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[mossyoss]

«Even you, an outsider, should’ve known that»

Communication between North and her close friend Ruby had not been smooth lately. Ruby contacted her as often as he could, but all he saw was that his friend looked worse and worse with each call. The gel replacing the skin for iterators had seen better days. The wires had frayed from North's bad habit of rubbing them when thinking about something. Maintenance checks seemed to be out of the question as well.

North was working on the Great Task. Had been working on it even harder ever since Artifact, senior of the group, finally had deigned to contact everyone after the last Ancient had left their cities. It had been a long speech about the importance of their mission and the fact that their, the iterators', time was now running out. Ruby didn't enjoy recalling the details of it.

He was distracted from his thoughts by North's reproachful gaze. She shook her head slightly, brushing aside the system's warning that flashed before her.

-What's the matter?

TDN sounded tired and irritated. Her chamber, contrary to the usual manner of working in dim light, was now brightly lit. Ruby wasn't sure, but he thought he saw a green discharge snaking from one tile of the case to another for a second

-Look at you, Third. You've been skipping maintenance checks again and...

Only now he noticed that the insulation on one of North's wires had torn, exposing the core.

Ruby barely stifled a sigh. She wasn't even listening. North was muttering to herself again, working on some data from the displays, wrapping the damaged wire around her finger, tugging at it to keep her focused. For many models, wires were sensitive enough for such interaction to cause pain. Yet she barely changed her expression while doing so.

-North! Whatever you're working on, it's not worth it. Don't listen to that old goon Artifact. We have an eternity ahead of us now. We might not even have to work on this stupid task at all anymore!

Ruby waved his hands impotently almost shouting, trying to get TDN's attention. It worked, but not in the way he expected. The sudden shout made North's hand jerk, and a new message of an error appeared.

With a sharp twist, North turned to the camera. Her eyes read anger.

-Now listen, Ruby Bifurcation. What I do is beyond your comprehension. And this is surprising because your integration was handled by the Artifact as well.

-Third, I-- - there were more and more warning messages appearing behind North's back. Ruby wasn't imagining it, micellar electricity really was penetrating her chamber.

-No, you better hear me out. He said the purpose of our existence is this task. We don't need friends, we don't need help. We're self-sufficient. Even you, despite being an outsider of the group, should’ve known that.

She was too tired to notice that it had struck a nerve in him with these words. Too tired to notice that she'd been working to her own detriment for way too many cycles. And too tired to notice the warning of a circuit break in one of the refraction cell chambers.

And so, a powerful shudder pushed TDN's puppet to the floor of the chamber, and the surge of electricity that came afterward destroyed all overseers that were here, including Ruby's. The connection broke, leaving him alone in his chamber with a fresh memory of North's puppet lying lifelessly on the floor of the chamber. Only hum of his own superstructure was breaking the silence that suddenly came to be.

[copepods]

maybe the real ultrakill is the ultra we killed along the way

[dragonpropaganda]

Rain World Lore Iceberg

Verified by a team of insane lore scholars and one low level, peripheral DLC developer

[food--exe]

five pebbles and looks to the moon text mode art :3

without crt filter under cut

[anemonet]

[Outtake from iterator Prosperity of Populace final speach to her citizen before its disassembly.]

[drtrig]

THE PREVIEW IMAGES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[comvi]

saint from last night. i personally think the different regions and their temperatures each affect saints colouring, making it vary a bit more than your usual slugcat's colours would have

[wolfisblank]

Saint design

Notes:

Short and stout to retain heat

Thick layer of fur, and a mane. They are much frailer than their fur would lead you to believe

Echo-like markings that become more echo-like upon Karma 10. I might draw a fullbody max karma design bc I have some ideas

Hands are much more pawlike, unsuited to wield spears

Thought about giving them a third eye at Karma 10, didn't like it, felt cheesy. Also thought about giving them scarred eyes or similar, undecided on that one

[luna-desert]

five pebbles iterator superstructure is too small so he will use galvanized square steel to expand it. Among other things written text:

Let's transform a 0 square meter space into a functional iterator superstructure. five Pebbles worked diligently for 10 cycles saving 1 million pearls to buy his own superstructure. however the space he could afford was only 0.01 square meters. So tiny that not even his inspector could live there. The only option left was to summon his Rot but since Five Pebbles has a fear of cancer, he found himself crying every night. So he decides to reinstall it like this. First use galvanized square steel to create a frame that extends outside. He can borrow some screws from his neighbor Looks To The Moon. Covering the frame with wood veneer will make it both beautiful and neat. Change the karma gate to the metropolis be permanently locked. Perfect for keeping out slug cats and smelly scavengers. Install large broken bridge aluminum windows for panoramic views. Construct a bed cabinet beneath the window to store rare faction cell. Water and neuron flies. Lay down a soft mattress on the bed cabinet. Making it a cozy sleeping space for both Five Pebbles iterator puppet and his arm. Surround the area with galvanized square steel that doubles as a safety barrier. Then, install a folding table that can be used as both a workspace and a dining table. Folding down when not in use to saving space. above, Beside the bed, install a clothes rail for hanging regularly worn outfits. Next to this, place a storage board where Little Pebble can store essentials before bed. For entertainment, install a small wet cardboard box to play in. Turning the small space into a personal joy. With these enhancements, even in a limited space, Five Pebbles can live a wonderful and fulfilling life. Making the most of his compact superstructure.

