#choco’s “first playthrough”

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torpid rampart
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i didn’t completely tell the full story, as right after resetting my run i headed straight for an undiscovered chart of the Outskirts, which i would soon find out to be the Drainage System. Although I ran through a good bit of it, i found one of the axolotl dudes (lizaxopathetic)which acted extremely different from the rest of the lizards; standing guard, not attacking it’s own kind, and having basically no source of visible nourishment as far as me (yes i may have been caught by them once or twice)

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and so as per usual i kept on towards a piece where there were two axolotls guarding the other side. With some pro gamer parkour i maneuvered around and reached a bunch of parkour stuff i don’t think i was supposed to get through. Why do i say that? i reached some red gate after a long trek of wall jumping and other hardcore parkour (shown on image attached to this) which i was one cycle level too short to open. so i asked #spoiler-bigenderal and some dude said i should probably go through the other areas first, and i dont want any details to be clear, i trust their word. I think I’ll reset my run eventually as my shelter is pretty far from any exploration points but I’ll stick around for a little longer.

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quiet pollen
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Never assume you have to restart! It is exceptionally hard to truly softlock yourself, and there is almost always more than one path forward.

The point of the gates is (generally) for you to prove that you are able to survive in the area you are in before moving on to a new one, which requires both skill and knowledge. If you feel like you are truly stuck, with no way forward or even backward, you might just be missing a key piece of information, and you can ask here for spoiler-free help.

torpid rampart
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duly noted. slugclose

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these creatures are extremely interesting, i think I’ll theorize on them at some point

quiet pollen
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Looks like you're having fun with the game lizgreengaming

quiet pollen
# quiet pollen Never assume you have to restart! It is _exceptionally hard_ to truly softlock y...

To elaborate a bit, restarting isn't necessarily bad, in fact it rarely is - every area has new directions to explore (as you've seen with the Drainage System), and if you decide you want to get back to where you were before restarting, it'll take much less time than it did the first time around due to how much knowledge you've gained about the world, creatures etc. Some players restart even without being stuck, simply because they want to explore more in the earlier regions.

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In the end it's your decision, as long as you're having fun! Knowledge is the most important form of progression in this game

pastel kiln
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Hello sire, please spoiler creature names! (Along with Garbage Wastes) monksilly /lh

quiet pollen
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Oh right, the first message must be spoiler tagged since it's viewable from the main forum page

snow plover
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i guess i'll <@&1137895527271379055> soilers in intro message rivsob

river anchor
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Good morning

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(It's 1pm)

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halcyon pike
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INITIAL POST; REPOSTED FOR SPOILERS

yo. this’ll probably be some inconsistent diary, with some talking points occasionally. I’ve been playing for some time, just enough time in fact that I’ve been through about 4 areas. If you’re wondering why i put quotations on the title, it’s because of a “slightly” long story: I was skurrying through the leech-filled Garbage Wastes, and encountered a large tribe of those caveman people who can also throw stuff. I believe i tamed them with a pearl, or threw a firecracker spear (regardless i got through), and found myself running to the right, manifest-destiny style. Next thing i know, i find a gate, which i can’t unlock(not with berries or bats) and at some point SLEEP IN THE SHELTER??? i don’t know what i was thinking. So i turn right back around, head first into the so-called cavemen. Die. Again. Die. Again. Repeat this a couple times, with me grabbing those flying bugs, spears, and basically anything else i could think of, and ultimately i gave up and reset my run. So now you’re finally caught up, onwards.

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💥

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river anchor
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Hi kalum slugWOH

halcyon pike
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halcyon pike
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🫡

snow plover
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||there's also a lizwhitegrin mention in the hihi i'm kinda stuck one monkblep||

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not sure if that counts or not but just to be safe monksilly

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pastel kiln
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torpid rampart
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chat im getting out of drainage system one way or another

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and this axolotl is guarding my shelter

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I’ve found they’re pretty slow so i guess I’ll try just running past it

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the thing’s really reactive even though he can’t see me

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imagine if it could hear(?)

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torpid rampart
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status update

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he’s staring at me

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turns out he’s not that slow

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died

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again we go

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squid acquired

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torpid rampart
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died because no spear

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hopefully rng

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the game is speaking to me. i spawned with a spear outside of shelter

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or maybe it’s been like that and im ignorant

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found a tunnel a missed, which lead to much water

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died

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must be a way

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new discovery: the blue orb, which i thought were for the cavemen, is actually food which needs water

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how creative

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died

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how will i get through so much water without drowning

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made it through a pocket

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found green balloons(?)

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they’re moving around

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also green orb

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probably good, swallowing for later

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BALLOON IS AIR

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i carried it with me to next room and it’s all shrunk

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and i never got out breath

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theory: smugcat is out of shape

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brother is always out of breath

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died

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swam through tunnel and can’t see what killed

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found degenerate amount of leeches

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died

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died a couple more times to a confusing amount of leeches

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are leeches immortal i wonder

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i would make leech lemonade if they were killable

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i mean i can’t keep them out of water

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they just scurry until they find water

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ok uhh

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should i just keep praying for good rng?

