#๐ŸŒ™ The Watcher

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opaque viper
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i only just realised what it says

quick salmon
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yes of course!!

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insane

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also

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your profile is cool yeah

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I see it's very weaver-based

violet mesa
violet mesa
opaque viper
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the weaver is cool as heck

opaque viper
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i dont think i ever had stronger feelings for a game as when i went through watchers ending

violet mesa
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hunterthis Genuine Tears

opaque viper
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consider: a path a purpose

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i love that

quick salmon
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to be honest the only game that matches this for me could be Until Then. however, that's a much shorter game and it's completely story-based

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AND it also takes place in our own real world so you feel emotions more strongly

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overall, Rain World remains my favorite game.

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god

opaque viper
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i try to tell friends irl how good it is

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but i never tell them WHY im so obsessed with it because thaats spoilers

quick salmon
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my bot thinks the same

quick salmon
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I've also been trying to get people into rain world

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it's just

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when you first start, you could NEVER expect it would be something like this

opaque viper
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my dad even got it and refunded it, he says hes seen everything (he never left outskirts)

violet mesa
quick salmon
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like, really, what a journey it was. I was ascending as survivor 11 months ago. this is actually one of my best life experiences

quick salmon
opaque viper
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i ahve only known rain world for just over a year

quick salmon
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a friend of mine quit after meeting moon and another one quit in industrial

opaque viper
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its depressing

quick salmon
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it is

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tbf, I'll believe in them though. I quit right before meeting Five Pebbles

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inside his region

violet mesa
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Only 27.6%of players have achieved the survivor passage

quick salmon
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that's the most insane thing

violet mesa
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I remember when I first Witnessed It was below20

opaque viper
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even my brother who claims to love rain world has never defeated any MSC scug other than gourmand (after i nagged him constantly)

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he played rain world when it was still super obscure

quick salmon
violet mesa
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Honestly I do find some appreciation in the fact that Watcher returned to a niche as Base RW was, something to be lost, another to be gained.

opaque viper
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they miss out on all this and i have no one to dump my autism on

quick salmon
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I did hear it didn't gain as much traction as dp

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makes sense

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downpour has shorter campaigns, more slugcats abilities you instantly get

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the watcher was my longest campaign

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almost 64 hours

opaque viper
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watcher was my favourite campaign

opaque viper
quick salmon
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all the others took so much less. survivor took me like 25 (without counting the deaths which were probably a lot, and without counting the 2-3 times I restarted throughout various quits)

quick salmon
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also I just found this

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a friend of mine telling me to play rain world

opaque viper
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whats this

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oh

quick salmon
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december 2023

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I then played like

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in july 2024

opaque viper
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๐Ÿซก

quick salmon
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I met moon

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I reached five pebbles through memory cripts and shit

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and QUIT

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probaly not far from his chamber

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idk, it feels like such a distant memory

opaque viper
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by the way

quick salmon
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these are the 3 first achiemenets I got. july 2024, then I quit, then I got back at rain world in march 2025

quick salmon
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seeing your familiar regions being rotten hit hard

opaque viper
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yeahhh

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i was horrified

quick salmon
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unfortunate evolution>>>

opaque viper
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and i love how they use foreshadowing too

quick salmon
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with what exactly?

violet mesa
opaque viper
violet mesa
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Ohhohohohoho

opaque viper
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i didnt nkow about this one until recently

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oh yeah and wile i was doing brainrot rwsc i noticed that the intro cutscene has the same music as the end

violet mesa
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It's the Prince's Dream too

quick salmon
quick salmon
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you know, I thought this was just

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watcher's old home

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but I guess you can see it as foreshadowing

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it's beautiful

opaque viper
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just some random area yeah

quick salmon
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when I entered I was like OUTER EXPANSE?!?!?

quick salmon
violet mesa
quick salmon
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i gotta listen to the whole watcher ost

opaque viper
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did you hear machine riser

quick salmon
opaque viper
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i am super glad you beat watcher though

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im glad that videocult went back to what made very early obscure rain world good instead of copying downpour
despite downpour making the game popular? i think

violet mesa
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Daemon Sequence is SO GOOD

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This ones a little more far fetched but...

opaque viper
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what is this one referencing you think??

violet mesa
opaque viper
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O H

quick salmon
quick salmon
quick salmon
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THAT DOESN'T FEEL REAL

