#nms portal

[floraaurora420]

[starswirly]

Friends…? Friends!

(Ink -> Comyet, Dream & NM -> Jokublog)

[mint-chocolate-rooibos]

HELPP I DREW WHEATLEY ON A WHITEBOARD FROM HERE AND SOMEONE SAID YOKAI WATCH

[worldwhampion]

what could it possibly ever take to be a Sweet Summer Sentinel Child Frolicking Around Without A Single Care In euclid

[speci-society]

I need my babygirls (the central characters of no man's sky) to be okay forever, like i know that doesn't happen but i need them all to be alright or i explode us both

[nauticalmyles]

March 27, 2024

Pokemon Sleep

New Sleep Style: Raikou 1* - Energy-Storing Sleep

I thought I'd be able to get this Raikou without a Master Biscuit because it was hungry but after 2 Raikou Biscuits and a Great Biscuit it decided it was full... Just needed 1 more Great Biscuit.

New Recipe: "Superpower" Extreme Salad

Portal

Was looking for a nice looking game to play on my new monitor and heard there's an RTX version of Portal that you can play just because you own Portal.

I've owned Portal but never played it. I've watched a few playthroughs though. Looks pretty good with RTX.

Pretty much just beat the tutorial and stopped.

[lovecolibri]

It's the 50th episode celebration balloon picture with no Tyler in sight for me...

[neverniko101]

WOOOOOOOO

YEAH

HORROR DREAMTALE TIME

I actually have solid lore now. like. i have a reason for nightmare’s antlers other than “it looks cool”. I have an idea on how it could actually end. This is incredible

Only Ink is open for asks rn! I’ll hold a vote on who to open asks for next in a few days. In the meantime, ask away!

Also, there’s a (kind of) short summary of the story so far below the cut. A few minor things have been changed, so I recommend giving it a read even if you were here for the prologue!

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Summary:

Dream and Nightmare started off as any normal Dreamtale AU— Dream adored by the villagers and working every day to the brink of exhaustion and Nightmare bullied, hated, and feared.

After one particularly harrowing day and one too many times of finding his brother beaten and bruised by the villagers, Dream decided he’d had enough. Staring up at the tree they called their mother, he shouted, begged, pleaded; why didn’t she do anything? Why did Nym let them suffer while she simply stood there, baring immaculate gold and violet fruits? The young skeleton tore down one of the Positivity apples in frustration. Were they doing something wrong? Were they not good enough?

…

He could make himself better.

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“Dream?” Nightmare barely had time to call out to his brother before the golden apple reached his mouth. He received no response but his brother’s shriek as the fiery wings burst from his back. Despite the mountains of pain the guardian had to have been in, his gaze fixed greedily on the clusters of apples overhead.

Nightmare’s gaze hardened. He couldn’t let Dream do this.

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The brothers both had one apple each, fighting until they collapsed. When they woke, they agreed that neither of them would have another apple again. They would never fight like that. They would stick together.

The tree, however, was never the same. A blight took hold of the land.

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Once the two turned fourteen, a bunch of weird creatures called anons randomly showed up and aggressively befriended them using soup, macarons, and other such implements. While the twins’ magic had grown unstable from the influx of power gained from the apples, they remained relatively sane and had a close bond, although both were worried about the declining health of the tree.

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Long story short, Ink showed up, and thought it would be a great idea to bring them to Ccino’s cafe, where non-horror dream was waiting for him. Upon meeting non-horror Dream, Firefly (horror Dream) had the idea to drain some of his magic to fix the tree he could finally fix his mistake. He and Frostbite (horror NM) attacked the guardian, draining a large portion of his magic. With this magic, Firefly was able to create portals, traveling around the multiverse and eventually stealing souls. One day, the two disappeared back into their AU, where they fed the magic and souls to the tree. After that? You’ll have to find out… :3

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Ink by comyet

Dreamtale by Joku

[thelunarsystemwrites]

Beach day AU.

So basically it's Errors fault.

It started with a four way war. Between the Star Sanses, (Ink, Dream, Swap.) The Bad Sanses, (Killer, Nightmare, Horror, Murder.) The Resistance, (Lust, Fell, Sci, Farm, Geno.) And Error.

So all these guys are battling it out for a LONG time, until everyone slowly kinda realized this was getting them no where.

