#Watcher 1.5 Gaming

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vagrant bluff
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Died to a rot cyan lizor-

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Oh hey there's a leviathan here slugsparkle

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Found and sealed Turbulent Pump -> Verdant Waterways

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It's so depressing to suddenly move from a normal Verdant Waterways room to a rotted one rivboowomp

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WAIT A SECOND

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I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

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I think

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WHEN THE WEAVER HALO GLOWS, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S UNROTTING A ROOM

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I noticed because the room I was in turned green again

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AND NOW IT'S NOT CHANGING COLOR AND THE HALO'S GONE

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PEAAAAAAAAAK

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I don't even care that I just died

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I'm assuming to de-rot a region you have to drain rot from every room, which sounds... slugempty

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Gonna stop there for now

vagrant bluff
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Ok gonna play a bit more now

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It's so satisfying to watch the rot drain away-

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It probably would've taken waaaay longer for me to notice how it works if I hadn't gone to Verdant Waterways monksilly

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Y'know what's funny?

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For a campaign so deeply based around rot

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There has yet to be a single DLL/BLL/MLL

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Verdant Waterways -> Signal Spires: sealed

vagrant bluff
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(Just commenting on this here because I don't want to look in the Watcher Felper thread)

vagrant bluff
north jetty
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I mean

find quests

vagrant bluff
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But... *vauge gesture at The Prince, The Weaver, and Spinning Top*

north jetty
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all of Rain World is a find quest

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though the Watcher adds a layer on top of that with the spreading Decay

vagrant bluff
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Yeah

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The Weaver thing curing the rot is cool slugsparkle

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Though I'm definitely not gonna try curing all regions slugempty

placid zinc
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watchers gameplay loop all revolves around the portals in some way afaik

vagrant bluff
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Because I'd assume you have to do each rotted room individually

placid zinc
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its grindy stuff, but idk if it fits fetch quest exactly

vagrant bluff
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Yeah

north jetty
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On my 1.0 playthrough I was super hostile to the Decay. So figuring out the Weaver thing could do that in 1.5 was lotsa fun slugsparkle

placid zinc
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huh thats a new name

vagrant bluff
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"The Decay"... yeah no I'm still calling it Rot monksilly

placid zinc
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if its some super secret actually this was the real name all along

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oops

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also i thought it was corruption or something

north jetty
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Sorry all my names for Watcher mechanics were solidified into the wrong ones through the Journal monkcheese

placid zinc
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wowa

nocturne bridge
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This one is funny, pretty sure it's due to the heat vent in the previous room increasing the 'temperature' of watcher and then the flame reaching the pipe for a frame increasing it to a killing threshold

vagrant bluff
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Huh

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I didn't even know increasing temperature was how that mechanic worked monksilly

nocturne bridge
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you can see using watcher's body language

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Eye's closed, panting

vagrant bluff
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Ahhhh

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Yeah

nocturne bridge
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theres a few cool things you can inference by looking at the scug

vagrant bluff
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Ye

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Time for a little more Watching before I sleep

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I don't like this room

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It makes me think I can get up there

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But it's just too high to reach

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I've made it with float + grapple worm once... but that doesn't work with Ripplespace rivboowomp

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Died-

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Wait a second...

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I just died twice, I can just use Ripple 9-

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Made it sloggers

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Dang it I died to a white lizard in Shattered Terrace-

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Oh I found the boomerang arena unlock-

vagrant bluff
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Dang it I died again-

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Think Ima stop there for now, and keep going tomorrow

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I hope I don't end up needing to seal every portal but I suspect I will slugempty

inland oracle
inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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Ok I've been doing a poor job documenting, but this is a little disapointing...

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I was hoping to see the Rot Void Worm again rivboowomp

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Wait the Weaver halo appears when I get close to Rot...

