#The Engineer
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It looks so bad
photo quality destroyed
flowers and smiles and wiry little squints
They're so CUTE
I LOVE how you drew Scout
egyptian cat style
I couldnt help but give her fancy hair
She deserves it
Everyone knows that the best place to draw is in science class
His sweet little smiiiiile
She does
A national tragedy
We're so back
yo ?

WE’RE BACK
How lovely just in time for me to go to my ortho appointment
God is telling me not to read engineer
Maybe if you were reading engineer you would've been so distracted you would've missed your ortho appointment
Ao3 had to be down, or else your orthos wouldn't be dontisted
I don't remember what an orthodontist is
We need Drymm in this thread to tell us how teeth work 
Does Drymm have a higher than normal understanding of teeth?
Oh wait no I remember
Dentist assistant or something like that
Drymm graduated dental school 
Braces gang 
Got liners but yeah same diff 
Drymm’s favorite thing to stare at all day are teeth 
They just examine them for hours; as a hobby you know?
I guess... everybody needs... a variety of interest...
Me
too
It has been done
And i present it to you in the lowest quality image possible
The paper has little uh lines cause i moved it around and it got creased on the edge of the table so whatever
Guardian is mega fluff
Thank you I will be printing this out and keeping it in a folder forever
Keeper's little flowers....
Ohh that's so sweet
Guardian's tail frills are great
@woeful bobcat here it is officer!
🚓
Pin this fiend!
(Please)
Pinned.
tyyyy
Also, fiend? /silly


It's so so cute Crispy!! 
Climbin' 
Engineer gaming
Ooh, rare ftc sighting in my thread
Meow
I think I'll actually be able to get ch12 out today
It's looking good. I've been building this one up for about two weeks
hi cheese


@keen kayak would you happen to be awake rn?
Would you know how to put Westminster font in a workskin
or anything else sort of glitchy or weird
not the severe glitch that makes it unreaable though
I'm guessing they will be up in like 1 or 2 hours, maybe earlier 
Just an estimate tho
Reading up on the topic a bit, though, it looks like custom fonts may be fucky and change from browser-to-browser, device-to-device?
funky robot text... just out of reach
your choice of font doesn't embed the font(s) into the fic's download nor into the online page as it would on a piece of paper, it just makes a suggestion and the reader's device will try to comply.
Yeah, looking at this long-ass document, you can suggest it to be used, but the user has to have it on their device for it to work, otherwise it will keep on going through fallbacks till it hits an available font
No way of forcing it
Could ask the readers to download it but that has obvious issues, i'd say 
Not even with a workskin? Dang
You could take a picture of the text, upload it somewhere and insert it sneakily whereever it needs to be
Only suggesting what should be used 
That is a good idea
Could fuck with site skins but could work, maybe 
Can you insert pictures with transparency?
That i'm not sure about
You can if it's a png
If you still need help, there are easy ‘glitch text’ generators you can google for that are copy/paste, and you can choose the level of ‘glitchiness’ (readability)
Lingojam is my preference
You won’t need a workskin
They manipulate Unicode to do it, pretty cool c:
That is good to know, it's easier than figuring out the family branch for some random font for html
Much
it’s simply copy/paste
Unfortunately no, Piotr is right
Custom, non standard fonts would have to be installed for the viewer
Image and glitch text workarounds do work though 
If you have an art program that supports transparency, it's quite easy to remove white backgrounds
I would like to appreciate engineer moon
Sassy, a bit tricky, keen, cunning, huffy, even childish
Im in love with this lady 
I loveeee your moonie
Not always the nice one
Shes a bit of a sly jerk
She knows shes making pebbles panic
She knows he cares about her
But she keeps the act up
Oh my god

Also in chapter 9 she is so sarcastic
Like- gurl?
WAIT
I NEEDED TO FINISH CHAPTER 9 BEFORE TALKING ABOUT HER
WHOS GONNA GET MOON OUT FIRST? MOON OR FP?
ANYWAYS SHE SLAYS SM IN ENGINEER

She is such a girlboss
I love how engineer kinda pushed against canon shown personalities
Moon isnt a pushover she will push you over
Fp isnt a premium bastard he has empathy?? ????

