Stories chat corpse discussion

[elder cloak]

it's right next to the Olympic-sized swimming pool and infinite free-snack bar

[elder cloak]

it is done

@outer girder 'tis time

[outer girder]

ouhgg

dm it to me

[elder cloak]

Spearmaster: Vampire
Gourmand: Scarecrow
Rivulet: Rotisserie Lizard
Artificer: Piranha, wearing glasses
Hunter: Hunter (hunter t-shirt)
Survivor: Batfly
Monk: Batnip
Saint: Sabertooth
Smelvin: Pumpkin
Courtesty of @outer girder

Costume list

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

what about smelvin

[elder cloak]

shit forgot about Smelvin

[south forum]

he a pumpkin :3

YAAY

[elder cloak]

fixed

[south forum]

[jolly trail]

Punkin

[south forum]

[outer girder]

whatever

[south forum]

yummie words

[dry sequoia]

It’s my turn after this, isn’t it?

[outer girder]

yeah

not done yet

gonna sleep on it though

[jolly kestrel]

wait i just saw this, what is it about?

[elder cloak]

#1285446964258799627 message

It's a silly group writing game

[jolly kestrel]

wow, that sounds fun, is there still space?

[elder cloak]

We mayyy have a couple extra slots I can get you into

Let me work my spreadsheet magic

[jolly kestrel]

any chance you can quickly explain it to me in your own words tho?

just so im definelty on the same page

[upbeat brook]

It's telephone, but writing basically....at least that's what I kinda thought of this as lol

[south forum]

[south forum]

we must save smelvin

he got lost :(

[jolly kestrel]

any pointers that everyone is working with?

[elder cloak]

It's about the main scugs (DP + Base game), OCs can be added/murdered at will
Smelvin is Gourmand's son and the macguffin all the characters are after
All the scugs are wearing silly halloween costumes

Costume list
Spearmaster: Vampire
Gourmand: Scarecrow
Rivulet: Rotisserie Lizard
Artificer: Piranha, wearing glasses
Hunter: Hunter (hunter t-shirt)
Survivor: Batfly
Monk: Batnip
Saint: Sabertooth
Smelvin: Pumpkin
Courtesty of @outer girder

Anyway, I added you in at third

I hope the assigned days work for you

[jolly kestrel]

what days will that be?

[elder cloak]

go to the spreadsheet in the pins

[jolly kestrel]

uhhhh

tight schedule

another bts hell delay i reckon

[elder cloak]

sorry

I need to get 14 writers in before halloween

[jolly kestrel]

dont apoligize

makes sense

tho why are there two sheduales?

[elder cloak]

those were just the empty spots for any late joiners

[jolly kestrel]

ahhhh

[jolly kestrel]

i sure hope i didnt just squeeze in there

[elder cloak]

but since Funky already started you got moved to third instead of second

[jolly kestrel]

ohh, okay

[elder cloak]

Celestium's time didn't change, just the position in the story

I'm sure they'll understand

[jolly kestrel]

and i will only get to see their chapter and not the first one, right?

[jolly kestrel]

@dry sequoia if not, i have no issues switching back, just let me know

[elder cloak]

yeah

it's like telephone, except you're continuing the story as best you can

[jolly kestrel]

any word limit?

or any rating rules? like, im not plannign to add gore, but just so i know

[elder cloak]

none, though shorter is preferred

[jolly kestrel]

not going above 3k should work? or should i stay shorter then that

[elder cloak]

no rating limit, just keep gore so I don't need to rate it E on AO3

(if it's posted there)

[elder cloak]

I did 1.7k so

[jolly kestrel]

ahhh, okay

[elder cloak]

arounf 1-2k is ideal

[jolly kestrel]

got it

[elder cloak]

Cool

I'm always here to answer more questions if you have them

[jolly kestrel]

lets hope i dont ruin the entire thing then

[jolly kestrel]

im guessing i will write the entire downpour scug group interacting when its my turn?

[elder cloak]

depends on how many of them survive until then

(but probably)

[jolly kestrel]

we can kill them off👀

[elder cloak]

yes

[jolly kestrel]

well dont mind if i.... im like the third, that might be to early

okay, question

[upbeat brook]

Imagine killing off all but one and it ain't even chapter 3 lol

[jolly kestrel]

so is it like in game lttm and all the scugs are just sharing the time line or is it some sort of modern au and lttm is just an actual house?

[jolly kestrel]

well, i could

but just imagine

you kill someone off

the person after the next didnt get the memo and just makes them reapear for no reason at all

true telephone experience

[upbeat brook]

No joke depending how it comes when it gets to me

[south forum]

real

[elder cloak]

Its a compressed timeline and they're all exploring Looks To The Moon sorta

[jolly kestrel]

collapsed moon?

