe replace the 2nd sentence with something like "this one is so tiny!" or "the one it comes with is so tiny!" to avoid repetition?

comma after also

got two places?

maybe remove the 1st do?

i'd honestly throw out the "to connive a way"

[unique patrol]

|| ||

[static pecan]

||red. 'course it's red||

||evil shifting gales||

[unique patrol]

||pink would have been a bit too much on the nose. :3||

[static pecan]

i assume you meant well earned respect

not sure what's going on in the "word of" sentence

[unique patrol]

Prior to writing stories were shared via the word of mouth

[static pecan]

"words of it made their way even to the remote island Breaker was born on"?

[unique patrol]

Words, carried from mouth to mouth, eventually made it to the remote island

[static pecan]

ye that works

||i wonder when will evil shifting gales make her appearance||

[unique patrol]

||Keep that evil in brackets. We don't know anything yet.
Also ... maybe sooner than you think. :3
...
That is IF that theory is correct of course :p||

[static pecan]

||but red means evil amirite???||

||shifting galesn't||
||or maybe it's less body double and more the ancients flicked a switch and she just kinda switched modes idk||

[unique patrol]

||Red has many meanings. Mainly 'forbidden' :3

Codename: Shifted Gales
Probably? But why did the ancients then regularily disconnected her puppet from the superstructure?||

[static pecan]

||or did they||

[unique patrol]

||Maybe it is all a dream||

[static pecan]

||the real sins were the friends we made along the way ||

[inner steeple]

||"Gales! This is Sky. I received a garbled signal from you and wanted to check how your self-maintenance was going. What? You had a dream you were melting away from acid? And you were isolated from the rest of us? Don't worry. Nothing has changed about our local group. Whisper is exceptionally excited to see you, she has made a new breakthrough. Also won't stop taking about--her words-- how cute your digital face is when you smile. It is driving me insane."||

[static pecan]

||"Hey, you. You're finally awa-"||

[unique patrol]

Honestly...

If I wouldn't have already made the conscious decision of a very real story this could be such an interesting take. Dreams of the void, the calling of the end, summoning those removed from the cycle.

[inner steeple]

Thus, AU indulgence 😌

[unique patrol]

You can be the writer of the AU to the AU, Drymm

[inner steeple]

It shall remain a dream, as void intended

[static pecan]

AU^2

[inner steeple]

I love thinking

[static pecan]

bro is

[unique patrol]

Hehe

Anyway. I am so happy you enjoy my silly story

Which is actually now the 35th longest rainworld story on AO3.
That is a number

Catching up to you, number 26, HFisH

[static pecan]

clearly both of you should not race to tho has more words by writing faster

and then everybody wins

[unique patrol]

With the exception that banan is like 6 times more successful in terms of kudos.
Well deserved in my opinion

[steady whale]

banan has canon-character-focused-story privilege

[unique patrol]

fair

[steady whale]

||mysterious gales mysteries||
||breaker is back!!||

Good chap

Gales & Whisper

[static pecan]

Oh my god disgruntled Winter pfp jumpscare lmao

[steady whale]

Don’t know what you mean

[inner steeple]

Corroded Destiny gang, come get y'alls ART

[unique patrol]

The mini local group as one. Lives and her protégé Whisper.
They both has an abnormal love for tinkering with holoscreens to make their work more graspable:p

[inner steeple]

They are also busy as hell with their work, well reflected in their pieces

[unique patrol]

Compared to the other two, yep

[unique patrol]

Made some progress on the group call picture

[unique patrol]

I retroactively changed all dates to 1694.5XX. Me being able to read the dated broadcast in spearmaster‘s campaign showed me that 1668.5XX was way too early to happen after that campaign.

[steady whale]

The colors!!! The dynamic poses!! CD fans are feasting

Always more art to consume around here….

So good

[unique patrol]

[steady whale]

This one’s coming along too :3 can’t wait to see it colored

[unique patrol]

Another sketch in making. Is breaker. Legs are subjected to change

[wet cedar]

big scrag

[steady whale]

Breaker!!! Can’t wait for him to become chief scav

[harsh abyss]

Nice job!

