very importantly, the two games, despite them mostly just being single and multiplayer versions of each other with a few noticeable differences, have different storylines as they take place at different points on the timeline. Don’t starve, the first one, is a single player survival game in which you play as a character that has made a deal with the god king of this realm, a former British magician named Maxwell, who stumbled upon a tome of magical spells called the Codex Umbra, which he started using in his shows, becoming popular. On his last show, he and his assistant accidentally messed up a spell and let a shadow creature from a nightmare world onto their world, causing the 1906 earthquake. Maxwell and his assistant, Charlie, were sucked into this world, currently a void, with nothing but dust, and them. “Them,” meaning the shadow creatures that control this world. The creatures turned Charlie into a monster and made Maxwell a king, trapping him on a throne and giving him godlike powers of creation. He builds a world, and becomes bored. So he kidnaps several people from earth by making deals with them and sucking them into the world, called the constant. You play as these people, trying to survive in a nightmarish hellscape designed to kill you. Also, Charlie is the creature that kills you in the dark. Eventually, you can find a portal called Maxwell’s door, allowing you to go through a series of challenges in order to try and make your way out of the realm. 5 challenges, the last one being called lights out. Try and survive in a world with no sunlight. If you do by always keeping a light with you, you can find Maxwell chained to a throne and powerless. (He was previously shown to be almost all powerful, as he can send out avatars of himself to interact with the world he made) Using a key, you can unchain Maxwell, where he then turns to dust from old age, the throne having kept him alive. You are then taken by the shadow creatures and placed on the throne, becoming the new nightmare king. That’s where the first game ends with its optional ending.
Huh. Definitely not what I'd expect, even with knowledge of the giant spiders, deadly dark, and mutant pig men.
I sometimes wonder how people even come up with these ideas.
Though since you get on the throne, is there a mode where you get to play as the king killing NPC survivors. (Who are likely buffed to make it hard to kill them.)
just gonna summarize some of the playable characters in don’t starve together for ya. (Btw Maxwell comes back because magic I guess and is now a playable character, trapped in a realm of his own creation)
oh and the game takes place in the 1920s.
Wilson (the inventor) is an inventor who thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is. He does somehow have the miraculous ability to transmute materials into others, most characters have some unexplained magic ability. He lived in the woods trying to create some unknown machine, Maxwell made a deal with him to give him infinite knowledge, and led him to build Maxwell’s portal. Wilson is the default character.
Willow (the fire starter) is a pyromaniacal orphan who has a confirmed kill count of hundreds. She burnt down an orphanage when one of the workers took her favorite toy. She starts with a lighter and a teddy bear. She’s immune to fire and gains sanity when burning things. The teddy bear, when she goes insane, becomes giant and animates to protect her from nightmare creatures.
Wendy (the bereaved) is a girl who just really wants to be with her sister. Her dead sister. She is the niece of Maxwell but never met him, and has a flower that allows her to summon the ghost of her sister to defend her. (The sisters name is Abigail) Maxwell made a deal with Wendy for her to get her dead sister back.
Webber (the Undigestible) is a boy who was attacked by a spider who made its way to the real world, who his dad was experimenting on, having gotten it from a scientist friend studying the constant from the outside. Webber was swallowed by the spider but not really, they fused together into one being due to the experiments his dad conducted. He is friendly to spiders and can lead them into battle, and start spider nests.
Maxwell (The Puppemaster) well, we went over him. Using his magic book, he can summon shadow servants to help him collect materials and fight, has a very high sanity score, and is as fragile as a wet Graham cracker. He can also create temporary shadow prisons to trap enemies. He casts spells using a material called nightmare fuel which you get from killing nightmare creatures when you go insane. He can make a connected hat and magician’s closet which he can use as a portable chest because magic.
They all sound super cool and powerful, but in reality they all die very easily, which is why the game is really hard. It is a survival game though, a horror survival, but a survival game nonetheless. So while the abilities affect the game greatly, it’s not at all like league of legends or similar games. All of the characters also have short animations on YouTube hinting to their backstory, like Wendy’s, called Wish you were here. (Super sad) and Willow’s, “From the Ashes,” (that’s where she burns down the orphanage)
Willow sounds like the spirit animal of anyone that's ever gone camping. Sitting around the campfire is one of the joys there.
Plus I've set dried Christmas wreaths on fire before. It's awesome because they go up quickly and the flames go high. Used one to start a fire in a firepit one time and it singed the leaves of the nearby tree :D
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Anyways Hi I’m back from eternal misery even though I was online just this morning and a lil while ago.
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Willow sounds like the spirit animal of anyone that's ever gone camping. Sitting around the campfire is one of the joys there.
