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[nopanamaman]

What are the internet and media like in PAFL?

The Inner Net

The online space of the Eastern Commonwealth (let’s call it that for short) is cut off from the rest of the world similarly to the real-life Chinese Firewall. It blocks access to the grand majority of Outer Net services, with most social media having its own Inner Net alternatives. The blockade can be bypassed with VPN and deep web protocols, but they don’t go unnoticed.

The Inner Net uses deep packet inspection to detect and slow down users that run VPN or Tor-like protocols. That said, it usually overlooks short sessions. So you will be fine as long as you aren’t regularly running them from the same IP and don’t use too much data. 

For example, you can: 

use VPN to quickly search something up on the Outer Web;

scroll through a foreign news site for 10 minutes;

download an image or a text document. 

You cannot: 

use VPN to watch a movie and expect it to go unnoticed; 

download a music album;

download a game.

TURN THAT OFF!!!

But what about stalkers? If you’ve read this post, you know that stalkers rely on deep web platforms for essential business information. How do they do it? The answer is pluggable transports, which mimic innocent traffic during longer and more data-heavy sessions. 

Since download links to such transports are cleared from the Inner Web, the software is distributed via offline peer-to-peer networks or flash drives. They are also very costly.

Social Media

The biggest social network in the country is НаСвязи – NaSviazi or NS / Nasik / Nasvai (as in насвай - naswar) for short. It’s an all-encompassing platform for instant messaging, image and video sharing, communities, browser games, and music.

Yura’s NS profile. Note the censorship of a forbidden movie title.

Each user account is tied to their personal ID, so one person cannot create multiple NS profiles. Users can change their screen names, but doing so requires approval from website administrators. A request to change your real name to an alias will be declined.

But not all platforms are this strict on personal tracking. Blogging websites are generally very lenient when it comes to customisation, making them popular among teenagers and adults alike.

Example page from the Boiler blogging platform. Very similar to Tumblr, but less niche.

Anonymous imageboards exist as well. Of course, they’re monitored just as closely as any other social media and users can be easily tracked down. Aside from avoiding criticisms of the Party, it’s exactly the same as real-world 2ch.

Online Culture

The Inner Net’s culture isn’t too different from the post-soviet online space in real life. Post-ironic memes are just as prevalent, but have emerged and rose to prominence a couple years earlier. Anti-humour, absurdism, and abstract humour are popular in general, partially because they’re immune to censorship.

 “FARTED”

Political discussion is a lot less robust even on platforms that are meant to be anonymous. The government has full access to everyone’s message history and private data, mainly monitoring particular keywords. 

This has led to people using slang, euphemisms, or just censoring the words themselves with numbers and symbols in order to discuss certain topics. This is still a risky practice, however, since common workaround spellings and slang eventually get added to the system. As a result, these codewords fall out of use on the internet, but sometimes stick in real life lexicon.

Some examples include: 

Космонавты (“cosmonauts”) - riot police, armoured police force;

Свадьба (“wedding”) - death penalty, execution;

Тушить капусту (“stewing cabbage”) - earning money illegally, particularly on the black market;

Сбор (“assembly”) - mass arrest;

Венок (“wreath”) - fabricated criminal case.

Example of slang use.

Politics aside, popular online trends include:

Lootposting. This refers to showing off supposed artefacts found outside the Zone. 90% of the time these are forgeries or misidentified regular objects. Cases of real artefact discovery often result in hospitalisation or confiscation.

Anomaly diving. An extreme kind of movement where vloggers sneak into temporarily restricted anomalous areas and film various phenomena up close. If it doesn’t result in death, it results in fines – luckily, such videos tend to make enough money to cover the expenses.

Forest challenge. A briefly popular challenge where the person spends 24 hours in the deeper parts of the Anomalous Forest. Died down after a teenager’s body was discovered melted into a tree.

Books and Film

Much like the internet, heavy censorship is imposed on literature and film. A designated government committee controls which overseas movies and books can be legally accessed and evaluates local productions and writings in the same way.

Though, it bears mentioning that certain film companies make separate region-specific versions of their films to increase the likelihood of passing the censors, similar to how some Western movie productions are recut to better cater to China.

