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9. Five Pebbles & Looks to the Moon: Okay, this might run long, but it’s kind of… important, to lay this all out and then wrap it up in a single post, and also I kinda want to be done with these, so. A few major questions left: What happened to Looks to the Moon, and what are all those weird sq...

8. Sliver of Straw: So, eight posts deep and it’s finally time to talk about, like, a specific character! https://i.imgur.com/9KOG9w8.png Sliver of Straw is a controversial character – in-game, even, as the only known iterator confirmed to have died, ascended, or whatever else. And nobody knows how...

edited in a lore pearl i forgot to include yesterday that i meant to, oops. working on the next lore post now. might just be two more left to go, at least as far as survivor's story is concerned

honestly i think if he's gonna do that, he may as well just pick his survivor save back up considering, y'know also @ donut there's a pearl i've opted not to include here that actually describes the world outside of this specific facility but it'll be more relevant when we actually see that world in...

7. The Iterators So! You found the secret sauce below the surface of the planet, but it turns out that if you’re too egotistical, you may end up trapped as an ethereal godlike creature for all of eternity! No problem, just uhh. Build thousands of city-sized biomechanical supercomputers designed to ...

today's conclusion is Deep Light.

survivor is free.

lore update tomorrow morning again probably but i'm not gonna feel rushed to get the last few blurbs i have left up on any given schedule since raocow beat me to the end lol

6. The Void Fluid Revolution: Okay, so. Deep breaths. Here’s where things completely go off the rails. God (or, as I’ll from this point on refer to them as, the Echo) that raocow talked to in this last episode alluded to this, but at some point, the ancients dug so deep into the land that they came...

today's jam is Orange Lizard . don't ask me why it's called orange lizard when there are no orange lizards nearby. i love this song though. also from what we've seen there's definitely some custom regions being worked into canon, yeah, but as far as story/campaign stuff goes it'll likely all be new,...

this doesn't have a release date yet and i imagine it's a post-downpour play regardless but, yes, there's been both a patch and a new DLC announcement during the LP so the curse remains steadfast

He did the moose ride!! And the moose only fucked up a Little bit! Incredible. :D Question for Crow, or anyone who's played updated versions of RW... I saw this after he descended into the ravine on the final moose, and I can't help but wonder, did they add a path around it? Or is this another case...

5. The Structures of Rain World So, a question that I remember being posed by someone at some point was – how are all the buildings and stuff so intact despite, y’know, the rain being like that ? Well, there’s a good and also very funny reason for that! https://i.imgur.com/WErbY6v.png Yeah, the anc...

today's vibes are Raindeer Ride, which raocow does quite a lot of! emotion thread was there too but this feels more fitting. great strides were made on this day!

technically farm arrays is completely optional in all campaigns, since aside from hunter starting there (at a point where it can easily go straight to sky islands withot riding deer) there's always other ways to get subterranean. though frankly artificer and ESPECIALLY rivulet can pretty much just ...

farm arrays is the worst region because even when it does work and you know what to do, it's a coinflip between being boring or frustrating. waiting: the region!!

also i'm realziing i forgot to update the map, will do that lol

4. The Creatures of Rain World …but before we get to that, let’s talk about some other things the Ancients created! Like, for starters, uhh… all the creatures we see in Rain World, probably? https://i.imgur.com/o22JqFX.png Pretty much what Moon says here, but it’s highly implied that every living t...

today's jam is Threat - Farm Arrays which we didn't actually hear any of somehow nor did any other tunes show up but let me have this i don't know what else to do at this point aaaa also yeah! new frontiers! woo! the grass might want to eat you! the bunnies might be helpful! the lizards continue to ...

3. The Five Natural Urges: Okay, so, let’s talk about Ancient spirituality, then! It was focused around the cycle and ascension, and put into practice by way of the five natural urges – those desires innate to life that one must shed in order to ascend from the cycle. And those urges correspond to ...

today's momentary vibes are Crystalline but i feel like they got kinda overshadowed by Unfortunate Rain oops

2. The Ancients: So, that city we passed on our way out from Five Pebbles? Yeah, that pretty explicitly implies some sort of ancient civilization that seems to have vanished over the cycles, huh? Who built that? And the rest of the structures in Rain World, those as well? Well. The vaguely-named “A...

today's vibes are Else I ! awkward title but it's the best i can do. @zambo checking on the interactive map, that den never has a pole plant, though i'm admittedly not super familiar with what it means when a den starts with a null symbol and then lineages (?) to a creature, but only a monster kelp ...

helucard wrote: ↑3 weeks ago

Is that 9-dots door even reachable with Survivor? I'm unfamiliar with another zone this direction, so is this, like, a restricted part of Pebbles?

it's a door only one of the DLC slugcats can get through and nobody else

1. The Cycle The foundational principle that pretty much all other Rain World lore spirals off of is the concept of The Cycle – of life and death. As Five Pebbles alluded to, the death and rebirth of slugcat is not merely a handwave for the sake of game mechanics, but quite literal! Every death is ...

todays vibes are Stargazer ! spooky. god was there too. there's something i REALLY want to say but i'm only gonna say it if rao doesn't mind a very slight nudge lmao. anyways map update coming and then lorepost of the day coming. i think this lorepost would make more sense yesterday and tomorrow's w...

i'm gonna continue posting all my lore updates in spoilers so anyone who doesn't wanna read up doesn't have to, yeah, but i also feel it's important to at least put some lore info out there because 1. i think it's neat 2. most of the downpour slugcats use basegame lore as a jumping-off point and not...