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ENTRY C - Rain World Day 3, Ses. 5
In this session, I made zero saved progress in The Leg. So I decided to try out Arena mode instead, and that was fun! In between a lot of deaths, here's the results of each of today's Competitive-mode rounds that I recorded over Shellfish:
PLAY #1:
2
10
4
none
PLAY #2:
PLAY #3:
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(The hearts represent lizard colors. And the
s are scavengers.)
My combat skills are definitely getting better. I initially entered Arena mode to work on my sliding, rolling and pouncing skills, but my spear-wielding skills have improved far more than I anticipated. Maybe, just maybe, this could be my first step towards being more than a Hunter wannabe . . .
I just discovered that I've been misspelling someone's name for the past two months. I can't think of anything to add to this post . . .
. . . well, actually, I do.
ENTRY A - Rain World Day 3, Ses. 4
I'm currently in The Leg. Despite my progress, I want to passage back to Outskirts so I can visit Farm Arrays, Sky Islands, Chimney Canopy, and The Wall. I'm probably supposed to travel through all of those regions on my way out of Five Pebbles, but I like to do things my way.
Another night, another dream that I feel like sharing at 5am . . .
ENTRY 4.2.F - GT-180 and Artisan
I had a dream that I got a YT link from a GT-180 broadcast. For some reason; I decided to watch it on the big screen instead of outright ignoring it. In the video, a group of object show characters were singing, and one of them sung about an "ancient forest fox". They were promptly attacked by a still sprite of a discolored fox, accompanied by a TloZ:BotW-style healthbar. The other object character told me to forget anything happened. The video ended. I flipped out over the fact that I forgot to pause the watch history before watching the video, which wasn't made any better by the TV playing my screensaver, accompanied by loud and slightly profane music. I ran over to my laptop to make the music stop.
Later in the dream, I dreamed about some sort of 3D rendition of Rain World, where a slugcat colored similarly to Artisan was exploring random places before falling down a deep shaft into a very large room. According to the UI, the room was the Submerged Superstructure, but it was effectively a massive, square room that resembled a TloZ:TotK-style shrine. As 'Artisan' entered, the camera zoomed in on the ceiling to reveal it to be made of a bunch of tiled screens. The room was otherwise empty.
I also looked through a book similar to Puzzles from Penrose in a later dream, in an attempt to find the meaning of the "ancient forest fox".
RAIN WORLD PROGRESS UPDATE: In 33 cycles, I met up with LttM. I wasn’t able to understand her speech, there weren’t any obvious things to do (other than eat her neuron flies, which I didn’t), and Iggy is nowhere to be found.
. . . I’m a little confused. I’m currently headed out of LttM’s subreigon. Was there something that I was supposed to do?
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shiny walls?
cycle 33 ~ [lttm]
oh, my
hello
. . . goodbye?
it seems like there is nothing we can do about her . . .
iggy, you are my - and her - only hope . . .
. . . I'll admit that the audio engineering was good
iggy?
where are you?
IGGY! I NEED YOUR HELP!
iggy is gone...
-=-EDIT: Iggy has reappeared and is giving me directions again.
RAIN WORLD SESSION #2: I escaped from Industrial Complex, traveled through Shaded Citadel, and am currently in a freshly discovered shelter somewhere beneath Coastline. I hope that I'm going the right way.
(I just realized that I should've written about this in my journal and copied it over here. Oh well.)
RAIN WORLD PROGRESS UPDATE: After my dad started his own file and found the gate to Industrial Complex, I decided to forget about Drainage System and try my luck in Industrial Complex instead. That was certainly the right course to take, as I have yet to go back into Outskirts and I am thriving in there! Almost.
On my last cycle, I was headed back to a shelter without much time left on the cycle, when I realized that the path to the shelter was just barely out of reach. With no time to take a detour, I remembered the vertical spear pole technique. I backflipped, staked the spear, climbed it to the exit, and made it back to the shelter in time!
I also completed The Survivor in that hibernation. Given my infinite-or-nothing thinking for certain resources, I’m not sure where I’ll use the passages.
The time is 4:59am. I'm sharing this journal entry, then hopefully going back to sleep . . .
ENTRY F
I had a dream that Mef wrote a wasteof post containing a character explanation of the serpent gods. It's a shame that I ever delayed reading it; by the time I took a second look at the post, it had somehow been replaced with xkcd-like comics in the style of A+. Shouldn't have wasted so much time looking for Watt and playing Minecraft Dungeons with my sister and my cracked, hollow thumb . . .
