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[ending-the-cycle-ask]

I forgot if anyone even asked this, but what those strings even do???

(Also i just gotta love a morally gray character)

I can see and manipulate the strings of fate around peoples’ souls. Through that connection, I can see their futures, their desires, even influence them a bit, which is namely what helps me do my job…

I’ll just let you use your imagination as to what else I’m capable of. I’m an elite member of the Pocket Watches, after all… I don’t need to keep running my mouth.

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[askwoodsman33]

Hello there lad! Just looking round these parts for some fruit fresh from the tree and stumbled upon this huge thing

My i wonder how old this big tree is! Makes me wonder if it can bear fruit or not..

(:3)

"Hallo!!!!!!" He says, waving with both arms. "This R Big Big Tree!!!!! We's Wood People Living Heres!!!!" he informs happily.

"You Lookingz For Fruit? Yes Yes? Me's Knowing Where Fruit Tree R!!!"

[gardenview-center]

glisten

take some ✨actual, genuine self esteem✨

“Are you implying I don’t have real self esteem?”

“To be fair, you do struggle quite a bit with your self image”

“Rodger, honey, I thank you for acknowledging areas I need to work on but now is not the TIME…”

“AH, sorry dear,”

“…I suppose I’ll take this gift though. It’d be nice to cut my morning routine down… and halting those dizziness spells…”

“Good to hear,”

(ooc; i like them a lot ehe :3)

[ask-hollowknights]

...Aww.

It seems The Knight believes so.

[we-are-dogclan]

Moon 60: Week 1

Broken Tradition

It's a big world out there.

[interrogatormentors]

kanaya, strike a pose with your favourite outfit, will you, please?

Every Outfit Is My Favorite Until There Is A Sale At The Fabric Store

There Is Nothing More Exhilarating Than Ripping A Bolt Of Fabric From The Spindly Grasping Digits Of Some Waifish Fashion Disaster Who May Not Necessarily Deserve Such Callousness But Does Require A Firm Hand Preventing Them From Committing A Literal Actual Crime Since They Are Cruising The Clearance Rack Intending To Line The Nest Of Their Slavering Lusus With Reams Of Castoffs And With My Spoils Creating My New Favorite Fit

How Am I Supposed To Choose When Each Outfit Nay Each Nascent Wiggler Hatched From My Own Flesh And Blood That I Labor Over For Hours Whilst Bent Over My Sewing Machine Until My Back Creaks With Each Purposeful Arc Of The Shears And Needle And Bring To Glorious Pupation Upon The Dressform Until I Am Satisfied With Every Fold And Crease Ensures I Am The Most Fuckable Person At The Agricultural Laborers Bazaar

[blackrocks-king]

! Thank you . ! You are all so kind . . I’ll make sure to take care of these flowers . . You are all too much . .

[cyanide-cafe]

Nymph Searchlight

The Nymph Searchlight is a young [20 year old: a baby, for its species] Searchlight specimen that Urbanshade has carefully raised to document Searchlight behaviors and lifespans. Its purple coloration is due to its age, as Searchlights start off pink/purple in coloration to prevent Squiddles from becoming hostile to the otherwise defenseless babies.

[See below the cut for extra lore, explanation of mechanics, and transcript of the image.]

TRANSCRIPT OF REFERENCE

Found in Heavy Containment in an XXL tank. Spawns with 1-5 Searchlight Kibble nearby. No document, as this is a normal, non-experimented, but young, Searchlight.

This searchlight can be used as a flashlight-like item, needing Wall Dweller Flesh [80], Searchlight Kibble [25], and Party Special [500] to stay lit. Its light is dim, and it tends to stare at Squiddles, Turrets, False Doors, and hidden Wall Dwellers.

However, having this baby Searchlight in your inventory will wreak havoc upon you and your teammates when you encounter the Adult Searchlights in the Grand Encounters.

This Searchlight is only about a foot in length despite its age [23yo] and is purple due to an adaptation of Searchlights: they only gain their orange coloration later in life when they're capable of of easily killing and eating Squiddles, which are otherwise a big threat for these small babies.

TRANSCRIPT OF BADGES

You Monster

Kill the Searchlight Nymph by letting it out of its container in a dry room without picking it up within 30s.

Are you proud of yourself?

Take the Searchlight Nymph back to Urbanshade alongside the Crystal. Rewards the player with 100 extra kroner.

Happy Ending

Release the Searchlight Nymph to its family in the Final Encounter. Rewards the player with the Nymph jumpsuit: a black jumpsuit with orange and purple coloration on the bands and Urbanshade logo.

