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ryunumber · 3 months

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Here's a strange request: Professor Neroli, of Pokemon Sleep. I don't think there are any legendary or mythical Pokemon obtainable in-game yet, but maybe one appears somewhere as an easter egg? Unsure.

Professor Neroli does not have a Ryu Number.

(update below)

(UPDATE: Per @crimsondestroyer, the Raikou Research event for Pokémon Sleep gives Neroli a Ryu Number.)

#professor neroli #neroli #pokemon sleep #pokemon #ryu number

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crimsondestroyer · 8 months

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Ryu Number: The M.C. from The Under Presents

Alright. I've done a few Ryu numbers in the past, but none as elaborate as this one, so for once, I figured I'd make my own post explaining the... elaborate, to say the least, path I took to get here. Several dead ends and a couple weeks of research later, here we are.

So. To those of you who don't know anything about the Under, hi. I'm crimsonDestroyer. One of my many hobbies is playing VR games, and one such game is The Under Presents, by Tender Claws, a game I play somewhat often and speedrun periodically. A while back, I wondered in passing if I could figure out a way to connect any of the Under's characters to Ryu, like, say, The M.C. This seemed like a simple question at the time, but, well, let's see.

To start off with, there's a fairly simple Limited route. One aspect of The Under Presents in the past was its live actors, in-game characters played by real people who would interact with mute player characters in the game's multiplayer areas. Unfortunately, the actor run has since ended, and though there's been brief returns of actors here and there, it seems to be mostly over. However, one such actor-played character was a skeleton going by the name of Amelia. As Amelia's lore would later highlight, she is, in fact, the one and only Amelia Earhart, prior to her death and entrance into the Under. There are many hints around the game's world that Amelia Earhart was in the Under in the past, but she herself is nowhere to be found - except for this live actor. Given this was, by its nature, a time-limited occurrence, this would give the M.C. a nice, clean Limited Ryu Number of 3.

However, Limited Ryu Numbers are lame. Can we do better?

One of the many locations you can visit in the Under is the Crob Pit. There, by solving a puzzle with some fellow players, you can summon a massive crab monster who will eat you, sending you to the Den, inside him. There, you can find an assortment of crab bones and other gruesome things, in addition to one peculiar fixture.

This is the only intact human skeleton in the entire game, within the stomach of an enormous crab. Now, given the fact that Amelia Earhart is mentioned excessively by props around the setting of the game, with items such as her plane and a banner for a show featuring her scattered all over the place, her physical absence within the Under is quite suspicious. Additionally, the actor-played character was created after the game released, and it's implied that the actor characters have some degree of the supernatural to them, meaning the existence of the actor in no way means that the character's physical body cannot remain elsewhere in the Under. Given the popular theory that Amelia Earhart's body was never found in real life because it was eaten by coconut crabs, this seems... intentional. If you consider this to be Amelia Earhart's body, the M.C. has a Ryu number of 3.

However, given the complete lack of any verbal confirmation or hints to this skeleton's identity, and this being solely based on context clues, I'm not confident calling it for certain, so let's keep digging.

One feature of the Under is the scripted stage shows, which play on loop on the main stage in the game's theater area. One such show features a man by the name of Sal Sisyphus. Sal's act consists of him rolling a boulder up a hill while giving a motivational speech that inevitably descends into nonsense after he slips and drops the boulder back down. That sounds quite a bit like traditional Sisyphus - endless torture, endless repetition, endless suffering, pushing a rock up and down a hill forever. Plus, as far as I can tell, the mythological Sisyphus has no second name given, so who's to say Sal isn't his first name? If you buy into that, the M.C. also has a Ryu number of 3.

But this one DEFINITELY felt pretty sketchy to me, so I went back to the drawing board once more.

Finding a way out of Tender Claws is... hard. See, Tender Claws has made three big commercially-released VR titles: The Under Presents, Virtual Virtual Reality, and Virtual Virtual Reality 2, all of which can be linked without much issue. A sentient skeleton named Tina works in both a stage act in the Under, and her namesake bar, Tinas', in VVR2's setting, Scottsdale. And, as a sequel, VVR2 features numerous returning characters from the original VVR. All you need is to find one character, just one, across those three games, and you have an out. There HAS to be something.

It was at this point that a friend mentioned that Elon Musk is in Virtual Virtual Reality 2, and I had to do a double-take.

