Watcher first playthrough (spoilers obv) | Rain World | Page 1

gilded kettle Apr 10, 2025, 12:17 AM

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I am not where I thought I'd be, and the places I can go are... unexpected.

I immediately went to ||industrial||, which I didn't think would connect up. ||Outskirts|| was uneventful, but I decided that the devs probably would expect me to just go to ||Moon|| straighaway, so would put stuff there.

Oddly enough, I can't go to ||garbage||, I think. So we're ||early enough|| in the timeline that ||Mother|| is here, but also the pearls all seem ||to be bleached, as if we're late? Maybe I'm misremembering the timeline...||

I suppose it's on to ||shaded||

wraith anchor Apr 10, 2025, 6:50 AM

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whoosh

gilded kettle Apr 12, 2025, 3:51 PM

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Hmm. I forgot how much shaded sucks. I think I'm gonna not go that route.

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I'll backtrack through industrial, see if I might have missed an opportunity to go Garbage.

If not, I'll go to outskirts, then try drainage

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if I had a light, I could do shaded

gilded kettle Apr 12, 2025, 4:19 PM

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you know, there is a lot of... almost Echo-y stuff around Industrial, in places?

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no, it's... drippy, too

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I think I'm starting to understand something... why I can't piece together the time period.

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I understand the whoosh now

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idk if I'll be able to go to drainage lmao

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but I'll see. More Mother around...

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OAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOA

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||farm arrays echo is a freak. Are the echoes rotting? Is the rot actually connected to the Void? I gotta find the other echoes||

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oh

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oh wait

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I see what's happening. Oh god.

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my plans have shifted. Find the echoes

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I do have light, now! I think Drainage was cut off, anyway

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I have so much I want to explore now

gilded kettle Apr 12, 2025, 10:01 PM

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Alright, so Farm Arrays is gooped. Idk whether that was before, or after OAOAOA, but that limits what I can explore. Nice, checked off thel ist

gilded kettle Apr 14, 2025, 9:21 PM

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lmao, I wonder if the devs put an easter egg in the area behind where surv spawns, since it's unreachable without dev tools

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I won't try it, but I wonder

gilded kettle Apr 14, 2025, 9:44 PM

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forgot I can get to Chimney from Industrial. Tbh, I think I'll just grab the echo there, before going through Shaded.

I imagine I could go either direction, to Moon or Pebbles, but I'll prefer Moon, I think

gilded kettle Apr 16, 2025, 8:20 PM

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Watcher first playthrough (spoilers obv)

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I forgot I can get to a Downpour location from here...

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hmm

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Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't have to escape chimney canopy

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I just find the echo, and spawn back

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okay yeah, the place below chimney is gooped

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makes sense

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found a bug lmao

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Infinite pole

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also, trying to get Dragon Slayer

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4/6 so far

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pink, white, green, blue

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the... easiest ones

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alright, I didn't explore all of chimney, but tbh... I despise this zone lmao

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I can guess what else was here, but for now

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||SO PEEPING||

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interestingly, it seems like this is the same one. A wandering ||echo||

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I do love this DLC

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omg

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||invis powers||

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and ||rot infected enemies||

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so, my theory: the ||rot is overtaking the world, as some sort of strange extension of the Void? Or an opposite of it? Everything is being twisted into a cruel mockery of what was, in the sole intent to exist indefinitely?||

gilded kettle Apr 16, 2025, 9:19 PM

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I will not leave industrial until I have slain a red

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sadly, I just have 2 bombs, no bomb spears

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got a cyan instead. I'm not so stubborn as to not accept that

gilded kettle Apr 17, 2025, 2:24 AM

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Killed a rotten green. Honestly curious as to what happens to the body, as it still makes sounds

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it keeps raising a tentacle... it wants to rise, but can't?

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died before I could see, dang

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oh well, I'm gonna assume "zombie"

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or maybe "becomes a rot monster, if you sleep after killing it"

gilded kettle Apr 18, 2025, 2:00 AM

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alright, no proceeding through shaded. Gotta find the echo, then figure out where I'm supposed to proceed through (it's gonna be chimney, isn't it articry )

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what is interesting: I haven't seen a single rot monster yet

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only rot creep

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and the zombies

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ah

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okay

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I see

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I need not find a way

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it gave me a prompt, my scug surrounded by a world of rot, then had me "explore the region" with space? Is that like, infinite passage or something?

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okay, wild, there's portals, too. Accessed by the stealth button

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okay so I do not understand why it's prompting me to look at the map every time I die or sleep, but I understand that it wants me to look at the different worlds

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okay, if I stop to think, maybe it's a "fast travel between worlds", but not a fast travel within the same world?

