∞ hours in Light's trash bin

[opaque goblet]

I can understand it for sure

I just like how it usually keeps me in my toes, I can’t just open the map and pause everything around me, it is also a bit transparent so you can technically be paying attention at remembering and you surroundings

But it can be a pain pretty easily, even more if you don’t know how to switch layers for sure

OMGGGG

riv is precious

I didn’t thought about that

i’ll keep it in mind

I just ended my college classes today

from 8 am to 9 pm outside my house 😔

[fierce furnace]

dayum

[valid siren]

2000 msgs

[opaque goblet]

Congrats for the 2k messages @flint cipher 🎉

[flint cipher]

thanks its all me clearly

[opaque goblet]

We love rain world over here

and demos apparently

Oh yeah, my usual nick is Outlight instead of light lol

I am sure this is only silksong

yep, rain world fits in all of themn

Btw I did not know this was a thing that steam did

How long has this been for?

Pretty decent, I thought I played a lot less in october due to university

absolute banger of a game imo

Como and me not playing on april for some reason

[fierce furnace]

omg steam replay is out?!?

[opaque goblet]

yeaaaah (I just now it due to rattuse thread)

[fierce furnace]

can I share half of mine 🥹

I love steam replay

acutally I can just share the link so I don't flood with images

[opaque goblet]

yeaaah

you can share them however you want

[fierce furnace]

https://s.team/y25/hbpmbhbk?l=english

[sterile relic]

oh dude inscryption is so peak

i haven't played kaycee's mod in a while

[fierce furnace]

it is

[fierce furnace]

you really should

if you wanna ragequit to leshy

[sterile relic]

no thanks

[fierce furnace]

hahahahaa

[sterile relic]

i don't wanna have to restart again because of the Egg

[fierce furnace]

that's fair, it gets pretty frustrating

[opaque goblet]

1157 sessions of rain world???

[valid siren]

Balatro!

[fierce furnace]

that's right!

they're so many because modding involved lots of restarting the game

[glossy zephyr]

a long time

i have ones from 2023 and 2024 but theyre not very interesting since i barely used steam 🥹

or well 2024 is interesting because i was playing rain world

[glossy zephyr]

i love your mod by the way

have been looking for something like it for awhile and when i saw you made it i was like wait i know him 🥹

[fierce furnace]

I'm very glad you enjoy it

[opaque goblet]

I just saw my 2022 and 2023 and I only had like 13 sessions total🥺

[fierce furnace]

my 2024 was full of SCP Secret Laboratory 🥀

I had first tried rain world back in july

picking it up again in March of this year was the best choice of my life

[grave stream]

It's fun seeing everyone's stata

[opaque goblet]

A lot of people has a big break from rain world and then comebacks

that’s so interesting

[lusty fern]

imma share mine since everybody's sharing theirs

[opaque goblet]

omg, geometry dash?

a very close friend of mine has it their top 2

I haven’t played that game in ages

[lusty fern]

ive got like 220h on the steam version and probably like a few hundred (or maybe even thousand) more on some cracked one i had on my pc way back

i just beat my first extreme demon yesterday actually

funny level reference

[opaque goblet]

oh, the new rain world server picture got me confused trying to get in here lol

[opaque goblet]

congraaaaats

you deserve all the dancing mushrooms in the world

[lusty fern]

thank you

[fierce furnace]

yeah

[fierce furnace]

I love these little sentences Steam puts

[potent shadow]

[lusty fern]

[fierce furnace]

:veryshroomful:

this emoji makes me feel uneasy

[potent shadow]

Here's a duck

[fierce furnace]

thank you, much better

[opaque goblet]

this emoji is also from rain world?

there are a ton random ones lol

[grave stream]

Finally got my stats
Posted them in gobblers thread tho

[opaque goblet]

oh, I am not in gobblers thread

wait, let me check

I can’t find it

can you link it?

[grave stream]

It's the uhhh.. #1299923377925918720 message
Man I can't believe I can invite you there now🥹 I remember when you were brand new and starting

Still watch out tho

[opaque goblet]

I’ll be extra careful

50 day streak

that’s crazy work

and a lot of workshop subscribers also

do you have any rain world mod?

[grave stream]

No that's from my avorion spaceships

Avorion is super easy to get a heap of subs from because your ships will probably land on the front page because there's so few now

Almost all my avorion ships that I release hit the front page now

[opaque goblet]

humblest modder right here

[grave stream]

No like genuinely

My stuff is like. Mediocre

If you want funny number play avorion and release a few ships

Make them look cool because cool ships are more likely to do well than functional ships

Half of my ships don't even have internals

[opaque goblet]

I believe you, makes sense if the community releases few mods

[fierce furnace]

or make a modded creatures spawns mod

[opaque goblet]

I just thought the sentence looked funny out of context

[grave stream]

No not mods, ships

U can download other people's spaceship designs

[opaque goblet]

I mean, it sounds pretty fundamental for other mods

[opaque goblet]

oooooh, I see

so it’s like decals that you can apply from the workshop to a ship in your game?

[grave stream]

No it's whole ships

It's a ship building game

[opaque goblet]

I will finally be free from college (until finals) in 24 hours

then I will be able to play a more rain world

I don’t even remember what I planned on doing

soy right, chieftain and hunter passages

and then reading all the pearls

I AM SO EXCITED about the pearl reading

[hollow thorn]

Chieftain rwsc

[opaque goblet]

omg, there are rwsc for everything

what even is the chieftain one

let me check

how do you even do this one?

with vulture grubs?

[opaque goblet]

monooo, you cameback

[hollow thorn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1450294670860222517.gif?quality=lossless&name=veryshroomful&size=48

[opaque goblet]

it is funny since there literally are scavengers outside of the looks to the room room

well, I only remember seeing them in gourmand

[opaque goblet]

can't even watch the gift in my pc

[hollow thorn]

The fungal effect

[opaque goblet]

So one question

can you eat with a grapple worm in your hand?

[hollow thorn]

I believe so, as long as you have the food in the correct hand

[flint cipher]

yeah

[opaque goblet]

if that is the case it would make sense to do this challenge with a grapple worm right?

[flint cipher]

yes

its one of the most used methods

[hollow thorn]

Pipewarp

[flint cipher]

realised batspear desperado

[hollow thorn]

Can you deer glitch desp

[flint cipher]

not really

[hollow thorn]

So sad

[opaque goblet]

what the hell does this mean?

[flint cipher]

hard to avigate the terrain and i doubt popcorn plants get opened

[flint cipher]

oh its just a glitch on top of a glitch

[hollow thorn]

Open them first, go back, deer glitch, win

[flint cipher]

i could explain it but theres some challenges dedicated to bastpears so i could also do it when you get to them

[opaque goblet]

fair enough

we will get to it

[hollow thorn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1450294670860222517.gif?quality=lossless&name=veryshroomful&size=48

Do mycologist

[opaque goblet]

does this include red lizards?

[flint cipher]

yes

all vanilla lizards

[hollow thorn]

You can lineage them if you want to play as surv

[flint cipher]

you can also just do all as monk
then jjust tame the red as hunter

[hollow thorn]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1379651249372401795.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=huntersniffa

[flint cipher]

[opaque goblet]

oooooh wait

So it isn't necessary to do the challenges in the same campaign?

[flint cipher]

yeah it can be different playthroughts no need to take all the screenshots in the same

[opaque goblet]

well, makes sense, you can't even get all steam achivements in the same campaign and that is the passage challenge

[flint cipher]

well unless specified like "yeah you must do all of this in the same run"

pretty much all challenges dont make sense to switch campaigns overall tbh

[opaque goblet]

me changing mid-through my 10 karma flowers grom survivor to monk

[flint cipher]

yeah 🥹

[opaque goblet]

I haven't been inside five pebbles in my monk playthrough, but this doesn't sound bad

[glossy zephyr]

you should try it!!

[glossy zephyr]

whatever you can think of

i used a red lizard

[hollow thorn]

i summoned air strike

[flint cipher]

i love air strike

[hollow thorn]

!airstrike @flint cipher

[flint cipher]

!airstrike @hollow thorn

[hollow thorn]

[flint cipher]

;randomairstrike

your airstrike is @hollow thorn

[hollow thorn]

i am the airstrike

[flint cipher]

yes yu are

💥

[opaque goblet]

omg, what happened?

