#Trying to figure out this game???

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vocal hare
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Reposted for spoilers

Hey all. Professional Rain World noob with a slammin' playthrough of this weird little game. It's not going super well though. I'm about 6.5 hours in and I can't seem to get out of the starting area, Outskirts (At least I think it's the starting area. Not exactly sure). I managed to wonder to an industrial place? But it was awful and I died so many times that I gave up and left. My game theory is that I have to come back with better armor and weapons (is that even a thing? I really have no idea). So far I have found a lot of weird animals like: Demon birds. Money dudes. Lizards of various colors. Also, items like: yellow flower that (seemingly) doesn't do anything, blue orb that doesn't (seemingly) do anything and red plant that doesn't (seemingly) do anything.

I managed to find a way to go down to some sewers? But I can't seem to make it too far in without dying. So I end up respawning outside the door, and I can't open the door because I gotta heal some more, and then when I get through the door I die again, etc. So my questions: is this where I'm supposed to be going? Is there something I'm supposed to be getting? Is there like a double jump somewhere I'm supposed to get? Maybe a gun???

jovial furnace
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Did I say something spoilery?

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Also I'm being spawnkilled now. Just a funny note

vagrant dawn
vocal hare
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Every item has a use that you have to figure out yourself. As a general rule of thumb: Grab, eat, throw anything new you encounter in various settings. Where the items spawn most often may be a hint to their uses.

You aren't supposed to be going anywhere :) Just explore and see what happens and see what you find. You may have noticed that a little creature seems to follow you around a lot and point to things...

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Anything found outside Outskirts must be spoiled for the first message and title as a general rule of thumb
Anything else within the forum is fine to be spoken about since at that point people have to click on the forum to spoil themselves

jovial furnace
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Ah I see. Sorry I didn't know

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I didn't realize I was far enough for things to qualify as spoilers lol

vocal hare
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saintunyoy Its oke

jovial furnace
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Also I've tried following the little yellow dude but I can't figure out what he's saying

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I feel like he lies lol

vocal hare
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This game is best experienced blind so we try to preserve that feeling the best we can with little hints and such

jovial furnace
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"Oh yeah a save point is totally over here"

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Update: Still trying to get down to the sewer area. But I've died again so now my health is back to the upside down 2 thing

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And the gate needs the grill

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(idk what they're called)

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So now I have to go find more food

vagrant dawn
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monkblush good luck! (this user is not useful but will cheer you on huntersmile)

jovial furnace
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Thank you

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Game update: Now I'm on sideways N lets go

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This spawn really stinks because whenever I go outside there's two lizards one of those vine grabby things

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And now I'm back to upside down 2 😦

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I'm not sure if I can make it back to the sewers gamers

jovial furnace
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The yellow dude lies

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Aight I don't know what to do I'm gonna quit for now

swift meadow
vocal hare
swift meadow
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where else have you noticed him
using that symbol

jovial furnace
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I've seen him use that symbol in other places but I couldn't figure out what it was talking about

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The only guess I have is that it's pointing to a gate

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The things with the water and the symbols

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Well now that you've said it I'm guessing not then lol

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So I guess when he points in a direction he's pointing multiple rooms over

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So I know that left-ish there is something

swift meadow
vocal hare
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Again, try to interpret the arrows hes pointing towards something with what symbol hes using

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There are patterns if you can recognize them

jovial furnace
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I've seen that symbol before. That's one of the symbols I get when sleeping?

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And I've seen it at the water gate thing where you gotta match your symbol with the gate symbol

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So my only guess is that the symbol points to a gate

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By the way. I read somewhere that if you accidentally kill one of nthe lizards that they can "evolve" and become scarier. Well I did that lol. Is it worth it to restart so I don't have to deal with whatever evolutions will happen

swift meadow
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don’t restart

jovial furnace
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Gotcha

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Also. Is there something very obvious I am missing with the symbol and the arrow?

vocal hare
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Theres basically never a reason to restart unless youre extremely hopelessly stuck somewhere

vocal hare
vocal hare
swift meadow
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i had no idea it even used that symbol until like my third run monksilly

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so don’t worry about figuring it out too much
it’ll make your life easier though

jovial furnace
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Alright then 🤷

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For now I'm just trying to find a way out of the outskirts

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I can't seem to make it in the industrial area and now I am blocked from going to the sewers because I keep dying

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There are so many enemies

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What the cinnamon toast crunch is that

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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I found more

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The blue tentacles are eating the green lizard, I think

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Yellow flower time

swift meadow
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yumy

jovial furnace
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My game theory is that the yellow flower gives you a shield

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Like a symbol shield

swift meadow
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what does it shield monkcurious

jovial furnace
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The symbols? I think

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So when you die your symbol doesn't go down

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Yeah

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Like I said. Game theory

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This man is telling me there is a safe room nearby but I do not trust him

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Yeah this is what's to the right

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This man is a massive troll

vocal hare
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He tries to help

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Whatever hes leading you to clearly isnt directly adjacent to whatever room youre in monksilly

swift meadow
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give him a chance rivplead

jovial furnace
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Good thing I had my shield. Otherwise I would have dropped a level

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Oh wait

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already at the lowest level

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Oh yeah sometimes there is two of them??