[elder cloak]

yeah

[upbeat brook]

Moon, but haunted house

[elder cloak]

(also, just saying, I did heavily foreshadow an early Spearmaster death )

[jolly kestrel]

maybe i will do that too

[elder cloak]

[jolly kestrel]

oh god, i just realized, me, the person that only writes dialouge between three characters of which two cant talk, having to write dialouge between like 8 different characters
help

[elder cloak]

just split 'em up

[jolly kestrel]

wont be confusing later on at allll

[elder cloak]

or what I do: focus on two or three having a side conversation and only show the outcome of the big group conversation

[jolly kestrel]

tbh, i still cant imagine anything i would write at all, i will just wait until funky is done and see from there

[upbeat brook]

Just kill them all off

Literally just have gourmand throw them off a cliff

[jolly kestrel]

make it difficult for celestium to continue

[upbeat brook]

And they just reappear later

[jolly kestrel]

lmao

[upbeat brook]

By falling through the ceiling

[jolly kestrel]

pffff

[south forum]

someone said something mean about smelvin so he throws a bomb at them

[upbeat brook]

Literally like the SpongeBob episode

With squidward going through that flying dutchman thing lol

[south forum]

oh lawd

[upbeat brook]

"Artificer! You're back!"

[south forum]

i forgort what episode

[jolly kestrel]

any set prounouns? or can they just change with each chapter

[south forum]

gourmand is a proud father

[jolly kestrel]

i support that headcannon

[elder cloak]

all the scugs are involuntarily genderfluid

[jolly kestrel]

i just realized, is enot not on the character list?

[elder cloak]

Not yet

you can add them in later

[jolly kestrel]

well i know what i will do then

[elder cloak]

or Watcher

or any OCs really

[jolly kestrel]

i wont add any ocs, only beacuse i think it might be even more confusing than everything else already, but as for enot...

[elder cloak]

Watcher being the creepy old scug that speaks in riddles would be cool

[south forum]

maybe smelvin is hanging out with dumpter and being lost together

[elder cloak]

They're chilling with Moon

[jolly kestrel]

they are looking for smelving, right?

thats the goal

[elder cloak]

Smelvin is the Macguffin, yes

[south forum]

we must find him

[elder cloak]

they're probably not going to appear until later though

(I'd guess)

[jolly kestrel]

lmao, i will make them find smelving chapter three, have fun writing a story then /j

[elder cloak]

Escaping with Smelvin (the labyrinth has re-arranged itself)

[south forum]

they lose him again

[elder cloak]

They decide to exorcise the ghosts in the structure

[jolly kestrel]

i will just turn moon into jigsaw

[elder cloak]

good idea

[jolly kestrel]

she can like, make a hologram appear from herself as she has smelvin kidnapped and then the traps begin

[south forum]

maybe ill write the ending with actual correct dialogue for the second time ever

[jolly kestrel]

(i have never watched a single jigsaw movie)

[south forum]

me neither

[upbeat brook]

And smelvin is the one that controls the labyrinth

[south forum]

he was born with secret powers and cannot control them (he is silly)

[south forum]

ill post art progress later

[outer girder]

wait is there a visual thing for smelvin

like what color is he

[south forum]

white like surv

[marsh pilot]

White scugpup

[outer girder]

right

thanks

[south forum]

[south forum]

KRITA CRASHED AND DELETED MY PROGRESS

IT WENT BACK TO THE FUCKING SKETCH LAYERS

[thin cargo]

No saves?

[south forum]

it didnt

[thin cargo]

[midnight edge]

damn

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

its comin

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

i decided to let it be extra imperfect and not mirror tool the majority of it

[elder cloak]

Excellent

[frozen sleet]

most art programs have an autosave thing

[south forum]

krita autosaved at the sketches and hadnt saved after then before it crashed

[dry sequoia]

Angst Machine, Karessra, how's progress going?

[jolly trail]

Chicken riv

[south forum]

yeah

[thin cargo]

Torkey

[south forum]

torkey

[outer girder]

I could probably tweak what I have right now and pass it on. However I want to add more to it

[elder cloak]

they desire the good

(also, I had to move your timeline up a little bit to get Karessa in, sorry)

[outer girder]

all good

[jolly kestrel]

everything went to shit today

might have to step down if i cant find time to write

@elder cloak i have a problem

my work place scractched my day off for next week and also gave me work for the entire day on Monday, i have no idea if i will manage to finish my section with all that suddenly comign down on me

is there any way i can already get chapter two on sunday so i can already start then? if that wont work i will try but im not sure i will be able to finish

[outer girder]

i can try to finish today

[jolly kestrel]

that would actually be really great, tho pls dont stress it

if you want to change sth afterwards, also just do that, i can adapt to that if you do

[outer girder]

That would be against the spirit of the corpse (imo), we can always change it in the editing phase

but also, don't stress if you can't finish at all

[jolly kestrel]

if i can start saturday evening and write through sunday, i should be able to finish

thanks a lot really, that helps a lot

[south forum]

monk be comin along

[outer girder]

im on my bullshit again (silly)

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

you can swap with Celstium or anyone else if they agree to it

[outer girder]

i think. it is complete

[fossil grove]

[outer girder]

sent it to T13

[south forum]

im almost done with the lineart

i just have saint and smelvin left for the main cast

then i have to whip up a simple background

THEN i can make the smaller image for a cover

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

smelvin lines

[south forum]

character linework done

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

nvm i aint doing tiny image

i accidentally merged all the characters and closed out so its permanent

[dry sequoia]

I’m going to force little Smelvin to take off his pumpkin suit.

[south forum]

uh

[dry sequoia]

In the story.

Are we allowed to do that?

[south forum]

yer phrasing is just odd i mean

[south forum]

SMELVIN ALERT

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

survivor still looks like batman

[outer girder]

nanananananannanaanannanana batflyscug

[south forum]

vaguely piranha referenced

[elder cloak]

it's the fish

[south forum]

@elder cloak what color do you think roasted lizard meat is?

