Ollie's Experience

[wheat tulip]

videocult the goat

[simple sonnet]

should I stop recording my experience
as fun as it is to document I'll probably run out of pc space if I keep recording every second of gameplay
and I need to actually do something with these recordings which'll probably take a while

one thing I find really funny

is that SUBTERRANEAN

[real geyser]

Was your third region?

[wheat tulip]

and last

[coarse compass]

is this game STRESSFULLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[simple sonnet]

THE MOST INFAMOUS PLAYTHROUGH IN MY REGION
ENDED UP BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT

[solemn canyon]

upload them in somebodies dms or smth and delete them from your computer

[simple sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/rain-world-slugcat-rainworld-scug-rivulet-gif-5584581312717513367

or something

[real geyser]

also

"Six Grains of Gravel, Mountains Abound"

Thoughts?

[simple sonnet]

Hm

well
Six Grains of Gravel
Five Pebbles
both numbers and rocks
Idk if that's really a connection but this was right outside Five Pebbles so maybe

Idk about mountains abound

hm

I'm sure I'll find out eventually

[real geyser]

oh BTW if you press continue on the Survivor's save file it'll put you back where you last sheltered

[simple sonnet]

Yeah I was told this in the vc
so I'll go back later

I'll probably start Monk soon
then play it along with exploring more of the world in my Survivor run

[real geyser]

[simple sonnet]

still trying to recover from that ENDING

[real geyser]

In the words of a particular very awesome game, "there is more to explore here"

[simple sonnet]

also

I am really happy I decided to do that vc today of all days

because it happened to be the day I beat the game

[agile brook]

OLLIE JUST BEAT THE GAME

[simple sonnet]

I BEAT THE GAMEE!!!!

[agile brook]

YEEEEESSSS

[real geyser]

Theories on the lore?

[coarse compass]

this is great with no context

G I V E U S T H E O R I E S

[real geyser]

oh and also

the game is called "Rain World"

you're not even on the title screen

The World is the main character

[wheat tulip]

Rain world not slugcat's awesome adventure

the world is really important

[coarse compass]

5k message in thread

[simple sonnet]

Yes

[simple sonnet]

I'll get to that in a min

[simple sonnet]

It'll only grow...

[coarse compass]

im gonna post your video for this guy at some point hopefully soon

[simple sonnet]

Names

I wanna name the pink guy and the massive abyssal entity below the world

Cloak?
Pink?
Pearl?

[stone cobalt]

i see

much has happened sincei left

what will you be doing now

[coarse compass]

yay i think this is it

[stone cobalt]

interesting

when do you think youll be checking out downpour

assuming you will be eventually

idk

[simple sonnet]

"We can feel your presence, little creature."
"WHAT ARE YOU?"

[coarse compass]

i can like braely hear myself lol

[coarse compass]

you reaslly asked "WHAT ARE YOU" after every line

[stone cobalt]

i think "what are you" could be asked for most things in this wretched game

[coarse compass]

i really love how one guy just said your dead as soon as the screen faded to black

[simple sonnet]

it was all just a dream

the Six Grains of Gravel achievement is blue, unlike all the others which are yellow

a bunch of the symbols around that area are blue

[untold swallow]

I think that was me LMAO

idk i said alot of random things ._."

[coarse compass]

ye

[simple sonnet]

okay Ima try to like

recap

[coarse compass]

its a lot to take in

[simple sonnet]

Yeah

[stone cobalt]

a lot happened in one day huh

[simple sonnet]

YEAH

Survivor was separated by the other slugcats, which were traveling together

[somber quail]

[simple sonnet]

the uh
the people
creatures
Idk what Cloak called them I don't remember
they built stuff
Idk about everything but they made things
Dot and Cloak have to be related somehow

[stone cobalt]

"the noble benefactors"

at least thats what i assume youre referring to

[real geyser]

(the dialogue)

[simple sonnet]

since Cloak is so sentient and powerful I'm guessing the Mass acts as an infection and guardian for Cloak

Ig??

Idk I don't know much

[simple sonnet]

or maybe they just helped

saw your reaction-

[simple sonnet]

Cloak gives us the mark, the square symbol thing that allows us to pass through the protectors of the abyss below
since the other slugcats were seen in the ending, I'm guessing all of them went this way? finding the abyss below and "ascending"
moving onto that next "world"
when we get to the end we meet up with them?
Ig?
I hope this game has a happy ending but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't-

[somber quail]

Do you wish for an answer to that last question?

[simple sonnet]

this thing helps you ascend by dragging you to the bottom, since it's so deep down

[simple sonnet]

Nah

[somber quail]

ight

[stone cobalt]

eh

[simple sonnet]

I have Survived.