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Not the lizards I mean. There's a blue one and a yellow one

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I have no idea what the blue one does

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The yellow ons is trying to troll me by telling me there's a safe room up there but jokes on him I can't even get up there so

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Not falling for it

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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I must be popular

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I just went back to where I died and there was a yellow flower

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I just had a brain blast

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If you die does it give you a flower???

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BRO THIS GUY

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This guy

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He actually just wants to troll me

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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He is a massive liar goober

vocal hare
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Well, you cant say hes lying....

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It is right there :p

jovial furnace
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He's pointing down though

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Why would he point down

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He's like "Ignore that safe room. Come to my totally legit and for suresies real safe room!

vocal hare
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Ah I see
Still :p

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You remember that first shelter you had to hide in?

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:p

jovial furnace
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Wait is that this one??

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Have I actually somehow ended up exactly where I started, 20 cycles later lol

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Also. Do yellow flowers stack?

swift meadow
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test it monkblep

jovial furnace
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I don't think they do

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Dang

vagrant dawn
swift meadow
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i love that screenshot so much

jovial furnace
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He tries to get me to watch his TV show too

swift meadow
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movie night monksilly

jovial furnace
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What's he on about

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Are there goblins in this game???

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He's either pointing to a goblin or to Ang from Avatar

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Well I'm somehow back in the Industrial complex

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I hate this area so much lol

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Well I lived and graduated to grill

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So maybe I'll just keep pushing on

vagrant dawn
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hunterglee good luck

silk wind
jovial furnace
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Game update: red berries found

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Eating them does nothing

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Fascinating

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There's also a little pearl

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Which seemingly also does nothing

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More fascinating updates later

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Game update: I do not like blue lizards

swift meadow
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ow

jovial furnace
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Game update: Pink lizards can die too

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I've been demoted from grill to japanese building

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Game update: the yellow man is just showing me pictures of slugcats

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Back to grill baby

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Game update: I'm back to where I was a few hours ago and couldn't get past

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And I've got the level for it now

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So I'm gonna see what's beyond the door 👀

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Spooky

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"Shaded Citadel"

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Sounds like a place where I will die

swift meadow
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good luck monksilly

jovial furnace
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Oh boy lol

vocal hare
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Yipee

jovial furnace
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Glowy frog???

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I hope he is friend

vocal hare
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Oh I should

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Frig wheres the ping

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@simple musk Lotta The Chart™️ candidates monksilly

jovial furnace
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Huh

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Wassat mean

swift meadow
jovial furnace
vocal hare
jovial furnace
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Lol

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My list of names for the symbols:
Survivor building
Grill
Japanese building
Sideways N
Upside-down 2

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So weird to come across something that's actually scared of me

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Normally it's the opposite

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They keep running away from me but they're so cute

vocal hare
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:3

jovial furnace
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NOOOOOOOO GLOW FROG

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There's two of them again

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Maybe one of them is the soul of the glow frog

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Orange goo?

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It is very dark

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But I found safe room

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I got an achievement

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Cool

vocal hare
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Everytime I think of the name Shaded Citadel my brain automatically tries to replace the c with an sh sound

jovial furnace
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Bruh

vocal hare
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Shaded Shitadel....

jovial furnace
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😂

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I just realized I have a passage now?????

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I CAN FAST TRAVEL?????????????????????

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It says it's only one-time use though

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Does it recharge???????????????????????????

vocal hare
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1 token per passage ;p

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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But once I use it once, can I get another use of it

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Like, is it something I can recharge by getting my level up

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I feel like I'll be too scared to ever use it lol

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I'm dragging a dead glow frog with me for light

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Shield flower time

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Aang is nearby

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The glow frog stopped glowing

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Welp

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I literally can't see anything

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It's just black

vocal hare
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This shaded sure is shaded

jovial furnace
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I've caught a glow frog

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He is my friend now

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Something in dark got me

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Weeeeeeeeeird

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I think I need to look around a little more before I go down there

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I gotta figure out how to get light

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Safe room get

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I'm gonna take a break for now

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New symbol?

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I'm naming him Mr. Cent

vagrant dawn
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hunterglee having fun?

jovial furnace
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Yeah I'm having fun. I just have to let myself take breaks when I get frustrated lol. I made a bunch of progress last time I played though so I feel good about it for now. Before I was not having as much fun

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I think there's a lot of this game that just doesn't click right away for me. So many little things that I could easily understand in a couple of words, I have to spend hours tinkering to try to piece together. And that's fine and pretty doable if the mechanics are clearly communicated but so often they're not, and even send mixed messages about their meaning.

