#rainworld off the string

[mossyoss]

Do you not recall?

On a whim of inspiration I created a small care package of a doodle and a small story about two sad blorbos owned by @poppy-purpura. Here’s some context for better understanding of what is going on. The story is under the cut

CONTEXT: Сreation of Hundreds' puppet was part of a peace agreement between the spiritualist tribe of the Ancients and the more advanced Dense Metals Alliance. The creation of the design and, in part, the personality, of Hundred of Drops was delegated to Silver, the senior of the local group. He created the puppet design based on his personal preferences, with as much care as he was capable of. But when Hundreds' construction was over, the Alliance was not thrilled that their iterator wanted to befriend an iterator of an outsiders and memories of his involvement in the creation of Hundreds were blocked. But Hundreds remembered everything. And Silver's indifference made him angry, this grudge was carried with him for many, many cycles. In the end, Hundred eventually got Silver stripped of his status as the group's senior and became the senior himself. And in retaliation Hundreds shut down all communications for Silver. Many cycles later, after learning of the serious damage to Silver's superstructure, he decided to visit him in person to look into his sullen face one last time.

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- Oh, there you are! You know, I've been looking for your puppet in this cesspool of a superstructure for eternity to talk to you, since as your senior, I just couldn't help but-- Silver?

The hunched figure in the corner of the puppet chamber was practically motionless. No sign of a reaction. But he was definitely alive, one could tell by the faint movements of the hands. Ambrosia of Silver seemed to be tracing the contours of the chamber's tiles.

Hundreds stepped closer. He knew that the legs of the structure had been damaged, his overseers showed that the fracture beneath Silver's structure was literally ripping the ground out from beneath him. Something might have been damaged, surely, but...

Concern amidst irritation came to be. Was he not responding out of stubbornness? Hundreds called out to Silver once more, touching him on the shoulder

- Ambrosia of Silver, I'm talking to you

This time he slowly turned around. A haggard face, a tired look. Itertator saw that some of the vestments had been lost, and what remained was frayed to bits.

- Аh? Sorry about that.. I must not have heard. Did you want something?

It had been a long time since Hundreds had talked to Silver like this, face-to-face. He himself cut off Silver's communications a long time ago. Deservedly so! But... Hundreds frowned, bewilderment reflected on his face. He didn't remember Silver speaking so slowly and quietly. Maybe he had regretted his behaviour? Too bad, he had expected to look at his perpetually disgruntled face. He's so charming when he's angry. And he's usually so easily flustered. Oh, well.

Perhaps Hundreds had been silent for too long, because Silver started talking again:

- I don't know your name, but I have to say... - Silver's cloudy gaze warmed, -Your creators did a good job on your puppet. I... I really like those red accents. And that robe looks good on you.

Silver reached out to touch Hundreds' hand, but he jerked it away. - What? - Silver's words disconcerted Hundreds, he forgot what he was going to say, only mumbles came out of him, - But-- But you..

- Yeah, I probably shouldn't have said that, - Silver interpreted Hundreds' reaction in his own way, and he let out a quiet chuckle, - You should probably go, stranger. There's... there's nothing left here. And it’s dangerous too.

- Is this, - Hundreds' voice sounded helpless, - Is this some kind of joke? Not funny, Silver! Hey? - he noticed that the former senior's gaze was wandering again, he didn't seem to be listening anymore, -Hey, Silver!

Hundreds took Silver's face in his palms, tilted his head slightly towards himself. Realisation began to come gradually. A thought he'd been chasing away all the way here. For many, many cycles of the journey.

- I really don't know who you are. I'm sorry,- Silver grew sad, not resisting Hundreds' gesture, - But I'd really like to know what your name is. If you're willing to share

- My, - iterator's voice faltered, - my name is Hundreds of Droplets

- Hundreds, huh... that's a beautiful name. I like it.