[elder cloak]

I was just thinking it'd be exactly like rotisserie chicken's color

[thin cargo]

Maybe white

[elder cloak]

I just put in lizard because I thought chicken would be too out of universe lmao

(it's whatever color you want though lol)

[south forum]

hunter is just sick of everyone's shit

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

these vibes

but more frustrated

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

Perfection

[thin cargo]

Torkey

[elder cloak]

[dry sequoia]

Wait, what?

[south forum]

i forgot why i said that my bad

[dry sequoia]

No, it’s fine!

[south forum]

brain too full of eepy

[jolly kestrel]

two more questions before i begin writing, what is pebbles' status and is this a post rarefaction cell moon or not?

[thin cargo]

👀

[elder cloak]

pebbles is standing and that's all we know (so far)

Rarefaction cell or not is up to you

[jolly kestrel]

difficult

your not making this easy for me

i will also interpretate that as a challenge @outer girder
-# if i find time

[outer girder]

Don't sweat it :)

[quartz locust]

Am I smelling some calloutpost?

[jolly kestrel]

...

i havent thought about that

but now that you say it

[elder cloak]

I mean, I guess you could always add the art on after you hand the chapter off (just tell me if you do so I can add it to the compiled doc)

[south forum]

character flats completed

should i add shading after i make the background?

[jolly kestrel]

perfect timing, i was just looking for references

[south forum]

[jolly kestrel]

tho now that i have my notes down, i can actually start with the chapter itself
lets hope i dont already accidently disregard everything that t13 wrote so far...

[elder cloak]

lmao that's the fun

all the characters have dementia

[jolly kestrel]

i already made a prounons sheet to at least stay somewhat consistent
lets just say that most of my headcannons got shot dead before i even had a chance

[south forum]

is it like canon rain worl areas or can i add like a sidewalk n shit that aint dilapidated

[elder cloak]

it's all in collapsed Looks To The Moon

(but it's haunted oooOOooo)

[elder cloak]

it's alright, my sillies got obliterated too

[jolly kestrel]

-# i know by who

[south forum]

i cant draw that

[elder cloak]

It's a mystery oooOooooOOo

(the ghosts of systems' past?)

(or just a ton of literal echoes)

(or void worms?)

[jolly kestrel]

i will definetly hint stuff, what celestium chooses to do with that is that, but i dont just want to confirm stuff, im trying to not let everyting fall apart at chapter three already

[elder cloak]

just put them in front of a spooky haunted house

that'll get the vibe I think

[jolly kestrel]

like, im the first one that writers with knowledge missing, the responsibility is there

[south forum]

thats what i intended to do but almost drew a sidewalk leading to it

[elder cloak]

lmao that's alright

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

it's about the halloween vibe

[jolly kestrel]

-# kill everyone!!!

[south forum]

damn now i have to relocate smelvin

[jolly kestrel]

okay, enough stalling, back to writing i go

[elder cloak]

good luck!

[jolly kestrel]

the art is arting

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

i might finish it tonight

holy moly

[south forum]

should i shade all the characters too?

[fossil grove]

do you dare?

[elder cloak]

We're cooking chat

three chapters down already

[jolly kestrel]

all in one session

now i must sleep, im tired

[elder cloak]

👉 🛏️

you've earned it

[south forum]

i like sending progress

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

holy shit they are WAY too bright

better

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

hows it lookin so far storyers?

[frozen sleet]

very nice

[south forum]

[midnight edge]

[south forum]

im not finishing this tonight unfortunately

i want to minecraft now

[frozen sleet]

minecraft away

[dry sequoia]

Hey, Frosmoth!

How good is Smelvin with combat?

I will simply assume "not too good".

[south forum]

hmm

he can throw rocks

he is not the smartest little guy, but he gets by

[thin cargo]

How fast you guys write

[frozen sleet]

id say im pretty slow

but yeah, we're really ahead of schedule

[thin cargo]

Same

[midnight edge]

me too

[elder cloak]

this is easy writing though

low stakes with a clear lead in hook, no regard for what comes later, and minimum restrictions

[frozen sleet]

Amany finished before they we're planned to start

[elder cloak]

lol good

[midnight edge]

amany finished before trash compactor was supposed to finish lol

[elder cloak]

quite literally two for the price of one

[midnight edge]

im out of ideas to continue c2 of atw but thats too off topic for this chat

[elder cloak]

considering that Amany was a last second addition

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

don't be afraid about being slow; we've gained almost an entire week of extra time to spend

[midnight edge]

i will add a wawa to every finished chapter

in the spreadsheet

[elder cloak]

the wawa returneth

[midnight edge]

and just a wa

for the in progress chapter

[elder cloak]

I am powerless, I recognize now

[midnight edge]

are we using dumpter status as a reference

or just like

a stress toy

[elder cloak]

Stress toy

made to vent the silly forces on the spreadsheet

evidently I fight nature itself in fighting the silly

[midnight edge]

i kinda wanna just make a group dm between me you and anton

but i digress

[elder cloak]

lmao

[midnight edge]

i mean

its just for like

writing support between us three

n stuff

idk

we alr have stories discuss for that at this point im just rambling

[elder cloak]

I get what you mean homes dw

[midnight edge]

so like

do i make it or not

?

