I Lost My Cloud the Day We Slipped Away to Rediscover England

I lost my cloud the day
We slipped away to rediscover England
I found myself behind the wheel
The passing fields conceal all wisdom

A city slept and crept away
Towards a shimmering horizon
No direction just a feeling
Something’s waiting by the shoreline

Something that was lost
Came back to me
Now there is a line
Running through me

Something that was lost
Came back to me
Now there is a line
Running through me

Had a bit of a manic moment last night. I know we’re a third into Pennyverse Month and so far no Pennyverse stuff has actually been done, but with this level and also Art Fight not ending until recently, we kinda figured that going in. In any event, it hasn’t been far from my mind, especially given how badly I mangled it in my mind towards the end of last year. I needed a new direction with it; something still wasn’t adding up. I still wasn’t sure how to describe it to people that wasn’t vaguely embarrassing.

[10:13 PM] mariteaux: yesssss~
see that’s the thing about pennyverse
i love the 90s small town worship thing but i also really want to play with more spooky things
the mystical, old grimoires and cryptozoological they find in the library
it just looks like our world on the surface, but secretly, without anyone realizing? very fantastical things can happen >:3c
[10:14 PM] caby: hell yes, man
is the thing really
if the guardian can exist, what else might exist?~
[10:15 PM] mariteaux: it’s all up to whoever’s doing the summoning,,,,
a world where there’s no less validity to penny making a deal with satan than there is kevin hopping dimensions or the guardian having a turf way with the spirit of the city >>:3c
[10:17 PM] caby: absolutely >>>:3c
heeee
pennyverse is rather spooky when you think about it~
[10:19 PM] mariteaux: it is!
and as i was thinking about it, because i’ve honestly mangled the poor thing in my head and i’ve been trying to bring it back into being fun for me, i realized like
i’m holding back
my nerves always do this, i end up too concerned about the fundamentals in my work that i forget to have fun with it, etc etc
but it affected pennyverse really hard
and like, why would i hold back all the strangeness, not to mention all the goofiness?
all the ideas of arthur’s record collection or seb getting into fights with psychics over the phone, that’s what makes pennyverse so much fun
[10:19 PM] mariteaux: gotta have the spooky stuff, gotta have the ridiculous stuff
[10:20 PM] caby: pennyverse needs its fun >:3c
all good, man
realising is half the battle~
love that strange vibe, I do
like some kinda x-files for furries
[10:20 PM] mariteaux: heeeeeeee
holy shit that sounds fantastic
[10:21 PM] mariteaux: yes

How one conversation changes everything. I don’t want to give too much about our ideas away, but there’s some really good and fun shit in the chamber, ready to blow. Just gotta keep powering through.

On the topic of the song, aside from basically being the vibe of the last 48 hours, I’m glad to finally be getting into Working For a Nuclear Free City. I knew when I heard them in Breaking Bad that there was something in there to love, but it went over my head until now. Felt too floaty. I take it clicking with me as a sign. Still gotta listen through the rest of the second disc of Businessmen and Ghosts.

And on the level front, the gauntlets are finally done and fully functional. This means the last thing to do is the leadup to the end arena, the end arena, and then some final polish. Hoping by the 15th? Anyway, have this video of the final gauntlet, the void gauntlet:

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