#The story of my first playthrough, quite the tale! [spoiler]

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placid elm
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ooo black pearl

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having the bug make plateforming SOOOO easy

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these things make the game easymode

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o fuck

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there one exit and this guy is LITERRALY on it

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im on fire!

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its the firts one i get without dying

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rock think its part of the team

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alr!

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when i mannage to save(i activated the the remix setting but when i got back i woke up) 🙁 im going to finnally see the chosing of the passage bunker

placid elm
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zxit 1

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exit 2

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i rolled back 20 times and a bird killed 1 of them

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destination set, lets prey it works

sleek swallow
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Oh yeah, would you like this now? monksilly

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If you're heading back to Moon now

placid elm
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passage is locked in so sure!

sleek swallow
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Alright, I'll compile a list, then

placid elm
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i prey the pearls come

sleek swallow
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If you turned on the setting, they should saintunyoy

placid elm
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i did

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they$

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did

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not

sleek swallow
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That's-

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That's not good-

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They were in the shelter with you?

placid elm
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yes

sleek swallow
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And you turned on Key Items on Passage?

placid elm
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i activated it

sleek swallow
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And made sure to hit confirm?

placid elm
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yes

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i even checked back after

sleek swallow
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. . .

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Well that's not good-

placid elm
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it is activated

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i am quite dipleased

sleek swallow
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It is

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Yeah that sucks rivboowomp

placid elm
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well

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its either i buen another passage

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or i make the climb up

sleek swallow
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I forget, are you on PC? monkcurious

placid elm
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yes

sleek swallow
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You could probably load a backup from before passaging? They're in the settings menu

placid elm
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uh

sleek swallow
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It might set your progress back a bit, but at least the passage wouldn't be wasted

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The game automatically makes backups every ~30 minutes, and they can be found and loaded from the settings menu

subtle mason
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rain world keeps automated backups

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oop

placid elm
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the backup is before i even enter the sky islands

sleek swallow
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Welp

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I'd still say load it...? Because wasting a passage is really annoying

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You can get back your exploration progress, but you can't re-get the same passage

placid elm
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i did load the last 3 saves available to me

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the VERY LAST was made after the passage

sleek swallow
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Got it

placid elm
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i only got on passage left anyway

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i think i can get one by starving to death tho

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can i make a manual backup

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if yes i will climb

sleek swallow
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You can, yes, there's a button for it in the backups menu

placid elm
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very well

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i shall climb again for multiple hours

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then, back a save an do a passage once again

sleek swallow
placid elm
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well sky island was tough

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i shall see

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I

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NVER

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ENCOUNTERED A BIRD HERE

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and he insta grabbed me out of the pipe

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something is against me

placid elm
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heyy while i climb feel free to tell me what pearl i missed

subtle mason
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wait what happened to your sky islands pearls

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do you have to do another whole runaround

placid elm
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i do

sleek swallow
placid elm
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i enter canopee now

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your beloved

sleek swallow
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Chimney my beloved slugheart

placid elm
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good thing

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now that ilooked everywhere i know the way up

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i do not belove these lands

sleek swallow
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List of your missing/found pearls, by region:
Outskirts: ||0 out of 1 pearls found||
Industrial Complex: ||1 out of 1 pearl found||
Drainage System: ||1 out of 1 pearls found||
Chimney Canopy: ||1 out of 1 pearl found||
Garbage Wastes: ||1 out of 1 pearls found||
Shaded Citadel: ||1 out of 1 pearls found||
Shoreline: ||3 out of 3 pearls found||
The Exterior: ||1 out of 1 pearls found||
Sky Islands: ||2 out of 2 pearls found||
Five Pebbles: ||0 out of 0 pearls found monksilly||
Subterranean: ||1 out of 2 pearls found||
Regions you haven't been to yet: ||Missing 2 total pearls||
For a total of ||4|| pearls not found yet

placid elm
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i enter the sky islands

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one og these is surprising

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no heist i guess

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run back complete!