[elder cloak]

I'd ask Anton I suppose

I'm down tho

Anyway, I have commissioned the silly zone

so that all the silly can occur without removing from the spreadsheet

[dry sequoia]

I’ll take something I said out of context.

“While I keep you holding on the spear bit, here’s my 5000 word dissertation for my thesis on the psychology, specifically, fear response of sluppies, and by extension, Smelvin.”

[inland lotus]

Spoiler! /j /lh

[jolly kestrel]

trueeee

hm

gimmi a sec

BEGONE!!!

[inland lotus]

||The overseer eye in the background tho /ref||

[jolly kestrel]

Spoiler! /j /lh
smh

i will just put the image in the chapter then

[dry sequoia]

You can't escape! /ref

[south forum]

depends on if i have a time limit or not and my current motivation

[thin cargo]

[thin cargo]

Thy end is now! /ref

[dry sequoia]

Wrong Prime soul.

[south forum]

i literally wrote 15k words in 3 days once so idk

[quartz locust]

I'm going to ultrakill you machine

[dry sequoia]

May your "L"s be many, and your bitches few. /ref

[thin cargo]

[thin cargo]

[dry sequoia]

This... will hurt.

Destroy!

[thin cargo]

How about this for a trade? I'll beat you into a f**king pulp and you give me my arm back /ref

Man, I should rewatch youtube

[midnight edge]

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

hows this shading lookin?

also who did this

[elder cloak]

got smelvin'd

[midnight edge]

oh shit

its time to write this stuff

well

when i get the documents that is

[elder cloak]

yeah celestium's still editing and stuff

so you're up very soon

and Drymm is on deck

[frozen sleet]

thats screenshotted in a way that looks like its a windows 7 window

[south forum]

[south forum]

i finished it

[fossil grove]

[south forum]

its loading

i might change the smelvin location later, but im done

[fossil grove]

The crew

This art is really nice! All the scugs in their cute lil costumes

[elder cloak]

[thin cargo]

Smelvin is there

The OC purge shall commence soon

[outer girder]

wdym by this actually? (not negative)

[thin cargo]

Welp, I'm just giving my boi a time if he save smelvin, something would bound to happen

[outer girder]

i can't comprehend what you just said sorry

[thin cargo]

is alrighty, because didn't have coffee for three days

[elder cloak]

there's a running joke about who's going to add and remove the most OCs (by killing) from the corpse

[outer girder]

ahhh

i havent been really active in the thread haha

[elder cloak]

that's okay lol

[outer girder]

well i

[elder cloak]

you already did your part

[outer girder]

i'm at 0/0

so im not winning that front

[elder cloak]

0/0 for what? (I'm having a senior moment)

[midnight edge]

0 added ocs, 0 removed ocs im guessing

[elder cloak]

ohhhhhhh

lol

me neither

[midnight edge]

im just waiting for celestium to finish up tbh

[elder cloak]

they're asleep right now; they'll probably edit when they wake up

[midnight edge]

oh

[elder cloak]

I could send you the chapter but then you'd have to read through my mountian of annotations

(me and celestium are editing junkies)

[midnight edge]

just do it

[thin cargo]

Gonna have a K/D ratio with them

[elder cloak]

lmao

[elder cloak]

anyway, now Drymm's next and Cy's on deck

we're cooking chat

almost halfway done before we even planned to start lol

[thin cargo]

[dry sequoia]

As you said, very low-risk writing.

Probably really easy writing, considering we can just make it crack.

And crack is the easiest thing to write. The less attention paid to it, the more crack it is.

I think T13's approved my thing, I'm basically done with editing.

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

Celestium's part is officially awesome

[thin cargo]

everyone is so fast in typing

[elder cloak]

again it's easy stuff

crackish with no stakes

and no concern for the future

[thin cargo]

Time for me to depart

[south forum]

i chose last slot so i can stew on it slightly more

i am unable to write anything for shits and giggles

i have to take everything somewhat seriously

[jolly trail]

We’re gonna finish before October at this rate

[fossil grove]

stories can be very productive sometimes

[dry sequoia]

I dished out 900 words in less than 2 days.

Mostly in one, “minor” edits in the second.

[elder cloak]

lol yeah

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

I can space out the AO3 posts for maximum (not much) attention

[midnight edge]

chat should i make my chapter 450 words or make it like 1k words

[frozen sleet]

Let's go in the middle: 725

[midnight edge]

alright

[frozen sleet]

Current projections if we keep at our current rate, place us finishing on the 5th to 6th

[thin cargo]

👀

[frozen sleet]

In that case, we could start releasing chapters leading up to Halloween

[jolly kestrel]

spooks to the moon part two is now officially possible

[frozen sleet]

Lmao, we may think about that when we finish the first one

Then wait a year to release it

[jolly kestrel]

spooks to the moon, part two, now exploring pebbles as smelvin has gone missing ONCE AGAIN

[frozen sleet]

A vulture grabed him as soon as they leave, and takes him to 5P

[thin cargo]

smelvin

[jolly kestrel]

perfect

[thin cargo]

Smelvin has taken away

All of my ocs must die /j

that includes my iterator who has nothing to do about that

[elder cloak]

Thanksgiving corpse

Feasts To The Moon

[thin cargo]

[frozen sleet]

Fuck it, Christmas themed too/j

[thin cargo]

Are there gonna be krima?

