#Ark Aberration

[laind004]

Thought I'd post some random ark lore memes i had laying around for a while-

[puduchiquito]

this grandpa is cray cray 😞😞 a mimir

[ouro-bones]

Cringe 🫵🫵

[jonahs-arks]

I love sending clips of people fighting Rockwell in Aberration after he got his voicelines to my friends and saying shit like "guys, why is he moaning like that??? 🤨🤨🤨🤨" THEY HATE IT EGBEGBBR

[rainesaur]

Laochu and Xiao being silly for ya'll

[spyrkle4]

Ark hcs I have about the survivors: Aberration (part 2)

Sequel to the last post on ab, this one is gonna talk about the grad students n’ stuff (and I am going to be self indulgent af and none of you can stop me)

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-So fun fact the grad students have their own wiki page and it helps me think about what was going on in ab after everyone bounced (and when I mean everyone I mean everyone left, except their tames)

-Sadly I think Rockwell killed almost-everyone’s tames since he couldn’t get to the survivors, he could at least get the creatures they couldn’t bring with them...

-But not Xiao! Most of the light pets managed to avoid being spared bc they’re smol and it’s easier for them to hide, so yeah he mostly chilled in the ruins of the tek village for a long time until discovered by what’s left of the grad students

-Rockwell was the one who brought the grad students onto aberration, since he took over as overseer he could bring survivors onto the ark now, I think he mostly brought “students with bright minds” for his experiments

-Considering he was influencing some of the grad students, I think he was running experiments by poking through their heads and trying to get them to do what he wanted, basically his first test subjects in controlling other creatures 

-I like to think they all got along a little before Rockwell was messing with them, Trent and Rusty were the kind of people that did dumb dares and Emilia tagged along to feel included 

-Also they had a pet bulbdog with the group that was Emilia’s, they were together until the very end...

(more notes under the cut)

-Boris at first was leader of the group but Trent and Emilia voted Imamu bc he was too bossy and terrible at directions XD

-I actually think Boris is just a grump at first, he’s like “I just want to be a scientist I didn’t ask to be teleported into dinosaur land!” 

-Trent tried apologizing to Rusty multiple times after the incident of making of fun of his accent but at that point Rockwell was whispering words of doubt into his head he never accepted his friend’s apologies 

-Emilia and Rusty went on a date once (”It is not a date, stop it Trent” -Trent said it was bc he’s a troll) at fertile lake where they just talked and went fishing.

-Rusty I think helped Emilia feel confident, she was the anxious member of the group and he helped inspire her to feel brave, he was probably in her thoughts when she sacrificed herself so the others could escape 

-The fall Rusty had just broke his legs or something, he would’ve healed after a long rest, but Boris isn’t exactly a patient guy...

-Emilia and Rusty’s death hit Trent hard, he started taking their situation more seriously and stuck close to Imamu, worried about losing him too, 

-I think it was the combination of Element and Rockwell’s whispers that drove Boris off the deep end, he was still a bit of a grumpy jerk beforehand, but he wouldn’t have killed Rusty and drove Emilia to sacrifice herself if he hadn’t been corrupted at that point

-Trent and Imamu kept the journals of their fallen friends, Trent wanted to burn Boris’ journal after reading it, but Imamu talked him out of it as he thought that the voice that he and Rusty heard must’ve droven him insane, so Trent (reluctantly) put his arson plans on hold

-So when Trent and Imamu were in the ruins of the Tek village, they discovered a little shinehorn sitting by the ruins that was really friendly to them, Trent liked having the little guy around bc it reminded him of Emilia and her bulbdog.

-They found out the shinehorn was named Xiao bc they collected some of the explorer notes and dossiers, it’s also how they first discovered the name of Sir Edmund Rockwell

-Emilia was the one who started the trend of finding explorer notes, thinking they’d have a key to getting out of the Ark if they read the stories of past survivors, but she wasn’t there anymore to find the notes, so the two did their best to try and continue her work 

-Trent and Imamu, when they were the last of the group, became very close since they were in this situation together (Trent 100% called it a bromance, Imamu was very confused bc he did not know what Trent was referencing) 

-Before his defeat at the hands of Rockwell, Imamu first felt sorrow on ab when he discovered the dossier on reapers, and what to do if one... stabs you with their tail, he basically started tearing up and kept repeating “I could’ve saved him... I could’ve saved him” over and over because if he had known about the reapers... Trent would be alive

-Xiao gave Imamu some shinehorn hugs afterwords : (, why am I mean to these kids omg

-I’ve heard some people speculate that Imamu died shortly of his wounds after losing the fight from Rockwell, I think he did survive but his spirit didn’t :’( so he just spent his days by the tek village, with Xiao for company

-If Trent had survived his encounter with the reaper queen, I think he and Imamu would’ve been able to defeat Rockwell and escape aberration 

[grimmgrinningghouls]

I forgot how much i genuinely loved aberration. And by this I mean I love just being on ab. Clusters are fun and all but aberration is such a unique experience compared to the rest of ark. I think its by far the hardest ark map, scorched is hard but aberration is a whole different ball game.

The lack of flyers is a big reason I think it's so fun. Sure there are rock drakes but a rock drake isn't exactly a flyer. You're forced to travel on foot pretty much all the time. To travel on foot where you can easily get your face wrecked in, even with a good tame a karkinos can get a lucky grab and clobber you or you could get caught unaware by a high-level pack of ravagers. You could even get jumped by a high-level rock drake if you're in the blue zone.

even with a rock drake, you could still get attacked by something like a reaper and even with a light pet those fuckers are insane in the wild. Aberration succeeds in making you feel constant anxiety. There are so many dangerous things, so many things that could go wrong, and none of the other maps really have that.

You can of course always enable/disable flyers on any map, but I'm talking just base game vanilla with nothing enabled or disabled. Aberration is just so unique compared to everything else and I love it.

[littlejadecrystal]

Finally been motivated enough to play on my singleplayer Aberration after I stopped somewhen... early last year?? Moved down to Blue Zone which was planned forever ago. Been hunting better Rock Drakes on and off over the past few month since last year and barely had any luck with stats (the good Drakes never laid eggs ._.) . Decided to selective breed my already big collection now and got my boy Ragnarok in the end, whom I bred with Raven to get his nice Red / Black color. It was finally time to retire Gaia, who was my 2nd Rock Drake ever. He served me so well in all this time and it was kinda sad to exchange him but he can now spend some time with all his friends at the base. :) My next plan is to finish breeding my Megalosaurus' and get a better pair of Featherlight's.

[laind004]

Mei's effect on women

[skvllcr0w]

took some of the raptors out xp farming on aggressive and apparently the biggest threat in aberration is glowbugs because it was Very Important that they be targeted first

[ouro-bones]

Average Rockwell & Nerva conversation on aberration

[wilbyowo]

The only good boys in aberration. Even the light pets will plan your demise /j

[rainesaur]

The light pets of the Aberration gang!

Xiao belongs to Mei, Laochu is Diana's, Star is Helena's, and Francis + Soup are Santiago's favourite children (saying favourite because. he has like 30 of them.)

[antvnger]

Scott, if you could have one of these creatures as a shoulder pet, which one would it be? ((How bout you mun?, i'm planning on playing ark aberration but can't decide which one to tame xD))

Wooooah! These look so cool!!

Hhmm *looks at all of them carefully* This is kinda tough. I think I would pick the glowtail.

((And Ant-Mun would pick the shinehorn.))

[joshhhuaaa]

could literally play this all day

[gameplayark]

Alpha Rockwell Boss Fight Made Very Easy !!!