#pyre

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heady karma
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Very

proper jungle
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i hope it goes on sale soon

thick carbon
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Thinking about almer and dalberts relationship and getting all 🄰

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he’s such a good dad y’all..... too good

untold quartz
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more like Dadbert

vestal bluff
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šŸ’œThe FatešŸ’œ

lavish panther
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i specifically lined up my second rite so i would face the fate so if i lost at least one of those dudes would be free!

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i won and felt like a garbage can to let those lads down but alack

vestal bluff
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šŸ’œLetšŸ’œWoofer-DadšŸ’œWinšŸ’œ

untold quartz
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It's so freaking sad if the Fate wins though!

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I let them win on one playthrough because they're lovelies, and then I spent the entire sequence going

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oh no

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oh no

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oh no can I take it back please let me take it back aaaaaa

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please let this kind old pupper and his loving son stay together this is too damn tragic DDD:

vestal bluff
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But this way you fulfil Dalbert’s last wish, and get the best ending for Almer & Mae

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It’s super hard to read tho, in the moment when Almer realizes what’s just happened

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His reaction is actually kinda like yours, in a way

vestal bluff
heady karma
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Old friend can also refer to an individual of the opposite gender trapped in a sword that you have been openly in love with

onyx forum
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damn that transistor track had layers i thought it was about like cloudbank but its also about an elderly gay dog archenemy......................red was a visionary

heady karma
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Red predicted pyre

onyx forum
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she did!

heady karma
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Before we all become one, all are not the same, but 3 shall be as one

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It was connected all along

vestal bluff
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I will aaaaaalways find you,
Like it’s written in the stars!
You can run but you can’t
Read

heady karma
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When you read, I see violence

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Every word, a defiance

onyx forum
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aj killin it at the karaoke night

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(GOD the temptation to at logan. i wont do it and you shouldnt either. but hes right there.)

heady karma
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Red: this one time I lost my voice, it was terrible

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Reader: I know of a voice I wouldn’t be too sad to lose

onyx forum
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JHGNVHVHNGJFVHJ

dusky tundra
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Are there any lore collections for Pyre outside of the in-game materials? I would love to run a campaign in the downside, but I'm lazy and don't want to transcribe everything.

lavish panther
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I’m sure that you’d probably be able to find copies of the whole book online tbh? That might be a good bet

vestal bluff
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There’s a Wikia out there with text from the Book transcribed

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As far as out-of-game stuff goes, what sort of stuff so you mean? There’s fan fics, but there aren’t official tie-in materials, outside of some promo art

timid silo
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(okay but who in the Downside considers Dalbert an archenemy they've been secretly in love with for more than a decade)

lavish panther
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rude boys gang dude

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you know the one

onyx forum
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oh my god. perfect

lavish panther
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it is Legally So

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dfjhkjdhgkjdfh ok now all i can think of is rude gang lad being like "hmmph,, it's not like i like you or anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1" in just garbo anime girl style and that mental image is,, powerful?

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ive given myself tetanus by saying it outloud but that's okay

onyx forum
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barker "tsundere" lastname

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ashpaw?

lavish panther
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hfhfkjshfkhdksfhjdfhksdj Yup

timid silo
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Right, right. Very intense matches between the Fates and the Dissidents

mild falcon
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Barker does to dalbert what iggy does to jodi?

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When I read "rude boys gang" I did think of the accusers first, and that's a fun mental image too

timid silo
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Tsundere Lendel is a shorter mental leap than tsundere Barker tbh, even though both can be made to work

onyx forum
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barkers a much slower burn.....i hate this guy so much hes a nice cool loving....friendly....good dad....HEY

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JDJFKCJG tsundel....

mild falcon
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Pyre dating sim,,,,, but from dalbert's perspective

lavish panther
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God ur so right and u should say it

wide river
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tsundere lendel would require him to care about people that aren’t him

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reminder that this guy saw two people die and his response was ā€œclearly i am the wronged party hereā€

onyx forum
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TRU

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hes tsundere for himself

lavish panther
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ā€˜Ba..baka! It’s not like I care about you or anything’ Lendel seems dead serious, he genuinely does not care!

onyx forum
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jkgjgjkgjk

swift mango
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What?? Lendel saw 2 people die? Um when did THAT happen or am i forgetting something...?

spiral osprey
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In the liberation rite against the Nightwings, where Ti'zo scored the final point, that's the same liberation rite where Erisa pushed Oralech and knocked them both off the cliff

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Presumably? I can't remember the evidence for that off the top of my head.

onyx forum
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i remember back in the gregtweet days him saying its valid 2 read lendel as having seen the push or not

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personally his whole deal makes sense much more to me if he watched it go down!

swift mango
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OH YEAH! :p I can't believe I forgot that. Lendel was there!!!! That makes sense.

timid silo
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Any word on Oralech having seen the push or not? I was discussing his a few days ago, HIS whole deal makes more sense to me if he didn't see exactly who pushed him and what everyone else was doing

swift mango
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Yeah, if he saw that, that'd be a good reason....but he kind of seems the type of person to leave in a huff after losing and not really stick around..

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Gah I love this game sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mild falcon
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If lendel takes someone else's murder personally he could probably take dalbert being really polite personally

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"You're clearly in love with me, dalbert!!!" He says too loudly

vernal harbor
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so, old friend

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a cop's sense does not go wrong

onyx forum
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HM.... i mean regardless of if he saw who pushed theres always the worry that volf couldve mindcontrolled erisa šŸ˜–

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jhfhjfhj tbh lendel Deciding someone has a crush on him but he doesnt reciprocate is very like him

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not because he Really Likes Them Deep Down even! just because he decides that things happen and then doesnt let go of it

mild falcon
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And then dalberts like "have I been too forward?"

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"What did I do to make him believe that"

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And then someone explains to him that lendel is Like That

onyx forum
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yeah ghfcghdcgh

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mlendel is OVER in 2019 the lendel ship is dalendel

lavish panther
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Ohh wild ok that makes sense

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I meant the lore stuff sweats uh

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Also I unfortunately legally Stan Lendel now,, dumbass who thinks everyone is crushing on him when they dont ?? me.

mild falcon
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"Volfred killed oralech to court me, but that's not what I'm into"

onyx forum
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"sorry for stanning lendel" "some crimes can never be forgiven" (jk jk)

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hfhfhjfhjfhj

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tbh tbh even his method of planting evidence...he Decided they were guilty and made the facts fit later

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lendel is a man who just Says things

mild falcon
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"You better not kill anyone to make me fall in love with you, dalbert. That won't work twice!"

lavish panther
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God I feel that in my bones

mild falcon
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Man, I think I could make this in renpy hmm

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I'll make a prototype and then see if anyone wants to write for it

wide river
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sorry, i had to finish off my shift and come home but - my Evidenceā„¢ for lendel having seen it is mostly that 1) it seems kinda awkward to be like "okay uou lost now LEAVE NOW IMMEDIATELY" and 2) the little scene you get when someone is ascending ingame shows both anointed players before the fall of soliam, so

mild falcon
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It seems pretty easy to contrive a situation where lendel wouldn't have seen exactly how it went down

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The mountain top is BIG

vestal bluff
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Like, it's awkward for Celeste or whoever to tell the opponent, "yeah, ya lost, now get outta here", but no one's gonna stop Lendel himself from saying "welp, ya got me, imma head out"

mild falcon
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I just mean like, he's on the other side of the arena, out of earshot, he sees a lot of violence and flinches as erisa gets gibbed

vestal bluff
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Erisa didn't get gibbed, she drowned in the Shimmer-Pool

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Not like there was a big commotion, she shoved Oralech outta the way from behind and tried to jump into an upside down waterfall that never appeared

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I mean, not necessarily a big commotion

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Oralech could've fallen quite dramatically if he'd wanted to, I suppose

mild falcon
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I didn't realize she drowned

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I thought she exploded or something

heavy hill
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yeah it doesn't say she drowned, does it?
unless I misremember, it's like one line

mild falcon
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I choose to believe that she exploded into a million pieces and tariq and celeste had to pull out the cheater mops, the mops to clean up cheaters

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Even if there's evidence to the contrary

vernal harbor
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why mop, there's free food right there

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probably not for civilized beings but I'm some some creature eats that

heavy hill
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we don't know what else is in silt porridge

mild falcon
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Maybe a broom to just push it off the cliff to the downside vultures

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...which would mean that it lands on oralech

heavy hill
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that must be why he's so angry at volfred

onyx forum
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CHEATER MOPS....

