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Zemi
@slimey_ti
GUESS WHO GOT LIMITED EDITION DER MERCH
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aliens aren't real @killhepru
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twin, what did you get and do you have some for a poor beggar like me
Zemi @slimey_ti
Replying to @killhepru
a bureu jacket, photocards, figurines and blind boxes, and even... AGENT CHOI'S JAKDU, oh and i have nothing for you
aliens aren't real @killhepru
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your greed disgusts me
Zemi @slimey_ti
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buy it yourself, get a job bum
aliens aren't real @killhepru
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YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A JOB?????
Viper's missing eye
@ghostfanatic
why is the line so long i'm basically two hours early... god please stop giving me your hardest battles... i'm just a girl... i just want Viper's fountain pen...
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luwiiii (lotm 120) @micropinis
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that's what you get for stanning Viper
Viper's missing eye @ghostfanatic
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at least my king's alive, can't say much for agent spirit huh?
𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅~ shut up ~⋅₊˚𐙚 ‧ @cosi312
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you gotta arivive there 3 time slots ahead, camp if you have to
lsw stan @twsasucks
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baek saheon can not be worth this much effort bruh he literally sucks ass
mangomango @IHATEFRUITS
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of course this is coming from a bureu fan lol
patin @ahru
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fr bro, and it's the second last day too
sugary overload!!!
@bigchungus
saw a reseller in line, my day is ruined
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apples > bananas @ILOVEFRUITS
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pray to Ireum-nim for all resellers to die
sugary overload!!! @bigchungus
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made eye contact with him, he cowered with fear but still stood in line, Ireum-nim off him
i miss agent choi
@agentKS
the scariest thing in the world is teenagers looking at you, stop looking at me please please i just want merch
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ZzZZzZ @pentup
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it's cause you're an old man, they're wondering why a 72 yr old is out of their hospital bed
marble hornets is mid @pikachuuuu
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ahjussi, are your legs hurting from standing too long? old people really should take care of their health more, you're not young anymore
i miss agent choi @agentKS
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say "i've been here since the beginning" once and suddenly i'm a old man....
MIZISUA IS PEAK
@pinkblackette
why is there a sad middle-aged man here
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goku solos @agendaistop
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dealer
kim dokja's number 1 fan @eeeeep
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dealer!!!!
anny! @raggityann
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dealerrrrr
meow meow @meowski
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it's a dealer
# 🎧ྀི♪⋆.✮ general!
March 12, 2021
sweet brown sugar
I FINALLY GOT INSIDE
sweet brown sugar
AND I GOT THE JIN NASOL AND LEE YEONHWA FIGURINES THAT FIGHT WAS WORTH IT
who's this?
can you get me some merch
sweet brown sugar
hell no
witch
can i get some pookie
sweet brown sugar
ofc, agent mist?
witch
you know me so well
who's this?
what is this FAVORITISM
who's this?
i'm your FAMILY but SURE don't get me ANYTHING
sweet brown sugar
kay
witch
just order it online from resellers
who's this?
they always put it at a higher price tho, at this point i'll have nothing because SOMEONE can't find it in themselevs to give a gift to their cousin
sweet brown sugar
hey i offered for you to come with me
sweet brown sugar
just go tmrw, there's a ticket somewhere in my room for the early morning
sweet brown sugar
omg guys do you think i'll get the merch box if i do the roulette
witch
no
who's this?
no
sweet brown sugar
i'm going to do it
sweet brown sugar
I got a memopad
sweet brown sugar
A MEMOPAD
toby fox release chapter 5
lol never go gambling bro
toby fox release chapter 5
those things are rigged anyways
sweet brown sugar
i wish, i saw this one lucky guy win it not even 10 minutes after i got in
sweet brown sugar
the worst thing is that he's probably a reseller too
toby fox release chapter 5
should've bribed him
sweet brown sugar
?
toby fox release chapter 5
don't act like you're poor
sweet brown sugar
???????????
who's this?
okay but do you think he's selling on naver orrrrr
you can not be that desperate
Youtube ▶️
Huge DER Merch unboxing! + custom ordered merch
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yryuyu · 5 minutes ago
i can't believe DER became so popular there's a pop up store now
floweie· 2 minutes ago
this video called me poor in so many ways
bunnnuoe · 6 minutes ago
is... is that a real blade?
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r/DarkExplorationRecords · Posted by u/I_need_pie 4 days ago.
where to start?
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hi, i'm new to the community and recently got interested in DER by a friend of mine. i wanna get into it since it seems interesting, but where do i start?