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I'm not going to try testing that-

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Awww it's so cute just one little guy 🄹

vagrant bluff
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Excuse me what

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Time to test I guess

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Good news and bad news:

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Good news: I didn't die/get grabbed

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Bad news: the shelter still didn't work

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Ok this is actually busted what-

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Rot just doesn't-

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I'm fully immune

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Nice

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Ok the rot just not having any collision is not convenient-

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I died to Ripplespawn in Ripplespace because of that

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It's so weird not having to treat Rot as a threat-

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Wait that's actually kind of annoying-

Derotting rooms makes the karma flowers there disappear the next cycle

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Ughhhhh I hate how the float isn't separate from the camo

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BRO

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I GOT STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN STORMY COAST MID SWITCHING OUT OF RIPPLESPACE

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THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER EVEN DIED TO THE LIGHTNING

north jetty
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that is quite unlucky wow

vagrant bluff
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I was just trying to grab some fruits

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And because I was in Ripplespace I didn't even get the lightning indicator

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I feel like I've had a lot of deaths fliipping between Ripplespace and reality, but most of those are to creatures I just didn't notice because the lights are so hard to notice

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This one was completely not my fault

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The rattlers ignoring me is nice

vagrant bluff
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I have to say, sealing portals is... not too fun

placid zinc
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janitor gaming

vagrant bluff
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Why is that every time I exit Ripplespace due to Ripplespawn I get got by something that was directly on top of me-

placid zinc
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it doesnt take too long though

vagrant bluff
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Definitely feels longer because it's just... not engaging

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It's not nearly as fun as exploring regions the first time

vagrant bluff
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Ok that's enough for the night

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I hope I don't have too much left before I get the Weaver ending...

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Because this process just kinda feels boring and repetitive

inland oracle
vagrant bluff
vagrant bluff
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I'm excited to backread people's Watcher threads

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Not going to until I get the last two endings

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(Which is also when I'll let myself use the wiki again)

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But there's gonna be a lot of threads to read through

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Oh yeah... I wonder if the Watcher challenges are still spoilers hunterthinking

vernal needle
vagrant bluff
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Last time I asked, I was told they shouldn't be spoilers, but that the intended methods of completion to some of them would be

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I think I somehow got out of bounds and now I have no idea where I am-

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I should enable Dev Tools to get out of these situations, at this point, this is not the first time I've gotten out of bounds in Watcher

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I know I'm not dead 'cause it lets me pause

vagrant bluff
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I don't think I can see any other permanent warps on the map

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Just the remaining, like, Outer Rim ones

placid zinc
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most of the out of bounds isnt a softlock anyway

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slugcat can wriggle through most terrain back into bounds, usually

vagrant bluff
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The annoying thing is when you have no idea where out of bounds you are

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Also there’s been a couple times where I wiggled into open space you’re not supposed to be able to get to

placid zinc
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you can see yourself on the map

vagrant bluff
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It wouldn’t let me open my map though rivboowomp

placid zinc
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that seems somewhat abnormal

vagrant bluff
placid zinc
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if you cant open your map i would guess youre also not in a state to wriggle

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welp

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why the emoji is it a bad assumption

vagrant bluff
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Yeah I’m just gonna keep Dev Tools in my back pocket

vagrant bluff
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More of a ā€œHuh, yeah, didn’t think of thatā€

vagrant bluff
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Let's have a Watch šŸ‘€

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

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HELLO AGAIN

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...

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Erm, well that just happened

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Woaaaaah

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*Gasp*

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Ooooo k

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Outskirts :D

inland oracle
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HOLY CRAP

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I'm so glad I'm here now

inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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Where to next-!

inland oracle
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Fortnite map

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Watcher has a crossover with fortnite

vagrant bluff
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Ok I was expecting like Farm Arrays or something, ok-

inland oracle
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Omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg

vagrant bluff
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Also am I going crazy or is Watcher slightly smaller?

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There's something funny to me about how the map still loads-

inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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I have no idea where this is monksilly

inland oracle
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Bring your toys!!!!

vagrant bluff
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Way ahead of you monksilly

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(Well, just the top, but still)

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The Spinning Top, you might say

inland oracle
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🫐

vagrant bluff
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I want to say this is Outer Rim...? But it's not somewhere I've been, so...

inland oracle
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What does the map saymonksilly

vagrant bluff
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If there was a popup I missed it-