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its on the ends of the instruments, invisible

atomic palm
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i have a problem where i love this game but i have no idea how to sell it to people

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like i can't even begin to talk about it without stumbling through my words

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party based basketball visual novel fantasy role playing?

vernal harbor
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it depends on what your target audience wants

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revolution? we've got it

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nerdy role plays? yes

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basketball? yes, so yes, and with FLAME OF PURIFICATION

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complex characters of various body shapes? very very yes

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hot buff lady with horns? yessss

mild falcon
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if you dont know your audience, describe what you liked about it

lime mural
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It is a very unique game, I know nothing like it, and indeed perhaps a "hard sell". I like Darren Korb's description at the SGG concert "Wizard basketball"

vestal bluff
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Finding an ā€œelevator pitchā€ for Pyre is the eternal struggle

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But hey, that’s why we love it

onyx forum
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usually i go with "its about basketball in HELL" and i dont know if thats selling people on it but it sure is something

atomic palm
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Basketball in purgatory is one I've heard as well

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But it lacks the impact of hell

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Also I think the game appeals more to RPG crowds than e a sportsitsinthegame fans

lavish ridge
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fantasy nba jam

timid silo
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I sell the gameplay as Nintendo sports-like... like Mario basketball in purgatory (+ best found family story in recent memory, + judge the art and music by yourself with a trailer)

vestal bluff
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The Downside's too pretty to be Hell, I reckon

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(Thanks Jen)

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Purgatory is def closer to the mark

untold quartz
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okay so I haven't played Hades yet but

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was, or was not, Barker's design meant to be a hint about/reference to Cerberus?

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because I just noticed - like really noticed - those skulls attached to either side of his collar, and uhhhhh that's three dog heads baby

mild falcon
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I meannnn cerberus is not a sgg original character

untold quartz
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oh absolutely not, just, y'know, wondering

mild falcon
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Hey, probably

untold quartz
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if they were dropping a little foreshadowing of their next project there šŸ¤”

mild falcon
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What a hellhound, huh

untold quartz
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they've got similar red mohawkish crests, too

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eh, he's a good boy really, he loves his dear old mum.

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he makes a good show of being a Rowdy Doggo, but if you read his thoughts mid-Rite he's pep talking himself to play like his mother was watching, which is up there in the running for cutest unexpected moments in the game

mild falcon
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Isn't that why anyone does rites

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(No)

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I get the vibe they don't have sports in the upside

untold quartz
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war is the ultimate test of skill, we ain't got time for tennis brah

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no reading, no writing, no wiffleball, ONLY BATTLE AGAINST THE FOES OF THE COMMONWEALTH

mild falcon
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The rites is actually a blatant ripoff of a more popular sports game back when the scribes were around, but all that history's been lost

lavish panther
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The scribes are CANCELLED for stealing someone’s sport without credit 😤😤

old geyser
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Yslach 2020 down with the scribes

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Yslach gang

lime mural
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Can't have controversy if you devour the world.

tough hinge
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ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ well shoot, ya got me there!

old breach
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Anyone have any experience with using PS4 controllers to play pyre?

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I've used a 360 controller but I'm planning to play vs with my buddy Tomorrow and I wanna know whether I should bring controllers or if PS4 controllers work

vernal harbor
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I think it works? I dropped my pc controller one time too many and switched to ps4 controller for both hades and pyre at some point, and it worked the same way (mine was steam pc version)

timid silo
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I played it on Steam with a PS4 controller and never had any issues

untold quartz
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man, Jen Zee, I love your art but why is there so much inconsistency in the raiments design 😭

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what color are their cowls/hoods? brown? black? blue? black in the front and blue in the back, somehow??

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what color are their belts? what's even going on with the shoulder drapy stuff?

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uuuughhh

mild falcon
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Is the beyonders raiment white and gold or blue and black

vernal harbor
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I mean, Jodariel has huge leg muscles but the icon has skinny legs

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raiment colours can be handwaved as due to ambient light, how do you explain a whole different shape and size

untold quartz
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red into blue from ambient light???

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missing trim?

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at some point I'mma just have to make a call and stick with it šŸ˜‚

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(I'm attempting to physically sew this stuff so I can wear it, and nobody has invented red/blue cloth with vanishing trim yet IRL)

vernal harbor
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white gold/blue black dress meme aside... wait

mild falcon
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Just sew the trim on really poorly so it falls off

untold quartz
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noooooo

vernal harbor
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doesn't ruby or sapphire change into the other's colour when heated under pressure or something?

untold quartz
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I want this costume to last me several cons, I've put too many hours into it already for it to fall apart on me

vernal harbor
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so maybe if it was made from ruby fiber, and then they jump into the pyre of purification...

untold quartz
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( sol#0385 I watched the Steven Universe movie the other night and you just made me double-take hard)

vernal harbor
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(oh lol sorry I was makinga chemistry joke not steven universe)

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(that would have been glorious to watch though)

untold quartz
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yeah I got that eventually šŸ˜…

vernal harbor
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serious answer though, add the trim if you have time, no trim if no time

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the raiments seem to have hoods loosely falling on the back and shoulders when not worn

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and also dark brown/sable shawls

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jodariel and hedwyn don't wear the same belt

mild falcon
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If jz gets artistic license so do you

untold quartz
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Jodariel doesn't wear the same belt, haha 😭

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it's gold medallions on blue when you're actually conducting a Rite, but gold medallions on red when you're talking to her in the conversational interface

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I'm just going with @mild falcon and picking what I like best. (red and gold, to contrast the blue tunic)

lavish panther
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Ohh yeha I was thinking of making one the secret is like,, it’s your outfit so if it’s not perfectly consistent that’s almost cooler bc you put your little personal spin on it!!

stone egret
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It is done.

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I have completed and fully recorded my playthrough of Pyre

tough hinge
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nice! Final thoughts?

stone egret
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It was as great of a game as I imagined it even though it was nothing like what I had imagined.

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I made a few weird choices here in there, but all things considered, the end overall seems good.

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A happy note, mostly.

tough hinge
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great! Glad you enjoyed it.

stone egret
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Oh, I did.

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Looking forward to seeing the full series being on my channel.

heady karma
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Demons should great each other by head butting

stone egret
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I don't know. For Ignarius, I can imagine that. Oralech and Jodariel? Much less so.

tough hinge
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Oralech greets everyone with a verbal headbutt, already, ingame

timid silo
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Hah! Very true

onyx forum
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wagonbutt

heady karma
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Idk if I was a demon I would 200% Greet other demons that way

stone egret
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I would imagine the horns getting tangled up in the worst case.

heady karma
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Honestly I think that’s worth me getting out my art stuff just to draw

tough hinge
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do it do it dooo iiittt

mortal hemlock
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yes please

heady karma
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Ok it has begun

timid silo
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Excellent

lapis hemlock
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Manley: ā€œOH hellooo nightwings!! my name is Manley H. Tinderstauf!! I would like to get to know you all! please let me-ā€œ

Jodariel: šŸ”Ŗ

Manley:

onyx forum
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jodi starts chopping a salad threateningly

lapis hemlock
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ā€œgive jodi pruning shearsā€

untold quartz
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man, that moment when he threatens your loved ones 😠

vernal harbor
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I was ready to believe him actually not so bad until that scene happened, then he was barely fit to become tinder

stone egret
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I don't think I saw that?

untold quartz
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If you face the Chastity in a lib rite, he smarms at Celeste about how he just loves the Rites and plans to send lots more exiles to the Downside to replace him after he's liberated and experience them for themselves

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and then turns to the Nightwings and basically tells them SO YOU'D BETTER LET US WIN, IF YOU WANT NO HARM TO BEFALL YOUR LOVED ONES BACK HOME

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(which is F+ logic because in that case the best way to protect your loved ones is to kick his twiggy backside and make sure he never achieves a position of power at all, but okay, sure, Manley? šŸ™„ )

stone egret
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I am sure I have a Liberation Rite against that joker as well and it did not work out like that.

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If memory serves

heady karma
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I deff got those lines

vestal bluff
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It’s more subtext than overt, but he does kinda imply something like that

timid silo
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"Now, as for you, Nightwings? Make no attempt to undermine me here, and nothing shall befall you or your loved ones in the Commonwealth, is it a deal?" sounds pretty overt to me!

vestal bluff
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Welp

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Didn’t remember the exact verbiage, I guess

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I might be thinking of when you first meet him then, ā€˜cause he asks you to let him win a bunch of times

stone egret
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I double checked

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I was mistaking

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Apparently, I just did not face Manley in a liberation in the first place.

onyx forum
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hghjfhjfhj yes

midnight hawk
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powerful iggy energy

old geyser
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God I wish Ignarius would work out

mild falcon
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Ugh iggy as a gym rat

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Even worse

lusty ridge
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There's gym rats in these walls!

untold quartz
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oh Lord that picture reminds me of my 6'6" brother šŸ˜‚

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he used to casually rest his elbow on my head when we were brushing our teeth in the morning

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a big chunk of the reason I'm so excited to cosplay Jodi is the fact that my hoof shoes boost me up to like 6'3"? at last, I shall no longer be a shrimp

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(yes, 5'9" is a shrimp in my family. 😭 )

vernal harbor
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... so I would be smaller than shrimp next to your family

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btw do we have a height chart of the pyre cast?

spiral osprey
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The closest thing we have is the ending shot where they're all standing next to each other as a way to compare relative heights; no solid numbers.