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I'm going to keep with it because I've heard so much about it from reviewers I trust that it's good and it's worth it. I just hope a lot of these core gameplay mechanics eventually become clarified.

vocal hare
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The fun part is the games tells you next to nothimg about everything past the tutorial :)

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Its truly is a environment simulator: You fuck around and find out

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You may be right you may be wrong, who knows

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If it helps you to survive thats enough

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Thats also the main reason why the first playthrough helpers exist, because the game gives you nothing to work with to having an occasional tip is nice

vagrant dawn
jovial furnace
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Thanks for the comments guys

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I'm gonna play a bit more now

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My goals for this session is to try to figure out what the orange goop does

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And also to find my way out of the citadel. Because it's dark and I don't like it lol

vagrant dawn
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lizcyankek that's so real

jovial furnace
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Aight the orange goop is food lol

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I could swear I tried eating it before and I couldn't

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I made it a bit farther but I couldn't find my way out

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Made it a little farther this time

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I'm at this area

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Coming all the way from over here

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I'm following the yellow guy. He keeps saying Aang is just around the corner so I'm going to see where that goes

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There's this one room that I just can't get past because it's too darn dark

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Okay. I finally made it past that room

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Apparently i went past a safe room lol

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I'm making progress for realsies

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Heck yeah

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Safe room get

vocal hare
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Nicee

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Youre learning!

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Youre finding things :D

jovial furnace
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Well idk if I'm learning but I am at least making progress

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Which is kind of learning?

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Didn't stop me from falling to my death though lol

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Bro

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I'm just gonna keep falling here apparently lol

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Guys you're never gonna guess how I died again

vocal hare
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This bridge is kinda infamous

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Even I get a bit tense when having to cross it even tho I know how to do it xd

jovial furnace
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Oh okay lol

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Well at least it's not just me

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Also that's a fourth time now 😑

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Made it

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And I get a shield flower

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OH MY GOSH

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If I hadn't died four times to the bridge I would have that

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😠 😠 😠 😠 😠 😠 😠

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Meanwhile this guy is just trying to get me to watch TV

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How in the world am I supposed to get food to level up if I have to go past that awful bridge every time

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I am starting to see why it is infamous

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Awesome

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Well on the bright side. I just accidentally figured out you can store a third item by swallowing it instead of holding it

vocal hare
jovial furnace
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Never mind the random berries outside came in clutch

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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No will not

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It looks sad

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There's fire and sad slugs

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Les gooooo

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Shoreline

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Wassat

vocal hare
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Yipee

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New place!

jovial furnace
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What the heck does allat mean

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Well I don't like that

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That looks like death

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I don't like this place lol

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Back to Japanese building 😔

swift meadow
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demoted saintpensive

jovial furnace
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I WAS JUST MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS

vocal hare
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Im still surprised they can show up there but o_shrug

jovial furnace
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Dang guys alright

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There's like 7 all at once lol

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Update: I have found trash island

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And I also got what looks like an egg weraring a hula skirt

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This is an ongoing development

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Safe room get

vocal hare
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Yey

jovial furnace
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This is cool

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It's like a hub room

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I can go lots of directions

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Yellow man says that path goes to Aang

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Okay, real question actually

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And if one of ya'll could answer it without giving too much away I'd appreciate it

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So what is this Aang thing? Is it a specific place I'm going towards? Or is it some resource that keeps moving around?

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I'm trying to head towards it but I'm not sure it's something that I can head towards. Like if it's just some resource that moves around

vocal hare
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Something Of Interest the overseer seems to be directing you towards

jovial furnace
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Am I close lol

vocal hare
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I guess see if its directions change more often towards somewhere as you go around :p

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Gonna hop off for a while, in the car

jovial furnace
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This is a very big fish

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I hope the fish is not Aang lol

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I think I've arrived at Aang

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"Looks to the Moon"

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Am I building a rocketship????

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Are there aliens in this game????????????

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Alright I'm exploring this building and I found a yellow pearl

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I still don't know what pearls do. But it's the first yellow one I've seen so I saved it

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ALIENS ARE IN THIS GAME

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My game senses tell me I need to give him the pearl

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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But first I will go save

vocal hare
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Nice

jovial furnace
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Because I do not trust this game lol

vocal hare
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Fair

jovial furnace
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I got an achievement

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New Friend

vocal hare
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Yipee

jovial furnace
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Still don't know what these symbols mean

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How do I drop things again lol

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The game told me a long time ago

vocal hare
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Hold down + grab

jovial furnace
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Thank you

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I gave him the yellow pearl

vocal hare
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Theyre.. okay ig

jovial furnace
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Well nothing has happened

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I accidentally threw a spear at him earlier and he got scared lol

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Does that mean anything?

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Maybe he won't accept my pearl now??

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Idk what to do here

vocal hare
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Doesnt seem like you understand each other very well

jovial furnace
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Yup lol

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Do I have to learn alien language?

