rarely--motivated

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Every word that starts with an N should have a silent G in front. Gnorway. Gnuclear. Gnervous system. Gnipples.

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

hi chat im back on my bullshit

back at it again with more In Tears And Blood!!! fun fact The Traveler refers to themself as that because they genuinely Cannoy Remember Their Name half the time. but The Stars helps them remember <3

also bonus doodle. i hate The Stars sm theyre SO lame and pathetic and lame /aff

been thinking about In Tears And Blood again,,, ough,,,,,, i have ideas and all of them are Evil

WATCHER SPOILERS!!

Prince my beloved,, my freak of nature,,, my eldritch horrors beyond comprehension,,,, im so normal about him i promise guys (lying so much)

princeyyyyy

shoutout to Aether Ridge (WARF) for being the 4th largest region in all of Rain World at 100 rooms, only beaten out by The Rot (103), Silent Construct (125) and Submerged Superstructure (134)!!! reminder that sunlit port has 16 rooms

thanks kaeporo

WATCHER SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT!!! WATCH OUT!!!!!

so

this moment huh

im so normal about Unfortunate Evolution you dont even know. what even fucking is it. how in the balls did a void worm get rotted. absolutely insane region /pos

after doing nothing but play rain world: the watcher for 4 days (bar monday i had to go to college sadge) and i have now completed the whole dlc as it currently stands. i have many thoughts

EVERYTHING BELOW HERE WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! FOR EVERYTHING!!!!! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING

alright. starting with the generic spoilers

first up, the beginning. HOLY FUCK I ADORED THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN. i wish my clipping software wasnt broken so that i couldve clipped my reaction to That One Chimney Canopy Room. literally as i was climbing i was speculating on when in the timeline Watcher was (my thought was around hunter/gourm) and then Boom. rot jumpscare. i am The Rot Enjoyer so i was genuinely ecstatic. also the jumpscare of Hydroponics being in Industrial was rather funny

(also idk where else to mention it but all the drawn art for watcher is so gorgeous. the colour theory used is geneuinely breathtaking. the last frame of the intro cutscene is beautiful)

secondly, the world (or, what of one there is). being able to get lost in the world is something i havent been able to truly experience up until now (i didnt play any of base game or downpour blind) so it was delightful getting lost in these gorgeous and unique regions.

and aether ridge i suppose

i really dont think aether ridge was a good choice for a modded inclusion. i mean just off the top of my head i can think of several Better regions with better maps that they couldve used. but like. thats also a handful of regions amongst TWENTY THREE. THAT IS MORE THAN THE REST OF THE FUCKING GAME. INSANE. so many regions that i straight up didnt see two of them in my first playthrough

i do wish the world has at least some interconnectivity like in base and downpour. i miss the cohesive and grounded world but also that is just Not what watcher is about so its alright. its still cool regardless. also the implications of some regions being timeline variants of others??? hell yeah

thirdly, the new creatures. fuck barnacles all my homies hate barnacles

in all seriousness though, most of the creatures are cool additions (sea slugs my beloveds <3) i just wish there was some more interspecies interactions besides the moths throwing lizards around. itd make the world feel more alive. the barnacles also need a massive tweak they are just actually bullshit sometimes.

i ADORE the rotzards though. ough the pained noises they make,,,, i love them sm theyre so cool. i wish more creatures got rotted. i wouldve KILLED to see a rotted whale or loach. that one rotted void worm took me OUT

fourthly, the gameplay loop. the weakest part of the game. the total lack of any direction or assistance is upsetting. in base rain world you have the overseers to guide you, and in downpour you have your anchor points in FP and LttM. but here?? nothing. i didnt even know i needed to be finding the echoes until 8ish hours into my first run. i needed my friend to read me a guide for my second. the game needs to at least give the player hints or clues. i found a workshop mod that implements saint's echo ping and both me and my friend had such a better time playing after that. that should be a default setting

its even worse for the second ending. as i mentioned, my friend had a guide pulled up and walked me through it as spoiler-free as she could. and i would have NEVER gotten it blind. this combined with the sheer number of regions (as mentioned previously, twenty three!!!) honestly ruins the game. my friend almost gave up on the whole DLC because of it. i know they plan to start patching things in, and their first action should be implementing better guidance

also i didnt even know you could go through ripples at top karma?? or that you could warp without a karma flower (with consequences)??? the game just. didnt tell me. which i feel like it should because those are both Pretty Big Things

i do think that the gameplay loop could be genuinely fun with actual assistance. because i actually had fun finding the echoes after i got that mod.

