eee.io/npc
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Below are a collection of excerpts from various sources, all related to the popular Eee.io NPC mystery.
Excerpt from The Wiki Camp 2
Eee.io (Excellent Enigmatic Explorers) is a popular web browser game about controlling a circle throughout a large abstract map in order to find random items. The player receives points throughout the game for collecting each item, which adds up to a final score upon death.
At the start of the game, the player is given a list (called the Crazy Collector's Checklist in-game), which provides hints pointing towards a random group of specific items. Each item has a different rarity and class. A run ends when the player dies, either from another player (through PvP combat) or from their environment. Every item has its own base score, with higher rarities generally giving higher score. In addition to this, items listed on the player's CCC grant higher score (though it is still possible and valuable to collect items not listed,) items of the same class boost each others' score, and many items have special effects which change score in many different ways.
The game holds many similarities to Agar.io, with the map and all items being represented as abstract polygons and all players being coloured circles, and could be considered part of the ".io genre."
Despite not receiving any updates for several...
Excerpt from the Eee.io Wiki
 You might think it's a bit weird to be collecting a person, but the NPC doesn't mind. They're the hardest Collector's Item to find, but if you do, you'll be able to have a nice chat with them... and also you get, like, a bajillion points! | |
| Stats | |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Legendary |
| Class | Classless |
| Points | 99,999,990 |
| Special Effects | None |
| Hint | "NPC doesn't like being around people very much." |
The NPC is a non-player character present within eee.io[citation needed], as well as one of three Legendary Collector's Items. As of yet, it is the only item in the game which has never been found.
Appearance
The NPC's silhouette in its CCC hint is that of a strange blob, with what appears to be a top hat. Some players theorize that the blob is meant to be a coat or other clothing applied onto a player circle.
Strategy
The NPC seems to be intended as a high-risk, high-reward item. Despite being a Legendary item, there are essentially zero synergies the NPC provides, unlike the Jackhammer and Tin Box - instead, its singular massive score is what prompts players to find it. The obvious downside to searching for the NPC is that, in the time it takes to find them, a player may be able to find many more items that aren't quite as good, but that would add up to be much more than this singular item provides. (Note that despite multiple items being listed as part of the same "Classless" class, they do not buff each other in any way.)
This is all without taking into account that the NPC has never been proven to exist in Eee.io. This means that a strategy involving finding the NPC is unprecedented - and, therefore, probably useless to the average player.
The NPC is a source of great frustration to All Checklist Speedruns (attempts to collect every item on your CCC before death.) The strategy for an NPC appearance on the Checklist is to simply die and reset the run.
Speculation
The NPC has never been conclusively found in-game. It is unclear whether this is a bug, a joke from the developers, or simply it being an extremely rare item. No developers have responded to queries about the NPC (and, given that the game has not received any updates for multiple years, it is unlikely players will receive one.) In addition, the game's status as an online browser game makes it hard to datamine effectively, although efforts are underway.
The hint for the NPC seems to suggest that it specifically avoids being around players. This has lead to speculation that it does exist, but has AI which causes it to pathfind away from incoming players (outside of their camera view.) This would then suggest that it is either impossible to collect, or that multiple players coming from different directions are required. It is unknown how this strategy could be implemented without figuring out its prior position.
Cluody @cloudythes I'm think the NPC was just a joke from the devs. This game is so dogshit!!!
Feb 14, 2022
A tweet by Cloudy, a well-known player.
There have been many hoaxes by players claiming to have collected the NPC, though none have provided compelling evidence. An example is shown below:
Trivia
- The NPC is one of only 6 classless items, the others being the Desk Chair, Treasure Map, Binoculars, Ancient Scroll, and Empty Bottle.
- Contrary to popular belief, the NPC is not the only item based on an animal, as there are multiple insect items, and insects are animals.
- It is implied in the NPC's description that players can initiate dialogue with them - however, it's unclear whether this is flavour text or hinting at a genuine gameplay mechanic.
- The NPC has been mentioned the most in...