I wanna kiss your moon shes so dkdkckdaosjzkajansaicnd
AISJDHDIDIAUSJAKSJJA
AUAAUUAAUAUUAUAÃÃÆÆÅÂÅÁ
IM GOING FERAL
RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
RJRJSUSDASHAHAHAAHAHHRHD
SXJCJCUDSJAHSREHERHDSHAHSD




Takes a breath*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AHHHHAHAHAHSHSJXJCJFJGJFRUTTITJFJRJJDJDKSOS
SISOEMF
takes another breath

I'm glad you like her lol
I can't write her much now, but I'm excited for when she becomes more relevant
She's gonna be a lot more involved in her own fate than she is in canon
🙏
found a good glitch text generator
it lets you change where the glitch effect happens
Perhaps
Watch carefully

It shows up for a second on my side
But if i keep spamming it shadows gonna come and smack me
lmao
Chapter 12 is a go! Another look at the diary of Four Waters Under Still Grasses reveals a beloved future, while elsewhere Keeper and Guardian find a new friend
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55945132/chapters/159561601
Two separate people have said they needed to walk away from reading to process ch12
What a complement
My powers are infinite
Im scared


Which chapter is that
9
Fixed, tyy

Only two from 12
9 is not…2 from twelve 
Math checks out to me 

Wait no I had
you good beads?
I'm a grad student

I'm gonna throw you in a lake

With soggy mud at the bottom so when you trunch back to shore it's gross
grannyyyyy

Like the small mucky ones?
With like algae on the surface?
And the waters clear as Rainworld lore?
Which is why you will still be thrown
Soggy crispy
Math is hard 

You cant be soggy and crispy at the same time
Id just be soggy

katsudon 

Did…is it just flipped?
don = donburi, katsu = short for tonkatsu
is!
Oh my god tree
You’re teleporting me everywhere
You’re reacting to every single message ive ever sent
Woke up this morning and blearily checked engineer to find it had over 1,000 comments, just about lost my mind. Turns out I'd clicked on YUTS on accident 
It did send me looking through old comments again, so an overall very happy morning
HUION INSPIROY YEAHH!!
EYHA
Art the likes of which the world has never seen
I've been waiting for this for a month
It's massive!!
I can wait to start drawing for Engineer again
May its shiny surface receive many pen scratches 
The lengths my research is taking me...
I've been through six articles on herons tonight
Google scholar my beloved
Have another
Hi cheese
we sure do love a writer who puts in the extra effort to do the research 

Lmao I found a discrepancy in the common understanding of certain baiting birds now I have to email the guy who wrote this article
I've seen repeatedly that there are only 12 known birds who use bait but I've been keeping track of the known baiting birds in my notes app and I keep coming up with 14
The power of cross referencing your sources

Is heron research for engineer?
Well
No
But
It is relevant
Sort of?
I feel like saying a hard no may reveal some things
It's definitely research for something related to a rain world project
Which isn't in the works enough to warrant its own forum yet
I accidentally named my mystery rw fic protagonist after the protagonist from CRIMINAL MINDS
I have never seen criminal minds
Now I have to change it or people will think I'm referencing criminal. minds.

The rocks in the museum change when there's an explosion
Nothing to worry about 

||Eaten by an angler fish???????||
||I think this floating barrel counting up has something to do with this explosion ||
||Floating barrel?||
Found it in space yeah
Also ||Gabbro's my favorite so far ||
gabbro is actually my second fav but hes great 
wait
they
misgendering my husband /gn 
the ||deep space satellite|| (don't click if you don't want to know what it is, beads)
SAME ||grabbro is the best||
||Chert|| is mine. No, Beads, you don’t know this one.
||Listen, I get Gabbro, but I like Chert.||
No, Beads, go on. Don’t click.
||Chert’s just so excited when you tell them about QM shenanigans!||
Not that, either.
||augh the precious egg,,,
||
no clicky beads
My curiosity is only stemmed by a desperate need to experience this game blind
wise
But you three should know I'm frothing at the mouth and that you're all evil

