first playthrough and miscellaneous | Rain World | Page 4

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 2:56 PM

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now i rarely sleep more than 8-9 hours even without an alarm

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 4:42 PM

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i'm not an arachnophobe myself, but the way spiders are designed in this game is just so evil

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like how are people with this fear even supposed to play this :D

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 4:43 PM

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If they're on pc there's mods for it

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 4:43 PM

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they nailed the movement part perfectly

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 4:43 PM

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monksilly

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 4:43 PM

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vestal granite If they're on pc there's mods for it

huh makes sense actually

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i think there are a lot of things in this game which trigger different phobias

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 4:44 PM

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no did i get snail'd

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 4:45 PM

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no trypophobia traps yet thankfully

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 4:45 PM

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lizredsmile

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 4:45 PM

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this is my weakness

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 5:17 PM

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maybe the time in the underground hot area is warped like gravity, and that's why rain is not a problem there

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okay i'm trying underhang again

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if there is underhang, there gotta be a ceiling

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or not

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idk where i'm going with this

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cycle 199, 40 hours

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THE THING

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it just grappled me through a wall

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and i can't really move

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nice, thank you

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hmm maybe these brittlestars' blobs which their core consists of are what they use for perception

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and if i neutralize all the blobs, it's gonna become deaf

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too much effort though, for now

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bruh i have no idea where this shelter is

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but i need it

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huh

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guess this is what cavemen had before yellow eyes

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thank you, unknown artist

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this place is compensating for how linear everything was before

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WOAH

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i fell down and thought i died

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yep, it's high level

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really long road here too

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 6:01 PM

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You've accomplished this much monksilly

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:02 PM

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there is a lot of unexplored places around, and i think i'll have to visit them anyway because i expect food shortage now

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but that way up looked especially delicious for some reason

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imagine it just goes to pipeyard of filtration system

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just for no reason

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red light reminds me of those places

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yippie

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maybe i should accumulate more

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but i was so lucky so far

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what if a series of fails await if i'm too careful

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please bestow a new shelter upon me

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i have sinned and i will sin but still i pray for a shelter

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 6:12 PM

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whats the sinning

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:12 PM

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the kills

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the doll kills

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 6:12 PM

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did you.. cheat at the game, did you cheat yourself

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:12 PM

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more kills

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 6:13 PM

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oh the, thing, yeah whatever

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:13 PM

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i mean

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no

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:p

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 6:13 PM

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i always wonder how contentious this one gate is

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:13 PM

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i was true to myself

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 6:13 PM

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yknow with underhang being probably a little hard, the gate being level 5 etc

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:14 PM

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i think i got lucky

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with amber food

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five pebbles

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another hilarious name

jagged pawn Jan 20, 2026, 6:14 PM

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manic siren five pebbles

MY BOI FOUND PEBS FINALLY

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:14 PM

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i am thankful

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NO RAIN HERE

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ohhh something special is gonna happen

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still don't know what these mean but this place has only two of them

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and counts towards the wanderer

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unlike the precipice

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which i kinda get

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yeah garbage truck, it's time to hum very loud near my window when i'm about to witness something interesting

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it's 11 pm, what is it even doing here

jagged pawn Jan 20, 2026, 6:18 PM

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manic siren it's 11 pm, what is it even doing here

collecting garbage

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:19 PM

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no gravity

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they stole gravity

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again, no rain and things related to gravity

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there gotta be a connection

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this place is very high up and has no gravity, that another place was very deep down and had no gravity

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oh shit it's actually kinda hard to traverse this

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the music is interesting

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neon stuff?

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it makes sense to try and throw something to see if i move

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but i don't wanna waste anything yet

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 6:22 PM

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manic siren neon stuff?

i kid you not, i'm gonna jump upwards from that pole in the center

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and gonna die from something that is positioned right above me

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ohhhh

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prions

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well i have tasted the forbidden fruit

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i can't stop now

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yum

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i have grass ptsd

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i don't trust it even if it's thinner

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okay the grass seems harmless so far? the flowers are scary

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if there are enemies in this area this is gonna be evil

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i spent so much time learning regular physics, now i need to learn these :D

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i don't wanna experiment with the angry spine

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my people will thrive without your blessings, thank you

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these are what ophiuras consisted of

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hmmm

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five gebbles (unfortunate [something])

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i couldn't read it in time

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why is everything shaking.... i'm scared

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unfortunate development

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well the ophiuras do look like an unfortunate evolutionary development

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even though very effective

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okay even background consists of these

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they gotta be important

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also, the crossed circle

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the same symbol that was underground

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okay the gravity is... temporarily back?

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something wrong is happening with whatever is powering all of this

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okay we found what it is

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and there are enemies

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okay the blue blobs are like weak grass, even if they're not part of the mobile thing with tentacles

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gotta be careful

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so the unfortunate development if probably whatever these things are

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they don't look intended or planned to exist

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evolution did a lot of weird things, but these were probably the weirdest

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but what do they consist of and how did they came to be (rhetorical obviously)

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gosh this is difficult

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 7:00 PM

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i was actually in here just a moment ago

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aah but the monk nerd emoji is gone

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well nvm i wasnt here

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:03 PM

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pive febbles...