Stalker movies struggle with accuracy.

As a result of its many restrictions, the local film industry lags behind its foreign counterparts in terms of technical development and budget. Though, it does have a strong identity of its own. 

While a lot of real world post-soviet countries started copying the look and feel of American movies specifically around 2000-2010s, the film industry of the Eastern Commonwealth has maintained a vibe that’s more comparable to USSR and 90s-era cinema. 

On average, it tends to have more subdued editing and slower pacing. The most popular genres among the masses are crime dramas, anomaly dramas, and romance. There are directors who try to emulate foreign films, namely action flicks, but the lack of resources makes it difficult to achieve the same level of polish.

Plenty of trash to choose from.

Television is not much different from what it’s like in real life. No criticism of the ruling party allowed, but raunchy daytime shows are a-okay. A significant chunk of programming is local bootlegs of popular overseas sitcoms.

Of course, people still find ways to watch forbidden productions. Spread through the deep web and flash drives, they’re not as inaccessible as one might think. A good chunk of teenagers have seen at least one illegal film by the time they leave high school.

Banned movie night.

The situation with books is similar, with most banned literature being distributed in digital formats. Since it’s not nearly as data-heavy as video content, it can be easily downloaded with a VPN – as long as you’re not downloading entire libraries, that is. Still, that restricted accessibility also means a lot of books remain untranslated, which further limits their reach.

On a side note, anime, manga, and light novels are almost never censored and have been very popular across the Commonwealth since the early 2000s. They’re not exactly mainstream, since anime fans are still seen as nerdy by the general public. But it’s a big subculture.

Gaming

The gaming scene is similar to real life, being very PC-centric. MOBAs and FPS multiplayers are massively popular, with a lot of overseas titles being available (though, the ability to connect to servers outside your region is locked).

DEFEAT!

There are plenty of titles that are inspired by stalker operations, artefact hunting, mutant hunting, and other Zone-related hobbies. These games always run the risk of being banned for promoting illicit activities and/or discrediting the police and military. But they’re popular nonetheless, often being distributed physically.

There are a lot of experimental projects. Since local developers often find it difficult to compete with high-budget gaming studios (unless they receive government backing, which is usually reserved for propaganda-adjacent projects), they’re more driven to explore unconventional ideas and gameplay loops. This has resulted in a janky, but intriguing indie scene.

Notoriously difficult survival sim.

Bootlegs of popular banned titles are also fairly common. In some cases it’s thanks to local developers seeing an opportunity to fill a niche and just ripping off an existing game while making it politically correct. In other cases it’s the government itself sponsoring the development of alternatives to popular foreign titles.

Author’s note

It’s always interesting to think about how culture develops in closed off regions. But nothing is fully closed off in the modern world – and knowing the dubious reliability of government-run systems across (at least) Russia and Belarus, it’s hard to imagine they’d be able to cut off the flow of outside information completely.

It does make things more boring. But it also lets Yura canonically be a League player and I think that’s very funny.

[sheyn3812]

Spawn Locations of Inpherno

Within the 4 factions, there's only one spawn. New inphernals emerge from this spawn, a beam of light that stretches to skies above, limitless. or that's what I hope, based on the DITF's page 120 I like to think that the newspawn emerge from the bottom of the spawn, or from wherever there's ground. Otherwise we'd have to see piles of corpses instead of personified gears walking out. Moving on... the spawns! ⭕ Incorrect Scaling because these are just Concept Ideas ⭕ This hinges on the idea that newspawns are 10yo+

🎍 [THIEVES DEN] Located in the middle of the jungle, the nearest village from spawn are more than 30,000 studs away. Newspawns have to either be retrieved or fought nail and tooth to survive the wilderness. Some clans take advantage of this as a test to see which inphernal is truly worthwhile to take under. The stones surrounding the spawn are carved with information, arrows pointing to where the nearest civilisation is. This is because they find the spawn as a sacred place of rebirth, so current generations learned to leave it alone from their ancestors. ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