[stone cobalt]

depends on your interpretation

[simple sonnet]

remember I know like nothing

what should we call the uh

the thing in the abyss

or whatever that place is called

[stone cobalt]

eldritch creature #13

[somber quail]

J O E

[stone cobalt]

ou yeah whats your name for these thbgs

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1363213569109262569/1370937774005555210/Guardian_gaming.gif

[somber quail]

i think it was "tall guys"

[sand parrot]

It support

[simple sonnet]

broken script lookin guys
(not actually calling them that)

[stone cobalt]

eldritch tsa agent was my name for them

[cloud niche]

CONGRATULATIONS

[sand parrot]

One of my favorite names I saw someone call them was basketball players

[stone cobalt]

because they didnt let me board the depths with an item i was holding

[untold swallow]

Jake from state farm

[cloud niche]

weird priest guys

i'm not listening to your sermon

[somber quail]

niche band gatekeepers

[stone cobalt]

[somber quail]

gandalf

[quasi cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/steven-universe-steven-universe-amethyst-laugh-gif-4593616

[empty verge]

wait what happened?

oh did you complete the game

[coarse compass]

yeah ollie beat rain world

[empty verge]

oh congrats!

[untold swallow]

Ye he did it a few hours ago

[empty verge]

whats next?

[coarse compass]

bounccyyyy

[quasi cypress]

Congrats dude

[simple sonnet]

I BEAT THE GAMEEE

[quasi cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/steven-universe-clap-crystal-gems-crystal-gems-clap-garnet-clap-pearl-clap-gif-12447907570841765847

[coarse compass]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1438234356895318127/1439933153916489769/congrattation.gif

[empty verge]

congrats! welcome to 11% (pretty sure thats the number?)

[coarse compass]

yes

[empty verge]

whats next

[simple sonnet]

Monk, and more Survivor
I want to explore Sky Islands and meet up with Dot

since I can communicate with robots now.

[quasi cypress]

Oh yeah!

stupid question

Did you meet the blue dude yet

[simple sonnet]

Dot?

[quasi cypress]

Oh yeah

I see

interesting

[empty verge]

oh your not doing hunter yet?

[simple sonnet]

No

[empty verge]

and i assumed you pasaged?

[simple sonnet]

Yeah I did that to get to Subterranean

since I had 2 passages

[empty verge]

i see

[quasi cypress]

gl with monk!

hope ya have a gud time

[simple sonnet]

I'll do it another time

[quasi cypress]

Alr then

We'll be waiting

https://tenor.com/view/steven-universe-pearl-yellow-gif-7285873

[coarse compass]

The bouncy guy makes me so happy and idk why

[simple sonnet]

Turns out I wasn't in early-game.

[real geyser]

in all fairness

this is only because you had Subterranean unlocked for Passage

[simple sonnet]

true I would have to walk all the way back if not

[real geyser]

This is why we can't ever tell players how long the game is going to take

[simple sonnet]

that's like
a whole journey I just skipped
the game felt short
but that's really not true
mainly because I just wasn't ready for it to end right there

I literally said "this feels like an ending" when I was in the endless dark liquid in the vc

• "And every moment the equipment erodes to a new state of decay."
  Hm
• "One free of... frolicking in my memory arrays."

Hmm

the entirety of Five Pebbles is like
machinery and stuff
with the Mass spread all over the place

[simple sonnet]

ngl I was so scared the game was just going to end like that

with Survivor swimming endlessly in the dark
left alone forever

[simple sonnet]

the memory sub-area is directly connected to Cloak in some way
and the decay could be me, the mass, or just the machines dying as time passes

[simple sonnet]

oh about this
Later...?
I have no idea
I'll probably check it out after my monk playthrough

[real geyser]

I always argue in favor of doing it after the vanilla campaigns

just because of Vanilla Purity™

[stone cobalt]

i argue in favor of doing them concurrently

just bc thats what i did

[simple sonnet]

Yes
tho apparently Hunter is really hard so I'll most likely do it after

unless there's one in the dlc that's harder than Hunter

[stone cobalt]

harder is subjective

[simple sonnet]

true

but like

depends

[real geyser]

that's why I say

try Hunter

[simple sonnet]

Yeah I remember

[real geyser]

give up once it becomes too hard

then move on

so you can get a feel for, like, what goes on in that campaign

[real geyser]

(And you may also find out you're really good at Hunter. Who knows )

[simple sonnet]

I doubt it but maybe

turns out Hunter is actually easier than Survivor

[real geyser]

I also personally think a first playthrough of Hunter is slightly more interesting without MSC. For... reasons

[cloud niche]

i'm pretty sure those who love an aggressive playstyle in this game will find hunter quite fun

otherwise it's probably gonna take some time to get used to

[simple sonnet]

this is still just so insane to me
"Deep as you can reach."

[coarse compass]

Is cloak that pink guy in five pebbles

[simple sonnet]

whoever said that quote
I was repeating that like
the whole time
out of fear Ig

[coarse compass]

Yeah but it's hunter

[real geyser]

yeah

[simple sonnet]

Yes

[somber quail]

i thought hunter was the pink guy

[simple sonnet]

Cloak & Dot

[somber quail]

or girl i dont discriminate

[simple sonnet]

Hunter is the red slugcat
Cloak is the pink robot godlike thing(???)