Plus I've set dried Christmas wreaths on fire before. It's awesome because they go up quickly and the flames go high. Used one to start a fire in a firepit one time and it singed the leaves of the nearby tree :D
Who's your favorite character to use?
Willow, Maxwell, and I wanna try another character I haven’t yet mentioned sometime soon: Wanda.
wanda, the timekeeper, does not have a health bar. She has an age meter, which goes up passively and when she is attacked. She gets older throughout the day. When she is young, she is strong and fast, and when she is old, she is strong mentally and is frail. She will die in a few days naturally. She has three items that are special to her: a watch that makes her younger, costing nightmare fuel I believe to use and lets her live beyond a few days. A watch that lets her rewind her position and teleport, and a watch that lets her revive herself and other players if they die. She is canonically several hundred years old, and was stalked throughout time by a shadow creature before finally being caught as her time travel and revival watches broke (you can fix them in game) she is also the highest damage dealing character in the game, because she can craft a chain with a watch at the end with spinning knives, which is for some reason insanely dangerous. So yeah, that’s Wanda, and she’s as fragile as Maxwell.
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Yeah Wanda is terrifying. She is part of a small group of characters (including Wendy, Wigfrid, and Wolfgang, Wolfgang is strong and Wigfrid Is a method actor playing a Viking queen) that are actually really able to stand up against the monsters if you play them right. Like, if people try to defeat all the mini bosses, they usually play as one of them, usually Wolfgang and Wendy. Wendy’s sister Abigail is a tank.
Lotta things. Feels like everyone’s a jerk now (irl, here is great).
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Oooo a plot! Is it time for... the lore?
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Ooohohohohohoho yes!
there is… so much lore to this game.
very importantly, the two games, despite them mostly just being single and multiplayer versions of each other with a few noticeable differences, have different storylines as they take place at different points on the timeline. Don’t starve, the first one, is a single player survival game in which you play as a character that has made a deal with the god king of this realm, a former British magician named Maxwell, who stumbled upon a tome of magical spells called the Codex Umbra, which he started using in his shows, becoming popular. On his last show, he and his assistant accidentally messed up a spell and let a shadow creature from a nightmare world onto their world, causing the 1906 earthquake. Maxwell and his assistant, Charlie, were sucked into this world, currently a void, with nothing but dust, and them. “Them,” meaning the shadow creatures that control this world. The creatures turned Charlie into a monster and made Maxwell a king, trapping him on a throne and giving him godlike powers of creation. He builds a world, and becomes bored. So he kidnaps several people from earth by making deals with them and sucking them into the world, called the constant. You play as these people, trying to survive in a nightmarish hellscape designed to kill you. Also, Charlie is the creature that kills you in the dark. Eventually, you can find a portal called Maxwell’s door, allowing you to go through a series of challenges in order to try and make your way out of the realm. 5 challenges, the last one being called lights out. Try and survive in a world with no sunlight. If you do by always keeping a light with you, you can find Maxwell chained to a throne and powerless. (He was previously shown to be almost all powerful, as he can send out avatars of himself to interact with the world he made) Using a key, you can unchain Maxwell, where he then turns to dust from old age, the throne having kept him alive. You are then taken by the shadow creatures and placed on the throne, becoming the new nightmare king. That’s where the first game ends with its optional ending.
Huh. Definitely not what I'd expect, even with knowledge of the giant spiders, deadly dark, and mutant pig men.
I sometimes wonder how people even come up with these ideas.
Though since you get on the throne, is there a mode where you get to play as the king killing NPC survivors. (Who are likely buffed to make it hard to kill them.)
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Unfortunately not, though that would be fun.
just gonna summarize some of the playable characters in don’t starve together for ya. (Btw Maxwell comes back because magic I guess and is now a playable character, trapped in a realm of his own creation)
oh and the game takes place in the 1920s.
Wilson (the inventor) is an inventor who thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is. He does somehow have the miraculous ability to transmute materials into others, most characters have some unexplained magic ability. He lived in the woods trying to create some unknown machine, Maxwell made a deal with him to give him infinite knowledge, and led him to build Maxwell’s portal. Wilson is the default character.
Willow (the fire starter) is a pyromaniacal orphan who has a confirmed kill count of hundreds. She burnt down an orphanage when one of the workers took her favorite toy. She starts with a lighter and a teddy bear. She’s immune to fire and gains sanity when burning things. The teddy bear, when she goes insane, becomes giant and animates to protect her from nightmare creatures.
Wendy (the bereaved) is a girl who just really wants to be with her sister. Her dead sister. She is the niece of Maxwell but never met him, and has a flower that allows her to summon the ghost of her sister to defend her. (The sisters name is Abigail) Maxwell made a deal with Wendy for her to get her dead sister back.