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possible

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I never got to a shelter in the alt world

gilded kettle Apr 19, 2025, 2:40 AM

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gilded kettle okay, if I stop to think, maybe it's a "fast travel between worlds", but *not* a...

nope

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tragically lost a bomb while figuring out what the crabs did

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aether ridge!!!!!!!

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and... moth?

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not fully getting this parallel reality mechanic tbh...

gilded kettle Apr 19, 2025, 2:49 AM

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gilded kettle tragically lost a bomb while figuring out what the crabs did

they're edible!

gilded kettle Apr 19, 2025, 3:09 AM

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honestly fully at a loss as to what the mechanic underlying this parallel reality thing is

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<@&1137895527271379055> am I missing something with this parallel realities mechanic? Or am I supposed to figure out the significance behind being able to see the map of each world during my sleep?

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oh no

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that was a much larger ping than I thought it'd be...

haughty valley Apr 19, 2025, 3:11 AM

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they have the role in order to be pinged rivowo

tranquil kettle Apr 19, 2025, 3:12 AM

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You got a gigantic map Igna_Silly

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Its basically Regions menu but ingame

gilded kettle Apr 19, 2025, 3:12 AM

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am I able to use it to fast travel?

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or is it just "ooo nice"?

tranquil kettle Apr 19, 2025, 3:13 AM

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You can figure out paths and stuff with it

gilded kettle Apr 19, 2025, 3:13 AM

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okay, so just like a normal map

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that rules out some possibilities, thank you

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hmm. The aether ridge place seems to be an iterator

gilded kettle Apr 19, 2025, 3:39 AM

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fascinating levels, but if only I had an idea of what my objective was lmao

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I'll figure it out

gilded kettle May 8, 2025, 12:29 AM

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Alright, took a month away. The different areas have areas that pulse, but I cannot figure out how to interact with them. Honestly, probably best to avoid them, purely for the fact that their mystery distracts me. Explore the areas first, then I can figure it out

sinful totem May 8, 2025, 10:24 AM

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Good assessment sainthappy

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Not worrying about them, but still keeping them in the back of your head in case something changes in future

gilded kettle May 10, 2025, 7:45 PM

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Big discovery!!

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new objective, there must be OAOAOAs in every place. This one was from the shipping container area

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I wanna explore all of what these weird areas have to offer, but they are BIG

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ack, yet another area. This one has rot in it

jagged rose May 10, 2025, 10:18 PM

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🙂

gilded kettle May 11, 2025, 8:08 PM

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"travelling too deep without rest will have consequences". Scary

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oh no. Rot creatures

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is this.... FP's testing facility?

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they're in the walls

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I didn't explore the actively rotted Cold Storage much, but I imagine I'll need to go back through all the areas anyway

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rot leviathan...

gilded kettle May 11, 2025, 8:39 PM

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||the rotting carcass of the immortal god who sought only to die, filled by that which is to be cursed: Legacy. The putrid stars fall, for holy are the dessicated, they who are for new life an unfit vessel, pure and eternal are the blessed. The sands wear away that which was, monuments forgotten, granted unto they who toil after.||

gilded kettle May 17, 2025, 12:55 AM

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alright, decided to go left in Outer Rim

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I feel like I'm gonna get a bad end, bc I've heard there are multiple ends

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but that's okay

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I can try again

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after

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The Rot looks like it's... decaying?

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rot into new life?

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the world as cycle?

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mayhaps

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Giant Rot Cyst

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reached the end of the throne... all I found was a giant cyst, and a karma flower

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oh, no? I see a side path now

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oh

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oh god

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||are the karma flowers from the rot||

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judging by the warped music... yes

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Thinking I did something... wrong

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or I was supposed to have something by now that I don't

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I can't figure out where to progress

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I guess I'll just leave? idk

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Couldn't get out without dying

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that was a whole lot of... nothing

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I'll go right

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betting if I get max karma, that'll do something

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one way trip back to coral caves, I guess???

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back to the original plan: explore

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AAAAAAAAAA STUPID PULSING NOTHING ZONES

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LEAD ME PLACES

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Oh I'm spreading the rot between realities, aren't i

gilded kettle May 18, 2025, 1:11 AM

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gilded kettle AAAAAAAAAA STUPID PULSING NOTHING ZONES

#1359683663792705587 message they must be a "you need a higher karma to unlock this, nerd" kinda thing

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Sunlit port, new area!

lime echo May 18, 2025, 2:48 AM

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monksilly

gilded kettle May 18, 2025, 2:42 PM

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moved to the rusty ship

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there's... brain parasite frogs?