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u/fuckyouanon530 points · 4 days ago
read anything but 1793PSYA.2001.NA31
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u/I_need_pie251 points · 4 days ago
that's the looky mart story right? but why avoid it, is it like horrible in a bad way?
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u/fuckyouanon251 points · 4 days ago
horrible in a bad way yes, and totally uncanon with a bullshit characterization
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u/iloveyouanon400 points · 4 days ago
ignore them OP, looky mart is a good story with great suspense, they're just mad cause some old man died
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u/fuckyouanon145 points · 4 days ago
put some respect on agent choi's NAME
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u/orfio503312 points · 10 days ago
you can generally start anywhere, what I did was click on a random log someone recommended me but I do suggest on reading about the world and organizations first. it'll be less confusing when you read it
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u/I_need_pie151 points · 4 days ago
any recs?
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u/orfio503255 points · 4 days ago
- And There Was Someone - Chorus Of Living Sacrifices - Her Memoir - Liar's Paradise
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u/I_need_pie182 points · 4 days ago
thanks so much! i'll be sure to check them out
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u/sugarbites120 points · 4 days ago
do you want like chronological order in-universe or in order from first published to recently published? i remeber there's like a huge google doc of it somewhere
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u/downtown-girl562 points · 4 days ago
DO NOT READ THE FROM THE BEGINNING oh my god they were so cringey, the vibe did not fit the horror genre at all thank god the wiki shifted towards daydream
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u/matchmakerexpert192 points · 4 days ago
excuse me??? dude the bureau time period was PEAK, unlike daydream stories where they gotta rely on overproduced gore, kills and one-dimensional cold characters that were seemingly all born psycho; the bureau stories were way more interesting when the deaths are taken seriously along with consequences and psychological effects on the agents who failed
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u/enligtnerfan201 points · 4 days ago
bro's acting as if the bureau characters don't all share the same personality
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u/matchmakerexpert182 points · 4 days ago
you're literally a Kwak Jaekang fan, you don't get to have speaking rights
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u/enligtnerfan80 points · 4 days ago
fair enough
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u/detectivekai821 points · 4 days ago
there's is a simple answer to your question, just go to AgentKS's Doc in it, all of the stories (yes every single one) are compiled and organized into lists focused on horror level, writing, povs, and the best of each organization along with a timeline of every story and death/introduction of characters. reminder, this is not a official guide but at this point it may as well be
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u/I_need_pie100 points · 4 days ago
woah that is... alot. this person has a lot of time on their hands
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u/I_need_pie93 points · 4 days ago
why is there a whole section dedicated to a character named agent choi
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u/detectivekai84 points · 4 days ago
would you believe me if i said the creator of this is a grown ass man with a mortgage
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u/ineedyouemployeeD420 points · 4 days ago
maybe start with daydream stories featuring employee D and jin nasol, those ones are the most straightforward and easily digested ones to read, then branch out towards the research team and characters like Viper. then the bureau, read the recent ones not the older ones cause they're better imo since the newer logs show more sides to the bureau and its own corruption than just it being the good to daydream's bad, and if you want the nameless church, it's extremely meta just to warn you if you don't like meta things
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u/O_O_O_O48 points · 4 days ago
newer bureau stories over the older ones? found the middle schooler
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u/shinygemmy78 points · 4 days ago
found the basement dweller
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water go lo
@mihido
Dark Exploration Records... I despise you with all my heart, you're ai horror slop fest for middle schoolers but for the hot characters, I'll read ONE log
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those logs are created by the human hands of edgy middle schoolers, get that right
water go lo @mihido
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you're telling me they know how to differentiate between a hyphen, em dash, and en dash
aso @asobosto
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do you
water go lo @mihido
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no
harvesting arc 🌽🐎🐔🍓 @ribbonmist
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just cause you don't like DER, doesn't mean it's ai
loveie @sheiri
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You gotta read the story ursper
water go lo @mihido
Replying to @sheiri
let me guess, it's some meta bullshit from ireum nim
aso @asobosto
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how do you know about ireum nim despite never reading it?
water go lo @mihido
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wow are you just gonna turbo stalk me and comment every where i go
Daily Viper @Vipersleftballsack
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which character was hot enough for you to read
water go lo @mihido
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glasses research dude
lucky cyan x queen is canon @luci_0
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FUCKING KWAK JAEKANG??????
silly :D @momo
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ain't no way it's that freak of all characters that gets haters reading DER 😭
water go lo
@mihido
wth it's lagging
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@mihido
is this normal for ya'll website
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aso @asobosto
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absolutely not
daly ˖ ݁𝜗𝜚. ݁₊
@oldestdream
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE WIKI IS DOWN WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO READ AT 2 AM NOW
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mokei @snoozy
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it's 4:50 pm
suffering arts student @fuckmf
Replying to @snoozy
maintenance takes like a whole day at the very least, the wiki's huge it's gonna take a whole week man
axoloits @hellomi
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chat, ao3 is still up and running
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r/DarkExplorationRecords · Posted by u/twisterupper 4 hours ago
Is the wiki still down?