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Aw dang is this a "come back later" sort of thing

vagrant dawn
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hunterglee hi I'm still here and still not helpful

jovial furnace
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Thanks man lol

vocal hare
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lmao

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Youre the nightpopcorn

jovial furnace
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Wat do

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I thought he would take me in his rocketship to the moon

vocal hare
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Seems like theres not much you can do here for now

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There may be somewhere else though

jovial furnace
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Maybe I gotta look around his alien building then?

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Maybe there will be a Google translate somewhere

swift meadow
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google translate !!!

jovial furnace
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Well I'm gonna take back my yellow pearl then

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Didn't even want my pearl smh

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Wait

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Does it have something to do with the yellow guy's TV

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Do I actually have to watch his TV show

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Okay

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New game theory

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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These symbols correspond to differents elements of the game

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There was one that was called the Monk

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Maybe there's some garbage I have to do to level up my Monk status so I can talk to him

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There was one in the top left that I think it called the Hunter?

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Maybe there's a hunter guy I can talk to somewhere else in the game, and I have to hunt for that one

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I ain't doing that for sure lol

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But maybe if I'm smart and I learn more by doing whatever, then I can level up my Monk status and talk to him

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Okay I got a new achievement

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"The Saint"

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Apparently when I thought it said Monk it actually was saying Saint lol

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Whatever

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Path of the Pacifist

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So I guess I went a long time with killing anything

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That's my guess

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I'm not really sure what to do about the alien guy

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But I also don't really know where to go now

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I spent the whole game going all the way out here and now it seems like I can't do anything

vocal hare
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overseer brought you here for some reason
Maybe theyll want to show you more

jovial furnace
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He seems to be pretty silent lately

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He hasn't been saying much other than occasionally showing me a TV show

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Well I'm going to take a break from that now

swift meadow
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terraira slugsparkle

simple musk
vocal hare
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Damb.. Clearly Im not a true RW fan smh Squid_Pensive1

jovial furnace
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Hello all. It's been a few days since I've played (real life busy something something) but I'm back now

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Also I've been playing Resident Evil 4 lol

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I feel determined to figure out this weird game

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Okay I actually want to be spoiled about this so if someone could just give it to me straight otherwise I'll have to Google it and I don't want to risk spoiling myself

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Is there something I can do with the alien dude while I'm here, or do I have to wander farther away and come back

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Well I think I'm just going to Google it then

simple musk
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No there's nothing in particular you're expected to do, it's just there slugshrug

jovial furnace
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Oops

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I saw this too late lol

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Well I learned that its a girl apprently? And her name is Moon

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And something about Pebbles

simple musk
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well

jovial furnace
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I still am not sure what to do there lol

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If there's nothing I can do then I guess I should leave?

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I have no idea where else to go though

simple musk
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The area pop-up says "||Looks to the Moon||", people like to call the thing there Moon, you haven't been spoiled to much monklaugh

simple musk
jovial furnace
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Should I explore around the complex or around the world?

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I've been over the complex like four times and can't find anything

simple musk
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Probably the world, Moon's complex is rather dead-end-y as you've seen.

jovial furnace
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I see, okay. Thank you. That's what I wanted to know, is if I was wasting my time trying to find something here

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I am tempted to use a fast travel token thing because I am very far away from spawn

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But I don't know if I can get them back

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I have two of them now

simple musk
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Chances are, unexplored territory is much closer than you think rivowo

jovial furnace
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Oh really

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Okay

simple musk
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The world is a lot more open than it looks at first glance. Almost all regions have more than two exits.

jovial furnace
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Oh okay

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So the Shoreline should lead to at least one other area then

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That's cool

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Okay when I was Googling I did read that I had to bring her some seeds? And some jellyfish?

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I have no idea what either of those things are

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So I'm assuming that the seeds are out in the world somewhere

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My game theory is that there's a bunch of different endings, and one of the endings is when you make the alien happy and she takes you into space

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So I'm gonna try to go with this ending

jovial furnace
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Oh lol

simple musk
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(whatever, it doesn't sound very accurate anyways)

jovial furnace
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🤣

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Save time

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Welp

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Sad times

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Game plan is to try to get back here

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Since I never went those different directions

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But the problem is I gotta swim through all this

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And as you can see it ain't goin so hot lol

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What the heck is that

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Why is the yellow man pointing to a robot

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Like a little droid thing

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Kinda looks like the little robots the alien had actually

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Death for me

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So this way is a no go. Got it

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Alright lol

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I can't go anywhere

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No fun for me

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Not allowed

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😐

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How in the world did I do this before

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I made it

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Through the power of RNG

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What is this

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Is this like, Walmart version of a safe room

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BRO COME ON ARE YOU KIDDING ME

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THIS FRICKIN GUY

simple musk
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it's always funny when that happens

jovial furnace
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I want to uninstall this game

simple musk
swift meadow
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shoreline is very fun

jovial furnace
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He should go pick on someone his own size