My pfp has been updated for the first time in years

[flint cipher]

so jolly

[opaque goblet]

it had to be done

[glossy zephyr]

YOU DID IT 🥹

this is incredible

[fierce furnace]

no way

[opaque goblet]

In a perfect world I would get these games "done" in 2026

But we will see how it goes

[opaque goblet]

now it is your turn to do it aetherius

[fierce furnace]

I started Blasphemous this summer

[fierce furnace]

hey in my defense, I had a profile picture for 3+ years. I changed it more than a year ago now

[opaque goblet]

I was planning on doing it, but I installed both blasphemus and rain world the same day and the rest day is history

[fierce furnace]

how do I make a harp christmas themed 🙏

[opaque goblet]

good question

[fierce furnace]

blasphemous was weird. I only played it for a couple hours. the vibe is really peculiar

[opaque goblet]

Love the spanish catholic vibe

[fierce furnace]

yeah

[glossy zephyr]

put christmas lights on it

or a santa hat on the left side of it

on the top

[fierce furnace]

heh let's see what my laziness says about that

[opaque goblet]

guys, I really don't want to read all this

and I have a pressentation about it tomorrow

And after it I won't even get a new color for my name on the server :(

what the hell? when did saint join my thread?

You should be freezing to death

now that I think about it saint gives off grinch vibes(green and with fluffy hair). They could even catch the gifts with the tongue

[grave stream]

Sait

[valid siren]

It's warm in this thread

[grand nymph]

Toasty even

[glossy zephyr]

this looks scary

so many big words and compounds

[grave stream]

Organic chemistry is cool

[flint cipher]

aglee

[lusty fern]

im a math guy not a chemistry guy, what the hell is this

[sterile relic]

orgchem!!!!

what's the paper about?

[grave stream]

me

[sterile relic]

hmm

[opaque goblet]

How to make more stable organic solar cells

to be able to do them without using scary toxic solvents

organic solar cells are pretty cool because they can be flexible (even liquid) but they are pretty hard to stabilize and inneficient

but maybe they get there eventually

And in the end of the paper they talk about how to find inv but apparently they haven’t figured out either

[opaque goblet]

and some tankium bits here and there apparently

[opaque goblet]

I am a chemist and I don’t even understand it🥹

[glossy zephyr]

because inv isn't real

what's an inv

[flint cipher]

Not real

[valid siren]

22222222222222222222222222

[grave stream]

22222222222224

[glossy zephyr]

2222222222222222225

[opaque goblet]

Just ended my presentation

(3 am over here)

I have to rest for tomorrow (si have to do the presentation in front of my teachers at 9 am)

I just had a silly idea to draw (I hope tomorrow) for the thread thumbnail

[glossy zephyr]

rest well light

hope the presentation goes well for you tomorrow

[grave stream]

I hope the presentation gives you presents

[opaque goblet]

thank youuu

[opaque goblet]

I hope so too

[opaque goblet]

Just did it

pretty good ngl

And with this I have finished my classes until late january

(well, tomorrow i will go to the highschool just to see a teacher for a specific thing)

But yeah, mostly over

[fierce furnace]

nice!

[hollow thorn]

Yay!!!!

[sterile relic]

oo

[opaque goblet]

I am still not sure how difficult inv is but this seems crazy ngl

[fierce furnace]

[sterile relic]

that's.........

oh god

[potent shadow]

First campaign 💀

[opaque goblet]

I just sent one of the final works I had

I am mostly free now

maybe I play a bit after eating dinner

[opaque goblet]

I am too sleepy, I’ll play tomorrow

[opaque goblet]

the real rain world final boss

sleep cycles

[grave stream]

go to awake go to awake

[opaque goblet]

loool

[opaque goblet]

I just awoke

[opaque goblet]

Yesterday I got redirected to a meme subreddit, but it all the memes were about furries

and I thought “I finally got to rattuse’s home🥺”

[grave stream]

Yay

🐀use

[fierce furnace]

what is the rat using

[grave stream]

Rattuse

[fierce furnace]

dayum

[opaque goblet]

Okay, I just finished some little things I had to for college

I am going to play for half an hour or so

Let's see if I can get The chieftain, and maybe The hunter

Oh right, I have snuffles with me

So can I try and trade pearls with the scavs or is snuffles going to intantly attack the scavs?

I guess we will have to find out

has mono always been a server staff?

I did not remember that

[potent shadow]

Happens to people from time to time

[opaque goblet]

okay, we got the chieftain

Soooo, for hunter how do I do it?

I need a place where there are reliable carnivorous sources of food

hummmm

My first guess would be centipedes

the bug where I get stuck in a wall from existing a pipe the second a creature is entering has happened again

hibernating without the necesary food but it did not count as starvation?

it even saved an counted 4 food points

???

[flint cipher]

Am I allowed to

Explain

It’s a basic game mechanic

[opaque goblet]

yeah

[flint cipher]

Food inside your shelter gets auto eaten for hibernation

[flint cipher]

I see something here in the ground so it was that probably

[opaque goblet]

ooooooh

I see

[opaque goblet]

I thought it was just the corpse of the eggbug but yeah, I think there was still one of the eggs

[flint cipher]

Yeah

[opaque goblet]

I have starved so little in this game, I did not know that the character auto eats the food

[grave stream]

I DID NOT KNOW THIS

Does it work with bats

[opaque goblet]

FINALLYYYY

oh, no steam achievement for it tho

well, my personal satisfaction is enough

huh

I would love to know if I have all the vanilla achievements

[opaque goblet]

Do you know what that means for today evening? Reading all the pearls dialog in vanilla and theorizing

And maybe changing the thumb art

[hollow thorn]

Did you complete hunter and get all passages? If so then probably and you could submit the passages rwsc

[glossy zephyr]

IM NOT A FURRY

was it a furry sewer though

[flint cipher]

are you sure

[glossy zephyr]

of course you ask that

[flint cipher]

what do you mean

[glossy zephyr]

nothing

[flint cipher]

[opaque goblet]

oh wait, there is a complete all passages rwsc?

I have to look at the specifics of the challenge, but yeah, I may be able to get it

[flint cipher]

Yes

Well more like

[glossy zephyr]

it's for all vanilla achievements actually (and some ones that downpour adds but you get them in vanilla)

[flint cipher]

All steam achievements

All vanilla

[glossy zephyr]

yeah i was about to correct you

erm actually como

[flint cipher]

Bites you

Actually bites you

[glossy zephyr]

aackshually

[opaque goblet]

Si, do I have all vanilla achievements?

oooh, that is why mono ask if I had done ascension as hunter right?

[flint cipher]

What do you have

[opaque goblet]

for the achievement that you get for hunter

[opaque goblet]

wait, I’ll screenshot one sec

[flint cipher]

If you go on steam “global achievebts” and have all above a certain one that should be it

This is a quick check if you have all above that one

[flint cipher]

30/47 means apart from expedition champion challenge idk what and the watcher achievements you are missing 2

[opaque goblet]

oh daam

[flint cipher]

What are you missing above the line

It’s easier to see like that

Should be missing 2

[opaque goblet]

wait, I have to look at the global achievements

[flint cipher]

No spoilers don’t worry

[opaque goblet]

Not entirely sure where it would be, maybe it is easier to check on pc

[flint cipher]

On phone, on this page, above all

[opaque goblet]

I’ll try and see around for a bit, I am going to get home in 20 minutes anyway so i can chencho then if i don’t find it

[flint cipher]

Just enter it and you get the global achievement stats highlighted

[opaque goblet]

ooooh I see

I love the spanish names tho

el forajido sounds more badass

[flint cipher]

Check quick I have to go in no time 🥹

[opaque goblet]

I only have on left tho

the mother

[valid siren]

Passages!!!