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Too busy getting screenshots and properly documenting-

vagrant bluff
inland oracle
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I'm too busy spamming your documentation withmonksilly monksilly monksilly monksilly monksilly monksilly monksilly

vagrant bluff
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YOU'RE ALIVE

inland oracle
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🌻

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🫐

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Are you ready for peak

vagrant bluff
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Ok I don't know what he did-

inland oracle
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He meowed

vagrant bluff
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Nooooo the top's gone rivboowomp

inland oracle
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Rip top

vagrant bluff
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They ascended, too

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Just like Spinning Top

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Both Spinning Tops are gone now

inland oracle
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Oh your toy?

vagrant bluff
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I take it back-

inland oracle
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Perhaps it's still with the prince idk

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Oh

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You know what to do

vagrant bluff
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I'm like 90% sure this is the same place as the intro cutscene but I'm too lazy to go check

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Won't let me camo or anything, and the Weaver stuff's gone

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Though I still have Ripple instead of Karma-

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I'm morbidly curious what would happen if you died at any point in this sequence

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Not gonna experiment myself, but it would be funny

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Pwetty...

inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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Where we goin' next-

inland oracle
vagrant bluff
inland oracle
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This is it

vagrant bluff
inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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I want to say these look like the Daemon pillars...?

inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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So did we just warp to a game other than Rain World now-?

inland oracle
north jetty
inland oracle
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U don't have to document everything the second it happens btw

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There's heaps of videos of this

vagrant bluff
inland oracle
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The speedrun timer is still going btw

vagrant bluff
inland oracle
vagrant bluff
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Oh the Watcher and Weaver stuff is back too-

inland oracle
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Sry but I gtg I'd love to watch the rest but I have seen you see the peak

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Let's have a watch

vagrant bluff
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I'm being watched-

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Huh, it does let me go into Ripplespace

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I'm like 90% sure this is a different Depths layout than Vanilla/Downpour

mossy ravine
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finally i get to watcherpopcorn

vagrant bluff
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Here we are

north jetty
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Welcome back.

vagrant bluff
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In Vanilla this is the first place where the camera scrolls but that's very not true here-

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EYYYYY THE GUYS, THE FELLAS, THE HOMIES

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Not rotted monksilly

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I feel like they're moving differently-

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There's particles in the Void Fluid that aren't normally there, I don't think-

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That or it's just been a while

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Looong

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Oh nevermind, this is long

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Don't tell me this is what I think it's about to be

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You're kidding me

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I thought Watcher was gonna turn into The Weaver or something

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Is this...

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Oh it's not even making me press anything anymore

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It's not gonna go more???

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Oh score screen gaming

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Oh nice it does let me continue

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I was honestly expecting that it wouldn't-

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Ok and it just puts me back in Daemon, before that ending, when I reload

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So uhhhhh

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Guess I'm done with Watcher now

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Still have like

north jetty
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Congratulations.

vagrant bluff
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Pearls and stuff to do

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But uhh

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Yeah

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That's also every Watcher achievement, which is nice

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So are the Watcher server challenges still spoilers? I'm still gonna go look at them, but I'm still curious

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I'm satisfied with this as my unspoiled experience

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Ok actually I don't feel like waiting for an answer and I have free will I'm just checking now-

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Excuse me what

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Kill a Blizzard Lizard with a flamethrower and survive the encounter.

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN FLAMETHROWER??????

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Oh wait I bet it's just the Heat Duct things-

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That would make way more sense than an actual flamethrower weapon

north jetty
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can't trust anything after the secret rifle in MSC

vagrant bluff
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Joke Rifle

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Peak

vagrant bluff
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The Mark of Communication is given by The Prince before the final ending of the Watcher campaign. With it, the Watcher can decipher the text, images, and audio of Pearls, which are otherwise incomprehensible when used with the Pearl reader in Ancient Urban.