[somber quail]

something like that

hmmm

yeah

ill do monk

[simple sonnet]

I'm doing monk next

[somber quail]

[coarse compass]

moik

[somber quail]

hoik terraria gaming

[cloud niche]

noik oneshot

[simple sonnet]

I NEED TO PLAY ONESHOT RRAAAA

[cloud niche]

yes you indeed need to

[wheat tulip]

im a purist

[wheat tulip]

In my experience

hunter is easily

still the hardest mode

and thats good because it is really hard

i dont need no harder mode

[simple sonnet]

super secret impossible mode-

[wheat tulip]

vanilla to me is just THE rain world

with all its mysteries and stuff

videocult isnt done with RW though

so we couuld see more in the future

[real geyser]

yeah

both DLCs sorta do their own thing, they don't really have the same vibes

(and also, future campaigns obviously can't be so heavily based on you not knowing anything)

[somber quail]

the question is, will the dlc add on to existing content or just go somewhere random

[real geyser]

3rd DLC will consist ONLY of the mod that lets you meow

for 30 USD

[somber quail]

3rd dlc is mod: ||Push to Meow||

[wheat tulip]

its crazy that we yet dont know what sound slugcats make lol

like officialy

[real geyser]

I mean

if they made sounds I think we would have heard them in vanilla

[somber quail]

obviously they make the sound of a 2008 nissan murano gettin an oil change

[real geyser]

it is generally advantageous for them to be quiet, after all

[wheat tulip]

true! they dont really have another slugcat to communicate with

so theres no reason for them to make sound

[untold swallow]

The high pitch noise in Outskirts threat music, I headcannon that as their mew they just refuse to actually make that nosies outside of communication with their family (for obvious reasons...they'd be a lizard sandwich)

[wheat tulip]

i wish they made a sound when meeting pink guy

in attempts to say something

[untold swallow]

Omg that would've been so cool

"wa"

[wheat tulip]

I dont think it would be very high pitched

like the popularly accepted "wah"

[untold swallow]

Its only high pitched bc they were singing frfr

[wheat tulip]

always thought the outskirts BASS was like the lizards lol

[real geyser]

I mean

[real geyser]

pink guy is scary

I don't think trying to communicate is the best idea

[wheat tulip]

i would have likes it when

he makes u float

and does that DING

in a way to say "ow stop"

[wheat tulip]

I love james primate he a genius

[real geyser]

eh

[untold swallow]

ABSOLUTE PEAK

[untold swallow]

God he's so so talented

[real geyser]

(Ollie don't click the link there are spoilers nearby )

[wheat tulip]

thats still not entirely the slugcats voice

honestly its weird because

not many animals make sound

the lizards make like a weird alligator sound

but outside of that not much

[cloud niche]

i just saw this thread has 5000+ messages... holy

[lunar ingot]

[stone cobalt]

me too

[simple sonnet]

oh my god there's so many messages I wasn't home what happened

okay one sec

[real geyser]

Yapping about how cool Rain World is

[simple sonnet]

why so many reactions-
pretty sure I saw a video saying it exists before I even got the game
I didn't watch it because obviously
you gotta do some code or smth Idk
I'm not playing the super secret impossible mode.
it's also what the is I THINK

[simple sonnet]

Wait that would've been peak

[simple sonnet]

There's no link on my screen anyway

okay

there are still things I want to try

but such things are like

evil

[coarse compass]

do it

[simple sonnet]

no because it's evil

I wish you could eat more creatures

[young wind]

You can eat anything with the right mindset

[simple sonnet]

I tried

but I couldn't eat the mouse

[real geyser]

You tried what

[simple sonnet]

in shaded citadel

it was in my shelter

I didn't want to

but I had a spear

[real geyser]

I mean fair

[simple sonnet]

and I needed to know

[real geyser]

worth a try

[simple sonnet]

mod that lets you eat anything if it's dead

[wheat tulip]

yes there is

:D

there has been one for years too

[simple sonnet]

hell yeah

[solemn canyon]

theres a mod for basically everything*

[simple sonnet]

true

[simple sonnet]

didn't play rain world today because silksong

big sad

I mean I still can

I need to decide if I wanna keep recording
I might not

there's pros and cons to both

[stone cobalt]

i mean

whether you record or not

your experience is still being recorded technically

here

[simple sonnet]

Yes

[somber quail]

:3

[simple sonnet]

Decision
I'm not going to record future gameplay since I don't wanna have to record every second of gameplay I do on this game
the only Rain World I'll record will be that specific Survivor run
so I won't record Monk or Hunter, but I'll keep recording that specific Survivor save when I play it again

I do plan to play again today

either survivor or monk Idk

[lunar ingot]

[simple sonnet]

thankfully you didn't change your pfp to that before I beat the game-

[coarse compass]

[patent flume]

[empty verge]

[simple sonnet]

[lunar ingot]

Giggles (I drew it today)

[simple sonnet]

oh peak

⭐

[lunar ingot]

😎

[agile brook]

Ur pfp is not a furry anymor

[lunar ingot]

These 2 are NOT furries

[agile brook]

Ooohhhh i see, thanks for clearing it up!

[lunar ingot]

[agile brook]

[simple sonnet]

doggos

[somber quail]

wait....

one grayish one orange/yellowish...

thats totally survivor and monk

[violet depot]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1173076541664661564/1398785262816989306/twitter_1948787935299444825.gif

[simple sonnet]

I wanna play rain world

but it's kinda late...