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it connected to me like a red spider would

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scary

lime echo May 18, 2025, 3:18 PM

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ew rivflabbergasted

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scary frogs

gilded kettle May 22, 2025, 9:49 PM

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uh oh

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a place I recognize has been rotted

gilded kettle May 22, 2025, 10:05 PM

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freaky weird rotsnails in Coral

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I wanna touch one, but I need to get to a shelter first

gilded kettle May 22, 2025, 11:07 PM

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Alright: Rusted Wrecks and Desolate Tracks. Seem like good new places to explore!

lime echo May 22, 2025, 11:48 PM

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monksilly

gilded kettle May 26, 2025, 1:38 AM

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Okay, another oaoa in tracts

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Honestly, Desolate Tracts might be my favorite area so far

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it's so cool

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I'll have to go back later, that place 100% has more to show me

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okay, hold on, new ability

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"form random paths"...

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and also, Turbulent Pump

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"the surface"?????

gilded kettle May 26, 2025, 5:54 PM

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oh, it's just part of Aerie

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or... no? It's listed as separate

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I'm confused

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hmm... new paths without a flower is "dangerous".

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scary

gilded kettle May 26, 2025, 10:29 PM

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interesting, I lack the warpy effect when I'm not at 3 karma

gilded kettle May 26, 2025, 10:58 PM

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also, Thermal is hard

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but cool

gilded kettle Jun 1, 2025, 7:07 PM

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thermal echo found

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I did not explore thermal much, but god that place sucks

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I... think I can fly now???

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really unsure, haven't gotten a tutorial about it yet

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"stormy coast", but there's an easy to reach room with a karma flower in it, perfect for a gate. Tried it, went to Cold Storage, then died immediately

gilded kettle Jun 15, 2025, 12:32 AM

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Aight, we back in it

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I forgot I have 8 noodlefly babies now

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uh oh

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I forgot I didn't have a karma flower

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teleported into "corrupted factories"

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"after a while, it's all like this"

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slughollow

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After the echo room, there was another pipe. I wonder what I'll find if I go back...?

gilded kettle Jun 15, 2025, 12:41 AM

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gilded kettle I... think I can fly now???

I create a lingering aura of some kind, where I fly

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It creates purple void thingies!!

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the ones that lead me places in the vanilla game

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weird

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found a GIANT tower in outer rim

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gotta lead somewhere nice, it has special music!!

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One problem with the Watcher DLC

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it's super overwhelming, and doesn't really let up. It just gets more and more complex as it goes on, with the areas you have to explore feeling further and further apart from one another

gilded kettle Jun 15, 2025, 2:15 AM

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gilded kettle found a GIANT tower in outer rim

ah DAMN IT. It's just another MYSTERY THINGY

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the pulse thingy

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that was so hard to cliiiiiiiiiiiiimb

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okay, well, I found a city at least

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and am going into what looks like an iterator area?

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well

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I went through the city

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And I'm back in the tower

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monkdesperation

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I had no idea the portal could lead back to the same area

frozen ridge Jun 15, 2025, 5:56 AM

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you dont need to spoiler in your own thread btw

gilded kettle Jun 15, 2025, 9:14 PM

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oh fair

gilded kettle Jun 15, 2025, 9:30 PM

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Outer Rim's level design makes no sense to me

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I get that it's probably intentional, like "this place is not built for you, it has decayed long past memory", but jeez

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I'm going back to the throne, maybe something will happen if I try to portal there

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okay... there's more light here, now?

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okay... the flower room is gone now

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shame... and worrying

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okay, no, it's open again. After I went to the end room

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okay... and I get two different messages, depending on if I try to portal with or without a flower.

"it's too unstable" vs "a presence already binds this place"

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AHA

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Portal in FLOWER ROOM

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big map says there's some mystery zone I can connect to in Outer Rim... but I searched all over, and couldn't find anything

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Nothing I can use... so I'll just explore normal zones as I find em

gilded kettle Jun 16, 2025, 12:01 AM

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torrid desert can lead back to The Surface, but I really dislike that area. I'm just gonna go deeper in

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found an area I clearly wasn't supposed to access yet sainthehe
okay, that'll be a place where a portal leads to

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But interestingly, there's no portal there. But in an adjoining room, there's portal stuff... around

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idk

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going deeper in, ignoring it

gilded kettle Jun 26, 2025, 1:34 AM

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made it to the badlands

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ah, the bugs suck

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can't cross where they are...

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obvious solution, but still

gilded kettle Jun 29, 2025, 4:50 AM

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okay, I was planning on using the anti bug spore bombs, but I got past em with invis. Seemed to help a little

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Stormy Coast. Wow this place sucks

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got a feeling there's something good here

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wait, I've already been here...

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is cold storage getting... more purple?

frozen ridge Jun 29, 2025, 5:08 AM

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watcherpopcorn

gilded kettle Jun 29, 2025, 5:16 AM

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possmfear

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golden scavs...