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i spitballed based on that a while back, but it should be noted that their heights in art are fairly inconsistent, especially if you're comparing their 3D models too

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This was from 11/19/17 in the old server:

Using 5'7" as Hedwyn's height everyone else is as follows based on the epilogue art (which, mind, may not rly be to scale but it's still fun)
*ae: 4'10"
Volfred: 8'9"
Gilman: 1'10" (upright)
Pamitha: 6'6"
Rukey: 2'8" (on all fours)
Bertrude: 3'8"
Jodi: 8'7"```
onyx forum
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saps are so TALL

mild falcon
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Ae repping all the shorties out there

timid silo
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I'm gonna need a "how long is Gilman" one of these days, hopefully šŸ¤”

lavish ridge
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wait, if gilman is 1"10", how tall is ti'zo

tough hinge
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HC that the ti’zo plush is life-sized

green jungle
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false, gilman is infinite honors in length

mild falcon
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Wait why would you assume hedwyn is 5'7 when you could assume rukey is dog sized

spiral osprey
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"dog sized" is a Fairly Wide Margin

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But that would be a valid way to do it! I just didn't think of it at the time šŸ˜›

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Looks like common medium-large sized dogs are generally like 20-25 inches?

mild falcon
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I wonder if dog heights vary more than human heights

wide river
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i mean

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yes

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chihuahua vs. tibetan mastiff.......

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oh my god, imagine chihuahua sized curs.

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so tiny. so filled with anger.

mild falcon
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Mastiff!dalbert

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Big kind dad

vestal bluff
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Barker is a chihuahua; Dalbert is a Newfie

vestal bluff
sturdy swallow
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oh wow that’s surprising accurate, especially if you have the acceleration rukey

mild falcon
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I've totally done that into the pyre

wide river
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god, that just reminds me of when i put as much speed increase into gilman as i could, jsut to see what would happen

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it turns out it makes him into a very speedy boy, whodathunk

timid silo
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T o o speedy, calm down boy

mild falcon
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Need a talisman that lets me stop on a dime

vernal harbor
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This is why high speed Jodi is more viable

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... now I wanna see if people actually tried to make snakes run on slippery surface

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wait, are sea serpents in pyre snakes or knifefish?

mild falcon
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they're wyrm

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fictional species

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so whatever you want

heady karma
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I liked going the anti cur build with Jodi

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Use the talisman that makes your aura stay when you have the orb, and get both lvl one perks

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Grab the orb and mop the floor with the dissidents

mortal hemlock
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why is big bertrude so small.... I though bog crones were about human sized?

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Wow ae is short. How old is she again?

lavish panther
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19 I think?

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Iirc

mild falcon
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wow for a second i thought you were saying berty was 19

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and thats a great hc

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"i have lived for eons" is such a 19yo thing to say, especially if you realize other people cant visually tell your age

lavish panther
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Fbhfvgf god u right

stone egret
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Bertrude was lowkey one of the most caring characters. In her own way.

pliant sigil
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react if you're smaller than jodi

timid silo
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Saps do not interact

heady karma
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Taller-than-Jodi demon squad rise up

hushed mortar
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hey does anyone know what this marking is on volfred's head? i assume it's for designating readers before casting them down since it seems the player character has a cloak with it at the start of the game https://imgur.com/DaKcXje

young folio
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yeah, seems like a brand gilmanangst

heady karma
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Gang signs

lavish ridge
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yep, probably the symbol of the reader

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it’s on the reader’s cloak in the end credits too iirc

nova fox
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I love all the glyphs in Pyre

mild falcon
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"This side down"

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For shipping purposes

timid silo
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The fact that they branded him is hideous :( I wonder if our Reader was also branded, but I guess not if Hedwyn & co ask us if we can read?

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Maybe Volfred's reading crimes are deemed worse by the Commonwealth?

lavish panther
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He did publish stuff? They may think that’s worse

sturdy swallow
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yeah its worse cuz he and gertrude affected many people whereas the reader was only one person im guessing

timid silo
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Makes sense. Still. :C

strong maple
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The reader was possibly branded cuz the party knows that you are a reader even if you deny it iirc

heavy hill
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iirc they identify you as a reader based on your rags
it could be that maybe everyone got branded but androbeles decided to go with rags

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as a nicer way of being horribly corrupt

sturdy swallow
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it could also be the fact that volfred is tree man

heavy hill
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maybe he did it to himself as an act of defiance 🤷

hushed mortar
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maybe he thought it looked cool

lime mural
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tattoo

sharp rivet
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Man, I really need to get back to Pyre. I started my True Nightwing playthrough and was having some trouble, and I just kinda dropped it. Now I’m remembering how amazing the game is and I’m definitely gonna go back to it

hushed mortar
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yeah i beat pyre for the first time a few nights ago and it's definitely become one of my favorite games

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and now i've officially beat all available supergiant games :>

nova fox
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I keep telling my room mate to play Pyre

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I think he would love it

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He played about an hour of it awhile ago, but wasn't immediately gripped, because it has a pretty slow start.

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I gifted it to him, and in exchange, he gave me Night in the Woods (one of his favs), which I wound up also loving.

hushed mortar
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i made my friend start playing it the other day and now she's making her girlfriend play it

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spreading the good word ablobsalute

heady karma
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Convert everyone to the way of the scribes

tough hinge
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I did the same to my roommate hehe

timid silo
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On one hand it's a hard sell because of the odd genre fusion, on the other it's SO GOOD and new converts do their best to spread the word...

heady karma
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Pyre is the dark souls of the wizard basketball with reading genre

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Works every time

onyx forum
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pyre is the dark souls , thats how deep itll get you, your soul is pyre now,

torn bolt
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heehee, i don't think pyre follows enough dark souls design principles to make that one stand up

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also, pyre is the Anything of the wizard basketball with reading genre

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it's a genre of one

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insert any video game, pyre is the x of the wizard basketball with reading genre

heady karma
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It was more a joke about everyone comparing everything to dark souls regardless of if it makes sense to do so

hushed mortar
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i mean if you recommended me a "wizard basketball with reading" game i'd already be sold by those 4 words alone

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visual novel hybrids are dope

long holly
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They’re inspiring even

untold quartz
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Way late to this but my Reader design absolutely has a brand

hoary forum
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(No such thing as 'way too late.')

tawdry arch
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Been any word on Pyre coming to the Switch?

tough hinge
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Not at the moment, the devs full energy is going towards HADES right now!

quiet gyro
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honestly with a Switch release multiplayer would become a lot more fun tizomg

nova fox
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Ooh I never thought about that!

tawdry arch
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Exactly, and the reason I asked. It's their one multiplayer game, and it's not on the platform that benefits that most.

stray jolt
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relistening to the pyre soundtrack and realizing how much of a bop each one is

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i think its because i'm focusing a lot more on the bass guitar parts now

quiet gyro
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oh the soundtrack slaps brother gilmanlove

lavish ridge
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oh yeah there’s a lot of great bass in that ost

long holly
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the other day i had this random thought: what if the archjustice did standup comedy

heavy hill
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"Reader? I hardly knew 'er!" ajfingerguns

hyuck hyuck hyuck

long holly
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HA

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omg hearing that in my head with his voice haha. "rrrrredahh"

onyx forum
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id be in the crowd

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he laughs at his own jokes for sure

long holly
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hahahah

mild falcon
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youd HAVE to be in the crowd

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enforced

long holly
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last comic standing, but it's the triumvirates

onyx forum
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reader: [falls asleep]
aj: THEEEEREE you areee i have NEEEEW MATERIAL to make you LAUGH! not that yew deseerrrrrve it, exile.

nova trail
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I just started my first campaign of Pyre today! It's so exciting and shocking at the same time, with getting used to the mechanics.

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pray I free my exiled frens

vestal bluff
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It’s an extremely unique sort of game! There’s really nothing like it

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It grabs some folks more than others, but if you’re one of the ones it clicks with, it’s really engaging

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Plus, you know, beautiful art and music and story

nova trail
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I agree it's so beautiful. I like it because it gives me a whizz of adrenaline rush residentzag

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It is really a different flavor though unlike Transistor and Bastion

vestal bluff
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It’s different than everything! That’s why we love it gilmanlove

sharp rivet
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^

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I know spoils are ok but since we have a first-timer just recently I’ll tag it anyways || I’ve just got past liberation 1 on my true Nightwing file and I’ve been trying to do it no-defeats, which has been really difficult but insanely fulfilling, especially if I go in with more than enough Titans active and get it in one go, and the different strategies and ways to play outside the box doing it are part of the reason I love the game so much.||

sharp rivet
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hulk of ores is actually too easy ||bertrude + Gilman is op on it, all titans no damage||

nova trail
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thank you friends for tagging gilmanlove I'll prolly finish it over the weekend

sharp rivet
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Honestly couldn’t live with myself if I had spoiled one of if not the best story I’ve ever played through, especially the pure and personal experience it is. Your choices really do make a difference, and it’s fun once you’ve gone through to talk about the different ways you can make them

heavy falcon
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I just started playing Pyre for the second time, and I might have actually teared up. I don't know what's wrong with me but I have a serious emotional connection to these games

heady karma
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Nothing is wrong