[unique patrol]

My friend made me aware of one fact. ||Given king scav happens between spears and hunter Breaker might become the sole bearer of a mark until another iterator decides to share their mark||

[wet cedar]

Breaker number 1! Biggest scav, bestest scav, ||sole bearer of the mark|| lets GOOOO!

[static pecan]

very humanoid as well but might be for the better tbh

[wet cedar]

He is described as being like, taller and more upright than is normal for a scav, iirc

[unique patrol]

Yep, stronger and more useful legs. But I might have overdone it a small tad

[unique patrol]

Working on a little something Corroded Destiny related

And no, this is not the next chapter

[woven cedar]

A spin off??

But aren't you going to take some exams soon-ish?

[static pecan]

codename FLU

[unique patrol]

Not quite.
Yes, soonish. I want to finish writing this in the relaxation period between learning phases and drop them when I am taking my exams.
I estimate one or two chapters.

Codename FLU probably gives it already of

[woven cedar]

F||ive|| L||ives|| U||nbound||?

[unique patrol]

I mean that is not a secret :p

||Far Whisper's first activation and introduction to her senior.||

[woven cedar]

||Is this to further FW x FLU agenda? ||

[unique patrol]

More like to lay some groundwork between their relationships I won't be able to explore in corroded Destiny

[woven cedar]

I'm only ~~half-~~joking!

[unique patrol]

[unique patrol]

But yeah, expect at least one not fully scummy Ancient in this

[static pecan]

Yippie

[woven cedar]

Oh that's interesting

[unique patrol]

Not Wish levels of saint however

[static pecan]

So like "nice enough" levels of not scummy?

[mental cosmos]

||Wish’s|| level of sainthood is frankly incredible.

[unique patrol]

True that

[unique patrol]

Not a ‚yeet them from the next cliff‘ level of non-scumminess

[steady whale]

[steady whale]

My sweet baby boy old man

[mental cosmos]

I can only aspire to achieve said levels of noble honour.

[unique patrol]

Oh? My fic picks up in speed. Until chapter 13 was it always the case that my hits were roughly at that number times 100 and climbed to the next round number in the process to the following chapter. But here I am already approaching 15.5*100. the graph is climbing. ^^

[inner steeple]

Wrong thread hhh

Going to banan's house sowwy

[unique patrol]

Like a ringing prank

[inner steeple]

All the threads lined up really do feel like a neighborhood 😂

[unique patrol]

Pff

In another notes. Progress was made this morning. Am now at 1850 words with that little project

[unique patrol]

Little silly 3 min doodle of Two Eyes of the Infinite Cosmos, Administrator and Architect of Far Whisper

[unique patrol]

Ok, that was a bit unimpressive, I give you that

How about this presketch instead?

[static pecan]

OH that's an ancient too?

i thought it was like

[unique patrol]

Yep, that’s Eyes

[static pecan]

a big anthromorphised rat

lmfao

[static pecan]

funky design

[unique patrol]

Big mask, many bandages

[static pecan]

big humanoid rat

[unique patrol]

I am an anthro artist after all. :p

[static pecan]

breaking news: anthro artist draws anthro /j

[unique patrol]

Unheard of. Artist with a fable for humanoids turns ancients into lizard birbs because comfort zone

[steady whale]

Where are his sick kicks

He’s so out of style

[unique patrol]

He has the curled bandage feet

[steady whale]

He’s going out in public without Nike’s

I think they all do and shove em in the shoes (note his short the shoes are)

[unique patrol]

Ow

[steady whale]

In conclusion: cool art. Needs jordans

[unique patrol]

Pff. Drip. By any means necessary

[unique patrol]

Making progress

[steady whale]

Ooo love the pattern on the cape

[unique patrol]

:3

Thats as far as I can go without a working GPU

[static pecan]

Something tells me your GPU fucking died

[inner steeple]

Soulwing, god of both digital and traditional realms

[unique patrol]

Not exactly. My new gtx 2070 is working, but still unknown. We try to track down the correct bios for it

[unique patrol]

Novice of both realms. I know many who can make my things look bad in comparison in both departments.
I still have much room to grow

[small yoke]

hiiii

[unique patrol]

Heyhey.

