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musings on the shadow razor

i still am unsure of the relationship between the killer and the eye killer. when the killer dies, then the innocent will breach and turn into eye killer. the newspaper clipping also told me that the eye killer was active after the killer's victims tapered off in 1994 (presumably due to dying).

i already know that one of the shadow artifacts, the shadow razor, is owned by the killer.

i'm pretty sure that the shadow razor is the same thing as the quatro blade mentioned as an artifact. (quatro, of course, being a play on quattro gilette razors and also the number 4). according to the wiki it is the eye killer's artifact.

so, presumably, eye killer got it from the killer at some point?

if you ask the ouija board where the body is, it will tell you that the quatro blade hides.

also i dont know much about the mirror world right now. might be a yongki thing, might be a loopist faction thing.... might be both or neither

also from devona's silly rides where she talks about her dreams that are real:

""Oh um..   I think this ride was about... One time I heard that if a blade is SHARP enough, it could cut you and you wouldn't even feel it, you'd just look down and you'd be bleeding and that was so so scary but all I could think about is what would happen if there was a blade that did it no matter HOW sharp it was, no matter how much it ripped and tore into you. If you could never ever know you got cut you could just bleed to death or get a fatal infection from ANYTHING. I didn't sleep that night because how would you even TELL if you'd already been cut?""

#The What #i gotta dive back into this at some point #reblogs #User: Pilot

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#hey we're on here! sickkkk #that reminds me I got my pngtuber setup working I should play some zam2anio #reblogs #User: Pilot

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#something something 'this too is yuri' #reblogs #User: Pilot

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wasn’t expecting to see our blog in the google results... wait, sheet cake?

#User: Pilot #pilot attempts to play zam2anio. the saga #zampanio #also what is a sheet cake #does it taste good

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it has occurred to me that i've never actually explained what zampanio. is? here

like, i reblog things with zampanio all the time, but i've never actually explained what that means lol

so ok uhhhhhhh 5 am crimson rambles go

ok. so there's this game, from like, the 70s or 80s i think, called zampanio. no one knows what it's really ABOUT besides that it's supposedly really fucking weird. there's also no documentation about it too far in the past, because apparently stuff about this has a tendency to just. disappear. and the people that KNOW a lot about it seem to either vanish or fly off the fucking handle. which is already wacky enough. but, like, the main thing about zampanio is that since the source material is so unknown beyond, like, the vaguest vibes, there's a billion different unrelated fangames about it with nothing in common besides some vague thematic elements? like, there's zampaniosim, which is this massive sprawling network of god knows what that has like, twenty billion different fictional characters from other games in it i think? i heard something about magnus archives and lobotomy corp and i don't understand most of it but it seems very cool. and there's also some rpg maker game someone made called zam2anio? and i played it for like 10 minutes and it's incomprehensible but in the best way. and there's also this discord server that is like, also a puzzle or something? and that's its own thing? and also leads into other things, maybe??? it's insane. but the really cool part is that since the source material is just. Not. you can kinda just go hog wild with different things in different fandoms and have it still be A Zampanio Thing. i'm currently retooling a mario fanfic i came up with literally in elementary school into A Zampanio Thing. it doesn't matter what fandom you're in, you caj make it zampanio. it's genuinely very cool and unique and i like it a lot. i'm not very caught up on a lot of the individual things people have been making but the vibes are immaculate and it ends up making this massive nonsense patchwork of a fandom that somehow all fits together, and just, it's the best

so yeah, go check out zampanio if you haven't already, look it up, play/read/look at some of the stuff people have made, maybe make your own zampanio thing if you wanna, you won't regret it. probably. unless you turn into a monster or something, except actually if you did you probably wouldn't regret it anyway because you'd be a monster so whatever

#I gotta play zam2anio #also considering writing a song thats zampanio #if I can get past the few minor small hurdles of #1. I don't know how to write song lyrics #2. I don't know anything about how music works and can not play any instruments or even come up with a tune #and 3. I can't sing #shouldn't be too hard! #reblogs #User: Pilot

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#zampano #zampanio #User: Pilot #oh god the new tumblr post editor #it applied itself in between when I wrote the last post and when this one #I DONT LIKE IT. #stop AUTOSAVING what if I want to make an edit and then later revert it #1000000000000 mean to me #well this was supposed to be a cryptic post with no commentary and that's been borked #and now when i click back to the code side of the html editor there's nothing there #so I hope this even posts

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starts typing Z...a...m...p... into search bar. gets jumpscared when "Zampano", the word i was going to type, pops up in the search suggestions

#User: Pilot #zampanio #ish

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did some exploring. well not really exploring. some whatever. in South. also earlier today looked at some other ARGs with some friends... Zampanio is a bit similar to some of those ARGs at least in some respects. love when things use AI generated images for the unsettling not-quite-real quality that they have

#zampanio #zampaniosim #User: Pilot

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big fan of this quote:

"The plain and raw Truth of the matter is that all of us are background characters in someone else's story. Is that, then, a cause for despair? I think not. Equally are we all of us protagonists. Your Relevance is given wholly by you and the people you care for. And that is all there is to say on the matter."

#zampanio #zampaniosim #Location: South #User: Pilot #this actually is similar to something in my #I guess you could say beliefs #about storyworlds #if every reality is tied to a story then so is this one #but it's not a story in which you (or I or anyone) are the main character #or anything even more than tangentially relevant #and theres a freedom in that. and also a kind of hope #but I won't ramble about this here #got other things to post

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https://youtu.be/fD-cEiaNMfw

#zampanio #letsplay #zampaniosim #Location: EastEast #User: Pilot

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#zampaniosim #zampanio #Location: EastEast #I guess she forgave camille pretty quick #User: Pilot #great news i figured out how to make the screen recording program work properly #ish #it still doesn't have audio #but eh whatever #tune in sometime soon for episode 1 of my zampanio letsplay I guess

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Spent a while in East trying to figure out what was going on with it, and also trying to collect(?) as many “Memories” as possible. And recording my screen because I was pretty much speeding through it without time to read the things... well guess what, I couldn’t find the button to stop the screen recording, and had to force quit the program, losing the entire recording. Something something the rot takes all or whatever

Also this

what kind of women is this fella trapped in a maze with and where can I meet them /j

also my mouse pointer is continually flickering now so I’m going to restart computer I guess

#zampanio #zampaniosim #Location: East #User: Pilot #having a normal one #got to like 106 memories btw

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It’s hard not to die in EastEast. But you can still die even if you(?)’re dead!

Ria -> Breaching Match -> burns everything (can ‘take’ match to prevent further rooms from burning)

Eye Killer -> Breaching Eye Killer -> kills peewee (reducing him to a grave. graves can’t enter doors which means the only source of movement is to descend. dying does not appear to be undoable. at least for peewee. npcs can be found in other npcs' innerworlds.)

JR breaching does nothing

#zampanio #zampaniosim #Location: EastEast #User: Pilot #breaking news: pilot once again tries to reverse engineer everything codelike it starts playing #the audio in easteast is kind of nice

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#User: Pilot #zampaniosim #Location: EastEast

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well this wasn’t what I meant to do. I think. not sure I did this.

#zampaniosim #Location: EastEast #User: Pilot #oh now theres noises

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#User: Pilot #zampanio #zampaniosim #Location: East #actually looking at the thing I meant to look at now #ish #realized I haven't done east at any point before though #so now doing that instead #for a little while #its late

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Ended up on HydrationSim instead…

#equal parts unsettling and fascinating! #User: Pilot #zampanio #hydration