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a compilation of my Mara drawings! (OC from a mcrp server inspired by the qsmp)

^ also an Entoloma cameo! Another mcrp OC, this one is a pile of sculk who gained sentience! and later a body. yay!

CHAPTER 18

Now we are going back to our regular schedule of once a month, every 14-16!! Now, I rest

PREV// MASTERPOST // NEXT

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We see a menagerie of cats, some nothing but shadows, as text reads, “Lost pets, found.” We see the tail end of a snake, leaving a dirty cardboard box, as text reads, “Lost pets, unfound.”

We see a person on the moon petting a dog, both wearing astronaut suits and with a space society in the distance, as text reads, “A secret lost pet city on the moon.”

We see trees in the dark, their gnarled wood giving ways to eye-like knots, as text reads, “Trees that see.” We see a diner, with many satellites hanging down from the ceiling, spying on conversation as text reads, “Restaurants that hear.” We see a void in space, both dark and light, as text reads, “A void that thinks.”

We see the view from the bed of an apartment, a toothy smile shining in the darkness as text reads, “A face half-seen, just before falling asleep.” We see many shadowed hands reaching out of an ambiguous mass, as text reads, “Trembling hands, reaching for desperately needed items.” We see sandwiches, arranged in a grid and floating in the air, as text reads, “Sandwiches.”

We see a light forest, a person in it, text reading, “Silence, when there should be noice.”

We see a library, a person sitting at a desk, as a black creeping sensation consumes a corner, text reading, “Noise, when there should be silence.”

We see a long-haired person on one side of a large bed, reaching an arm over to the other empty side, as text reads, “Nothing, when you wanted something.” We see a short-haired person from behind, a hand on their shoulder, as text reads, “Something, when you thought there was nothing.”

We see many clear plastic binder sheets flying in the air as text reads, “Clean plastic binder sheets.” We see a line of washing machines, their tubs a monotone black, as text reads, “Scented dryer sheets.” We see a person with a hat, standing outside in the rain, as text reads, “Rain coming down in sheets.”

We see snippets of the same night scene, focused on a telephone pole as a mass sits on a corner. Text reads, “Night, rest, sleep, end.”

Positioning yourself where your avatar overlaps or touches someone else’s without their permission was considered so rude a mod would step in.

Making exactly the same avatar as someone else on purpose, even if it’s just a popular video game character or whatever, was even ruder.

Every time you moved or you changed avatars, the server had to process it for everybody. Being too fidgety could lag or crash other users.

You could assign favorite avatars to hotkeys. If you mashed those keys quickly enough it would lag everyone so bad that doing this often got you a permaban.

You were able to move by either clicking or using the arrow keys but using the arrow keys or “sliding” also lagged everyone, like everyone’s chat would freeze until you stopped moving.

So a troll could just hold their arrow keys and hotkeys simultaneously to glide around the room cycling through their avatars non-stop and basically giving everyone blue screens of death.

Mods had the ability to lock you into the default avatar, which people thought of as “stripping” you, and they could trap your avatar in place which not only “stripped” it but displayed chains and padlocks over the smiley face.

EVERY troll would say “….kinky” whenever that happened.

Lots of couples would make complementary avatars or avatars that could fit together.

It was possible to position yourself so your username was off screen and some people would then wear an avatar made from a piece of the room’s background image, perfectly camouflaging themselves.

Some people did this in private rooms hoping to eavesdrop on people who didn’t know this was a thing or that you could check the actual number of users in the room with you

You had to download the official Palace color palette file and apply it to your chosen image in a paint program for it not to look like complete ass when imported as an avatar

People skilled enough at making avatars look at all decent would be rewarded with rare props, mod powers, whatever

There were private rooms and private chat function but accidentally broadcasting your text as a public announcement to the whole room was one misclick away

One time a moderator disappeared with their girlfriend into a private room for a while and nobody had ANY means of contacting them to tell them they were sending their internet sex as a stream of announcements to all 100+ rooms and 1000+ users on at the time for like an hour