[inner steeple]

Let's gooo

[unique patrol]

I already have quite a bit written to allow you to sink your teeth in.
Whisper's backstory will however still take a bit

[mental cosmos]

Welcome.

[unique patrol]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55635643/chapters/141215476

[small yoke]

i need to write my own whisper's backstory

[unique patrol]

I call dibs on the title 'First Whisper' however

[small yoke]

of course

[unique patrol]

Good. :3

[small yoke]

i dunno if its something id write as a fic and post but moreso i want to flush it out more

i already have a general idea

[unique patrol]

Fair. I want it to be written out because I can

[unique patrol]

Update: There might be something coming later today.

[unique patrol]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56815150/chapters/144449311

The first chapter of Far Whisper' backstory is online. To expand the lore of Corroded Destiny.

[small yoke]

reading it rn

[unique patrol]

Have fun :3

[small yoke]

dropped a kudos :3

i really love your ocs so far

this makes me want to write about my own whisper's backstory

[unique patrol]

Glad to hear that :3
Anything you particularly enjoyed?

[small yoke]

i really enjoy how sharp far whisper is. and of course it's always fun to read about ancient characters, i cant get enough of them

[unique patrol]

Mhm, she definitely has a sharp non-mouth.

[sterile briar]

bruhhhh, i just started the chapter and we already get a bug analogy
already a good start

[small yoke]

i really loved that detail too

[unique patrol]

Bugs are cool, and whisper is a full on representation of that

[steady whale]

five pebbles has entered the chat Bug???

[unique patrol]

Buzz off, wormy

[small yoke]

lol wormboy

[sterile briar]

2️⃣ 👁️ ♾️ 🌠

nice chapter

||hope we get to see more from eyes, he was really interesting||

[steady whale]

I will read soon currently makin dinner

[unique patrol]

||Depends on if I go route one or two with him.
I opt to 2, because 1 is just too swift and well ... meh||

[sterile briar]

||tbh in my case i dont even want that much more info about him, a bit of closure would probably be enough. he is just a really interesting character for me, i want some motivations ||

[unique patrol]

Will see what I can do

[wet cedar]

Just read it, good
I really liked the artwork of eyes giving the pearl to whisper

[unique patrol]

Now the accessory has lore

[wet cedar]

I also liked the detail that eyes’ mask just like… doesn’t fit? Dude is able to get an iterator made but he can’t get a mask fitted

[unique patrol]

There is an old ancient saying (tm Soulwing). If the mask sits perfectly, you enjoy existence too much and are too much in the here and now.

[wet cedar]

Sounds like something they would say

But I think the mask not fitting serves two good purposes: it reminds you that there’s a person under it, and it shows that eyes doesn’t quite “fit” in his own way in the norms of the ancients, but he keeps the mask on all the same

[unique patrol]

Good analysis :3

[wet cedar]

||furthered by the fact that he lowers the mask when he speaks from the heart||

[unique patrol]

Anyway, nighty

I will address any messages in the morning

[wet cedar]

[steady whale]

Good fic

Enjoyed :3c

Kudos and comment deployed

[steady whale]

Yes I loved this detail

[unique patrol]

[static pecan]

Unmistakable for? I think

Ascend. This sentence also feels kinda cluncky ngl. Maybe ||"The desire of all living beings bound to the Cycle is the same - to escape, ascend"||? Also last line "the void fluid is a"

I'd move "in the long run" to the end of its sentence

[inner steeple]

Don't tempt me to meme

[static pecan]

Top line i'd throw out the comma. ||"But to my knowledge this privilege has not been used on any Iterator yet?"|| idk about the question mark

[static pecan]

WHAT'S IN THE PEAR, WHISPER??