you should stream 

I think I might, next time I play
I sunk two hours into it today though, I think I'd like to draw it out
good game, but I could only sit for like 2hr ish sessions when playing through it
I think it's maybe best experienced that way
||so far I drove my ship into a weird planet with mist and got eaten by an anglerfish, went through a set of portal-esque trials in the north pole of the ocean planet, found Gabbo, played hide and seek, woke up a statue, and I've started noticing that a blue shot goes off from that satellite thing each time I wake up, and that the time since probe release is marked in a building deck floating in the ocean||
||Needless to say it's connected to the blue at the end||
||dang you found the quantum tower on the ocean planet already?? there's a trick to getting to it...||
||francisco or whatever his name is is probably eaten too, I can hear his harmonica||
||fransisco
||
||I went up and in through the pole?||
Uh oh
actually no
I'm thinking of something else
you went the normal way
been too long since I played, clearly
||FRANCISCO HELP
||
||god i love my boy francisco, my favorite character
/gen /gn||
||also wow you did i lot in such a short amount of time!
||
fr, I feel like I fumbled around for hours getting nothing done 
i was too much of a wimp to 
everytime something slightly bad happened i would pause my game and cower in fear
my friends had to coax me into unpausing every time 
yep required
actually, I need to catch up on it
Yes!
||and then I immediately got kidnapped by some spaceship thing and then the sun blasted me but now I know that my theory of taking a picture of it works||
||It’s called the Quantum Moon, by the way.||
||I got the idea using the thing on the ember twin planet that tracks it||
an apt description, it do be doin that
||Although I doubt that macro QM in our world would actually behave that way, but you get it.||
||Outer Wilds is great.||
||I've recently found the mass grave thing in the bramble planet, next to the quantum seed node. Very sad, I wasn't expecting to find so many bodies ||
||How far along are you?||
||found the other guy stuck there, found a space-warping way out, then found a white hole that makes things small, got flung out into some sort of black hole planet ||
||I'm not sure how to measure it? I know I have to stop things, but I've just recently landed on everything||
||Do you want to know something sad about this?||
||I think I'm jumping around to different areas too much, I have no goal and it's getting confusing, but I do love exploring ||
||...maybe||
||Before you discover it, it’s called something like “The Survivors”.||
||Try check your ship log.||
Escape pod 3 noo
||When it’s still a question mark.||
||Anyway, where are you planning to go right now?||
||I've seen some things that say there's still stuff to see, but I don't quite know what I'm looking for. Like, there's a quantum tower on giant's deep, which I've done the trials for three times, but I can't find anything else||
||Hold on, mind taking a screenshot?||
||ember twin, I think there's a part of the probe launcher there but I've only ever seen it buried ||
||that's a good note, it gives me something to follow. And I'll send a screenshot when I get the game up and running in a sec, I only just arrived to my computer||
||I like how much the ancient culture resembles what we see of the ancients in rain world, I see why the two games are recommended to each other's players so much||
||cycles and death and ancient cultures and whatnot||
||they joy of exploration, and being small in something too big to understand||
||Outer Wilds is absolutely more beginner-friendly than Rain World, though.||
||I spent my first cycles getting eaten by lizards.||
||I knew what I was getting into.||
||I still got my ass handed to me.||
||definitely. I don't remember much of my introduction to rain world, my first hours of playthrough were done while recovering from a surgery, so the memory's filtered through morphine lol||
it stuck though, when I recovered I remembered everything, it's just hard to remember starting the game
cheat code to learning the controls 
Beads?
Ah, you’re probably off flying the ship. Don’t mind me.
sorry, I got distracted flying through space
I checked it again and it's gone this time, so it might've been a glitch
but! I did discover that ||I've been trying to get to the gravity cannon on brittle hollow in THE most inefficient way possible,which is dropping down and flying around the black hole in the hopes that I'll get caught in its gravity and land on it||
||turns out you can just, walk to it||
||I see. There’s probably an even better way, but I’m not going to say what that is.||
||Actually, I am.||
||Just fly down the chute. It opens to space.||
Anyway, do update me if and when you feel like it.
I’ve been craving more OW, but I don’t have the DLC.
||Need help? Or want to figure it out yourself?||
Definitely want to figure it out myself
||That’s most of the fun of the game.||
How’s the Outer Wilds wilding?
Good I think!
Your advice to follow the ship log has been really helpful, it feels significantly less overwhelming
I keep getting super lost in brittle hollow though, so that's the next big hurdle
Log 
I can't count the number of times I've been blasted out to space while trying to find the ||quantum tower before it falls. I keep having to fly back and jump down the hole in the ice and start my search over||
||Who?||
||Which Moon?||
||There's, like, three of them.||
||Hold on.||
||Oh, Quantum Moon?||
Yup yup
||I think I sort of made it to the eye||
||and I made it below the giant's deep current, but I couldn't figure out how to get below the electricity||
||Huh. Ship map, maybe?||
||Solanum, you mean?||
ah yes, the average government file.
i like how engineer just turned into https://discord.com/channels/291184728944410624/1272670046434492426 but for outer wilds
when are the slugcats gonna explore space?
sending moon to space
Aeolian Waves!