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this not working

pastel kiln
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Praydge and game should listenmonksilly

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mayhaps am missing something

quiet pollen
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You can try exploring in a different direction

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Lots of progress, watchers. I’ve gotten through the part of Drainage wastes that i couldn’t before and apparently, it was a spot that i couldn’t get out of oh so long ago (not the one described at the start of this channel)

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It led me to garbage wastes, and from there i decided on staying because i had an unexplored area northbound

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one thing led to the next, and i got to (something) Chimney region, i forgot the complete name

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bunch of climbing, and i made it to the sky sub-region.

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Around this time i completed The Survivor, earning my first fast travel.

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After a bunch of digging around, and dying—because of the scarcity of shelters in that dreaded area—i find a shelter, right next to a gate!

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I hibernate to max sleeping thingys, and open the gate

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It’s extremely dry, with no lizards, vultures, or bat flies.

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So i trek onwards, with these odd leaps, and i find a big old block with a lizard living by himself atop it, and after i spear him and weave, i realize there is no place to go (remember this)

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I die at some point from falling off and think, there must something important over there.

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So i keep looking

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Never find anything, and lose almost all my sleep symbols

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but on my last symbol, i realize that on the part with the lonely lizard, there are CRAZILY ENOUGH those ropes you can climb on sideways to another platform

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safe to say i was dumbfounded by my blindness and i saw a tunnel on the bottom side with a couple berries

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i go towards the berries first, and fall.

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now i dont have enough sleep symbols to take the gate and go backwards for some bats.

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i get a little carried away because of lizards and run into another tunnel i must’ve missed (there are 4 tunnels in room-proximity what do you expect) and realize there is a huge jump to a weird structure shaped like a big subway tunnel.

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i take the jump, and what do you know? i fall.

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try it again, fall, and third times the charm, make it

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after a while of walking down this big tunnel i take a tunnel into a gate, which is wayyy out of my sleepy symbols, and remember that my fast travel i got from The Survivor is available and decide on messing with some vultures and die, fast travel back to my same shelter ironically enough and get max sleepy symbols, but it gets a little crazy.

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after walking out of my shelter, there is gloomy feel to the background, like a teal ish blue creeping around the aptmosphere

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so i head back to the area, and the radiance of blue is much more vibrant and the slow jingle i heard before (didn’t mention) is much louder and noticeable, but i continue to the big tunnel. But then i realize the jingle gets quiet again, so i go back, and think about going up, since it’s in the same room, which i end up doing and after a lot of climbing, this weird blue vulture-tentacle thing is just there, radiating. So i climb to the highest point, to probably jump at it, and it all goes black.

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my sleepy symbols climbs to a new max, with two more sleepy symbols appearing.

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now you guys are all caught up—WHAT WAS THAT???

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torpid rampart
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WHY DO YOU DO THIS

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torpid rampart
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i would punt whatever that thing is

river anchor
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I didn;t do nothin!!

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that was all you

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oh and on my journey to the sky sub-area i saw this SCARY SUPER DARK CREEPY CRAWLY fighting a lizard

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it’s the only one I’ve seen

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i think it dropped a spear when i first saw it

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torpid rampart
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then i passed to grab it and the thing ATTACKED

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i was flubbergasted

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not flabbergasted

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flubbergasted

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👻

torpid rampart
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i felt betrayed and was actively getting jumped by this freak

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and then i escaped and lizard duked it out with him

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and won

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i think it was a uhhh

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pink lizard

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they’re strong sometimes

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torpid rampart
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river anchor
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What regions have you been to?

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as of now

river anchor
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Gotcha

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im surprised the sky subregion isn’t a region itself

river anchor
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Generally, your best bet is exploring the regions until you find something. If you need more direction, overseer points to interesting things

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I'll say you're in a very interesting area tho hunterknowing

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i always ignore yellow guy

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he did show me a face though

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torpid rampart
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while pointing somewhere

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BUT I WAS ON A MISSION

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so ignored him

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REAL

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Just pick a direction and go is my opinion

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until you see something cool

torpid rampart
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maybe i should’ve followed the face

river anchor
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there are a lot of cool stuff near you rn hunterknowing

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it kinda looked like a slugcat

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well im mostly satisfied

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not confused like in garbage wastes

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dislike that place the most

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so far anyway

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the dark parkour place i went through i also disliked but was mysterious enough to be enjoyable

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also leeches can get massacred

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butchered

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ALL WHILE CONSCIOUS

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and then made devour themselves

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only then i would be satisfied

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—after i killed them

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basically i left because i kept dying

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and when i tried to eat i got attacked by either lizards or vultures

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which majority of the time didn’t kill me

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however what did kill me was me falling and doing something like accidentally rolling off

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so what would happen was

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i would eat all the bat flies/berries needed

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then occasionally miss a jump and die

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or i would go to shelter and hibernate

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and i would try to repeat this process but my hibernate/death ratio was less than 1

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absolute skill issue, i know

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now, i can’t find ANY MORE GATES.

