#Finally, a campaign built around wandering around and exploring things

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graceful pumiceBOT
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My sibling and I are playing the Watcher for the first time together. We've made it a fair distance through the game (probably) and encountered the echo several times, but we feel we have gotten stuck in Outer Rim. After meeting the echo in Corrupted Factories, we headed to The Throne, but found only a dead end and a karma flower. The latter did not allow us to create a new portal out of this region. The tear that leads to Torrential Railways is seemingly not present, and as far as we can tell there's no way to climb up back into the main region. The purple void spawn do seem to have some effect, but we don't really know how to use them. How would you suggest we proceed? How would we make the Torrential Railways warp appear?

hidden notch
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Somehow, I thought it was only the title that would show. My apologies.

daring shuttle
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If youre talking about the random portal on the map, thats purely a softlock prevention
If youve met the echo a few times it stops showing up iirc

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Theres another spot near the top with karma flowers that allows rifting

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daring shuttle
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Go to the top then down a bit
A path will open

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daring shuttle
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Yea

hidden notch
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Can you describe the specific room? Is this before or after the room with the lone karma flower and immense Rot sphere?

daring shuttle
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Go all the way up to the top then go down a couple rooms
Smth about that flower makes paths open

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Then you cna rift from those

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daring shuttle
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Ye

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The new rooms don't happen to have a shelter in them, do they?

daring shuttle
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Not the first few, no

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daring shuttle
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Ye

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Beyond the Five Pebbles Facility (Tigrinum & Co.'s Watcher playthrough)

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Today's play session was an eventful one. We started in Torrid Desert, visited the echo but decided we didn't want to go to Badlands since we'd already been there, crossed back over but didn't really find anything new and encountered a large number of drill crabs that had pulverized a scavenger, and then made a warp point that ended up leading to Verdant Waterways.

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After being terrified by some death frogs and coming very close to getting eaten by an eel lizard, we barely made it to a shelter but with only two food pips, and so had to starve, but drowned the following cycle after becoming exhausted in an area that subsequently filled with water. Back in Torrid Desert, we backtracked to The Surface, encountered a blizzard lizard--a very silly concept, in my opinion--before sucking a vulture and a cyan lizard through a warp to Cold Storage and then back again. The vulture began moving extremely erratically and far faster than usual, but both the lizard and the Watcher were able to escape in the chaos. We lured the lizard into our shelter, so now we have a lizard buddy!

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Question: what do we do in Shattered Terrace? We've gotten there several times and warped out manually after being unable to cross a massive gap. Eventually, we became able to access Ripplespace and thus Daemon, and ended up in a different part of Shattered Terrace--after being dropped to our death by the warp once--that again has a seemingly un-crossable gap.

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We've only been up to the top of the Throne and back down once.

dim lark
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they're not uncrossable, if that helps rivowo

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you may have to use a subtle part of your ability to help you

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dim lark
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maybe it helps to know ||you can do it while in the air||

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you can always try combining it with things you already know

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clear stream
sudden atlas
wintry plank
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Bro isn't five pebbles a soiler🥹

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Beyond the [spoiler] Facility (Tigrinum & Co.'s Watcher playthrough)

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Feel free to change it back if I'm wrong

raven mica
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it most definitely is

hidden notch
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Finally, a campaign built around wandering around and exploring things

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I have two questions. Firstly, is there a way to ensure that a bad warp will lead to Corrupted Factories, Infested Tunnels, or the like rather than Outer Rim? I know there are rotted versions of Outskirts and Garbage Wastes as well.

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Secondly, what should one do after meeting and talking to the thing in The Throne?

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I know this game doesn't really have "shoulds", but I don't really know what to do.

sudden atlas
sudden atlas
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sudden atlas
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oki !

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not reached yet then

dim lark