[elder cloak]

I suppose that’s possible

Gifts To The Moon

All the little scuggies give Moon gifts

[thin cargo]

Aw man, there gonna be lot

[frozen sleet]

These are just a Joke right?

Right?!?!

[elder cloak]

Yeah lol

[thin cargo]

man, that's gotta be a lot of work

[elder cloak]

I mean, it’s been like one day of work per writer so far so it’s mostly just work for me lol

[south forum]

spooks to the moon 2: smelvin's quest to save dumpter

[thin cargo]

Dumpter

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

this time featuring arti as an EXTREMELY worried parent

[elder cloak]

Murderously worried

Anyway, Drymm is now underway which leaves Cy next

[thin cargo]

the Cy arc begins

Soon

[elder cloak]

then after Cy it's Epochs

[thin cargo]

After Epochs

<~~~

[elder cloak]

soon mi amigo

[dry sequoia]

I don’t know how much disrepair it’s in, but when I was the one writing, it was mild.

I did seed something, though.

[marsh pilot]

I like how we haven't even reached October yet

[elder cloak]

So Drymm went hyperspeed, finishing in literally four hours

they're magical like that, I suppose

[south forum]

how many until me turn? :3c

[elder cloak]

we're halfway now

so at this rate like half a week

so Cy's up now, which means Epochs is next, then Anton

[marsh pilot]

Nah, it's all thanks to the power of writer accountability chat

[elder cloak]

truly the MVP

(always accepting new participants)

[midnight edge]

damn

drymm has the fastest hands out of all of us

guaranteed

[elder cloak]

they are a dentist so I suppose they do gotta be precise with their hands

[marsh pilot]

I gotta reiterate I'm not a dentist dentist, that requires like a PhD

[frozen sleet]

now trends point to us finishing on the 1st

[elder cloak]

you're cooler than a dentist dentist

because my dentist won't discuss Rain World fanfiction with me

[fossil grove]

did we settle on pronouns for the scugs?

[elder cloak]

involuntarily genderfluid

[fossil grove]

lmao

[frozen sleet]

do whatever

[fossil grove]

got it

[elder cloak]

decided by the will of the Gods

[frozen sleet]

(us)

[elder cloak]

( )

[candid mountain]

dentist payday 2 /j

[marsh pilot]

Steals teeth

[elder cloak]

dammit

[candid mountain]

Uhh yeah that's totally what it was

[elder cloak]

not again

[candid mountain]

(payday 2 lore is bullshit )

[marsh pilot]

You've gotta tell me about it sometime /nf

[elder cloak]

Stories chat demands the lore dump

Like Amany did with Chicory

[candid mountain]

I don't even grasp it fully but it's a shitshow

[elder cloak]

oooOooOoo you feel an urge to loredump (if you want)

[candid mountain]

Wait what even is this tone tag

[marsh pilot]

Wait - it's not forced, right??????

[candid mountain]

Uhh maybe later, it is slowly getting late now (not late enough for sleep police tho )

[marsh pilot]

I am a geriatric, you must forgive me for not being up to date with the slangTM

[candid mountain]

Can't find any info on it

I'll just assume it is

[marsh pilot]

What the fuck, I swear it's real, I've seen people use it

[candid mountain]

new mandela effect just dropped /j

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

🫵

[thin cargo]

🫵 🛏️
👉 🛏️

I'm an hour late

[elder cloak]

Okay well Cy finished up too

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

so @inland lotus tis thy turn already

[thin cargo]

Idk if he is awake

Since it's 6 am here

[elder cloak]

I sent it along so he'll see it when he wakes up

[midnight edge]

i just updated the spreadsheet

[thin cargo]

let us hope that wroting block won't block me

[midnight edge]

unless that wasnt right

[elder cloak]

thank you

[elder cloak]

you'll be okay fren

its low stakes stuff

plus we're ludicrously ahead of schedule

[thin cargo]

indeed

[midnight edge]

amany was supposed to start today

and it's already epochs' turn

[thin cargo]

[outer girder]

Am I the person who took the longest with my part lol

[midnight edge]

yes

indeed

[elder cloak]

I think I took longer lmao

[outer girder]

Well yeah but you're the event organizer

[elder cloak]

fair, I was cheating and starting early

[outer girder]

Exactly, you had to give the original prompt

[elder cloak]

doesn't matter because everyone not only started early, but more than half are gonna finish before we even originally planned to start lmao

[outer girder]

We were all eager to get into spooky season

[elder cloak]

the spooky calls to us

[midnight edge]

its not spooky month yet...

im kidding

every month is spooky month

[thin cargo]

No spooky month

[elder cloak]

If we get this done before October, I can post a chapter literally every other day the whole month lmao

though I will need a volunteer to write a foreword at some point

[outer girder]

I can do that, what would need to be included?