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wait a second... the same golden pulse they're giving off, the moths seem to give off (obv, I do).

Also, when I passed a golden scav toll, I got this weird... shattering sound effect in my ears? Odd

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hope they don't hate me

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I think Outer Rim is getting sandier

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i hate outer rim i hate outer rim i hate outer rim

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scavs in outer rim

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what

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they come from the east, but from whence

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for I have searched high and low

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I am curious, but not enough curiosity will make me travel back east

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well, the rot is def growing in OW. At least that feels like progress

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and the whispers of of the mad in my mind are also there

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so jot that down

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looks like I gotta go around the circuit once more

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karma flowers are also starting to look different... wilting?

gilded kettle Jul 3, 2025, 12:58 AM

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am I missing something with these almost-portals?

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they just kinda pulse

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Another interesting thing: there are numerous locations that just have random white pearls. Really random locations, as if they were supposed to be colored lore pearls

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I wonder if they once were...

gilded kettle Jul 3, 2025, 2:16 AM

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alright, so cold storage is def a different time variant of The Surface

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ohhhhh no it's just a different part

gilded kettle Jul 3, 2025, 2:41 AM

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stormy coast echo got

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Signal spires time. I also accidentally found a "verdant" something while rando portaling somewhere, but insta died. Can't find it again, hope I find it soon

lime echo Jul 3, 2025, 3:40 PM

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green slugpraise

lime echo Jul 3, 2025, 3:40 PM

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gilded kettle am I *missing something* with these almost-portals?

you'll know their purpose once it's time

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don't worry about them for now, just keep them in mind monksilly

gilded kettle Jul 3, 2025, 3:44 PM

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lime echo green <:slugpraise:981537784730910760>

Just gotta find it again!

lime echo Jul 3, 2025, 3:58 PM

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hoping you can!! it's one of my favorites

mental sierra Jul 3, 2025, 4:01 PM

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monkblep

gilded kettle Jul 4, 2025, 6:34 AM

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oh, spires is gonna suck, huh

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oh no

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chimney canopy vibes, in terms of spawns

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i just... collapsed?

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and died?

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I was trying to greed a strawberry lizard kill, and then I just died

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went back to get a better pic, but it was ruined by a sky whale. And then I accidentally made one of those rifts, and the scene is ruined

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okay, skywhales are remarkably easy to control

gilded kettle Jul 4, 2025, 9:19 PM

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fairly predictable spot, yeah. Kinda wanna keep exploring Spires, but let's see the new area

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shattered terrace... okay, it has whispers of the damend

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*damned

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oh. Yep. It's a weird place

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I bet these golden scavs would be scary, if I weren't friends with em

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I died, bc I fell into a hole (the visuals are hard to parse in this area). Should I try again, or should I find a route around, in the spires? Hmm...

gilded kettle Jul 5, 2025, 2:53 AM

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this place is very cool, but I did kinda wanna explore spires... issue with this DLC, is I kinda feel like I miss a lot of stuff.

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Maybe I'll circle back around

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hmm. Very large gap, which I obv need to fly over

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hmmmm. Got a feeling I'm just before something big. "Terrace" is like an entrance to a place, it's all voidy, it was super straightforward AND there's a shelter and flower right before the echo

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ohhhhh this thing is locked behind getting max karma. I need to come back here

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I def wanna circle back through spires

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later

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travelling all the way east through Terrace did... nothing. That's super odd

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it's just a dead end

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should I force a portal? Or go back to spires?

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hmm

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forcing a portal sounds fun

gilded kettle Jul 5, 2025, 3:18 AM

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gilded kettle i just... collapsed?

OH THERE'S VOID PREDATORS

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I SEE THEM

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back to rusted wrecks... but it's all purple

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the stuff is spreadin

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I wonder, is forcing those portals what spreads the rot?

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anyway, got back to the desolate tract. Figure I'll check that out for a little bit; if I don't find anything new, I'll climb all the way back to spires

gilded kettle Jul 5, 2025, 4:00 AM

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nvm, no spires. I found the last echo (just had to figure out how to get up a particularly glitchy bit of geometry)

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NOW I'm thinking "damn, I wish I'd have explored more"

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because it was some part of cold storage, like "Substation Annex" or something. Clearly one of the more infected parts, but I just happened to go straight to the echo lmao

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"salination" is the next area. Probably best to keep at it, but that last area in cold storage looked cool

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hmm

lime echo Jul 5, 2025, 8:29 PM

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you can always go back there slugpraise

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whenever you want

gilded kettle Jul 5, 2025, 11:11 PM

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Honestly, I'll probably do that lol

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Maybe there's something else cool there

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Salination just looks ROUGH. Like the Heat Vents area

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 3:01 AM

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I'm gonna cry... they were left behind

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 3:22 AM

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potential glitch, potential lore. I had one of the little squid things that spawn with your invis ability spawn as gold, the normal void color

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hmmmm

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all that's left

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lmao. This shelter was hard to get to, and this is what I'm greeted with

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some... areas on the map are gold tinged, now... I wonder...