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OH

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OH I SEE

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PEARL HUNTING IS VERY ON THE MENU

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Once this ability is obtained, a purple spiral is shown behind Watcher when hibernating. The spiral can be refilled by collecting around 50 Ripple Spawn Eggs[note 2], and is fully depleted each time a Ripple Egg Warp is performed. However, the spiral is refilled if Watcher dies before hibernating after warping, and the spiral is not depleted if the warp is cancelled, with the exception of the first warp triggered automatically after unlocking the ability, which does not fill the spiral if cancelled.```
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WHAAAAAAAAT

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Yeah I never would've explored Outer Rim enough to find this- leditoroverload

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Ok, I had a suspicion that there was one more Spinning Top location in Fractured Gateways, and I was right

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I only found that region after getting the ending, but it let me keep Ripple 9 sometimes, so I was satisfied

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Honestly gonna stop looking at the wiki (for now), there's still stuff I have yet to see

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Still absolutely gonna allow myself to read Watcher threads now, though

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I'm gonna sleep now and back read some threads tomorrow (probably)

delicate dragon
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Congrats on beating the watcher!! watcherpopcorn slugsparkle

inland oracle
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huge congratulations bro

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only very few players ever make it this far

vagrant bluff
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0.6%, apparently

Though that number is even more inaccurate than the 11% who beat base game monksilly

placid zinc
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tbh watcher achievements had been bugged to not trigger for a while

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actually idk

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it mightve been console specific

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oh, and they didnt have them at launch at all ig but, ending 4 wasnt there at launch either so

vagrant bluff
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If by ā€œlaunchā€ you mean pre-1.5, yeah, there weren’t achievements and the Weaver and True Ending stuff didn’t exist

inland oracle
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On pc

vagrant bluff
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Oh I also got the Spinning Top achievement a while ago, before I sat down and actually played 1.5

vagrant bluff
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My brother hasn’t Watcher

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I should tell him to make a thread-

vernal needle
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damn i would let yu read mine but porls n stuff idk

vagrant bluff
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I’ll just stop reading if I see anyone about to read a pearl

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Still wanna do those myself

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(Or at least the ones I’ve found already)

vernal needle
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i didnt spoil tag my reads spearpensivetothat

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neither spoil tag where they are at (except in pins)

vagrant bluff
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Well yeah but I’ll be able to tell that you’re bringing pearls there-

vernal needle
vagrant bluff
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Yeah

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How did I only just notice that the max Ripple level is 9 and not 10-

inland oracle
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Watching the lizards propaganda

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Oh I have a bunch of pearl readings in the thread tho

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The pins has all the locations I have seen (most of them)

vernal needle
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and the monkwall propaganda too

vagrant bluff
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Ok, time to do a little Watching

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Just a little

vagrant bluff
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Yippee

placid zinc
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the watcher family

vagrant bluff
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Progress

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This should be helpful to unlock

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Still gotta find more thingies tho

vagrant bluff
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WAIT THAT'S THE SAME SPARKS AS THE ENDING

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Ok now to see how many pearls I am capable of bringing into Ancient Urban at once

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I DIED TO THE RIPPLESPAWN SOMEHOW??? THEY WERE INVISIBLE

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I wish there was a shortcut up here...

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Gonna read all of these tomorrow, probably slugpearls

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OH HEY

inland oracle
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oh heck i think i forgot to post The Memeā„¢

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sorgyyy should have posted it after you beat it

vagrant bluff
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Oh, can I get confirmation on a question?

Can you just leave pearls read by the pearl reader machine there and they won't despawn or anything?

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Just a direct answer so I know whether to keep my pearls in the shelter or the reader room

vagrant bluff
placid zinc
vagrant bluff
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Oh yeah that's just how Key Item Tracking works monksilly

placid zinc
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itll only track color pearls

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so if you have like broadcast pearls or something

vagrant bluff
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Yeah, of course

placid zinc
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idk i got all the downpour pearls from the vanilla regions so.... monksilly

vagrant bluff
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I brought one Vanilla region pearl, I think, the blue one from Industrial

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So those might be the only ones I can't get and I'll have to look 'em up

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But hopefully every other pearl is accessible

placid zinc
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hopefully

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i personally dont trust key item tracking that much anyway

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but like theres probably no difference in programming as far as like

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game keeps track of items in shelters vs game keeps track of items in a room

vagrant bluff
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Yeah that's why I asked if there's specifically something that keeps them there; pretty sure, like, bringing pearls to Pebbles as Arti, he keeps them in his chamber regardless of Key Item Tracking? so I wanted to know if there's something similar here

placid zinc
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oh like that? i dont know if the game has any special animations or scripts for it or anything

vernal needle
vernal needle
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with key item tracking ofc

vagrant bluff
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Ok but that wasn't the question monksilly

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I suppose I could've phrased it better, though

vernal needle
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i cant understand then wym monkcurious

vagrant bluff
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It's more like: Without Key Item Tracking, pearls read by Five Pebbles as Ariticer are saved in his chamber, right?

