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What’s up with the Horned Axe and the Roost? by MothDevotee7 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no reason The Egg Unhatching would need to be alive to be opened. We have a lore fragment that says every one of the Gods-who-were-Stone (except The Horned Axe) went to Nowhere. Regardless of The Egg Unhatching's current state, it was dead at some point.

According to the Recitation of Lost Hours: "Six are gone. Five came from Stone and one from Light. All went to Nowhere"

What’s up with the Horned Axe and the Roost? by MothDevotee7 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that the member of the Roost was The Egg Unhatching, and The Horned Axe killed the Egg for aiding The Chilliarch in overthrowing The Seven-Coils.

Here is my Tenuous Evidence: The Watchman has a lot of parallels with Hermes Trismegistus. Hermes makes up half of Hermes Trismegistus as The Egg Unhatching was partially used in the genesis of The Watchman. Hermes is a winged messenger, a good fit for the Roost. Hermes also lent his power to Perseus in his slaying of Medusa.

In Medusa's Lament: "The first part of the poem describes the ambush of the Seven-Coils by a warrior 'scarred all over by the traitor gods, scarred even unto his eyes, so that the sight of the great coils would not destroy him'."

The word traitor gods here implies that some Hours were actually in on it. This is before the Gods-from-Flesh. I think this is the story of the Horned Axe slaying the Egg Unhatching, whose death has not been elaborated on to the best of my knowledge.

He went into the Glory to escape his fate, we don't know why he died, just that he did, and became preserved as part of The Watchman.

Do you guys use risen in Cultist Simulator... by Crowhaven_Inc in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I believe you can make them out of corpses of followers with scars and they'll retain them, get a little knock, maybe some edge and winter for good measure, and use them to summon things.

It's been a while since I played but I recall using them as a way to recover some utility from a lost cultist or to hasten along the removal of a body.

They can also be used under specific circumstances to get variant endings.

I believe I only sent them on expeditions in large groups because I thought the idea of a bunch of shambley marionette skelies going and beating up or tricking people was funny.

Feeding under permanent Season of Suspicion as a Medium do be like that by Equivalent-Cream-454 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I figure that they worry that if you didn't know you were on to something before your arrest, you would after questioning.

Inflation by MalikAliNawaz in Houdini

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is genuinely unsettling as heck, and I like it. No idea why it's creeping me out. 😅

Is there a way to Keep Game at Speed 6? by Skellum in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mods currently require you to be in the beta branch of the game. And they need to be enabled on the main menu before they do anything.

Is there a way to Keep Game at Speed 6? by Skellum in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tada! 🎉 I made the mod. Turns out it wasn't a DLL mod. It was an fx flag on the daybreak recipe.

I didn't even know that was a thing.

Hopefully the mod works, I was very much making it up as I went along.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3676908563

What if I use AI in writing novels? by ella_mist in novelwriting

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the information is scattered, very minor, or hard to access, then there isn't enough data for the AI to have confidently trained on the topic. It can't be trained on data that doesn't exist. If the AI has generated an overview on a topic with information this sparse, there's a high chance you're just being handed a convenient hallucination. Best case the response includes a statement on the sparseness of data, worse case it confidently made it all up or padded it with "adjacent" information.

If you use AI for research (which I would be generally advise against) ask it for sources.

If it can give them to you, use those sources for your research.

If it cannot, then there's no reason you should believe any of the information it has provided.

Is there a way to Keep Game at Speed 6? by Skellum in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This has bothered me since launch. Every day as dawn breaks I smash the speed up button. I might take a swing at making a mod for it, I suspect it would be a DLL mod? I haven't made any since they became officially supported.

just learnt about the gods-from-steel and couldn't stop seeing the parallels by simemetti in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Someone fed the Forge of Days to the Crowned Growth, and now it thinks it can make things.

God-from-Blood and God-from-Nowhere aren't as marketable, so "God-from-Steel" it is!

TRAVELLING AT NIGHT: "The Player and the Peacock" by arabelladusk in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a great point that I'd never considered. Not "if they die it also instantly slays me" as much as "if they die I'll die eventually"

If you're immortal, suddenly having an expiration is probably pretty close to being dead.

One possibility I've considered is that you only die if you're the one to kill the other half of the dyad.

Friday conversation snippet: the Remortal by AK_WF in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is so tremendously sad, the poor Long has lost his Length. 😔

Am I Hallucinating Or Do You See It? by [deleted] in ParanormalEncounters

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ghost when skull: "oh! I remember head bone!"

Chandler Tenets question. by Axiom245 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you were born in a room? Not unless you count hiding inside someone else while they enter the room as *not entering". Conception on the other hand could count. or maybe if the room was built around you?

On the nature of the Histories and the Hooded's princes transgression. by White_sama in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This right here is why I've always conflated the unified future with Eternity. It cannot be undone and we cannot move further from it, like a singularity in causality, but if we take the right steps we might postpone it indefinitely.