[flint cipher]

Ok

That should be it then

[flint cipher]

The mother is msc

[opaque goblet]

hummm

okay

So either do some stuff with slugpups or maybe getting pacifist ending with artificier

We will try it next play session then

[flint cipher]

You can submit it

Free chalk

[glossy zephyr]

free yellow

i still haven't submitted passages

[opaque goblet]

We can do some thinkering with a slugcat that has slugpups unlocked, and if I can’t find a way to get some passage progress we will try the artificier route

[glossy zephyr]

i don't have ascended achievement 🥹

[opaque goblet]

oh, already? oh yeah, because it isn’t vanilla

perfect

[flint cipher]

Yeah

[opaque goblet]

I’ll summit it later on

[flint cipher]

You can submit with that same video you sent me pretty sure

That shows all

[opaque goblet]

it feels pretty good to have all vanilla achievements🥹

[glossy zephyr]

yeah

[glossy zephyr]

and now you know about lizard taming

which is so cool

[opaque goblet]

Yeaaaaah

[flint cipher]

The lizard tamer

[opaque goblet]

lizard taming and lineages are pretty cool concepts

[opaque goblet]

it gets even more chaotic pretty quickly tho

I would like to understand how the food works once a lizard isn’t in its den and hibernates with you

and to check what happens if you tame a yellow one, do you get all the pack or only one?

fun experiments i’ll have to try

omgggg I am so excited to read all vanilla pearls

Does anyone have the wiki page for the vanilla ones? or can someone later today send them one by one on the chat?

[glossy zephyr]

i can look at them in a bit for you

[opaque goblet]

Okay, I just finished everything and I am ready to do... well it's not playing but yeah, the karma reading

If you need a moment or something to look them up, I am going to submit the passage rwsc and start the new silly drawing for the thread

Just submitted the request for the passage challenge

let's start the draft for the silly ms paint drawing

[opaque goblet]

yooo

new challenge verified

also half way through the thumbnail

[opaque goblet]

Okay, just finished the thumbnail silly drawing

I spend more time than I thought

So it is the Karma clock but the 16 rain ticks are the vanilla pearls

I tried to do shadowing like the karma symbol was glowing a bit

I am very proud of this two in particular ngl

[opaque goblet]

Would you all think this could be flagged as a spoiler if I put it as thumbnail?

[opaque goblet]

I just saw that maybe I made them a little too close to the clock

welp

Okay, I was thinking about reading the pear dialogues now

But I am scared of the wiki

so how do I unlock more challenges?

Doing the challenges?

[hollow thorn]

Doing them and completing campaigns

[opaque goblet]

interesting, let's try some of them

[flint cipher]

pretty sure you can just clikc on the locked challs to see the requirements

[opaque goblet]

OOOOOH

I was just in the rwsc save file

well, I don't have my artificier ones because this save file is going to have pacifist artificier but that is okay

oh daam

that seems pretty hard ngl

wait, wasn't challenge 70 mentioned once?

#1447493221902192772 message

That one

interesting

this songs are bangers

[hollow thorn]

Challenge 70 isn’t real it doesn’t exist

[flint cipher]

we dont talk about challenge 70

run away

[opaque goblet]

inv tipe challenge

oh, this challenge teachs you how to tame a lizard

what the hell is this challenge

[glossy zephyr]

which one is that 🥹

[opaque goblet]

challenge 15

the first one of hunter

just getting 30 point

I am getting humbled by this mode

[glossy zephyr]

real 🥹

i remember when i did that challenge i was terrible at combat

[opaque goblet]

oh rattuse

are you able to send me the pearl readings?

If you can't for whatever reason is okay though

I will just keep dying as hunter

[opaque goblet]

That's me fr fr

like, there is no moment in rain world that you get required this much combat skill

[glossy zephyr]

here's the wiki page for the vanilla pearl dialogue, scroll to the "Colored Pearls" section for the dialogue specifically https://rainworld.miraheze.org/wiki/Pearl/Dialogue
there is some minor spoiler content so if you'd rather i send the dialogue itself to the pearls here i'm okay with that, i'll just spoil tag them and flood your thread with 100 walls of text /silly

oh and minor note

[opaque goblet]

I can look at them, I will just resend them here so I can talk with a context while making theories

[glossy zephyr]

sky island vanilla pearls are special and are changed slightly by msc. in vanilla, ||the two pearls pull from a pool of dialogue.|| in msc, ||this pool is removed though and another sky islands pearl is added||

[opaque goblet]

I just don't want to navigate through the wiki until I found this, but I did not wanted to have you here slaved just sending text over here

[glossy zephyr]

i can do that if you want

it's funny

[opaque goblet]

yeah, if you find it ammusing pleaso do

It is deffinetly easier for me that way

[glossy zephyr]

have you read the one as hunter too?

[opaque goblet]

the one in your stomach?

[glossy zephyr]

yeah

[opaque goblet]

yeah, in the first run I just revivied moon and gave her the pearl then died next cycle

but I was very sutbborn about knowing it since maybe it was vital or I could just throw it in the beggining of next run

[glossy zephyr]

that's understandable though because lore

[glossy zephyr]

i won't send the sky island ones if you would prefer me not to for this reason (if you look at the spoiler tags or not)

[opaque goblet]

huh

So how do you know what is in them? should I get them multiple times?

How many pearl dialogues exist in that pool?

[glossy zephyr]

they're random 🥹

[opaque goblet]

finally

[glossy zephyr]

5

at least that's what the wiki says

[opaque goblet]

hum

[glossy zephyr]

[opaque goblet]

Since I got 2 pearls from sky island send me the 2 first dialogues and then I will try and find the other ones

how interesting, why is this mechaninc exclusive for sky islands?

I am sorry? are we crazy?

[glossy zephyr]

actually msc adds 3 to make up for each dialogue i am stupid

so 5 in msc 2 in vanilla

[flint cipher]

thats not too bad

[glossy zephyr]

that one took me awhile 🥹

[opaque goblet]

So there are 2 dialogue pearls and there are 2 colored pearls?

what is the pool then?

[glossy zephyr]

the thing is idk which ones frm the pool you know

[opaque goblet]

I am sorry for being that thick

[valid siren]

Just crush them

[glossy zephyr]

the pool is 5 dialogue options

[opaque goblet]

oh okay okay

[glossy zephyr]

in vanilla you randomly get 2

[opaque goblet]

fair enough

don't send the sky island ones then

[glossy zephyr]

in msc 3 new pearls are added so you can get all dialogue options

in one run

[opaque goblet]

I am sure they won't be lore relevant

[glossy zephyr]

find out...

could just do it as rivulet if you were lazy like me

[opaque goblet]

fair enough

[valid siren]

[opaque goblet]

My plan was to just go with survivor, have the key items with passages and get all 5 to moon directly

[glossy zephyr]

that works too

okay time to flood this thread

Outskirts • Light Blue (SU)
||`Its entire memory is filled with a mantra repeated... 5061 times - and then a termination verse. It was worn as an amulet, probably together with many identical others forming a pattern on some garment.

The repeating mantra is important because it symbolizes the cyclical nature of life and death, and the termination verse is a symbol for ascension above and beyond it. I don't know how familiar you are with the nature of life and death, but I imagine like all living creatures you have some intuitive knowledge?

Then you know that death isn't the end - birth and death are connected to each other like a ring, or some say a spiral. Some say a spiral that in turn forms a ring. Some ramble in agonizing longevity. But the basis is agreed upon: like sleep like death, you wake up again - whether you want to or not.

This is true for all living things, but some actually break the cycle. That doesn't apply to you or me though, you are too entangled in your animal struggles, and for me not breaking that cycle is an integral part of the design. Our mantras keep repeating.`||

Industrial Complex • Bright Blue (HI)
||`It's a production record of a mask factory, for what seems to be its last time in service. Have you seen a bone mask? Likely not, they are all gone with their owners.

In ancient times the masks were actually about showing spiritual persuasion - covering the face as a way to symbolically abate the self. Then of course, that was quite subverted as excessively ornate and lavish masks became an expression of identity. Some public persons did have problems with narrow doorways.

Originally monks in a temple would make the masks using bone plaster, and when the production was automated it would generally remain on the same site. So that the old stones could... radiate the material with holiness, I suppose.

This is from one such facility called Side House, which was here on Pebble's grounds. In the iterator projects many old industrial-religious sites like this were remodeled and incorporated. I think this one was made to provide pellets of holy ash to Pebbles, but knowing him he probably hasn't used much of it!`||

Drainage System • Bright Green (DS)
||`It's an old text. The verses are familiar to me, but I don't remember by whom they were written. The language is very old and intricate.

