What's actually going on there anyway?
That seems like a pretty special event, huh? Was that the Interloper?
I have no clue.
But we're back here once again.
This is our second or third loop now and...
It seems like we only have maybe 20 ish minutes every single time,
so I feel like maybe we should formulate some kind of plan to explore properly here, huh.
I'm guessing...
I don't suppose anybody here is really gonna have anything for me.
Before we do anything else though. I was looking in the menu.
So, you know how we have more or less twenty minutes every time?
We can actually change it so that we get a little bit more,
by freezing time while we're reading.
Freezing time while reading the translator and the ship log were enabled by default, but I think I'm gonna do it for conversations, too.
'Cause I feel like whenever we meet someone new, we take quite a bit of time just talking to them.
And having this will probably let us go at a slightly more leisurely pace.
Other than this guy though,
I suppose not too many things should have changed around here. So let's just launch again.
I feel like it always ends when we get to a good part.
At the same time though,
that planet that we picked might not have been the best one to explore, because it seems like things were changing and
the sand was falling.
Oh, we got health and fuel here.
Cool.
Yeah, this little scout-thingy. I feel like I need to learn how to use it properly.
We can use it to see beyond the horizon, as a flashlight.
Detect hazards and test the environments.
You know what, let's look at the ship log.
Maybe every single time we should pick a specific thing to focus on.
This is what we found on Ember Twin.
We found some Quantum Caves; we have yet to discover the Lakebed Cave.
Which I'm getting the impression might be something that we need to do very quickly once we arrive at Ember Twin,
'cause look at what it says right there:
You know that one door that we found before, the halfmoon door that was being submerged in the sand.
Maybe that was it.
but right now for me it might be a little bit too hard to really do that part because...
it's pretty time-dependent and I feel like I don't even know what the heck I'm doing right now.
So, is there something easier?
Maybe we should try visiting another camp that has not as many time restrictions.
What's this stuff?
Chert.
Right, so...
The...
The event that causes the universe to stop is the supernova of the Sun.
And, I guess a time loop is happening because we're implicitly being asked by the Nomai to prevent that.
They know that the world is going to end, so they keep bringing me back in hopes that I can do something about it.
Yes! That was what we saw by the end of the last loop.
But we didn't really get to look at that too much, unfortunately.
We did find a bunch of caves underground.
I wonder why this is not linked with Chert though.
Maybe it's not related to what *he* found.
But it's on the same planet.
I wonder what the color means.
Over here we have Gabbro, probably on Giant's Deep somewhere.
Giant's Deep was that one planet that looked kind of scary with all the water and whatnot.
Zero-G cave... Mm-hmm.
Esker's Camp:
Yes.
Esker has probably been alone on the moon for too long.
They have a lunar lookout.
Mm-hmm. Where we can keep tabs on other travelers.
Harmonica signal; this might be something we want to look into, because it's right here on Timber Hearth.
Yeah.
If we look at the map...
Oh wow, that's cool.
Interloper, Dark Bramble, Giant's Deep, Brittle Hollow.
Timber hearth. The Attlerock.
So it's filled in if we've seen it before, if we visited it?
I don't think we've been to Giant's Deep though, but maybe we've seen it.
Ash Twin, we haven't been on there just yet.
Hmm.
Well, how about we try to go to Ash Twin today?
If we're done with that early, maybe we can go visit Ember Twin again.
Ash Twin though...
It's the planet where the sand falls from,
so maybe there are some new things to see if we...
I don't know man, like,
those two planets are pretty time-dependent.
I'm not so sure about this, but hey.
Being an explorer means that we gotta be a pioneer and try it out, right?
So let's give this a try then.
We have liftoff again.
That is Ash Twin-- whoa! What the heck!
Oh my god, why did my landing gear get damaged right away?
It's crazy.
Hold on, let me just go to Ash Twin first and then we'll fix it, okay?
I don't know if that's worrying or not, but on the on... Foh!
Okay, well that was a really quick loop.
*laughs*
I was gonna say, there seems to be some kind of loops on the Sun.
I wonder if that's something we can look around at, but very evidently: not a good idea to fly straight into the Sun.
Maybe that's a bad omen.
We shouldn't be going to Ember Twin or Ash Twin in the short-term.
I thought that the closer the planet being to us would mean that it's safer.
It kind of makes sense, right? But being close to us also means that it's close to the Sun, unfortunately.