[simple sonnet]

(silksong happened)

Maybe I'll just go to Dot then stop

since I wanted to meet up with them

[simple sonnet]

nvm it's too late

I'll do it tomorrow

hopefully

assuming I don't play silksong for 6 hours agai-

[wheat tulip]

such a peak game i get it

[simple sonnet]

"the electric death effect failing to kill the player,"
IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS OR IS THIS A THING I HAVEN'T SEEN YET

[real geyser]

I think it's what you think it is

[agile brook]

Idk about this, probably from some randomly surviving a centipede

[simple sonnet]

hell yeah no more bouncy castle purgatory in the leg

[real geyser]

no "electric death" is very specifically the internal name of the electricity effect in the Leg

[agile brook]

Oh so it's finally lethal? YEEESSSSS

[cloud niche]

the modern generation of rain world will never see this game the same way...

[real geyser]

Although, how? It doesn't look like it modified the map data files in any way...

[simple sonnet]

vera I remember your deleted messages

[hardy fox]

no you dont

[simple sonnet]

...

can't argue with that.

[simple sonnet]

whuhh

[cloud niche]

ollie i remember your edited messages

[simple sonnet]

No you don't

[cloud niche]

actually i CAN argue with that!!

i lived through that experience, my eyes as witness, your foul lies do not make me falter

[real geyser]

Looking at the code, I think they just changed how the damage scales with intensity? Testing...

[simple sonnet]

I actually wonder how the damage system works exactly
since there's no "health bar" or anything like that
You're either dead or alive, there doesn't seem to be an inbetween of any kind (well Ig that would be the "unconscious" thing)

[real geyser]

By "damage" I just mean killing vs stunning in this case

[simple sonnet]

stunning yeah

alr

[young wind]

A health bar does exist

It's just that yours is 1 hp long

[simple sonnet]

the weakest player character in fiction

[young wind]

Just about all critters in rainworld have health

Some have it set to a comically high number with the intention being that you're not supposed to kill em... though there's always a way

[simple sonnet]

must kill EVERYTHING !!!

[real geyser]

ok just checked

that is in fact what it is, you do in fact die now

[simple sonnet]

Yay

[wet trout]

edits 🥹

[cloud niche]

you know it is quite a shame how rain world is ruining its identity with these updates, the pinball experience was such a vital moment in our hearts but now it's removed and the game as a whole just starts to feel lacking, you know?

[young wind]

You'd have loved how horrendously hostile it was on original release

[simple sonnet]

oh no how was it back then I wasn't there

[real geyser]

thankfully most gameplay changes have been DLCs

they haven't done a lot to affect vanilla, provided you don't use any of the official mods

[hardy fox]

lemme see, what silly things did launch have

all i know is map progress not saving when you died

[real geyser]

On launch you didn't keep map progress when you died

[hardy fox]

and food maybe being more scarce idk

[simple sonnet]

(that aren't spoilers)

[simple sonnet]

OH NOOO

[hardy fox]

or at least it didnt have the leniency mechanics and stuff

[young wind]

Food also didn't respawn

[real geyser]

... really? I think it did. Just not when you died.

[simple sonnet]

[young wind]

Grappling worms needed both hands (l think) and could be thrown by accident

[hardy fox]

i just wanna know, was survivor called survivor before first 1.5 or were they just "slugcat"

[real geyser]

I'm pretty sure food always respawned, they've just since added safety measures to prevent you softlocking by eating all the food in a region in one cycle

[hardy fox]

respawning on death vs advancing time i mean

[real geyser]

(which involve letting food respawn in between deaths)

[cloud niche]

maybe some changes were for the better actually

[young wind]

Just like Star Wars

[simple sonnet]

Slug Wars

[hardy fox]

remix settings have a toggle for old grappleworms btw

[real geyser]

The Remix Mod obviously drastically affects gameplay but it's optional, that's the point.

[hardy fox]

its really vague and basically misleading though

[young wind]

The first film was named just Star Wars, getting retroactively named Star Wars: A New Hope when others came out

[hardy fox]

but two hands, plus theyre heavier, plus you use them with the throw button etc

[real geyser]

I assume they just didn't mention the title on the select screen?

[hardy fox]

well it didnt have the player select screen at the time right?

you just press story or single player or whatever it was and it went straight into the game?

[real geyser]

There's definitely been bugs that affect vanilla, though. Lots of 'em

[agile brook]

Oh so only one shock is enough to kill?
that's awesome

[real geyser]

specifically the shocks start killing after a certain amount of time has passed

[young wind]

Well no it bounces you around a bit before going finally fatal

[agile brook]

Oh okay..