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wanted to say maybe the brittlestars' bodies consist of 5 blobs but no, it varies

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hmmm

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this crossed circle symbol has significance

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deep down it seems like someone created it

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up here it evolved naturally

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what came first

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there seems to be at least 3, uhh, let's say factions of every thing in this game, alive or not

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there are biological things like animals and their biological part

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there are mechanical things like gates, shelters, some animals' mechanical parts

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there are very high-tech and inexplicable things like holograms, gravity control

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this is the end of my thought

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no idea where i'm going :D

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 7:08 PM

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kinda curious but did the phrase "omg we're so high up we're in space??" ever come up

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:08 PM

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somehow never thought of that

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it seemed really artificial

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the gravity change

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 7:09 PM

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ok well, i mean i'm just throwing shade at unspecified lets players monksilly

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and being mean in general

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:09 PM

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it's fine i like your commentary :p

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okay but why is this so difficult in such a weird way

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 7:11 PM

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its a nasty difficulty spike spot

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youll figure out something dw about it

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:12 PM

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the wall blobs are annoying

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my grass curse returns

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actually no, everything that is hostile is annoying here

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but we'll get through probably possibly likely

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so far this is the spot that became relatively easy to reach

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the two wardens up ahead are vile

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hm

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i wonder if it's possible to kill them all in this area eventually

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using the natural amount of spears

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like if you spend 50 hours here

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THIS GUY TO THE LEFT

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like i passed him two times already without touching him in any way

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but he heard the impact and snatched me anyway

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at least the blue ropes are mindless

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imagine if they also tugged you slowly towards the walls

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why so many branches 😭

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

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the game forgot it was an open world game for a sec and its overcompensating? monksilly

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

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yep

jagged pawn Jan 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

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im back and i see you have discovered the rot

copper nymph Jan 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

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manic siren imagine if they also tugged you slowly towards the walls

Absolutely not 😭

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:23 PM

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i just found out these short tendrils are extra vile

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 7:23 PM

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did you get died'd

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:24 PM

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yep i absolubletly got eateten

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if these things could talk they would talk like this

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like, i don't know if you're supposed to hate whatever this form of life is lore-wise

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but i am extremely antagonized against it

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yeah actually, the fascinating thing about these things is that it seems like a really special form of life

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different from whatever the rest of the life around here is

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it's a pity you can't jump from these ropes when the gravity works

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only fall

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 7:32 PM

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manic siren THIS GUY TO THE LEFT

okay i got it

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one of his tentacles is hidden up there

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apparently

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i really don't want to leave this area hanging (ha) for tomorrow, but i might actually get stuck for a long time and get to sleep

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it would be really funny and unfunny if i'm like 5 steps from "the end" if it exists

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why didn't the wall blobs eat me so fast before

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i thought they were like weak grass

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they're just grass

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strong and healthy

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mars please stop dying

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thanks

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okay i'll have to postpone it

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that's gonna take a lot of time

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plus there are so many branches to explore

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sometimes i just miss words for no reason

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nevermind

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i'm going to sleep now :p

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this is really exciting what's happening in the game so far

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i didn't even intend to go that way in the citadel

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i wanted to go to that spider hell

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but found the memory crypts

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the exterior... and what the hell did i get into now

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 8:00 PM

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welp gn

dense geode Jan 20, 2026, 8:18 PM

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Omg I also hate unfortunate development

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 8:18 PM

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well at least it does warn you that it's unfortunate

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no denial :p

jagged pawn Jan 20, 2026, 8:34 PM

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wonder when you are gonna get to the core of this place

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 8:35 PM

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a thought: let's say this whole place encompassing all regions is an ancient machine

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with time, it became inhabited with stuff

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maybe some animals have undergone biomechanical evolution somehow

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the symbol (crossed circle) underground is something ancient

bright oak Jan 20, 2026, 8:37 PM

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Dont tell players info they didnt explicitly ask for

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 8:37 PM

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the gravity-bending ladies don't seem like something purely evolutionary

jagged pawn Jan 20, 2026, 8:37 PM

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bright oak Dont tell players info they didnt explicitly ask for

ok

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 8:37 PM

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their origin is a mystery

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i don't wanna suggest magic, but their abilities are really close to magic

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but i think it's some very developed technology

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or just the way this world works

jagged pawn Jan 20, 2026, 8:38 PM

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magical magic of magician

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 8:39 PM

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so the symbol

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it existed, probably was created by someone sapient

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probably by those who built this whole machine

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the carnivorous blue crossed blobs which surround me

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is something recent

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some unfortunate development

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development from something

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if some animals are partially mechanical and this is the way they evolved

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 8:41 PM

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a development that was... unfortunate... monkbigeyes

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 8:41 PM

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then maybe the way these unfortunate blobs evolved involved that symbol

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maybe it was perceived somehow and replicated in their bodies

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this was a really long development for a really specific thought

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regardless of how wrong i am, i enjoy theorizing like that

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so far i'm not thinking about supernatural stuff

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maybe i should

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but gods and deities can explain any weird stuff

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getting raised by wolves vibes again

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hm

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:33 PM

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manic siren unlike the precipice

The precipice is a subregion of somewhere you'd already been saintblep

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It wouldn't make sense now. It might in the future.

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:34 PM

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well it does have chimney/sky islands/farm vibes

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actually if i went to the region maps in the menu it would spoil me that

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but i didn't so okay :p

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:35 PM

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manic siren well it does have chimney/sky islands/farm vibes

it would be really funny if it's actually part of subterranean

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that open air part with grass which got me stuck

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:36 PM

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There's geographical/locational coherence to the world map

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You can generally trust that broad directions like east/west/north/south are somewhat consistent. Even if it gets sometimes weird at finer detail.

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:38 PM

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it feels like i've gone really far to the east and really high, and my brain doesn't connect that to anything hunterthinking

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whatever, i'll figure it out later then

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:38 PM

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Uncharted territories monksilly

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The game's getting quite exciting. Good luck on your travels in the newest region

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:39 PM

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good luck i'll need

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:39 PM

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The flamingo, so to speak

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:39 PM

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with this new physics

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:40 PM

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vestal granite The flamingo, so to speak

very unfortunate flamingo

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:40 PM

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granted, some of the downpour regions and connections are kinda confusing spatially-wise

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taking what you get in vanilla it is a little simpler

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:40 PM

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That's true too

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The game is a bit more streamlined in basegame

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:41 PM

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i dunno if you’re interested in knowing whats vanilla or downpour thou

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:41 PM

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First playthroughs tend to be recommended played without DP enabled. But you're in too deep at this point, I'd keep it on monksilly

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:41 PM

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interestingly this run was started in vanilla, then i enabled the dlcs

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:42 PM

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you cant switch between vanilla and msc seamlessly

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:42 PM

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it's impressive that it just changed the map and didn't break anything apparently

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:42 PM

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but i figure you did it early enough there’s basically no negative effects

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its mostly minor stuff though