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Super giant is just too good

heavy falcon
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When I was younger, I used to watch my older brother play video games, and I watched him play transistor which was my introduction to Supergiant. When I finally played it for myself, I started tearing up at the cutscenes. And I'm generally not an emotional person. But everything Supergiant produces is such a masterpiece

heady karma
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That’s so cool, I used transistor to introduce my sister to video games as well. She is currently chipping away at hades, although not as much since I left for uni

sharp rivet
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Supergiant games are so well written and I get so involved. I cried a bit at the end of transistor and the end to pyre also got me

heady karma
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Conversation incoming

onyx forum
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celesjodi hours....... the two of them have the Small But Knowing Look perfected

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they dont understand each other always but they can tell when the other has some feeling on events and thats more than celeste can say for like, ever

timid silo
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Celesjodi hours!!

mild falcon
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if there was a third musician on mount alodiel, what instrument would they play

tough hinge
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Harmonica

midnight hawk
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hurdy gurdy

mild falcon
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two INSPIRED choices hmm

wide river
sharp rivet
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Ok, the tags are coming out for the benefit of those who aren’t done yet cause this is real end game stuff. ||So I finally beat the final liberation yesterday against Oralech on TN. I had forgotten how tough it was in the first place, not to mention now that I had to have 9 titans active. It was a struggle that actually ended up happening thanks to some interesting AI movement around Volfred’s on-death sapling and Bertrude just being OP with the help of her maxed prayer beads. By the end of it I was cursing Oralech almost as much as he cursed the Scribes, because even with crazy damage output, it’s damn hard to get rid of 170 pyre health when you have three hits worth on your own (praise be to Volfred’s kindle mastery). The AI was both ruthlessly skilled and a little stupid, but overall it felt like a good challenge that I (somehow) overcame. Really drove home the feeling of accomplishment when those credits rolled, and made me feel so much more invested in that Rite as it took so long and was so tough.|| In conclusion, this game is a masterwork and I love it to death.

timid silo
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šŸ‘ šŸ‘ šŸ‘ I haven't tried the highest difficulty yet, but the added struggle in Difficult mode already added a lot to my perception of the Rites

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It's fascinating how video games can convey things through that, too

sharp rivet
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uhhhhhhhhhh

long holly
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O_o

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you definitely had to be there haha

lime mural
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šŸ™…

long holly
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fair nuff

mild quartz
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just about to run a liberation rite, not sure who to free

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i've liberated rookey and Jodi, and i want Hedwyn to be free but he's also really good

timid silo
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Who are your other options?

mild quartz
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pamitha bertude and hedwyn

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i should have paid more attention to how many rights i had left

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so it'll probably have to be hedwyn or pamitha

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also i'm against the harps so i'm not sure whether to let pamitha's sister go free

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well the essence won anyway

mild falcon
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That's that I suppose

heady karma
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Just tell Pam it was intended

sharp rivet
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maybe I will go back and do another playthrough on not masochistic person settings to see how it feels

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it would be my fourth full finish and I think I'll make some choices differently to see the way it goes

mild quartz
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this is my first run and, as i just found out our attempts are limited, i'm just trying to get the people i like out the most

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so hedwyn then probably pamitha

sharp rivet
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understandable

mild falcon
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Can anyone disagree at how likable hedwyn is

covert sleet
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i dont think its possible to dislike hedwyn

vestal bluff
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Hedwyn profile pic
This is an unbiased opinion I'm sure

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:P

covert sleet
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definitely

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i had a cur pic until about 15 minutes ago

vestal bluff
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Curs are pretty cool I think

covert sleet
#

definitely

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i mean all the pyre characters are likeable in their own ways

vestal bluff
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'cept Lendel

covert sleet
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ok yeah

vestal bluff
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that dude's just kinda bitter

covert sleet
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i am a lendel hate zone ill not lie

mild falcon
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Lendel and tinderstauf are characters we love to hate, so that's why they should date each other

sharp rivet
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Jodi best mother figure

covert sleet
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hard agree

timid silo
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Volfred best (vague gesturing) Volfred. But everyone's just the best šŸ™

sharp rivet
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yeah

onyx forum
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volfred: it is only by my own grace of not being anything near a parental figure that i kindly allow jodariel to be the best mother figure

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volfred: so, youre welcome,

covert sleet
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the nightwings is just one big found family

heady karma
#

Jodi watches silently and rolls her eyes a lot

sharp rivet
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It was time for a change

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and this feels like the right one

covert sleet
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oh hell yea

sharp rivet
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especially with how I've remembered how much I love the game

vestal bluff
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Noxalas!

timid silo
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Noxalas!!!

heady karma
#

I say noxalas to my friends occasionally

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Only one of which has played pyre

sharp rivet
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it is time my friends

heady karma
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godspeed

sharp rivet
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godspeed, reader.

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also I have decided to do a normal ||non TN/12 titan at all times|| run, let's see how this goes

lavish ridge
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good luck!!

sharp rivet
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ron but I won't have early slugmarket full inv and feats for extra cash?!?! how do people get by? shadegrief

wet pulsar
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Does anyone have six-shoulders fan art? Asking for myself and no one else.

torn bolt
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i don't think i've seen any, but there's a criminal lack of scribes/titans content imo

wet pulsar
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dang... if i end up with any real free time this week, i might attempt to draw some good good titans.

onyx forum
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YESSS do it

wet pulsar
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unfortunately, it’s a big if haha

torn bolt
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oh PLEASE do it

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fair though

timid silo
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Oh it'd be so cool!

polar wren
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I already watched a full playthrough of Pyre, didn't have a system that could play it, and now I can, and I just freed the Moon-Touched Girl from the Downside. (I named her Xae.) And I knew what was gonna happen. I knew "Oh, Xae's gonna be removed from my party and I'll hear about it in the Bound Together or whatever." But actually picking her, going through the Rite, and succeeding...man. It's a whole 'nother feeling when you do it firsthand. I'm not gonna lie, I cried. But just...man. And I gotta do that four or five more times? Just...wow.

timid silo
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There's something about SGG games and playing them firsthand... I watched a LP of Transistor a long time ago and came out of it thinking it was a neat little game, finally played it a few months ago and I was in tears like everyone else...

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the rhythm of the Rites, the feeling of a cycle slowly turning (eventually not so slowly), it's all powerful stuff...

polar wren
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Played Bastion and Transistor on my phone. Thank goodness I wasn't spoiled. I've actually refused to watch any footage of Hades just in case it happens to release on Switch. The only knowledge I have is the reveal trailer and the newsletter about the updates. (Seriously, you have no idea how much I want it to be on Switch so that the one thing I've been dedicated to and haven't broken once all year hasn't gone to waste....lol)

lapis saffron
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I am also happy that none of supergiant games got spoiled for me. I always have bad luck with other games, my favorite series, yakuza series, got spoiled not too long ago. And same goes with other games. I love not knowing what transistor is, and learning it all on my own, same with pyre. Right now, Bastian and Hades are on the list, and no guide and spoils happen yet, so if you excuse me, im going offline for a couple days

undone briar
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have we discussed this yet?

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tldr; steam will let you play local co op games with friends over internet

upbeat sage
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ooooh klinkO

mild falcon
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like parsec but built in, huh?

upbeat sage
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seems like it

mild falcon
#

that reduces the barrier to entry for sure

upbeat sage
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that's awesome

undone briar
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i wonder how hard it would be to implement a matchmaking system for pyre with this

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probably more work than its worth

mild falcon
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dunno if there's demand for a matchmaking system

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somewhere around here theres a discord server for playing pyre together through parsec, a similar tool

slate dune
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It's pinned in this channel actually

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Rite club!

lavish ridge
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woooooah remote play together honestly sounds really cool

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yeah i’m dying to see how well it works with pyre

vestal bluff
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I’m gonna test this later on with anyone who wants to

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Join Rite Club today my dudes!

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My only concern is if this will require any action on SGG’s part... they seem pretty singularly focused on Hades right now

pliant sigil
#

pyre but the final liberation rite is against goose

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or rather. you are goose

wide river
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It is a lovely day in the Downside (relatively speaking), and you are a horrible goose.

mild falcon
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get tizo's nest wet

pliant sigil
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sandra: reader, is that y- honk

timid silo
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Oh Sandra would love the goose

polar wren
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Brighton: WHAT SAY YOU, BEFORE THE COMMONWEALTH YOU HAVE SULLIED WITH YOUR VERY PRESENCE, HARP?!

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Goose: Honk

heady karma
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Steals the mic

polar wren
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Brighton: BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE VERY SCRIBES THEMSELVES IS UNFORGIVABLE, WINGED CREATURE! YOU ARE BANISHED INTO EXILE, TO LIVE OUT YOUR DAYS IN THE DOWNSIDE, SERVING YOUR SENTENCE! MQY THE SCRIBES HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL!!!

onyx forum
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šŸ˜‚ šŸ˜‚ šŸ˜‚

polar wren
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The Reader just ends up being the goose underneath the cloak, then is liberated from the Downside and leads the revolution against Brighton, lol

mild falcon
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Hedwyn looks at the goose and immediately knows that it can read

wide river
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untitled goose game but the archjustice narrates whatever the goose is doing

mild falcon
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AJ is SO ANGRY

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You.. you made him hit his thumb!!! How dare you!!!

lime mural
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Okay, how much money do we gotta throw at Logan to get him to narrate an UGG LP?

onyx forum
#

please yes

lime mural
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if I were rich I'd pay for Rucks, Mr. Nobody, AND AJ

onyx forum
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all at once?!

mild falcon
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Goose just rages for a while

polar wren
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Hey, Goose...We're gonna get away with this, are we?

polar wren
#

I just learned you can play most of the opening tune for In the Flame on the xylobones you get when going through Jomuer Valley.

quartz cloak
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what there's xylobones?
When I played i didnt get no xylobones

polar wren
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You go through Jomuer Valley after the first liberation rite.