The first verse starts by drawing a comparison between the world and a tangled rug. It says that the world is an unfortunate mess. Like a knot, the nature of its existence is the fact that the parts are locking each other, none able to spring free.

Then as it goes on the world becomes a furry animal hide, I suppose... because now us living beings are like insects crawling in the fur. And then it's a fishing net, because the more we struggle and squirm, the more entangled we become.

It says that only the limp body of the jellyfish cannot be captured in the net. So we should try to be like the jellyfish, because the jellyfish doesn't try.

This was an eternal dilemma to them - they were burdened by great ambition, yet deeply convinced that striving in itself was an unforgivable vice. They tried very hard to be effortless. Perhaps that's what we were to them, someone to delegate that unrestrained effort to.

I know I have tried very hard.`||

Garbage Wastes • Deep Viridian (GW)
||`This one... is authored by Five Pebbles, when he was young. There has been an attempt to scramble the data, but it's sloppily done, and most is still somewhat legible.

It's written in internal language, or thoughts, so it is hard for me to translate so you would understand. It's a methodology for global ascension of course - quite good, although the Peripherists or the Slab Mongers certainly wouldn't agree!

"...considering the eight and the twenty sixth amendments to the Capricious Dogma, we are apparently supposed to take for granted that a meaning collector point inversion is the only way to approach what has later become referred to as 'noise milking' (or occasionally 'rock swatting'). I will argue my disagreement with this, not in regards to kind but in regards to..." Could it say... "volume"? Actually, are you getting anything out of this?

I suppose you found this in his waste department? I would be wary of going there - on his first fit of corruption he dumped a lot of infected material there, and if it has survived it could easily eat a little creature like you. Not that it would be as dangerous as going into Pebbles himself...

Also the pearls in the waste masses inevitably attract scavengers, which can be very dangerous when provoked.

But, you seem to have made it out of there.`||

Shoreline • Bright Purple (SL_bridge)
||`It's about the local aquifer - it must be quite old, from when Five Pebbles was in the planning phase.

Water is the most important resource for our basic function. Most of our processing is outsourced to microbe strata which need a flow of clean water or else slag builds up, our processes seize, and eventually we die. It is... very painful. They used to say that an iterator drinks a river, but neither of us two have seen a natural river so I suppose the analogy is lost on us, little creature!

Originally water supply was very important when placing iterators. Later there would be a great equalizer - the fact that we breathe out as much vapor as we inhale water led to there being water available everywhere, and the latest few generations could be placed almost completely freely.

Building Pebbles so close to me was believed to be a risky choice, but the groundwater was finally deemed as sufficient. It was not a good decision, in hindsight.`||

Shoreline • Bright Magenta (SL_chimney)
||`It is the genome for a purposed organism. A small slug to clean the insides of pipes.

Do you know what a purposed organism is? Actually you are talking to one right now!

Although, a small fraction of one. Nowadays I am mostly just my puppet. The bulk of me is in these walls but I am disconnected from those parts, to a degree where I am only vaguely aware of how bad their condition is.

Most purposed organisms were considerably smaller than me, and most barely looked like organisms at all. More like tubes in metal boxes, where something went in one end and something else came out the other.

There were of course those that were purposed for spectacle rather than industry - they enjoyed the privilege of glass boxes.

When I came into this world there was very little primal fauna left. So it's highly likely that you are the descendant of a purposed organism yourself!`||

Shoreline • Pale Yellow (SL_moon)
||`Interesting... This one is written by me.

It's about an iterator called Sliver of Straw. I don't remember when I wrote it... Do you know Sliver of Straw? She's quite legendary among us.

Sliver of Straw is the only one to ever broadcast a specific signal: that the Big Problem we're all working on has been solved. The triple affirmative - affirmative that a solution has been found, affirmative that the solution is portable, and affirmative that a technical implementation is possible and generally applicable. She's also one of few that has ever been confirmed as exhaustively incapacitated, or dead. We do not die easily.

Sliver of Straw sent this and the ensuing commotion was historically unparalleled, before or after. I still remember it. But... nothing happened - except that Sliver of Straw was apparently dead. When the dust settled we were all still there blinking at each other.

Everyone had a theory. Some said that she did have a solution, but that the solution itself was somehow dangerous. These later became known as the Triangulators, who think that a solution should be inferred without being directly discovered.

Some said she never had a solution, she just died. And when the systems broke down an erroneous signal was sent.

One camp claimed that dying was the solution.

Either way, after that these different factions developed, as well as a huge forensic effort to recreate and simulate Sliver of Straw's last moments. Some of the simulations were wrapped in a simulation wrapped in a simulation, in case something dangerous might happen. Nothing much has come from it.

In my essay I make the case that maybe she should be allowed to rest in peace now.`||

Shaded Citadel • Deep Magenta (SH)
||`Oh this one is interesting. You must have found it in the memory crypts? It has some plain text, I can read it out to you.

"In this vessel is the living memories of Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel, of the House of Braids, Count of 8 living blocks, Counselor of 16, Grand Master of the Twelfth Pillar of Community, High Commander of opinion group Winged Opinions, of pure Braid heritage, voted Local Champion in the speaking tournament of 1511.090, Mother, Father and Spouse, Spiritual Explorer and honorary member of the Congregation of Balanced Ambiguity. Artist, Warrior, and Fashion Legend.

Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel nobly decided to ascend in the beginning of 1514.008, after graciously donating all (ALL!) earthly possessions to the local Iterator project (Unparalleled Innocence), and left these memories to be cherished by the carnal plane.

The assorted memories and qualia include:

Watching dust suspended in a ray of sun (Old age). Eating a very tasty meal (Young child). Defeating an opponent in a debate contest, and being applauded by fellow team members (Late childhood/Early adulthood).

..."

...and the list goes on. I'm sorry, little creature, I won't read all of this - the list is six hundred and twenty items long.`||

The Exterior • Pale Green (UW)
||`This one has plain text. Let me cut the lengthy introductions...

"...we will not consider the Current Situation acceptable. Although our community is Blessed with an ever shrinking Population, and we can Almost Glimpse that Glorious moment when the last of us has joined our most Admired peers, we must still (at All Times!) maintain Good Relations with our Iterator.

The Moral Argument: Five Pebbles is our Creation, and we have Parental Obligations towards him. As an Iterator, he is also a Gift of Charity from Us to The World (unable to reach Enlightenment by itself - being composed mostly of Rock, Gas, dull witted Bugs and Microbes - and towards which We thus have Obligations).

The Practical Argument: Despite You being family, I must Beg Forgiveness for the Blunt Vulgarity - but We are (for as long as we Remain) Dependent on Five Pebbles for Water, Nectar, Energy, Void Fluid and All other Vital Resources. By Now, living on the surface is Laughable. We are Across the River and have Kicked out the Boat.

I therefor ask you to Do Anything in your Might to stop the House(We both know which House) from Further Obstruction! They have less than forty members on the Council, but still Tilt the spiritual Discourse with Our Iterator in a direction that most obviously Displeases him, and is hardly High Held by anyone in the Community either! We can not Risk this!"

And then there are polite farewells. None of us really miss the times when their cities were populated. Imagine having skin parasites that also ask for advice and have opinions...

I'm sorry, that was disrespectful. They were our parents after all.`||

Chimney Canopy • Gold (CC)
||`This information is illegal. Someone probably tried to send it by a pearl somehow rather than risking being overheard on broadcast.

I think the risk of you acting on this is very slim, so I'll go ahead and explain it to you. It's an instruction on how to circumvent the self-destruction taboo.

The problem with breaking taboos is that the barriers are encoded into every cell of our organic parts. And there are other taboos strictly regulating our ability to rewrite our own genome.

So what you need is to somehow create a small sample of living organic matter which can procreate and act on the rest of your organic matter to re-write its genome. The re-write has to be very specific, overriding the specific taboo you want to circumvent but do nothing else.

The method described here is about scrambling the genome of standard plastic neural tissue with temperature fluctuations. After each scramble you browse the resulting cells for the genome you're after. This is of course extremely time consuming, unless you run a big number of parallel processes.