You know, maybe we'll just go to an entirely new planet.
Whatever I find. What is that?
Oh no, not you. No, thank you.
If I look in another way there is bound to be something else.
That is the Attlerock. We don't need to go to the Attlerock.
How about Giant's Deep?
It's right here.
Yeah.
There is some floating... floating thingies rotating around it too.
And a storm.
Well, this might not be such a good idea.
But we'll see.
Is this a gas or...?
I feel like I want to use a scout to see if it's dangerous, potentially.
I can't see anything ^^;
Here we go!
Wooow!
Oh! Oh! This is water-based!
Holy crap!
Where do I even land properly?
Is this the kind of place that um...
On the little instruction manual...
We could shoot the scout-- Hey, hey!
Wow!
Exit shift to repair.
Oh, I think the tornadoes are getting us.
Holy crap. Can we land there?
Please.
I want to repair too, but I gotta land first, right?
It's not quite-- oh no. Oh no.
Yes, I'm gonna land as soon as we...
Like...
Oooh.
This is not good. This is not good.
What am I gonna do?
It landed on the little chunk of rock here.
Yeah.
No! Okay, we've uh...
We're okay.
maybe?
Oh!
Now I'm in the water because I landed right on the edge of the rock.
Can I use the fuel to get up?
I think the answer is a no.
Can I climb up onto this thing?
I'm getting swept away by the current.
I can't do anything!
What do I do? No, not now!
If I can, I've got to slowly try to swim back to something rocky. Like maybe this thing.
Trees!
Oh! Oh!
Is Gabbro around here?
Hey!
You're the same as me!
-- The one that looked at me! --
Yeah, see, when we have this much dialogue, I think the freeze-time would really help here.
Unfortunately, the downside is that we can't see his animation, but we know he's playing this flute-thingy.
He was chilling out on this rock while I was drowning in the next rock over.
I didn't find anything yet, but we can try. No.
If we find something on one planet, then we can tell the person on the planet about it.
How do you deal with it; do you have any tips? 'Cause clearly I'm dying here ^^
-- Same! --
The one that I just... Maybe it's the one that I just drowned off of?
Okay, well it's good to know that I can drown here.
Oh, 'cause if you land on the rock, maybe you'll just die. Yeah.
You know, so this guy can't even get off the planet if you wanted to.
So Gabbro has just been chilling out here.
he's not really been missing, but he's not really communicating with anyone else either.
Good to know that I'm not the only one experiencing the time loops, though.
Where did my ship go?
Oh my lord, I might be on the same boat as gabbro here. I don't know where my ship is.
Oh.
This is something that we can't see, right?
we have to use the...
Tsk, where is my scout launcher?
Oh God.
Does that just mean that we can't get through it?
For now anyway?
Wow! Wow wow wow. Something just puched me!
Why is the gravity zero-zero?
What the heck!
What!?
Gabbro!
Gabbro!
Oh!
What was that?
Oh wow, I don't even know what that was.
I'm so disoriented by the whole thing.
Maybe we should just walk around and explore for a little bit.
Oh hey, can we roast marshmallows here?
That would be pretty good.
You're gonna take off your mask?
Is that okay?
Oh no! *laughs* I did it again.
It's still edible, like I said.
Yeah, here we go. Okay.
Enough of that.
Okay, I don't know what happened for that one second just now, but all the water disappeared.
And the gravity changed.
The water disapearing, okay. But where did the gravity go?
but I guess the water disappeared because of the gravity.
That might mean we should be...
Oh.
Geez. Vitals low, ghost matter detected nearby.
You wanna like...
show me some ghost matter?
No?
My ship is back.
It's sunken somewhere in the water. I think we should just forget about it for this loop here.
Not good though, because I'm apparently dying.
Okay, the ghost matter is inside the cave. As long as we don't go inside. I think it'll be fine.
I have to learn how to use the scout-thingy properly though, because I feel like I'm not very good at it.
I know it gives off light and all, but other than that...
I feel like I don't even know how to...
Oh, okay, you can rotate camera.
Just the four cardinal directions I guess.
Oh, we're back here again.
Gabbro, did you see what happened just now?
No.
Oh my god.
How often does that happen I wonder.
I don't know at all.
Okay, this is really bad because if I don't know where my ship...
My ship is two kilometers below me.
I can't even get health back without the ship.
So that's a problem.
I think my fuel thing is broken.
I'm using it but it's not doing anything.