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It's in the Blackwagon.

quartz cloak
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really? thats odd
im lit always checking for stuff and looking at the info on character items to see what they're doing
never saw the xylobones

sharp rivet
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On the shelf to the right

polar wren
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It's on the shelf right next to Gilman's crest.

quartz cloak
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wow im big dumb

polar wren
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Okay, so I just learned Jodariel's backstory...wow. I am having a really tough time deciding who to set free. I'm on Mount Alodiel for the second liberation rite, going up against the Withdrawn. My exiles' enlightenment in descending order are Hedwyn, Ti'zo, Sir Gilman, Rukey, Jodariel, and Pamitha. (Although now I realize I'm probably not gonna be able to free Jodariel yet.) Like, I want to set Gilman free, but I haven't learned his backstory. I want to set Hedwyn free, but the buffs to his team are great. I kinda want Ti'zo free, but I feel he would still be happy in the Downside if I chose him to remain. And if I set Gilman or Rukey free, I only have one fast character left because I liberated the Moon-Touched Girl, only to realize in the middle of the rite that Xae and her power jump were amazing and I had just rid myself of an extremely useful team member, and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

timid silo
#

oh mood... I'm no good with Hedwyn so I'd pick Hedwyn out of the eligible ones, but I have been informed that other people are indeed good with Hedwyn and it's a me problem šŸ˜‚

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I would recommend picking people you've already done trials for

polar wren
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...Yeah. Um...I'm picking Ti'zo. I don't know why. I honestly planned to let him remain, but...I just feel I need the others more, I guess...dang...

timid silo
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if it helps any, Ti'zo and Xae are good friends! You'd be sending up a friend!

polar wren
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Well...it's done. Completely DESTROYED the Withdrawn. Didn't douse my pyre once. I had Ti'zo's skills reset after mentoring him to rank 4, then gave him +10 damage to the pyre. So...the cycle begins once more...

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Also, I used Hedwyn and Jodariel.

lime mural
#

How many Liberation Rites are there in a playthrough?

onyx forum
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7

lime mural
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I know I sent Rukey, Jodi, and Hedwyn up.

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I stayed, I may have sent ||Oralech||.

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Oh, I sent Gilman back, for sure.

polar wren
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...I might have accidentally picked a semi-romance option for Jodariel. I like Jodariel, don't get me wrong, but...SANDRA AND PAMITHA ARE BEST GIRLS, AND YES I CAN HAVE TWO FAVORITES, FIGHT ME!

mild falcon
#

which option was it?

polar wren
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It was after she talked with Ignarius, and I said I cared about her. I assumed "Oh, it's positive reinforcement without talking about Ignarius. What a perfect opportunity to get a potential stat boost to Jodariel!" only to have her say "Bold of you to say..."

mild falcon
#

šŸ‘€

polar wren
#

Yeah, exactly.

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Now I'm worried this might close of potential options that might not even exist for Pamitha or Sandra. (Because lemme just say, give Pamitha actual arms, and residentzag )

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Birb waifu is best waifu

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Or orb waifu

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idk

naive knoll
#

Orb waifu šŸ‘€

polar wren
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Ironic, considering she's blind...

naive knoll
#

Lol, didn't think about it

sharp rivet
#

orb waifu is best

wide river
mild falcon
#

made me think of this edit i made a while ago

naive knoll
midnight hawk
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@polar wren wait how is that ironic?

naive knoll
#

@midnight hawk, maybe he thought eyes emoji in my message are ironic "Orb waifu šŸ‘€"

polar wren
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Exactly

midnight hawk
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oh ok

night locust
#

I basically set people free in the order they showed up

quartz cloak
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I let them go in the order they asked
in the end i kept gilman xae and bertrude since they had no desire to go back & nothing to go back to

night locust
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I ended with Pamitha, Tizo, Volfred, and Bertrude in Downside

quartz cloak
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i yeeted put oralech
And i survived all the trials

polar wren
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Hey Commoners,

My name is Manley, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are poor, dirty, exiles who spend every second of their day reading books. You are everything bad in the Downside. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any favor? I mean, I guess it’s fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than being attracted to ghosts in orbs.

Don’t be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I’m pretty much perfect. I'm captain of the Chastity, and fly my own airship. What sports do you play, other than ā€œdrool about lore in the Book of Ritesā€? I also win every rite, and have a banging magnificent sapling (She just took control of the enemy's side of the field; it was SO sol). You are all commoners who should just permanently banish yourselves. Thanks for listening.

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(Slightly censored to obey the rules about profanity.)

quartz cloak
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I'd like you to shut up because you sound like brighton.

polar wren
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Oh, I can do Brighton, you CORRUPTED EXILE!!! YOU DARE INSULT THE NAMES OF THE VERY SCRIBES THEMSELVES!!!! MAY YOU LIVE OUT YOUR RIGHTFUL SENTENCE IN THE DOWNSIDE FOR THE REST OF YOUR MISERABLE DAYS!!!!

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(Not trying directly insulting you or anything, just fyi)

quartz cloak
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(no ik lol)

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Ok there's him when he's angry I yeeted something I was supposed to.

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You're from Chastity, huh?

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Does that mean your a sap.

polar wren
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Btw, I just realized something. If the name of Yslach Astral-Born is considered cursed or whatever, why does Brighton say its full name when you activate its Titan Star?

quartz cloak
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because brighton is deumbbb

mild falcon
#

maybe the name isnt cursed, its just kinda weird to put the name inside the book made of its skin

quartz cloak
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lol tru

lime mural
#

Headcanon is Brighton doesn't think the Commonwealth as it is could be threatened by Exiles so he wants to invoke Yslach to wreck them while he laughs from safety. volfredthink

quartz cloak
#

brighton is in the commonwealth

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which I ended up overrunning XD

lime mural
#

Yeah, he's wrong, that's the thing.

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But he's totally trying to be a scumbag during it.

quartz cloak
#

i mean
he should get our position bc he was lit yeeted from down here but it's like he just forgot everything he had to go thru to get back up

lime mural
#

Well, he's the villain of the story.

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Of course he should be on our sides, but he became corrupted by power.

#

Keep in mind he wishes you luck the first time you square off against the Withdrawn.

quartz cloak
#

to me brighton isnt the villain
to me the commonwealth government is the villain
Brighton is just the annoying narrator

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yeah brighton liked us until we decided to try and ovverrun commonwealth

lime mural
#

He's the figurehead ruler of the Commonwealth, and is a major public figure. He's part and parcel of the corrupt government.

quartz cloak
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really huh

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brighton can go die in a hole

lime mural
#

Yeah, that's why it's so important for the Plan that you free a bunch of exiles. Exiles are given a position of power if they are successfully liberated.

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Manley and Lyndel squander theirs, but exiles like Jodi and Volfred are instrumental in a bloodless revolution.

quartz cloak
#

I didnt know about the place of power

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I was able to get my guys out + oralech
it ended incredibly well

lime mural
#

I can't remember if I freed Oralech or not. It was right after launch, so I didn't have the option of ||possessing him mid-choice and choosing for him.||

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But I'm 99% sure ||he didn't die.||

quartz cloak
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oh ye what did you name stick gorl

lime mural
#

Fae.

quartz cloak
#

Xae

midnight hawk
#

fae

quartz cloak
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i like X names
my mom named her Zhae

heavy hill
#

Xae gang

polar wren
#

I was gonna choose Rhae because I originally watched Rythian's playthrough of Pyre before I got the game (I thought I wouldn't be able to get the game for a long while back then), but I choosed Xae in the end. I actually picked Mae, but then I immediately regretted it and reset the checkpoint so I could pick Xae. (Plus, Xae the Poxy sounds like something high society Commonwealth locals would call a Moon-Touched person. "Oh, a disease upon our society!")

wide river
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i picked fae when i played but i tend to call her mae so idk what to make of that

tough hinge
#

Faeee

torn bolt
#

chae for life

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it's just the best one

naive knoll
#

Fae!

sharp rivet
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I mean my TN playthrough was Bae so that's my girl

timid silo
#

Tae represent!

nova fox
#

Shae, obviously

long holly
#

Chae++

shadow tusk
#

Kae for me

onyx forum
#

rhae!!

