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a random false god meeting the closest thing to a true god

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i was looking through the graffiti in the wiki and saw this one, i wonder what does it mean?

maybe those others are scrapped iterators and the graffiti is saying "you are next pebbles!" or something like it?

i dunno

I think it’s more so protest from the ancients who lived on the surface! One iterator raining on you is bad enough.. but two?

We hate iterators!! We hate Pebbles!! Get rid of him!! Sort of thing. Most graffiti regarding iterators on the surface is negative!

The dust that builds on things! It's actually mentioned in two places let's discuss it sure!

So Moon mentions how the dust and the sky work in the Teal pearl.

The way this world works according to this information is that the sky is solid one way or another. Which means ... augh? Is RW's world building implying the world isn't a planet..? Is it flat? What would the stars in the sky be then.. I don't know!

But it's the void sea keeping the world leveled. Which means that.. one day the iterators will become part of the ground and dust and then meet the void fluid. But that would take so so long judging by how Moon throughout the campaigns doesn't really move down so!

The idea, however, is MOST likely not fully factual. It's more so a widely accepted fact/story without any real evidence that it exists? Kind of like religion in a way? I suppose??

Because what the pearl is saying isn't how the rot in general is, but it's creation process.

We also don't know what specific genome it's referring to (presumably a case by case basis?)

Anyhow, pebbles seems to have lost control and now it's mutating

I theorize that it originally was just growing on the walls, then developed touch and tendrils to be able to hunt passing organisms(maybe neurons?) And then eventually developed mobility and hearing to hunt better

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but you can only kill DLLs by hitting their core right? Which implies a brain.

While similar to cancer, at this point the rot is its own species

Oh well I was talking more so about it's origin!

I agree on the case by case basis?? I doubt there's a single rot formula, it's easier to get things wrong than right...

Also things don't need to have a brain to function and exist. I am no expert, but if you rip a tentacle off a jelly fish it feels like it will be fine compared to y'know. Spearing it's center.

The rot is an organism of some kind maybe, but I think a very simple one? I wouldn't call it a species just because of it not being able to live without it's host. It's a part of Pebbles, it's his own body killing him, not an animal.

I do think it probably started out chewing walls before it managed to progress further. Either way it dies out alone it can't reproduce outside of Pebbles really I think.. and we haven't seen it infect other organisms.