Webber (the Undigestible) is a boy who was attacked by a spider who made its way to the real world, who his dad was experimenting on, having gotten it from a scientist friend studying the constant from the outside. Webber was swallowed by the spider but not really, they fused together into one being due to the experiments his dad conducted. He is friendly to spiders and can lead them into battle, and start spider nests.
Maxwell (The Puppemaster) well, we went over him. Using his magic book, he can summon shadow servants to help him collect materials and fight, has a very high sanity score, and is as fragile as a wet Graham cracker. He can also create temporary shadow prisons to trap enemies. He casts spells using a material called nightmare fuel which you get from killing nightmare creatures when you go insane. He can make a connected hat and magician’s closet which he can use as a portable chest because magic.
and there are much, much more.
This game is way more in-depth than I thought. I did not think they'd mystic powers. I just thought they'd each have generic types of stats.
Instead it's appearing more like, even though I've never played it either so my analogy may be wrong, League of Legends heroes or something.
Webber scares me though. I don't like spiders and here we've got that boy leading spider armies.
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They all sound super cool and powerful, but in reality they all die very easily, which is why the game is really hard. It is a survival game though, a horror survival, but a survival game nonetheless. So while the abilities affect the game greatly, it’s not at all like league of legends or similar games. All of the characters also have short animations on YouTube hinting to their backstory, like Wendy’s, called Wish you were here. (Super sad) and Willow’s, “From the Ashes,” (that’s where she burns down the orphanage)
Willow sounds like the spirit animal of anyone that's ever gone camping. Sitting around the campfire is one of the joys there.
Plus I've set dried Christmas wreaths on fire before. It's awesome because they go up quickly and the flames go high. Used one to start a fire in a firepit one time and it singed the leaves of the nearby tree :D
Who's your favorite character to use?
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Found the gift from Vecna. Just a bunch of wallpapers, though — pretty underwhelming. (Check the first page for context)
Terra Lubridia archive:
The Bloody Barnacle | The Gut | The Athene Crusader | The Jewel of Atlantis
Yeah I got that too
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These gifts? https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/marketing/a_gift_from_vecna.zip
Yeah. Woulda preferred backgrounds for characters sheets personally.
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Anyways Hi I’m back from eternal misery even though I was online just this morning and a lil while ago.
My wings were clipped, my heart in a chain, I suffered then, I walked through pain, but even now I know my strength, and I know I'll go any length to save the ones I love.
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What's your misery?
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Life.
My wings were clipped, my heart in a chain, I suffered then, I walked through pain, but even now I know my strength, and I know I'll go any length to save the ones I love.
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Oh. What's going on right now that's rough?
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Willow, Maxwell, and I wanna try another character I haven’t yet mentioned sometime soon: Wanda.
wanda, the timekeeper, does not have a health bar. She has an age meter, which goes up passively and when she is attacked. She gets older throughout the day. When she is young, she is strong and fast, and when she is old, she is strong mentally and is frail. She will die in a few days naturally. She has three items that are special to her: a watch that makes her younger, costing nightmare fuel I believe to use and lets her live beyond a few days. A watch that lets her rewind her position and teleport, and a watch that lets her revive herself and other players if they die. She is canonically several hundred years old, and was stalked throughout time by a shadow creature before finally being caught as her time travel and revival watches broke (you can fix them in game) she is also the highest damage dealing character in the game, because she can craft a chain with a watch at the end with spinning knives, which is for some reason insanely dangerous. So yeah, that’s Wanda, and she’s as fragile as Maxwell.
Forget Vecna. Wanda is the Undying
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Goodnight!
Haiiiiii, I’m Druid! (he/they/it/moth/fae/star) I'm a smol insane queer lil' mess with a terrible mental state! I'm also a therian and furry :3 My current obsessions are The Amazing Digital Circus and Hazbin Hotel, so if you ever wanna chat about that, I'm always happy to! GIVE ME YOUR MONSTER.
"Oh no! Looks like I've taken Ragatha... AND DROPPED HER IN THE DEEP FRYER!" -Jax
Yeah Wanda is terrifying. She is part of a small group of characters (including Wendy, Wigfrid, and Wolfgang, Wolfgang is strong and Wigfrid Is a method actor playing a Viking queen) that are actually really able to stand up against the monsters if you play them right. Like, if people try to defeat all the mini bosses, they usually play as one of them, usually Wolfgang and Wendy. Wendy’s sister Abigail is a tank.
Lotta things. Feels like everyone’s a jerk now (irl, here is great).
My wings were clipped, my heart in a chain, I suffered then, I walked through pain, but even now I know my strength, and I know I'll go any length to save the ones I love.
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Ouch. What are they doing?
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