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she is a rhae of sunshibe in our lives :>

vestal bluff
#

Team Shae all the wae

stray jolt
#

rhae gang represent

onyx forum
#

rhaepresent

heavy falcon
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I named her Fae the first time I played, but named her Shae the second time. I should've named her Fae twice because I still call her that instead of Shae

midnight hawk
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i named her gae the second time around, bc i love aj yelling out GAY! when i chose her

onyx forum
#

same

mild falcon
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Nae: ....
AJ: 🐓

onyx forum
#

jhgbhjgvhjgfj

mortal hemlock
#

Shae is best moon girl name

quartz cloak
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nope xae for life

mortal hemlock
#

incorrect try again

quartz cloak
#

you're incorrect

polar wren
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That's why I just call her Moon-Touched Girl. We don't have the name wars.

quartz cloak
#

lol
i dont mean it seriously

polar wren
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...BUT IF IT'S WAR YOU WANT, THEN IT IS WAR YOU SHALL RECIEVE!!!

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AND NOW I AM tired and need to go to sleep gn

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lol

quartz cloak
#

nigh lmao

unreal moth
#

Thinking of booting up Pyre for some versus matches again.

#

GGPO for Pyre when šŸ˜›

unreal moth
#

Messenger Imp in Versus mode lmao what

old geyser
#

Wait

#

I 100% missed out on Chae

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Now I need to do it all over again now with Chae

torn bolt
#

yess

old geyser
#

What’s her full name when she’s Chae?

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Chae the Cheerful I guess?

wide river
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@old geyser chae the changeling

old geyser
#

Ooooooh

#

That’s soo cool

dark pewter
#

When i had played this game last and first time i chose Shae

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Who know the full name of shae?

wide river
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@dark pewter shae the shoddy

dark pewter
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hmm

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thanks

strong maple
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Shae> all other names

old geyser
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Will the real Shae Shoddy please stand up

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I am so deeply sorry

tender geyser
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saw this posted on reddit, not sure if it has been posted on here before

vestal bluff
mild falcon
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Yeah in pyre the trees are guys

tender geyser
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lol oh yeah oops been a long day confused on my trees

polar wren
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Wait, why aren't there any female Saps? Or male Crones? We know there's female Curs from the blank slate exiles during various rites, and we know there might be a male Harp called the Prince, if he's not a legend in-game and is in fact real. And I'm pretty sure there are female Wyrms. But what about the Saps and Crones?

heady karma
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Female saps are crones confirmed

mild falcon
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There's a named female wyrm, lady seagrass

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And she's sad you forgot her

polar wren
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Hey, I remembered her existence! I'm terrible with names in real life! (Seriously, some people I only see once a week that I've known for 5+ years kinda bad. Although I do FINALLY remember all of their names...most of the time.)

nova fox
#

female demon sap reader

onyx forum
#

no reason there cant be girl saps tbh

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but saps and crones probably have v different genderconcepts than humans do anyway? crones for sure, im v interested in bertrude's use of 'we' for a personal pronoun and if its some part of crone understanding of the self the way humans use gendered pronouns

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and i belieeeeve theres some sapgender info w the beyonders but i dont remember it ;;;

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something abt palmis?

polar wren
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Yeah, but outside of normal characters, Bound Together refers the Bertrude as she. So I'm thinking it's more of the royal "We". Like how the queen of England does in any stereotypical portrayal. Which actually makes sense, especially with Udmildhe, considering she holds herself in such high regard as a follower of Y****h Astral-Born.

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Wait, wh-

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NONE SHALL UTTER THE NAME OF THE ACCURSED TITAN, LEST THE SCRIBES STRIKE YOU DOWN!!!!

quartz cloak
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stfu brighton

polar wren
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YES! I SHALL SOW THE FOUL UNDERBELLY OF THE DOWNSIDE WITH COUNTLESS MORE OF YOU DEGENERATE EXILES!!!!

quartz cloak
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bRIGHTONNNNN
MALILINTIKAN KA SA AKINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

polar wren
#

...Okay, exile, I know we have our difference, but I have no idea what you're saying. And frankly, nobody but Readers can, and we banished them all to the Downside. So please, just...just pull yourself together for the next rite. I frankly don't have the time. I don't just oversee the rites of Nightwings and...whatever triumvurate you are a part of...

quartz cloak
#

im Fate and im yelling tagalog at you

timid silo
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It's a "bunch of snakes in a trenchcoat" We for crones šŸ˜‚

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Palmis is listed as male among the otherwise all-female sisters of the arch; Lu's hovertexts mention sons and daughters so there are definitely girl Saps somewhere out there!

wide river
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all šŸ‘ saps šŸ‘ are šŸ‘ trans

heady karma
#

I mean trees don’t have genders

lime mural
#

Regular trees, but anthropomorphic trees?

heady karma
#

Jury is out

wide river
#

on a less meme-y note, my personal headcanon is that saps don't really have a concept of gender, and only really tend to adopt a certain gender presentation to fit in with the other races that do have them

onyx forum
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tbqh i am very enthusiastic abt nonhuman pyre races having totally differemt gender culture

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and yes!! same

heady karma
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That’s kind of what I was thinking

onyx forum
#

tho i think volfred is very like. Presents As Man Intentionally, but w diff connotations than a human would if that makes sense

wide river
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a human: ah, well, women have babies.
a sap, thinking about the fact that literally all saps can make a sapling if they would like to: šŸ¤”

onyx forum
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i should say presents masculine bc hes also very tree. manley presemts as [hu]-man,

heady karma
#

Well yea, he’s the man with a plan

onyx forum
#

yeah hdjfj

mild falcon
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Saps use human genders to court humans

timid silo
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and ??? genders to court heralds?

mortal hemlock
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The name Y* Astral Born should be banned and detected by the proxy bot as profanity

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who agrees?

vestal bluff
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You'll have to take my Yslach from my river-soaked, exiled hands

mortal hemlock
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Heretic! I thought the Fate were known for their dedication to the sacred tradition of the Rites! Yet you now reveal a diseased obsession much like that of Udmildhe's cult!

vestal bluff
#

Yslach shall grow, buddy

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As if anything written about Rukey wouldn't be a bit heartwarming

quartz cloak
#

i love rukey

vestal bluff
#

Rukey probably loves you too, chum

long holly
#

"chum" hehehe

severe schooner
#

i would like to remind everyone

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oralech and ignarius did nothing wrong

quartz cloak
#

i love oralech

mild falcon
#

iggy.... kinda a creep tho

quartz cloak
#

ignarius? Is he the one who calls jodi curly horns?

mild falcon
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yep

quartz cloak
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yeh i dont really like him
bc in the end he's always talkin bout jodi and it's like yOU DIDNT EVEN knOW hER

timid silo
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I don't like him and Jodi together but I do like him lots too and I wish there were more about him as his own person - and he did nothing wrong, yeah

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(neither did Oralech but that goes without saying)

quartz cloak
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afterwards i left him in the downside and he like cLAIMED JODI

mild falcon
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iggy: 😳 you havve...... horns?? ? ? wow, šŸ˜… 😳 😲 ... me too

lime mural
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I think it's just because demons are so rare Jodi is the first one he ever talks to in a long time even if it's a limited conversation.

mild falcon
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iggy's gotta ask lendel where he finds his demons

quartz cloak
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i like jodi and oralechs horns

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i want horns too

lime mural
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I believe those two demons in Lendels team have the same names as his initial two team-mates.

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Also their horns are neat but like imagine how hard it is to get through doorways

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Especially considering they are all like 7ft tall to begin with

mild falcon
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nah, pay attention to the shape of the horns compared to the shape of the mask horns

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its clear that the horns are actually bendable like pipe cleaners

quartz cloak
#

IKR

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ive always looked at the masks and been like: the horns dont fit the mask???????

lime mural
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Maybe the masks are magic and automatically make it fit. Or maybe its art limitations. Or maybe they are bendy and can make little shapes with them then.

quartz cloak
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lol

timid silo
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"its clear that the horns are actually bendable like pipe cleaners" that's a galaxy brain take and I love it

young folio
#

Remember when we thought ignarius, sandra and barker were all one team

onyx forum
#

jhgvhjfvhjfvhj THE OLDEN DAYS WOW

lime mural
#

What.

young folio
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so back then someone drew sandra bending iggys horns like pipe cleaners

onyx forum
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omg....

young folio
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it was because of the vs mode trailer, I believe

onyx forum
#

yeah hjfjhfj

young folio
#

they sort of looked like the ā€œdarkā€ versions of the group when put together out of context like that... dkdjfnfjf

mild falcon
#

The truer nightwings

young folio
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iggy and barker were pretty spot on I guess but I wouldn’t say sandra is Dark Hedwyn lolol

#

she just looks that way :((

quartz cloak
#

what

mild falcon
#

Hedwyn:
Polite
Can see
Sandra:
Rude
...

lime mural
#

Oh my god.

young folio
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i_GUESS.png

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nah but I think if anyone oralech would be dark hedwyn but like... before he was a demon

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doesn’t oralech see him as his replacement

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or am I misremembering

midnight hawk
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yeah i think oralech mentions smth abt that

lime mural
#

I remember Oralech coming after the Nightwings with a bloody and spectacularly misguided vengeance.

young folio
#

gosh, I love that guy

lime mural
#

Getting kicked off Mt. Alodiel? Awful. Erisa deserved to drown. Blaming the new Nightwings? Nope.

mild falcon
#

Bloody?

young folio
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GOSH, I LOVE ERISA

lime mural
#

I remember him threatening you at one point.