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okay I should actually document

violet mesa
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yeye go ahead, dont want to fill it up with lore ramblings too soon

quick salmon
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I think I'll simply upload the clips to youtube like i did with saint and give a few thoughts

quick salmon
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and lore rambling will be very appreciated

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esoecially after I read the pearls

violet mesa
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heaps of motifs and bookends too

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Again... Far fetched but,

quick salmon
quick salmon
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okay maybe it is a bit far fetched

violet mesa
quick salmon
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but peak nonetheless

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musical familiarity does so much

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the reuse of leitmotifs

quick salmon
quick salmon
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I fucking love rain world's music

violet mesa
quick salmon
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I mean yeah

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could very much be

violet mesa
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I LOVE that spinning top reprise calls back to URBAN JUNGLE of all things too

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that little alarm in the BG

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He knew what he was doing

quick salmon
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he fucking knew

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things like these mean so much

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and also that instrument with a bit of delay similiar to pictures of the past

violet mesa
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Even motifs for progression through a single region feels so so special

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Its like the civilization's movement from ancient sewerage and primal fauna to the new age Iterator-reminiscent void baths.

quick salmon
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I'm really glad you're so interested in this side of the game

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music design can be overlooked, it deserves a lot

quick salmon
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oh

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thanks monksilly

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so cool

violet mesa
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Also Prince dream/ending sequence for lore reference

quick salmon
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oh

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more foreshadowing

violet mesa
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The whole of prince dream is that sequence from Weaverspace to the jungle

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mwha

quick salmon
quick salmon
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I was so confused

opaque viper
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*rises your machines*

quick salmon
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washer monksilly

opaque viper
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yes

quick salmon
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it was really scary

violet mesa
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I can confidently say that ELSE VII Reprise is one of if not THE favorite of mine throughout the RW tracks

quick salmon
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I love ELSE VII so much

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goosebumps when I heard it again

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it's even more confsing

radiant crag
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I scored em while they were still at 0.1 ๐Ÿฅน

violet mesa
violet mesa
quick salmon
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what are these windchimes?

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i've heard it

quick salmon
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the weaver one

violet mesa
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ARG prior to watcher's release and 1.5

quick salmon
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there's even another one I got in signal spires that showed the watcher with other scugs

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I think it was right after getting ripple

quick salmon
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I love args

violet mesa
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(Not really Augmented Reality but still)

quick salmon
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this folder has some clips alright

violet mesa
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Aye

radiant crag
violet mesa
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Weaver's Dream

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Prince's Dream

quick salmon
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it's just really hard for people to get into rain world ๐Ÿ˜ญ

radiant crag
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Games have to make a profit to succeed and for the developers to survive and be supported

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And though idk its statistics clearly watcher whizzed under the radar

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The secretive advertising compared to dp was pretty cool in concept but it probably did them no favours

quick salmon
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it's such a shame ๐Ÿฅบ

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the campaign also takes a lot more to enjoy though

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downpour added other stuff as well, expedition, challenges, jolly co-op

opaque viper
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lets have a watch

violet mesa
# violet mesa ST's Dream

All 3 relate to the main 3 Entities, Like empathy for each situation - viewed through watcher as they too empathise

quick salmon
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watcher feels like it's what the devs wanted to do the most, to continue their dream

radiant crag
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Only a small teeny fraction of global rainworld players probably ever even heard that another dlc came out

quick salmon
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especially the weaver one

violet mesa
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They're meant to be abstract, more room for meaning! Weaver's is the most enigmatic in line with themselves

quick salmon
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yeah ๐Ÿ˜ญ

opaque viper
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im kind of still crafting my theries on this

violet mesa
quick salmon
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I wanna cry

quick salmon
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a 1-hour-long video came out monksilly

opaque viper
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Yeah that's about how long the real ending normally lasts

quick salmon
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The last portals

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There were only 2 more portals awaiting to be sealed

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One was Shattered Terrace-Signal Spires

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either way, I planned to leave him here

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so I sheltered, and I went up the western tower

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and I had one last Sky Whale ride

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it was amazing like the first time

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this looks like the northern lights... so beautiful

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I quickly passed by Outer Rim

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that's a lot of Karma Flowers

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after that, I sealed the last portal remaining, Stormy Coast-Signal Spires...

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I posted 2 videos to YouTube, mostly to archive them. you're free to watch them if you want

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I didn't take many screenshots

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it was amazing, and really, really confusing

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and this is such an incredible artwork, oh my god

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I love The Weaver

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of course, I immediately decided to hop back in, I had to see what was next

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so pretty

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Being warped back to Hydroponics felt so weird

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then I climbed above Spinning Top's room... The Prince had a gift for me

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space and time were bending like crazy

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I was travelling uncontrollably

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the excitement I felt when I saw this

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Outer Expanse?!?!?