I definitely don't have any experience with this, but to me it would seem that too many parallel processes would be quite dangerous, as it would be exponentially more difficult to manage and control them all. The whole operation seems rather risky if you ask me.

It might be a good thing that this pearl never reached its destination.`||

Farm Arrays • Bright Red (LF_bottom)
||`It's a Small Plate, a little text of spiritual guidance. It's written by a monk called Four Cabinets, Eleven Hatchets. It's old, several ages before the Void Fluid revolution.

Like most writing from this time it’s quite shrouded in analogies, but the subject is how to shed one of the five natural urges which tie a creature to life. Namely number four, gluttony.

It is basically an instruction on how to starve yourself on herbal tea and gravel, but disguised as a poem.

Now of course when Void Fluid was discovered these methods proved obsolete, as it was more easy just jumping in a vat of it to effortlessly leave this world behind.

There were some horror stories though... That if your ego was big enough, not even the Void Fluid could entirely cross you out, and a faint echo of your pompousness would grandiosely haunt the premises forever.

So even when the Void Fluid baths became cheaper, some would still starve and drink the bitter tea.`||

Farm Arrays • Deep Pink (LF_west)
||`This one is just plain text. I will read it to you.

"On regards of the (by spiritual splendor eternally graced) people of the Congregation of Never Dwindling Righteousness, we Wish to congratulate (o so thankfully) this Facility on its Loyal and Relished services, and to Offer our Hopes and Aspirations that the Fruitful and Mutually Satisfactory Cooperation may continue, for as long as the Stars stay fixed on their Celestial Spheres and/or the Cooperation continues to be Fruitful and Mutually Satisfactory."

"It is with Honor I, Eight Suns-Countless Leaves, of the House of Six Wagons, Count of no living blocks, Counselor of 2, Duke of 1, Humble Secretary of the Congregation of Never Dwindling Righteousness, write this to You."

"We hope that the Crops are healthy, and that the Productivity with which your Facility is Blessed, leads (as it often does) to further Prosperity. May Not as long as the Stars stay fixed on their Celestial Spheres Grey Hand, Impure Blood, Inheritable Corruption, Parasites, or malfunction settle in Your establishment."

"Leaning on the Solid Foundation of our Long Running Fruitful and Mutually Satisfactory Cooperation, we will take the liberty of stating The Reason for this Message ~ we write to Warmly thank You for yet Another Timely and Appreciated delivery of your Product (Nectar) to our Community (Congregation of Never Dwindling Righteousness). Our humble Words can never Aspire to Describe our gratitude."

"Sincerely..." And then the name and titles again.

It's a confirmation to an automated farming plot that a shipment of beverages has arrived.`||

Subterranean • Dark Magenta (SB_ravine)
||`It's a conversation log, all plain text. You want me to read it?

"1681.662 - PRIVATE
Seven Red Suns, Chasing Wind

CW: Have you had any contact with Five Pebbles recently?

SRS: Not in a long while actually! Unless worrying about him counts.

CW: One of his neighbors, Unparalleled Innocence, sent an overseer to his can and got some images. They were made public in the local group, in an effort to be mean I suppose. There's no other way of putting it - he looks awful.

SRS: Tell me.

CW: He's got the rot, very badly. Big cysts have become mobile and are scattering down the west and middle legs. He does listen to you, and few others by now, so you should talk to him.

SRS: I will try to contact him. Does Moon know?

CW: Moon has been unavailable for some time."`||

Subterranean • Light Teal (SB_filtration)
||`It's the blueprint for a Void Fluid filtration system. Do you know what Void Fluid is? I think you don't.

If you leave a stone on the ground, and come back some time later, it's covered in dust. This happens everywhere, and over several lifetimes of creatures such as you, the ground slowly builds upwards.

So why doesn't the ground collide with the sky? Because far down, under the very very old layers of the earth, the rock is being dissolved or removed. The entity which does this is known as the Void Sea.

If you drill far enough into the earth you begin encountering a substance called Void Fluid. The deeper you go, the less rock and more Void Fluid. It's believed that there is a point where the rock completely gives way - below that would be the Void Sea.

When that stone you placed on the ground has finally done its time in the sediments, it meets the Void Fluid and is dissolved, leaving the physical world.

My creators, or rather my creators' ancestors, figured out a way to use Void Fluid. Because you can generate energy by creating a vacuum... never mind. Anyways, the Void Fluid drills were what started the big technological leap, but this is very long before I entered this world - so I can only tell you what I remember from priming.

A Void Fluid filtration system is used because if you take Void Fluid from close to the bedrock horizon, it will contain traces of rock and dirt. They bring in dirty fluid and then filter it to increase its purity. The other way is to put a pipe deeper, which works well for some time, but the pipe dissolves. Or is broken by some... force - no one really knows, you don't go down there and come back up.

I hope that satisfied your curiosity, little creature?`||

Hunter • Aquamarine
||`"Triple affirmative! Triple affirmative!

In all seriousness though, noticed barely any rain from your can so figured a little support might be in order.

Wasn't that easy to see of course, with Pebbles' shall we say healthy output.

Enjoy the slag keys! Excuse the unorthodox delivery method, equipment eroding etc etc.

Be well, NSH"

Oh.

I see now. Again, thank you little friend.`||

[opaque goblet]

One of the caramel lizards jumped out of screen so I got the challenge

[opaque goblet]

Thanks rattuseee

[opaque goblet]

Can you pin this message?

[glossy zephyr]

i'm famous 🥹

[opaque goblet]

Oh, and can you give me your opinion if this image would be to spolery for the thumbnail?

[opaque goblet]

you will always be in my threads

[glossy zephyr]

it should be okay since that symbol is included in the tutorial of the game, but i'll ask the other felpers just to be sure

[opaque goblet]

thanks!!

I already have in mind what the next drawing will be, but I am still not prepared to do any perspective

So that one is going to be pretty bad ngl

Okay enough combat challenges

Let's get some reading done already

[glossy zephyr]

are you going to tell us or are you going to be evil and keep it a secret

[glossy zephyr]

you always make me feel so noticed here

[opaque goblet]

I would want to make a version of this emoji ( ) with survivor pointing to some trash bin (🗑) with a bit of pearls in it

I love (❤️ ) doing the name (emoji), it feels like I am the writer of a mario game lol

[opaque goblet]

It is your fault for being here since the beggining

[opaque goblet]

also hard due to having to draw hands

So yeah, prepare to see some bad drawings lol

But that is what we are here for

[valid siren]

Oh god holy textwall

[glossy zephyr]

the one thing is that pearls might come across too spoilery so you could always put silly stuff like rwsc role screenshots and the remix menu art for some of the dlcs and batflies and blue fruit and stuff

[valid siren]

[opaque goblet]

I love that you have spoiled tag them, because now I feel like I am reading some redacted documents even though I have read almost all of this

[glossy zephyr]

wait this might be helpful

[opaque goblet]

truuuue

[opaque goblet]

maybe I can put some of ya'll pfp

[glossy zephyr]

some of the crazy memorable stuff i've said

"explore!" with a giant ❌ mark through the message and the caption "BAD TERRIBLE FELPER"

[opaque goblet]

those are pretty good to have in mind

[opaque goblet]

this message was going to be different but I don't want to upset you with what happened yesterday with your thread

Btw I did not say anything but I am sorry that happened to you

[glossy zephyr]

yeah i'm feeling much better over it now but it was really upsetting at the time 🥹

[opaque goblet]

that would be pretty funny

[flint cipher]

explore!

[glossy zephyr]

it's so fun editing the starting message 20 times

[opaque goblet]

Wait, where does this symbol come from?

[glossy zephyr]

rwsc

[opaque goblet]

oooh, I see

[valid siren]

its a milestone from completing 10 of the same challenges

[glossy zephyr]

certain ones you do, you can get milestone roles that give you cool icons

[valid siren]

i am Enlightened

[opaque goblet]

are there some special ones?

[glossy zephyr]

yeah!!

