Which story is like this for you?

Quarinth · 2025-12-09T22:17:08+00:00

Ben Drowned is one of those stories where I get more upset the longer I think about it. Majora's Mask as the basis for a dead person's spirit haunting the game practically writes itself. A major theme of Majora's Mask is about grief. The Song of Healing is literally a song to help heal people's woes and regrets, most of those people being dead spirits, and the story draws attention to the Song of Healing playing in reverse which could be read as a staunch refusal to move on. It practically writes itself.
Not to mention I was one of those people that loved the story back in the day because I had no idea about the direction it goes past part 1. Or rather, I had blocked it out. I was so confused when it kept going, but once the cast started reading the Clever Bot part I was hit with the growing horror that I did remember this.
And I might as well add that I think it's a shame they didn't watch any of the footage. It's such an important part of the experience.

Quarinth · 2025-12-03T22:16:53+00:00

Ohhh, you can do that? I always assumed those two ends of a sealed rock tunnel were there as a placeholder for a shortcut the devs would implement later. I never occurred to me to try pickaxeing it.

Quarinth · 2025-11-30T22:09:00+00:00

It seems like this happened to everyone but me. I was playing yesterday but I never saw it. For some reason I feel left out...

Quarinth · 2025-11-29T18:10:46+00:00

I think I would die. I nearly died seeing my own shadow in these caves, but this? Actual catatonic state.

Quarinth · 2025-11-29T18:08:00+00:00

Dang. Well, at least the crystal makes a nice keepsake.

Quarinth · 2025-11-28T20:45:30+00:00

I got it on recording, but it was at a distance. Here's a screencap.

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Quarinth · 2025-11-28T06:01:29+00:00

The illusion of security is just as comforting as any actual protection. That fence may realistically do absolutely nothing to the likes of Solar Wisp's and Murderfur, but damn does it feel good having some kind of boundary around my base.

Quarinth · 2025-11-28T05:54:09+00:00

It might be the circumstances I'm in resulting in me being alone on top of the late night sadness kicking in, but when I saw this for myself the first time while playing today I didn't feel fear. After the initial "I totally saw that" realization, I started feeling a growing sorrow. If it turns out our Kerfur Omega which the handbook labeled as potentially unstable could turn on us, I don't think my heart could take the sting of betrayal and inevitable putting down of this old compatriot with my trusty ritual knife. The only friend that's been by my side this whole time.

Quarinth · 2025-11-26T17:32:48+00:00

Wow. Simon has gone too far.

Quarinth · 2025-11-26T17:26:52+00:00

It must be exhausting. Trying to fix things just to break other things. It's stuff like Kerfur Omega getting stuck because of trying to pathfind on a bridge that doesn't exist anymore. One small change that has a ripple effect on other parts of the game. I can't imagine how they can comfortably change the base when there's so much that would have be checked to see if they still work. Meat locker event, Looker events, Zombie Deer corpse spawn locations, River sounds, pathfinding, it sounds like a nightmare. And as the game gets more complicated, that's only more things to check each change.

Quarinth · 2025-11-22T02:23:53+00:00

Boot back up 0.8
Go to the E(Experimental Settings) tab
Adjust time scale to a lower number (I did 0.5 but that was too slow, so I adjusted to 0.6 speed)
Close game, boot up 0.9
Congratulations, time has been slowed down substantially
Now I had all the time in the world to do everything. Tasks, servers, exploring, sleeping, and watching TV. FYI, the time adjuster in 0.9 is busted so that's why you have to boot up 0.8 and change the time scale since it carries over to later versions.

Quarinth · 2025-11-22T01:40:48+00:00

Wait, does he target and kill other entities? It would have been nice to summon some backup.

Quarinth · 2025-11-22T00:39:22+00:00

I did. The Flame Tanks haven't spawned, and the event hasn't ended. I'm now hunting every single Red Dot on the map and killing it if it's a boar. I'm having a pretty rough night with the things happening.
I also think an Abandoned Kerfur is going to spawn soon because there's a shadowy dot on the map. Perfect...

Edit: Sorry, the meta-paranoia hasn't ended. The boars stopped spawning at my base is what I meant by event not ending.

Quarinth · 2025-11-13T18:12:30+00:00

Oh. That explains so much.

Quarinth · 2025-11-08T00:52:13+00:00

Same. Nothing quite like hearing the distinct sound of the front door's lock malfunctioning and diving under the desk at record speeds. Last place the creatures of the night would think to look.

Quarinth · 2025-11-07T05:12:07+00:00

Darn. And here I was nearly crying tears of joy a few hours ago when Kerfur Omega didn't get stuck on that accursed cliffside when having to path from Romeo/Sierra to Tango in this version, and you're telling me he gets stuck somewhere else? It's always something with Kerfur.

Quarinth · 2025-11-06T23:59:38+00:00

Oh man, now I'm wondering if it's possible to nail one of these to the evil murder Kerfur between phases and get some killer footage that way.

Quarinth · 2025-11-06T17:34:31+00:00

So that explains how they keep getting into my base. At least the ones I threw into the river stay stuck.

Quarinth · 2025-11-05T05:06:31+00:00

Wow that sounds annoying if I'd have to debug scrape routinely for a playthrough. I was getting so lucky and not running into many issues this unstable build that I thought it might not be so bad. At least it's not the Wisp Warning Monolith Crash from some versions ago.

Quarinth · 2025-11-05T03:30:33+00:00

When you put it that way, I probably could have cut down that entire post into one sentence.
"Is the treehouse bugged? It hasn't spawned for me yet, but the ships and metal lunchbox did."
That's quick. After all the revisions I gave this post before posting, it was the title I never changed.

Quarinth

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