#The story of my first playthrough, quite the tale! [spoiler]
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having the bug make plateforming SOOOO easy
these things make the game easymode
o fuck
there one exit and this guy is LITERRALY on it
im on fire!
its the firts one i get without dying
rock think its part of the team
alr!
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
zxit 1
exit 2
i rolled back 20 times and a bird killed 1 of them
destination set, lets prey it works
passage is locked in so sure!
Alright, I'll compile a list, then
i prey the pearls come
If you turned on the setting, they should 
yes
And you turned on Key Items on Passage?
i activated it
And made sure to hit confirm?
I forget, are you on PC? 
yes
You could probably load a backup from before passaging? They're in the settings menu
uh
It might set your progress back a bit, but at least the passage wouldn't be wasted
The game automatically makes backups every ~30 minutes, and they can be found and loaded from the settings menu
the backup is before i even enter the sky islands
Welp
I'd still say load it...? Because wasting a passage is really annoying
You can get back your exploration progress, but you can't re-get the same passage
Got it
i only got on passage left anyway
i think i can get one by starving to death tho
can i make a manual backup
if yes i will climb
You can, yes, there's a button for it in the backups menu
very well
i shall climb again for multiple hours
then, back a save an do a passage once again
Hopefully it's quicker the second time around 🥹
well sky island was tough
i shall see
I
NVER
ENCOUNTERED A BIRD HERE
and he insta grabbed me out of the pipe
something is against me
heyy while i climb feel free to tell me what pearl i missed
wait what happened to your sky islands pearls
do you have to do another whole runaround
i do
Alright, I'll compile a list of those while you walk 
Chimney my beloved 
good thing
now that ilooked everywhere i know the way up
i do not belove these lands
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
||
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
i enter the sky islands
one og these is surprising
no heist i guess
run back complete!
indeed it was way shorter, took me like 25 mins
Backup time
now i backup
yes
and after that i survive acycle and then we try
so um, main menu then?
Yep; main menu -> settings menu -> backups menu -> create backup button
it is saved
also this time i will spawn in a bunker that doesnt contain pearls already
i fear they may be a limmit
There shouldn't be
fitting, also how do i spoiler things
You don't need to spoiler tag anything, if that's the question
alr
destination set, warping now
no pearls once again
i have checked the internet for answers
colored pearls
A R E N T
key items
i have no choices
who said that
nvm that
i'm curious what shelter are you traveling from and where are you traveling to
i am travelling from a shelter from the sky island into a shelter in look to the moon
i know that but like
the precise shelter
because ngl atp i wanna go check it out myself
or maybe someone else can check it out too idk
in the sky island
If you want to remain unspoiled, I'd recommend not doing this again 🥹
That's what we're here for 🥹
also it wasn't even correct
reddit 
i just find myslef quite frustrated
Can you warp to the other shelter in Moon? Does it work then? 
i tried that
im gonna try and see if i can replicate the thing
(wish rain world had profiles have to turn off my cool mods smh)
Mod packs mod:
i have it
Oh-
This is ONE THOUSAND PERCENT a bug
It should work regardless of whether it's in your hands or not...
(Because you drop items when you sleep anyway
)
hey does anyone know how to give themselves passages with devtools i kinda warped straight to sky islands and dont have any 🤡
shouldn't talk about that here
I believe that was to do this
ok...
#fp-guide-coordination is a better place
But yeah 
(Don't go there, Grum)
yeah i know, just isn't suited for here
i would bring them down but i didthat 2 times already and i start to tire of this
- this time im wayyyyyy farther
and also i need the bug to pass so i cant even jump over
Passaging is definitely the right move here, it's a long way back to carry 4 pearls
Thought that statement assumes the passage WORKS
🥹
while im testing this out i recommend verifying your files on steam
(if you're playing on steam that is)
What time is it for you? 
its 23:30, but im staying awake cause theres a meteor shower tonight
going to see that with the lads
yo same timezone woo
slovakia
aight
its like toward the eastern end of CET
this is so cool!! 
funfact your country was the country that helped my country form for the first time
first time cus
after ww1 we kinda wanted our own state with the czechs
yall helped us with it
then ww2 came a certain man broke us apart and forced us to make a state
and kind of nibbled at our territory
and then theres the 2nd czechoslovakia
but i havent taken the formation of that one in history yet
and then we went just slovakia in the 1990s
cus like some kind of important political party or smthing formed in paris
not sure rn what its called
...Why are we talking about history?
hey im back i found a passage
because france has a shared history with slovakiait would seem
looks like mine also didnt bring the pearl with it
idk
👀
i heard french and neuron activation
hronhron baguette
and i vomited up some information i remembered
sleeping agent
yes
nice to know tho
buut
what?!