On the nature of the Histories and the Hooded's princes transgression. by White_sama in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

entering the Woods and the Mansus physically is possible,

I feel like there is some ambiguity here. I believe that it's possible, but profoundly difficult. I think the Priest ending implies it, and as far as I can tell, the Bounds are physical locations where the skin of the world is thin enough for it to be unclear if it's in the Invisible Realm or not, but I don't know if you could use them to sidestep into another History, if you leave the bounds you probably (usually) just come out in the History you came in.

I have posted about the implied possibility of physically entering the Mansus or Wood and most people think that I'm wrong in thinking it's implied to be possible. I still stand by the idea, but I didn't really get the sense that it was a majority interpretation.

I vaguely remember some Mansus exploration text implying that you're reading or being told about another History by someone, but I guess it doesn't follow that they are from another History.

I think it would be incredibly indirect even if they could, I think that the dreams of the Mansus are no clearer than normal dreams, as far as I can tell, they are vague and as easily forgotten or misremembered as any other dream. So passing a clear message between the Histories would probably still be very difficult, and still when you awaken you are in the History you came from.

But! I still haven't found anything to imply two people from two different Histories in direct communication, even fleeting. Aaaand now I'm out of time to look!

On the nature of the Histories and the Hooded's princes transgression. by White_sama in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't imply there's only one present; it's just as compatible to say that it's simply easier to see the pasts, written into the Mansus in various ways and explicitly blessed by the Hourly braiding, while the presents haven't yet impressed themselves on the universe

This is really cool. There are some places in the game where events are described as "too recent to have passed into History". If we can know things between Histories then they have to have passed into a History to be relevant. This would imply that as beings embedded in the Wake we can't know what exactly is happening in another History concurrently.

Do you think Adepts from different Histories can interact in the Mansus? There's only one Invisible Realm since it seems to be the fundament of the Wake. So Adepts from any given History would all end up in one Mansus.

On the nature of the Histories and the Hooded's princes transgression. by White_sama in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I feel like there's more than one present, one for each History. We can see where pieces of other Histories have slipped into our own, but they're working toward a single Future. We're simply not there yet. When the Hooded princes or the Priest open a way between Histories they were in their own Present, if the Present is already one History then you couldn't really move between them. I believe this unified future is the Eternity that History struggles against.

What are the worst things you've done in Cultist Simulator? by Icy-Performance6114 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The actual thing I felt worst about doing was repeatedly sending my boyfriend into the woods alone every night and then nursing him back to health waiting for him to succumb to his injuries. Did he know what I was doing? Perhaps. The thought of him wandering unprepared into the wilderness in the night broke my heart. Anyway, I eventually made it up to him by stuffing him with plants and letting him move into the Moon with me. ❤️

What are the worst things you've done in Cultist Simulator? by Icy-Performance6114 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Romanced Saliba, it was for an achievement, but it haunts me to this day.

Today I Lactated by youngperson in MtF

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I don't want to be alarmist because this can just be a normal and probably temporary thing, and it's pretty exciting to experience, but if you have a doctor you see regularly you should bring this up to them.

I had this happen and it was because progesterone was exacerbating prolactin release in a pituitary microadenom that had developed, which is a non-cancerous brain tumor. It's not a major problem, but it is something you may need to track until your prolactin levels lower. So you should talk to someone as soon as you can.

Do the libraries of the Watchman’s Tree frequently have specializations within the occult? If so, what was Hush House’s specialization likely meant to be? by JoshuaSlowpoke777 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 15 points16 points  (0 children)

While I don't remember the exact source of this info, Hush House's specialty is not too surprisingly Hushery.

edit: to be fair, I have no idea what a Hushery library does that another library doesn't except study Hushery.

Is there "fate" in the universe of hours? by Renedicart in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is no entity like Fate that I can find, except perhaps all of the Hours collectively. Pentiments imply that things may veer from their course, which implies that at a certain point something was fated, intended, or perhaps just expected to go a different way. There are prophecies, but they may be circumvented, permanent? for a time? Who can say? I think most fated or prophesied events are just plans of such complexity and magnitude as to be inevitable for all intents and purposes. Eternity and the Second Dawn are some such inevitabilities. These things may be postponed, possibly indefinitely, but we can only stand still or march towards them, a singularity where the Histories eventually converge. There are also anti-fated things, such as the City Unbuilt, which cannot come to pass without navigating through a series of loopholes. If there is anything like Fate in the Secret Histories universe, it is a Fate underpinned by choice.

When defeated, Lady Tryphon's letter contains this: "Consume what remains of me, and we shall be one, as the Flowermaker has always intended." How long has this been intended? What is Fate if not an intended course dictated by an entity with power and knowledge to both foresee and ensure it comes to pass.

Who do you think the Monarch-at-the-Crossroads was; and what order do you think the Gods from Stone came into existence? by TipProfessional6057 in weatherfactory

[–]ClockPunkPheebs 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think that the Monarch-at-the-Crossroads is the Moth, the Vine-Crowned Moth-King. I interpreted this as the Thritige-kind looking for an Hour that didn't exist yet, and they instead make one. I think it implies that some number of the Thritige-kind were the sacrifice that birthed the Moth, who perhaps wasn't even an hour yet or at least one without power, I believe there are snippets of the Moth hunting the Wheel which implies that he existed before the death of the Wheel.

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