[opaque goblet]

that is so cool

man, I love this server

[opaque goblet]

Would not have guessed

/silly

[opaque goblet]

I am glad

[valid siren]

[glossy zephyr]

and como's ascended

[flint cipher]

hi

[opaque goblet]

(about you being much better, not the upsetting thing obviously )

[glossy zephyr]

i guess it doesn't have an emote because it is very spoilery

[flint cipher]

you get this one by completing 999 challenges

nah its just any 20

[glossy zephyr]

and these are 10 of specific rwsc that are categorized by the kind of rwsc they are

like wildlife whisperer has you interacting with creatures for example

[flint cipher]

ive had some very funny interactions of people asking stuff related to the ascended icon lol

[opaque goblet]

omg, I want to have them all

[glossy zephyr]

i want to get wildlife whisperer

the green one

[valid siren]

its a fun goal aye

[opaque goblet]

uuuuuh

[glossy zephyr]

a lot of good things happened today

[opaque goblet]

You are hyping me so much a bot rwsc while I have literally all the vanilla lore in front of me

You guys do not help me with the rain world addiction

[glossy zephyr]

it never ends

i baited como into mods

[valid siren]

rain world addiction? it's called dedication and commitment

[glossy zephyr]

if anything i drag people into this game

[hollow thorn]

You should do mycologist

[flint cipher]

welcome

[opaque goblet]

what's that one about?

[flint cipher]

we accept you on this cult

[valid siren]

Mushrooms🍄

[hollow thorn]

you have to eat 4 different mushrooms from 4 different regions on the starting cycle

[glossy zephyr]

after you do all of the downpour content and watcher content there is then rwsc and then after that there is like so many mods you will spend thousands of hours and still more will release

[flint cipher]

wrong emote

[opaque goblet]

I am going to just ping the rwsc to my bookmarks

[glossy zephyr]

it's in mine already

[opaque goblet]

on the starting cycle?

:o

[hollow thorn]

50 of the challenges are vanilla only so you don’t have to finish watcher/downpour at all

[opaque goblet]

how do you even do that?

[hollow thorn]

Move very fast

[opaque goblet]

you have karma 2 right?

[hollow thorn]

Oh there is a remix setting that lets all gates open no matter what you have

[valid siren]

DAKR - Disable All Karma Requirements

[opaque goblet]

yeah, this is a never ending cycle

I will have to take some breaks in the near future since I want to play outer wilds and signalis

[flint cipher]

outer wilds cool g ame

[opaque goblet]

(and I am sure I am going to buy at least 7 new games in this sale, and ignore all of them)

[opaque goblet]

riiiight, you all told me about it before

[opaque goblet]

yeah, I don't have that movement tech yet

[glossy zephyr]

my boyfriend bought me several games this sale 🥹

[hollow thorn]

You don’t really need it for mycologist, just need to know where to go

[opaque goblet]

I will have to look hard at the map, because in my head it only makes sense to do outskirts->drainage->garbage->shoreline

[glossy zephyr]

im forced to stop playing rain world for the meantime

[opaque goblet]

niiiiice, is there some special ones?

[flint cipher]

same thing but go industrial

meanwhile i have 0 games in interested in so i will buy nothing this steam sale

[opaque goblet]

I love industrial ngl

[opaque goblet]

very valid

[glossy zephyr]

i'm not allowed to look until the 21st but i'm pretty sure they're all games im interested in and want to play

[hollow thorn]

Is there a mushroom in shoreline?

[flint cipher]

idk i dont think so

[hollow thorn]

Underhang mushroom is better

[opaque goblet]

dang, I was feeling so smug for a second

[opaque goblet]

ooooh, I see

[flint cipher]

yeah theres no mushroom at shoreline

just checkd

[glossy zephyr]

bad for my winter break though, i'll just be gaming all day

[opaque goblet]

Yesterday I gifted my gf 4 games because she hates surprisses so I just gave it to her later than evening

She would have killed me if I did not tell her for more than a day lol

[opaque goblet]

that sounds like a good winter break ngl

[glossy zephyr]

real 🥹

[opaque goblet]

I am sure there is going to be something on sale here

[glossy zephyr]

i nearly killed manngo because i'm scared of how much he spent on all of these

[glossy zephyr]

probably one thing is at least less than 5

hey we both have outrageously large wishlists

[opaque goblet]

yeah, I am sure at least 1 thing

[glossy zephyr]

🥹

WHAT

,50???

[flint cipher]

do you like mine

[glossy zephyr]

why is it called nothing

[glossy zephyr]

wow!

[flint cipher]

i already have like

idk

150 games on steam

nothing that interests me is out lol i just insta buy those

[glossy zephyr]

peak game taste

ive heard of some of these before

[opaque goblet]

(tw: rattuse whislist) I just bought the first one to my girlfriend yesterday

[glossy zephyr]

toem is so cute

[opaque goblet]

that's rare ngl

[flint cipher]

whats rare is

[glossy zephyr]

gobbler has a 0 wishlist too

[flint cipher]

im able to see the list

without silksong being there

[opaque goblet]

I have at least 4 or 5 games on my whislist that haven't come out yet

[glossy zephyr]

WAIT WHY IS THIS A TRIGGER WARNIGN

trigger warning: rattuse

[opaque goblet]

I had constance for a long time before it released

[opaque goblet]

necessary

[opaque goblet]

Oh wait, no that is not true

[flint cipher]

sorry i won

[opaque goblet]

Is due to the family sharing

[glossy zephyr]

you should friend me

[opaque goblet]

this is the real number

[glossy zephyr]

am i poor

[opaque goblet]

3 screenshots lol

[opaque goblet]

wait

reporting you to valve rn

[glossy zephyr]

WHAT DID I DO

[flint cipher]

according to that number i

[glossy zephyr]

yknow this is fair actually

como gets bullied in mcxanderis' threads

i have to get bullied somewhere too

[flint cipher]

hmmm 1.1k already

@glossy zephyr i think you like leaving m,essage

[opaque goblet]

"como"

[glossy zephyr]

skibiditur

[opaque goblet]

can't even find you in the steam program

[glossy zephyr]

because i dont exist

[flint cipher]

bites and kills you

[glossy zephyr]

oh who is this stranger who just friend erquested me

[flint cipher]

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Spooktuse

spooktuse

your link is

spooktuse

[glossy zephyr]

rattuse was taken

[opaque goblet]

Hey, do you know this rat guy? they seemed pretty chill, but when I tried adding them they have ignoring me for the past few weeks

[glossy zephyr]

fro soem rason

reason

YOU LITERALLY JUST FRIENDED ME

tries to bully and i get outplayed

[flint cipher]

run

[opaque goblet]

oh no

madrid jumpscare

This como person is following me

[glossy zephyr]

comosona

[flint cipher]

guys who is friending me

[opaque goblet]

I want to have the platinum so bad

[glossy zephyr]

me too

does steam recording get achievements too

[opaque goblet]

I think I remember them, They tried scamming me in cs:go offering me some knife, I would be carefull

[flint cipher]

the comotur letters are so awful but so funny thats why i keep them

[glossy zephyr]

i want to do <@&821079440552362015> but record myself getting the steam achievement at hte same time

because i still dont have it

[opaque goblet]

they are pretty camp

[opaque goblet]

WAIT

I just noticed the ricoulet

that's soooooo cute

[glossy zephyr]

yeah it's cute

[opaque goblet]

did you draw it?

[glossy zephyr]

the plushie

como is not an artist apparently

[opaque goblet]

what is ascension? the 11% one?

[glossy zephyr]

the achievement yes

[flint cipher]

i could only hope to draw like that

[glossy zephyr]

the rwsc though is completing the game in a certain amount of time

[opaque goblet]

how much?

[flint cipher]

its just a rw speedrun

37 mins

[glossy zephyr]

so like going to five pebbles, getting max karma, going to depths and piss pool

[flint cipher]

or is it 38 uuu

[glossy zephyr]

38

[flint cipher]

its 38 yeah

[opaque goblet]

I see, I don't know why I would have thought there is some weird strategy to go through the guardians

Like the first time I was in the depths and I surpassed one of them

[glossy zephyr]

are you on the sheet rn como

[opaque goblet]

I wanted to try using some mushrooms

[glossy zephyr]

there are ways to do that but not for this rwsc no

[opaque goblet]

seems pretty difficult ngl

[flint cipher]

yes

[glossy zephyr]

SO THIS IS YOU

[opaque goblet]

this message is unbelivable funny

[glossy zephyr]

ANON GIRAFFE

[flint cipher]

SO THIS IS YOU

[glossy zephyr]

i'm glad i'm funny

oh it's in spanish...