cus like the allies thought he wasnt gonna start a war
im going to use the passage from a different shelter brb
so they like had the passive politic
so they like kinda gave him some of our territory
france was at that conference
we werent
gonna try to move the pearls 1 closer
the conference was about us without us
ok im gonna stop clogging the chat up with history stuff
good night
huh still no pearl
maybe reddit was right?
wait AM I THE FIRST ONE TO TRY THIS HERE
i refuse
yall are too invested
its important stuff
It is certainly SUPPOSED to work
something is broken and people dont know what it is
The question is: why doesn't it work???
and the way this game works, if someoen doesnt submit a bug report its never gonna be fixed
My best guess is that something broke in one of the recent updates...?
how do i do that?
akupara bug report portal thing but be careful lots of spoilers there
and it helps if theres more to go off on than a vague doesnt work
so idk if this is good enough
Someone else will probably be able to compile a bug report now that you've brought up the issue, at least
well it would seem i have no choice if i wish for this knowledge
hey i got it to come with me this time
i'm going to do the report
i am flabergasted
so don't worry about having to do it and risk getting spoiled, there's major spoilers there anyway
how
Oh?
I guess it can't HURT to just try a few more times? 🥹
any precision on how you got it to work?
im trying multiple shelters
idk exactly
someone's talking about it in guide coordination and she makes it seem like rng
If it IS RNG, then... can't hurt to try a few more times...? 🥹
i don't think we should burn OP out
Fair
it's pretty consistent, my best recommendation would be to wait until it gets patched
or travel with them on foot 🥹 i guess...
it fixes if you have a dlc expansion enabled too
I would assume the frustration then would come from: "But the tasty lore... 🥹"
Which is very unfortunate 
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
but like what, i just pause my survivor untill then?
im just annoyed cause its 4 pearls and theres a jump i can do with thngs in hands
gonna try rng 5 times
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 
yea
Progress update on the testing: Vera seems to think that passaging from SOME shelters works? Namely, one in Outskirts
Will keep you posted on any more updates 
im just trying to find any other shelters that seem to work
also there isnt anything you can put into practice i think?
well there is
its called sneakily enable msc, warp, and then turn it off and hope mods dont notice 
cough
dont do it
idk
I don't think they HAVE MSC, though, anyway...
oh
Not that I remember hearing, at least
wow it feels like every shelter i try is failing except for the one outskirts shelter
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 
attempt nb5 is a failure
thank you my friends for your time with this issue, you are absolutely legendary
tho im going to stop playing and sleep like an hour to get ready
have a good night
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
at least she safe here
- since im 5 pearls down that will make me 2 more trips of 3
this better be some good darning lore
Basically every pearl has at least SOMETHING interesting on it 
well i hope there no harder fetch quests with the gods or smth
it does train me like po in kung fu panda tho
- every vanilla player managed to bring the pearls back without this
how pathetic to ask for an easy fix
Mulan- I'll Make A Man Out of You (FULL HD) made by Disney. Remember to LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE!
P.S. This would be a good motivation training song :p
this playthough is called SURVIVOR goddamnit
i have a worthy cause, a worthy goal, hatred and hope
tommorow i will bring them down
and then 3 more
THEN 3 MORE
AND FINISH THIS
the fact i would go back from moon to sky island in 25 mins gives me great hope
i hope yall are entertain with my first playthrough, im living a story overhere
do you wanna put your faith in my findings or nah
or like
gamble
its moreso i feel like itd be super funny if it worked
I mean... passaging in Outskirts would also require going BACK to Outskirts-
yeah but if youre doing back and forths
i have decided to face the challenge and bring them back on foot
And at that point probably faster to just go straight to Shoreline 
maybe you could at least make the back and forths smaller and then warp the rest of the way
Grum's choice, though 
OR do the full trek without any passages 
its like when i learned using chopstick with ramen
start with the slipperiest and then you can eat anything
but the tldr is i found a single shelter that seems to work
idk why its just the 1 shelter
but thats what it looks like rn
i dont wanna continue testing its kinda tedious
the chosen one
give me the shelter
i will bring the very last pearl with it, as a poetic gesture
its the first shelter in the game
to show that as a team we have defeated the game on 2 levels
after the tutorial
Oh, hi!
whar
Also from there (here? Honestly idk what the correct term is in this case.)
cool
yes
alr
anything that prompted the question?
the fact that the targer bunker is behind a gate
so i got to find the food everytime
2 times
at least i can keep the bug
i am funneling the pearls from sky island to chimney
your beloved
i have secured 2 pearls now
the third is soon to follow
at least theres food in the islands
OMG
OMG
raimbow
me like raimbow
a yes
died so much it came back
hey im starting to not die everytime i see a lizard*
rock and spear
alright pearl nb.3 secured
now ill just go down i hope
i hope theres no more big jumps
also
lore wise, who the FUCK built the gates
and why does it open when i survive enough cycles?
strange
canopee cleared 1st try
knowing the route is SUCH a game changer
Yeah.
hu
the scavs kill me now?
theur not hostile they just spear me when i come too close
what do i do?
