Rina Amaranthine
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2 months ago

Project Update: New Year, Same You

Did you know that every horse in the Northern Hemisphere has their birthday on January 1st? They're all officially one year older, and one year faster. 

Welcome, to Night Vale.

Dear citizens it has been a bit since we've given you an update and we apologize for that. We hope that you got to spend your holidays in the company of loved ones, liked ones, and maybe the ghosts of some time periods. 

We did want to let you know, citizens, that your support carried our humble little campaign into the Top Ten of all RPGs funded on Backerkit! The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game was #9 by amount raised, and #4 by number of backers. 

This is a great accolade to add to our city-wide trophy shelf, alongside others like 'driest Waterfront Recreation Area' and '███████'. 

We hope to have some production updates for you next month, for now we're curious. 
Well, I'm curious. 

Why was that owl so obsessed with Tootsie Popsâ„¢? Wouldn't it make him sick?

Have a good night, Night Vale. You'll hear from us soon. 
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2mo

Hey wasn't interested in the Tootsie Pop...he wanted to know how many Licks it would take You, Cecil...he was watching you, Cecil...he is always watching you, Cecil.

2mo

Deep in the twisted depths of the candy forest, where chocolate rivers run thick with memories, there dwells an ancient being that was once a normal owl. Centuries ago, this owl made a fatal mistake - it swallowed a cursed Tootsie Roll created by an embittered candymaker who had lost his sense of taste. The cursed candy merged with the owl's consciousness, warping its mind and transforming it into something caught between bird and confection. Its feathers became sticky with perpetual chocolate residue, and its eyes developed that manic gleam we see in the commercials. But worst of all was the hunger - an insatiable craving for Tootsie Rolls that could never be satisfied. You see, each Tootsie Roll the owl consumes temporarily allows it to remember what it once was - a simple creature of the night, hunting mice and soaring freely through star-lit skies. For those few precious moments of clarity between "one" and "two" and "three," the owl recalls its former life. But as the candy dissolves, the memories fade, and the madness returns stronger than before. That's why the owl is so obsessed with counting - it's not really counting Tootsie Rolls, but rather counting down the moments of lucidity it has left before descending back into chocolate-tinged insanity. The question "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" is actually a cry for help. The owl is desperately trying to calculate exactly how much candy it would take to break the curse once and for all. But the curse is clever - it ensures the owl always bites too soon, always loses count, always fails to reach that theoretical threshold that might set it free. And so it remains, trapped in an eternal loop of counting and consuming, a cautionary tale about the dark price of candy-based curiosity. The commercial we see is just a fragment of the owl's eternal punishment, forever asking the same question, forever counting, forever failing to break free from its chocolatey prison. And if you listen carefully on quiet nights, you might hear a distant "One... Two... Three..." carried on the wind, as the owl continues its endless quest for salvation through Tootsie Rolls.

2mo

Why the does "███████" get translated to "DogPark" when I run it through Google translate under the Latin tag. I thought the Cognitive Scrub Daddies where supposed to Mr Clean this.

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2mo

Oh poor sewing project :( at least SMM is fed

2mo

I mean, not all horses. Just thoroughbred racehorses.

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