[flint cipher]

koala anónimo 👻

[opaque goblet]

by some wierd bug Como wasn't showing up in my friends tab in steam, but neither was in my pending friend invites

And I thought that they just denied my friend request🥹

looking at them so they don't run away

[flint cipher]

yes i declined because im evil and very exclusive witrh my steam friends you have to pay me 30€ to be my steam friend

[opaque goblet]

sorry, don't have any €, I can only pay with rattuse mean messages

[flint cipher]

30 rattuse mean messages work

[glossy zephyr]

WHAT

I LOOK AWAY FOR ONE SECOND

who the hell are you...

[opaque goblet]

I can't believe rattuse told me this the first time I beat survivor

daam, making a fake very legit discord message is harder than I thought

Okay, now fr, I should read the pearls dialogue

the duality of human, one are just silly and the other ones celebrate

Okay, let's start the very deep analysis

[flint cipher]

hi

[opaque goblet]

"not breaking that cycle is an integral part of our design"

So that makes me think, should I be taking into acount downpour?

Because yeah, saint happened

But again, did they really ascend? they tell saint to wake up

What exactly is ascending in that ending about, because you did clearly ascend and then returned, but I am sure if you keep playing moon and pebbles will still be there, without ascending

I guess I am going to try and keep saint outside of my thoughts about this since it is the end of downpour and it may not be completely canon for the sake of vanilla

[opaque goblet]

Also, I don't exactly remember, but pearls aren't only used by iterators right? they were used by the ancients to right?

So we don't exactly know if this pearl is from an ancient

The end of the pearl would vaguely indicate it was from an ancient since the iterator are not concern from ascension (at least they are not in the moment that the ancients are alive)

I am still very intrigued by what exactly happened to the ancients, and to that extent what happened to the creatures before them

I was also thinking yesterday about the nature of cycles

You go from one cycle to the other when the rain happens

But why?

Cycles existed before rain, since iterators where built to search a way out

So when is the cut from one cycle to the other happen?

because there is some obvious continuity, if you die you don't go to the next cycle with the creatures that made it

But you are stuck until you succesfully rest

Does that mean that now there are 2 of all the other creatures in the universe? the ones that continued and the duplicate that are also stuck in a repiting cycle with you?

Like, what exactly happened to the slugpups of artificier when they died?

because artificier can't see them again

But are the slugpups repiting cycles with a version of artificier still?

one last thing before moving on to another pearl

"the termination verse is a symbol for ascension obeve and beyond" would that be karma 5 or 10?

humm, I will keep it in mind

okay, next pearl

[opaque goblet]

interesting, so are this bone masks have correlation with the vultures?

I have always wonder if the vultures make them, or they just found them around

Also very interested in scavengers having the faces and horns, they are pretty similar to some masks we have seen in general

I love the mixture of religion and industralization

holy ash to pebbles? "knowing him he probably hasn't used much of it!"? what could this mean?

what use could pebbles have for it?

does he not use it because it has growned crazy with time? or is it just a conjecture due to 5 pebbles having some retractors in ancient's times? maybe 5 pebbles does not use the ash due to some past fight with the inhabitants of it's cities

next pearl

[opaque goblet]

wow, this is pretty deep ngl

I knwo ancients had some type of 5 sins/vices that they recogniced as unfogivable to ascend

But it does not seem like effort or striving for succes would be one of them

maybe the karma 5 symbol

But that also brings me to something that always made me curious, we have the murals outside moon and pebbles with karma 1 to 5. Karma 10 is hinted A LOT and then in the depths is directly mentiones, but what about karma 6-9

Could maybe "Trying to achive great things" be one of those more advanced vices?

[small harbor]

Karma 6-7

[opaque goblet]

I was thinking about it while wrotting it lol

let's see the next pearl

[opaque goblet]

So are the "peripherist" and "Slab mongers" groups of thinking tendencies in the ancients times? I don't remember these names being said more

[small harbor]

The lore analysises are interesting

[opaque goblet]

let's keep reading

[small harbor]

The oerl

[valid siren]

did you swimmed?

[opaque goblet]

I think I did yeah

[opaque goblet]

oooh, there are some lore implications in here

So yeah, pebbles did dump some of the daddy long legs that will get contaminated

I literally understand nothing about this though:
"...considering the eight and the twenty sixth amendments to the Capricious Dogma, we are apparently supposed to take for granted that a meaning collector point inversion is the only way to approach what has later become referred to as 'noise milking' (or occasionally 'rock swatting'). I will argue my disagreement with this, not in regards to kind but in regards to..." Could it say... "volume"? Actually, are you getting anything out of this?

[small harbor]

Clearly moon knows you didn't too

[opaque goblet]

So first moon talks about the eight and twenty sixth amendments

So this seem to be from the "laws" that the ancient had when they made iterators

Maybe some type of general path to follow when discovering how to ascend the ancients

"a meaning collector point inversion is the only way to approach" so this just means that they need a specific point to ascend, I would guess this wat ends up as being the depths

So this would have been written before the ancients ascended. That is the case or this is just early pebbles developing how to get all the other creatures out of the cycles before they saw that it would now work

this just does not make any sense " 'noise milking' (or occasionally 'rock swatting"

[opaque goblet]

okay, so this was a big lore pearl to find early on, but now is just knowledge that we have

[opaque goblet]

oh, so the majority of the fauna is just "artificial"

Interesting, I would love to know what are the "More like tubes in metal boxes, where something went in one end and something else came out the other"

Did they create organism that turns one thing in to another like machines?

I guess that is a bit how we treat some bacteria that can synthesize antibiaotics

I hope these organisms aren't pipes thought

I have long thought about why the pipes, why the karma gates

Like how usefull are karma gates?

[opaque goblet]

WAIT

I know I said I wasn't going to talk about saint

but doesn't saint fit all three of this afirmatives?

do they come from silver of straw?

I am extremelly curious about why do iterators always send slugcats to tasks instead of any other creature

I don't remember silver of straw being mentioned in the saint campaign though

[opaque goblet]

Fashion legend

So Unparalleled Innocence is a iterator I did not heard before?

also is the 1514.008 or the 1511.090 ways of messuring time passage/cycle count?

[opaque goblet]

I love this pearl not going to lie

It also does not bring much information right now, but it is so cool to read it knowing more

[opaque goblet]

HUH

So this could have lead to the death of SoS or it could also be the explanation for the crazziness that consumes five pebbles

Or it may not explain anything ofcorse

but it is pretty cool to see that iterators have extremely prohibited to kill themselves

I guess it was a curse by the ancients to have the safety that the iterators would try to search for the ascension

It would be ironic that since ascension is kinda of a form of self destruction, that could undirectly mean that they could not find a way to ascend EVERY creature on the planes since it would include them, dooming all of us

[opaque goblet]

Also interesting to know how an iterator can modify the genome of a creature, I guess that is what happened with spearmaster (and what happened in an accident with hunter)

[opaque goblet]

wadfjdsfsdbjfsdfhs WHAAAAAAAAAAT

This just explained so much

So:

• there was the concept of ascension before void fluid was discovered
• Again they only talk about 5 urges, when there are 10 karma symbols
• Confirms that the 4 karma is gluttony even though we knew by the art in pebbles
• Explains the existance of guardians, they are trying to impede that anyone can jump and then form an echo that could be dangerous (At the end of the day, they make every creature in a radious instantly fall to the ground)
• Explains why ehoes are formed (that also makes the ending of saint extremely different in my mind now, because that has to meen that saint had a big ego, but that is not covered by the karma then? but it is true that saint got it's karma from echo, witch whoom, also had big egos, huh, this is getting interesting)

I will have to really look in to this pearl on another time

[opaque goblet]

so what are this things that can affect iterators:

• Impure blood (maybe using impure water and getting everything clogged)
• Inheritable corruption (???)
• Parasites (maybe daddy long legs, even thought it is funny that 5 pebbles and some ancients refer as the ancients living in the cities as parasites)
• Malfunction

[opaque goblet]

oh, so this is just a message between ancients, not from ancients to an iterator

nevemind the last message then

[opaque goblet]

Well, we do know that iterators are responsible to give the nectar, so maybe it really is a pearl ancient-iterator

[opaque goblet]

Interesting, so we already had the rot as a name in vanilla

I don't remember being a reference to chasing wind though

So in this broadcast SRS does not know that moon was unavailable??

that is weird because we (spearmaster) send the message in the group chat

[opaque goblet]

very neat pearl, I remember reading this early on and being astonished by the worldbuilding

[opaque goblet]

Huh, interesting mention of triple affirmative, just so moon thinks it is the beggining of ascension. iterator pranking each other I guess

So that was almost all my thought line

I will still be thinking about all the lore bits during the next few days just to see if I come up with something interesting

The pearls just give me so much to be hyped about ths games

I love how everything fits even though at the start nothing makes sense

I hope you all enjoyed the rambling

[glossy zephyr]

@opaque goblet you can make the art the thumbnail image!!!