Dicussion
does anyone know if the wiki is still down? I've been reading the latest posts because I downloaded them last night, but I see people panicking and crashing out over it. has the mods said anything about it yet?
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u/rumixjinu50 points · 4 hours ago
the wiki's down? i don't know anything about that but maybe your country blocked it and you need to use a vpn
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u/cialiocat55 points · 4 hours ago
not the case, the wiki's down in every country bro
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u/slideintome70 points · 4 hours ago
yep, still down i'm starting to think it's not maintenance...
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u/maplesyrup41 points · 4 hours ago
maybe the wiki got hacked?
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u/halowatcher32 points · 4 hours ago
oh man when was the last that happened? like 5 years ago?
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u/cardco_lol20 points · 4 hours ago
7, and it was because of a controversy revolving around some deaths, but it got fixed pretty quickly since the hacking was amateurish idk what would get people so heated this time tho
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u/deo_natbie39 points · 3 hours ago
mods haven't said anything and the official accounts haven't made any new announcements, they're all keeping quiet
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u/notaberdlyfan15 points · 3 hours ago
i can't be the only one who's a little peeved at that right?
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u/deo_natbie23 points · 3 hours ago
trust me you're not, every fan i've encountered is complaining about it i've just resorted to ao3 and wattpad for stories now
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u/notaberdlyfan20 points · 3 hours ago
fuck at this point maybe i should do that too
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Request Collection by meow_eeee
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08 Dec 2015
, , Various/Reader, Employee D/Reader, Baek Saheon/Reader, Agent Choi/Reader, Agent Yutnori/Reader, Kwak Jaekang/Reader, Uchiha Sasuke/Reader, Uzumaki Naruto/Reader, Garra/Reader, Hatake Kakashi/Reader, Harry Potter/Reader, Draco Malfoy/Reader, Tom Riddle/Reader, Severus Snape/Reader, Others/Reader, Etc, , , , , , , , , , ,, , , , ,
various smut oneshots of your favourite characters
ever wonder how your husbando or waifu fucks? well look no further, cause I'm here! i'm open to any characters, ones i've written before and ones i've never heard of. sfw requests are also allowed!
Disclaimer: I own none of these, all these stories belong to their creators.
Part 1 of Lemons~
Language: Korean Words: 200,301 Chapters: 69/69 Comments: 10,204 Kudos: 94,102 Hits: 534,031
Eyes, Arms, Legs, and Tongues by cockles
10 Jun 2013
, Baek Saheon & Reader, Baek Saheon/Reader, Employee D/Reader, Employee D & Reader, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
When a Viper’s eye catches you, there’s almost no way to escape. Baek Saheon’s fangs has latched onto you since you two were children, even after leaving and coming back; his obsession never faded, it only increased.
You keep quiet, bending to his will for the chance to hold that wish ticket, he’s the top rookie after all.
But when Lizard from Squad D starts to notice you… Well, Viper has never been one to back down.
Language: Korean Words: 182,491 Chapters: 50/50 Comments: 11,384 Kudos: 88,381 Hits: 512,473
A Drop In A Sea by Agent_KS
26 Apr 2014
, Agent Choi & Original Characters, Agent Choi & Supernatural Disaster Management Agency, , , , , , , ,
“You can’t save everyone.”
The Daydream’s employee voice was cruel, his lips curled, and his body language full of arrogance, even when captured.
“I know,” Choi said, with the languidity of someone who’s heard this a thousand times. “But, there’s no hurt in trying to.”
An interospection of Agent Choi through the years until his untimely death.
Language: Korean Words: 502,471 Chapters: 45/45 Comments: 9,293 Kudos: 103,472 Hits: 461,394
Insanity in Love by mydickishard
14 Sep 2013
, Kwak Jaekang/Reader, Mob/Reader, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
You never wanted to work in Daydream, you already had a job.