Meet Elon. He's a talking onion. More accurately, he's an AI upload of a human consciousness who takes the form of a talking onion in the digital world. Between his name, his personality, his mannerisms, the fact that he was the second human to ever upload himself (after an extremely important character from the first game), and the fact that VVR2's virtual worlds are referred to as "metaverses", the implication as to who he is seems to be pretty obvious. I didn't know he existed, because I never finished VVR2 due to some technical issues. Regardless, here he is!

With a proper pop-culture figure in our hands, we can finally find our way out of Tender Claws. Elon Musk is still a relatively modern person, so there aren't many games with him in them yet, but with some clever googling and the help of TV Tropes, I tracked down an obscure little game called Good Pizza, Great Pizza, released for mobile and later ported to PC and Switch. In this game, you make pizza for an assortment of customers, real and fictional, which just so happens to include one Mr. Musk. From there, it was just a matter of tracing the rest of the way to Ryu from one of the other noteworthy characters who appear in the game. There was a tempting Dracula connection, but unfortunately, he's exclusive to a time-limited Halloween event. How ironic, that the first and last dead ends would both be time-limited characters. In any case, Albert Einstein will do the job of giving us our final two jumps nicely, passing through Mario's Time Machine, and finally bringing us home.

The M.C. has a Ryu number of 3/5, and a Limited Ryu Number of 3.

#the under presents #the mc #street fighter #ryu #ryu number

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applegameisprollytaken · 6 months

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New pinned post!

Very important vent you shouldn't ignore

Vent numba 2! Yippee!

Datability/kinda intro master list

NEW WRITING CHALLENGE!!!!

BLOGS! (Like 90% of these are on hiatus)

@applegameisprollytaken: main blog. Send asks, memes, whatever. This is the jack of all trades

@appledoawrite: like it says on the tin, it's the writing blog. I have some stuff in the works.

@apples-do-an-au-too: the writing blog but for au stuff

@appledoamisc: for the things that don't fit into any particular blog but that I'm not also making a specific blog for

@the-fort-official: where you can talk to most of my characters, give or take a few

@evil-group-that-hates-the-fort: previous, but for villains. And also one redeemed creepypasta parody but mostly villains.

@the-forgotten-god-of-spite: the forgotten god of spite Eivel. Also innovation and friendship too.

@plushiemonstervoid: an eldritch being made of ink, tentacles, and eyes that makes magic plushies and junk.

@slime-boi-barbarian: a slimefolk femboy barbarian. Also wizard posting.

@themothtoyourflame: mothman! That's the gimmick!

@game-overkill: an entire timeline was wiped out but this guy survived. He probably saw you dying, dead, or running for your life.

@the-text-beekeeper: text doctor blog who is just a simp and thats the joke. All lore is purely coincidence. Trust me

@the-unfinished-doctor: previously known as the chicken doc, let's just say that the fort found him a replacement.

Allies, friends, compadres, mutuals, and the like.

If you ain't here, I probably forgot how to write your blog name

@magia-vexter @cow-stealin-gal @draco-the-chaos-quetzal @the-arcade-doctor @the-jester-doc @a-moths-privacy @slimylittlemaggot @f4y3w00d5 @aileaxthevoidien @snailmusic @butchhatred @luv-vivi @crimsondestroyer @n04h-a-1634

And many more.

Imma keep working on this lol. If the bits in purple are gone that means it's the finished product I guess

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mourneruntosheol · 3 years

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You guys ever find anything... how do I phrase this. Glitchy? Weird? Stuff that generally seems like a sort of break in reality, like strange items or weird rooms.

Surviving with no health, spiders phasing through rocks, being teleported to a room with a strange shopkeeper in it...

On particularly good runs, I always seem to find it. Especially if I've been using the Dice. It... Hurts my brain to think about. It doesn't do anything, but it looks like a lot of items fighting each other, if that makes sense.

#GO TO THE NEXT ROOM #crimsondestroyer

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lynxgriffin · 3 years

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I finally got around to reading DoFP, and I'm glad I did. There's a lot of little details that I didn't notice at first, like the preacher in Chara's origin apparently being named Conrad and being LV 2 (wonder how they got that extra LOVE...).

Glad you finally got to reading it and enjoyed all that and the side stories! And heck...even that part’s a mystery to me! ;)

#DOFP ask #ask lynx stuff #crimsondestroyer

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sm64mario · 4 years

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thoughts on homestuck?

Aren’ta all homes stuck? Except’a RV’s... those’a aren’t stuck. They can move!