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I could be misremembering, but I thought he wanted the new Nightwings dead.

mild falcon
#

I feel like he could do that if he wanted to

onyx forum
#

DID SOMEONE SAY LOVE ERISA

young folio
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I don’t think she deserved to drown :( she makes me terribly sad

mild falcon
#

Even volfred is an erisa apologist

young folio
#

obviously what she did was horrible but like... I just.. wish she hadn’t I suppose

onyx forum
#

i dont think she planned to push, yeah, i think she just....panicked ;;;

lime mural
#

Of course not.

onyx forum
#

yeah.....

midnight hawk
#

yeah. i don't think she deserves to drown. like obviously what she did was wrong but she was deeply unwell

onyx forum
#

i feel like she genuinely wished for oralech's good fortune until the river opened in front of her and it was much much much too much

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and she made bad choices that she didnt think through till her feet weren't on floor anymore and she paid dearly for it 😭

mild falcon
#

...imagine a world where her gambit works

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Where she does actually go free

onyx forum
#

or where she also demons

mild falcon
#

Then oralech is driven to go to the Commonwealth to kill her

lime mural
#

Yeah, I see no good end coming out of Erisa stealing Oralech's place in the Liberation Rite.

onyx forum
#

yeah, just more misfortune :((

mild falcon
#

I mean, part of it is that oralech is kinda paranoid

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But maybe that would happen to anyone if they were pushed off a mountain and lying down for a long time

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He's convinced volfred was in on the conspiracy but you don't get to that kind of math without a lot of overthinking

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At first he was convinced that volfred would come back for him

vernal harbor
#

was it really over thinking or just not thinking enough though

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because if he did think more it would be more obvious that volfred had no idea either, especially since he stalked them

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it's easier to believe other people are against you if you close your mind and only believe that they are against you

mild falcon
#

Well there's a difference between thinking more and overthinking

vernal harbor
#

so crossed the line twice huh

mild falcon
#

I guess

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I dunno how to define it

#

Just seems really relatable to me to reach that conclusion by marinating in bad vibes

vernal harbor
#

like, overfocus in perceiving and processing details that favour the "they are conspiring against him" and ignore all "they have no clue" details?

#

that's selective perception, no?

midnight hawk
#

i mean oralech was also severely traumatized+in a Lot of pain, he's not going to be using normal logic

vernal harbor
#

we all know that he's traumatized and in a lot of pain and loneliness, it was just the whole... I don't know, having stalked the new nightwings but still believe in the conspiracy against him

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it was like the new information just couldn't get into his mind

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well, until you liberate him and also enough nightwings for the plans to work

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and then he's finally like "oh so they were sincere the whole time and they are doing good I'm gonna join them"

#

if I really try to think from oralech's angle, I guess there is always the whole "volfred did not go back for him" part, plus volfred has a significant network in the downside but somehow no one let volfred know oralech's alive, so that might be what he was ruminating

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I think I have to give thanks to supergiant games for having oralech dealing no real damage after all, despite all the pain, because this says so much about both oralech and supergiant games

mild falcon
#

We don't know what he did to the triumverate who was supposed to show up

midnight hawk
#

i'm doubtful he did anything serious

mild falcon
#

maybe made some nasty threats tho

iron heart
#

Anyone else like Falcon Ron

#

Imagine cosplaying as Falcon Ron

mild falcon
#

surprisingly forgettable character

#

costume like this but with ron and ron's dad

vernal harbor
#

imagine doing a cosplay with your son or nephew as ron and ron's dad

mild falcon
#

thats a lot to put your shoulders through

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depending on the age of the ron

timid silo
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"I think I have to give thanks to supergiant games for having oralech dealing no real damage after all, despite all the pain, because this says so much about both oralech and supergiant games" yeah - he NEVER threatens violence and that's important. It's all framed to make you expect violence from him but it never comes. Celeste also lets him through the gate - he hasn't gone against the Rites. The triumvirate who doesn't show up can be faced again later so they clearly weren't pushed off a mountain themselves either

heady karma
#

-dosen’t do any real damage

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Tell that to my team when I had titan stars on

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They have at least mild ptsd

vernal harbor
#

you called on the titan stars

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it’s consensual

heady karma
#

Lol

severe schooner
#

iggy's animation when he dunks your pyre though

#

good stuff

wide river
onyx forum
#

nice

timid silo
#

...I never noticed they have personalized animations? whoa

severe schooner
#

ye

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if i recall correctly, oralech's looks like he's screaming

timid silo
#

that's on brand for him

lapis hemlock
#

finger guns
iggy is a bisexual disaster confirmed

sharp rivet
#

oralech's is screaming yeah

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I've seen it take away half my pyre in one hit enough times to remember that

heady karma
#

do you think the exiles chat if they are banished at the same time?

lapis hemlock
#

yesss

pliant sigil
#

he shouldve dabbed tbh

#

pyre update

  • added pyre dousing animation for Ignarius in which he dabs with class
lime mural
#

Oralech and Rukey get banished at the same time.

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Rukey: So, uh. You like to read any books?

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Oralech: [death glare]

quartz cloak
#

NO MY TWO FAVOURITE

#

also can rukey even read

sharp rivet
#

I want to say the joke was that neither of them can but

vernal harbor
#

but direct reminder that volfred and old nightwings were a thing huh

mild falcon
#

you mean like, a thing?

quartz cloak
#

nO

vernal harbor
#

/AO3ing the thing

mild falcon
#

volfred n brighton n oralech and erisa were all casually dating

quartz cloak
#

yeah in the downside as they slowly died

mild falcon
#

and then they kiss

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mwah

quartz cloak
#

and erisa pushes oralech off a cliff

mild falcon
#

yeah that did happen šŸ˜”

quartz cloak
#

and erisa dies bc brighton not happy

timid silo
#

(Volfred was Brighton's replacement, they never met! Much as I wish they had...)

lucid hemlock
#

Any chance the sheet music for Pyre is going to be released?

upbeat sage
quartz cloak
#

awesome

modern prairie
#

Well, guess I'm playing this game again

#

BUGGER whatever else I was playing, I guess

torn bolt
#

yesssss

vestal bluff
#

Notably:

Play together across PC, Mac, and Linux
Our existing tech, which is Parsec, does not let Mac users host games, and I have no idea about their Linux support at all

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Big boon to Rite Club here

modern prairie
#

Anyone who says Ryukey's mustache looks bad is wrong, by the way

#

Rite club is a thing?

vestal bluff
#

Check the pins here

#

I used to host games for people all the time

#

It’s been less active as of late, but I’m hoping this steam thingy will re-energize it

modern prairie
#

Those are some impressively serious pins, bloody hell

quartz cloak
#

OH MY GOD THERE'S A SPOOF ON MONTY PYTHON IN THERE

modern prairie
#

I'm enjoying the Korb/NBA mashup myself

mild falcon
#

check the pins in all the channels, thats where buried gold is found

modern prairie
#

"Bae" being the most unlikely name for the girl is a lie tbh

vestal bluff
#

Also, our (Rite Club’s) Rukey emote has his moustache in tact

modern prairie
#

I would have quit straight away otherwise, trust me

vestal bluff
mild falcon
mossy wing
#

"Fae" forever.

nova fox
#

These lies >:o

modern prairie
#

Nah, they're right

quartz cloak
#

no Xae for lifeeeee

modern prairie
#

You're wrong

#

It's proven by scientists mate, not by me

#

Can't argue with science

heady karma
#

Fea is feavorite

onyx forum
#

scaentists

heady karma
#

Checkmate xeatheists

severe schooner
#

the chad chae

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the virgin literally everything else

mortal hemlock
#

Shae sounds much better excuse you.

severe schooner
#

no

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it lacks alliteration with chad

#

also it's been a while since i actually played pyre. she was absolutely busted during the rites, right?

onyx forum
#

chae is a chaempion

severe schooner
#

this is literally irrefutable

onyx forum
#

youre right

modern prairie
#

She's disgustingly busted, fast as Ryukey but with more damage and aura radius

torn bolt
#

chae Is a chaempion

#

savages op please nerf

#

(don't though)

mild falcon
#

But no double jump

#

Rukey wins again

torn bolt
#

honestly curs and wyrms are slightly Too slippery for me to handle so no double jump is fine

#

sometimes........being Too Fast......is possible

mild falcon
#

No!!!

sharp rivet
#

nonsense

#

there's a reason prayer bead bertrude was the core of my TN run

#

and it wasn't that slither is slow

severe schooner
#

FASTER

wide river
#

f a s t e r

#

faster than before

mortal hemlock
#

who needs cloud jump when Shae can power jump half way across the map?

lime mural
#

I never got the hang of Fae. Ti'zo, Rukey, and Gilman were my most comfortable characters.