Yet, when you fall into a ghost story and get contaminated out of your mind, the so-called ‘pharmaceutical’ company decided it was better to research and examine you instead of granting you the mercy of death.
It was only fate that you ended up in the hands of an insane scientist, who is far too interested in your body.
Language: Korean Words: 40,203 Chapters: 4/4 Comments: 8,381 Kudos: 86,491 Hits: 410,492
DER PLEASE COME BACK
@goldielocks
it's been 10 days since the wiki went down, i've felt my body growing weaker and weaker. my hearing has gone almost extinct, my eye sight is gone, my bones are now made up of glass, every step i take when i wake up is full of pain and agony, my skin is dehydrated, my life is empty and gray
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you will not survive the winter if 10 days is hell for you
never say never @hrcalling
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girl honestly same, i NEED to see my evil pookie ms Flamingo
DER PLEASE COME BACK @goldielocks
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OMG SAME HOW CAN I SURVIVE WITHOUT READING ABOUT MR SEAGLE'S HORRIBLE ACTIONS!!!???
nice is not dead @u_u
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this is valid, one can not survive or flourish without its source of energy
i wanna suck on Tenna's tits @notsampton
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okay bro
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@N
the der wiki will be back up today, they are doing a retcon of it all
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DER PLEASE COME BACK @goldielocks
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N N N N ARE YOU SAYING THE TRUTH IS THIS REALRVEBIRUVCRBIU
Ireum-nim RP @me_meio
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//omg are you fr, like you're not fucking with me right
Agent Yutnori RP @softice2
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//when has our goat N ever lied??? i trust in our prophet!
Ireum-nim RP @me_meio
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//plot twist, N is actually ireum nim lol
thonksi @N3n3
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no way people really believe this shit
dick grayson is the best robin @kkkkkk
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i don't think anyone really believes them, it's just for fun yknow
robot boy @spink_!
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now i know this account is bullshit, wdym retcon???
coraline @winkies
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ikr, like at least try and make it believable
mallard simp
the retcon rumors are true, i'm the DER editors and mods; baek saheon doesn't exist, employee D gets depth beyond being a gag character, the bureau isn't sidelined, ireum-nim will appear, butterfly finally gets to fuck her old woman mallard manager, the daydream building gets bombed and everyone dies
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DER PLEASE COME BACK
@goldielocks
ITS BACK ITS BACK THE WIKI IS BACKKKKKKKKK
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Dark Exploration Wiki
@DER_wikioffical
The wiki is undergoing a slight retcon
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CEO of Agent Sha @shyine
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WHAT THE FUCK
7 o'clock @moimoimoi
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HUH WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE
i love miss holloway @starkidssss
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where's the lizard pfp, who's that twink
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@N
I'M RIGHT?????
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EVEN THEY'RE SURPRISED
Zemi
@slimey_ti
ON EVERYONE'S SOULS AGENT CHOI IS GONNA BE ALIVE AFTER THE RETCON🗣️🗣️🗣️
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aliens aren't real
@killhepru
YOU BET OUR SOULS ON A DOOMED BUREAU AGENT!?!
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Zemi @slimey_ti
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but there's not a zero percent chance the coolest character is dead!
aliens aren't real @killhepru
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u/tonguester_0_0_561 points · 4 days ago
The DER wiki stories are usually written in a report-like format from the perspective of a worker from Daydream or the SDMA, sometimes there's audio transcripts too. There are POV stories, a majority of them revolve around the Nameless Religion (at least for ones after 20XX), and are pretty short. If you're more interested in the POV stories, i suggest going to on the logs underneath the Nameless Religion tag, if not then the story "And They All Lived Unhappily" is a great start
u/insufferablemaniac151 points · 4 days ago
what? that is NOT a great start at all! the payoff and pain can't set in if you don't read the pre-existing logs about group B! it's like reading the last 10 pages of a book and reading it backwards
u/keylinepie98 points · 4 days ago
characters die all the timeeeee, and face it was group B really that great? group A is better
u/underscoreunderscore80 points · 4 days ago
What's with everyone liking the elite teams? Where's the love for the finishing teams!
u/author-torturer100 points · 4 days ago
i'm sorry that no one likes the mega evil human trash group
u/defenderoftomrrow67 points · 10 days ago
hey, not all of the finishing team are bad! not all of them have a history of violence, murder, and rape! remember, the qualification is that they don't have the abilities or skills to belong in the regular teams, which is usually accounted towards a major weakness or disability!
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