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Fun you say

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Yes yes

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So fun

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I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN GUYS CAN'T YOU TELL

swift meadow
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i love swimming across several screens not being able to tell if a fish is suddenly going to materialize into existence and kill me !

jovial furnace
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Real

simple musk
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Materialize? That fish worked hard to get there monkcheese

jovial furnace
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Guys I actually can't get past this part consistently

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Is there a way to lower the difficulty temporarily

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I think I've died like a dozen times trying to get through this area

swift meadow
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someone else should give you a hint i am not good at hinting

jovial furnace
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🤣

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Did you see where I'm trying to go?

jovial furnace
swift meadow
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trying to think of a hint but my head is empty scavjudgement

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mainly trying to make it small enough

jovial furnace
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This guy

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Is dumb and stupid

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Okay I'm about ready to just quit now

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I can't get past here

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I could use my fast travel tokens but I don't know if that's a good idea

vocal hare
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You can use the things around you to help yourself in different ways

jovial furnace
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The only thing I can think of is to throw a spear at those shrimp things

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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But there's three of them

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And there's a giant fish that eats me in one bite

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What the heck do I do about that

vocal hare
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Grab, eat, throw anything you see :3

jovial furnace
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There's nothing

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There's blue berries?

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What in the world would blue berries do

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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No there's literally nothing

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There's none of those jellyfish either

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Which are also food

vocal hare
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Emphasis on anything
Youre thinking too small, limiting yourself :p

jovial furnace
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Huh

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I am not getting this at all lol

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Can I pick up the yellow man?

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I did manage to make it over here

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And I think I may have softlocked myself lol

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I can't get up

swift meadow
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there is always a waymonksilly

jovial furnace
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I don't think there is

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I can't go down

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I can't go left

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There's no sticks

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Never mind I can go down 😐

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I didn't go down enough lol

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Okay. I made it

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Finally

swift meadow
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yay

jovial furnace
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I think I'm going to take a break though

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That was like an hour and a half of suffering for maybe seven screens of progress

vocal hare
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The RW gameplay loop

swift meadow
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progress is progress hunterglee

jovial furnace
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True

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It's something

vocal hare
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Maths is math

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./ref

simple musk
simple musk
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Remember the GET test for new things. Grab it, eat it, throw it monksilly

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(TBH, maybe it should be the GETS test - grab it, eat it, throw it, stab it and see how it reacts)

jovial furnace
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Wait, you can stab things?

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How do you do that

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Well I'm going to play a bit more now so maybe I'll be able to figure some things out

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I thought about it a bit more and came up with a game theory

simple musk
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I mean, you've been stabbing walls monksilly

jovial furnace
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Oh like that

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I see

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I was thinking I could hold it in one hand and stab it with another hand

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That's more like. Spearing. I guess

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Well, I remember if I got too close to the tentacles of the jellyfish they would sting me

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So maybe the shrimp things don't like the jellyfish

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Maybe they get stung

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So. Even though I already made it past there I'm going to go try it out

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I don't think I'll need to level up for anything anyway so I can die a few times

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Aight lol

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I'm gonna go with no

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It will just be a mystery I will take to my grave

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THE LITTLE BLUE PEBBLES ARE FOOD??????????

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Were you guys going to let me play through the whole game without telling me these pebbles are food

simple musk
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If we tell you how that stuff works you'll become reliant on us and stop learning monkcheese

vocal hare
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At most we wouldve told you "Theres a lot more things that count as food that you may not yet recognize. Figuring out where they spawn most often may be clues" :333

simple musk
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As we said, the GET test. Grab, Eat, Throw, everything you find. If that doesn't work, do it someplace else.

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The GET test also works for non-inanimate objects sometimes rivowo

vocal hare
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Dont forget the S

jovial furnace
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Can I throw the squid

simple musk
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ah right

vocal hare
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For stabbing it :33

jovial furnace
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Shrimp things

simple musk
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might as well

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and you never know what you'll learn!

jovial furnace
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Idk man they keep killing me

simple musk
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yes that's likely to get you killed more

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but you'll learn stuff at some point in the process

jovial furnace
simple musk
jovial furnace
simple musk
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There's always stuff you can learn that'll make you more successful rivowo

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And we won't (usually) tell you because, figuring that stuff out is sorta the main challenge.

jovial furnace
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Well I tried eating the shrimp and I couldn't so

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I'm going to assume that I can't

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Unless there's some special process for that one like the blue pebble

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Seems kinda big to eat anyway

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Level up

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New symbol (that I don't remember) - the Chieftan

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No clue what that is

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Is there a way to breathe underwater in this game?

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There's some underwater tunnels that seem way too long for me to go without breathing

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The only thing I can think of is if I grab one of those shrimp maybe I can get through it faster

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But even so it seems long

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Leveled up sideways n let's go

swift meadow
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promotion monksilly

jovial furnace
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New plant????????