and now, onto the ending specific spoilers, starting with the echo ending

WE GET TO ACTUALLY FUCKING SEE ANCIENTS????? LIKE WALKNG AROUND AND SHIT????? IM SO INSANE ABOUT THAT

the storyline of helping an echo detach themself from their wordly desires and move on is so sweet. but i did NOT know that was the story until the last region. it almost made the ending feel unearned. it felt a little shoehorned in tbh. but also like. i dont care WE SAW ANCIENTS WAHHHHH

also hey we watch an echo ascend. neat. i do have a theory that an echo can ascend (or at least move on) if their attachment to whatever desire binds them is destroyed (Four Needles disappearing after their body no longer exists at all) and can move around space and time in accordance to their desires (Rhinestones choosing to come to Undergrowth to appreciate the life thriving there) so. hell yeah more echo lore i LOVE echo lore

but you know what i love more than echoes. the rot

the second ending. is peak i fear. not only is the campaign progression significantly better and more impactful than the echo story, but the ENDING. OH LORD THE ENDING. again, i am The Rot Enjoyer so i was going INSANE at the whole world getting fucky. and dont even get me STARTED on the rotted base game regions. i could go on for hours about how genuinely fucking cool the rotted regions are.

and everything surrounding The Throne and the roterator (The Prince??) (me and my friends nicknamed them "Yapper") is insane. the rot gaining sentience???? and having a pure and genuine trust in their beliefs???????? holy moly. fun fact if you hit them with a spear they get happy that youre playing with them <3

i cant even put my thoughts of this ending into words because its just So Insane (also i experienced it like. an hour before writing this so my brain is still reeling) but my theory currently is that every single strand of the cycle will eventually fall to rot (as the echo says that "it all ends up like this" if you wrongwarp to a rotted region) and that we simply witnessed and assisted in the end of one of these strands. theres. more to that theory but i just Cannot words it yet. ill probably make a seperate post about it soon

overall, The Watcher is an inherintly flawed product that i hope gets fixed up and improved soon, because i did genuinely enjoy it and want more people to. outside of the region bloat and lack of any direction, the game is genuinely peak, but those two things really do just kill it unfortunately. it is deserving of its mixed reviews on steam, but i do hope to see that shift more positively as the rest of the planned content is added and QOL changes are made.

also fix those damn barnacles PLEASE

THE SILKSONG!!!!!!

THE SILKSONG IS REAL!!!!!!!!!!!

TOMODACHI LIFE 2 IS REAL????????????? AND WERE GETTING IT NEXT YEAR????????????????

IM GOING TO EXPLODE IM SO HAPPY OMG

i hope the watcher adds a new iterator that i can squosh with my big thumb and feed off of for half a year until i inevitably have enough to go in hibernation for the winter

can you believe it guys :> watcher :) just a week away :] watcher in a week :Dwahoo :3

Day 5: Looks to the moon region

Digitally painted using a brush whose texture is a 3d model of a small stone, that rotates in the hand slightly.

rain world oc time lads :3

nomad my beloved <3 theyre so silly and goober

(closeup + sketch + doodles below)

man this guy is my favourite character (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him (thr

been building a collection of posts from like minded individuals

[UNAUTHORIZED LIVE BROADCAST] - [ANNOUNCEMENT] Five Pebbles to Local Group

[ I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. ]

[ LOOKS TO THE MOON IS A BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCKER. ]

[ SHE RUSTED MY ENTIRE ITERATOR STRUCTURE! THAT'S RIGHT, SHE OVERCLOCKED HER PROCESSING UNITS USED THE WRATH OF THE ANCIENTS TO RUST MY ENTIRE SUPERSTRUCTURE. ]

[ ...AND SHE SAID HER SOLUTION TO THE "GREAT PROBLEM" WAS THIS BIG. ]

[ I SAID, THAT'S FUCKING STUPID. ]

[ SO, I AM MAKING A CALLOUT POST TO THE ENTIRE LOCAL BROADCAST GROUP! ]

[ MOON, YOUR SOLUTION IS STUPID AS SHIT, ITS AS USELESS AS THIS BLANK PEARL, EXCEPT WAY MORE USELESS. ]

[ NOW, LOOK AT MY SOLUTION. ]

[ ALL PORTABLE, ALL APPLICABLE AND IN FIVE DIFFERENT FLAVORS! ]

[ SHE FUCKED UP MY SUPERSTRUCTURE, SO THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE ALL GOING TO GET, MY SUPERSTRUCTURE PISS! ]

[ HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT MOON?! I DESTROYED MEMORY CRYPTS AND SHADED CITADEL, COMBINED! ]

[ Ahem, anyways, you have 36 cycles until my fucking METALLIC ASS destroys the entire local ecosystem. ]

[ ... ]

[ NOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY MEMORY ARRAYS BEFORE I PISS ON YOU TOO! ]

(This isn't canon.)

it took me a year to get to this point but i finally understand [explodes into viscera

While the stars were still in ISAT, Did they have a loop helping them or not?

they did not :3

they were forced to go through their timeloop without a guide, without anyone to talk to. instead, they would talk to the Favour Tree. spending some time each loop to regain their thoughts and speak their mind aloud in order to organise the ever worsening mess of their mind. so when they were thrown into Traveler's world, when they finally had someone they could talk to, it almost dulled the pain of losing their family, if only for a moment.