Eventually, after years of this, Nightmare and Dream call for a truce. The resistance agreed with ease, and error 'agreed.'

Errors plan, was to get everyone gathered in one spot, then he'd open up a portal to a very glitched out AU that should cost them all enough HP to dust.

Well, while everyone was signing it, he set up his strings and pulled on them, opening a huge portal below everyone and causing them all to fall into it.

Annndddd it uh, turns out the AU wasn't corrupted in the way he thought it was.

Nope, instead the AU was completely void of any Humans or monsters. And, they couldn't use their normal/most magic there. All of them had landed on this like, island in a place that resembled Hawaii. There was a lot of beach houses, though empty. And uh.

They all forgot how they got there.

So! Some other Sanses fall in later down the line, and they've all ended up rooming in the houses, which we got:

Dream and Nightmare.

Swap and Lust.

Fell and Sci.

The Bad trio. (<- Also to confirm. I'll be using the name Murder for Dust sans in this AU!)

Farm and Ccino (<- he falls in later on.)

Error and Geno.

Anndd Ink constantly switches between the houses!

The AU mostly focuses on then doing a lot if beach stuff, bonding, crack and fluff.

But also healing. It's about Murder learning he's allowed nice things, it's about Lust overcoming his struggles and unhealthy relationship with relationships, it's about Nightmare and Dream mending ages of trauma. It's about Error learning to love things and Ink learning it's okay to not love in the same way everyone else does. It's about Farm helping Horror build a healthy relationship with food. And more.

It's a healing AU. They're all trapped here, and have to face their inner demons, but at their own pace.

They're healing, and that's what the Beach Day AU is about.

Here's a WIP sketch of NM amd Dream!

Credits to the AUs!

[floraaurora420]

Portal/Base in the Eiseentam Galaxy (10)

[qftim-c]

To Cuphead Bendy Boris and Mugman: A phenomenon from the crossover Worlds Collide to rewrite reality. The Reality Manipulation is to perform the Genesis Wave a term used to describe the ability to manipulate reality itself (which means You’ll see portals of Canon, Indie Cross, vampire's curse, wednesday infidelity, ChaosHead and Casino Cups)

In all actuality though, we can’t do that. One because the Vampire’s Curse creator (which Connie was/is close personal friends with) doesn’t associate with the au anymore nor does she want anyone to continue making anything for it. Two because we’re a two person team and that’d likely take a lot out of us when we already have a hard enough time getting back on track with the panels. Three because we already have a plot line, and can’t just add in random crap for shits and giggles like this.

Fourth reason is just that I don’t think any of them are mentally well enough to handle the multiverse (lol). Connie said Cuphead would go into cardiac arrest if he was in a real multiverse setting so it’s kinda off the table for the character’s own mental wellbeing. We might draw funny little one off drawings with cross overs, but they’ll never be in a full part of the ask comic or anything./nm - 💥

[ossydrawsthingz335]

~welcome!~

this is my silly little blog where i post my art and some thoughts i may have :3

~so, who am i?~

i go by many names, but i and my moots mainly use oswald/riley/taggy.

the "ossy" in my name came from one of my moots who called me ossy once and i thought it was cute so i put it in my username lol

i am 16 years old so i BEG YOU DONT BE WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!! and im also taken so lol

i have autism and cant process stuff sometimes so please use tone tags!! if u dont know what they are uhhh look it up lol /nm /silly

i mainly use he/they but i dont really mind any pronouns like she/her or any xenos and all that other shiz lol :3

i am bisexual and proud!! :3

if u wanna be mooties with me dont be afraid to msg me!!! prob get to know me b4 u ask for my disc tho cause ermm im not comfy sharing that if we dont really know eachother much and stuff sorreh,,, /nm

~what programs do i use???~

now, i know no one really asks this but im gonna say this anyway.

for my art, on pc i use both firealpaca and krita! i use alot of custom krita brushes which i cant keep up with soooo sorry im not gonna say every single brush pack i have there lol

i use fireaplaca for basic lineart and i use round pen 1 usually with 20 size, and mostly for bfb art i use g pen 1 with 15 size since its very close to the original bfb lineart.

on mobile i use ibis paint x and i also use alot of custom pens there which i ALSO cant keep up with so yea lmao

for music i use FL studio 21's free version.