HU they epar me when i enter
they never done that before
why?!
i keep dying to this , anyone got a solution?
nvl they just let me pass now ?!
in any case i enter shoreline now
alr
i am now in look to the moon
in under an hour?!
wtf?
im going to read the pearls now
hihihihihihi
hello moon!
shes so nice
shes called big sis moon by the other iterators!
uh
this pearl is strange
talks about overseer getting in the void sea, iterators getting crossed out, politics and other stuff
ill analise it after
and a breeding program?
the second pearl is about iterators taboo and not being able to rewrite their own genome or kill themselfs
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
seems he is reaaaly into resarching his own creators ascention it would seem
beautifull
+1
no one t— oops
I have arrived; I shall fetch the dialogue for you, if you'd still like 
i shall ignore this
yes pe lease
Sky Islands pearl:
"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!"```
to remember
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.```
Chimney Canopy
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!```
Industrial Complex
I'll update this list now
o yea i just put the answer to get back to it easely, i cant seem to pin the message

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
you can also ping the first playthrough helpers role
Someday, I will be one of those people (hopefully)
Just a matter of time until the applications are reviewed next 
thank you, and i shall
actually lest go to shaded citadel
its closer
in the dark its gonna be a pain tho
big pearls here
big data?
THE GAME HAS BECOME BLRRY
gravity is weak what
its god again
one of them at least, the ones trapped here
bro missed ascension bus
ngl the imagery is epc
steam say: four needles under plentifull leaves
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?```
also fucker restarted my cycle
sorry i was gonna say “no one to paste dialogue nooo” 
and then id do it or smth
Hehe, I'm too fast 
you are free to fight over this right, but if you wish to gain exclusivity to dialogue posting ig its my call
Also, I may have some potentially bad news? I just realized there are actually two pearls in regions you haven't discovered-
I've updated the chart accordingly
well i shall bring them either way
i am stronger now
i somehow found ti
ngl in the dark because of the little 'shing" light they do it was easier than some others hidden in the grass
also i glow and since the horrible bugs seem to fear light this area is EZ
ok now to the exterior?!
where in the hell did i miss one here
the only area i didnt spent 5 hundered years in is the exit of 5 pebbles
the rest i survived in a lot thx to the neuron run
ig i missed it here
If you'd like, I can narrow it down a bit further; the Exterior pearl is, more specifically, in ||The Wall||
isnt the exterior the wall?
actually i never seem "the exterior" anywhere exept the region map
always been the wall to me
na i know the place
ill find it as i found the others
so i get to chimeny, then its right and left cause each pearl is on a side
maybe tonight there will be more pearl readings, aye?
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-
im gonna try to be as fast as possible, but 2 hours is a very tight timeline
75% i wont ùake it
yeaaa this will take time
fuck these guys are invisible
I guess your options are getting them within the ~2 hours I have left, or getting them after I'm back 
(Or, y'know, just getting them while I'm not here
)
at the rate im going ill be back at moon with them in like 3h
ill do it and then if its not too late ill read em
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 
Is it pearl dialogues you need posted?
Get em at your pace, and if mccool is absent then pray I'm still awake at that time 
(Might not be but will give a try
)
Chimney my beloved 
pearl obtained, going back to chimney now
serves you right
i leave island, saving in chimney
i save in the wall
WTF IS THAT THING
there was a SUPER FAST worm with 2 big fangs
im scared
fucker killed my bug
hm
help
i cant pass
i cant climb the wall
Can you not climb past there? 
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||
fr tho who added the catachan devil
...The what?
Ooooooh are you talking about the thingy? 
yea
but i can get past so is ok
bro doest ear the bug
your right!
i just got eaten last time
next challenge
the toungue guys
i dunno how to deal with 2 of them
FFS
i evaded 3 of them and a pink arrived at the pipe when i wascin front of it
4 lizard is enough?!
theres 4 of them in this pannel
this isriddiculus how am i meant to go through that
with sheer speed apparently
just rushing through worked?!