Excerpt from an IRC conversation
| [14:42:54] | | | ( listen you NEED to help me!!!!! )> >:O | |
| [14:43:12] | | | ( you're literally the only person i've asked who's played the game )> <<" | |
| [14:44:15] | starlightDP | | | i mean |
| [14:44:31] | starlightDP | | | i played it like once |
| [14:44:40] | starlightDP | | | idk why you think i'm gonna be any help |
| [14:45:04] | starlightDP | | | or, why this is important to you at all |
| [14:45:14] | | | >:D <( cause it'd be so cool if we found it!!! ) | |
| [14:45:27] | | | (:/ <( listen. stuff from different games keeps showing up here and being alive. ) | |
| [14:45:46] | | | !! <( doesn't the npc sound like that sorta thing? and we have someone who's played the game and someone who can hop through hidden text!! ) | |
| [14:46:02] | starlightDP | | | that sounds fucking stupid |
| [14:46:10] | | | ( cmonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn )> ToT | |
| [14:46:30] | starlightDP | | | listen, you and me alone aren't gonna find a thing which doesn't exist |
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
what even is this thing
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oh, hold on
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Diary wipes the whiteboard clear of writing, save for a single "TOP TEXT" at the top.
( thanks! )> ^^;
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( it's someone from damn seal, i think )> :Oc
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why are we getting help from Damn seal??
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wait, is this a nerpa? ew.
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( it's more of, like, an effigy of a nerpa? all papery. )> ?:?
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what can it,. do.
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Paper Niko performs a Baikal Breeze, launching him into the air and letting him glide to the ground gracefully. He then uses a calculated Pipis Throw which hits a nearby tree. Paper Niko finishes the combo off by strengthening himself using Cement Bag and smashing the ricocheting pipis with a Pinniped Punch. The blue orb is blasted into the air faster than the other two can see.
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@@ <( wtf )
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( i didn't know it could do any of that )> :P
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^^ <( i just thought it was good at exploring, so, )
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well, i'm down to bring it if it doesn't do anything weird.
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Paper Niko has been added to the group. Will this lonely pinniped find solace in helping others on their quest? Only time will tell...
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Excerpt from a conversation on a wiki page
( what if it's just that no one has found it in game? )> :o
that's really unlikely
>:3 <( okay yeah but it's a LEGENDARY item, that's the point )
lemme look at something
"On average, a skilled player can expect to find a Legendary item around once every 20 games."
if its supposed to be legendary and theres, like, a million people who have played the game, then there's a 0.95^1000000% chance thats happened
( how much is that? )> :P
low
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
ummm hiiii i heard you needed a COOL girl with magic powers??
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well i have a totally cool awesome magic wand with magic powers if that could help... if you want! xD
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( how did you say that?? )> ?:?
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( but yeah we need help with finding something, can do do that? )> :D
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maybe!!
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Daisy has joined the party! yayy i love partys theyre soo fun if you do them with cool friends
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Excerpt from a video transcript
(Breeent.io is a well-known eee.io Youtuber. The following is from his video "How To Find The EEE.IO NPC??")
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"Yeah, I just- I just don't think it exists, y'know.
I mean even going past that no one has found it, it's like... such a shitty idea from a... from a gameplay standpoint
The whole point of the legendary items is that once you get them, you still have to build, you still have to work to build a strategy around them!
And so an item where the whole point is that you completely avoid strategy just to find it is... well, it's bad game design
Or, it would be bad game design if it existed
Personally, I still think... I still believe in the bug theory
Like, the devs had an idea for this item, and they realized it was really fucking terrible, so they never got past the initial hint
But they haven't updated the game since 2018 and so there was never an update that removed the junk data, and so it's still in the game
Although we all know the REAL reason
Fucking... ghost left in the files who appears if you get it on the checklist 666 times!
I legit love the theories people send me on..."
Excerpt from Girl Moby Dick
Whilst I was thus closely scanning her, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, she never heeded my presence, never troubled herself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book. Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference of her very strange. But savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them. At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Girl Socratic wisdom. I had noticed also that Girl Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other girl seamen in the inn. She made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of her acquaintances. All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there was something almost sublime in it. Here was a girl man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is—which was the only way she could get there—thrown among people as strange to her as though she were in the planet Girl Jupiter; and yet she seemed entirely at her ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with her own companionship; always equal to herself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt she had never heard there was such a thing as that. But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a girl man gives herself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old girl woman, she must have “broken her digester.”