~fandoms im in!~

im in aLOT of fandoms. but i mainly post about object shows and stuff like that :3

the fandoms im mainly in are BFDI, BFB, TPOT, II, HFJONE, Bugbo, the waiting room, the nightly manor, LOTS, regretevator, portal, animatic battle, and kinitoPET!

im in alot more fandoms then that but thats just the fandoms i post about here :3

~other social media~

ermm i do post art on other social media!! i have alot so uh here goes lol

newgrounds (dont mind the username lol)

sheezy

deviantart

sketchers united

blusky

twitter (yea i. i use twitter.... i know,,,)

and thats basically it LOL

and yeaaaa that should be it for this intro post lol, enjoy me blog and stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! :3333 <33

[night-market-if]

What it be right to say that the Market counts as a god of some type?

God adjacent? I would say that the entity as a whole is probably a bit more than a god. Mainly because they are far bigger than what a god can do in a more canonical mythos sense. If you think about the Norse gods or the Greek gods, they couldn't affect the world or open portals to different lands.

Eldritch horror? That might be more of what the NM is?

[worldwhampion]

(spoilers of u haven't done the newest quest line)

(also sorry I haven't sent an ask in so long, I haven't played nms for a bit lol)

I'm really loving all the lore we got! those big Atlantis probe things from the expedition still show up in space, one pretty much outright stated that the probes are actually ancient escape pods from the destruction of korvax prime. And the korvax were in there for so long atlantideum began to grow out of their bodies, creating a structure similar to the ones you mine sentience echoes from!

Also unrelated theory, but I think if the first spawn won they might've destroyed the universe accidentally. They think the universe is not a simulation and is knowable. This combined with their greed and probable lack of environmental concern, means they probably would grab any gravitino balls they can, and with no sentinels around to drive them off and mend the wound in spacetime, the damage would pile up and the simulation would break.

HIII took me long enough to answer your ask, I apologize. I’m free now so let’s get to it!

It’s going to take a while for me to do the autophage quest myself since i actually haven’t finished the artemis path yet (but at this point i do know already it inside out). However i did watch playthroughs and i also made a decent transcript of the quest. And YOU BET i have some thoughts about this. Especially on atlantideum.

i. ATLANTIDEUM

(from world of glass lore archive server)

When you reveal atlantideum to the atlas something very interesting happens. From this piece of lore i’m pretty sure atlantideum is corrupted data- OF THE ABYSS. And the atlas does not react well to this data at all.

ATLANTIDeum. Are you seeing this. It’s literally like parts of the abyss. Call it abyss dust.

I think atlantideum are crystals which contain her (corrupted) data, or in any case you bet it’s related to wog. They’re probably coming straight from the world of glass, seeping into the simulations. These crystals are scattered all over the place, and lore-wise they’re probably multiplying on a pretty concerning rate at the moment. I think this is how the abyss is returning, by hauling her data back into the world. The world of glass is assimilating with the simulations if you will! She’s only able to do this because the atlas is literally falling apart as she proceeds with her girlboss plan. The atlas is weakening while she is growing stronger (she’s probably weakening the atlas too in the proces). They’re probably fighting for control over the systems, and she is definitely going for absolute power. You’re gonna need that if you want to save everything dying along with the computer that runs reality.

The atlas can’t do anything about the crystals (or data), because it does not have access to this data and cannot delete it from its systems. The abyss seems to be an entity acting separately from the system or the atlas, so you can say she is interfering with the simulations like a foreign entity. She is a subroutine of the atlas though, which has now gone rogue (see iii. FIRST SPAWN ACCIDENTAL UNIVERSE DESTRUCTION).

Thorn summed this up ON POINT. Being atlas… is suffering.

While the atlantideum hit made the atlas have an asthmatic attack, someone else smoked it up like nipnip. Nada took the abyss blunt very well.

The atlantideum gave nada data of the abyss, to me this is like injecting memories into your mind. Now we know that nada canonically likes smoking atlantideum! While the atlas is pro war on drugs. The traveller can become nada’s abyss blunt dealer.

ii. KORVAX ESCAPE POD

“And the korvax were in there for so long atlantideum began to grow out of their bodies, creating a structure similar to the ones you mine sentience echoes from!”