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goal is now to find whatever is making these places gold

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I bet I know...

lime echo Jul 6, 2025, 5:02 AM

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what's your suspicion? rivowo

sinful totem Jul 6, 2025, 7:17 AM

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gilded kettle potential glitch, potential lore. I had one of the little squid things that spaw...

No glitches here rivowo

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 7:34 AM

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lime echo what's your suspicion? <:rivowo:951914063808565309>

I gotta go there and find the pulsey things

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Though... the pulsers were in more spots than just those

lime echo Jul 6, 2025, 4:54 PM

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monksilly

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 7:59 PM

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I bet if i do this, it'll unlock an ending

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or, maybe it's mandatory. But I'm betting that if I go to shattered terrace now, I'll end things prematurely

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 8:45 PM

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Fetid Glen time. There was undoubtedly more to explore in the salination area, but I wanna escape for now

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oil slick skies...

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wait a sec, is this a Pebbles area??

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 9:01 PM

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gilded kettle or, maybe it's mandatory. But I'm betting that if I go to shattered terrace now,...

mmmmm, no, I bet the end is if I ever go by Outer Rim again

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and the Throne

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anyway, I need to explore Fetid regardless, bc it's also gold

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but this area is ROUGH

gilded kettle Jul 6, 2025, 11:21 PM

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seemingly mandatory water area, with so few bubblefruit spawns, and 4-5 of those sea serpent lizards???

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okay, I'm gonna go to shattered terrace

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maybe this is a mistake

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but I'm gonna

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pleASE don't end my game, rain world

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didn't end!

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RATS??

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tiny moths!!!

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oh

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ancient urban...

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this place is odd. It's so... normal. Just large, is all

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but terrace's gold went away, that's a good sign

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I have a theory....

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it's a.... closed loop

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that's not the theory, that's just what this place is

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I have to manually port out of here? Or...

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nvm, found the path

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TALKING!!!

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on the streets above

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theory is being verified

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:O

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the ancients ARE big!!

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I'm so excited

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but that begs the question

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spears are rebar, right? Why is their rebar so tiny?

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ughhhh, but that remixed main theme, when the reveal happened? Huge

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chills

gilded kettle Jul 7, 2025, 12:05 AM

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gilded kettle spears are rebar, right? Why is their rebar so tiny?

also damn, why are the Iterators so teeny, too

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is that a bed, or... is that the void fluid bath?

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I crawled in via a pipe...

lime echo Jul 7, 2025, 12:16 AM

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monksilly

gilded kettle Jul 7, 2025, 12:21 AM

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I'm gonna get through this DLC. It'll take whatever life force I have left, but I'm gonna do it

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It's so nice being in such a peaceful area though lol

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after the hells that were Salination and Fetid (which I'll have to visit again)

gilded kettle Jul 7, 2025, 1:02 AM

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gilded kettle spears are rebar, right? Why is their rebar so tiny?

but yeah, I think this might be a sign that the Ancients' size was a small retcon

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bc damn. That's some teeny rebar

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 12:36 AM

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rift flying allows me to SUPER wall jump!!

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ah SHIT

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I made a lil rift in Ancient Urban

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I hope that doesn't kill literally all the ancients. If I haven't already just by being here...

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entering what is very similar to an iterator entrance...

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THE VOID BATHS????

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They're gone.

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Something is gone that cannot be returned. Beholden not to rot, but a presence lost all the same. From the cycle, removed.

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This is definitely a point of no return. If there was something I was supposed to find before this, that opportunity is gone now. We look forward.

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 12:53 AM

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gilded kettle Something is gone that cannot be returned. Beholden not to rot, but a presence l...

The candles have all burnt out. There is naught left for me here, and yet I remain. The machines shall never work for me, a small thing, oblivion swimming just beyond my grasp, its acrid nothingness singing my eyes with its taste. I sleep, until the smell of smoke leaves me, and I am forced to re-enter a newly darkened world, freshly alone once more. I have been led by the hand into a new existence, and I have once again been abandoned.

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O-oh??

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they were a kid...

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how could they be expected to "detach from worldly tethers"? They just wanted to play with the squeaky stuffed animal, to spin their little top... but unto baptism in Void they went. Proteins and acids, down the drain...