I guess it really did, I needed a place to keep it together without really disrupting misc chats
Crispy is naturally polite and it shows through when they're tired spread the word
🎺 🎺



||SALAMI!!||
||SHES MY second FAVORITR AEAEAEAE
||


Good morning cheese
Hello folks

Heyo Piotr 
How’s it going?
Oh! You beat the game. Well done.
What do you think about it?
Wait, you have a banjo?
Beads has a banjo!
Outer Wilds spoilers. ||Riebeck-pilled or whatever the young ones say.||
||🪕 ||
It's incredible! It all ties together so nicely, and there's so much to see
||the idea that a conscious observer is necessary for the creation of the universe to collapse from endless possibility to something liveable is incredible. The tiny lessons you learn eventually being the thing that helps you understand it all.... and the feeling at the end of ' it's time to go, and now it's someone else's turn' was so much||

Hope you had fun :3
I did
, I'm glad I played it
peeking in here
i have thoroughly enjoyed the mental image of single father of 3, five pebbles 
Out of his depth and trying his best
Getting back into it!
the sun was bright today and the tomatoes red! It's gripped me yet again, that fickle beetle of keyboard and ink
lovely little bug


keyboard and ink do not mix
/silly
we'll see


the blurring definitely makes it sem ai generated yeah
everything seems to be, normal shaped?
I found it on pinterest so it's questionable
It’s got that AI color pallet 
And there are some weird details
Like the leather sheath over the actual paper 
Which would probably prevent your typewriter from working
It smells a little like AI, though I cannot confirm for sure.
I’ll make something better 
@keen lily
looking at the timeline of it, it makes sense that I'm getting the itch again. We're quickly coming up on the first anniversary of The Engineer, which means I got inspired to start it in the spring, wrote through the summer, and faded off in the winter
sun's been out for a few months now and it's picking back up

almost like I'm a creature of the earth or something, who would'a thought
Inspired by the seasons
The seasoneer
the seasoneer, lesser known offshoot of the engineer where they talk about seasons and also make lots of delicous dishes

Beads writing 
all of us here love single father pebbles

Indeed
god i absolutely adore the illustrations.. amazing work!
single father pebbles for the win
Thank you!
i should draw him and his lovely children
I freakin love these
The originals! Way back in the beginning
I'm doing some lore building for scavengers in Engineer
what I've developed so far:
Scavengers have five biological sexes, which see different uses at different stages in their lifespan, and are impacted by environment and hormones in way much similar to honeybees
children are all one biological sex, and do not vary from one another in that sense. The change that determines if they grow up to be male or female (or as close to that as they can be) lies in grooming habits. If left with no hormonal alterations, a scavenger will grow to be male, whose role in the 'flock' is to scout and defend, and they tend to have the shortest lifespans of all the options
Scavengers are incredibly social, but stress tends to make them more isolated, both as groups and as individuals. Grooming habits are similar to rabbits, where scavengers will groom each other for both community and to defer to another scavenger's dominance in the hierarchy. This could be anywhere from soldiers grooming the chief, to a child grooming its mother
there are glands along the backs of both male, female and elite scavengers that act as the hormone activator which turns a child into a female scavenger. They have significantly longer lifespans than males, and later in life their role becomes that of an 'elder', and are often responsible for leading hunts after they no longer have reliant children
the fourth biological sex is the Elite, which occurs when an adult female regularly grooms the chief of the local group, similarly to how some types of bees will develop an entirely different type of bee if that specific bee spends a lot of time around the queen. The chief will choose their elites, and the resulting proximity results in very large, very strong elite scavengers with lifespans slightyl shorter than that of an unaltered female
the final option is chief, which is a role chosen during adolescence. During the transitional period from child-female/child-male, a small handful of scavengers are chosen for traits that vary from region to region, and are raised in close proximity to the current chief and their elites. This elicits a hormonal shift towards chief, and when the scavengers reach adulthood they will either fight for the right to lead the current flock, or leave to start new ones. In times of peace, the latter is the most common option, and relations between branching flocks tend to be very good
Elites overwhelmingly tend to be female, though biology is never exact. The chief tends to be 60/40 female/male, with no notable preference either way
This social/biological structure is why artificer's disruption was so devastating: it is incredible difficult to reliably raise large numbers of female scavengers during times of turmoil, and the existence of a steady stream of available chiefs to raise the next generation is crucial to a local flocks continued existence. We only see elite scavengers during artificer's reign and Saints, suggesting that it took them an unbelievable amount of time to recover
we have no real confirmation that the scavenger chief in-game is the only one Artificer targeted, and it's possible that her ultimate goal was to wipe out their chances of recovering in the immediate area. It's possible and even likely that she succeeded, and the area needed to be re-colonized by surrounding populations, or that they simply moved away with their brood in the face of such structural instability
fin.
Something something "the kind of woman that would just kill me" 
Also hi beads