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you can beat the game and do all/most things one way or another

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:43 PM

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vestal granite First playthroughs tend to be recommended played without DP enabled. But you're ...

it wasn't clear which is more conventional, so i just googled what is recommended and went by the first opinion i read

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:43 PM

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The only example of effect that occurs to me is if you switched it off while in the middle of a dlc region, and all it'd do is rewind your progress to your last shelter in a vanilla one

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:43 PM

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manic siren it wasn't clear which is more conventional, so i just googled what is recommende...

the general recommendation in this server wouldve been to play fully vanilla

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:44 PM

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vestal granite The only example of effect that occurs to me is if you switched it off while in ...

actually i wanna bring up an example of something that couldve happened rn

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uhh waiting for a go-ahead or no monksilly

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:44 PM

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You've been holding up well with a non-vanilla playthrough so it's alright to have it on monksilly

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:44 PM

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or if you like “is this msc or not” spoilers

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:46 PM

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vestal granite You've been holding up well with a non-vanilla playthrough so it's alright to ha...

is it supposed to be harder? or more confusing than vanilla?

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also i'm not sure which part of this conversation is between you two so i hope i'm reading it right :p

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:47 PM

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sorry i was asking you

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i just kinda replied weirdly bc its like

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i’m pretty sure more things can go wrong

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:47 PM

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what is msc even

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:47 PM

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more slugcats expansion

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:47 PM

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ahh

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:47 PM

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vestal granite The only example of effect that occurs to me is if you switched it off while in ...

All my last msgs are at you, except this one was to vera

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:48 PM

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people call it downpour but downpour also like, the dlc as a whole

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and it has msc, jolly coop, expeditions etc

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but a lot of people just say downpour to also mean msc

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:48 PM

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manic siren is it supposed to be harder? or more confusing than vanilla?

Basically the new stuff makes it a bit likelier to get sidetracked or lost. It's best seen when you're experienced and doing a 2nd playthrough because then you know what is what

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:48 PM

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vs the watcher which is like hey guys its the watcher dlc where you play as the watcher

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:48 PM

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well it seems at this point i won't really play vanilla or play it being oblivious so ig it doesn't matter

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:49 PM

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ok so super cool trivia that i hope isnt mistaken

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:49 PM

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somber fox and it has msc, jolly coop, expeditions etc

Yeah downpour is the overall dlc

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:49 PM

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vestal granite Basically the new stuff makes it a bit likelier to get sidetracked or lost. It's...

oh yeah i can definitely feel that xD

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:49 PM

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Which is a package bundle of 3 different things

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:49 PM

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i've made a literal circle around the outskirts i think

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:50 PM

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so you know the gutter? thats a new subregion added in msc

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:50 PM

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makes sense why the chimney is the main one

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yeah

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:50 PM

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The whole of pipeyard? Msc

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:50 PM

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afaik, if you had gotten to chimney canopy first, you would’ve initialised cc creatures in its vanilla state

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:50 PM

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Some animals also

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 PM

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which means that if you enabled msc then the gutter wouldnt have creature spawns

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afaik

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i think thats how itd woke i’m not sure now actually

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 PM

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That's wacky

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 PM

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somber fox afaik, if you had gotten to chimney canopy first, you would’ve initialised cc cr...

what's cc, sorry i'm bad with acronyms

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 PM

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Chimney Canopy

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 PM

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ah okay

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 PM

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other minor things

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yknow the golden lizards that spit

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:52 PM

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somber fox which means that if you enabled msc *then* the gutter wouldnt have creature spaw...

huh

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:52 PM

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like, the game would’ve initialised all the creature spawns right?

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but gutter doesnt exist so no gutter creatures

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:52 PM

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yeah i see

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:53 PM

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lemme see

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oh dragonslayer passage works differently between vanilla and msc

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if you had dragonslayer earlier it might’ve bugged out really weird

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thats kinda all i wanted to say kinda stupid sory

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:54 PM

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Even I'm confused now too haha

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:54 PM

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no that's nice info

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:54 PM

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Lot of intriguing info

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spearwrite

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:54 PM

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how does the slayer work in vanilla then

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:54 PM

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well bc in vanilla its like a set number of lizards in a set order

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but in msc its kinda dynamic

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:55 PM

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so you can only kill specific 6 colors?

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:55 PM

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if its 6 dots yea

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:55 PM

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Each dot also has a specific position in vanilla

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But then in msc they light up from inside to outside in whichever order

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:56 PM

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somber fox but in msc its kinda dynamic

the weird thing is it's dynamic but the dots are positioned in a special way still

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:56 PM

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Not a big deal tho

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:56 PM

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huh wha

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i dunno how bad it can bug out is the thing

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:56 PM

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oh wait maybe i do have that bug

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:57 PM

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can you screenshot your dragonslayer passage

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 9:57 PM

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lizwhiteshrug

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:57 PM

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i’m totally just talking out of my butt sorry

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:57 PM

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i did complete the slayer but the dots were positioned randomly

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i'm not on my pc now but there was a screenshot of hibernation earlier

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before i went to five pebbles

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oh wait

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maybe i'm bullshitting right now

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:58 PM

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looking at a screenshot your dragonslayer looks fine tbh

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:58 PM

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i don't actually remember

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:59 PM

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was your first dragonsayer a pink lizard?