#

And Gertrude if the court permitted long dashes.

sick hare
#

Honestly I didn't even try that hard to use Fae much, just because I wasn't planning to send her back to the city so she didn't need to be enlightened. She was happier in the wastes, and closer to The Scribes

midnight hawk
#

my fav was pam bc flying + op talisman but fae was a close second. love me some nyoom

#

gilman is hard to control but not so bad when you get the hang of it

sick hare
#

Yeah I used pam a lot too. rukey and tizo was like my fave combo just because I like small light weight characters.

#

But then I had to let Rukey go cries

ember wraith
#

YEAAAAH REMOTE PLAYYYY

polar wren
#

Okay. Please...just DON'T be mad. I kind of have a confession to make, but I HAVE A REASON...I kinda sorta...shaved Rukey's mustache...

blissful trench
#

😮

polar wren
#

I WATCHED A PLAYTHROUGH BEFORE PLAYING THE GAME WHERE SOMEONE SHAVED IT, AND NOW IT'S INGRAINED IN MY MIND, OKAY?!

sick hare
#

what

#

lol

heavy hill
#

this is why you were exiled

polar wren
#

Okay, I was gonna make a joke about "Oh, I'll just get horns and look awesome after a while.", but then I realized something: If demons are nomads who were exiled for a long time, does that mean that every character who's human will become a demon eventually? And, by that logic, if Hedwyn remains...would he eventually become a demon? (Also Lendel, but who cares about Lendel, lol)

lime mural
#

I think part of the transformation is tied to their emotional state.

#

Oralech physically regresses a lot if he makes it back to the Commonwealth.

#

Part of me thinks that Hedwyn could be there for an arbitrarily long amount of time and he'd still be 100% human because he's so chill most of the time.

polar wren
#

I think there's still room for interpretation. If Pamitha doesn't hear about whatever-her-name-is, Hedwyn would wander the Downside forever. We know that Hedwyn is capable of flipping out. From what I've read, if Hedwyn is liberated but Jodariel remains, the revolution is a violent uprising....Now I need demon Hedwyn fanart...

timid silo
#

Oralech was already transforming before Erisa Erisa'd, and he was in a pretty good state for an exile back then, far as we know... Iirc it's implied that it's a thing that happens to humans.

onyx forum
#

i suspect hes demoning already tbh.....just secretly ;;

#

yeah....

timid silo
#

Huh? No, it's just the number of liberated exiles that determines the violence of the uprising!

#

Volfred assigning different values to different Nightwings is (long sigh) Volfred

onyx forum
#

HGVHFVHJFVHJ

#

it really is

polar wren
#

Idk, I haven't finished the game. I watched a playthrough before getting it. Sorry.

onyx forum
#

pamitha: can we talk, volfred, one 80% to another
volfred: im a 99% but continue

polar wren
#

BUT WHAT IF ONLY HEDWYN IS LIBERATED?!

#

Idk, lol

mild falcon
#

Hedwyn starts wearing that headband thing one day, none of the night wings mention it

polar wren
#

What are the scores for each exile, btw? Also, is the percentage a real percentage, or is it just "reach this number and you're not screwed"?

onyx forum
#

i dont remember tbh.........

timid silo
#

Seriously though, gameplay assigning different percentages to different Nightwings, establishing 'usefulness' as a value, creating hierarchies? Bad, uncool. Volfred overanalyzing things and sticking his wooden nose in other people's business way more than he should? A+++, spectacular characterization

onyx forum
#

YEAH

heavy hill
#

it's "reach this number and you're not screwed", volfred counts as 2 people iirc

onyx forum
#

HE WOULD, HUH

timid silo
#

...according to Volfred, I'm sure he does šŸ˜‚

polar wren
#

It would be interesting if you reached 99% and then you randomly get the 1% and everything you worked for is useless. Establishing the "Sad Supergiant Ending" theme even more, lol

onyx forum
#

its so funny that volfred just goes around that first week or so Observing everyone and like. hmmmmm. youre a 30% but lets see how good at basketball you do tonight

mild falcon
#

Volfred immediately detects you're a 0% and asks you to leave

onyx forum
#

GFVGFCGJHFCJH

polar wren
#

Speaking of which, this may be slightly off-topic, but I've been committed to be spoiler-free for Hades outside of the newsletter ever since the first trailer, and I don't want to break on the one thing I've been the most dedicated to in my life. (PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF THE SCRIBES, COME TO SWITCH!!!) So anyways: Does Hades have a sad ending? Because literally all three games before have sad endings, even Pyre, which at least doesn't have a happy one.

onyx forum
#

i love so so so much when hes like. reader come here a moment..................... tariq? is the reader any good? yes okay. just a minute reader, tizo? is the reader any good? yes okay. thanks for your time, my kin

#

hades has no ending yet! time will tell.

polar wren
#

Seriously, I'm forcing myself to do this for TWO YEARS STRAIGHT, AND IT BETTER NOT BE WASTED!!!...Excuse me, I went Brighton for a second there...

onyx forum
#

šŸŠ ajfingerguns šŸ“¢ RRRREADER, do you UNDERSTAND my devition to, "videoed game", i think NOT, dearrrr rrrreader,

#

FEAR NOT the horrors of literacy, FOR IT IS.......fully voiced!

mild falcon
#

Woah wouldn't it have been sick if pyre was designed so that it could be played without being literate

#

But that would be a lot more voice acting

onyx forum
#

rukey: are u a reader
reader: ....no

mild falcon
#

Credits roll

heavy hill
#

"Their journey began
In a barren waste"

True Nightwing Mode has been unlocked

polar wren
#

I honestly cannot wait to finally play it if it does come on Switch, cuz I've heard so many amazing things. Like Darren Korb singing a song full falsetto?! HOLY CRAP!!! (My parents met in a choir. It literally runs in my blood.) And I've heard about the weapons, and how the gods can each modify them in different ways, further changing your playstyle, and how your appearance changes, and these well-established deities interact with your character, and AAAAAAAHHHHHH PLEASE JUST COME TO SWITCH!!!!!!

sick hare
#

I am low key angered at just how large Darren's singing range is and I must train more to properly rival him lol.

#

Here's to praying for the switch release! And maybe a new song to go with it? side glances at she shines

mild falcon
#

Maybe the bonus song for pyre would be something about tariq and celeste

sick hare
#

I will never complain about more tariq/celeste content.

mild falcon
#

I will complain about not having more tariq/celeste content

faint umbra
#

Anybody interested in some versus with that Steam Remote Play Together thing?

sick hare
#

Alas I do not have the switch version but now that you're asking, I feel like it would be cool if Supergiant could set up a sub channel for Pyre Remote if enough people starting playing together in here.

#

or could switch online fight a pc player?

faint umbra
#

What do you mean Switch? Does Pyre have a Switch version?

sick hare
#

....

#

So

#

It turns out I can not read

faint umbra
#

You'd make a pretty terrible Reader then stumptLol

onyx forum
sick hare
#

LOOOL

#

Well then I can't right now I gotta do some things, but Chouette I reserve a game with you in the near future

#

and awesome thanks for the heads up kam!

onyx forum
#

:>!!

faint umbra
#

šŸ‘ tizomg

faint umbra
#

So, we tried a game with gtkamila. I was the host. It was apparently very laggy for them. My Internet ain't bad, although it's not fibre, so I guess that Steam Remote Play Together thing is not working perfectly yet. If you wanna try it, I recommend playing turn-based games for now stumptLol

quartz cloak
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take turns yeeting the celestial orb into the other player's pyre šŸ‘

faint umbra
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Gilman best yeeter.

upbeat sage
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the steam remote play is currently in beta, so I would expect their to be hiccups along the way

mortal hemlock
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Oralech: antagonist noises
Rukey and 20 some empty serum bottles: burp
Oralech: ... oh no.

quartz cloak
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i love both rukey and oralech they are my bois

heady karma
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Oralech is very high skill cap, amazing if you have the micro and foresight to keep him in the game

quartz cloak
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no yeet him out with volfreed

heady karma
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Please stop saying yeet I have no idea what it means shadeeyeroll

quartz cloak
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yeet means throw lol

heady karma
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Why would I want to throw oralech

quartz cloak
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dun worry we all have a point in our lives where we dun know what yeet means

heady karma
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Although it’s canon

quartz cloak
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nt a bad kinda throw

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like a 'get him outta here' kinda tgrow

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(My joke was that happened when the game ls nightwings broke up)

quartz cloak
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i mean

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erisa (?) yeeted him off a cliff

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Yea that was the joke

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ā€œWhy would I want to throw oralech ā€œ ā€œalthough I guess it’s canonā€

quartz cloak
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lmao

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put him in a cannon and yeet him to the scibes

onyx forum
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looks like team true nightwings' blasting off agaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn~ā‡

heady karma
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It’s late

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Lmao

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Guys I meant the other can... never mind

onyx forum
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ORALECH....GAREPH..............iq'sa thats right!!!

quartz cloak
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idk these names

onyx forum
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its gareph right. the nomad in his trium

heady karma
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No idea

onyx forum
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and iqsa's the imp i know but i always mix up the nomad's name

heady karma
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How would I know, reading is illegal, RIGHT KAM?

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Pyre illiterate play through is the true way

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Never read any text

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iqsa