THEY FOLLOWED AND I IDED
HOW FAST ARE THEY AU4TRHBGAVJZ3BVRTFB$
At least as fast as you I guess 
Kill em
not on land, but THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CLIMB THE WALLS AND NOT ME
they love the worst spots
this wall is evil
i dont like it
the white one jumped off
he unistalled himself
UHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHU OF COURSE RIGHT AFTER THEM
also there a 5th lizard
i hate being colorblind there was 2 and i literraly didnt see them
i aint reading pearls tonight
this PLACE
at least in the other places there was a way around places like that but here?
man they even threw my body of the cliff
this place is my final boss
they all
jumped
i saw the 4 lizards jump off
why
i dont know
not gonna question it
but im scared a bit
nb6 got me
why
why
W H Y
he brough my body to the VERY top
im losing composure, i must find a solution elsewhere
hehe its funny
i can now clear the jump i had trouble with at the start of this very adventure with you guys
truly poetic, i find myself stuck in the same place as before
yea im going to sleep, the game has me defeated today
i know waht must be done
the rain makes them flee
climb as high as i can, wait for the rain and in the 1m window BOOK IT for the shelter thats just above
once again i awake
i will try the rain teck
if it fails i will go up by annoying 5 pebble
maybe i can steal one of his pearls
OPERATIO RAINFALL IS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS FALKS
YES
SMARTER NOT HARDER
why walk through hell when oblivion opens its gate for you
update: theres more lizards after
o well
this jump is not inteded to be this way
FFFF ITS BLOCKING THE WAY
ifound it
I FOUUUUND IT
IT WAS UP
THE WALL
i was SO SCARED
it wouldnt be here
it is saved
going down the wall was a billion times easier
i have obtained the pearl
now to go back down!
finally!
i enter chimney
chimney clear!
Chimney my beloved 
it truly is
complex cleared!
boy it was more complex than last time
no bad wordplay of course
the scavs at the camp a killing me agin!
any info on how to not get killed?
Don't die 
Where are you now? 
last time i gave them a pearl, but its not here anymore
Well, if you can find a pearl, you could try that again
i am attempting to go through the scavenger camp at the right of garbage wastes
imma try
the scavs went in my binker and stole the pearls
this place may be harder than expected
last time i was hella lucky
i could try through shaded citadel but i cant go trhtoug the plant without stunning them, wich the perals dont
Does the path to Shoreline have any of those directly in your path? 
not that i saw
going to shaded citadel, entering industrial:(
i am reading these pearls TONIGHT
of course the gate is a lvl 6
OG+F COURSE
ad scavs attack me on sight now?!
bru
i passed the gate but got eaten cause the way is SO LONG WITHOUT FOOD
OF COURSE THERS A PEARL HERE
scavs are dangerous!
when there not your friends O BOY
ok, save succesfull in shaded
shaded cleared!
was easier once insinde
i think complex is hella difficult tbh
were in shoreline folks!
we are C L O S E
determination guides us!
so much food here!
- i know the place VERY well
feels like home now
I'll be honest I forget which pearls you have with you-
i have the second one from sky island, the one from the wall of death oblivion and tears, and the one from shaded citadel
I'll go update the list, then 
Watch 

hello again, blue friend
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?
17 axes is his name
he "ascended" by choice and decided to give his memories to an iterator project
so do iterators have the memories of all the humans? at least the one that gave out their memmories
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
very spiritual
Shaded Citadel pearl:
"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.```
i betcha hats why the temple is deep underground, and that what the guardians are guarding
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
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
big ceremonies and all that
and in the meantime the rest either died or joined them at some point
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
but theycant? still dunno why
maybe organic machines cant get karma?
in any case, i dont think theres any ancients alive
"alive"
the gods are ancients seing as what they told me
but they didnt quite ascend?
why do slugcats gain spirit points?
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?
lets read another pearl
this one is a conversation between 5 pebble and another iteraor, its about the futility of the "big problem" solving
and that "they" left them here to do that
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?
these guys created SENTIENT life and didnt care for the consequences
bad parenting
i was talking about parenting XD
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
yo this pearl is WILD
the ancients where a bunch of assholes!
they didnt like their iterators, they just needed them for their ascention
now that beautifull
Sky Islands pearl 2:
"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."```
Wall pearl:
"...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.```
these guys
i think the first generation was nicer, that why moon is nicer
but 5pebble is made by the last generation, who probably only lived with iterators
so their just aholes
damn thats a lot of info, i think i understand the world WAAAAAAY more now
i will now log my understandings in a text
gimme 5 mins
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?