[midnight edge]

honestly at this rate i bet we'll get this done before sept 30

[elder cloak]

• The general context of the game
• the rules
• the initial prompt
• anyone you want to credit/dedicate to
• and I'll compile a list of links to all the writer's fanfics (plus their blurbs)
  oh, and also describing your expierence with this/ a little on how you felt it went would be good

and it'll be posted before chapter one

[outer girder]

Epic

[midnight edge]

waitwaitwait

you're telling me that

because i wrote monk getting killed

i get profit?

hell yes

[outer girder]

You what

[midnight edge]

shh

[elder cloak]

You get three kudos on Ao3

[midnight edge]

yeae

[south forum]

[midnight edge]

three kudos (and possibly comments)

woohoo

[thin cargo]

you what

[midnight edge]

shh

shut it

no witnesses

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1285446964258799627/1285767920202551399/Tumblr_l_131440413043189.gif

[thin cargo]

aight homeboy, you cool

[midnight edge]

good

better stay that way, otherwise...

you're next.

[south forum]

[midnight edge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1285446964258799627/1285767920202551399/Tumblr_l_131440413043189.gif

[outer girder]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1285446964258799627/1285767920202551399/Tumblr_l_131440413043189.gif

[fossil grove]

[thin cargo]

The biggest wawa ever

[elder cloak]

Wawa

[midnight edge]

chat are we back

[elder cloak]

I'm looking for everyone's fics so we can link them in the foreword

[midnight edge]

you dont gotta link ssa btw

yknow what

you dont gotta link any of my fics if you dont want to

[elder cloak]

It's already being done

[midnight edge]

o

ok then

[elder cloak]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nuAJhBxk41iSF9E2r1HlbUxH6h8OHYcHAirn4z_6GY/edit

it's a work in progress

[midnight edge]

alr

[elder cloak]

if anyone wants to do their parts or wants me to use a different fic go ahead and edit it

@fossil grove can you pin that link please

[elder cloak]

thanks

@frozen sleet can I have a link to your A03 account please?

I need it for the credits in the gdoc above

[upbeat brook]

bruh

It aint even October yet

are we just this fast at writing xD

[elder cloak]

Ikr?

we're killing it

good work team

[inland lotus]

Before I went to sleep : 'oh, Drymm's turn already? Mine should start just right before the weekend then'

Now:

Did I sleep for 2 days straight lmao

[elder cloak]

your turn starts today

(Cy and Drymm were ludicrously fast)

also, I linked marooned in the credits sheet

idk if there was another fic you wanted there instead

(check pins)

[inland lotus]

Literally 🔥✍️ ( from all that speed, but also the quality)

[elder cloak]

yeah for real lmao

it's unfair how good they are

[inland lotus]

Not really, thank you!

[elder cloak]

just saying if we keep this pace up we can jumpscare the hell out of Banan

[inland lotus]

I have work today though so probably not

[frozen sleet]

Dinner, give me a few

[elder cloak]

alright

[elder cloak]

damm

we're only gonna be 28 days ahead of schedule

[thin cargo]

Do i have a headstart?

[inland lotus]

I most likely won't use up all those accumulated extra days! most likely

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

[inland lotus]

So I only have access to the immediate prior chapter right? (Cy's?) ( And where can I find that?)

[frozen sleet]

this is insane

[elder cloak]

I sent it to you

idk if you have message requests enabled

[inland lotus]

Oops

Discord notification is hard to notice again

[elder cloak]

it's okay

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

im loving the smelvin corner

[elder cloak]

anyway now that Epochs is underway, Anton is next and Banan is on deck

[elder cloak]

my favorite part

[south forum]

we all love my silly scups

[dry sequoia]

I just remembered.

Ah, well, too late to edit now.

Either way, have to work on a build.

[elder cloak]

smelvin keeps the pumpkin costume

[elder cloak]

Good luck

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

So... Am I gonna wait?

[inland lotus]

dw, already started and with a direction

Not sure whether that will change later though.

[thin cargo]

I must prepare my scug to fight hell and back
Just to die saving Smelvin

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

hows the smelvining going story nerds?

[elder cloak]

still in Epochs hands

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

[midnight edge]

[frozen sleet]

[fossil grove]

[thin cargo]

[heady escarp]

hi?

[thin cargo]

-# may the writing bless me

[heady escarp]

can I join?

[thin cargo]

Also, hi

[heady escarp]

idk what I'm doing here tbh

but I wanna write some spoopyness

[fossil grove]

I think we still have an open slot

[frozen sleet]

welcome

[heady escarp]

probably gonna end up full-onn horror if I'm allowed tbh

[south forum]

dp and vanili scugs explore haunted house while trying to save my slugpup Smelvin

[heady escarp]

ye

[frozen sleet]

you guys have been writing so fast we prob have time to write a 2nd book

[heady escarp]

lol

[thin cargo]

I'm too slow at writing

[elder cloak]

I can definitely get you in there

[midnight edge]

check pins

[heady escarp]

i gotta go afk for a min btw brb

[heady escarp]

yay!

[elder cloak]

are you currently writing a rain world fanfic?

[heady escarp]

hi im back

[heady escarp]

I've got some experience

[frozen sleet]

hi back im da-

[heady escarp]

SHUT /hj

[elder cloak]

it's not a quality thing at all lol don't worry

I just need to know for the credits page

[heady escarp]

ah ok

oh

[elder cloak]

this thingy

[thin cargo]

It is either serious or crack or even both

-# maybe

[heady escarp]

appleeatinggoat will work

[elder cloak]

it's crack

[heady escarp]

ah ok

[frozen sleet]

(yeah the longest thing ive written is 700 words and im in this)

[heady escarp]

must restrain myself from traumatizing everyone

[elder cloak]

lol there's no rules

it started off pretty serious but the crack always wins in a corpse

[midnight edge]

i'd like to see you try

[elder cloak]

anyway, time to work my spreadsheet magic

[dry sequoia]

One rule, actually.

