#Rain World Rotposting

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The Iterators groupchat after Sliver Of Straw's Triple Affirmative message

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At last, we have created the gigantic climate ruining supercomputers that use up the entire water supply for cooling from the hit video game "gigantic climate ruining supercomputers that use up the entire water supply for cooling," or as it is more commonly known, "Rain World."

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If Rain World had photorealistic graphics this is what you'd see reflected in Looks To the Moon's eyes when you eat her neurons

when you guys see this post getting reposted for the 3948734987th time just remember: i'm op, me and a buddy did this at work while bored, it's real and afterwards my buddy threw pennies at the motherboard until it shorted something and stopped turning on

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(Five Pebbles following Gourmand around with his overseers taking pics of him and posting them in the Iterator Groupchat with captions like this (because he's secretly jealous that Gourmand has his life together way better than Diet Pebbsi does))

a collection of images from my favorite bit subreddit

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the Grimace Shake is what Five Pebbles was trying to create but Moon interrupted him and he ended up making the Rot instead

Slugcat dying to grimace shake

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Scout Rivulet like: "You listening? Okay: Grass hurts people, birds hurt people, rain hurts people, and bruddah? I hurt people."

rivulet dressup!!

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Furthermore: Scavengers in Saint's campaign should have full-on winter clothing that's a suspicious shade of green. The reason for this is not explained at first until a group of scavengers catches you in a net and runs a lint roller over you to harvest a comical amount of fur, then lets you go.

Spicy Rain World Headcanon:

The world hasn't become a frozen hellscape in Saint's time, it's just Winter. Pebbles and Moon were built in a place that normally has harsh seasons but Iterator cans produce a massive urban heat island effect due to all the heat and humidity they emit and turn the landscape around them tropical.

Also Saint looks like a regular slugcat in the summer, we just only see them in their fluffy winter coat. For like a good month in the spring every time Saint sneezes or scratches themself or does anything else active they're just enveloped in a cloud of green fur and they look even scrunglier than normal as their winter coat falls out in patches.

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Oh boy oh boy okay so Rain World in shellnut

In a world were reincarnation exists, the human analog species decide they didn't like the whole "achieving enlightenment to leave the cycle of existence" thing but fortunately they discovered Erases-You-From-Existence Juice deep under the world's surface to make it easier.

Still unsatisfied with this, their society turned into some sort of death cult devoted to finding a solution to removing all life from existence or something? So they built a bunch of city-sized biological supercomputers to try to calculate an answer (because most of their tech was genetic engineering based so the computers run on some sort of artificial neural tissue). This completely fucked the world's ecosystems because of the massive amounts of water vapor said computers emitted from cooling / filtration causing devastating torrential rain.

This wasn't working so they eventually gave up waiting and just all drove themselves to extinction with Erases-You-From-Existence Juice. They left the city-sized computers running, and also their numerous other types of genetically modified organisms.

A long, long time later, enter you: a slugcat. You're just a little guy. A littul creacher. A smol bean.

Slugcats are one of two known sapient species now living in this biopunk wasteland: a small social omnivore skilled at climbing, fitting through tight spaces, and throwing spears with devastating amounts of force. This is good because the world is full of much bigger animals that want to eat you. And also the other sapient species which is technically possible to befriend and do trade and basic communication with but are also very easy to piss off and cause to develop a crow-like vendetta against you.

The game is a survival platformer which has really really in depth enemy AI and procedural animations: I haven't actually played it but it's supposed to have an extremely steep learning curve and you are overall very vulnerable and fragile... although this depends on which slugcat you're playing. There are three different slugcat campaigns you can play as in the base game and five more in the DLC.

Also the city-sized supercomputers are still around and having this very tragic and depressing storyline while you are running around being a small animal. You are involved to varying extents depending on which campaign you're playing. Three of the slugcats just kind of meet the two robots in the playable area, and one of them (Looks to the Moon) tells you important lore consisting largely of the giant supercomputers' Discord chatlogs that you can find on stray USB drives, while the other (Five Pebbles) gives you detailed instructions on how to delete yourself from existence. Another two are genetically modified by other supercomputers you can't meet in-game and are acting as carrier pigeons, with two others possibly also being modified. And also there's Artificer, the only one Five Pebbles actually likes, who's too busy with her personal John Wick / Doomguy vendetta against the other sapient species to have any hope of escaping the cycle. Five Pebbles encourages this because they keep vandalizing his roof.

There is also a secret ninth slugcat which is a noncanon shitpost campaign that ends in a dating sim with half of the other slugcats, in a totally different artstyle from the rest of the game. I am not making this up.

Following the usual rule of "Serious/Depressing/Grimdark Canon, Silly Fandom," the fandom spends most of its time shitposting, shipping the supercomputers with each other, shipping the slugcats with each other, and more shitposting.

Okay so I had a cool half-assed idea for a story

Postapocalyptic setting where the disaster was known about for a relatively long time but couldn’t be averted or withstood and was projected to completely fuck up the biosphere so badly that human life and civilization, and the survival of megafauna in general, wasn’t viable - something like a long impact winter.

So one of humanity’s last-ditch plans for “survival” was to genetically engineer successor species that were better suited to survive in a devastated world that life is slowly recolonizing, and the conclusion based on what kinds of animals survived the K/T extinction was that the optimal design was small furry critters with hands that need less food and other resources than humans, and they were subsequently engineered from various small generalist species like raccoons and rats and squirrels and ferrets and martens and mongooses and stuff like that, so basically furry tubes.

A bunch of embryos are created, then frozen and put in an AI-controlled bunker that’s supposed to wait a few decades then incubate them in test tubes, raise them and teach them the stuff they’d need to survive and rebuild a civilization from the rubble, and then release them.

Except something goes badly wrong before the first “batch” have even matured, before they’ve been fully trained. They’re forced to escape the facility after the generators/reactors all shut down, and are thrust from a sheltered, protective existence of artificial skies and bright colors and foam blocks and survival skills just being a game directly into the real world instead of going through several stages of progressively more realistic environments that were supposed to actually prepare them for life outside.

So they’re about as prepared as a mid-level boy scout troop that didn’t have the budget to actually go camping and was just learning to make fire in suburban backyards. And are now left scavenging the ruins of abandoned cities and facing starvation and cold and disease, and extremely dangerous wildlife. Due to a combination of some pre-catastrophe animals surviving better than expected and the results of other “reseed the biosphere” projects that were dumb enough to give a computer creative control and the computer starts churning out hundreds of species of nightmare fuel life forms, some of which turn out to be functional. So there’s things like “bat-wasps” the size of hawks that swoop down and sting prey, then take off again and wait for it to die. Not to mention how things like deer and feral pigs and coyotes are terrifying when the protagonists are all cat-sized at best.

Elevator pitch: Postapocalyptic biopunk survival horror but the main characters are just precious little fluffs exploring the ruins of a human-sized world, with generous doses of environmental whump.