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They float??????

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Kinda like a balloon

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I'm calling them balloon plants

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Eating does nothing

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Throwing makes them float

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Stabbing also does nothing

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🤔

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How does a floating plant help me

vocal hare
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Where do they spawn most often? :3

jovial furnace
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Idk I've only found them here

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I guess by the water?

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Found this too

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Gotta level up

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I really hope this doesn't lead me back to the Citadel

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I didn't like that place

vocal hare
jovial furnace
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I tried putting it in the water and it didn't do anything lol

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I do have a game theory

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Maybe if I eat it, it will make me float

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But to do that I'd have to drop my yellow pearl and I don't want to

vocal hare
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Grab, Eat, Throw, Stab
If that doesnt work, do the same in different areas

jovial furnace
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I don't even konw what they do but it looks cool

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I think that gate does lead back to the citadel

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Because when I get close to it, it gets darker

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I don't want to go back there lol

vocal hare
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You think
But are you sure

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You never know until you know

jovial furnace
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Ugh

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But then I gotta get all the way up to Japanese building

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That's a lot of work to go somewhere I don't want to go

vocal hare
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You can always just sleep on the other side and leave if its not what you want

jovial furnace
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Assuming if I find a place to sleep though

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I didn't see a save thingy

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Save bunker

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Whatever it's called

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Hotel

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Dagnabbit

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See I can't even stay at sideways N down here

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Well I cannot help but still be curious lol

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What if leads to someplace cool

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What if I find Rain World 2

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Where the cinnamon toast crunch am I

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I'm in a big silo? I think?

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Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

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Oh yeah, sure sure

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Save room this way. Gotcha. Totally

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Also surprise surprise, no save room

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Woah

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Amazing

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Actually I just realized this loops around to where I was before

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Imma go the other way

plain cargo
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it's not telling you "this pipe is a save room" (those are clearly marked). it's telling you "there's a save room somewhere this way"

jovial furnace
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Yeah I know

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It's just a long running joke in my playthrough that the yellow man is a dirty liar cheat and skank

plain cargo
jovial furnace
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Look at his lies

plain cargo
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he's right
there is a shelter that way monksilly

jovial furnace
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He wants me to wander off and die because he is secretly working for the lizards

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Pink pearl now?

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So now I've got a yellow pearl and a pink pearl

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Am I supposed to be doing something with these?

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Well I died with the pearl lol

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Alright. I think I've mapped out basically the entire Shoreline area

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From what I can tell there are two gates. One that I took to leave the Citadel, and one mystery one

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I have been assured that all areas connect to at least two other areas. So based on that, I'm going to assume the mystery one leads to cool new area, and not just the Citadel again

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If it does lead to the Citadel, I will go to Gamestop and slap the man at the cash register

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So it's time for

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EXTREME LEVELING UP MONTAGE

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Sideways N

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Japanese building

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😑 Back to sideways N

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Japanese building lets go

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Heck yeah made it to grill

grave vector
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I always saw it as a weird J

jovial furnace
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Yeah I see that

grave vector
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Flipped 5, Weird J, Malevolent Shrine, Multi-Story Complex, and Japanese Tent

jovial furnace
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Surivor building yeaaaahhhhhh

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Upside down 2
Sideways N
Japanese Building
Grill
Survivor Building

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That's my names

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Well I couldn't quite make it to the gate. But I kept my Survivor, so. Nothing lost

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Okay guys I got a question

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I'm trying to get to here

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But to do that, I gotta get through here

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So I need to dive underwater. And my way to get through there was to grab onto the shrimps and ride them underwater. But none are appearing

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So. What do I do

hoary tiger
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unfortunately thats just the way the game works, but it's not a softlock. You can always find another way to survive so try exploring different directions

jovial furnace
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Never mind. I got lucky and one came along

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Still at survivor

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Okay. Now I just gotta go to the door

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Door here we go

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Subterranean

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Hmmmmmm

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Looks cool

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Safe room right inside. So that's nice

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Another point for Monk status

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Not sure what it means

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I'm gonna take a break now though. Go get some grub

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Another question for you guys. Not about the game though lol

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Are there certain playthroughs that you come back to because they are fun/interesting? And is mine one of them

robust gorge
jovial furnace
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I have no context for whether or not this has been an interesting playthrough but I find it fun

robust gorge
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if the playthrough is interesting, I'll usually just stay in chat longer

jovial furnace
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Ah I see

robust gorge
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from what I can tell it seems pretty generic so far'

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but more detailed than most

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so it's probably well above average in terms of quality

jovial furnace
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Lol

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Well at least I'm doing what most people do

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The average Rain World path

vocal hare
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Im a first playthrough helper so I join every forum to watch peoples progress lol

jovial furnace
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Ah okay

swift meadow
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i'm not a first playthrough helper but i do that too

