Documentation/thoughts while going through everything for the first time!

[median zephyr]

<@&1137895527271379055> soilers in title and intro message

/nm

I personally would say, who cares about the pearls until later

[silent tapir]

Haven't seen this one before, but uhh should I edit the title and hide spoilers better?

[median zephyr]

/not mean

I definitely would, or just copy it down here and delete the intro message

[silent tapir]

I'll do that

Heya, I recently got Rain World and have been absolutely loving it. I've probably ruined the "perfect and ideal first blind playthrough" by means of my own curiosity and lack of restraint from googling, and now I'm just a little worried and would like some clarification about some things.

I imagine threads like these are not rare, but I thought it would be best to go through this avenue instead of accidentally spoiling more stuff for myself.

I'm currently doing my first run as Survivor, cycle 70ish, in SI
So, to start things off:

I ||ate LttM's neuron... brain cell things like a moron.|| I'm aware this can be fixed, and I know that || coloured pearls are used to get lore from her,|| I googled this stuff out of fear of missing out, as I eventually hope to do everything and hate the idea of screwing stuff up early on and missing out on stuff later.

And apparently, ||if you lose the colored pearls (I traded the deep blue one to the scavengers early on) they are extremely hard to reobtain?|| So, am I basically on the hardest possible path if I want to see the ||pearl lore on this playthrough?|| Are they unique to each slugcat? Should I even care in my first experience to lessen the worrying? ||But thats not really an option if they really cant be reobtained through like reasonable methods.||

I guess my main concern is that am I like completely screwed if I want to experience to whole game eventually? Should I be worried about doing damage control etc. at this point? The lack of ||Overseer|| has also been a pain.

I really, really enjoy playing this game, but these are just some thoughts I've been struggling with while playing. Hope this is somewhat legible, and I'm looking forward to reading any replies. Thanks in advance for everything!

[median zephyr]

Much better

(Also get rid of 5P in title because that in it's self is a spoiler)

[silent tapir]

Oh right, what would be a better phrasing?

[median zephyr]

Just delete the part in parentheses
Then it's perfectly fine!

[silent tapir]

Need some answers/guidance to ease my thoughts

[median zephyr]

Sorry for the inconvenience, just trying to follow the rules and not get you in trouble

[silent tapir]

yeah no worries I appreciate it lol

[median zephyr]

And as for your little problem, the colored pearls are not exclusive to scugs (for the most part), and since it's your first playthrough, I wouldn't worry about em until you want to learn in depth about the game and fully complete it

Other than that, you lose out on very little

[silent tapir]

Oh okay thats a relief, everything I happened to read on them just seemed very... final

Like, if I dare lose one I'll be cursed forever

[median zephyr]

Nope, and there's always resetting the campaign if you don't care that much about loss of progress

[silent tapir]

Okay yeah that was the main thing I was concerned about, like did losing them with Survivor destroy them for other scugs too, and would resetting a campaign help in that case

That's a relief honestly

[median zephyr]

(Also I read your profile and I have a YT video you might enjoy )

About Ad Astra

[silent tapir]

Oh? It's in reference to hit indie game by finnish devs Void Stranger but I'm intrigued

[median zephyr]

More of a choir singing it but still

[median zephyr]

Ah, haven't heard of it but the song Ad Astra is awesome (To the Stars I believe when translated)

If you wanna listen to the song, feel free to dm me or don't and I'll post it here either or

It's an Italian song that incorporates English

[silent tapir]

Yeah thats right, Per Aspera Ad Astra is "Through suffering to the stars"

[median zephyr]

Should I send it? If not, you may continue your playthrough

(As a choir kid I love choir songs so I mean it's not for everyone)

[silent tapir]

Yeah sure why not

[median zephyr]

Bet lemme get it

https://youtu.be/IDQn6KP94xs?si=dc7beE6S1jnQBkPm
here's the song, enjoy!

[silent tapir]

I'll give it a listen once I get some stuff done

[median zephyr]

Ight

I hope you enjoy your time both in this server and in Rain Worlding

[remote berry]

I'm too late noooo

I hunger for messages to delete and eat

[median zephyr]

Muhahahah I dealt with it first

[vocal steppe]

Sure

||there is rain||

Not a spoiler btw dont worry

[silent tapir]

sky islands is brutal though, i must have died like atleast 20 times by now without making any real progress

[remote berry]

Wtf!!!