[himahimac]

silly OTS thoughts,,,

[localceilingdevil]

off string designs for visceral growths. puppets actually built for moving around!!!

myths is technically already an "off string model" so i won't draw her design :p but here's the others

since they can't function without their neurons they have tiny ones inside of their body!!! i could go on about the functions. thinking about this stuff is so interesting to me.

rambles below the cut

ok so uhm the main thing i had to keep in mind with their off string design was mobility. OBVIOUSLY. their legs are built the way they are for the sake of traversing through harsh, bumpy and uneven terrain (for a multitude of purposes. i think in general their ancients would just want them to be mobile for important meetings and even in case of emergencies! ancients thinking about the future that DOESN'T involve mass ascension ... unheard of) and have springs based off the "prototype"'s (myths.) feet to absorb impact when falling. fields especially has a special ability to jump higher from the added mechanisms he has in his legs :]

their feet are talon-like for the sake of grip and their legs are generally very agile despite their chunky design! with multiple joints that allow for flexibility. their hips are also built to allow their legs to stretch to the side and whatnot. they're just very flexible in general.

now for my favorite part!!! the jelly-like substance that each of their puppets has acts as their "blood". despite being considered iterator blood it isn't fluid, and is comparable to the texture of the silicone from a breast implant—doesn't spill, is a great regulator for heat, and prevents any possible damage to their innards !!! the ancients figured that they'd need their neurons to function properly sooo they just shrunk down copies of their data into tinier neurons and just. filled em up with them. the neurons float around freely inside of them.

i also think that their cores are somewhere inside their torsos like a real heart, protected by the silicone. they also have a bunch of wires and functions inside that require frequent coolant so they probably have a bottle for it somewhere along their back that can be taken out at any given moment.

i think that's all i have to ramble about so far. they're so neat and fun to think about and ough. they're just like their superstructures fr fr <333 I'll probably yap more later but for now that's all

[saturncoyote]

i think the thing that always put me off from really enjoying Off-The-String AUs is the fact that there's rarely any consequences for being outside of your can (y'know, outside of THE HORRORS) so anyway here's the consequences

[morebagels]

I drew this after waking up thinking about it. I don't know what was going on, but now you can all see it too

[trashiiplant]

always forever

[lavendertoastmoth]

worlds worst free YCH is here

If you want your iterator to get straight up murdered by local butcherbird bastard, Twenty eight stab wounds

uh.

send an oc in the reblogs

[lyss-butterscotch]

hello!! I saw you mention your AU a few times, i'm really curious what it's all about! give us the lore 👀

OHOHO a chance to ramble about my hcs yes please and thank you ^-^

Gonna be a loooong post since I'm gonna use this as reference later too and maybe changed according to stuff that i add in

All game events all the way to between Monk and Rivulet is the same. Suns' failing to reach Pebbles, Pebbles' rot, Moon's collapse, and Sig reviving Moon happened.

After Moon's last broadcast during Spearmaster, Suns has spent all this time developing a Travel Puppet.

What's a Travel Puppet?

Another iterator puppet basically, one that is more equipped to move outside the can

It is powered by several neurons and a minor rarefaction cell.

Iterators transfer their sentient AI to the travel puppet to use it, but the Chamber Puppet MUST deactivate and the superstructure goes on Sleep Mode. This is done to prevent excessive water intake (like Pebbles' case when he ran multiple parallel experiments, it'll take alot of processing to have TWO puppets working)

Travel Puppets does NOT replace or have the same functions as Chamber Puppets (ex. Moon)

Travel Puppets has limited memory, limited processing power, no telekenesis, and no access to the superstructure network. But as reinforced robots they are atleast strong and can still somewhat check in on their superstructures via overseers. This is also why I assigned them with weapons.

Travel Puppets are made with biomechanical parts without the self-destruction taboo or any related directives assuming the creator used fresh materials, therefore can be used to do restricted maintenance and modifications towards the superstructure.