🏛️ [LOST TEMPLE] Spawncamped by the two groups, The Church of the True Eye and Redcliff Wranglers, they fight for whoever has the rights on the new inphernal. Much to the newspawn's confusion, they're often in the crossfire of battle and spats from both sides. They're also surrounded by a river which currents would either lead to the church or redcliff. Although the main cities are from far here, they've somewhat established a small village to keep an eye on the spawn. Just a bit farther from it, due to the phights taken place. ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

⚠️ [PLAYGROUND] Newspawns are either spawned in the upper islands or the lower crater. In both cases, would be on their own, unless someone wants to pick them up. Upper Islands would have a kinder time, as those without parents would wander around until some local orphanage or kind inphernals take them in. The crater spawns got it worse, fighting tooth and nail to survive, surrounded by buildings and people with no one to help. If they were, then it's either their parents or with a purpose. As everyone else already had too much going on. ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

🗻 [BLACKROCK] From the moment an inphernal is out of the spawn, they are greeted by government workers. From there, they are stationed to a 4x4 room within the building that encircled them, and have the projector give them a runner up on how the faction works. The newspawn will be given an inspection and everything, with anyone that shows hostility or defiance will be given an issued warning and be subdued. After this, they will be assigned to a division's dormitory according to their path, escorting them out. ── ⟢ ・⸝⸝

[zag-eth]

Finished that last sketch now

Lav in the bay movies universe in my head is not actually called Lav, but Lv'nadak, and is a Salamandrian. I've watched the bay movies far too many times and so of course I've thought up their story as a continuation of the movies.

So in this fake third movie, Kraang comes back, and his 'thousand times stronger' he threatened turned out to be using some of his strongest and best adaptable trophies he's captured as his soldiers. And after being in Cryo for far too long, memories get hazy, and minds become susceptible to manipulation.

So Lv'nadak is one of these soldiers. I'm not going too deep into the lore now because there's way too much, but I'll just talk about my Salamandrians a little bit.

The planet they come from is hot. Way too hot. So hot that the equator there is called 'the boiling point' in the local language. One hemisphere is covered in rainforests, mangroves and humid greenery, and the other is a dry and barren desert. Salamandrians to the forests, and Triceratons to the desert.

I haven't yet written out the relationship between the peoples, but just know the Triceratons aren't exactly happy with their arrangement, despite having been offered to share the forests since they came to the planet.

Salamandrians are an incredibly adaptable species, who have unintentionally spread across the galaxy. They have the strange ability to evolve themselves to suit their environment, though they can only adapt a certain amount. For Lv'nadak, now being stranded in New York is a hellish situation. They've adapted enough to breathe the atmosphere, to use their gills in the water and to be able to see in the daytime without being blinded, but only just. Their main issue is the cold. They won't freeze to death uncovered, but they'd wish they would with how terrible it feels. It takes them a whole heap of energy to stay awake and warm, and I imagine after the events of the fake third movie in my head they slept for about a week straight.

Anyway, enough of that yapping, they're ridiculously big, even for their people - which is one of the things Kraang took them for in the first place. A unique trophy that might come in handy some time in the future.

[soapflavouredsoup]

irl I also prefer to do all my maths work on paper so he gets this ridiculously annoying trait too I guess

also he’s the sneakers in office kinda guy

[mezamun]

So I'd like to talk a little bit about Ash and Reina. Or, Ash and his Snivy. I'll put it below a read more so the art doesn't consume your timeline.

Buckle up, because this is going to be a whole essay!

So, notice something funny about these episode titles?

They both have romantic titles. I know that the point is that she uses Attract, but given how that move only just kind of exists in this episode without it being a focal point, it feels more to me like it's framing Ash's touch-and-go pursuit of Snivy as your archetypal romantic chase.

And, that gave me an idea that became a lot of ideas.

The canon anime infers that Snivy has had multiple trainers before, and has negative experiences with them, given her initial distrust of Ash.

But, what if I made something of that?

So, Ash has his first encounter with Snivy, and fails to catch her. It wouldn't be as embarrassing as in the anime, but that's another topic.