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indeed it was way shorter, took me like 25 mins

sleek swallow
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Backup time

placid elm
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now i backup

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yes

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and after that i survive acycle and then we try

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so um, main menu then?

sleek swallow
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Yep; main menu -> settings menu -> backups menu -> create backup button

placid elm
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it is saved

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also this time i will spawn in a bunker that doesnt contain pearls already

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i fear they may be a limmit

sleek swallow
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There shouldn't be

placid elm
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fitting, also how do i spoiler things

sleek swallow
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You don't need to spoiler tag anything, if that's the question

placid elm
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alr

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destination set, warping now

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no pearls once again

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i have checked the internet for answers

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colored pearls

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A R E N T

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key items

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i have no choices

subtle mason
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who said that

placid elm
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reddit

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let me close and open the game

subtle mason
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nvm that

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i'm curious what shelter are you traveling from and where are you traveling to

placid elm
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i am travelling from a shelter from the sky island into a shelter in look to the moon

subtle mason
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i know that but like

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the precise shelter

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because ngl atp i wanna go check it out myself

placid elm
subtle mason
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or maybe someone else can check it out too idk

placid elm
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in the sky island

subtle mason
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ya

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and the lttm shelter?

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left or right?

sleek swallow
subtle mason
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also it wasn't even correct

placid elm
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the one in moon

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i learned to not trust reddit

subtle mason
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reddit hunterclose

placid elm
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i just find myslef quite frustrated

sleek swallow
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Can you warp to the other shelter in Moon? Does it work then? monkcurious

placid elm
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i tried that

subtle mason
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your setup is just rain world and remix right?

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nothing else?

placid elm
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nope

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i reopened the game

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prehaps it requires a restart

subtle mason
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im gonna try and see if i can replicate the thing

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(wish rain world had profiles have to turn off my cool mods smh)

subtle mason
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i have it

sleek swallow
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Oh-

subtle mason
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but i really struggle with not fumbling it

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it feels janky idk

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anyway

placid elm
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i passage once again

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no pearls once again

sleek swallow
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This is ONE THOUSAND PERCENT a bug

placid elm
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i am no man of god

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mechanical or metaphysical or organic

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but i feel tested

topaz folio
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could i see all your remix settings

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so general and assists

placid elm
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i even had them in my hand this time

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theres 4 so kinda but you get it

sleek swallow
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It should work regardless of whether it's in your hands or not...

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(Because you drop items when you sleep anyway monksilly)

subtle mason
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hey does anyone know how to give themselves passages with devtools i kinda warped straight to sky islands and dont have any 🤡

topaz folio
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shouldn't talk about that here

sleek swallow
subtle mason
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ok...

topaz folio
sleek swallow
sleek swallow
topaz folio
placid elm
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i would bring them down but i didthat 2 times already and i start to tire of this

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  • this time im wayyyyyy farther
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and also i need the bug to pass so i cant even jump over

sleek swallow
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Passaging is definitely the right move here, it's a long way back to carry 4 pearls

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Thought that statement assumes the passage WORKS

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🥹

placid elm
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yea

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aw man, i really wanted to read those pearls tonight

topaz folio
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while im testing this out i recommend verifying your files on steam

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(if you're playing on steam that is)

sleek swallow
placid elm
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its 23:30, but im staying awake cause theres a meteor shower tonight

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going to see that with the lads

leaden fractal
placid elm
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france?

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or england

leaden fractal
placid elm
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aight

leaden fractal
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its like toward the eastern end of CET

placid elm
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nice! europe homies unite!