[0hmanit]

Some old tweets from the official Rain World twitter account that I find interesting

It seems that FP's overseers had a larger range, and could appear in outskirts. It also could be possible that they're were to guide you instead of Iggy. And after looking enough, this next gif confirms that:

This led me to the original forum post, have a nice read

The account retweeted a possible scrapped room? (2016)

Old rooms and a rare early look of the room SU_B04! (2014) I can't post them all, but if you scroll here you can find more screenshots of early Outskirts rooms. It's also so unbelievably funny to me that the old account was basically obsessed with using #slugcatlife in almost every Rain World related post (same with Videocult's account). It's a shame they removed their old bio and stopped doing that, because I think it's gold.

Can we bring it back please? I'll start using #slugcatlife just for the fun of it

If you're more interested in posts about Rain World's inspiration, thanks to the RW discord server I found this reply.

Another legendary slugcatlife tweet

Looking in the hashtag results in old fanart, screenshots and Videocult tweets. Like this early look of the White Lizard:

Or this gif of the noodleflies:

A couple of more honorable mentions: The room above Early DLL AI Cool decals

And FINALLY, these goofballs^

[localceilingdevil]

a Lot of pog doodles because i really love him and think he deserves it

bright colors under the cut

[marmarlaade]

doodle .. Yea i have no idea how nsh got into their can either

[copepods]

art repost accounts who don't credit or get permission will die by my blade

[dragonpropaganda]

you should talk about your thoughts on rw fanon (looking with huge eyes)

Oh god, there's a lot of major misconceptions have concreted into fanon, mostly around ancient society and ascension.

First things first! Ascension is not death! They are entirely separate things treated entirely separately by the text of the game. I can see where the interpretation is coming from, but it doesn't really align with how the text treats either subject. Five Pebbles may want to remove the self destruction taboo, but from his reaction to the rot it's clear that he doesn't want to die. Conflation of ascension and death only comes up as an offhand possibility that pebbs makes on iterator 4chan, when he's going into the possibilities of scenarios that even the other sliverists are doubtful of! (let me make clear that I am not a sliverist by any means)

Ascension is more of talked about as a form of transcendence, yeah? A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads talks about their sitution as being "To have grasped at the boundless infinites of the cosmic void…", not as them seeking an end to life.

The beta dialogue goes into more detail, mentioning the "infinities of time and space" and the "boundless fractal planes of spirit and reality...", though this dialogue was cut and it's hard to tell how much it reflects the concept as in the released game.

As for the cultural misconceptions... there's A Lot to talk about, but the first that comes to mind is the common conflation of the five natural urges and the christian concept of sin.

It is true that the negation of urges is mentioned by moon as an alternative method of ascension, but much of what we know about the culture of the people who the fandom calls the ancients (which makes discussion of the depths a mess but that's something for another post entirely) points towards the urges not being seen as shameful.

Even the first urge does not seem to be particularly scorned! Being a warrior is presented as a cause for bragging in the Shaded Citadel pearl, being comparable with being an artist and a fashion legend. The second urge, also does not seem to be suppressed. Multiple sources attribute some level of honour to parenthood! The aforementioned pearl also mentions Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel as being a "Mother, Father and Spouse" without any hint of shamefulness. Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections expresses pride about having progeny, mentioning it alongside their owned land and esteem among their peers.

After some peer review, an esteemed friend has told me to add a section on purposed organisms as well! This is not so much my area, so I might be a bit off on some things.

As moon says, the majority of purposed organisms were tubes in boxes, and that the primal fauna of the world are almost entirely extinct. A lot of the fandom seems to ignore the first part, and i can't say I blame them, but the evolution of the creatures is so much weirder than people think.

Concept art for the creatures has this interesting quality to it, where the organic parts of the creatures have an almost... melty quality to them.

In the concept art, the flesh appears as if it's almost defying the machinery to form an animal shape. It's as if it's conquering its own artificiality the way the foliage grows over the (stone, brick and concrete, not mostly metal as some think!) ruins.

Of course, it's hard to really tell how much of this reflects the finalised concept, most of the integration is much smoother in the game, in line with a seamless kind of biomechanical design. There was always an intention of biomechanical strangeness, as shown in this screenshot of the devlog before the term "slugcat" even existed!

That said, the melty nature of the concept art shows a level of wild change inherent the biomechanical nature of the creatures, as if they truly are the result of these "tubes in boxes" almost revolting against their own boxes.

and considering centipedes... some tubes may not have had boxes in the first place!

[food--exe]

without crt filter under cut + pronoun hcs and some extras

[boiled-bronze]

I have finished translating to spanish and posting all of Heist, the first comic in the Rain World Anthro AU series made by @pansear-doodles so here's a little drawing I made as a celebration, based of one of the comic pages