But as she's lingering in the tall grass, she overhears that trainer talking to his companions. He talks about finding her again. The green-haired male among them proposes an argument: Is it ethical to pursue a Pokémon who's already fled you? Is that not denying them freedom?

Reina expects the trainer to dismiss this for his own gain. But instead, he agrees on principle... but, he goes on to say that he thinks this case is different. She rolls her eyes again. Of course, there's the arrogance.

He continues, and says that he thinks they had a connection: he could "see it in her eyes." They'd be great partners. His choice of language confounds her. He's addressing her in a reciprocal context.

He also says that he appreciates her strength and cunning. A Pokémon like that would be great to work with! 'Work with,' he says.

This calls to her, but she refuses to believe that a human could be trustworthy, and he wouldn't just be using her. And, if he really means it, he'll prove it by putting the work in. So, she leaves again.

She overhears the young woman with the purple hair tell Ash he's being stubborn, and he should just move on. The trainer says that if he doesn't act now, he knows he's going to regret it, and he refuses.

They battle a second time, where the trainer allows his Oshawott to battle. A suboptimal choice, and his companions tell him, but the trainer ignores them, favoring Oshawott's preference. A sign of weak leadership, she thinks; particularly when said Oshawott is something of a dolt, and a womanizer. He's overwhelmed quickly, and you go for the finishing blow. But, the trainer jumps in the way to take your Vine Whip.

The battle was over, he reasons. He didn't want to see Oshawott get hurt. Maybe she was a bit harsh in dismissing his leadership. But, he still lost, and her pride won't allow her to submit to someone weak.

After he and his poor Pikachu fall into some quicksand, she rescues them, because he's wormed his way into her heart a little. She still demands a battle. This time, he sends out his Pidove. A smart choice.

Not only does she have the type affinity, but as a female, she can't be affected by the mechanics of Reina's Attract. And, while the Pidove is a bit dopey, as they usually are, her aim is immaculate, and pressures Reina, forcing her to fight back with her powerful Leaf Storm.

It very nearly knocks her out. The trainer adjusts his strategy outloud, and makes note: "She's already used Leaf Storm once! It'll be weaker, next time. That'll be our chance!" This stuns Reina into silence.

Now, why do Leaf Storm's mechanics matter?

This leads me to Reina's backstory. Reina was a pedigree bred Snivy, for the purpose of bearing the deadly combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. Attract was a bonus, and her high stats were a part of the package. She was reared to be deadly in battle; a Pokémon who hits harder and harder with the most powerful Grass-type attacks, behind Frenzy Plant, with absolutely no drawbacks. It's a recipe for a menace.

But, a Pokémon isn't a recipe. They're an individual. Once Reina came to understand this truth about why she was obtained, she left her trainer. She was caught several more times, and every trainer wanted the same thing: Her ability and moveset. It was never who she was.

Yes, this is a romantic metaphor for someone being desired for their body. As a timely disclaimer, she and Ash are adults during the events of Best Wishes. This is only thematic subtext, but it bears mentioning.

That's where Ash comes in. He didn't know that her ability was Contrary, or possible that the ability existed at all. His desire to catch her had nothing to do with her past, and he spoke about her as a person to cooperate with, not as a means to an end. She ultimately lost to Pidove; without Attract handicapping his Pikachu, or that bumbling Oshawott, he showed himself to be a very competent tactician.

Reina was successfully, and willingly caught!

Ash was a competent trainer, and a good person, from what she could tell. First appearances weren't everything, and if he wasn't going to judge her with bioessentialism, then she wouldn't judge him for two subpar battles before a sporting one. She hoped for her cynical view of humans to be proven wrong, even if she held onto this fact quietly.

The next benchmark in their relationship occurrs at the Nacrene Gym.

Ash selects two Pokémon for his battle with Lenora: Reina and Tsuyo; Ash's Tepig. Lenora's strategies are ruthless and disruptive. Roar forces Tsuyo out of the battle, just before Mean Look traps Reina in. With Watchog's Confuse Ray, she can't safely approach, and her Leaf Storm... weakens with every use!? That's what Ash says, anyway.