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im in la france hronhronhron

placid elm
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yea

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no clouds too

leaden fractal
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funfact your country was the country that helped my country form for the first time

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first time cus

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after ww1 we kinda wanted our own state with the czechs

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yall helped us with it

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then ww2 came a certain man broke us apart and forced us to make a state

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and kind of nibbled at our territory

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and then theres the 2nd czechoslovakia

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but i havent taken the formation of that one in history yet

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and then we went just slovakia in the 1990s

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cus like some kind of important political party or smthing formed in paris

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not sure rn what its called

sleek swallow
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...Why are we talking about history?

subtle mason
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hey im back i found a passage

placid elm
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because france has a shared history with slovakiait would seem

subtle mason
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looks like mine also didnt bring the pearl with it

leaden fractal
placid elm
leaden fractal
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i heard french and neuron activation

placid elm
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hronhron baguette

leaden fractal
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and i vomited up some information i remembered

placid elm
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sleeping agent

leaden fractal
placid elm
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nice to know tho

leaden fractal
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buut

leaden fractal
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france kinda betrayed us a little bit

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at the munchen conference

placid elm
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we invaded everyone at some point

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napoleon

leaden fractal
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cus like the allies thought he wasnt gonna start a war

subtle mason
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im going to use the passage from a different shelter brb

leaden fractal
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so they like had the passive politic

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so they like kinda gave him some of our territory

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france was at that conference

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we werent

placid elm
leaden fractal
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the conference was about us without us

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ok im gonna stop clogging the chat up with history stuff

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good night

placid elm
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alr!

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gn my estern europe friend

subtle mason
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huh still no pearl

placid elm
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maybe reddit was right?

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wait AM I THE FIRST ONE TO TRY THIS HERE

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i refuse

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yall are too invested

subtle mason
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its important stuff

sleek swallow
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It is certainly SUPPOSED to work

subtle mason
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something is broken and people dont know what it is

sleek swallow
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The question is: why doesn't it work???

subtle mason
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and the way this game works, if someoen doesnt submit a bug report its never gonna be fixed

sleek swallow
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My best guess is that something broke in one of the recent updates...?

placid elm
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how do i do that?

subtle mason
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akupara bug report portal thing but be careful lots of spoilers there

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and it helps if theres more to go off on than a vague doesnt work

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so idk if this is good enough

sleek swallow
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Someone else will probably be able to compile a bug report now that you've brought up the issue, at least

placid elm
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well it would seem i have no choice if i wish for this knowledge

subtle mason
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hey i got it to come with me this time

topaz folio
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i'm going to do the report

placid elm
topaz folio
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so don't worry about having to do it and risk getting spoiled, there's major spoilers there anyway

placid elm
sleek swallow
placid elm
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just spamm it untill it works?

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or is it just sky islands

sleek swallow
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I guess it can't HURT to just try a few more times? 🥹

placid elm
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any precision on how you got it to work?

subtle mason
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im trying multiple shelters

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idk exactly

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someone's talking about it in guide coordination and she makes it seem like rng

topaz folio
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"someone" 🥹

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i'm in this thread

subtle mason
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oops

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dies

sleek swallow
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If it IS RNG, then... can't hurt to try a few more times...? 🥹

placid elm
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im trying

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just got eaten

topaz folio
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i don't think we should burn OP out

sleek swallow
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Fair

topaz folio
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it's pretty consistent, my best recommendation would be to wait until it gets patched

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or travel with them on foot 🥹 i guess...

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it fixes if you have a dlc expansion enabled too

sleek swallow
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Which is very unfortunate saintpensive

topaz folio
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so when you move on to the dlcs if you plan to play them you can just do it then if it's not fixed already

placid elm
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but like what, i just pause my survivor untill then?

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im just annoyed cause its 4 pearls and theres a jump i can do with thngs in hands

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gonna try rng 5 times

sleek swallow
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Maybe you'll get lucky and it'll work and we won't have to worry about waiting 'till it gets fixed and you can get the tasty lore monksilly

placid elm
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yea

sleek swallow
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Progress update on the testing: Vera seems to think that passaging from SOME shelters works? Namely, one in Outskirts

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Will keep you posted on any more updates watchersalute

subtle mason
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im just trying to find any other shelters that seem to work

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also there isnt anything you can put into practice i think?