ENTRY C
The attempt to test Rain World at the event failed on account of inventory, but then I went home and played it on my own terms! So far, I made it into Drainage System after much effort. When the rain approached, there was a shelter on the other side of the room. I assumed that, this being the Drainage System, the room would flood rather than get crushed in the rain, allowing me to swim over the obstacles in the way and into the shelter. The rain did not accumulate. Being the person obsessed with knowledge to the point of calling it "mashed potatoes", that was an L on my part.
P.S. Did I seriously forget to mention the jokes that me and my sister made?
"Annoying pole plant neighbor", a joke from me about a pole plant located directly outside a shelter, which got me on multiple occasions.
"Eggs for breakfast", a joke from my sister, who liked the eggbugs.
Plenty of laughter over the slugcat and lizards casually passing each other in pipes, plus multiple cases of the slugcat and green lizards repeatedly pipe-cheesing each other.
When my sister asked if the mushrooms had any use, I responded with "I hear that they make everything go woweowawomwm" (paraphrased, of course.)
ENTRY A
The [ACTIVITY] event just ended. I'm a little hot. I took an unnecessary risk by bringing the stick onto the field. And the only thing that could have possibly warranted a responsibility waiver was a slow-moving pickup truck, which I didn't even come close to being hit by!
The second big event is yet to come...
ENTRY B
The Icelandic Waters have made up their mind; the next Rhythm Doctor correlation that they make - which, by my request, features Hunter - connects to Final Hours. I have a lot more of the details ready to be set up for this one, but I won't be able to design mockups today, as I'll be playing the actual Rain World at the second event 2:30 to 4:30.
"Our patient today is... a slug-cat hybrid. I think. (The things Edega sent us to treat...) You know the drill, intern."
P.S. I just realized how the quote at the end of Entry B was meant to be interpreted. I didn’t take that hyphen seriously . . .
I'm currently traveling to an IRL event that has nothing to do with my Rain World-related plans later today. I had to sign a liability waiver to attend. I read the fine print, and it said, in a nutshell, “injuries that happen to you during this event will be handled by your emergency contact and are not our problem“. The chance for injury is always non-zero, but I'm sure I'll be fine.
“. . . I'd rather be sitting in the dumpling shaft, thank you very much.“
If all goes to plan, I’m going to be testing Rain World for the Switch tomorrow. I’ve been told that the handling of keyboard and controller controls are vastly different, so I’m taking an opportunity to make sure that I can handle controller controls.
https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?4d96f9ab2385bad0c8c3eb8957d0c539.png
Can't sleep . . . nighty morning, I guess.
According to Prestige Tree’s data, my file has only been open for three days. It feels like it's been open for longer than that. I'm still working away at the first phase of the fourth row. Here are the numbers you probably want to see:
Maximum Boosters: 261
Maximum Generators: 249
Hindrance Spirit: 1.05e38 (approx. 10,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
Timeless Completions: 3/10
Quirks: 2.52e64 (approx. 2,520,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
Quirk Layers: 10
Next Quirk Layer Price: 1.69e65 quirks
Solarity Unlock Progress: 11/14 super boosters
Subspace Unlock Progress: 27/28 space energyThanks to GT-180, I have acquired a habit of mentally visualizing music in the form of Rhythm Doctor heartbeats.
https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?ad5ffacd96ed7eae25163d12e5c0a477.png
Yesterday evening, I got the idea to “relax my open social filters a little“.
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"Don't worry about it. It was just a proof of concept, right?"
"Yeah, but it's not a proof of concept if it doesn't work."
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"I'm keeping it under wraps. I don't have all the details worked out yet. Just keep your eyes and ears open for striking and outlandish incidents."
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Author's note: taking a break to let a sudden foot cramp sort out...
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“We seem to be having some trouble here,” Clark was saying.
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Lucky: They keep saying "healing takes time."
Lucky: How long is this gonna take?
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* 1.11.B: "Are you ever gonna open the can of worms?! Well, I'm ready whenever you are!"
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Author's note: . . . and now my other foot cramped. Great.
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- Normal animals: Well . . .
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The motion of the tail is an exothermic process that produces heat as a byproduct.
The caudal fin does not move on its own and has relatively high surface area, making it more susceptible to heat loss.
To remedy this, readily available blood from the tail, heated by the exothermic process, passes directly through the caudal fin to heat it before continuing its flow.
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I stay silent and think about what he said.
If the opposite of something possible is always possible, how could this be applicated?
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