[silent tapir]

Also something I'm noticing which seemingly isn't documented on the pearl wiki page atleast, if you give a coloured pearl to a scavenger, it's seemingly slowly making more and more progress towards my shelter everytime I die

Or maybe I picked it up without noticing last cycle and dropped it there, anyway it isn't disappearing atleast

I guess it'd do that if I got to a shelter maybe?

[silent tapir]

I'm asking for a little uhh hint I guess? I'm one away from getting the wanderer passage, I think I'm missing shoreline. I'm currently mucking through drainage system, coming from farm arrays

I am aware that the game is ending after I reach whatever area is left, if I want to go fetch the shoreline pip, should I passage now or is there a point I can passage back into later on in this area? or the final area I guess

idk if it's okay for me to ping the helper role lol

[silent tapir]

umm

[vocal steppe]

yes you can ping it

but the first playthrough one

not challenge verifier or art helper and etc

[silent tapir]

<@&1137895527271379055>

[jolly pebble]

[silent tapir]

mainly this bit...

[vocal steppe]

oh

Yeah you can do it later

[silent tapir]

the game wont like have a point of no return or suddenly just end the run or anything

[vocal steppe]

it wont dont worry

[jolly pebble]

[silent tapir]

okay thanks!

[vocal steppe]

[jolly pebble]

Is it the pip in the middle, or at the very end of the line of pips?

[silent tapir]

uhhhhhhhh in the passage indicator next to the karma counter, the middle-most one of them iirc

[remote berry]

Story helper ping inc

[silent tapir]

is this supposed to be possible lmao

got a broken shelter upon passaging to subterranean and decided to head to shoreline since it was right there

[silent tapir]

hoooooleeee what a trip of an ending

[vocal steppe]

you won???

[silent tapir]

i did! i think atleast

survivor ascended atleast

[remote berry]

GGS!!!

[snow night]

nice !!!

Also slay the princess description

[silent tapir]

looooove slay the princess

[snow night]

same

also have fun with whatever cat you choose to play next (if you do another

[silent tapir]

im looking to do all of them, i did some market research and ended up starting gourmand

[snow night]

[silent tapir]

(i was so close to joining the cult of niko profile pictures when i finished oneshot like a couple months ago, i see you)

[snow night]

[silent tapir]

I finished gourmand yahoo

now I'm kinda lost on what to play next

prolly monk? or get to the outer expanse as survivor maybe

(or both)

[silent tapir]

so I did the outer expanse ending with survivor, even finished it with a slugpup I found, can't help but get a bittersweet feeling from the ending though

especially when compared to the gourmand ending

i'm guessing it has something to with the buddhist type cycles and survivor still suffering because theyre not free of them maybe but

poor pups

nvm theyre happy

[silent tapir]

now i'm guessing monk is going to be a lot like survivor but easier

thinking of should I do monk or like arti/spearmaster

could use a change of pace but can't I theoretically finish monk super fast if I just zoom right into the outer expanse without seeing 5p or lttm

[silent tapir]

idk if it's a spoiler but if someone's reading this, you can tell me if this is doable or not

i get that freeing yourself from the cycle is good and based on what 5P said, it's what atleast 5P was created to figure out how to do but

idk the main menu portrait looked so sad and alone

can't have that

Documentation/thoughts while going through everything for the first time!

[willow verge]

Yep

[silent tapir]

okay great to know, got to Farm Arrays from outskirts with great struggling

[silent tapir]

is monk seeing like... echoes of survivor in shelters or what are those echo like things supposed to represent

I can't remember if this was part of survivor's dreams or is this just supposed to represent survivor ascending or smth

or is it monk maybe? cant say

[silent tapir]

[silent tapir]

man artificer is such a contrast to monk

literal sunday stroll versus an active warzone where everyone wants you dead

[remote berry]

yeah artificer is such a chill playthrough

[silent tapir]

been stuck for a bit in the exterior, no major issues in particular but what the fuck miros vulture jumpscare

