#truly a riv[ul]eting journey, truly it was

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clever panther
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rivulet after playing crackhead [artificer]

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i'm gonna be reusing the riv[ul]eting joke so much

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WOW IM FAST

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^ actually my only observation lmao

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other than starting in drainage ofc

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holy hell cycles are short

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5/1 food huh

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i'll be having to look around for that then

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i do wonder where in the timeline this is

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actually so active in this server lol

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clever panther
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the artificer brainrot is real

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if my spear doesnt explode it sucks

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i no longer get to just play as an absolute crackhead and sprint straight into a gang of scavys and somehow win

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the return of "just ignore everything and run past all of it" is real

clever panther
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looking through "just documenting" threads is so funny

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like sometimes you'll get a thread of some1 thats genuinely documenting their cycles/sessions, noting down what they learnt, encountered and did, and other times you get threads like mine, where the thread owner just screeches and screams in the thread anytime smth big happens

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like i'll just be calmly writing where im at and then just slam the all caps WHAT THE HELL IS THIS

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snap a pic

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and then just continue playing, but a little more shook than before

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exactly like this

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clever panther
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yo rivulet lung size is either actually infinite or its incredibly huge, i just went a whole stretch that usually needs to be breathed for like 5 times in a single breath and added a lot more underwater time to the stretch

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backflips feel like actual levitation magic

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and i only just noticed i have a pearl on me

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a colored one at that

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and i know someone who can read

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im actually so damn fast i manage to move even when the rain is blasting hard

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DOES EVERY SHELTER JUST BREAK

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really just went from crackhead [chaotic neutral] to crackhead [chaotically wet] huh

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shoreline and brown rot telling me this is post artificer

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not really a difficult observation to make

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but having a bit of a timeline in my head does help with figuring out lore

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i also went to title page randomly and noticed that rivulet has a mark of communication for some odd reason

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nearing moon already

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this is so insanely fast

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an iterator schematic huh

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also

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MOON HAD 7 NEURONS ‽‽‽

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it seems like a lot has happened

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and rivulet is 100% after monk

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but how much farther

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also it seems like pebbles isnt doing too hot

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now i get a choice

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do i go to pebbles via underhang, or do i go via wall

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cause wall is like an insanely easy option, but underhang actually has me seeing the changes to the superstructure

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im going through underhang

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unless i manage to go down to 1 karma

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then i'll go through wall but leave through the underhang route

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oh right

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i wanted to check this place out first

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OF COURSE THERES A WATER CENTIPEDE HERE

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IM STILL SCARED OF THE THINGS

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i may be playing as slugfish but that doesnt flx my underwater movement skill issue

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oh its like dark dark here

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i cant see anything at all

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oh no

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LIGHTNING STORM AREA AND WATER REGION AT THE SAME TIME

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WITH A BROKEN SHELTER AS WELL

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CAN IT GET ANY WORSE

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i managed to hibernate

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i have decreed that i hate this area and will only return once i consume a neuron

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the fish pushing me down and showing there was a whole room down in the water terrified me like pls its so dark im scared im just slungus spare me

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i have left the area

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never even got deep enough in it to see the region name

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region name showed up on the map thing in main menu

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area called submerged superstructure it seems

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and on wanderer it showed up as the last pip, so i'll be returning here to finish my journey i'd guess

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no rivets to see here its just scary

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watching goragle play artificer and getting angry is fairly understandable because i dont think he understands the stun blast and maul yet

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he's done both but didnt notice any of the times

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this isnt even the arti thread why am i yapping

sullen current
sullen current
clever panther
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im just gonna go rush to pebbles' structure

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tomorrow

clever panther
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time to see if anything is different in shaded citadel

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traded to get that scavy loadout

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bombspear and a lamp

clever panther
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ok rivulet is 100% the latest in the timeline so far

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theres ROT in the MEMORY CRYPTS

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HOW FAR HAS THIS STUFF SPREAD

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THERES EVEN TENTABALLS

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well at least i dont think scissor birbuh wont be an issue

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also why is the map already explored, even though its a completely different memory crypts

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ohh maybe cause they have to make a region map unexplored and cant just hide a sub region

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so because nothings different with citadel afaik, they just used the citadel map and didnt give rivulet a new unexplored map, even though crypts is entirely changed

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i feel like i just said the same thing 3 times in 2 sentences

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and its raining right before i managed to reach the leg

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pls pls pls pls pls game let me make it

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IM IN THE LEG

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time to see how fucked pebbles is cause its probably real bad if theres rot in crypts

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oh its BAD bad

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TENTABALL IN THE FIRST ROOM BAD

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well what am i even supposed to do here

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THIS IS WORSE

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gonna check up on precipice to see if it got got by the rot

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precipice seems mostly normal aside from the fact that its always raining

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moon wasnt lying when she said that it wasnt going well with pebbles tho

clever panther
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goofiest death ever?

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tongue bug grabbed a berry so we fell

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i havent said it yet but moving through underhang with its new rot walls is terrifying

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the... rot?