[opaque goblet]

Let’s gooooo

thanks

[opaque goblet]

going to sleep while thinking about rain world pearl lore

[flint cipher]

[opaque goblet]

I had a dream that a mod told me it was a spoiler the new thumbnail and they banned me from the server

[grave stream]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1203242690758844458/1374849201992765501/cyan-zoomies.gif

[fierce furnace]

yep so now you're getting banned, goodbye Light

[hollow thorn]

You will never get banned for a spoiler unless you make a huge fuss about it

[opaque goblet]

I just saw the fnaf movie because my gf was obsessed with the games when she was very young

[opaque goblet]

I would have to know any lore before it tho

Now I am very curious about what did firelight do to get banned

Does anyone know?

[opaque goblet]

It was nice meeting all of you

[hollow thorn]

Broke the rules

You can always message @thin shuttle if you want too

[grave stream]

That's probably the best option tbh

[opaque goblet]

huh, how does messaging courier work?

Do I just DM it and it will be checked by a mod? or is it automated to respond by commands?

[flint cipher]

you just dm with the message

like if you were dming someone

[opaque goblet]

okay, I will ask later then

Btw, I was just checking in a book shop over here and a book that I heard long ago just came here in Spain. It is called The house of leaves

Has anyone here read it?

I usually don’t read horror, but it looks interesting

It was to know how scary it actually is lol

[opaque goblet]

(I mostly read fantasy)

[sterile relic]

WOAH

do you mean the house of leaves by mark danielewski?

because that's a fantastic book

really tangled plot though, following multiple narratives including ||the navidson record and johnny truant, the main narrator of the book||

basically it's a story ||about a story of a house that's larger on the inside than on the outside||

if you don't wanna read the story, there's a doom 2 mod inspired by it that is similar to the plot itself. it's called myhouse.wad if you're interested

fair warning if you do decide to read it btw, it's a slog to get through + some pages look like this

[lusty fern]

thats more fun though

id read that

[opaque goblet]

Oh, that was one of my concerns

I talked to a friend and apparently they had it hardcover, so he just lend it to me

I have it in my house

the problem is, it is written in english, and I don't know if that is going to be more of a problem if it is already difficult to read

So I planned on reading 10% or so, and if it is too much, buying it in spanish and reading that

But I do want to try it first in english because the whole premise of the book looks like it has a lot of intentionality in the format, and a translation could change it

[opaque goblet]

Yeah, it looks very interesting, it was the main selling point for me

I am very interested in the way of writing, that was also why I asked if it is too scary lol

[grave stream]

Yeah you kind of just DM it, courier will react with 📡 if everything worked

[sterile relic]

it's imho less scary and more existential crisis inducing

brain exploding type shit

[opaque goblet]

that sounds like the type of horror I would like

I will give it a go when I finish the first one from the dresden files then

[opaque goblet]

looks like it worked, now I have to wait

[opaque goblet]

oh, daam, they responded and it was a bit intense lol

but very informative

[grave stream]

I was there!!

[opaque goblet]

huh? what do you meen

(I am just a bit stupid)

[grave stream]

I was present when the incidents were happening

[opaque goblet]

oh yeah, I was expecting some spoilers or something not straight up violations of server rules

[opaque goblet]

I haven’t thought about it, but I am sure that people like you that are in so many threats you have to read a lot of weird things and interactions lol

[grave stream]

Yeah

[glossy zephyr]

now i'm curious too 🥹

[opaque goblet]

can I post a screenshot from the chat or is that against the rules?

First challenge of every category

Well, except artificier ofcorse

[glossy zephyr]

probably best not to, at least in server

[opaque goblet]

oh btw, I just did 6 of the 7 hunter challenges

it is pretty fun ngl

[flint cipher]

the hunetr

[opaque goblet]

I am liking doing them

I am also very interested in doing the saint ones

surviving seems more fun than just getting 30 points by killing

is there some rwsc about getting all the in game challenges?

I really thought I was going to explore and solve inv’s riddle first thing after saint but I am doing everything except that

[sterile relic]

wait does enot have their own challenges too?

[grave stream]

There are some rwsc with enot yeah

[glossy zephyr]

ingame though ||nope||

[sterile relic]

aw :<

[small harbor]

Huh, you haven't beaten arti?

[opaque goblet]

not in this game file😔

due to the steam deck not saving on the cloud I now have a game file with all the campaigns except arti, and another one with survivor, monk, hunter and gourmand and artificier

I was planning on trying to do a pacifist ending (if it's possible)

but yeah, that means, I don't have all the challenges in this file

each try of the last hunter challenge is me just waiting for creatures to spawn

7 whole minutes my god

I got 17 points in this challenge even though the goal is 13 points

but I don't know how to get out

oh, I just got out of frame and it took it as valid

[opaque goblet]

let's stop for a bit, but it is nice progress

[opaque goblet]

I’ll try to do the monk and gourmand ones next

Is the expedition mode fun?

I wasn’t expecting the challenges to be this difficult and entertaining

[hollow thorn]

expedition is enjoyable

you get some tasks to do

there is an achievement for doing all challenges btw

[flint cipher]

And one for getting all expedition goals

[hollow thorn]

speaking of

why do rwsc when i can do that /silly

[flint cipher]

So I would say expedition is: at the beginning you play a more normal rainworld and as you advance it kinda becomes its own thing with perks/burdens

The cool thing is you can make very short or very long expeditions

[hollow thorn]

there is a twist tho

[flint cipher]

Because I did rwsc after getting all challenges and expeditions

[hollow thorn]

but color roles

[flint cipher]

True

The colourful roles

And role icons

I would die with the default role icon

[opaque goblet]

That sounds interesting

kinda like playing saint all of a sudden

I am curious to see what kind of perks can you get

maybe more speed, pulling spears out of walls

[hollow thorn]

in expedition you can choose which scug always

[opaque goblet]

uuuh, that’s nice

[flint cipher]

Yeh but you get goals like

Complete x number of expeditions with hunter

The goals unlock things mainly

[hollow thorn]

i will go on a bit of an expedition rn

[flint cipher]

And also count for the achievement if you want it

[flint cipher]

Clair obscur expedition 33?

[opaque goblet]

I just got timed out by mistyping scug

[hollow thorn]

awards gone!

[opaque goblet]

uuuuh, Maybe I will try some expeditions tonight then

Looks promising

[opaque goblet]

did it loose all of them? or just one of them?

[hollow thorn]

i think all

[flint cipher]

I liked doing expeditions with a friend on jolly coop

It was funny

Because The friend knew nothing about the game

[hollow thorn]

i was doing challenges and got stuck on 26 it appears

[flint cipher]

Which one is 26

[hollow thorn]

gourmand noodles

[flint cipher]

Oh that one

[opaque goblet]

it happened again

I’m going to say slugcat because my keyboard does not like that word

[opaque goblet]

do all the slugcat have the same objectives? or are there custom ones for each one?

Is it randomly selected from a poll or something?

[flint cipher]

Nah

If you go to expedition tab you can click on the goals