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:59 PM

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okay i think i had a brainfart, it was filling up fine

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:59 PM

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somber fox was your first dragonsayer a pink lizard?

honestly no idea

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maybe

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 9:59 PM

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thats what the screenshot says anyway

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 9:59 PM

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okay false alarm anyway

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those were fake weird memories

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it happens to me sometimes

somber fox Jan 20, 2026, 10:00 PM

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at some point wouldnt you lose your map memory progress if you switched from vanilla to msc

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i dunno if i’m remembering it correctly i thought it mightve been tracked separately

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 10:01 PM

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i think i did that while having barely explored outskirts

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i wouldn't notice anyway

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 10:02 PM

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Map progress is lost if a region experienced any changes in msc

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As in new rooms

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If region's the same it carries over

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 10:04 PM

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well that was a downpour of miscellaneous fun info :p

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i didn't think of a pun for "vanilla"

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anyway

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goodnight everybody

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i'm really enjoying the company of you two btw

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in this playthrough

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so yeah

vestal granite Jan 20, 2026, 10:05 PM

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slugsleep

manic siren Jan 20, 2026, 10:05 PM

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slugheart

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 8:07 AM

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huh, so one of the other slugs looks like an axolotl

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also the background is interesting, because these tentacles don't look like those blue ropes

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it's something different

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yay first attempt

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memory conflux

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the last time i was in a place related to memories there was CLANK CLANK

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ahhh so many scary unknown things

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i see a lot of things that look like nerves

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and a long spine

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why would various parts of nervous systems just live here by themselves

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and there is a whole swarm of these prions

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good food source

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that's what the slug would be thinking anyway

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instead of theorizing :p

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memory conflux

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maybe these contain memories

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and they're in a conflux

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also these rooms look like they're designed to avoid the red thingys

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i haven't seen them acting hostile yet though

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i'm not sure the nervous spiders are friendly

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OOOPS

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i broke something

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sorry guys

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oh okay y'all restored it

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good job

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well if they all part of some big hive mind

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i think me touching them is really unpleasant

#

bruh stop with these branches

#

scary

#

oh no

#

it'll be a stupid death

#

yep

#

maybe this one is hostile???

#

general system bugs

#

doesn't sound good

#

this circle mojo kinda reminds me of gravity benders

#

i like how this part of give pebbles look

#

it's intimidating

#

this is all a biomechanical brain/processor

#

what does it process though

#

what is its function (rhetorical)

#

welp

#

here we meet again i guess

#

if this is that doll i met

#

so the yellow eye showed me a hologram of the alien wearing an orange robe

#

i saw two aliens

#

one is looking quite weak and vulnerable

#

not having a robe

#

this one looks like it's in control of the whole five pebbles

#

and it has a robe

#

it manipulates pearls

#

or stores them

#

each pearl has a symbol

#

ha i stole a pearl

#

maybe i shouldn't have

#

i threw a pearl here which i had before in my stomach

#

he doesn't seem to notice

#

i so hope he isn't hostile

#

yes i killed your relative but like

#

forget about it

#

NICE TALK MAN

#

but i'm just a slug

#

i'll just save these here for the future

#

yeah man i got it i need that karma level for something

#

now he's either insulting me or telling me i'm special

#

i'm sorry that i don't have a brain the size of a region

#

not my fault

#

i guess i'm overqualified for this job

#

well at least i know the way

#

yep sorry for that man

#

wow

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:09 AM

#

oops all lore monksilly

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:09 AM

#

that was fucking incredible

#

finally someone sapient who explained something to me

#

and i guess he did a lobotomy on me

#

making me think in english

#

or whatever other language

#

nice

#

phew

#

jesus christ

#

i wonder if i can lose this karma level or it will stay

#

probably the first

#

okay so he and the other blue guy were apparently created by "noble benefactors"

#

who are gone

#

one thing is, i didn't know i seek to get rid of the cycle

#

i thought this is the natural order and i'm just searching for my family

#

also, why me, why explaining everything to me specifically

#

only because i got here

#

this has to be because i'm the smartest creature other than these two guys

#

this looks more similar to previous regions

#

maybe i'm close to getting out

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:15 AM

#

and that was the 5p experience

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:15 AM

#

i didn't explore all of it

#

i gotta study it more

#

so many branches

#

but later

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:15 AM

#

oh are you going back?

#

ah

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:16 AM

#

i'll follow the objective

#

this is the first time i get to have one

#

deep exploration can be done later

#

everywhere

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:16 AM

#

well, second time but whatever monksilly

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:16 AM

#

hmm

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:16 AM

#

somber fox well, second time but whatever <:monksilly:1132054344049627287>

what was the first one

#

maybe i forgot

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:16 AM

#

overseer dunno

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:17 AM

#

manic siren hmm

i also didn't find more of those octopi

#

that are connected to pilgrimage

#

also a thing to think about

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:17 AM

#

somber fox <:overseer:695022456452284537> dunno

i mean the first clear objective that my little slug brain can comprehend

#

when i got to where the eye led me, nobody told me what to do :D

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:18 AM

#

i mean you did have to have brain surgery

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:18 AM

#

i had just my instincts

#

to devour

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:18 AM

#

somber fox i mean you did have to have brain surgery

yep

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:18 AM

#

the other one probably couldn’t do that

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:18 AM

#

feels good

#

always pick the right doctor to treat you

#

you can choose between a half-dead one living in the sewers and talking to living eyes

#

and between whatever i met now

#

ofc i died a thousand times and it's equivalent to earning a lot of money to afford this kind of surgeon

#

but whatever

#

maybe the robed one and the one i killed had different approach to their objective of solving the cycle problem

#

and the robed one's method earned him hundreds of prions and power to work

#

while the other one had only 5 of them

#

oh i'm slowly getting my gravity back

#

that's a cool effect

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:23 AM

#

somber fox and that was the 5p experience

5p kinda sounds like what this guy's name could be

#

like a robotic title

#

r2d2 and all that

#

interesting, there is no rain counter in this shelter

#

but the area above has rain

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:25 AM

#

i imagine that might be something manually set everywhere or something

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:25 AM

#

it went much more peaceful than this art suggests :p

#

what does whazzat mean

#

my karma levels look freaky now

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:26 AM

#

i don’t remember, i think i started saying something

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:27 AM

#

i wonder if it just replaced the pictures of every level, or i just got all the levels at once and this is the highest

#

sadly i can't scroll down to see

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:27 AM

#

i don’t have “hide rain timer in safe areas” enabled though so i dunno much about it

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:27 AM

#

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:28 AM

#

somber fox i don’t have “hide rain timer in safe areas” enabled though so i dunno much abou...

no it's present, but frozen

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:28 AM

#

manic siren it went much more peaceful than this art suggests :p

i mean i think it could be a snapshot of you telling you to leave

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:28 AM

#

like in the 5p

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:28 AM

#

manic siren interesting, there is no rain counter in this shelter

i think when its hollow dots , thats the timer in its hidden state

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:28 AM

#

somber fox i mean i think it could be a snapshot of you telling you to leave

still kinda hostile-looking :D

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:29 AM

#

somber fox i think when its hollow dots , thats the timer in its hidden state

in other shelters the timer worked fine

#

hm idk

#

like this situation is only when i'm in 5p or deep underground

#

where everything is hot

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:30 AM

#

i dont really like the hide rain timer thing anyway

#

it just spoils the surprise, watching the rain timer run out and… nothing happens

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:30 AM

#

maybe

#

though i think i would just think it's a bug and be confused

#

seeing the timer freeze made me feel like the area was special

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:31 AM

#

in the depths?