[south forum]

only to the extent that the server allows :)

[heady escarp]

okies

so a lil bit of horror

just a dash

for flavor

so do I just start right now? or do I like... get context

[thin cargo]

We must save scugpup

[frozen sleet]

you gotta wait a little

[elder cloak]

behold: #1285446964258799627 message

the rules

[dry sequoia]

We have a schedule.

[elder cloak]

also you need to wait for your turn

[thin cargo]

And next, it's mine to write

And I have to make sure my scug will die saving the great Smelvin

[midnight edge]

im gonna make sure dusk dies by the end of atw (maybe) (maybe not)

[frozen sleet]

if we keep at current rate (very unlikely) you'll start on the 1st, but if we have an average of 2 days per writer from now to then, youll start on the 7th

[midnight edge]

chat i made the schedule look like an iterator superstructure

thank me later

[frozen sleet]

a very very tall iterator superstructure

[midnight edge]

very tall

[frozen sleet]

the legs are 980 slots tall

[elder cloak]

THEY ITERATOR'D MY SPREADSHEET

[frozen sleet]

[elder cloak]

/j

[south forum]

smelvin update

[thin cargo]

Huh, I wonder who put that there

[heady escarp]

oh ok

also sorry for disapearing I had to do something urgently and it was too late after

[inland lotus]

sorry but I'm probably going to use all allocated 3 days here. Was planning to complete it today, but my day job knocked me out and I woke up just now with less than 2 hours to midnight

[elder cloak]

its okay

[thin cargo]

Don't worry man, half hour until midnight

[south forum]

[midnight edge]

alright, so if this is correct, banan is next and sylveon is on deck

[frozen sleet]

oh, i am

[thin cargo]

I need the context of Epochs

@elder cloak , do I need the context?

[inland lotus]

Maybe they're asleep?

[thin cargo]

man, I don't have a headstart

Wait, do they proofread it before passing it?

[dry sequoia]

Minor proofreading.

[thin cargo]

[inland chasm]

How am I gone for 2 weeks and literally half of you have finished already?

Y'all are monsters

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

I'm a slow typah but I can write

[frozen sleet]

oh boy, im next

[midnight edge]

alr vex is on deck

[south forum]

the storyers

[heady escarp]

writerpilled storymaxxers

[thin cargo]

Cult of the Poetic Scribes

[outer girder]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/933882059880030218/1279669557161627649/3dgifmaker70970.gif

[marsh pilot]

Spooky Moon

[candid mountain]

Banished to the orb

[south forum]

MOON JUMPSCARE

[quartz locust]

How's the project going, having fun?

[marsh pilot]

I wonder which characters have perished

[candid mountain]

probably all of them /j

[south forum]

smelvin must persist

[outer girder]

smelvin will prevail

[dry sequoia]

How far along are we?

[elder cloak]

9/15 finished

[dry sequoia]

Who’s it on right now?

[elder cloak]

Banan

[frozen sleet]

I'm next

[elder cloak]

Be excited

it's getting good

[marsh pilot]

The halloween crackfic is getting good... should I be afraid

[south forum]

i should be

i have to make the ending

[marsh pilot]

You've got this

[south forum]

real

[elder cloak]

@ocean relic @vital rover are you two planning to join?

It's no big deal either way, you just gotta tell me so I can add you to the timetable

we're two weeks ahead of schedule

[ocean relic]

idk I'm not really into writing, I just wanted to watch

[elder cloak]

ah fair

[vital rover]

Yeah I'd like to, that'd be fun

[elder cloak]

alrighty :)

added

[outer girder]

pokes corpse

hows it going

[south forum]

[south forum]

SPOOKY MONTH

[thin cargo]

But now I am now on the second day of spooky month for only a few hours

[south forum]

pooky mont

[fossil grove]

October

[candid mountain]

Don't say boom without the m, worst mistake of my life

[thin cargo]

Hah, I already stepped into Spooky Month before you guys do

[thin cargo]

Oh really?

[frozen sleet]

How?! the first day start only 7 hours ago for me

[thin cargo]

I am now 4 hours away before the 2nd day of Spooky Month

[vital rover]

How do you find the timetable again?

[south forum]

#1285446964258799627 message

[jolly trail]

My part has been delivered

[midnight edge]

that means

shit

that means vex is next and vaitle is on deck

[jolly trail]

Nah looks like sylveon is after me?

[midnight edge]

yeah

vex is after sylveon

(or am i getting this wrong)

hol up lemme check

[midnight edge]

right here

epochs was underway, so anton was next

so now that sylveon's part is underway, vex is next

[jolly trail]

Ah gotcha

Also forgive me for taking an extra day been really busy

[midnight edge]

dw we're still insanely ahead of schedule

if we were truly on schedule, this should have been my final day to finish up my chapter

[thin cargo]

The potassium has delivered her words

[south forum]

i can put the spooks to the moon art in halloween gallery

[elder cloak]

Should we troll #rw-halloween-gallery🎃 by putting this there when it's finished?

[south forum]

i could draw ending art and also add a link to the completed story exactly on halloween

[thin cargo]

Can I do art for spooks to the moon?