[silent tapir]

metropolis moment

[median zephyr]

That's a LOT of murder

[silent tapir]

we do a little warmongering

but thats arti done yippee

it was a lot of fun, a lot different to the other scugs which was nice

oh dear god thats only slightly horrifying

had to do it for them though...

is there unique dialogue with 5P after doing the deed

[outer bough]

One way to find out

[silent tapir]

yeah might as well

whats with the pinning though, is that standard practice

not that i mind obviously, was just wondering

[vocal steppe]

its pretty new that fpelpers began pinning cool things

[outer bough]

Yea I do it to keep track of what the person has done and how much they know

[silent tapir]

ii see i see

[silent tapir]

so uhhhhhhhhh I accidentally threw a pearl down there.... does it respawn...

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING I DROPPED THE SECOND ONE I HAD CUS A SNAIL POPPED IN THE WATER NEXT TO ME

[silent tapir]

also whoohohohoah what is going on with the frames in lttm

never had anything like this before

[silent tapir]

doing spearmaster now btw for clarification

[silent tapir]

spearmaster was a really cool campaign

enjoyed his gimmicks a lot and the broadcasts were super interesting world building wise

definitely a lot more aware of what kinda is/was going on now

only riv saint and hunter left

might take a little break from rw though, monster hunter wilds just dropped...

[silent tapir]

just as a sidenote, is it told somewhere in the game what triggered the rot to occur within 5p? or further explanation on what the rot is in general

prolly somewhere in riv if at all im guessing

[vocal steppe]

[silent tapir]

it's called the shaded citadel because it's under the super structure.... therefore in shade... and.. dark...

that makes a lot of sense

[silent tapir]

[vocal steppe]

Yippeee

[vocal steppe]

btw you should totally try to go back in the campaign

[kindred jewel]

good job!

[silent tapir]

i did! ruffles....

all thats left is hunter and saint, pain world

also uhhhhhhhh who sent riv... i imagine riv was just running about based on the start of the campaign but they might've been sent by someone based on the pearl

i dont need the answer to the question, more just do we know

[vocal steppe]

[silent tapir]

found the answer to this from pearls btw yippe

still wondering about riv though, i dont remember how i got spoiled that uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the iterator that.... got out? died? has like art in the game but I do know that now

though the only route i havent finished is saint so I'm guessing they come up there maybe

[silent tapir]

okay so

i did expect the ending to be psychedelic but what the fuck

[snow night]

[silent tapir]

so I'm guessing the whole deal with the ending is what moon and 5p where saying in the rubicon, so now that saint made it out with the knowledge from the rubicon? he can now finish the global ascension maybe?

but like reality was tearing down and everything had gone to shit anyway?

and he was seemingly ripped out of the cycle of reincarnation, judging on the karma counter counting down and disappearing maybe?

well time to watch lore analysis videos finally

[median zephyr]

Obligatory repost
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1343287633132130387/1350133568168525885/Obligatory_Repost.png?ex=67d5a15e&is=67d44fde&hm=dededa77fd8fe9ed8d43d2ca742e6ebe3751eac45ed4dffa21648eb09faba78f&

And have 3 fun facts too

fun fact 1 ||saint’s campaign art stays even when you reset the campaign||
fun fact 2 ||the item you had in your stomach stays when you reset the campaign||

fun fact 3 (may be misinfo <>) ||the music that plays when swimming up in saint’s end sequence is the music that plays in survivor/monk’s intro cutscenes but edited and reversed||

[snow night]

i wonder who said that

[median zephyr]

I wonder

[queen flower]

[silent tapir]

OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS

i started watching a timeline video and heard the surv song in there and realized that

so cool

[silent tapir]

banger

so wth is saint just repeating that cycle canonically

[inland needle]

Depends on how you see it, but there is no concrete canon thing that happens. Though the achievement you get for beating Saint is called The Cycle and says that everything came a full circle

[silent tapir]

but wouldnt that interpretation also kinda imply that nothing ever progresses or

idk

the visuals right at the end when he spawns in were also cool, like the yellow ghost thing

it's the same that monk sees when he gets the dreams of surv right

so i was thinking is that what... cycling looks like or something

[silent tapir]

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