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:31 AM

#

yeah

#

and here too

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:31 AM

#

somber fox it just spoils the surprise, watching the rain timer run out and… nothing happen...

also i often forget about the timer whatsoever

#

so i could just spend an hour down there and never think about it :p

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:32 AM

#

yeah but you’d think of it eventually wouldn’t you

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:32 AM

#

idk we'll never know :p

#

it would be really convenient for this to be a route to where i need to go right now, but not sure

#

the blue square above me reminds me of danball games

#

so silly

#

um whaaaat

#

an actual city?!

#

i like the design

#

and also this effect when part of the sky is really clouded and dark but there's still sun lighting the ground

#

and it creates such a weird contrast

#

bruh what are these balls

#

they're weird

#

ohh stars

#

wonder if they're real or artificial

#

huh

#

what

#

god i love how this looks

#

i see a moon

#

hiii

#

i am to become equal to these creatures apparently

#

eventually

#

and also there are 6 of them total, not 4

#

okaaay

#

well this is an asshole move though

#

now i gotta go back

#

okay i'll forgive you

#

wonder if the unfortunate development is something the robed guy created accidentally or its origin is something else

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:43 AM

#

do you wanna text of all the thing he said btw

#

to reread

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:44 AM

#

uh not now probably

#

it feels like there wasn't that much info to forget

#

but maybe a reread would be good indeed

#

in the future

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:45 AM

#

but what if you forget the directions of “go left and down”

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:45 AM

#

it's really hard to forget that place :D

#

i just gotta get in a familiar region and i'll eventually get there

#

or use a passage if i get too frustrated

#

the dust effect is interesting

#

or whatever it is

#

uh i didn't catch it

#

every time i jump there is dust around me

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 9:47 AM

#

well it makes sense itd be dusty up here

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 9:49 AM

#

so there is a wall

#

there is a city

#

there is vast dusty emptiness around

#

and structures

#

maybe the map is not one big machine, maybe it's just a complex of buildings and structures that just happened to be built next to each other

#

the exterior and the give pebbles are definitely a machine

#

controlled by the robed guy

#

or maybe it is that guy

#

the whole structure

#

including the leg

#

why does he need a small slug-sized avatar though

#

maybe some ambiguous design of his creators

#

or a necessity to play with pearls

#

i mean research

#

though he sounds like he long ago abandoned his task and it makes sense for him to just procratinate and play with pearls

#

cause he can't solve anything anyway

#

so there are other marks which i have to get

#

for god's sake

#

i hope i can at least go to that gate with a horizontal line mark

#

how many marks i have to get

#

welp i expected this wall to be 10 times bigger

#

but ok no aot for today

#

hmm i wonder if i can cheese the nomad by sleeping in the wall and 5p shelters two more times

#

shit this place is noooot friendly

#

the blue eye is showing me something now

#

two blue eyes

#

and actual clouds

#

three eyes

#

okay i stop counting the eyes

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 10:07 AM

#

Congrats on the big encounter monksilly

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 10:07 AM

#

which one :D

#

pheeew

#

barely got here before rain

#

killed two lizards and two plants too

#

success!

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 10:08 AM

#

All of em watcherpopcorn

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 10:09 AM

#

a lot of big things were concentrated in these areas

#

maybe there is even more crazy stuff in 5p

#

wonder which region the wall is part of

#

#

i see

#

well, i'm out of here

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 10:12 AM

#

Wall, leg, underhang

#

There's a pattern here huntersip

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 10:12 AM

#

the wall is exterior because well, it's a wall

#

the underhang is the ceiling

#

not sure why the leg is exterior

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 10:13 AM

#

Or the underbelly

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 10:13 AM

#

if it's the leg of 5p which is the brain of the robed guy

#

then i think it can be called the exterior

#

this guy have 5 triangles

#

five pebbles reference

#

bruh why is so hard to type "five pebbles"

#

i confuse the consonants

#

unexpected chimney canopy plot twist

#

well it's time for a long journey

#

or not that long

#

it's literally east of the sky islands gate

#

i could've gotten to the exterior much earlier?

#

wait no what

#

if i got to the exterior this way from chimney canopy

#

then the road to the robed guy would be reaaaaally short

#

again this effect

#

that robed dude wasn't that generous for a "godlike" being he called himself, like he could help me with predators or something

#

or maybe he said he's godlike in comparison to me

#

like humans are godlike to cats or smt

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 10:55 AM

#

there's also a possibility the robed guy actually is the reason for all these cycles and rain and all that

#

and i'm actually on my way to get recycled as an unfortunate development of sapience

#

maybe i'll become one of these blobs in the unfortunate development section

#

i am marked with a crossed circle after all

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:06 PM

#

huh i didn't know it could mean greedy

#

thought it only meant the second one

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:31 PM

#

manic siren i'll just save these here for the future

this is really curious

#

at first i thought it was the map of the whole game

#

but it's just a map of some place

#

and the rest of the information there is a mystery for now

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:34 PM

#

manic siren again this effect

Did you investigate it

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:34 PM

#

i didn't know i could

#

i've explored this area before, idk how thoroughly, and got the same effect a couple of times