[young wind]

What they fixed was one specific room that never got to the killing you part

[real geyser]

yeah

[young wind]

Just bounced you for eternity

[simple sonnet]

didn't it take me like 13 hours to get out of the outskirts

[hardy fox]

i think i joined in at subterannean so idk

[young wind]

https://youtube.com/shorts/09d1AbhSq2k?si=7dC4yAOF-dHmXGIG

[young wind]

Jesus

[real geyser]

Ollie don't click Rain World youtube videos the algorithm will spoil you

[young wind]

Yeah that's true

It won't stop suggesting you more rw vids

[final kite]

[real geyser]

it can't tell the difference between "funny gif of lizard spinning" and "the entire story of Rain World EXPLAINED" (with several MSC spoilers in the thumbnail)

[simple sonnet]

evil algorithm can't tell the difference between silly and mass spoilers

[final kite]

best option: dont watch rw videos /silly

[young wind]

All Gaster scenes in rainworld

[simple sonnet]

I'm sorry all WHO scenes

[simple sonnet]

one thing I know of is the red lizard
Idk what it does or where it is I just know it exists

[hardy fox]

i stole the video its an mp4 now in case you really wanna watch it i guess...

[young wind]

Rainworld the watcher: Slugpyrus boss fight no hits

[real geyser]

this update also fixed a pretty major bug involving creature death so that's great

can't say what though

but I can update my bugfix mod

(And none of the other stuff in my bugfix mod got fixed )

[final kite]

man i used to watch these videos for inspiration of own and idk as a kid back then, kinda helped me with not caring about spoilers in the future lol

[coarse compass]

Oh yeah, patch notes often have spoilers in them

So watch out for that

[young wind]

Yeah the patch notes, including this one, are filled with downpour and watcher stuff

Keep out

[simple sonnet]

I didn't look at the full patch notes I just saw the announcement

[wheat tulip]

I dont care about patch notes

so uh

i see that some tweaks have been made for watcher that annoyed me previously so thats good

but we dont care about dat

hey ollie what did u do today

[simple sonnet]

Nothing YET but I think will play in like 40 mins or smth

[coarse compass]

Also watch out for the watcher trailer that also has spoilers

[simple sonnet]

why would they put major spoilers in the trailer...

[patent flume]

Because they hate us

[simple sonnet]

Oh

[coarse compass]

[coarse compass]

To sell it I guess

[patent flume]

No but the console trailer has ending spoilers in it which just... ughhhh

[simple sonnet]

WHY.

[patent flume]

Probably for excitement but still, ickkkk

[simple sonnet]

I mean Ig you gotta show SOMETHING...

[simple sonnet]

the ending hits so hard why would they spoil itttttt

[patent flume]

If it was regions, fine, but no, it's like important things and story point and all that

Mixed in

[coarse compass]

We shouldn't talk too much about watcher tbh

[simple sonnet]

who made that trailer
who APPROVED that trailer

[real geyser]

isn't there a console trailer for vanilla that has areas from Five Pebbles in it

[coarse compass]

me 🥹

[real geyser]

Akupara sucks as a publisher

at least for Rain World

[simple sonnet]

BURN HIM !!!

[real geyser]

At least they're better than Adult Swim, I suppose

[coarse compass]

oh no what did adult swim do

[young wind]

What Fate A Slugcat trailer has loads of spoilers

[simple sonnet]

Just stop making trailers

[young wind]

Shows deer, zero gravity, subterranean...

[real geyser]

oh you're not that old

they apparently couldn't update the game for years for some weird legal reason, then they switched to Akupara

[simple sonnet]

transmit the knowledge of the game's existence into random people's minds instead

[real geyser]

(and pushed out Downpour soon after)

[final kite]

projects rain world into your mind

[young wind]

Didn't rainworld come very close to being shut down when adult swim scrapped their game department

[real geyser]

well they had switched to Akupara by then

but if they hadn't they would've

[simple sonnet]

[real geyser]

although now Akupara has the opposite problem

rushing the DLCs fairly severely and not having proper quality control for their marketing stuff (the aforementioned trailers, the trading cards)

[wheat tulip]

videocult try to have 1 good publisher Challenge

MEGA FAIL!!!!!!

adult swim games was mega doo doo though way worse

[hardy fox]

rain world wouldve been stuck in legal purgatory right?

[wheat tulip]

yeah

[hardy fox]

oh was it akupara or adult swim who started the whole downpour onboarding thing

[wheat tulip]

I assume akupara idk

im glad they got another publisher but when the hell do we get a good publisher

[coarse compass]

Good publishers don't exist!!!!!!!

[coarse compass]

I'm not that old, just over a year I think

[hardy fox]

rain world 1.5 oh beloved...

[coarse compass]

they probably made up some random law so that they didn't have to update rain world

[hardy fox]

wasnt is a surprisingly solid version considering it was stuck in updating hell

or did mods fix the bugs

[wheat tulip]

its just something with art and business that dont go really well together lol

[simple sonnet]

dang
hope it ends well for them

it's the silly rat game
(first in-game image vs last image)

[solemn canyon]

tottally normal

[simple sonnet]

Alright

RAIN WORLD TIME!!!

I have many things to do

I can continue Survivor, meet up with Dot and maybe explore Chimney Canopy/Sky Islands if I can get back there. (I only have one passage...)

I can start Monk

or I can try to see what Arena is

Ima start with checking on Dot

I didn't get to Cycle 100
I got to cycle 97

almost there

The Monk

croissant

Cycle 103 - Looks to the Moon

OH

MY

GOD

I WAS RIGHT

OKAY SLOW DOWN

DOT CAN SPEAK!!!

and they lost their memories apparently

THEY HAVE DEMENTIA NOOOOO

WAIT
WHATTTTT/????????????