Listened to

1st sentence i'd remove the comma

She was able to

I'd put a comma before and after "however". Also either "I will do my best" or "I will do everything"

So that you? It's so that you?

Comma after looks?

I like it, shows her personality a lot

[static pecan]

Anyways uh bets on ||taboo removal||

[wet cedar]

I think it's a qualia of eyes having a very nice dinner

something with potatoes and rosemary, prehaps

[inner steeple]

What do I bet on, hmmm
I was failing to come up with a cohesive theory so I heartily agree with Cy

[wet cedar]

[inner steeple]

Tasty

[static pecan]

That would be funny but I mean ||"A bug enthralled by strings can never spread its wings."||

[wet cedar]

yeah, eyes likes a little poetry with his meals, can you blame him?

[unique patrol]

Let yourself be tempted :3

[unique patrol]

A dinner at candlelight with Eyes telling Whisper in the most cheesy way possible that he views her like the child he never had due to the restrictions of karma :p
Nothing else, just something to embarrass her from the void fluid grave

[static pecan]

Postmortem lmao

Hm i was gonna ask about the restrictions of karma and how would the population maintain itself but then I realized this is likely close to global ascention and they were in decline anyways, no?

[unique patrol]

3rd generation, final chance. The living block mass ascensions are soon beginning

[static pecan]

Oh, right, forgot, kudos deployed

[static pecan]

So I guess they paid more attention to karma restrictions or they got stricter closer to MA? Cause I don't imagine they could maintain a population with such restrictions all the time

[unique patrol]

I mean more that Eyes specifically had to abide the karmic customs to keep his revered status and climb towards the right to create Far Whisper. Sacrifices had to be made for his dream

[static pecan]

Ah, so it's a social position thing

that must suck

[unique patrol]

Indeed

Also I fixed your pointed out errors

[static pecan]

Yay

[unique patrol]

All in all I hope that this small mini series will solidify whisper‘s character. She requires much more than the other ones a coherent backstory.

Lives startup would be interesting as well. As I would need to design quite a few new characters for that :p

Because it would feature Moon, Sky, suns‘ senior and two other admins from unknown groups

[static pecan]

That's a bunch, yeah

[unique patrol]

She is after all the coordinator over five groups. Would make sense that her first interactions would be with them

[woven cedar]

Absorbed. This might prove a crucial clue to what exactly the Ancients were up to, especially with the revelations recently covered in CD.

[unique patrol]

Might, might not.
I view the ancients less as a coherent mass but more like the following.
The less wealthy Ancients are comparable to the crew of the human ship in Wall-E. Too busy to find personal salvation, enthralled by the pessimistic view of life.

The Houses on the other hand each follow their own agenda. The goal is the same, but they are more focused on the here and now and accumulate power and influence.
In my canon have I a few houses that follow certain agendas.

The house of strings for example are in my canon the original creators of the iterators and hold a monopoly on the rights to use their blueprints.

The house of forgiveness is tied up in the Suns/Gales/etc. thing. A deeply religious group that holds on to the old ways, but is not as pure as they claim to be.

The house of chemistry, with Eyes as its leader view salvation to be found in void fluid, but to not be pure void fluid. They are the underdogs because the other houses dislike how much VF they require for their less than convincing results.

Eyes falls into the state of having become too passionate and obsessed after his wish got finally granted by the house of strings. He has sacrificed too much to not care about Far Whisper.

[mental cosmos]

Banan is a trendsetter, I see.

[unique patrol]

.>

||I will try to not make Eyes Wish 0.5||

[woven cedar]

House of 'strings'...

How cheeky

[unique patrol]

They are the marionette players

Anyway, I hope that was enlightening, epochs

Things are not that tightly woven.
I hate it when independent scenarios have to play into each other even if they are not designed to work together

[woven cedar]

I guess I'll see. Not sure how much House of Forgiveness would be present in this story. But I'll more or less have more information!

[unique patrol]

Anyway

Break over, back to work

[woven cedar]

Good luck!