Sadly i don’t have that particular dialogue you mentioned about the korvax escape pod so i might miss a few details. I want to read it so if anyone finds it SEND IT TO ME STAT i need my lore like how nada needs their blunt.

The atlantideum item description reads:

Atlantideum can take over hosts, both mechanical and biological. I see this as the hosts coming under influence or under control of the abyss, probably depending on the amount of crystals they have stuck in their skin.

Finally we have a bit of clarification for the following lines:

(from the abandoned building logs)

I believe these beings to be the family glass. Sadly they never went beyond name dropping them but that doesn’t stop me from having theories. They are beings that live on in the world of glass who have probably lived in the simulations at first (before they died).

We have know seen the effects of glass/atlantideum on both mechanical and biological beings. For mechanical beings (like nada and the atlas) simply coming into close contact with the crystals is already enough to have an effect, while for biological beings they have to literally shove the shards into their flesh. Just like piercings. Except these piercings drain your life and also may or may not keep hurting forever. However in the end it’s all worth it for the eldritch knowledge.

It’s not said whether these crystals are really atlantideum (crystals containing data of the abyss specifically?), but this is probably what happens when you put it under your skin while also being biological. you get a cool piercing, AND you also become a vessel for intelligences unlike us (void milves).

The abyss can exert influence/control through not only nanites (in the water), but through atlantideum too? Well it is a literal substance named after her. The korvax in the escape pod definitely came under her influence too and became divergent by extension. She is pretty much the divergence personified. As for how the atlantideum got there, i’m thinking the abyss messed a little with the nanites in their body? I mean she is a master nanite bender, arguably the best one the simulations have ever seen. Not everyone can infest half the water in the known multiverse with nanites every day like she does casually.

The abyss does a lot of polluting, in water it’s nanites, on land it’s atlantideum crystals. She really just decided that environmental pollution is the best way to spread her presence everywhere. And you cannot deny that she is completely right since it’s working that well. This is like spreading microplastics which have the power to change reality itself.

In game you can refine atlantideum into nanites, by first refining it into pugneum and then to nanites. So nanites and atlantideum are pretty closely related.

iii. FIRST SPAWN ACCIDENTAL UNIVERSE DESTRUCTION

“Also unrelated theory, but I think if the first spawn won they might've destroyed the universe accidentally. They think the universe is not a simulation and is knowable. This combined with their greed and probable lack of environmental concern, means they probably would grab any gravitino balls they can, and with no sentinels around to drive them off and mend the wound in spacetime, the damage would pile up and the simulation would break.”

Oh man i have something for you.

(boundary failure logs)

The first spawn exploited a whole subroutine (ie the convergence) for their personal interests- on a multiversal scale. Since a subroutine is like a working part of the atlas itself, the exploitation might’ve done some damage to the system in terms of software (?) i mean can you still carry out whatever tasks you should be doing properly if you were subjected to gruesome slavery across the multiverse. you’d need godly multitasking skills for this. Not sure to what extent it really affected the system, but it would have done at least something.

Telamon did say that the entire enslavement of the korvax is a reflection of the atlas breaking down. The convergence, being modeled after earlier forms of the atlas, is kind of the atlas personified in the simulations. Now when you’re enslaved, you do break down mentally and physically. The korvax suffered because the atlas itself was suffering. And the first spawn might’ve been a reflection of the harm the atlas was facing. In the end the first spawn was genetically engineered into the gek, not completely wiped out but “mitigated” using their nanites. this could apply to the harm too, it’ll never be removed, only lessened. I find it very interesting how the korvax polluting the gek spawning pools with nanites is very much parallel with the abyss infesting the water with nanites as well. Both do this to get out of hard times, by trying to lessen the harm but never able to remove it completely. This does seems to be what the atlas is doing to try saving itself. The repeated universe resets are also a reflection in the simulations except it is more meta.

Now onto the balls!

If the first spawn did start grabbing gravitino balls left and right without a single care unchecked, then that means the atlas is. royally fucked. I’d say then it’s literally not able to keep running simulations anymore. Like they would end prematurely because it’d crash halfway through, as reflected by the reality weakening from unrestrained gravitino ball harvesting once they get to that part in history. whatever horrors the atlas is facing at the moment isn’t enough for this to happen. Recovering from brutal enslavement does sound better than the whole simulation straight up crashing down. You could always have it worse! Sparkle on!