"We weren't designed to transcend and it drives us mad"

dang

Friends

???

I set them free?

okay so

[simple sonnet]

Dot knows Five Pebbles
or Dot knows Cloak?
I have reason to believe that Cloak IS Five Pebbles, at least partially

and Dot has encountered the scavengers

Alright
people

it is time

check the tags

Here we go...

(Not recording this in video form.)

YOOO

WAIT

THE STORY'S DIFFERENT??

WE NEED TO FIND SURVIVOR???

HELL YEAH WE'RE YELLOW NOW

Oh we can eat less than in Survivor

so we fell from up here

HII

I remember my first time playing this game

when I tried to reach these..

Wait

stop everything

wdym my map is saved...?

the map is saved

is that normal

WE'RE YELLOOWWWW

🍌

okay yeah so the map saves from my survivor run

I didn't expect that

Idk how to feel about it

can speak?
is there a lore explanation for the tutorial text or is Monk just crazy

I remember struggling with this

GREEN LIZARD!!!

Cycle 2 ~ Outskirts

[hardy fox]

yo its the monk

[simple sonnet]

I have become the monk

2nd shelter

Instead of trying to explore AND beat the game like I did with Survivor, I'm going to focus on exploring and seeing stuff I missed last time instead of heading straight to the end

I am so scared of running into a rope mimic

I'm so fast

compared to my survivor run

where I was scared and horrified and curious of everything

oh the little dots when I go through a pipe are yellow now

watching this lizard go into the pipe and fall down over and over is

something

THE

THE PINK ONE

WTH

there was like

another monk in the shelter

sleeping

Hey wait something's not right

Wait so Monk is a different character

and this takes place at the same time as Survivor??

this is crazy

is that a purple lizard or a pink lizard with a shade that looks like purple

WHY ARE THERE CENTIPEDES IN THE OUTSKIRTS???

so is showing me Survivor

since Ig

Survivor's goal was to find the other slugcats

Monk's goal is to find Survivor

okay so this is a gate
really early game
which gate did I go into last time...

because this feels very early

okay yeah I discovered this one before

but never went in

Music

you know what I'm going in

To a new land...

I always go to the corner of the gate

I did this at first out of fear but now I just do it every time

Oh the room above gets the water drained

never noticed that

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

NEW REGION!!

so there are 2 popcorn plants here

Wait so you're saying

if I just

went to this gate instead

I would've gone down a completely different path??

Time to explore
and see what new sights and creatures remained hidden in the Industrial Complex

the pinkest lizard ever

discovered this a WHILE ago

like back in subterranean I think

if you crawl before going into a tight space

you don't get like

messed up

so many ways to go

BLUE LIZARD??

Actually that's not that bad

oooh pearl

YOU

ARE

JOKING???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE HAVE ENDGAME ENEMIES IN THE SECOND REGION

oh dang it's fighting the pink lizard

the thing is

I've never been to this region

so I have no idea what's Industrial Complex and what's Monk

I unlocked blue lizard in sandbox mode

Idk if this is a good thing or not

the bluest lizard

might be cooked

shelter when

[coarse compass]

Lozor

Lizor

Moik!!!

GL on your travels, I gtg

[simple sonnet]

MOIK(?)

[coarse compass]

I'm glad I had just enough time to read

[simple sonnet]

[hardy fox]

whuoh

[simple sonnet]

?

[hardy fox]

[simple sonnet]

Blue Symbols

BIG CENTIPEDES

AND SCAVENGERS

this centipede is like

soloing all of the scavengers

IT'S GOTTEN LIKE 3 OF THEM

I got centipedes

this place is weird

wdym all this stuff was like

able to be discovered so early

[hardy fox]

its a very "ok now the real rain world starts" kinda region

[simple sonnet]

there's no shelter ever

[hardy fox]

like very straightforward, no gimmicks basically outskirts 2 etc

[simple sonnet]

okay I died

couldn't find shelter

despite my past experiences, this is still Rain World.

[simple sonnet]

I see

it was only a matter of time, I suppose...

oh so leads you to gates

I think

BLUE FARM ARRAYS SPIDER THING

there are 3 lizards and the weird bug thing in front of this pipe

ghost monk again

Dreams...

Family

umm.

I'm sorry?

that's not normal.

okay before I go in

isn't this where I entered??

also why is it BLUE

WHAT DOES THE BLUE MEAN

okay no it just took me to outskirts

okay died to my own stupidity

uh

well we're back in industrial which is good

I need to like

not

do that

okay

I'm still bad at the game

Well

now I know what happens if you jump off a building

Ig I should test some things

first unethical experiment

what if I eat food while my hunger bar is full?

So you can't

interesting

[real geyser]

you- you never tried this-

how-

[simple sonnet]

I was too scared it would like

kill me

[real geyser]

[simple sonnet]

turns out it does absolutely nothing

[real geyser]

but like

even if it killed you that'd be worth it just for the knowledge

what if it gave you superpowers

[simple sonnet]

in what (rain)world would it give me superpowers

[simple sonnet]

true

[real geyser]

... fair. But you never know!