And if’a home is where the heart is, I’a guess your home is moving all the time!

#crimsondestroyer

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ask-isaac-and-friends · 4 years

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((are you ok? is this blog still active?))

mod speaking! yeah im alright! sorry ive been super inactive, whoops! i have adhd so i usually hyperfixate on different things, and im only active on blogs relating to those hyperfixations, which is why this blog goes in and out of inactivity all the time :(

i havent even picked up my drawing tablet in over a week, so i dont think ill be able to update anytime soon, but i do have bunches of asks laying in the inbox, so whenever i get back to drawing ill try to pick this blog up again!

sorry for the wait and the inactivity!!! thanks for checking in though, it means a lot! :D

#crimsondestroyer

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mistytpednaem · 4 years

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crimsondestroyer replied to your post “i am not sure why a homestuck (or specifically sburbsim???) blog...”

FarragoFiction in general, not just SBURBSim. Also I found a link on the Credits page.

crimsondestroyer replied to your post “i am not sure why a homestuck (or specifically sburbsim???) blog...”

specifically, http://farragofiction.com/CreditSim/?target=mistytpedNaem

ah, I was afraid that would be the case 8);; well, here’s hoping you enjoy what I’ve got here, despite the fact that I don’t even post much homestuck anymore and may, in fact, be too dumb for the Extended FarragoFiction Universe (tm).

#crimsondestroyer

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jadedresearcher · 4 years

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are you ever gonna update your tumblr banner? those are some pretty old AB and ABJ sprites

people are free to submit suggestions for updates, by which i mean images intended to replace whats currently there

#crimsondestroyer

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pinkminimarshmallow · 5 years

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Are you gonna add the epilogue deaths to the list

No I gave up on that list after Collide came out because there were just too many edge cases to deal with. I mean Homestuck has always been like that but Collide was the last straw.

I suppose I could update it if people really wanted me to though.

#youll notice there arent any collide deaths on the list either #thanks for the ask!!#thank you notes #deathlist #crimsondestroyer #homestuck

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dysnomianmodder · 3 years

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Oh I had a weird dream that @crimsondestroyer was interfering with my plotwise shenanigans due to them being "morally dubious at best" and I know you don't trust a Derse-given dream like ever but if we have any beef I'd like to at least know about it before going on the defensive.

#im not trying to be paranoid just careful #i honestly dont think we've ever even interacted #so.. hi! my sensors indicate you as a threat for some reason so i guess at least you can feel a lil flattered #icish

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ryunumber · 8 months

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Courtesy of @crimsondestroyer: As of the recent release of Everhood: Eternity Edition for consoles, which features a crossover level with the game Rhythm Doctor that contains several characters from it, Red from Everhood has a Ryu Number of 4.

#ryu number #submission #update

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crimsondestroyer · 4 years

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i got into other me's tumblr so i'm here now

#crimsondestroyer

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alchemize-me-this · 5 years

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Portal 2 Disk && Shotgun

You get a Portal Gun!

Yeah this kinda came out as expected. But in consolation:

Portal 2 Disk || Shotgun = Portal But With Guns!

This fun, action-filled game replaces your portal guns with regular ones, giving you the ability to fill any enemy nearby with holes! (The only problem is that you can’t solve any of the puzzles with the guns.) 10/10 on Betacritic.

-Mod Page!

#mod page #alchemize me this #portal #portal 2 #crimsondestroyer

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ryunumber · 9 months

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Any of the characters from Just Shapes & Beats? (The boss in the level La Danse Macabre is likely the best choice)

The boss of "La Danse Macabre" does not have a Ryu Number/has a Ryu Number of 4.

(CORRECTION: Per @crimsondestroyer, a cameo in "Spider Dance" may give the boss a Ryu Number of 4.)

(For explanation, see Blue Square.)

#la danse macabre #just shapes and beats #jsab #ryu number

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ryunumber · 2 years

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Red from Everhood, please!

Red does not have a Ryu Number.

(update and clarification below)

(UPDATE: Per @crimsondestroyer, special maps added to Everhood: Eternity Edition gives Red a Ryu Number of 4.)

To preempt a possible correction, while the Lost Spirits are clearly homages to Uboa from Yume Nikki, who in turn is the visual inspiration for the Mysteryman sprite/Gaster in Undertale, none of the Lost Spirits are actually either Uboa or Gaster.

#red everhood #red mage #red mage everhood #everhood #ryu number

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