[portal-newmoon]

New Moon | Chapter 4: Page 1

Chapter 3 | Next

[boundaryfailure]

[the better reality | nms apollo & traveller]

At the center of the galaxy, you are left holding the cinderblock-heavy truth of the world you live in. The enormity of it all sits almost demurely in its place on your exosuit, that little red starseed and its cosmic significance.

Sixteen minutes. Always, sixteen.

Of course, Nada only hushes you when you try to speak about what you’ve seen. They stretch their palm outwards as you rush to inform them, sweeping away your words before they come. They are afraid — you know they’re afraid — to lose their haven to realization. Of course, despite everything, even though they have severed themselves from their people, they are still Korvax: they still fear the Atlas they reject so fiercely. You can’t bring yourself to shatter anxious Nada’s naivety.

You still find it in yourself to feel stung.

Still, though, they can see the anguish in the lines of your posture (Why won’t you listen? Why won’t you hear me? How could you leave me alone with this?), and they have never lost their kindness. Nada’s fingertips light gently on your shoulders, and when they draw you into an embrace, you return it twice as fiercely.

Polo squeezes your hand as you pass them.

“Nada fears, Traveller-Friend. Some things are best left unexplored.”

(TRAVELLER, the Atlas had said — had pleaded.)

You miss Apollo so terribly.

Sometimes you dream of a better reality: one where the world had yawned wide as you came out of the portal, and your friend was there to greet you.

Getting the details right can be tricky. You know what Apollo sounds like, sharp, sometimes guttural, mechanical and harsh at first blush. You know that standing beside them would suffuse you in subtle golden light, that it would play off the starsilk strands and fine leather of your suit. The details get sketchier and ruin the picture if you dwell too much, and so you try not to linger too much on any one point. Broad strokes.

They are bigger than you are, you remember from the tower transmissions; they are built sturdily, like industrial equipment, like a blunt force weapon. They get testy when you poke fun at it — “I don’t make fun of you for being soft, do I?” — and you know that this body is not necessarily theirs by choice. There had been grudges involved, and vengeance quests, and altogether you can understand why they choose to walk as a lone iteration entirely, free of the wistful togetherness of the Space Anomaly’s menagerie. Such tenderness doesn't suit them.

But Apollo could bludgeon you into an entirely new iteration, and Apollo chooses not to. That is how things go, in the reality where you break through to one another. The two of you cut a wonderful contrast walking worlds together. The gear you have chosen means that beside their simplicity, you are all tritium-hydraulic agility and solar-vitrified stealth, and they snipe at you over comms because they are made for steady distance and could never keep up with your gimmicks.

“Somehow Artemis was never half as much trouble as you are,” they tell you, with their strange blend of indifference and annoyance over-top a curious attachment.

“With Artemis, we really would have been unstoppable.” The thought slips out unbidden, and you pick at the enameling adorning your right pauldron as if to distract, or to mollify.

“… Yes,” Apollo says, a reply you don’t expect. Their tone is thoughtful, but not closed off, and you realize you’ve earned the rare right to their emotional input, such as it is. “We would have.”

In this reality, the pressing loneliness of all the world before you abates with your friend at your shoulder. Apollo is not necessarily talkative — in fact, without you there to prompt them, you think they might go days without a single flare of vocal activity — but their heavy tread at your heels and their ruthless haggling at trade stations compress the frightening vastness of it all into something uniquely enticing.

(The weight of the last sixteen minutes rests lighter on your shoulders, knowing that they, too, understand. They take the news of the galaxy’s infinite end steadily, a steel-stubborn levee refusing to succumb to the waves of despair that had submerged you before.)

(“Well, we all have to die sometime,” they had told you, rolling prism-studded shoulders. “And what time will be more interesting than this?”)

(They hear you, they listen, and they are not afraid.)

(In this other reality, they choose to do what no one else does: to accompany you. To understand.)

(And you know fully by now that those other iterations are just as real as you.)

(So just knowing that, you think, alone in your ship with your face to the stars — just knowing soothes the sting.)

Sometimes you dream of a better reality.

In it, all the world lies before you, and Apollo is at your back, and beneath the tint of your helmet, your eyes are wide and wonderstruck.