[simple sonnet]

Now for the second unethical slugcat experiment

what if I eat the spear.

I'm assuming

[real geyser]

Every first playthrough of Rain World is personalised

[simple sonnet]

instant death

[simple sonnet]

oh wowww

[simple sonnet]

HE REFUSED

can't eat anything

this game sucks I can't eat everything ever

WDYM SHORELINE CREATURES

WHY DOES THIS PLACE

HAVE SHORELINE
THE LEG
AND FARM ARRAYS

and it looks like outskirts

most unoriginal region in the entire game 💔

blue lizard

[simple sonnet]

OR
THIS COULD MEAN
I'M NEAR SHORELINE
since that's what it meant last time when I was in subterranean

[real geyser]

Unfortunately, the natural world does not have a concept of "endgame"

[simple sonnet]

true

[real geyser]

it's one of my favorites TBH

precisely because it's got so much stuff in it

ecosystem interactions that don't appear elsewhere, more depth

[simple sonnet]

also true
I was mostly joking it's a good region so far
nothing's wrong with it

[real geyser]

Yeah I know

it's the jack of all trades of Rain World regions

[simple sonnet]

Yes

Gotta save Survivor...

(meanwhile they're in farm arrays)

it's good I'm going a different path for monk story-wise actually

since these both seem to happen at the same time

I think.

I wonder if I can do smth with you

I have a feeling it'll be a mouse situation tho

kinda sad that you can't eat more creatures

like I get that they're way bigger than me

but in that case

Just let me eat a piece of it or smth

I think it died

but

I can't pick up the corpse

it's underwater.

wdym the squid only gives one

whiter lizards are like

the most dangerous ones

why are they here

hi blue

blue duo

WHY

THEY'RE BLUE

BLUE
BLUEEEE

why is there an eye on the floor

I STILL don't understand this

oh I don't think this is all the regions...

[simple sonnet]

okay so I have a passage now

I must use this wisely unlike last time

[solemn canyon]

Handle package passage with care

[somber quail]

passage to texas, US

[simple sonnet]

I used the passage by accident where am I

[somber quail]

lol

[stone cobalt]

oh welcome to industrial complex

[stone cobalt]

yeah

most people from what i can tell tend to end up finding industrial complex first

[simple sonnet]

I see

[real geyser]

it's really quite simple

[simple sonnet]

worms from shoreline

so like what do you want

[stone cobalt]

[simple sonnet]

oh wow

why's this pipe orange?

[wheat tulip]

I KNEW IT

[simple sonnet]

GATE

[wheat tulip]

YES

[simple sonnet]

Wait all the pipes are orange even the shelter

???

[stone cobalt]

they do happen to be

[wheat tulip]

I KNU IT I WIN DA BET

[simple sonnet]

I'm confused

[wheat tulip]

it seems very dirty to me

[simple sonnet]

I can see that

[wheat tulip]

with the green water

[simple sonnet]

why are the pipes orange and the water green

[wheat tulip]

idk

just continue

[simple sonnet]

I am

I'm yellow

the pipes are orange

thisq is the

monk dimension

[stone cobalt]

if you dunk in the green water do you become a green monk

[simple sonnet]

Maybe

WHAT DOES IT MEAN

[wheat tulip]

hmmm

[simple sonnet]

NEW REGION!!!

[wheat tulip]

i dont know...

find out!

[wheat tulip]

oh so thats why it was all dirty!

it must smell there

[simple sonnet]

theory
Idk about lore
but I think this is like
since Monk is the "easy mode," this is a free way to the region you previously were

[wheat tulip]

good observation!

[stone cobalt]

welcome to the garbage wastes

[somber quail]

real

[simple sonnet]

are those

eels

[stone cobalt]

welcome to all the regions you somehow never found

[real geyser]

this region is GARBAGE

(this is a joke)

[solemn canyon]

wastes

[wheat tulip]

fun fact: most players discover garbage wastes inbtheir first playthru

[real geyser]

most players

[simple sonnet]

I mean you're technically correct

[stone cobalt]

one persons garbage is another persons garbage 💚

[solemn canyon]

fun fact 2: drumsola is having a stroke

[real geyser]

Every first playthrough of Rain World is personalised

[wheat tulip]

bery tru

[simple sonnet]

"Early game"
Farm Arrays
Subterranean

[wheat tulip]

im snail

LOL

[simple sonnet]

this is really funny actually
how did I do this

[stone cobalt]

you went to farm arrays first

[solemn canyon]

i never found farm arrays on my first playthrough

[simple sonnet]

why are there eels but red and less aggressive

[simple sonnet]

my second ever region

[real geyser]

I mean it's fairly hard to find every region on your first playthrough

[wheat tulip]

dont tell me you took THAT route to subterraneann 😭

[stone cobalt]

i never even knew that gate existed until like

so much later

[wheat tulip]

very true, but it is very bizarre the way he took

[solemn canyon]

id say what route i took but i dont want to end up accidentally telling ollie about a connection they might not know exists

[simple sonnet]

WHY ARE THERE EELS WHY ARE THERE EELS WHY ARE THERE EELS WHY ARE THERE EELS WHY ARE THERE EELS

I GOT KILLED

BY THE

[simple sonnet]

You.