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really similiar to what we see in the initial cutscene

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I absolutely love this tree so much.

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I recorded all of the ending

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I can't wait to look back at it in years and cry

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When I entered The Depths, I was hit HARD from nostalgia

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Else VII was a brick Videocult had to throw at us.

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And then

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I ascended

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just like I did a year ago as Survivor

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but it was different

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it seems I've become a Void Worm

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The Weaver also looks suspicously similiar to a Void Worm

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I was, and I still am, extremely confused

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allow me to appreciate the camera movements as well

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the scene with all the different "Daemons", the alternate realities, the countless cycles

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it didn't feel like Rain World

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in the best way possible

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I'm proud. The food and cycle numbers are also really satisfying

idle galleon
quick salmon
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Thank you, Rain World.

quick salmon
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welp

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allow me to thank @distant bobcat from the bottom of my heart

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and all of you in this thread, from who passed by to who kept checking up, chatting a bit...

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I love this game so much

distant bobcat
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<3333333333333

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I shall add one more funny story about aeths journey through rain world

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As he already told you, he quit when he met FP

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I then had to push him to play it again

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And most likely he got amnesia

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Because he forgot everything

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And one of the things was Five Pebbles

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And so on his first actual playthrough

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He got enough echos to ascend

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He got to farm arrays

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And I was so scared he would finish the game without meeting FP

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It's so funny how usually people need to actually try to get the achievement for max karma without Pebbles, and he did it accidentally on his first try

quick salmon
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I'm just that goodhuntercool

quick salmon
opaque viper
quick salmon
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very real monkwail

violet mesa
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Amazing.

remote grotto
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when i beat watcher i was doing the absolute cinema pose the whole time

remote grotto
remote grotto
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that tree

plain latch
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hello rot eater

remote grotto
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it looks exactly like the one survivors family lives in

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and ive never seen anyone else make that connection

remote grotto
quick salmon
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very outer expanse-ish

plain latch
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outer expanse if it was good

quick salmon
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๐Ÿฅน

remote grotto
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anyway

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with this story at its conclusion

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nothing ties me to the community/fandom anywhere

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and so i will ascend

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bye chat

quick salmon
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wait what

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they actually left?

violet mesa
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They've left this world behind.

quick salmon
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the fuck

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was that for a gag or something

opaque viper
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Wait WHAT

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Maybe rot eater just isn't a rain worlder

plain latch
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they have actually left

quick salmon
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why ๐Ÿฅน

opaque viper
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Idk๐Ÿฅน

plain latch
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๐Ÿฅน

quick salmon
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can't even DM them

plain latch
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man who is the next rot eater now slugpensive

quick salmon
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were they active in some other thread

opaque viper
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Why did they leave๐Ÿฅน

plain latch
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idk

quick salmon
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@quick salmon whenever he experiences a cutscene in Rain World: The Watcher:

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(added this as a soundboard in my server, best decision of my life)

quick salmon
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Missing Arena Unlocks

  • Shrouded Stacks - supposedly Moth Grub
  • Rusted Wrecks - Maps
quick salmon
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anyway

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I

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decided

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to read pearls

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the only new ones I was able to understand with the Mark of Communication were one about a guy angry because of bad quality bricks

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skye told me it's a reference to the very first written text we have which is of somebody complaining about the quality of something

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then another one which was an interview to an Iterator by an Ancient

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really cool

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they were called Bell something

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and they gave off Five Pebbles vibes

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and then another one which was like a self-poem? idk

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I've installed lots of mods

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and created a few collections on the steam workshop

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ape twins

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Dumb mission - De-Rotting every region

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now, I don't know how stupid that is

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(probably a lot)

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and guess what I did

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I was very proud of this

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it can be a bit annoying but it's an excuse to explore every region thoroughly and check for room connections I might've missed

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after de-rotting signal spires, I random warped again into fetid glen

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now, this region is much harder to de-rot, since it does have a rain timer

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and it's fucking huge

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but I'm unemployed tho so monksilly

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Fetid Glen

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cute mushroom

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soooo I installed a mod that allows me to have a karmic shield whenever I have Karma Flower protection

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it really came in clutch

green sundial
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Have you tried purifying all regions?