EXPLANATION OF MECHANICS

The Searchlight Nymph is a flashlight that requires Wall Dweller Flesh, Searchlight Kibble, or Party Special to stay charged. If you have a Gummylight, you can also give that to the Nymph, which it will slowly extract charge from [takes 1m] and then spit back out.

However, this cute baby is not just a flashlight, it is an actual living thing.. with parents that are looking for it. Searchlights aren't good parents, usually, having large communal clutches reaching to the millions, but this offspring is extremely healthy, and the last alive of its siblings, due to the Anglers, Squiddles, and Parasites killing the rest of them.

The Nymph only spawns at room 60 or higher, but cannot be found in The Ridge, as it only spawns in Heavy Containment rooms. You have to swim into its tank with the Nymph Container item, catch the Nymph [as it swims away or thwacks you with its hooks, dealing 1 damage every 10 seconds] and then it can be used.

It can be released into any room with water [though why would you want to do that?] and can be dropped into dry rooms, in which it will die after 30s if you don't pick it up again.

The Nymph is also, admittedly, not a very good flashlight. It looks wherever it pleases: though it can warn the player if there's a Wall Dweller, Squiddle, Turret, or Good People, as it likes to stare at these threats.

However, the Nymph's usefulness quickly turns to hazardous, as during the first Searchlight Grand Encounter, the Nymph will cry out to its parent, rapidly circling its small enclosure and bopping its head against the glass, causing the Adult Searchlight to spin around the room 15% faster than before. You can release the Nymph in order to get it to stop crying, but this will kill the searchlight, and that's just plain cruel, since you're doing it in sight of its parent.

During the second Grand Encounter, the Nymph will repeat the same bullshittery it did in the First Encounter, causing all three Searchlights to go into a frenzy looking for the crying Nymph, increasing their speed by 20%. However, they will occasionally butt heads, starting a small scuffle, allowing the player to continue repairing the cables.

However, you now have the opportunity to release the Nymph back to its parents, which will cause one of the adult Searchlights to stop looking entirely, instead, keeping an eye on the Nymph, retreating to the outskirts of the Trench. This will also change the Lucy cutscene at the end, in which two Searchlights chase after you instead: one being crushed, and the other narrowly escaping Lucy's foot, quickly turning back to care for the Nymph instead.

This also minorly changes the end cutscene as well, the Nymph poking its head out of the submarine dock, waving goodbye with one of its hooks, before popping back into the water. [This was something Urbanshade staff accidentally trained the Searchlight to do.]

[ask-the-horror-elevator-au]

pest.? Poob..? I need my skrumblgs

Pest only sticks around bc he noticed poob isn't affected by MR

[crevvington]

Did you hear about the boy who fell in the meat grinder?

He got grounded.

-dark humor toon

[badboycopguy]

(yeup its another Leland Coyle ask blog also a blog for me to draw other outlast trials characters and what not since i wanna get more into it, i love him so i was like why not and here we are, of course its 18+ no minors, i would do nsfw but tumblr doesnt like it soooo, unless they do?? idk, but YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

[ending-the-cycle-ask]

…did you guys somehow GIVE Father Time’s husband powers? how long have y’all been able to do THAT???

…In a way. It has only been pulled off that one time, and none of us are willing to put anyone through that horrid experience again…

Not to mention, the man who put him through that is… no longer with us, to put it lightly. We couldn’t replicate the experiment even if we wanted to.

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ALRIGHT, PEOPLE, here’s the plan. As of today, (Dec. 15th) I am done my first semester for the year, and I am now on break for the holidays for 3 weeks. I want to get as much done for the comic as I can, which means:

We’re getting to Act 4!! Non-negotiable, it has been ready to go since the end of October, I’ve just been waiting until I have the time to give it my full attention, and that time is now.

I want to try daily posts! We’ll see how long I actually end up doing that, but I’d like to at least try it during this 3 week period, so I can get as far as I can before college takes up all my time again. As soon as January 7th hits, all bets are off, I’m back in school and I will be back to just uploading whenever I can.

The inbox is closed for a little bit. I’m not taking any more asks for Strings, I’m getting through the last few I have backlogged, and then it’s straight into Act 4. The inbox will be opened back up as soon as Act 4 starts.

So, that’s the plan going forward! Thank you for your patience, everyone. I’ve been very busy recently because of my education, but EtC is still my top priority when it comes to personal projects, and it means the world to me that so many of you have stuck with me these past 4 years :)

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[coolmagoloraskblog]

taranza the cat is putting on a fake act

dont believe his lies

[voidzphere]

☆ @ask-the-cat-cafe 'z nightmare ! >_o

tcc nightmare belongz to kristinhateslife

nightmare sans belongz to jokublog

[ask-hollowknights]

ouuguhh..

(original)