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well there is

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its called sneakily enable msc, warp, and then turn it off and hope mods dont notice monksilly

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cough

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dont do it

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idk

sleek swallow
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I don't think they HAVE MSC, though, anyway...

subtle mason
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oh

sleek swallow
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Not that I remember hearing, at least

subtle mason
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wow it feels like every shelter i try is failing except for the one outskirts shelter

sleek swallow
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Anyway, seems unlikely you'll be able to passage straight from Sky Islands to Shoreline with the pearls unless there's a patch to fix the bug rivboowomp

placid elm
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attempt nb5 is a failure

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thank you my friends for your time with this issue, you are absolutely legendary

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tho im going to stop playing and sleep like an hour to get ready

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have a good night

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i will probably move the pearls 3 at a time, well 1 at a time for this specific jump and then ill come back for number 4

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at least she safe here

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  • since im 5 pearls down that will make me 2 more trips of 3
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this better be some good darning lore

sleek swallow
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Basically every pearl has at least SOMETHING interesting on it monksilly

placid elm
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well i hope there no harder fetch quests with the gods or smth

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it does train me like po in kung fu panda tho

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  • every vanilla player managed to bring the pearls back without this
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how pathetic to ask for an easy fix

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this playthough is called SURVIVOR goddamnit

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i have a worthy cause, a worthy goal, hatred and hope

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tommorow i will bring them down

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and then 3 more

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THEN 3 MORE

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AND FINISH THIS

subtle mason
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i've done a manual pearl delivery run, no passages

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its not that bad

placid elm
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the fact i would go back from moon to sky island in 25 mins gives me great hope

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i hope yall are entertain with my first playthrough, im living a story overhere

subtle mason
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do you wanna put your faith in my findings or nah

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or like

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gamble

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its moreso i feel like itd be super funny if it worked

sleek swallow
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I mean... passaging in Outskirts would also require going BACK to Outskirts-

subtle mason
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yeah but if youre doing back and forths

placid elm
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i have decided to face the challenge and bring them back on foot

sleek swallow
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And at that point probably faster to just go straight to Shoreline monksilly

subtle mason
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maybe you could at least make the back and forths smaller and then warp the rest of the way

sleek swallow
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Grum's choice, though monksilly

subtle mason
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is my logic

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i think grum's choice is challenge run stuff yea ik

sleek swallow
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OR do the full trek without any passages monkdevious

placid elm
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its like when i learned using chopstick with ramen

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start with the slipperiest and then you can eat anything

subtle mason
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but the tldr is i found a single shelter that seems to work

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idk why its just the 1 shelter

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but thats what it looks like rn

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i dont wanna continue testing its kinda tedious

placid elm
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the chosen one

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give me the shelter

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i will bring the very last pearl with it, as a poetic gesture

subtle mason
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its the first shelter in the game

placid elm
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to show that as a team we have defeated the game on 2 levels

subtle mason
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after the tutorial

velvet root
leaden fractal
velvet root
placid elm
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something came up in my brain

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gates only open once cycle no?

leaden fractal
placid elm
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alr

subtle mason
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anything that prompted the question?

placid elm
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the fact that the targer bunker is behind a gate

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so i got to find the food everytime

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2 times

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at least i can keep the bug

subtle mason
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ah

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wait where are you rn

placid elm
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i am funneling the pearls from sky island to chimney

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your beloved

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i have secured 2 pearls now

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the third is soon to follow

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at least theres food in the islands

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OMG

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raimbow

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me like raimbow

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died so much it came back

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hey im starting to not die everytime i see a lizard*

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rock and spear

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alright pearl nb.3 secured

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now ill just go down i hope

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i hope theres no more big jumps

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also

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lore wise, who the FUCK built the gates

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and why does it open when i survive enough cycles?

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strange

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canopee cleared 1st try

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knowing the route is SUCH a game changer

velvet root
placid elm
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complex cleared first time?!

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have i been replaced?!

placid elm
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the scavs kill me now?

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theur not hostile they just spear me when i come too close

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what do i do?

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HU they epar me when i enter

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they never done that before

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why?!

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i keep dying to this , anyone got a solution?

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nvl they just let me pass now ?!