Oh that's just lovely.
Everything about this is just lovely.
Maybe it's 'cause my vitals are low.
Does  that mean that I'm just sort of stuck on this island?
I can't go here 'cause I'll probably die.
Hey, the Cyclones aren't here anymore.
They moved away to some other place?
Hmm.
Okay, you know what?
I gotta try to find my ship.
I know this is dangerous, but we have a suit on.
What is that?
If we want a chance at survival
we need to find the ship.
And there's some...
Oh, but I can't go down because of what Gabbro said, remember?
There is a current that pushes us out.
I can't really see what's going on.
It looks like there's some electricity thing though. But on the bright side, I am getting close to my ship again.
We can at least get some fuel.
Get some health back.
And the island that it was stranded on...
Oh but there's a cyclone right here.
I wonder if we'll be okay.
Maybe we should move a little bit further away.
I kind of learned earlier what happens when you get too close to dangerous objects.
What the heck is that?
Oh my God.
That looks dangerous.
Okay my ship is there.
I can't get to my ship because...
-- Oh, can I? -- 'cause my fuel is not working.
But if I can swim there...
What is that?
Again?
Oh, but if I can't get in here, how am I gonna get to my...
Well we don't need to get inside *here*.
Wait, I don't see any ghost matter inside.
Are we okay?
I'm trying very hard with my...
jet right now, but it's just not...
putting in the work
Oh, This is horrible.
Our first expedition going horribly horribly wrong.
Trees.
We're inside a tree trunk right now, so yeah.
I think we just have to look around and make sure there's no ghost matter in our way.
There we go. Don't go that way.
Are you sure that's gonna work?
Okay, it doesn't seem like there is anything dangerous there.
If it's inside the ghost matter, I think it'll say hazard.
So that's one quick way for us to tell without actually looking at the pictures it's producing.
I'm not really getting any closer to my ship though.
But there is a tree here.
That thing frozen in the -- Oh my God.
Look at the map on the left side. I've wandered all over this place.
Yeah, we can't go over.
I have to be a little bit more careful about how I travel, because we could just frickin fall off and die any moment.
Oh, come on!
Gabbro! Don't you got some tips for me?
I really need to get to my ship if I want to survive here.
Oh if I can get up higher, maybe I can jump down to the ship?
My flying abilities are so limited right now though.
Look at that: 50% remaining.
Well, I don't think I can even make it across the gap here.
I don't know what's wrong, like, are my jet thrusters just sort of broken?
Oh, we made it!
Holy crap! Oh, let me get in!
Please!
Such a treck getting inside here.
Oh! Here we go, thank the Lord. Let's get out of here first.
Oh my frickin --  I need to land somewhere that's actual land.
Okay, I've seen this. I don't know what to do with it right now. And uh...
Oooh!
Okay, that's...
You know what?
What about this island away from the Giant's Deep?
Yeah.
Okay, I need to learn how to, like, properly land, though.
Oh it's sinking back in!
I need to go a little bit slower probably.
*Where am I?*
I don't know, I don't know! You know what, let's uh...
This island seems really dangerous too.
And that just seems un-goable.
Ember Twin.
Everything on this damn ship is broken right now.
Lord!
Help me.
Help me Lo-- No! Not right now.
In all the spinning, I've somehow lost track of...
Giant's Deep is making Ember Twin look like a frickin cakewalk.
Everything just feels so dangerous, what do I do?
What do I do? Should I try to go back in?
What about this one right here... Brittle Hollow?
I just need a place to land.
All I'm looking for is a place to land, so I can repair my ship.
Okay, that doesn't seem like a good place to land.
You know what, I'll take Timber Hearth. It's a known quantity. We can do this.
You notice how we don't even have frickin autopilot anymore because everything is broken. Ain't that sad?
If we can...  I mean, there was some stuff on Timber Hearth anyway. Feldspar's harmonica signal.
I don't know how much time we have, but it's not a bad idea to try to get a hold of this place.
Yeah, slowly, slowly.
Oh, good enough.
Oh!
What happened just now?
Everything is broken, that's wh-  -- I keep doing this ^^; -- that's what happened.
Oh, you beautiful ship.
You've done your best.
I'm just not good enough of a pilot to drive you properly.
Maybe I should use my controller, because it's been telling me in the beginning to use my controller. But I ignored it.
Autopilot.
Are we all good here?
If we are...