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i join like half of the active ones

vocal hare
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I also just hate having the forum be white adn have unread numbers by it cuz then I feel like Im not doing my job even tho I have no obligation to do it 24/7 I just like helping people

jovial furnace
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That make sense

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Well I appreciate the help from everyone even if my playthrough is pretty standard

robust gorge
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there is cool stuff going on

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it's just that some people take really cursed routes

jovial furnace
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Oh I see

plain cargo
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true lizcyankek

swift meadow
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is not that standard

robust gorge
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and it makes the less cursed ones look normal by comparison

plain cargo
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some people take some very odd paths, it's quite entertaining

jovial furnace
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So where does my path fall

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On the cursed scale

robust gorge
jovial furnace
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Well from my perspective I guess that's a good thing lol

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More cursed = more suffering

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I'd assume

robust gorge
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although since you're in here, the suffering is minimized significantly

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I took one of the more cursed routes without knowing about this place monkbigeyes

jovial furnace
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Oh great lol

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Did you go through the citadel too?

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Or is there somewhere worse

robust gorge
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and yes, there are places much worse than shaded citadel hunterknowing

jovial furnace
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Oh no lol

robust gorge
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although shaded is known to be a bit of a noob trap

jovial furnace
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Ha

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Yeah

robust gorge
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just cause people don't know how to deal with the dark

jovial furnace
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I did not

robust gorge
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once you get around that, it's actually quite chill

plain cargo
robust gorge
jovial furnace
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Still not 100% tbh

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I just threw those light seeds around

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Dragged glow frogs everywhere

robust gorge
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The Region That Shall Not Be Named ™️

jovial furnace
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I am mildy terrified of whatever region this is that is somehow worse than the Citadel lol

grave vector
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Is it supposed to be hard?

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I saw shrimp guys but I just waited until they left

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I grabbed a berry and threw it and they said "nah u chill asf" and didn't harm me even when they were on screen and I was underwater

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I just swam hard right and got to ||Looks to the Moon||

oblique cedar
grave vector
jovial furnace
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Well it was hard for me lol

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I'm new to the game

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I'm going to play a bit today though

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So get ready for some insane Rain World action

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Explosions

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Car chases

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Guns of various sizes and/or calibers

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So, my game theory is that I'm supposed to be following the yellow man towards the robot things he's pointing at

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But I'm kind of ignoring that for now because I want to explore

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I'm assuming I have to get the robot, and then bring it to the alien

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Got demoted to grill because I though the long orange bug was my friend

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How in the world am I supposed to get up there

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My first thought was to get up with sticks but the sticks don't stick

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🤔

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I wonder if I'm going at this backwards. Like maybe I wasn't supposed to go in this direction. Maybe I'm just supposed to go back to shoreline

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But I wanna explore the Subterranean

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The mushrooms (as far as I'm aware) don't do anything but slow down time

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Well I just realized there's no food here either lol

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So eventually I won't even be able to leave because the gate will need too high of a level

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So I guess I should leave?

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I guess I'll go back to shoreline

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Man

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And I worked so hard getting over here too

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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Well. Getting into the shoreline has not been great for me

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Am I softlocked now?

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I can't go back to shoreline. It needs sideways N

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And I can't go forward into subterranean because I can't get up there

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What do I do

simple musk
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(you gotta ||catch the little bump where the tube thingy connects||)

jovial furnace
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So that jump is possible?

swift meadow
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yes

vocal hare
simple musk
vocal hare
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Most of the time it just means something needs a bit more oomph to cross

vocal hare
simple musk
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That's not a softlock, just a really awkward failure state monksilly

jovial furnace
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Is there something I could be doing differently?

simple musk
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The Rain solves all softlocks that don't involve shelters.

jovial furnace
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I think I'm on like the very edge

simple musk
jovial furnace
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Oh boy lol

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Well I've tried throwing a stick and the sticks don't stick

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They bounce off

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That's only game mechanic I know that could help me

vocal hare
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There are many ways to gain momentum one of which can be applied in every scenario

simple musk
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And also ways to jump better.

jovial furnace
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The only cool jump that I've found is flicking yourself backwards

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Like a backflip? I guess

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Would that give me enough height though?

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I had to get on the little lower part for just a little more distance

simple musk
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Nice!

jovial furnace
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Maybe you guys could give me some jump tips though?

simple musk
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You also grabbed the ledge better in that attempt, I think?

jovial furnace
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Possibly

simple musk
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You're doing the trick where you straighten yourself out mid-jump to catch the ledge better, otherwise you would have just faceplanted into the bump and fell off.

jovial furnace
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Ah I see

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Maybe I'm a master at this game and I don't even know it

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Also uh

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What the heck is that

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Why are there birds with big metal jaws

simple musk
jovial furnace
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🤣

simple musk
jovial furnace
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Not that lol

shadow kraken
jovial furnace
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The glow fruit is helpful

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I can't tell if you're trolling or not lol

swift meadow
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snip snip

shadow kraken
simple musk
jovial furnace
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🤨

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I'm in Filtration System now

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If I die again and have to do that jump all over again I'm going to be annoyed

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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

simple musk
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Welcome to the Bad Player Filtration System lizwhitegrin

jovial furnace
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????????????