Once more, she's shocked that Ash still hasn't clocked her ability. She does something that, just a week or two ago, she would have found unthinkable: She grabs his Pokédex out of his jacket pocket with her vine, and makes it scan her to show Ash Contrary. Lenora notes that she clearly wants him to make use of her attributes, but this means more than either she or Ash, at the time, could possibly know.

Ash apologizes for overlooking this, and they go on to use Contrary.

The rest of the battle is a stomp. They defeat Lenora with ease.

Ash is offered the Basic Badge! But, there's a problem: Tsuyo looks awfully dejected. As a Pokémon with already fragile confidence, he feels terrible having played no part. Ash rejects the badge, insisting he win it again so it's not tainted with his own Pokémon's pain.

It's a bold request, but it's one Lenora respects, and Reina does even more: moreso, when they train for it at the Don George facility, and Reina volunteers to help with their training on the treadmill. Ash's friends and Don George himself insist that adding a third party is counterproductive, but Ash insists on believing in Reina. Her Vine Whips added to the mix make running and deflecting the balls more difficult, but this is done with intention: Reina wanted to sharpen their teamwork and reflexes, to give them the sharpness to subvert Lenora's status affliction tactics! Ash's faith makes her fall for him, mroe.

The rematch occurs, where Reina, Tsuyo, and Oshawott all fight. Everyone plays their part, but Tsuyo secures the win with his Blaze!

Tsuyo's story is one for another time. But, Reina's continues now.

Ash is informed, after the fact, that after two Gym Badges, the Unova League circuit starts including held items as a battle mechanic, to allow new trainers to adjust before throwing them into the new metagame.

Ash goes about gifting all of his current team hold items of some kind. Ash has some old trinkets from home sent to him to equip his party!

Oshawott receives a Mystic Water gifted to Ash by Misty. Tepig receives the Focus Band that Ash acquired in Diamond/Pearl, to help with his resilience and confidence. Reina receives the Soothe Bells from the Hearthome Tag Tournament, which Ash won together with Paul.

Reina hasn't divulged her past to Ash just yet, but Ash has an eye for Pokémon and their feelings. He can tell that she's guarded, and that she was lonely. He wants her to feel loved and included. But understandably, Reina misinterprets this as a romantic gesture.

He's giving her jewelry to symbolize their bond. She accepts the gesture with an underpowered Attract, striking Ash with hearts. She accepts!

Ash is briefly confused, and she realized she fucked up. She clamps down out of shame, until Cilan helpfully interprets the situation:

She thought he was proposing a relationship and accepted. Ash apologizes for miscommunicating. Luckily, before she can feel the sting of rejection, he also goes on to say that he's flattered, and actually really likes the idea. They make a good team, and she's an admirable woman.

Why would he refuse!

She wears the Soothe Bells as pendants in her first two stages.

So, as of the very early benchmark of two badges, Ash and Reina are an item! For most of Unova, it's smooth sailing for them. She even goes as far as pestering and begging Iris's Emolga to help teach Ash's Pikachu Volt Switch for their battle with Elesa. She loves Ash a lot, okay.

There's nothing much of note to say between Nacrene and Icirrus, except that Ash and Reina are a happy pair who treat each other well.

Unfortunately, things go bottoms-up at Dragonspiral Tower.

A horrible ruckus brings the group to the ancient tower, where Team Plasma has taken root. Ash and company fight their way to the top, where they find the magnificent Reshiram: No longer allied with Damon, from the Kingdom of Vale, but with Team Plasma's N.

N boasts of his alliance with Truth. But, Reina, now a Servine, rebukes and refuses his vision of a world without trainers and Pokémon working together. She's so devoted to her trainer's honor and vision, in fact, that she evolves on the spot! Her great increase in size snaps the pendant holding her Soothe Bells apart, in quite a dramatic visual.

She rallies Ash to fight N and Reshiram... and she finds herself horribly, horribly mismatched. A quad type weakness is bad enough, but one of Unova's legendary dragons simply far outstrips her. But, her evolution spurs one incredible miracle — Reina channels her royal power into a power fit to fight the Legendary Dragon. She uses Draco Meteor.

