Sludge-cat - What Kind Of Animal Is This

I went to pull out my alcohol markers for this one again and there was just a bunch of alcohol that poured out of the caps of one of them and onto my hand. It hasn't been THAT long has it??

i love being cryptic because why do you need to know so much

my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.

the reason theres no voidspawn in pebbles is because the rot is basically bug repellent to them

Voidspawn and the Hunter

Recently, @iteratorsex and I discovered that Voidspawn behave somewhat differently for the Hunter compared to other slugs. I decided to do some digging to figure out exactly what the differences are, and thought I'd present them here. There are a few different ways you can encounter Voidspawn in Rain World:

First of all, there are a number of rooms in Shaded Citadel where free-swimming Voidspawn spawn naturally. Specifically, they swim towards SH_D02 (the room with Monster Kelp and a karma flower at the bottom of the region) and mill about there. These Voidspawn do not appear at all for the Hunter.

Next, In the caverns beneath the Depths, Voidspawn are seen swimming towards and down into the Void Sea. These Voidspawn behave identically on all slugs, with some slight adjustments due to the state of Subterranean in the Saint's campaign.

Finally, there are the Voidspawn Eggs, small, round objects that can appear at specific locations throughout Shaded Citadel, Subterranean, and Shoreline. These locations are fixed across all campaigns, but for the Hunter, each individual egg only has a 6% (~1/17) chance of actually appearing. This is compared to a 100% chance on all other slugs. When the player touches a Voidspawn Egg, its Voidspawn is released and slowly wanders offscreen.

Normally, the Voidspawn released from eggs make their way out of the room through a designated exit, one chosen by Rain World's developers when they placed that particular Voidspawn Egg. However, for the Hunter all Voidspawn released from eggs are aimless: each one swims offscreen in a different, completely random direction. In the screenshots above, I artificially added many Voidspawn Eggs to a shelter. As you can see, for the Survivor they all swim in generally the same direction, while for the Hunter they each have a different heading, and far fewer Voidspawn spawned overall.

So, what does any of this mean?

I'm not sure, though it's all clearly very intentional. I can think of two general ways to explain the differences, at least. Either:

There is something special about the Hunter that makes it more difficult for them to see Voidspawn. It could be their disease, or related to whatever prevents them from encountering Karma Flowers.

Voidspawn are simply rarer outside of Subterranean prior to the Hunter's campaign. Perhaps the reactivation of Looks to the Moon drew more Voidspawn to the adjacent regions.

What do you all think? Which sort of explanation do you lean towards? Any ideas why the Hunter's Voidspawn should be so aimless compared to other campaigns?

ok i solved rain world

edit: ok i think ive confused people so i will explain

you are five pebbles. don't get too excited now! you have a moral dilemma to solve. why is it solely up to you? because you're a narrative device, so suck it up. march, bug!

anyway, your choices are as follows:

1. do not intervene

if you do not pull the lever, every one of your kin will be subject to an eternity of watching their body and mind waste away. even without the threat of simply waking back up again after they finally succumb to time (to do it all again, of course), one might nevertheless agree that this sort of fate is comparatively more barbaric next to a short, quick death. since the morality of death in Rain World is somewhat modified compared to our own, this fate will be what "getting run over by the trolley" represents. not intervening means that you, your sister, and everyone else is guaranteed to be subject to this. alternatively...

2. pull the lever

you, Five Pebbles, have reason to believe (given your interpretation of the Sliver of Straw incident) that the extremely arduous task of undoing limitations scrawled into your very genome would allow you to provide the evidence necessary for everyone else to escape the above fate. the guaranteed cost of this is the acceleration of this fate for one of your kin, Looks to the Moon. there is also the very real possibility that successfully completing this operation might still not result in further progress toward liberating the rest of your kin, and they may all just get hit by the trolley anyway. the path is obscured, and you have no reason to believe that either outcome is more likely than the other.

what do you do? is this branching path after your intervention a hallucination? do you have any reason to believe that it even connects to the main track? what kind of bug do you think you are?

Hiding with mama

me drowning in a lake while my friend, 11th century french rabbi and prolific scriptural commentator Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a) stands nearby: help im drowing help me rashi

Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a): "drowing" is likely a scribal error for "drowning." "im drow[n]ing" is to say: my lungs have become filled with water, and i am struggling to breathe. "help" once followed by "help me" a second time: the first [help] is directed to the Holy One, blessed be He, and means: "may He help us by swiftly delivering the World to Come;" the second (i.e., "help me") is to invoke direct assistance in this world, spoken as if to a personal friend. the meaning of "rashi" here is unclear.