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in any case i enter shoreline now

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alr

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i am now in look to the moon

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in under an hour?!

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wtf?

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im going to read the pearls now

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hihihihihihi

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hello moon!

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shes so nice

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shes called big sis moon by the other iterators!

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uh

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this pearl is strange

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talks about overseer getting in the void sea, iterators getting crossed out, politics and other stuff

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ill analise it after

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and a breeding program?

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the second pearl is about iterators taboo and not being able to rewrite their own genome or kill themselfs

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the third one is about masks, how they were used and also how 5 pebble, who apparenlty owns the entire region, is incorporating holy sites into his constructions

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seems he is reaaaly into resarching his own creators ascention it would seem

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beautifull

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+1

subtle mason
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no one t— oops

sleek swallow
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I have arrived; I shall fetch the dialogue for you, if you'd still like monksilly

placid elm
sleek swallow
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Sky Islands pearl:

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"1650.800 - PRIVATE
Five Pebbles, Chasing Wind, Big Sis Moon, No Significant Harassment

CW: this is in confidence, but apparently a pseudonym "Erratic Pulse" has appeared on a nearby Sliverist conversation with ideas about personal ascension. Someone here in our vicinity is trying to cross themselves out.

FP: Where did you hear this?

NSH: I wish them super good luck in that endeavor. How is it going to happen? Have the overseers gnaw through bedrock until their entire can crashes down in the void sea?

BSM: Please be respectful when speaking of the Void Sea. Grey Wind, where did you hear this?

CW: I really shouldn't say. He's going to attempt some sort of breeding program. Thought you might want to know.

NSH: Haha with the slimers, lizards and etceteras? Surely the answer was in a lizard skull all along!

CW: Well, he's not looking for the same thing as we anymore, he's changed his task, so who knows really.

BSM: I will try to find him and talk to him. Please don't spread this around!

NSH: Moon will go get them! Long live the inquisition!"```
sleek swallow
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I think the risk of you acting on this is very slim, so I'll go ahead and explain it to you. It's an instruction on how to circumvent the self-destruction taboo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

placid elm
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o yea i just put the answer to get back to it easely, i cant seem to pin the message

sleek swallow
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If you'd like someone to pin it, I can ask

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Curse my not having the felper role-

placid elm
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that would be quite lovely

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ok, to outscirts now!

topaz folio
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if you'd like something pinned feel free to ping me or another felper!! you can check of someone has the "first playthrough helper" role on their profile and they can pin things in these threads

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you can also ping the first playthrough helpers role

sleek swallow
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Someday, I will be one of those people (hopefully)

Just a matter of time until the applications are reviewed next monksilly

placid elm
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thank you, and i shall

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actually lest go to shaded citadel

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its closer

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in the dark its gonna be a pain tho

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big pearls here

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big data?

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THE GAME HAS BECOME BLRRY

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gravity is weak what

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its god again

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one of them at least, the ones trapped here

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bro missed ascension bus

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ngl the imagery is epc

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steam say: four needles under plentifull leaves

sleek swallow
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I once had! I was embalmed, adorned, readied for the journey.

So proud. There was jubilation! My name was sung, loud and clear.

Did they know? That I didn't quite leave, didn't quite stay?

Should I be ashamed? That I linger here, where my memories are kept?

Should I be ashamed that I now envy your flesh prison?```
placid elm
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also fucker restarted my cycle

subtle mason
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and then id do it or smth

sleek swallow
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Hehe, I'm too fast monkdevious

placid elm
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you are free to fight over this right, but if you wish to gain exclusivity to dialogue posting ig its my call

sleek swallow
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Also, I may have some potentially bad news? I just realized there are actually two pearls in regions you haven't discovered-

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I've updated the chart accordingly

placid elm
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well i shall bring them either way

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i am stronger now

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i somehow found ti

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ngl in the dark because of the little 'shing" light they do it was easier than some others hidden in the grass

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also i glow and since the horrible bugs seem to fear light this area is EZ

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ok now to the exterior?!