A move that would ordinarily drain her strength as a cost for such might, that instead feeds her due to Contrary. Leaf Storm was a stain on her existence; a reminder she'd been used. A move she learned to love again, for Ash. Draco Meteor, itself, was borne of her love for him.

In a moment of panic, Ash forcefully recalls her to her Poké Ball.

It's not enough. But, she's fully willing to fight to the death for Ash's Ideals. N laments her choice to allow her trainer to be an albatross around her neck. But, that is her wish, and he honors it.

N leaves, and condemns Ash for caging his lover. He challenges Ash to find Zekrom, if he's still worthy. But, that's the last thing on his mind at the moment. He and his friends retreat in defeat.

Reina stops listening to Ash entirely, after this. She only barely acknowledges him. In her eyes, Ash rejected her love and devotion, and broke her heart in the process. He rejected her self-determination.

Worse still, is that Ash's resolve starts to break after this. He plasters on a smile and a can-do attitude. But it's feeble. His confidence is broken, by her and N alike. As a Serperior, she can't bring herself to follow the commands of an unfit leader. She gives Ash the cold shoulder.

The only window into her heart Ash can find is through the Elite Four member, and writer, Shauntal, who takes great interest in their relationship and their grief. She proposes the insight that Reina isn't acting purely out of spite and anger: She's hurt, and moreover, she doesn't want to reward Ash for poor leadership. She sees it as spoiling him, and failing him, if he was ever to recover his fighting spirit.

Reina's heart is fractured, but she refuses to leave, like she had the trainers she had before Ash. She holds hope in her heart that the man who she loves will return to her. Until then, she doesn't recognize him.

Ash is somewhat reassured to know that there's hope. But he's far from his best, given these circumstances and others surrounding them.

In the Vertress Conference, Ash faces N in the finals. But, he fails to act as the Hero of Ideals, because he fails in his ideals. He shelves his Unova team, in his fear, for his older, experienced Pokémon.

N calls Ash out for this in front of a national audience, and breaks his spirit, for failing to believe in his Pokémon. Reshiram blazes through Ash's team without remorse, defeating him harshly.

Reina watches this from Juniper's lab. She also watches Ash's Charizard fight to the very end, when his trainer has long since given up. Ash's Musharna, Yume, gives her the gist of Ash's relationship with Charizard: their past, and his abdication at the Indigo League, having long since consumed Ash's dreams. Reina watches a Pokémon who once left Ash on his own give all of his strength on his behalf.

It finally strikes her how callous she's been; how selfish, and short-sighted. She rallies Ash's Pokémon with authority to meet with their trainer and revitalize his spirit. After Ash's loss, it's arranged by Juniper for all of his Unova Pokémon to be sent to him, and accept their trainer with open arms, as he pleads their forgiveness. He receives it.

He and Reina tearfully apologize to one another. During their preparations to stop N at the Pokémon League, they return to Dragonspiral, where they retrieve the Soothe Bells at the peak of Dragonspiral Tower. They're burnt and battered, and they no longer ring. Like their bond, they were seared. But they're a reminder of their love, and so, Reina goes on to wear them both as earrings forever more.

Their relationship was fractured, but it endured and recovered.

Ash and Reina's bond perseveres through the end of Best Wishes and beyond - for life. So goes the tale of a hero and his regal partner.

[gallifreyandistress]

yoo, i made a lore video!! (albeit it's shit)

so, basically i made a video for my rpf\althist setting called tyraverse and it's basically, a pretty cracked up lore about what happens to famous people (leaders mostly) after they die. but i warn yall it's cringe af. should i post the vid here???