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Oh no lol

simple musk
jovial furnace
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🤣

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Which one should I go down

swift meadow
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whichever symbol you like best

jovial furnace
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All of those symbols are very weird

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Lol

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Great

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Does more red = more good?

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Or more red = less good

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Why am I asking, you guys won't tell me lol

shadow kraken
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i'm pretty certain that's just random grafitti

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like, just background facility signs

jovial furnace
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Well that's lame

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I thought I had to pick my symbol

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I'm picking M

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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On the left

simple musk
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I mean, I wouldn't call it graffiti. There's definitely neon of some sort involved.

jovial furnace
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It's literally that meme

simple musk
jovial furnace
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They all go to the same place

simple musk
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Ah... the illusion of choice. Now this room has three exits monkdevious

swift meadow
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i was going to make a joke on how it's like psychological and whichever symbol a player likes best will lead to the best place for them but i didn't know how to word it

jovial furnace
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I found the lizard room

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I don't like this place

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And now I have to make that jump again

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Of course yellow man is NO WHERE TO BE FOUND

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Lazy bum

swift meadow
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Lizard World

jovial furnace
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Bro come on

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I can't even leave spawn

shadow kraken
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patience is key

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🙏

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wait is that a centipede or a lizard-

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that's a centipede yep those don't really like moving

swift meadow
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i HATE CENTIPEDES

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are we supposed to be sayign actual nanes

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names

jovial furnace
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I didn't really have a name for them

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Orange worm idk

simple musk
#

I mean

jovial furnace
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Centipede makes sense

simple musk
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it's very clearly a centipede

shadow kraken
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stupid yellow orange electric (deadly) defiblirator worm

swift meadow
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that should go o nthe list

simple musk
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Defibrilator worm monklaugh

swift meadow
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or whatever it was called

simple musk
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it should

jovial furnace
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Okay guys real question how do I refocus the map

swift meadow
jovial furnace
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I pressed a direction and now I can't get back to where I am on the map lol

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Never mind it magically came back lol

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I don't like this game

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I'm just suffering lol

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COME ON MAN LEAVE ME ALONE

shadow kraken
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here we can see the stupid yellow orange electric (deadly) defiblirator worm in action

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is there no spear nearby to atleast kill it?

swift meadow
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KILl

simple musk
swift meadow
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battery bug

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i love that

shadow kraken
simple musk
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You could try to sneak around it if you're clever saintsmirk

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(and you don't end up with it blocking you in that tunnel...)

shadow kraken
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i killed one of them once since it was distracted by another lizard

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(i killed him too)

simple musk
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The Hunter:

jovial furnace
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Making progress

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I was able to do the jump

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This time I will not go to the filtration system

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Because that looks terrible

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I do need to find a place to save though

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Perhaps then I can stop having to do the jump lol

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No save for me

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But I did find a cool water cave

shadow kraken
shadow kraken
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i can see some cyan

simple musk
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(in the den inside the track)

jovial furnace
simple musk
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OH, forgot that was there monklaugh

jovial furnace
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Bro came out of nowhere and deleted me

shadow kraken
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yoink

jovial furnace
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Pretty environment

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That could be a desktop wallpaper

simple musk
jovial furnace
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Yes even though this game is very frustrating lol it looks very pretty

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I keep getting bonus thingies

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"New item unlocked" "New arena unlocked"

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I guess that's the map editor?

simple musk
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No, that's for the Arena, a side mode. "The map editor" is an external tool.

jovial furnace
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Ah I see

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Well I haven't look at it yet but my theory on that is that the arena is where you fight a bunch of enemies

simple musk
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yeah

jovial furnace
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Also I just noticed the symbol next to my username changed

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Why am I yellow

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Why am I a monk

simple musk
jovial furnace
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Ah I see

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So I leveled up from basic black symbol thing

shadow kraken
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bat flies

simple musk
# simple musk yeah

(It's a point-based single-screen combat and/or survival thing. The yellow tokens unlock more "stages", the blue tokens unlock items and creatures for the sandbox mode.)

jovial furnace
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Ah yeah

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Okay

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Well I am sure I will be very bad at that lol

shadow kraken
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it's not required

jovial furnace
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I can barely do the combat now 🤣

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I figured

simple musk
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There's not a lot to it, it's mostly just filler for practice and/or seeing how the ecosystem works in a controlled environment monklaugh

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It also lets you play competitive multiplayer, you can have up to 4 players and you get points for getting food and stuff.

jovial furnace
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Competitive multiplayer

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Extreme berry tactics

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High level bug grabbing

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Maximum spear throwing efficiency