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where in the hell did i miss one here

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the only area i didnt spent 5 hundered years in is the exit of 5 pebbles

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the rest i survived in a lot thx to the neuron run

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ig i missed it here

sleek swallow
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If you'd like, I can narrow it down a bit further; the Exterior pearl is, more specifically, in ||The Wall||

placid elm
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isnt the exterior the wall?

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actually i never seem "the exterior" anywhere exept the region map

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always been the wall to me

sleek swallow
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I can tell you if you need me to narrow down the location further lizblueblep

placid elm
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na i know the place

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ill find it as i found the others

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so i get to chimeny, then its right and left cause each pearl is on a side

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maybe tonight there will be more pearl readings, aye?

sleek swallow
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Hopefully I'll be there when you do that, I have something I'm gonna need to go do in a couple hours that might cause me to miss you getting the readings-

placid elm
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im gonna try to be as fast as possible, but 2 hours is a very tight timeline

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75% i wont ùake it

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yeaaa this will take time

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fuck these guys are invisible

sleek swallow
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(Or, y'know, just getting them while I'm not here monksilly)

placid elm
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at the rate im going ill be back at moon with them in like 3h

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ill do it and then if its not too late ill read em

sleek swallow
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I'll definitely be able to get you the dialogue at some point, only question is if I'll be able to do it in real time monksilly

junior nacelle
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Is it pearl dialogues you need posted?

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Get em at your pace, and if mccool is absent then pray I'm still awake at that time invwink

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(Might not be but will give a try leditoroverload)

placid elm
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i enter chimney

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chimney done, entering the island to get the pearl beack

sleek swallow
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Chimney my beloved slugheart

placid elm
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pearl obtained, going back to chimney now

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serves you right

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i leave island, saving in chimney

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i save in the wall

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WTF IS THAT THING

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there was a SUPER FAST worm with 2 big fangs

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im scared

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fucker killed my bug

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help

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i cant pass

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i cant climb the wall

sleek swallow
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Can you not climb past there? monkconfused

sleek swallow
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I think you can just ||climb over the little block there, there's enough room; I know for a fact that I've done it before||

placid elm
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fr tho who added the catachan devil

sleek swallow
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...The what?

sleek swallow
placid elm
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yea

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but i can get past so is ok

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bro doest ear the bug

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your right!

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i just got eaten last time

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next challenge

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the toungue guys

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i dunno how to deal with 2 of them

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FFS

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i evaded 3 of them and a pink arrived at the pipe when i wascin front of it

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4 lizard is enough?!

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theres 4 of them in this pannel

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this isriddiculus how am i meant to go through that

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with sheer speed apparently

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just rushing through worked?!

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THEY FOLLOWED AND I IDED

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HOW FAST ARE THEY AU4TRHBGAVJZ3BVRTFB$

sleek swallow
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At least as fast as you I guess monksilly

junior nacelle
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Kill em

placid elm
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not on land, but THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CLIMB THE WALLS AND NOT ME

junior nacelle
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Foolproof solution

placid elm
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they love the worst spots

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this wall is evil

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i dont like it

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the white one jumped off

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he unistalled himself

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UHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHU OF COURSE RIGHT AFTER THEM

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also there a 5th lizard

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i hate being colorblind there was 2 and i literraly didnt see them

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i aint reading pearls tonight

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this PLACE

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at least in the other places there was a way around places like that but here?

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man they even threw my body of the cliff

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this place is my final boss

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they all

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jumped

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i saw the 4 lizards jump off

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why

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i dont know

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not gonna question it

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but im scared a bit

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nb6 got me

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why

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why

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W H Y

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he brough my body to the VERY top

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im losing composure, i must find a solution elsewhere

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hehe its funny

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i can now clear the jump i had trouble with at the start of this very adventure with you guys

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truly poetic, i find myself stuck in the same place as before

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yea im going to sleep, the game has me defeated today

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i know waht must be done

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the rain makes them flee

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climb as high as i can, wait for the rain and in the 1m window BOOK IT for the shelter thats just above

topaz folio
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goodluck when you get back to rain worlding!!!

