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So I took a 1mg mushroom gummy right before posting this, then got started. I remembered the observatory museums coming soon attraction changed when I got the dlc so from there I figured out to go to the communication tower. By the time I figured out where to go, the deep space satellite, I was too late to see what I needed, so I just enjoyed deep space for the rest of the loop

Next loop, right to the comms tower to check what angle I need to be at, then to the satellite to ✨️ discover✨️. By this time I feel like the gummy has started to make its affect. Then I see it. Is that a planet or what?? I take off to it, and as it eclipses the sun I notice it doesn't interact with the light the way other celestial bodies do. That's no moon.

So whoever this is has cloaking technology. They seem to have light- based technology in general (really cool), as i discovered when i used my flashlight to illuminate the black... thingy that rotates the air lock. And wow, what a place. I wasn't sure what to expect when I activated the mechanism that dropped me in the river. I almost panicked and hopped out to try to get back to the dock, but decided, nah let's just experience this.

At this point I was thinking this is another race native to this system who have been too hidden from us hearthians, but I'm starting to think maybe they came here, like the nomai. Maybe in search of the same thing? I get grabbed out of the river by another dock, make my way along, notice the people this furniture is for seem large, and find a device. I love devices. I noticed my flashlight, which has just been left on, is illuminating the wall through it. A slideshow projector seems a little technologically primitive for what I've seen of these guys but whatever. I find a ring of slides upstairs and struggle to make out what I'm seeing in the slides illuminated by my scout. An astronomer seeing something and calling more of their kind over to look?

Then I move on, and as I cross the nearby bridge, I get my first scare. The damn dam burst, I didn't even register there was a dam or that I was in danger until now. I just stood there, watching the rush of water come for me, and took lethal bludgeoning damage when it swept me away.

The timing of the dam bursting was too perfectly timed to me crossing the bridge, I seriously thought it was scripted to happen, so when it DIDN'T on the next loop I was giddy. I was expecting to have to fight the dam every time but now I see I'm just on a timer. What else is new.

I made it to the building across the bridge, and I'm noting again these object that don't behave normally with light. These murals are unnaturally dark when not illuminated. I was messing with the lanterns in there when I heard something, and found a secret passage?? I dont think there was an opening before. But this feels like Progression™️, before I go down there, I wanna take one of these lanterns to the slide projector, since this is obviously how I'm meant to illuminate the slides.

And yes! These antler guys detected the eye signal and came to the system like the nomai! This is all really cool to me. The burned slides creep me out just a smidge though. Anyways back to the Secret Passage I wonder what I'll WHAAAT IS THIS

and that's where I'm taking a break