#

don't remember finding the source

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:35 PM

#

huntersip

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:35 PM

#

i wanna do something with pearls but i have no idea what

#

i still don't understand how to use them

#

and it would be weird if you're supposed to bring all of them to that robed guy

#

like it's so much work

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:36 PM

#

Maybe someone else would be eager to look at them hunterthinking

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:36 PM

#

i remember bringing a pearl to the other blue guy whose prions i ate

#

nothing happened

#

so i guess i'll figure it out very late

#

or not

#

maybe i'm supposed to be oblivious rn

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:37 PM

#

rivclose

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:38 PM

#

maybe that guy could've helped with that if i kept him alive and hibernated afterwards

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:38 PM

#

Oh did you kill them outright

#

Wowie

#

slugnom

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:39 PM

#

i killed them the first time, felt really bad and died on purpose to reset it

#

then didn't understand what i'm supposed to do with that guy

#

and decided to eat those things anyway

#

i guess i would be able to understand them by now, after the lobotomy

#

actually i have an insane idea

#

to catch a prion

#

store it in my tummy if i can, or transport it to the dead doll in some other way

#

and try to revive it

#

if this is what they need to live, it might work

#

wait did you mean the pit inside or outside the leg

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:57 PM

#

The one at the very bottom room

#

After the gate from crypts

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 1:57 PM

#

ah, then i don't remember dying there :D

#

i fell outside

#

which is actually more embarassing

#

i just could't grab a pole

vestal granite Jan 21, 2026, 1:58 PM

#

saintblep

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:05 PM

#

urgh i can't find the farm arrays gate on the sky islands map for some reason

#

gotta try to remember it myself

#

okay you know what

#

passage

#

cute

#

THIS area of the map wasn't visible for some reason when i was looking at it during a cycle

#

mb it's a subregion though

#

okay it's kinda weird

#

those 2 new karma levels disappeared

#

and i gained 5 different ones instead

#

this goddamn place

#

this is ridiculous

#

there was a shelter here the whole time

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 5:19 PM

#

hey worm grass has been bested kinda

#

i didnt know you never even got to the shelter

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:20 PM

#

yeah that one advice about not waking it up has solved it

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:20 PM

#

somber fox i didnt know you never even got to the shelter

yeah the next shelter for me was that wagon one

#

underground

#

ohh this thing again

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 5:21 PM

#

aw again inside

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:21 PM

#

yep

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 5:21 PM

#

why cant it happen in a funny place like sky islands

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:21 PM

#

well i suppose it's just rain

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 5:21 PM

#

or yknow SOMEWHERE outside at least

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:21 PM

#

i'm waking up from my hibernation too early

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 5:22 PM

#

or the doors are opening too fast

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:23 PM

#

sloppy engineering

#

1 star

#

i'm now hopping back to my pickled lizard shelter

#

the 5 blue bugs left there were actually a great investment

#

if i lose some karma now

#

this guy is trolling me

#

he's just sitting where i need to go and not reacting to me

#

these centipedes, i swear...

#

okay i'm doing it later

#

cuz i'm not feeling well rn and it might cause me to use my passage out of frustration

somber fox Jan 21, 2026, 5:32 PM

#

reep

manic siren Jan 21, 2026, 5:32 PM

#

too opportunistic

#

really looking forward for what awaits me underground

mild marten Jan 21, 2026, 9:34 PM

#

manic siren now he's either insulting me or telling me i'm special

#

monksilly

#

was backreading, i see you've made a lot of progress!!!!

manic siren Jan 22, 2026, 12:32 PM

#

my headache dreams were rw-based lately slugskull

#

still better than that time when the same thing happened with minesweeper

jagged pawn Jan 22, 2026, 1:36 PM

#

manic siren my headache dreams were rw-based lately <:slugskull:1091493408876531732>

cool

mild marten Jan 22, 2026, 5:13 PM

#

i think i've had a lot of rain world dreams especially when i first got into the game 🥹

manic siren Jan 22, 2026, 5:18 PM

#

for me it's mostly pole jumping during some non-rw-related plot :d

hollow lynx Jan 22, 2026, 6:32 PM

#

mild marten i think i've had a lot of rain world dreams especially when i first got into the...

man I WISH I had rain world dreams my dreams are boring and suck

jagged pawn Jan 23, 2026, 8:20 AM

#

hollow lynx man I WISH I had rain world dreams my dreams are boring and suck

me too

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 9:42 AM

#

IT'S TIME

#

i hope my muscle memory solidified a bit due to a break, or whatever

#

the depths call to me

#

it would be funny if i don't really have much left in terms of progress

#

because i'd already found the path to the underground temple before i met the robed robot

#

he said something like "there's no solution yet, and i can't help you collectively or individually"

#

i don't really understand this phrase, because right after that he suggests individual help for me

#

"the old path"

#

maybe he meant that there is no solution but to escape this reality altogether?

#

idk

#

this "collection" is kinda a mystery

#

i just noticed

#

the area where the slugcat family lived

#

it looks like a

#

greenhouse probably?

#

judging only by how the roof looks

#

i thought there were no structures at all where they lived, or at least they lived mainly outside of all of them, in nature

#

but apparently no

#

still, the tree is a curious appearance

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:03 AM

#

Do you have the robot's dialogue annotated or would you like me to send it monksilly

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:03 AM

#

nah, it's good

#

i feel like sitting and poring through every word at this point is a bit too much

#

surely, you can deduce something new after a certain time

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:04 AM

#

There's no such thing as too much poring hunterthinking

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:05 AM

#

yeah but later :p

#

currently it feels like moving through the plot will give more answers

#

game-design-wise, it feels like the weak robot is portrayed as something more benevolent than the robed one, if they have a some kind of rivalry

#

the robed one didn't even mention the other one

#

but "me and my kind" suggests there should be more than 2

#

also, his words kinda destroy my theory about slugcats being devolved versions of a sapient species

#

cause he would definitely realize this

#

but he can also lie

#

can't deny this possibility

#

cold-blooded lurking killer

#

how hated are centipedes in the community? am i the weird one for finding them extra annoying? :D

#

my beloved studio apartment

#

and my creepy roommate

#

this seems like the closest shelter to the depths, but idk maybe i missed one

#

so the shelters can store anything biological indefinitely, even corpses

#

and there is no decay

#

but if i am starving, flies appear

#

wonder if it means something

#

maybe nothing besides me is really biological

#

also, i did kill this lizard a long time ago

#

and a new one didn't appear in this room

#

the question whether i can kill everyone in the game still stays open

#

at least this area is easier with my radioactive body

#

bruh why is everything so empty

#

who ate all the blind lizards

#

i've only met 2 so far

#

guess the game is really impatient for me to go deep

#

also i'm looking forward to have a conversation with those gravity-bending ladies

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:23 AM

#

welcome to defs

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:23 AM

#

i hope they can communicate and i'll be able to understand them

#

huh, i've never noticed this drill here before

#

the civilization had to drill their way into the temples

#

ahh so it is this area's name???