actually not fin. From a cultural perspective I also think that a fear of red slugcats would impact their storytelling and literature for dozens of generations
hi Piotre!!
how's stories been??
Many new people, and i am slowly chipping away at writing when not being lazy 
ooh
Wait what happened to your pfp 
oh lol Amany was pretending to be me for a while, and you could tell who was who because they took a sceenshot of my pfp and included the little grey dot
I thought it'd be funny to throw everyone off to do the same thing, and it worked
it's stayed as a monument to the tomfoolery
Ah i thought you had lost your pfp image or something 
never! I keep all my favorite pfps and wallpapers stored to a cloud
my tastes for color and resolution are very picky

Hello Raven!
foiled immediately
Going good!
My work takes me international a lot, so I haven't had time for aaaaaannything
But I've got a good break, I want to finish some Engineer
Very understandable
Maybe you get some extra inspiration by travelling so much?
(sounds a bit tiring
)
Ooh, maybe. It definitely gives me some context for new personality types
I met a man whose favorite gift to give at parties was an entire wedge of cheese with the recipients name carved into the side
And another lady who thought the only healthy way to live was to marry and divorce at least three times in your life
LOL, that's kinda sweet 
Send me his contacts this instant. /j /nsrs
I hunger for cheese.
i forgot i said i would do this lmaooo
It's okay I forgot too 
🔥
Is that Scout????!
It's so cute!!
Oh I like it so much

World's best birthday present
Its ur birthday!?!??
It is! You have great timing!
Omg
Yooooo happy birthday

birtday!!!
Happy birthday ^^
Happy birthday! 
NSH is done for
he got plushified
IT IS DONE
Another forum forgotten by its author
/silly /j
it was very late at night and I was so sleepy
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
No forgiveness
/j /silly
it is deserved
Folded the chapter up and fed it to my dog as instructed; now I don’t know what was in it 
The beast was pleased at least
Soon your dog will have eaten enough rain world fan fics that it will write its own
???
@zinc vapor Are you able to see blocked messages if they don't go through? I think I might've found a bug
Or is this a Raven ping
I think i do have access to something like that, but not sure if I can do anything besides just look, what is the issue?
I got a funny block on a message, as far as I can tell none of the words are unusual or even mildly questionable
I took a screenshot, I could dm it to you?
Oh yeah sure, and don't be afraid to reply ping me right away, might not notice a message 
I try not to bug the mods too much, but thanks!
To try again: I'm running a social experiment because I love data and I miss my arch contract
I will be slowly updating results as data comes in, which I'm currently guessing will be nill but that's the point of an experiment
and now we wait

Really, don't worry about it :p
We're volunteering to help out the community after all.
Feel free to dm @steady dune for anything, it lets you contact all mods
... *lets

Thanks!
Fixed :3
I JUST REALIZED
I HAVE TO MAKE AN ANIMATIC FOR THIS STUPID RIDICULOUS FIC TO THE SOUNDTRACK OF SONIC UNDERGROUND
TRIPLETS BORN
oh my god I forgot about this show until all at once it came into my head
nothing else about the song fits but we're ignoring that babyyyy this is my forum

This be how forums are managed, anyway. Nobody really cares to moderate what's inside as long as it isn't rulebreaking.

... so how much longer must we wait- /j /lh
Oh yeah the experiment ran negligible changes, man that was a while ago
Engineer is still being written, I'm reworking the first ~4 chapters to fit the later writing style, as is Sunbittern
They stay steady in my mind at all times
Oh alright 
so what was the secret experiment about?
I was curious if certain tags were being searched more than others. I wasn't interested in changing the direction of my story, so I deleted some smaller tags in my list to measure for a percent increase or decrease in hit jumps
I didn't want to add irrelevant tags for the experiment, that felt dishonest, so from the limited experience the finds were legitimately negligible
, thx!








grgrgr no im not!