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
Hey, Emoticon, I heard you were going on an awesome scavenger hunt! Can I join?
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( sure, i guess. more people searching can't hurt )> ^^
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unless the NPC is scared of more people. then it would hurt.
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ithink it's best to think POSITIVELY about this!!!!!
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Awesome!
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Does the NPC have socks?
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( i dunno? )> ?u?
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Do you think it has socks.
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( uhh, probably not? cause it's supposed to be viewed from the top, i think )> /:0
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I am on the TEAM now!!!!!!!
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our team should have a name!
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Let's be called, umm...
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Euh, I'd rather, not have my name in the team name actually?
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>:< <( hey, this team isn't supposed to have tahmahtoh on it!! )
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Yeah, what are YOU doing here!!
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get out of here, loser!
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*sniffle* Okay..... :sob:
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Excerpt from the unfinished Eee.io January 2019 changelog
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- Seals now give -5 points, rather than 0.
- Fixed a bug where the Preying Mantis' score was not buffed by the Bug Net (haha)
- Fixed a bug where an unimplemented NPC Legendary Collector's Item would appear in the Cool Collector's Checklist
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Excerpt from a wall and boxes in front of Team Umm... (without Tahmahtoh)
The three statements are not all true and not all false.
The middle box does not have the Key.
This box does not have the Key.
This box has the Key.
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
looks like we can't pass unless we solve the riddle.
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I give up. Let's go back.
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( but we just started.... )> TnT
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tehn lets go for an easier route!
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/:/ <( but the npc is supposed to be not around players, and this is the most secluded area around! )
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also, c'mon. this looks baby mode.
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We're never gonna solve it......
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it's the one on the left. i solved it in the time you took to say that.
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YEAH!!!!! the POWER of FRIENDSHIP saves the day again!!!!! ^u^
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no, it was me.
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( hey, i'm not great with physical space, but are we sure that wall is blocking us? )> ?:0c
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Wait, yeah!! This wall isn't even that big!!! We can just walk around it!
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Excerpts from several more walls and boxes
Each box has at most one false statement.
This box does not have the Key.
The key was handmade.
The left box does not have the Key.
The key was store-bought.
This box does not have the Key.
The middle box has the Key.
There are two Keys in this test! How Kind.
This box does not have a Key.
This box has a key.
At most one of these three statements are true.
There's only two boxes here. Also, stop walKing past the walls!
This box does not have a Key.
Exactly one of these two statements are true.
BTW there are POISON SPIKEBALLS to the sides of the wall so you HAVE to go through the door this time.
This box has a Key.
This box has a Key.
At least two of these three statements are false.
Ok there are poison spiKeballs ALSO THE BOXES WHICH DON'T HAVE KEYS EXPLODE WHEN YOU OPEN THEM SO YOU CAN'T OPEN ALL OF THEM!!!!
If the Key is in the middle box,
then the middle statement is true.
If the Key is in this box,
then the left statement is false.
The box with the Key has a false statement on it.
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
shoot.
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Oh man... I'm starting to become WALL HATER!!!
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i think i can figure this out, itll just take a sec.
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That was a joke. I would never hate anything enough to base my entire identity around it.
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(...then it would really be in a true box, so no matter what, the left one doesn't have the key...)
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EXCEPT SOCK!!!! I wanna make that clear, I really hate Sock, and also, all socks, and sock-related things.
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but waht about my COOL WARM minecraft socks i have???
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I hate those ALSO!
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Paper Niko walks next to the door and makes a pose. He flashes for a second, seeming to wind up, with steam appearing, before smashing the door with his fist and blasting it open. The path is clear.
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aw, what, i was actually getting into that.
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( i knew it'd be useful! )> ^^
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Excerpt of footage from a nearby security camera
Excerpt from a sign placed near a bridge
RULES OF THIS BRIDGE
- This bridge is only stable enough to hold two people at a time without collapsing.
- If you cross the bridge without being near the singular provided Ring of Passage, it will also collapse.
- You have 17 minutes to cross the bridge before it explodes.
- The rectangle takes 10 minutes to cross one way, the other rectangle takes 5 minutes, the circle takes 2 minutes, and the weird thing takes 1.