#

i've never noticed it before

#

maybe it doesn't show until you visit the robot

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:25 AM

#

dont think the game does anything like that

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:26 AM

#

then i'm just blind

#

which happens :p

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:26 AM

#

would be understandable if you were here once but iirc you went down multiple times so that is a little odd

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:26 AM

#

3 times i think

#

mb 4

#

yeah i'm super blind

#

tbh the way the region's name only shows upon entering it at certain points is kinda inconvenient, and can be easily missed if you look at the map at the same time

#

and it's also annoying how it interrupts the map displaying if you open the map before the name appears

#

YES, i finally have it

#

i shall pass

#

and y'all won't stop me

#

bruh i took this screenshot 1 step away from the flashbang

#

which indicates that i'm worthy

#

that was unexpected

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:30 AM

#

did you come here with x

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:30 AM

#

yes

#

got lucky to get here on first attempt from that lizard shelter

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:31 AM

#

ic...

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:31 AM

#

no lizards around for some reason

#

everyone cleared the way for me

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:31 AM

#

the flashbang fills you up to max anyway

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:31 AM

#

...no comments

#

i would never figure this out cuz i would never venture down without the max level

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:32 AM

#

i mean it doesnt work then so understandable

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:32 AM

#

this is unexpectedly generous from this game

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:32 AM

#

yea ik

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:32 AM

#

somber fox i mean it doesnt work then so understandable

?

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:33 AM

#

like it wont fill you up if you dont have x, i mean

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:33 AM

#

ahh so before i receive the mark

#

yeah i got it

#

first i will visit the lady whom i met first

#

i just wanna see the reaction on her face

#

even if she doesn't have a face

#

bruh the horizontal entrances in these places are not visibly obvious even when you're glowing

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:35 AM

#

yea this place kinda sucks

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:36 AM

#

ohh more of these

#

free everybody

#

no idea what i'm doing but i'm a cat

#

no responsibilities

#

WELL HELLO AGAIN

#

whatcha gonna say now eh

#

i'll be really humbled rn if she kills me anyway

#

and it's not that easy

#

that's what i thought

#

for some reason i slowly climb up the pole automatically

#

it's kinda weird that this place requires spear sticking

#

but okay

#

there seems to be a way up too

#

hmm

#

that's what i thought

#

i'm your boss now

#

i really hope there are no enemies

#

or at least a shelter

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even though this place doesn't seem like it's part of the bigger system upstairs

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maybe it can't have shelters

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:44 AM

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manic siren tbh the way the region's name only shows upon entering it at certain points is k...

Well it showed up in the first room of it so

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:44 AM

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if you sheltered rn the average player would get softlocked in here forever tbh

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:45 AM

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ah, right

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yeah there's no way up

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but idk maybe there would be a new way i'd unlock further

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:45 AM

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watcherpopcorn

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:45 AM

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okay i accidentally landed on a torch

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doesn't seem to damage me

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the music is cool

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 10:46 AM

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slugcat confirmed not a marshmallow at least

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:46 AM

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it's weird that i'm a slug, and a creature that is used to humid climate

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but it's so hot here and i don't care

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the music is super atmospheric

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who are you people

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what's your deal

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:47 AM

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Wormy

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:48 AM

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there's more of them

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hmm there were a lot of them in the shaded citadel i think?

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and heree

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man-made structure in the background, hmm

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or i mean humanoid-made

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sapient-species-made

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very oily

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another spear requirement? or mb i could do that with a backflip idk

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i wonder if you could actually die from fall damage here

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it would be embarassing

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ahhh my eyes

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:53 AM

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I died on my first playthrough from fall damage in that tall room right after crossing the sentries

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It was embarrassing.

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 10:54 AM

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not the water, i can barely see my character

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also even the sound of pausing the game is different

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maybe it's just a slowmotion effect

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 10:55 AM

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Radio silence time watcherpopcorn

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:13 AM

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i will honestly keep diving for another hour if the game wants me to

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:15 AM

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wouldnt it be funny if there was still an oxygen meter it was just kinda big

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there isnt but

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:16 AM

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for god's sake, i did not, in fact, needed to keep diving

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okay

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i guess i did it

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as usual, i'll need at least 24 hours to process everything after finishing a game

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:20 AM

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congratulations you did the rain world

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:22 AM

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Welcome to the 11% monksilly

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:22 AM

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i'll just say that his fingees are very funny

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:22 AM

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So how's those answers looking

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lizwhitewin

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:23 AM

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i'll think about it

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:23 AM

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vestal granite Welcome to the 11% <:monksilly:1132054344049627287>

wait no way

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really?