I was pretty confident I finished heat ducks, but I just returned to see that itโ€™s already spread back

If you have, any tips? Is it possible at all?

quick salmon
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it is possible, I'd reccomend purifying the corners first, especially the dead ends

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because the rot will still spread over cycles if connecting rooms are rotten

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you can make sure it's completely purified when the rot overlay is gone

quick salmon
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so cool

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anyway I'm also going around trying to find pearls, already got one in my stomach

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I collected 9 plus the one in my stomach

radiant crag
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slugnom yum porle

idle galleon
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@quick salmon your name says ping you and I'm good at following instructions like that

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Also yum porlslugpearls

plain latch
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monklook i juust realized you can now look at my washer post too

quick salmon
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๐Ÿ‘€true

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Fetid Glen

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I somehow found a trapped Vulture. man these ancient benefactor guys really hated animals smh

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and god how I love the Diverse Shelters mod

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aaaand another region purified monksillymonksilly

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it was a bit hard but we keep going!

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Sunbaked Alley

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I think the game is a bit confused

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or maybe this Lizard is trans

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it's green but its map and pipe color is pink

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another one done! this one only took 4-5 cycles

idle galleon
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Are you unrotting every regionslugsparkle rivflabbergasted

quick salmon
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I am monkskinnyjeans

idle galleon
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Good luck soldierwatchersalute

green sundial
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I've been avoiding the salination pair entirely for that reason

quick salmon
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idk how i'll do that in salination

quick salmon
radiant crag
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Sali has a good supply of bubbleweed

quick salmon
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oh yeah true

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I just wish you could Speed up the de-rotring process

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because it's equally long in big rooms and in tiny ones

plain latch
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devtools speed up keybind /j

quick salmon
plain latch
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i mean if you will do that
note your rain timer then

quick salmon
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oh yeah

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probably won't actually do that

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HOWEVER

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I did increase the rain timer 1.5 times in remix settings

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as an excuse to actually try that setting, I never used major assist

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and tbh it's really helpful when the rain timer is so short

plain latch
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there is also the relationship tracker keybind (M) that also shows some info about creature amount, precycle and rain timer cycle itself and that kinda stuff hunterknowing

quick salmon
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๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€

green sundial
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I personally like the waiting. It makes the transition from rotted to purified so much more satisfying

quick salmon
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it's not that bad, just sucks in very small rooms for me

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it is cool seeing a big room slowly change color palette though as you walk around

quick salmon
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I'm actually having fun de-rotting them all

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currently doing Torrential Railways. it's the least I can do for the first region that welcomed me

quick salmon
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Rotten Regions

  • Aether Ridge
  • Badlands
  • Cold Storage
  • Coral Caves
  • Desolate Tract
  • Fetid Glen
  • Fractured Gateways
  • Heat Ducts
  • Migration Path
  • Pillar Grove
  • Rusted Wrecks
  • Salination
  • Shrouded Stacks
  • Signal Spires
  • Stormy Coast
  • Sunbaked Alley
  • The Surface
  • Torrential Railways
  • Torrid Desert
  • Turbulent Pump
  • Verdant Waterways
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Coral Caves

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how I feel becoming the parent of baby noodleflies only to eat them next cycle

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anyway remember these babies?

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yeah John Rot got them

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don't worry though! my de-rotting was successful and they were fine monksilly

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it's a bit hard to see in this screenshot, but I lost all my progress on the Hunter passage, and I only needed one more carnivorous cycle to get it! I had to eat gloweed though or I would've died to the rain :(

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easy

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Heat Ducts

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I didn't record any clips in Heat Ducts

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uhhh this happened though while I was setting up some mods ๐Ÿฅน

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anyway at first I didn't use any mods, but once I got to Coral Caves I decided to use the Catnap mod that allows you to hold down to sleep and speed up time (I set it at x6). it's still got its downsides, since it gives you a numb effect after you wake up

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it's really good for those small rooms that have nothing interesting to do in it

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and the rain timer still speeds up normally so

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Desolate Tract

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this pearl was a bit tricky to get, but I managed to do it!

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they GROOVY ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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I love these three guys

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they got here through Rusted Wrecks the very first time I entered Desolate Tract

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they've been chilling in here since

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and they always stick together

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and the red one is cool as fuck

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shotouts to them

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and there's Desolate Tract purified!

