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    Five Pebbles is being consumed by his past mistakes. His can festers away, each cycle spreading the malignant Rot inside, and struggle as he may, there is no escape. But a single pearl, stumbled upon by his last citizen, Artificer, in a stroke of pure luck, shows him a way out. A way to free himself from his can, escape the Rot, and maybe find a way to redeem himself for his past. It's as simple as cutting a puppet's strings.

    The outside world is dangerous, but with determination and fierce companionship, Pebbles and his group of strange slugcat companions can not only survive, but find a place for themselves in the world, where the new civilizations of slugcat and scavenger rise from the ashes of the ancients. The ghosts of the past can be overcome, and a new future found, but it will require no shortage of bravery, insight, and determination.

    Breaking free is just the first step. The real challenge begins after.

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    After defeating Lace in the cradle, Hornet finds herself unable to leave the child of silk behind, and equally uncertain of her ability to confront Mother Silk.

    Perhaps, if she can convince Lace to change her allegiance, she’ll have a better chance.

    Hornet and Lace go from Songclave to Bone bottom, no Bellways, no falling down the big ass hole to moss grotto. and knowing my writing tendencies, they’re probably gonna be a lil gay about it along the way :3

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    20 Dec 2025

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    During her travels, Hornet finds a mysterious shackle meant to bind malfunctioning automatons for future disassembly. Such a discovery would be insignificant — except more and more similar shackles keep appearing around the choral chambers, as if hunting a certain prey.

    She's not the only one who has noticed. The Second Sentinel of Pharloom remembers such shackles from ages ago — and if their suspicion is correct, it is not just themselves who is in danger from an old hunter's obsession.

    It will take both of their combined strength to combat this unseen foe…

    (…and if that draws them closer together, well. That's just a bonus.)

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    20 Dec 2025

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    He thought he was above it all—the Cycle, that mortal strife. That he would never truly know the pain of his creators, only that which was unique to his own kind. Cursed with godly privilege, a life that would not yield before he had solved the unsolvable or eroded into dust.

    It was not a relief to be proven wrong.

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    Pebbles gets Cycled. Faced with the inevitability of his death and rebirth, he forges a new path.

    Far in the future, a lone courier grapples with an impossible mission.

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    05 May 2024

  5. Rec 37

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    Iterators were built to last, to iterate for an eternity and longer, to solve the great problem. The creation of Shifting Gales didn't follow that dogma, its acidic consequences at last having breached her veins, corroding her now from the inside out.

    Cursed to waste away slowly, until dissolving into nothingness.

    Gales' local group didn't accept the cruelty of fate, of the Ancients' distant mockery, and halted their primary objective to help their friend in peril.
    As they worked tirelessly on a solution, a small, soon-to-be glowing, Slugcat was purposed to fulfil a crucial mission.

    Slow updates due to thesis work

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    24 May 2024