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:23 AM

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Yeah

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:24 AM

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most people do not like rain world

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:24 AM

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that's crazy

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:24 AM

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although those kinda stats are always kinda like that, very few people actually play games through anyway

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:24 AM

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According to steam achievements only 11% of players completed the first campaign

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:24 AM

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although okay, this game is indeed pretty niche and unusual, i can see why

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but i obviously enjoyed it

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this was awesome

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:25 AM

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It's a very polarizing game, you either ragequit forever in outskirts, or it clicks with you and becomes your favourite thing in the world

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:25 AM

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here's my screenshot of shame, i'll take a shower to think for now :p

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:25 AM

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well i think most people can handle outskirts

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:25 AM

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vestal granite It's a very polarizing game, you either ragequit forever in outskirts, or it cli...

well raqequitting in outskirts is kinda too much :D

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:25 AM

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but industrial onwards it may seem impossible and insane

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:26 AM

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Outskirts is super chill in retrospect but new players hate it

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:26 AM

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bonus points to oops i went to drainage and then subterranean and oops now i am trapped in literally the last area of the game and im barely rw-literate

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:27 AM

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i mean when i started playing this game, i saw a very clear message from the community: "just explore"

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and i followed it

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:27 AM

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manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:27 AM

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wonder how the game feels if you aren't told this

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:27 AM

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manic siren wonder how the game feels if you aren't told this

it looks miserable

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not to like, play, i mean to watch

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:27 AM

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A lot of people get disgruntled because they try to bruteforce it into playing like a normal game

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"Where's the inventory where's the skill tree where's the tutorial character to tell me everything where's the money collectibles where's the combo movements"

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huntersip

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:29 AM

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sorry i got rid of mine i thought i was being too mean

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:29 AM

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lizwhiteshrug

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The secret to rainworld? Just liberate yourself. Let things flow. Check out things at your own pace

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:30 AM

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yep

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worked out really well :p

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:30 AM

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The game's about the journey, the story is only in the background slugheart

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:30 AM

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but you are unusually good at the game btw so that helped out

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most people seem to be kinda worse at it

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idk there wastn a video or anything but that seemed like the vibe

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:31 AM

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Yeah I'd say you did pretty good monksilly

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And of course this is only the start of your journey

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We look forward to the next campaigns

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:31 AM

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oh look youre conveniently in the downpour section already

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:31 AM

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somber fox idk there wastn a video or anything but that seemed like the vibe

i don't think my pc would handle even a shortest screen recording

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my fps isn't very high as it is :p

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:32 AM

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vestal granite We look forward to the next campaigns

You can also continue on surv after beating it, if you have any pending mysteries to check out

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:32 AM

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manic siren here's my screenshot of shame, i'll take a shower to think for now :p

i actually kinda predicted the amount of deaths in the end

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around 400

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really close

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:33 AM

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But they'll still be there in the next slugcats monksilly

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:33 AM

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vestal granite You can also continue on surv after beating it, if you have any pending mysterie...

eehh there is kinda an issue

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:33 AM

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vestal granite You can also continue on surv after beating it, if you have any pending mysterie...

yep i'm torn between trying out other slugcats and exploring the entirety of the map as survivor first

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:33 AM

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most extra content you couldve done here will still be doable on other slugcats

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:34 AM

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it's just that i had a few challenges in my mind that would certify my "completion" of every character

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one of them was exploring every room and sleeping in every possible shelter

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:35 AM

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ic

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:35 AM

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mb it's a bit too much

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anyway, i'll see what i'll be drawn to

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:35 AM

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the dlc has a lot of going through the same areas as is

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so i cant recommend that

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:35 AM

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i think i'll do monk next

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:35 AM

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wait monk

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:36 AM

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i suppose it's not completely the same as survivor?

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:36 AM

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if you wanna thats alright but there are some caveats

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:36 AM

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Monk is a good scug to do sidequests or exploration in monksilly

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:36 AM

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it is the most "this is just an easy mode slugcat" slugcat of them all

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but if you can already handle survivor this well i dont think monk would be that fun

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:37 AM

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manic siren i suppose it's not completely the same as survivor?

All slugcats are different, but monk is the closest similarity to surv

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:37 AM

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or maybe it would be

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:37 AM

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hmm

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well i'll think about it

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i do have a very strong desire to try out other fancy slugcats besides monk

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:38 AM

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It's a new character and has its own story, but that only reflects in getting different cutscenes and dialogues. Otherwise the gameplay and routing is just Surv Easy Mode

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Other slugcats have more drastic changes.

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:38 AM

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i see

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:38 AM

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also you're yellow but you have custom colors on iirc so whatever

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wait no you dont

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nvm

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:38 AM

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somber fox also you're yellow but you have custom colors on iirc so whatever

you have some beef with yellow? :D

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:38 AM

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congreatulations youre yellow

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:39 AM

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monksilly

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:39 AM

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somber fox wait no you dont

i do

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i just chose default closer to the end

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:39 AM

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oh ok

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:40 AM

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vestal granite Monk is a good scug to do sidequests or exploration in <:monksilly:1132054344049...

And this also applies. 'Survivor easymode' is convenient if you want to check out regions or collect lore

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:40 AM

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i actually started the monk very early into the game when i felt like survivor was too difficult, passed only 1 or 2 cycles and then got back to survivor because "no, i will handle this one!!!"

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:40 AM

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did you watch the intro cutscene

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:40 AM

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yeah

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the brotha

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it also kinda raises some questions

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:41 AM

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makes me tear up monkwail

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:41 AM

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like if we both fell into the abyss

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why didn't we meet each other

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or it's like two different canons

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if you're survivor, your brother doesn't jump or he dies

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:41 AM

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Maybe they got washed up in different spots

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:41 AM

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if you're monk, your brother dies or is lost

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:42 AM

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i suppose you can play and find out

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:43 AM

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playing as a monk is also kinda a way for me to try out being a "pacifist" if can call it that

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towards animals, and also towards the weak robot

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this is kinda RPish i guess

somber fox Jan 23, 2026, 11:43 AM

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are you going to start now or another time?

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:43 AM

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saintsmirk

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:43 AM

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well anyway, i'll decide it later

manic siren Jan 23, 2026, 11:43 AM

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somber fox are you going to start now or another time?

prolly start a few hours later

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after doing some thinking

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also what would be better

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continuing this thread or getting a new one

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for different characters

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i'm sure i'll do the watcher in the very end (ik this is not its channel, just saying), after finishing vanilla and downpour guys

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simply because it's the latest dlc

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:46 AM

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Entirely your choice

vestal granite Jan 23, 2026, 11:46 AM

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manic siren i'm sure i'll do the watcher in the very end (ik this is not its channel, just s...

Yes that is recommended

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