[wheat tulip]

LOL

how did u die?

did that guy pop?

[simple sonnet]

Yeah

new regions
new slugcat

(even tho Monk seems to be mostly the same as Survivor)

so far
kinda

there's still a lot of differences

[simple sonnet]

WDYM THEY STEAL YOUR ITEMS

[stone cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/monk-silly-scug-slugcat-rain-world-gif-8523123722259457368

[empty verge]

did you start monk?

[simple sonnet]

Yes

[solemn canyon]

moik

[empty verge]

assuming your in garbage wastes?

[simple sonnet]

dang I can't eat the eels

[simple sonnet]

Yes

these wastes are full of garbage

[empty verge]

ah ok

[simple sonnet]

this room gives me subterranean vibes

and I like

don't like that

[wheat tulip]

it looks like a guy raising his arms actually

ive never seen it that way until now

[simple sonnet]

true

[wheat tulip]

and ive been in this room for so many times too

[simple sonnet]

I thought monk would be like

peaceful

considering the description

as in uh

it would be like
a pacifist route in a way
less things would attack me

but no

Idk why I would ever expect that

[solemn canyon]

ash baby image

[simple sonnet]

MUSIC

scavengers

so we like

go way back

right

OH THE UH

THE BUBBLES

the edible bubble things

THEY DOUBLE AS ROCKS

[real geyser]

I'm surprised you're learning their uses in this order

[simple sonnet]

WHY

[real geyser]

some people go for a while thinking they're just fancy rocks

[simple sonnet]

DID HE THROW A SPEAR AT ME

I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING

(I lived)

[simple sonnet]

dang

oh no evil blue fly

[real geyser]

(like me)

[simple sonnet]

so the eels attack

NO

NO

NOOOO

NONONONO

WHYT

WHY

WHYHYYWHYWHYWHYYWHYWHY

WHY

NO

PLEASE

PLEASEEHYWHWHWHYWYHWFYAFGUDABIBIOBNO OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

THE MASS

[stone cobalt]

just like me :D

[simple sonnet]

WHY IS THE MASS HERE

WHY

[real geyser]

[simple sonnet]

R.I.P. all my theories for what the mass could be

[wheat tulip]

what were ur theories

[simple sonnet]

first I thought it was a guardian for Cloak
Five Pebbles?
Pebbles.

but then some dialogue kinda suggests against it

Idk it's vague

[somber quail]

mass but its colored like sh-

[simple sonnet]

second
that it's an infection

but if it's an infection

then why does this random creature look just like it

different species?

[somber quail]

looks like mass to me

[simple sonnet]

Yes but the mass is bigger

and blue

[wheat tulip]

hmm

just think about the region you are in

[somber quail]

maybe its brown because everything in garbage wastes is brown for some reason (the shelter icons)

[simple sonnet]

true

[wheat tulip]

yes!

why would it be in there though?

[simple sonnet]

Well it's called the Garbage Wastes

so it's probably for like

garbage

or useless things

it's smaller than the normal mass...

THERE'S

MORE

THJERE'S MORE

MANY MORE

[vestal crane]

materializes into this thread

[simple sonnet]

Music

[simple sonnet]

Hello

welcome to my chamber

or something

[wheat tulip]

hell yeah

this is one of my favorite songs

[vestal crane]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1299923377925918720/1389716973151191090/burrito29000dance.gif

[simple sonnet]

I can see why

[wheat tulip]

very bouncy

very groovy

[simple sonnet]

very OH GOD WHY IS THE MASS BACK

[wheat tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/rivulet-rain-world-dj-khaled-dance-meme-gif-17797531601376081841

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GIF LOL

[coarse compass]

I'm back!!

[wheat tulip]

he found sum MASS.

[coarse compass]

Lol

[somber quail]

mass but small and brown

[simple sonnet]

okay I got eaten

[simple sonnet]

welcome back

[coarse compass]

[coarse compass]

Knowing this game, real

[coarse compass]

[wheat tulip]

honestly, kinda true

LOL

it is very similar to other areas

although i think another one is less original even

in terms of looks

actually no i think that one is

[coarse compass]

Ye industrial is cool

[hardy fox]

not sure what youre so confused about the mass rn i mean it says it right here youre in five pebbles

[wheat tulip]

LOL

very true

i hate 0 grav

[coarse compass]

[real geyser]

I mean there are probably at least five pebbles in Garbage Wastes

[wheat tulip]

i mean theres also at least 6 grains of gravel

[real geyser]

true

[coarse compass]

I see your getting more familiar with the map

[real geyser]

I don't know if there are mountains though

it's hilly but "Mountains Abound" is a bit of a stretch

[hardy fox]

not finding industrial on run 1 is such a crazy idea to me

but ive heard of it happen at least a couple of times so

[real geyser]

yeah it's really not that hard

[somber quail]

i think industrial is js really easy to find/get to

[hardy fox]

its a somewhat finicky route

in that you walk past it and cant approach from the other side, etc

[simple sonnet]

Yeah sure

[coarse compass]

REAL

[wheat tulip]

doesnt the game genuinely leads u that way?