Update on Cult of the Lamb's "WEIRD ROUTE"
Hey guys! welcome back!! ive been busy as of late handling college and responsibilities, but now im back to showcase more of this weird route i've discovered!! i'll provide a tutorial on how to access this 'secret route' and how i managed to figure it out, so keep an eye out for that!!
ok., since woolhaven got released, i went ahead and bought the dlc since this 'SoulGrave' or weird route talked about a different side to it, specifically, "Side B"- which makes me curious if I can figure out how to get to "Side A" at one point, but one of my friends suggested I try the route again but abort at one of the times we were supposed to push Narinder in still being his worst self instead of making him become better like in canon!! I'll show off how that goes in a later post
alt text: woolhaven side-b???
But I digress. I went ahead and downloaded a copy of Woolhaven to use on my pirated copy of Cult of the Lamb (I'll buy the actual game I swear!!!! ;w;) and nothing should've happened of course, esp after I installed it and left to go to bed cuz I had college the next day TvT. And it started off fairly well, with the usual fanfare of seeing massive monster and digital revolver, but it wasnt until i clicked to play that things were.. off??
alt text: the startup intro but its all greyscale and glitchy, most notably the pupil is gone
yo. and i was met with one of the creepiest title screens ive seen in a while. and it was raining?? and the lamb didnt have a mouth!! and it was just. the ambience of the rain, but all distorted. all other gui elements were blacked out, and it was super foggy, and all the followers praising the lamb were.. just gone.
and the crown was just staring
im starting to think im haunted XDD
alt text: the main menu but greyscale. its raining, and only woolhaven is highlighted as all other GUI elements are blacked out or missing. "play", "dlc", and "settings" are accessible. the lamb has no face, the crown's eye is only a single dot.
and wehn you press play, you dont even get to the save files menu :<
it immediately boots you to- well, the intro.
the intro was. something! but uh, cw for flashing lights, for those w/ epsilepsy. and for those who scare easily, theres a jumpscare of smth with three eyes?? loud noises are to be expected, and ofc cw for drowning/thalassophobia.
it started off with the cutscene i've shared in my addendum post as you can see there, before we cut to them in the middle of floating under the ocean, and then- theyre just surrounded by lights. it was almost beautiful, if it wasnt ominous. narinder spoke about how they werent above the consequences, about how they still had need of the lamb, before eventually: they got dragged down further into the depths
again, CW for flashing/erratic lights!!! jumpscares!! loud noises!!! drowning and thalassophobia!!!
alt text: intro starts off with the secret cutscene of narinder lamenting their situation, before it briefly cuts to the waltz and then suddenly, glitches to be extremely bright, and it becomes brighter as narinder says the following:
Narinder: (Never forget.)
Narinder: (I still have need of you.)
Narinder: (We aren't above the consequences.)
as for what i was immediately met with afterwards- uh.
its best if i just show you immediately what i was met with:
alt text: a greyscaled landscape. greyed out grass and white paths, darkness surrounds the area while ultraviolet grass stands out. the lamb stands in the center, disheveled w/ black tracks of tears down their face, frowning. the ichor bar has been replaced with a sanity meter, the hunger bar still remains, and the health bar is there. the colors for the GUI elements are inverted, and the lamb is low on everything. there is a compass in the top right, and the quest bar only says "FIND NARINDER" over and over again
um?? okay!! theres a lot to unpack. It just loaded me into this weird greyscaled void-like landscape where it seems to be a copy of the overworld- and god this sounds like a creepypasta, but I recognized where it was coming from: it looked specifically like the cult grounds, but with this intense RGB-kind of color palette mixed with greyscale which just made this eye-burning contrast?? it really hurt to look at but i moved on, morbidly curious about what the fuck was going on with this route.
where the quest menu was supposed to be, instead of a normal quest like "brainwash this idiot",, it just kept saying "FIND NARINDER" over and over. which confused me since in the last time we've seen them,., they were in the ocean, tightly holding their hands together in this fucked up murder-suicide. the game insisted on it so much the words literally went past the quest border???
i mean- what do i even say to that? its literally going past the border of the quest border.
regardless- besides that, what immediately caught my eye next was lamb's change in form.
they... looked like a mess. which- makes a lot of sense considering he came directly from the ocean to wherever funland we're in- and the marks on their eyes- which actually reminded me, i was looking back to one of the posts i made about the weird route and i noticed, in one part of narinder and lamb dragging themselves further down into the ocean, that the lamb was crying at one point during the drowning sequence here!!!
the lamb was walking so damn slow, and i wanted to explore as much as possible while im in this secret world (still not sure if its something leftover from the developers, or if it was scrapped and i managed to get access to it somehow- lucky me!!!)
the most peculiar thing is the change in UI elements here?? the colors were inverted but the outlines weren't!! instead of ichor, i had this brain with red marks all over it, the hunger bar, and the health was really low
makes sense, considering lamb was drowning, but the fact they lived still is a testament to their perseverance
i have more to share but i fear this blog is getting WAY too long so im going to stop here, this is just part 1 so far, so expect part 2 by next week!!! <3
(MORE WILL BE ADDED AS WE G0)
PART 1 / PART 2