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sleep well

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are you still playing sainteyebrow

placid elm
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once again i awake

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i will try the rain teck

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if it fails i will go up by annoying 5 pebble

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maybe i can steal one of his pearls

placid elm
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OPERATIO RAINFALL IS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS FALKS

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YES

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SMARTER NOT HARDER

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why walk through hell when oblivion opens its gate for you

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update: theres more lizards after

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o well

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this jump is not inteded to be this way

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FFFF ITS BLOCKING THE WAY

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ifound it

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I FOUUUUND IT

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IT WAS UP

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THE WALL

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i was SO SCARED

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it wouldnt be here

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it is saved

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going down the wall was a billion times easier

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i have obtained the pearl

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now to go back down!

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finally!

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i enter chimney

placid elm
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chimney clear!

sleek swallow
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Chimney my beloved slugheart

placid elm
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it truly is

placid elm
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complex cleared!

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boy it was more complex than last time

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no bad wordplay of course

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the scavs at the camp a killing me agin!

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any info on how to not get killed?

sleek swallow
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Don't die monksilly

placid elm
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no like

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to pass the 50 scavengers in the camp

sleek swallow
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Where are you now? monkcurious

placid elm
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last time i gave them a pearl, but its not here anymore

sleek swallow
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Well, if you can find a pearl, you could try that again

placid elm
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i am attempting to go through the scavenger camp at the right of garbage wastes

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imma try

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the scavs went in my binker and stole the pearls

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this place may be harder than expected

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last time i was hella lucky

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i could try through shaded citadel but i cant go trhtoug the plant without stunning them, wich the perals dont

sleek swallow
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Does the path to Shoreline have any of those directly in your path? hunterthinking

placid elm
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not that i saw

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going to shaded citadel, entering industrial:(

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i am reading these pearls TONIGHT

placid elm
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of course the gate is a lvl 6

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OG+F COURSE

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ad scavs attack me on sight now?!

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bru

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i passed the gate but got eaten cause the way is SO LONG WITHOUT FOOD

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OF COURSE THERS A PEARL HERE

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scavs are dangerous!

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when there not your friends O BOY

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ok, save succesfull in shaded

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shaded cleared!

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was easier once insinde

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i think complex is hella difficult tbh

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were in shoreline folks!

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we are C L O S E

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determination guides us!

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so much food here!

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  • i know the place VERY well
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feels like home now

sleek swallow
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I'll be honest I forget which pearls you have with you-

placid elm
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i have the second one from sky island, the one from the wall of death oblivion and tears, and the one from shaded citadel

sleek swallow
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I'll go update the list, then monksilly

placid elm
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  • i have a irl cat with me now
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Observe

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Witness

sleek swallow
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Watch watchthis

placid elm
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i have saved in moon!

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for those who wish to read with me, now is the time

sleek swallow
placid elm
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hello again, blue friend

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the first one is said to be found in the "memmory crypts", and speak of an ancient human, lord of habitation blocks, spiritual explorer and fashion star?

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17 axes is his name

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he "ascended" by choice and decided to give his memories to an iterator project

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so do iterators have the memories of all the humans? at least the one that gave out their memmories

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also seing as they where interested by that "sea of void" im betting they just throw themselfs in it to "join the cosmos" or smth

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very spiritual

sleek swallow
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Shaded Citadel pearl:

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

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

The assorted memories and qualia include:

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

..."

...and the list goes on. I'm sorry, little creature, I won't read all of this - the list is six hundred and twenty items long.```
placid elm
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i betcha hats why the temple is deep underground, and that what the guardians are guarding

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and no creature without enough karma? (i think life points are karma cause when you passage it says: recover all your karma) can go through

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soooo it was like an elitist as fuck society and only the rich and powerfull who could spent 24h/7 to farm spiritual points could jump

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big ceremonies and all that

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and in the meantime the rest either died or joined them at some point

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and the iterator remains, who cannot do the same but seing as mister pebble and miss straw are V E R Y into this research their trying like hell to go there

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but theycant? still dunno why

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maybe organic machines cant get karma?