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:)

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This is not the final ending, though. I did not do anything with The Throne and the rot

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I did not find all the secrets

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ah ha ha, I start again, and see a new pipe

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I can continue... where? Presumably, I gotta portal out

tranquil kettle Jul 9, 2025, 1:12 AM

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gilded kettle

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 1:15 AM

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wait, were the golden zones just... areas I could portal into Ancient Urban with? I didn't have to collect em, they were just places I could choose to enter via?

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Very odd choice to spread them out like that...

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but they're all gone now. Hope I didn't miss something

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Oh well, time to visit the rot

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 1:17 AM

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gilded kettle wait, were the golden zones just... areas I could portal into Ancient Urban with...

wait, there was even a really difficult spot to get to in Outer Rim, which contained a pulsey. Was that really just the same as the super easy one to get to in Shattered Terrace??????

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oh. Oh no, I went to the one in Rusted Wrecks, and... I am perched upon The Tower

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no... wait, this is Outer Rim!!!!!

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oh...

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was i too late

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"daemon"

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god that tower is creepy

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I'll try to approach from reverse

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 2:06 AM

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actually... I'd like to keep exploring, but I do also wanna make sure I can see if Outer Rim still has something to do, and isn't just Daemon from all angles of approach (including trying to approach from Unfortunate Evolution, if that's even possible).

Can someone tell me if that is possible? If not, I'll have to restart, I imagine.

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got an answer from spoilers, I don't need to restart

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I am free to explore until I feel like going back

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oh also, I found Verdant

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ughhhhhh I don't know how to gush to any of my friends about that ENDING

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how do I convey

sinful totem Jul 9, 2025, 2:26 AM

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gilded kettle wait, were the golden zones just... areas I could portal into Ancient Urban with...

Since you're past that point,
No.

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 2:27 AM

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sinful totem Since you're past that point, No.

Did all of them always lead to daemon, which leads to Shattered?

sinful totem Jul 9, 2025, 2:27 AM

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The golden markers meant there was an echo to be encountered in that region

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The echo has now ascended permanently hunterglee

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What you missed would have been... more dialogue huntershruggy

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 2:27 AM

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ah, okay

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Wouldn't have like, done a different ending or anything?

sinful totem Jul 9, 2025, 2:28 AM

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Nah, you've met enough echoes to do what you need to do

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 2:29 AM

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something with the rot

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time to see what the deal with the rot is, why and how it connects to any of this

sinful totem Jul 9, 2025, 2:30 AM

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rivowo

gilded kettle Jul 9, 2025, 2:58 AM

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sinful totem <:rivowo:951914063808565309>

rivblink

frozen ridge Jul 9, 2025, 10:51 PM

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rivclose

gilded kettle Jul 11, 2025, 9:23 PM

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back to exploring, went through Verdant, and I found a cool cavern zone

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I'll go to Outer Rim once I explore everywhere I can

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oh. Just the drainage tubes place

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Well, I've explored essentially all that I am willing to. Anything else would require I trawl through the more difficult areas that I barely got through to begin with...

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Hmm. I could look up if I'm missing any places

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I'm good!

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Time for rim

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There is definitely a lot of the rim that I don't fully understand why it's there. But I suspect those are those dialogues that I would have gotten, had I come here before releasing the echo

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yup, the pulsey is just a daemon portal

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rot has grown in Rim a LOT

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I had kinda assumed the Rim was the state at which the rot had starved itself

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got a glitch right as I went into a shelter, the game locked me into a sleep animation, but the door didn't close slugloafcry

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I'm just gonna dev tools my way through that whole section, and turn it off once I get to a place I can walk through the western Rim at

gilded kettle Jul 13, 2025, 4:17 AM

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made it back. I should be okay now?

gilded kettle Jul 13, 2025, 4:18 AM

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gilded kettle rot has grown in Rim a LOT

I feel like the sandstorm is also worse

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the falling stars(?) in the background aren't visible

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oh?

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The whispers have given way to a more technical sound

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Iterator?

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welp, I reached the top again. Nothing...

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hmmmmm

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just the big big rot cyst

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oh, another new path?

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okay, well this is SUPER odd. You'd think I'd unlock a new place, but... no.

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I gotta assume that it's VERY bad that I keep opening portals that connect direct to Outer Rim, though

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I went straight back after sleeping. Maybe that'll help?

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well, a new shelter spawned, that seems like a very good sign

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more iterator sounds, but no new dialogue

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I see...

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hmm

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well, is this thing doesn't end me, there's a new pipe down there

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oh! Friendly!!

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I like himb :>

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though the iterator in the background sounds like it's in PAIN

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got sent to the badlands again. May as well explore it properly this time. Thankfully, while the bugs can see me a little bit while I'm invis, they can't hurt me in the riftworld

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black pearl????

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first colored pearl I think I've seen

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wait no, it's... white?