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so I’ve made it all the way to ground floor and can’t find anything i missed

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welp

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guess im going back up

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this time I’ll try with the most sleepy symbols possible

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Gl

torpid rampart
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ok i stopped playing for a while

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BUT IM BACK

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and i made up all my sleepy symbols

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and made the jump to the gate first try with… exactly 1 bubble of time left

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the gate to the right i mean

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now I’m at “the wall” subregion, which leads to “the exterior” region and another place up top

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“the exterior” makes me double check EVERY. SPOT. for those creepy black jumpers

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so you guys are all caught up, and i think ill procrastinate going through “the exterior” it’s really looking like something I’ll hate

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guess I’ll go the other way (up) instead of down towards there

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found a “fork” of ropes/vines poking out to nowhere, which I’m guessing is another sleepy symbol event like the one i experienced not that long ago

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New lizardo found: long mustache orange guy

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not messing with

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ITS A HORDE

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OH

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i evaded all 5 due to my pro tunneling skills

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i found another sleepy symbol event looking think poking out to nowhere

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then dieded

torpid rampart
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nevermind

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“up” is difficult and i need spear management to get any higher without getting drowned

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guess exterior is the way

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“drowned”

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i found out IT DOESNT RAIN UP HERE

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still doesn’t make up for the 3 WHITE LIZARDS

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also i got past that horrendous area, and reached the POLE PLANT AND DIED

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then i got super anxious, checking every pole

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and found a shelter

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after at least 20 deaths

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he gave me some sleepy symbols though so it’s alright

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“some”

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i think he gave me 3

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or they all look different

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ONWARDS

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?

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there’s a point i can’t jump up to

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welp

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looks like i cant do it

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and i don’t believe there is an item that lets me fly

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it rains everywhere below the orange lizards

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(i died instantly trying to leave

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should i go to the top left of chimney canopy

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i mean i don’t think going to the exterior is that wise

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and I’ve already gone to the top of “The Wall”

scenic yoke
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it looks like you’ve been to the wall?

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oh yeah you have

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hmm

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what did you do at the top hunterglee

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found shiny blue guy

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again

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and then uh

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saw a tunnel to another area that i couldn’t reach

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so now I’m thinking about going back to chimney

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and finishing that one area i haven’t got to in there

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scenic yoke
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I see saintthink

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Well you could go back to chimney yeah hunterglee I’m assuming you came there from industrial?

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yep

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scenic yoke
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True

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If you can’t think of anywhere else to go then yeah, you could go through the gate hunterglee

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I guess it’s ultimately up to you

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It is your playthrough after all

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ok

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I’m so confused

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i got to depths and filtration system btw

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and subterranean

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yeah i know

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horrible turn of events

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so basically I’ve got everywhere EXCEPT

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where there are 3 tall lanky dudes

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who inconsistently TOSS ME ACROSS THE ROOM or slam me up, down, up, down, and kill me

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am i even supposed to be here?

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and there is another spot like this

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but it’s just 1

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who is a lot more sensitive

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my light pearl doesn’t proc them (i think)

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and they have these yellow circles above their heads that grow when they’re like mad

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or something

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and rocks don’t hurt them

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haven’t tried spears

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guess I’m procrastinating this area

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(not picking up the game until i think of something)

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YOO

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THE SHORELINE SOUNDTRACKS ARE DOPE

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“dub dub dub dub”

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i don’t remember there being lyrics in any songs slugsparkle

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also i left The Depths

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seems end-game

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or a skill issue

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via subterranean

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also i was so surprised when i realized there are WHALEPHINS

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i get to ride them all around

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i was extremely dissapointed until i realized they didn’t attack

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and now that I’ve cruised i keep seeing a face that yellow guy (he’s back after all the deep dark depths) depicts towards a couple places

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it showed the face towards 3 axolotls

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safe to say i left there and I’ll try to find another route

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because I’m amazed by how hard it is to fool an axolotl

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also they react exceptionally quick

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reached surface level

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picked one direction

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and reached some area named “Looks to the Moon”

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no hostiles or any animals noted

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except for JELLYFISHIES

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i sleep

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BLUE SLUGCAT

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i repeat

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i see a blue slugcat

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no idea what’s it saying

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some things are flying around it

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wait

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it’s a machine?

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why is there a robot arm

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i ate a flying thing

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and the blue slugcat like had a seizure for a second

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maybe i should kill it

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it spoke very loud when i almost ate the second to last

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I’m feeling gracious

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i won’t kill it

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i think

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i walked back to the shelter room and yellow guy made me like

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touch some golden orbs

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and told me not to die i think

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then the things i ate from that slugcat like flew away as ghosts

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idk

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maybe i should follow them

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it’s too late

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did i just kill the blue slugcat anyway?

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why is it bleeding in my dream

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now i feel bad

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it looks fine to me in person

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time to leave

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i hit all the golden things and they flew away

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it made the saint trail thing in the sleep menu almost reach it

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im so close

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what did i miss?

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but im back to shoreline

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I GOT THE SAINT PASSAGE