-# not digital art tho bc im suck at it

[elder cloak]

yes you can (people already have in their chapters)

[thin cargo]

Lemme draw mine then

[marsh pilot]

People already did art for their chapters?! Damn I gotta catch UP /j

[elder cloak]

lol

it was Funky and Amany (you can ask them if you'd like to see)

so there was a time when 2/3 of STTM chapters had art

[thin cargo]

I'm gonna make Bandit with a family guy death pose
(Idk art so maybe just the simple ones)

[frozen sleet]

Whenever you guys were finishing a bit early, I thought I would get maybe a day or 2 of slack, not 10 whole extra days

[frozen sleet]

Can you change the font size in AO3?

[dry sequoia]

Bit tedious, you can.

[frozen sleet]

I'll have to figure that out, so I don't put too much burden on T13

[elder cloak]

I can change it myself lol

I put it all on a google doc

[thin cargo]

How to make serious art

[south forum]

my art gets more silly the sadder i am but the more serious the happier i am, so idk how to help

[thin cargo]

-# oh well, time for me to sleep ig

-# don't mind me, despite the time

[thin cargo]

🫵 🛏️
👉 🛏️

[frozen sleet]

Somehow I'm almost done already

[elder cloak]

we're getting there guys

12/16 done

75%

[quartz locust]

:O

[midnight edge]

we are on our a game guys

keep it up

vaitle is next and apple's on deck

[upbeat brook]

Dang already almost time for me?

[thin cargo]

Yes

[upbeat brook]

I'm not ready 😭

[midnight edge]

you will be ready when it is your turn

this is an order

im kidding im kidding

we're way ahead, take all the time you need

[thin cargo]

And also, be like Susan my dude, take your time as stack up for the push

-# I lost many rank games as demoted back to gold

[upbeat brook]

Ah if only that was accurate to his modern day gameplay 😔

[thin cargo]

[upbeat brook]

It's more like, stack wave, build push, have level advantage, still lose trade.

Get dove under tower

Then suffer for the rest of the game

[thin cargo]

Damn

As every new champs got dash and colgate man

[upbeat brook]

I still rather not take to long lol

[upbeat brook]

😔

[elder cloak]

I mean, as I’ve said this is pretty easy writing

It’s wacky and you don’t need to worry about consistency or what happens next

[thin cargo]

Dude, I send an art, next is serious art (i hope)

[midnight edge]

should i ping vex to let him know its his turn

[thin cargo]

[dry sequoia]

Well, do it.

Actually, who's before him?

Syl needs to send their document to Vex for that to happen.

[frozen sleet]

I thought that was After-T13's job!?

He even said he'd "hand it off"

[dry sequoia]

Wait, right, that.

That's his job.

[thin cargo]

@elder cloak

[dry sequoia]

Pretty sure they're asleep.

[south forum]

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

I already handed it off dw

[thin cargo]

[elder cloak]

Vex is working on it presently

done tomorrow by their estimate

[thin cargo]

Patch Notes

Spooky Month:

Writing Speed changed from 30.5% to 41%

Spookiness, Crackness and Seriousness increased from 20% to 50%

[inland chasm]

Alright, another chapter down baby

[frozen sleet]

4 more needed

[inland chasm]

We're getting there

not-so-slowly and surely

[frozen sleet]

we are 12 days ahead of schedule

[elder cloak]

It has been handed off

[midnight edge]

12

days

let that sink in

12 whole days

[elder cloak]

We’re quick like that I suppose

There was a point where we were 14 days ahead iirc

[vital rover]

I'm so so excited for my turn lmao

[elder cloak]

Dw fren you’re on deck so probably not even a week till it’s your turn

[jolly trail]

So fast

[south forum]

im last so i get extra time to write

[frozen sleet]

we all did really, but you have the most for sure slack

[thin cargo]

[south forum]

extra extra

[thin cargo]

How's the writing over here?

[elder cloak]

Vaitle hasn’t responded to me

[thin cargo]

[marsh pilot]

Cookin my chapter illustration (will be keeping it somewhat sketched)

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

[south forum]

[elder cloak]

STTM is now 16k words long lmao

we're cooking chat

[thin cargo]

[upbeat brook]

So I thought

This would be like 1300 words

I'm not even halfway done yet, and it's most definitely going to be long xd

I might have to cut out the third part I had planned, oh well.

[frozen sleet]

danm, 1300 is the size of my chapter

[upbeat brook]

I'll probably try and cut it down a bit...

[south forum]

im def gon make a big chunky chap

at least i will be last

[upbeat brook]

I'm trying to finish this fast xd

[elder cloak]

lol apprecieated

[frozen sleet]

dont need to, you have until the 19th

[elder cloak]

getting done before the 15th would be great because we can upload a chapter each day that way

[upbeat brook]

I'll finish way before the 15th

At most ima say the 11th?

[frozen sleet]

but everyone might be a little unhappy abouat that

[upbeat brook]

With me going back

Saying "I can add more here"

[elder cloak]

no I meant everyone finishing by the 15th

[upbeat brook]

O

[elder cloak]

it's fine either way though

[upbeat brook]

Dammit x.x

[elder cloak]

we'll figure something out

don't stress

[upbeat brook]

Well I'm luckily not on my story so

[elder cloak]

it's supposed to be fun