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found another portal that leads to daemon in badlands

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I brought a vulture into the Throne with me, and it got Eated

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hmm. I do kinda wonder how rotted the rest of outer rim looks, at this point

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I could do that, or I could immediately go say hi to my friend...

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I'll go check, why not

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decaying tunnels

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very interesting? Not outer rim?

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maybe I should have gone to see friend first...

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I hope what dialogue I probably missed out on wasn't too cool...

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I'm starting to get a picture...

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Cold Storage is FP experiment, which is feeding Unfortunate Evolution, which is feeding Outer Rim.

Daemon is a time altered version of Outer Rim, which is feeding Shattered Terrace, which was directly linked to Ancient Urban. So there's def a causative link between FP and the Rot, and whatever was happening with OAOA

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now I'm in decaying tunnels, which has no apparent connections. I got here through portaling from Fetid

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I wanted to go back to Outer Rim, but I'm afraid I probably wasn't meant to do that, and missed dialogue. I imagine I'd have gotten sent here, anyway

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oh this is uhhhhhhhh

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this place is a vanilla place

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hmm. Drainage?

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I think?

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don't fully recognize the paths

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so it must be drainage

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also, outer rim seems no more rotted than before. Kinda sad, I connected two more places!!

gilded kettle Jul 15, 2025, 11:51 PM

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Interestingly, the wind in Outer Rim goes away in the rift mode. But wind in Aether Ridge doesn't

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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Went back to the friend, it talked about how it was made of "them" and wouldn't repeat the mistakes of its forbears

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So... def made of iterators. But... where does it want me to GO?

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went back, "I travelled through your portals"

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 12:52 AM

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visiting again; if nothing changes, then I assume they want me to spread the rot to more places?

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or maybe I... bring stuff?

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that would be very annoying

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I'm so lost...

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is there anything left to do <@&1137895527271379055> ? Sorry to ping again lol

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Just trying to figure out how to interact with this rot friend

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if so, I can try things. If there's no way to interact with them, since I got the other ending, then... I'd probably just watch those rain world youtube videos that I've been avoiding

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 1:14 AM

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gilded kettle *is* there anything left to do <@&1137895527271379055> ? Sorry to ping again lol

There is something left... that makes things a lil difficult

sinful totem Jul 16, 2025, 1:49 AM

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gilded kettle if so, I can try things. If there's no way to interact with them, since I got th...

The two endings don't cancel each other out, it is possible to get both in the same savefile without a problem

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 1:50 AM

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Then... I gotta figure something out. Somehow.

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Manually opening portals seemed to maybe be a key to spreading rot? Only other thing I can possibly think of would be to lug one of the Echo's toys all the way to The Throne, but... I think those things were pretty heavy, no? Plus, they wouldn't fit in the pipes

jagged rose Jul 16, 2025, 1:07 PM

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gilded kettle Manually opening portals *seemed* to *maybe* be a key to spreading rot? Only oth...

Hint: ||Your progress is being tracked on the sleep screen||

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 1:49 PM

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Hmmmmmm

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I can't imagine that means "more karma"

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So it's either one of the Passage achievements, or it's on the map

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 10:17 PM

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Okay. Only thing I can imagine is to feed my friend with realities

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act as a carrier

gilded kettle Jul 16, 2025, 10:37 PM

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ah ha, I do spread it

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iiiiiinteresting. So I almost certainly spread it to The Surface, but it didn't immediately spread to Shrouded Coast. Maybe I need to just exist here for a sec

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Or maybe I need to die here?

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dying did nothing, and I've spent two cycles here... experimentation time

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please don't tell me I gotta manually port out in order to spread the infectionnnnn

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that's gonna take so long lol

gilded kettle Jul 17, 2025, 12:39 AM

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power went out, I lost so much progresssssss

gilded kettle Jul 17, 2025, 12:48 AM

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gilded kettle *please* don't tell me I gotta manually port out in order to spread the infectio...

okay, I looked up a tip and

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slugtired

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tedium...

gilded kettle Jul 17, 2025, 1:07 AM

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Huh. The mushroom textures disappear in Infected Fetid Wastes

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makes it hard to know where to parkour

gilded kettle Jul 17, 2025, 1:53 AM

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gilded kettle *please* don't tell me I gotta manually port out in order to spread the infectio...

okay this isn't so bad actually

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porting with a flower from an infected zone automatically chooses a non infected zone. Usually

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Shattered Terrace resisted infection, but that wasn't unexpected

jagged rose Jul 17, 2025, 2:18 AM

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gilded kettle <:slugtired:832653220194680872>

🙂

gilded kettle Jul 17, 2025, 11:30 PM

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oddly, some places seem to be immediately infected when I enter them from an infected zone, while others seem resistant