Travel Puppets have no default template and later on each iterators can make their own puppets with different modifications and capabilities.

If a Travel Puppet breaks, the iterator can choose to transfer their AI back to the Chamber Puppet. If the Travel Puppet's cell is compromised it will explode.

So Suns used their new puppet to walk to Pebbles and try to get him to stop before fully succumbing to the rot. Mind you this is before Suns added the vulture wings and claws modifications.

Well it works (gonna write the confrontation at some point sobs). Pebbles stopped his experiments and later on used the Travel Puppet freedom to do install Subzero blast cooling modifications in an attempt to kill off the rot.

Everyone in the international sphere eventually hears the news about the loophole that the Travel Puppet brings and it became a widespread thing. You can assume that some finally can do life-saving maintenance on their structures or finally went off to ascend, our main cast continues to live because i want them to live out a normal life ok.

After they were able to repair themselves, the local group tried to help Moon rebuild her structure or salvage what's left before deciding it was too far gone. So Moon is given a permanent Travel Puppet to reside in and she loves to travel especially with scug colonies. For everyone else i'll still haven't thought of so I may update this post but you can assume they all do alot of visiting and travelling!

[lembowe]

congrats on the new drawing tablet :DDD do. do you think you could draw some lilypad 👉🏻👈🏻 theyre my babies and i love them so much

anyways i love ur art !!!!! it’s so soft and colourful :D

hello !! hi i usually dont ship moon but damn is the lilypad propaganda strong hehe >:D this was intended to just be a sketch but here we are lol

[cosmos-and-whatever]

[boiledegghole]

is it really a session of slugdnd without a melancholy reflection on the self and how things change

(the winner and l2tm (or, rather, lttm) have a chat as the last two left awake during a sleepover)

[himahimac]

quick addition to my off-the-string thoughts from here

[griancraft]

She rain on my world til I

[indieblueart]

Sketch for an au I might elaborate on later

[ghostlycoze]

the urge. to start posting about my little iterator oc and the one a friend made

we've come up with little adventures for them and now I wanna make a fun little interactive story out of the worm-off-the-string feral robot and his slugcat colony and their shenanigans

[stormynighty]

how my iterators gain energy off the string

how do they not just power off without there energy supply? I'll be explaining that today!

First off my iterators do have mouths, i just haven't drawn my iterators with one yet, but they do have them.

Iterators can taste things as well, they have favorites foods and foods they hate as well.

Iterator mouths can be different they are not all the same, some iterators have sharp teeth meaning they can rip and tear, others have dull teeth and can't bite anything with a semi-thick hide like a lizard, for iterators with dull teeth they can still rip and tear but only with things like Batflies and other small bugs.

Now for how they gain energy.

Iterators can swallow food, they have to chew it first or else it could get stuck in there throat and stop them from eating anything else in less they cough it out.

When iterators swallow there food depending on the size and nutrition of said food it can give more or less energy to there batteries they do not have a stomach, instead they have a simple container in there middle section of the body(where a stomach would be), that the food would go into where micro organisms break down the food into energy a iterator could use.

Can they gain energy via sleep?

The simple answer is no, they cannot actually 'sleep' they instead go into a power saving mode where they cannot think till the next cycle starts, during this time they do not waste energy but do not gain energy, not 'sleeping' does affect there mood and quality work, a short expiation would be not 'sleeping' makes them 'tired' and not because of lack of energy, because going into this power saving mode helps reduce stress, unnessicarly thoughts, and more.

What is considered food?

Well iterators didn't know what they could eat at first which is why a Slugcat is needed to help them, Slugcats will go out while you are preparing to leave your superstructure and get you to try different 'food' depending on your teeth type, if we take a look at [LOKIN] from [UTTER VINICE] they had brought Fruit, Lizard meat, Batflies, Vulture meat, Egg-bug meat, etc. [UTTER VINICE] had both sharp and dull so they could eat both.

hope you understood all this! i can post some images of how everything works later!