Peace And Love On Planet Worm…. The Albino Is Alive And Healthy And Lively And Already Seems To Have

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??

sometimes i feel ive got to

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?

stay on high alert

Everyone clap for non consensual body modification everybody loves a character whose body has been altered against their will

Centered

I'm gonna be real. I love detailed worldbuilding as a bonus thing, but the surface level shit has to be different and weird enough first before I can give a shit at all.

Rain world's lore pearls and deep background stuff is definitely something that keeps me interested, but I would care less if the basic premise of the world wasn't, when diluted, a weird fucking creature in a world of weird fucking creatures where the rain is so heavy it kills you, and even if it had never explained any of that it still would have been cool as fuck. In fact, most casual players DON'T get explanation or understand why basically anything happening for much of their playtime because it's deliberately obtuse about it, because it trusts that just existing in the world is interesting enough.

In the best of both worlds we can have both weird cool shit and stuff that explains it, but a lot of people think they can have a boring world as long as they put sooo much effort into explaining the economy and the crops and whatever else, and I'm sorry but unless your surface level world is interesting I actually don't give a shit at all. If I want to look into the details a mundane world it's actually just more interesting to read about real life history.

(Also, if I can read a paragraph about the way wheat grows and is harvested and made into bread and it works almost exactly the same way as your fantasy not-bread crop called daerb, then you haven't done any world building —you've just plagiarised wikipedia.)