I will use you to explore a little bit.
No, there's still one big thing that's broken somewhere.
Why is this glowing?
Well, we went to Gabbro's Island. We haven't found Statue Island. Orbital flash is that thing that we wake up to, I think.
Yeah, and then Ocean Depths. We saw it briefly.
But we couldn't really do anything about it.
All right.
Some fuel would be nice. Thank you.
What's broken?
Oh, there we go.
Beautiful! Brand-spanking-new.
And now that we've wasted so much time around here, I wonder if we can still do anything.
How much time do we got anyway?
All I want to do is really just make it to the North Pole or something.
How about Feldspar's harmonica signal?
Oh, that's back on the friggin' village. That's not gonna get us anywhere.
Let's land here.
There's a smoke in the distance.
What was that?
Oh Feldspar, you're here, aren't you?
We got to be careful.
Dropped a little bit harshly, but overall okay.
Feldspar?
Tektite. What?
Oh, what?
Can I do this?
Duplicate signal.
I mean, there's certainly things happening inside.
More importantly though, why is this thing giving off Feldspar's signal?
Even though we're right next to it, it's still unknown because we have no idea what this is.
That's Gabbro.
Yeah, I can't really do too much here, can I?
It's just a whole bunch of weird stuff inside.
Okay.
I wish I parked my ship a little bit closer.
That's a place that we haven't been to before.
Hmm.
Creepy.
So the seed fell down and it's laying roots around the place.
There's nobody around here, just roots. Okay.
Did they expect me to find this place before I left Timber Hearth?
There is something that's like a bridge here.
Oh.
Yeah, I really could have done with parking a little bit closer, couldn't I?
How are we doing on time? I don't got a clue.
Well today we found Giant's Deep,
learned that the elements are harsh and I feel very powerless and I can't do anything.
Which is basically the same feeling as I got on Ember Twin anyway.
by comparison Ember Twin doesn't look like it's as harsh because...
At least it doesn't try to kill me actively.
It's just the falling sand that's the problem.
That's the Attlerock.
*Whistle signal*
Was that the only thing on Timber Hearth or is there something a little bit more?
*sigh* These expeditions are strenuous, man!
Inside the Seed.
Yeah, so these apparently... they don't go by planet, but the colors must mean something.
They all connect to the same mystery maybe?
Wait, what?
Oh! Like *actually* on dark bramble?
Orbital Flash.
Oh that's pretty scary.
Some kind of teleportation going on.
I guess we can't rule that out, because it's space and there's aliens here.
Okay.
How about we check out the map for a second?
Yeah, now this is highlighted. Orbittal Probe Cannon. We didn't get to check that out properly. We saw Dark Bramble.
From a distance. Didn't really land on it.
But there's still Brittle Hollow here that we haven't looked at.
Maybe we should try going there next, although I'm a little bit worried.
Not on this time though, because I don't think we'll have time this time.
So maybe this time we'll just settle on some casual exploration around
Timber Hearth.
Does that mean that..? Wait.
If the harmonica is linked to Dark Bramble, then doesn't that mean that Feldspar is on Dark Bramble?
Now would you look at that.
I wonder if we should try going inside the geysers *laughs*
How do you properly land anyway? Like, I don't...
I don't really get how to land except for plotting myself on the ground here.
Is there a proper way to land?
Oh, this is a bad idea!
Oh!
*laughs*
At least it's pretty.
Okay, we got to be careful or else I'm gonna die here.
Yeah, like that.
Not the greatest of ideas.
Is it possible for us to get to the bottom though, do you think?
We'll wait till the water goes down, how about that? Oh, what the heck is that?
Oh, what the heck is that?
Now that we're kind of a nice distance away from the Sun...
You see, there's like these little... No that's not a good example here.
Yeah oh, over here! There's some rings.
Now!
Whoa!
Oh, What!?
Oh!
Oh my God!
Oh no! Did you hear it?
I think that was the supernova outside.
Oh God.
Aaahg!
There was something there though, there was something there.
Man, a lot of this loop was just me being helpless on Giant's Deep.
And that's what Gabbro was talking about, that flash of light.
Um, well this time, what happened this time?
We explored Giant's deep.
And at the very end there we found that there was something inside the geysers right on Timber Hearth.
Didn't seem like... I don't know if we could have done anything in there, but there was a lava geyser thing at the bottom.
Mmm, if there is anything there, maybe we'll figure it out next time.