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IM SO FUCKING SCAREDDDD

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halp

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ITS ALL JUST UNFORTUNATE DEVELOPMENT NOOOOO

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WAWA

clever panther
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watching two streams whilst i play for emotional support

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AAAA

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WHAT IS THIS AND WHY IS IT PURPLE

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the rot [depths]

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oh shit i didnt eat at all im starving fcuk

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ive been crawling around just looking for 2 neurons im terrified

clever panther
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I DIED NOO

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IM BACK AT THE START OF THE ROT rivsob

clever panther
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made it to some rail place

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...?

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i...

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can enter a gravity thing?

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DID I GRAB THE CORE OF AN ANTIGRAV GEN‽‽

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DO I JUST HAVE PORTABLE ANTIGRAV

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THIS IS WHY I EXPLORE

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FEELING GREAT BUT ALSO SCARED CAUSE WHAT IF I DIE

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im just gonna go back to my prev shelter

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portable antigrav is actually silly as hell

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im having a great time suddenly

clever panther
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ight ive made a gameplan: talk to pebbles [i expect him to still be alive as they "do not die easily"], goof around for a with with the portaAG, then go/passage to moon for her insights

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HE CALLED ME A FUCKING LAND FISH LMFAOOOOO

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hm,,, so theres this purple-reddish pearl here, and hes asking me to leave it.

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sure

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i'll leave your last possesion and keepsake with you

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i'll look at it in the wiki, i'm not that evil to take your last thing

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oh

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hes playing the pearl

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what an emotionfilled tune

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melancholic?

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possibly

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my silliness from the "rarefaction cell" as pebbles called it has waned, but it did feel odd to see pebbles in a similar state to moon

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cause pebbles asked me to, it seems i'll be headed straight to moon

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through a passage

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cause i dont feel like going all that way

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a pipe above moon?

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well

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hm

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the uhhh

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the

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the thing

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the rarefaction cell

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it

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it uhhh

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its still at pebbles' shelter there

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uhhh

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how unexpectedly logical

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cause i don't have that remix setting on

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well

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i'll go to moon, then passage back and walk here

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WHOA

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i went to the main menu

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to check if i wanted to do anything with any other remix settings [ended up also enabling alpha reds for the memes]

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and

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rivulets menu art

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no longer holding an expanded bubble fruit

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but the rarefaction cell

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how cool

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wait i also just noticed

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cycle times are long again

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i talked to moon

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she thinks that pebbles' machinery has also failed finally

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if only i had a certain cell with me

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i got saint passage

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and i cba to run from top of pebbles to moon

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so im turning on key items on passage

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just for this

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possibly the only time ever with this game where idc that im kinda cheating

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i sure hope the cell counts as a key item

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actually my first time seeing the monk passage art

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its got popcorn yum

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well

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it seems

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like

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the

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the uhhh

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the thing

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the rarefaction cell

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it uhh

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didnt count as a key item

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well

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lets

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uhhh

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go climb the wall ig

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am i dumb?

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wait no im not im smart

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i went to garbage wastes gate

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even tho i couldve also gone to citadel

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but garbage wastes is smart

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cause i'll go through complex and canopy

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instead of having to go through citadel leg and underhang

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accidental genius

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sprinting through wastes at mach speeds and i just noticed

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the scavys drew a little warning sign

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to show that theres tentaballs there

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traveled through all of wastes in half a cycle

clever panther
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finally made it back to the rarefaction cell

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well

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time

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to uhh

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to

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head

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back to moon

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guhhh

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sillying around with the cell on pebbles top has been so fun

clever panther
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back into garbage wastes

clever panther
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i talked with moon and she told me two/three things things

  1. since i took this from pebbles, he's gonna die
  2. this could save moon
  3. i need to go to submerged superstructure for that
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and rivulet is gonna be like the only slungus that can do that

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cause as she said it would require being underwater for long times

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OF COURSE THERES LEVIATHANS HERE

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the fact that i have light and a motorboat really help actually

clever panther
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THE SUPERSTRUCTURE LIVES

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lets go meet moon then

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or not

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bitter aerie

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cold

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very unexpected to see snow

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BITTER AERIE IS LIKE MOONS CITY

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it does make sense that im there

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cause activating the heart pushed me up

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so i just got pulled with the current to the top of the structur

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OMGGGGO

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YESSSS

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SHE FLIES

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SHES BACK

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I DID IT

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IM SO HAPPY

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wait more lore

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one final broadcast

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"fates have been flipped"

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truly they have

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and credits roll, with pebbles' melody playing

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i

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dont feel happy

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neither do i feel sad

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im-

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what a journey

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one with the highest peaks and the lowest lows

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in the end

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i feel bad for pebbles. though he feels he may deserve it, no one really deserves to die like that

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in the worst state youve ever been in

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and having your last source of energy taken

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to then feel that you deserve that

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and also to have that source of energy be granted to the one that fell long before you

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their fates really have been flipped

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<@&1137895527271379055>

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AWWWWW

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wary elm
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congrats!!!!

clever panther
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i genuinely dont know how to feel

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what a campaign that was

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...

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lets begin with spearmaster then

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i'll start my next thread

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probably attempt to do some more reflecting on rivulets journey

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and scream about the ways the next abnormality operates

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its been a good journey

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oh right

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truly a riv[ul]eting journey, truly it was

wary elm
limpid kiln
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congrats on finishing riv though 🎊