>:T <( that is not the point of jenga )
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
uh
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What happened to that big temple??
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it turned into... what, a construction site?
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I think it looks like a big game of JENGA!!!! and we have to knock it over ^w^
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>:T <( that is not the point of jenga )
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listen, we have to ignore that. we're running out of time here.
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how come ?
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read the fucking sign??
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psh, if you wanna get to the other side of the cliff, tath's easy!!!!
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Daisy pulls out her wand, and with a flick of the wrist (and a spell she learned during the Edit War,) everyone teleports to the other side of the cliff!!!
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Well, everyone except Emoticon, who can just hop onto some random text over there. There's a lot of writing in the temple.
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wh?
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pretty COOL, right?
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Why didn't you do that with the doors!!!
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wellllll, it takes a lot of energy, so i can't just be doign it whenever.....
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makes sense, i guess. now-
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oh!!! i wanna go inside the temple!!
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Daisy teleports the gang (sans Emoticon) into the temple.
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Excerpt of footage from a nearby security camera
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
Why are there plates on the ground? That's not where plates go!
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( gonna stop talking, don't wanna mess up these temple carvings too much )> :0
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hmmmmI can sense that these use similar magic to my teleport spell...... :3
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which would seem to indicate that it similarly teleports people somewhere? ^w^
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is that how magic works?
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yeah :D
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(btw emoticon isn't talking that's why i'm trying to use them more to pick up the slack xD)
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well, if the NPC likes to use teleporters, that explains why people can't find them.
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we should use one!!!!!!! :DDDDDD
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uh
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that seems dangerous.
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Cmon if it's supes bad on the other side i can just teleport us back ;3
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Excerpt from The Epic Electronic E-chat, a fan-made Discord server
You are also generally PISSED OFF right now.
You are pissed off because you have a lot of ROYAL DUTIES to attend to, and one more was just added.
You do not personally care at all, but it may shake morale were the wondrous and powerful Queen not attack a clear intruder.
That's not supposed to happen.
Also, the explosion looked suspiciously golden-yellow.
Excerpt from an IRL conversation
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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^^ <( nice work, daisy! )
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tahnks!!!!! ^w^
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uh, hey, it's coming closer.
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Daisy, are you gonna be able to block another one of those?
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hmmm.....
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( dude we don't got a lot of time )> :/
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i'mgonna go talk to them, ok?
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huh??
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listen u gyus land the ship! I'm gonna go tlak to them and everything will be good :D
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WTF are you doing
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Daisy jumps out of the ship, using her wand to propel herself through space.
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There aren't many useful things for you to do right now, given how far behind everyone you are.
There's also probably something interesting to do, but you don't want to put in the effort to find it.
Unfortunately, the Land of CUBES and TRANSPORTATION doesn't have much to offer. There's not much to do here except go from one place to another place, and both of the places are featureless white cubes.
You'd normally ask some of your friends to distract you, but recently you haven't been able to be with them as much. Stupid friends, going GOD TIER and doing IMPORTANT BUSINESS.
He talks about fixing and maintaining timelines, which are apparently something that need to be fixed and maintained.
You could probably ask Shadow to give you more time to be together, but it would almost feel like admitting you don't have anything important to do.
Today's apparently a very important day. Got lots of frog breeding to do, or something.
Well, she's kind of been going insane?
She'd be down to hang out, but you don't want to talk to her unless it's absolutely necessary.
Pick a planet to continue its story!
Make sure you've read all of them before continuing!
i wanna just add something to the first question, because i don't think "deal with it" is the most useful advice..
a lot of players see their land and go "wow, this place sucks, oh well," and then that's the end of their appreciation for it!!
no player has ever completed a sburb session without help from both parts of their land, so you might as well get used to it..
the land of [something boring] and transportation!!
which meant it was boring and also there were a bunch of cars and trains and shit going everywhere..
so learn those rules and use them to your advantage..
You've just gone GOD TIER, ascending to your heroic form as the SYLPH of WHEELS. This allows you to summon and control wheels, move fast, rotate things, and probably a lot of other powers. You didn't have a lot of time to playtest.
Go to the page eee.io/npc/[the top row] to continue the story!
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( hey, couldn't you just use the what links here page? )> ?:?