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Ignoring the obvious, like Shattered... I wanna see an infected Desolate Tracts, but it didn't get infected when I entered from the infected Surface

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odd

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maybe I should go back to Rim, check up on friend

gilded kettle Jul 22, 2025, 10:35 PM

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Okay, no, I went to Rusted Wrecks, went back to Desolate, and it's now goopy

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Just gotta try again in some cases, I guess?

gilded kettle Jul 22, 2025, 11:52 PM

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the sun yet rises

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though its radiance no longer pierces the gloom below

gilded kettle Jul 23, 2025, 11:52 PM

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Only Turbulent Pump and Stormy Coast left to infect. And for some reason, it's taking so long to figure out how to get there (I'm too lazy to want to walk through whole regions)

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I could just... spam daemon, tbh

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random chance my way through to a good area

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nvm, random chanced my way into turbulent, anyway

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nice

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warped, immediately got torrid desert. Can get to stormy through heat ducts

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nice, easy game

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Lovely! I think I got them all!

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Found infected industrial, too

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oh no. Pure mother long legs don't go away in rift mode

lime echo Jul 24, 2025, 11:44 AM

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scary rivflabbergasted

gilded kettle Jul 25, 2025, 12:50 AM

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gilded kettle Found infected industrial, too

didn't explore it all, but I can kinda assume the rest will look similar

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Back in Rim, and it doesn't... look different yet

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hope I got everything

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Only things uninfected are daemon, shattered, and urban

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I just realized that the heartbeat is gone

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and the iterator sounds are gone

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"honey, I want to talk about your grades"

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I am... become

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I don't understand what the HELL just happened, but I think the Prince simply Became too much. The cycle overtakes

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I remain. I watch.

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Anyway, I think that's all I can do. This DLC was very fun, but the ending did not hit nearly as hard as Downpour. Downpour felt like a love letter, Watcher felt like a lore dive.

Speaking of, I can watch those lore videos, now. All those tasty video essays, "region analysis", etc

unkempt willow Jul 25, 2025, 1:18 AM

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the rot consumes...

gilded kettle Jul 25, 2025, 1:20 AM

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It seems like the rot burned out, more than anything. Like, the rot gives way to new life, after it consumed all it could

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the rot rots

unkempt willow Jul 25, 2025, 2:26 AM

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the rot consumes the rot?

tranquil kettle Jul 25, 2025, 2:39 AM

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gilded kettle

jagged rose Jul 25, 2025, 2:42 AM

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gilded kettle Anyway, I think that's all I can do. This DLC was very fun, but the ending did n...

watcher isnt complete quite yet 👁️

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long term priorities include additions like James mentioned a few weeks ago– the final endings and other cryptic secrets. We’re looking to start dropping patches with some of that content in about a week and we can’t wait for you to experience them.

"in about a week" Lol.

gilded kettle Jul 25, 2025, 2:43 AM

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jagged rose ``long term priorities include additions like James mentioned a few weeks ago– t...

:0

gilded kettle Aug 13, 2025, 3:00 AM

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I.... just realized that The Prince looks like a big iterator

lavish root Aug 13, 2025, 3:36 AM

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yup

lime echo Aug 13, 2025, 10:22 AM

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a very big iterator monkwail

gilded kettle Sep 25, 2025, 2:31 PM

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WATCHER UPDATE

lime echo Sep 25, 2025, 2:49 PM

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HAVING A WATCH

gilded kettle Oct 26, 2025, 2:26 AM

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Okay, I decided to wait a while, until any potential bugs were ironed out. Is the new content difficult to find?

sinful totem Oct 26, 2025, 3:06 AM

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Not very rivapprove

It is recommended replaying from a new savefile if you want to see everything though

gilded kettle Nov 15, 2025, 4:42 AM

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sinful totem Not very <:rivapprove:1264368725008584784> It is recommended replaying from a ...

Gonna guess that exploring an infected world Aint Great

gilded kettle Dec 27, 2025, 6:01 PM

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restarting, and... interestingly, I have all of hydroponics mapped

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already

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bug, or maybe something carried over from the... previous playthrough?

sinful totem Dec 27, 2025, 10:13 PM

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This is a normal feature

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Any slugcat that you restart the save will have all map data from the previous round

gilded kettle Dec 30, 2025, 11:42 PM

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Oh damn. I've never really bothered with repeat playthroughs before

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well, I started in Coral Caves this run, which is interesting

gilded kettle Jan 1, 2026, 1:04 AM

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Found migration path. Also, badlands and cold storage both have blank maps, so I assume both were updated

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didn't explore all of migration path, so there's like 2 rooms I missed, presumably

#Watcher first playthrough (spoilers obv)