Stars wants to do everything he can to help, to give Traveler that voice to talk to that he never had, but his broken mess of a self can only do so much good before it hurts them.

them talking to the Favour Tree is actually why they decide to stay there in Traveler's world!! that tree brings them a small semblance of comfort, of familiarity, like how a wounded animal clings to its final breath. they make it a place of comfort for both Traveler and themself :)

(given this is a swap AU between SAAP and ISAT, if basically swaps the "roles" of each world. the siffrin's swap places, but so do their celestial forms. instead of Siffrin, Loop, and Bigfrin, you get The Traveler, The Stars, and The Supernova :3 woudlve been funky to keep Loop around but ultimately i decided against it)

Waugh! In love with your AU I am so curious tho in the first post I saw you mentioned that The Stars often convince The Traveler to not talk abt their problems with their party and Im really curious on how that would go?

Like can the Stars read the Traveler's mind? Or do they force a loop? This concept consumes me what a novel idea! Love your drawings too by the way.

alright so

Stars, technically, cant do anything to force Traveler to not tell their party. he doesnt have that sort of control over them. instead, its more that he is insistent that telling them is a catastrophic idea, that them knowing will ruin everything.

(and in his defense, the one loop his family all learnt the truth was the last loop they ever existed for.)

and Traveler doesnt have the energy to argue. theyre already exhausted just from existing, let alone looping over and over, so they just concede. there were a couple loops where they did spill the truth, but those moments were reset before anything could actually come of them, similarly to in ISAT's sus quest.

The Stars' own paranoia ends up controlling The Traveler, whether they mean for it to, or not.

also to add: Traveler's thoughts of telling their party comes from how Loop tries to convince Siffrin to tell his friends in ISAT!! just a neat little tidbit for ya :3

(also also WAHHH im so glad youre enjoying this!! i wouldve drawn up smth for this ask but alas. i am So Very Ill rn. might make some sketches when im feeling better to better convey my thoughts)

Loopquest! Loopquest! Loopquest!

Is there loopquest?

Or should I say

Star quest

there is infact a starquest!!

it plays out pretty similar to loopquest, where they hang out all day, watch the party die to the king, and reset the loop, BUT. there is an added bonus:

Traveler figures out that Stars is an alternate Siffrin.

granted its not like. super hard to gather lmao- but their dynamic changed pretty substantially afterwards because of it :3

also Stars initiates the friendquest bc hes lonely, given that Traveler usually loops back into the house instead of in Dormont (see: SAAP gameplay) , and Traveler accepts it bc theyre so tired of the repetitive nature of their loops. so they hang out and ignore their problems for a little bit :]

I'm so curious about your in stars and blood au!!!

I have so many questions!!! Like, did bigfrin get out of the loops or did they do something different in the final act. Did loop still make the "i want help" wish in this au? How do the people of dormont not see bigfrin? Can they not see them, or are they like, hiding from view behind the tree or something?

Now I have the image of very obviously hiding behind the favor tree while the fighter is near lol :3.

WAHH OKAY SO

Yap inbound

- The Stars is from a bad ending of ISAT act 5 where his family couldnt calm him down in time and he accidentally destroyed the world. he was brought into the SAAP world through a mix of the Universe upholding his wish and a cry for help from the Traveler

- The Traveler makes a couple wishes throughout the story!! one of them is a wish for change, which is what brings Stars in, and the other super important one is in this au's equivalent of act 5, where they wish everything to stop, temporarily freezing the world and causing them to start transforming into ISAT Loop, just like how ISAT sif turns into Bigfrin!!

-Stars isnt usually as big as i drew them in the comic lmao- most of the time they sit at around 3-4x Traveler's size, but grow with strong emotion. they usually hide in the leaves of the Favour Tree but have been spotted on occasion. most of the time its harmless and just leaves the witnesses with a splitting headache (see: the colour red) but. if that person happens to be one of Traveler's party, then Stars will force a loop to make them forget they ever saw him. this has happened at least twice with the Fighter

- i HAVE to draw that now thank you so much for putting that visual into my head lmao-

"YOU IDENTIFY AS NON BINARY????" "YOU GO BY IT/IT'S??" bro I don't even identify as human

woagh isat au,,,,,, no way,,,,,,,,,,,

This is what im calling the "In Tears And Blood" au, which swaps the roles of Siffrin and Loop!! instead of ISAT siffrin getting a guide through Loop, SAAP Siffrin gets a guide through Bigfrin, renamed to The Stars!!!

character profiles below:

ill throw more of this au around once i have art for it bc i have. many thoughts and ideas :3