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Torrential Railways

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so many red snails

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finally, this region really deserved to be purified

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afterwards, I decided to go read, or better, listen to, the pearl I got in Deslate Tract

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all of this happened in the last few days

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so yeah, I'm just playing for fun

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it's an excuse to fill out the map with the help of MapOptions mod

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and it actually feels really nice and satisfying look at the complete map, knowing the region is now forever safe from the Rot

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I kinda wish there was some reward for doing this

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but the reward is the journey itself

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also uhmm

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I think Blueberry died

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somewhere

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haven't seen him since I starrted de-rotting

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so he might have died while I was purifying Signal Spires

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which would suck...

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I would've accepted it if I saw him while he was dying

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||but I guess I'll just spawn him back with dev console :3||

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when I feel like it

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for now we'll pretend he's still somewhere safe :)

quick salmon
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omg!!

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so Fallen Tramway is the future version of Aerial Tramway

quick salmon
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Badlands

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beautiful shelter (diverse shelters is peak)

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so anyway, I didn't manage to de-rot badlands somehow, so I moved on

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Torrid Desert

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climbing up this room was really fun, very well-hidden room

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and I FINALLY got The Chieftain!!!

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after years of war with the scavies

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I collected a few pearls and acted kind towards them

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and yet another region goes

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I've learnt an optimal strategy for de-rotting, it's actually pretty fun

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The Surface

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this was a special one.

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I had no idea this place was so green

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kinda beautiful

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the first time I explored this region, this part was already very very rotten

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hiding its true colors

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I was vcing with a few italians friends, so I'm not gonna send the clips ๐Ÿฅน

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but I had a really close call to the rain and barely made it to the shelter on the top left, which was sick

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also I have friends now!!!

quick salmon
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then, I had to emergency warp, leaving two rotten rooms at the very end of the subregion, or I would've frozen to death

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AND

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I literally warped into Aerial Tramways and realized that The Surface is yet another region variant that takes place in the future

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L O N G flower

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aaand done!

quick salmon
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Back to Badlands

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I WAS STARTING TO GO FUCKING INSANE

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THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE MSOT WELL-HIDDEN ROOM IN THE ENTIRE GAME

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it's a secret scav storage

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the thing is it's extremely hard to see on the map as well!!!

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I'm really impressed

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and finally, badlands are purified too!

violet mesa
quick salmon
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that's odd

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really random

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like cold storage-unfortunate evolution makes sense, but why badlands ๐Ÿ˜ญ

violet mesa
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I think it was a vestige of some old watcher structure ideas

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Otherwise, no clue!

quick salmon
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that's cool

opaque viper
quick salmon
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following the map layers can help too

plain latch
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washer

quick salmon
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like for torrid desert I first purified the rightmost area, since it wasn't connected to anything

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then I went to the left, purified the upper part, then into the echo room and then down, purified the lower part and made sure to double check the connections to the upper kne

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and there you have it! 5 start pure region!

plain latch
quick salmon
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allow me to share this medley of mine. I LOVE RAIN WORLDDDDD

quick salmon
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NEW UPDATEEEE

violet mesa
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IT IS SICK

quick salmon
quick salmon
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SAFARIIIIIIIII

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Pillar Grove

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this region was pretty big

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I love Emerald's Tweaks and Fixes, I can have albino deers!!

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here's the most purple snail ever

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AND I FOUND YET ANOTHER SECRET ROOM

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I'm so happy that after 80 hours in this campaign I still have these small easter egg rooms to find

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Greeble is so cute :)

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still have no idea what this is

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Cold Storage

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this will be the region I de-rot next probably

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rattlers manage to be annoying even after I get purification powers (I could NOT sleep in this shelter, it wouldn't let me because of the rattler)

violet mesa
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it's filled with rot weren't it for the rattler

quick salmon
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oh ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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awesome!

hexed sluice
# quick salmon still have no idea what this is

Recently while watching someone else's first Gourmand Playthrough, I noticed the same dot pattern on one of the background pillars in The Leg. I don't know what it means but thought that was interesting.

quick salmon
hexed sluice
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Don't remember exacly which room but maybe I can even find it on the Online map. Let me check ...

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It's in all the Squares on the red illuminated center pillar.

quick salmon
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yeah that's true

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I wonder what that means hunterthinking

hexed sluice
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UW_D06 has them as well.

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Maybe Pillar Grove is during the construction of an Iterator where they have just started to build the Legs but not the main structure itself. so it's not yet shading what's below.

quick salmon
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we do also see a big box in the region, that kinda looks like iterator puppet rooms

plain latch
plain latch
quick salmon
plain latch
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yeah, its named fern, there is also paste the scavenger