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in any case, i dont think theres any ancients alive

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"alive"

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the gods are ancients seing as what they told me

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but they didnt quite ascend?

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why do slugcats gain spirit points?

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is it linked to the breeding program? are slugcats purposed organism that at the start where made to clean pipes but then got modified by iterators to gain karma?

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lets read another pearl

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this one is a conversation between 5 pebble and another iteraor, its about the futility of the "big problem" solving

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and that "they" left them here to do that

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so the ancients ascended and said: yo while we party in the pool of eternity you solve E N T R O P Y for us, m'kay?

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these guys created SENTIENT life and didnt care for the consequences

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bad parenting

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i was talking about parenting XD

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so this pearl, who isabout what the ancients are supposed to do with iterators before they leave, answer my big question: no iterator arent able to ascend

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yo this pearl is WILD

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the ancients where a bunch of assholes!

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they didnt like their iterators, they just needed them for their ascention

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now that beautifull

sleek swallow
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Sky Islands pearl 2:

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"1591.290 - PRIVATE

Five Pebbles, Seven Red Suns

FP: Can I tell you something? Lately...

FP: I'm tired of trying and trying. And angry that they left us here. The anger makes me even less inclined to solve their puzzle for them. Why do we do this?

SRS: Yes, I'll spell this out - not because you're stupid or naive... Also, not saying that you're not ~

FP: Please, I'm coming to you for guidance.

SRS: Sorry, very sorry. I kid. Fact is, of course we are all aware of the evident futility of this Big Task. It's not said out loud but if you were better at reading between the lines there's nowhere you wouldn't see it. We're all frustrated.

FP: So why do we continue? We assemble work groups, we ponder, we iterate and try. Some of us die. It's not fair.

SRS: Because there's not any options. What else CAN we do? You're stuck in your can, and at any moment you have no more than two alternatives: Do nothing, or work like you're supposed to.

SRS: An analogy. You have a maze, and you have a handful of bugs. You put the bugs in the maze, and you leave. Given infinite time, one of the bugs WILL find a way out, if they just erratically try and try. This is why they called us Iterators.

FP: But we do die of old age.

SRS: Even more incentive! You know that nothing ever truly dies though, around and around it goes. Granted, our tools and resources get worse over time - but that is theoretically unproblematic, because in time even a miniscule chance will strike a positive. All the same to them, they're not around anymore!

FP: I struggle to accept being a bug."```
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Wall pearl:

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

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

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

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

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

I'm sorry, that was disrespectful. They were our parents after all.```
placid elm
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i think the first generation was nicer, that why moon is nicer

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but 5pebble is made by the last generation, who probably only lived with iterators

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so their just aholes

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damn thats a lot of info, i think i understand the world WAAAAAAY more now

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i will now log my understandings in a text

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gimme 5 mins

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My understanding of the general world rn
The ancients lived on this world, they wer very spiritual people.
They found “void fluid”, a mistical substance from the ocean at the center of the world. This fluid brang them technological and spiritual enlightement like nothing else.

With this, their only problem was: o no we are not immortal, how to not die?

Some of them found that void fluid is like a time essence thingy that links and “recycle” the world as it is, bring the things back in place to reincanate the world as it dies ”nothing truly dies”.

They said: o yea thats fire, lets escape this cycle by JUMPING IN THE SEA(still a speculation), but only the WoRtHy and SpIrItUaLs can jump cause magic is not happy or smth if you don’t

the ancients create machines that take care of everything so that they can ascend and spirtitual the shit out of their lives, bu they become dependant on the tech. Some ancients fail the ascention and become trapped here

the ancients all ascend, and leave the iterators behind, asking them to solve entropy so that when the ancient reincarnate via the sea they can just live forever, or maybe they want the iterators to stop the decay and stop the cycles? I dunno

what is rain. W H A T is the rain?! Vapor from 5 pebbles?