Does the pearl reader do that too?

vernal needle
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oh not sure then actually

vagrant bluff
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That's 2/2 who have answered that to the question monklaugh

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Gonna go move some pearls now

vernal needle
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i never turn off key item tracking remix setting so

vagrant bluff
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Yeah me neither monksilly

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AAAAAAAAAA

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Why does this jump have to be required for the pearl transporting rivboowomp

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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I wish I'd brought a grapple worm with me now-

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Gonna have to do that next time I bring pearls

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At least I'm down to Ripple 9 8 so I don't go into Ripplespace

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YOU'RE KIDDING MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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I hate this room

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OK FINALLY MADE IT

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I'm gonna go ahead and record these readings, will update afterwards I guess

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Ok uploading the video to YouTube 'cause it's fairly long

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New iterator just dropped

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Bell of Gesture

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Who I'm going to guess is the Iterator pictured in one of the other pearls...?

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I forget where I got either of them, so...

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So here's all the pearls I just read

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Lots of purple ones-

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Ok

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So now I have to find all the pearls I don't have yet slugempty

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I'm gonna use the interactive map to check which regions I get to have pearls

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Uhhhhhh

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I think my random warp broke-

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Guess I'll quit out-

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Wait why did this portal never get sealed???

vagrant bluff
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Ok I'm pretty sure the pearls I don't have are in:

  • Shrouded Stacks
  • Stormy Coast
  • Cold Storage
  • Salination
  • Torrid Desert
  • Verdant Waterways
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Hang on there's still one not accounted for, in that case (I have one more with me now, from Fetid Glen)

vagrant bluff
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Break time 'cause I didn't eat

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Brought the Fetid Glen and Verdant Waterways pearls to Ancient Urban, gonna read them after I eat

vagrant bluff
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So that still leaves, minimum:

  • Shrouded Stacks
  • Stormy Coast
  • Cold Storage
  • Salination
  • Torrid Desert
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Ok Torrid Desert found

vagrant bluff
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Got Shrouded Stacks, too

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Just gotta sleep now

vagrant bluff
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Brought those two pearls to Ancient Urban

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Ok, think Ima stop there for the night

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Still no idea what other pearl I'm missing-

vagrant bluff
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So the dial warp SUCKS, actually

vagrant bluff
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Made it to Ancient Urban with the Stormy Coast and Cold Storage pearls, as well as another misc. pearl, before I stopped

vernal needle
vagrant bluff
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Ok, if anyone can help me figure out which pearls I'm missing, that'd be great

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There should still be one in Salination which I need...

vagrant bluff
rustic hazel
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Uhhh

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Idk

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Ill be here anytime to help monksilly monksilly

vagrant bluff
rustic hazel
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Watcher pearls are very purple pilled

vagrant bluff
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Different people frequent the spoiler channels, so that might get a more informative response

vagrant bluff
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Watcher in general is very purple monksilly

rustic hazel
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Yeh

vagrant bluff
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Ok

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This is by far the worst of this type of moment I have ever had

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MID UP WARP

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I GOT STRUCK BY STORMY COAST LIGHTNING

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AND IT WAS A WARP FROM RIPPLESPACE

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SO IT PHASED ME OUT OF RIPPLESPACE INTO THE LIGHTNING

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This game sucks

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...Also I just remembered that one of my Outer Rim warps leads to Salination...

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So uh...

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Guess I'll go there

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Next time I play, that is

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(Could be later tonight, IDK, but stopping for now)

vagrant bluff
vagrant bluff
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My first readings of Watcher colored pearls

ā–¶ Play video

My second readings of Watcher colored pearls

ā–¶ Play video

My third readings of Watcher colored pearls

ā–¶ Play video

My fourth readings of Watcher colored pearls

ā–¶ Play video
north jetty
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horrible luck

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really that's impressively bad luck I think

vernal needle
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i know im too late probably because this was almost 10 hours ago

vagrant bluff
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inland oracle
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modding mod ding molding