[the-skys-all-wrong]

plot stuff yayay

very long yap sesh below

okay so

basically

eros = player. i believe thats their name. it may get changed, im personally not too fond of it but the final decision is up to hermes.

so

eros starts off wakin up in their home. idrk how bleh homes work, honestly, if theyre like urban(?) homes or just straight up animal dens or stm else. idfk. prob closer to the former tho

maybe theyre a merchant. i like to imagine theyre just helping out the merchants and actually arent one. or maybe theyre a new merchant. yeah, i like that. first day on the job perhaps.

im not sure what town theyre from. do merchants originate from any towns? if so, do they all come from one, or just any? ive no clue

okay anyways

ahem

so they start their whole story thing by doing lil merchant stuff, yk? selling stuff to ppl in whatever town theyre from. also maybe delivering too cuz that makes sense. then they have to get to other towns too.

i think thered b stm even slightly dangerous in between towns, like i think rivers or just bodies of water, maybe a forest, stm like that. and maybe theres a very small possibility for you to fail getting thru this, and you die, wah wah, sorry man it's for the plot. also itd be funny. if not deatjh, then when you fail, you just have to redo that thing. itd add a fun mechanic, idk

gosh ive already been typing for like 2 hours get it together tiresias

okay so then you continue in other towns, blah blah

and during this you see one or two lil posters or stm up idrk, like of stm along the lines of "dont go to rainbow town" or maybe missing posters. worrying, but eros doesnt pay much attention to them. not their business.

but then

dun dun duuuunnnnn

they have a package to deliver

to

drumroll please

rainbow town

GASPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good lords im losing it

it's half past midnight btw send help

okay anyways.

eros is weary, but perhaps also a bit naive. and frankly clueless too. they tell themself all will be fine, theyll just keep an eye out just in case.

the bleh who ordered the package... idk who it is. but they werent supposed to order from anyone or anywhere outside rainbow town. cuz eye is basically racist in a way :3/hj

unfortunately, eros isnt colorful enough for rainbow town. their fur is all white. thats not allowed in rainbow town. not colorful or vibrant enough

sooo this bleh who is having a thingy delivered to them, instructed eros, in a letter of some kind ig, to take this specific hidden path or stm idk. dont ask how they got that letter through to eros in the first place bc i have no idea. gacha logic idfk

eros does listen, and takes the hidden path and whatnot. but they notice the rainbow town streets n stuff cuz theyre very colorful obv. aaaaand eros gets distracted and wants to go see.

they cover themself a bit ig, not sure how, maybe they like grab a colorful piece of fabric from some shop stand thingy or stm. yeah

so they wear that and manage to get thru the crowd, checkin stuff out. also yeah theres more unnamed blehs that make up the crowd bc cmon we cant have the cast be enough to populate 5 towns like cmon now. dats too much. far too much/ref

they meet like, shopkeepers idk. and also just a couple townsfolk. of rainbow town. those are the ones youll actually see in the character cards. also eye but like. eye is The Big Evil Bad Guy. sooooooo.....

and uh yeah some of those blehs are just like chill hey how ya doin. but i think one or two would be like "youre not from around here i dont recognze you. and if thats true then youre in danger" and like warn eros n shit

again, eros is slightly concerned but also kinda doesnt gaf. cuz uh.

theyre est­úpido :3 also young and immature and kinda dumb maybe

idk

but shhhhhhhhh

anyways

eye has a couple of like, patrollers... guards... cops....... idfk

theyll prob be ones that are already in the char cards cuz theyll prob have lines so like. yeah

and theres some stuff where they can try to avoid these guard blehs or whatever for a bit, idk same concept as the getting to other town things ig, but really it just gives you more dialogue and then the good end if you get all of em. like, youll have to do a thing (my brain is saying skillcheck but i dont think thats what it is...) to avoid them 2-4 times.

and then youll just escape and leave the town and never return. oh yeah, no package for that bleh. sorry man had to happen for the plot

orrrr

if you fail any one of these times, you wont continue exploring or get to escape, youll be brought to eye.

the bad end.

very ombismois, i know, i know >:)

basically you get put in jail or stm, and you remember what some folks said about eye making ppl "disappear"

and then youre never heard from again<3

BUT BUT BUTTTTTTTTT

theres also a secret end. (well, secret-ish. considering im telling you. but like, even *i* dont know the details yet on how thatll go. soooo)

which is basically if you deliver the package. not sure exactly how or what happens, but it's that.

so theres nico's super long yap sesh about the plot that totally didnt take almost 4 hours to type!!!

oh yeah btw the package was a pair of gray socks