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For the Underground Blossom poster contest thing :'D very original concept I know
#rusty lake#ms pheasant#cube escape#cube escape theatre#i tried to go for one of those vintage theatre poster looks idk if it translated well tho#but it looks nice i think#underground blossom#UBPoster#my art
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I want to share my thoughts about Naraka (Hell realm) in Rusty Lake’s universe. It would be better to clarify how I prefer to perceive it in advance, so that if later it comes up in my fan content, there would not be too many questions, haha.
I suspect this is what Rose was reborn into at the end of "The Past Within" and Mr. Rabbit at the end of "Birthday", as tree as the symbol of Naraka was depicted on the sign in "Theater". However, you should not take their new form as literally "trees" - what's so hellish about plants, after all? It seems to me that those who go through the process of (metaphorically or literally) turning into a tree and passing into this new form of life become part of the forest at the bottom of the lake, and the Lake itself is what Naraka is, an infernal creature.
More than once in games characters have referred to the Lake as something sentient. The Lake needs memories, the Lake is able to reward with enlightenment and the Lake is able to punish those who disobey it. Here everything is not quite like in Buddhism, where hellish beings are considered to be the lowest of all creatures, because in “Rusty Lake” series this role seems to have been dutifully occupied by lost and suffering Corrupted souls, while Naraka | Lake is a kind of strong and, perhaps, cruel entity, whose wishes even Mr Owl and Mr Crow choose to respect, so as not to have unnecessary problems later. Therefore, maybe Dale is so interesting to them, because even if the Enlightened Ones have to live in harmony with Naraka, with the Deity on their side, no one of them will need to obey the wishes of the Lake.
I find it difficult to answer who exactly gets to be reborn into a part of the Lake, because Albert, for example, deserved this much more than his daughter, but perhaps it should be noted that in this universe the morality is rather gray. It’s possible that the fact that Rose tried to deceive nature and the standard rebirth system and whatever Mr. Rabbit was up to, from a universal point of view, is considered to be much worse than a couple of murders of family members. I mean, this is what some people here were rewarded for, pf.
#Rusty Lake#Cube Escape#Cube Escape Theatre#Cube Escape Birthday#The Past Within#Rose Vanderboom#Mr Rabbit#textual idea
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Hi rusty lake fandom
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Hi can we talk about how Laura, Bob and Dale remember each other from their own perspectives?
Laura (Seasons and The Lake):
Remembers Dale as a dark shadowy figure haunting her, but she’s able to escape him. She has no idea who he is. She doesn’t think of Bob at all (you could say it’s because of her corruption and memory loss).
Dale (Case 23, Theatre and Paradox):
Remembers Laura as a murder victim who appears to him as her age and as an older woman. She haunts him. While Dale remembers meeting Bob in Theatre, he does not remember their conversations. He remembers Bob committing suicide and becoming corrupted again. He remembers using Bob to get the cubes and being threatened by him, even being followed to the elevator.
Bob (The White Door):
Remembers Laura and Dale as normal people. Even when they appear inhuman, they talk like people who mean no harm. He imagines her regretting their break-up. He has secret memories of Dale comforting him in a bar. He has a dream where he and Dale meet at a club, and Laura is there dancing until things go wrong. The most hints we get of Dale’s manipulation is Dale saying “I need your memories” after Bob gets corrupted. The Laura he remembers was an artist who was struggling with her sadness.
anways. insane to me that bob holds no apparent anger towards dale, dale sees and remembers these people at their worst, and laura is completely alone with fractured memories from beginning to end.
#robert hill#laura vanderboom#dale vandermeer#rusty lake#cube escape the lake#cube escape theatre#cube escape case 23#the white door
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so do people have a preference for og dale or post-paradox dale? cuz i cant decide
#TO BE CLEAR!!! i love them both i just want to know what people think#dale vandermeer#cube escape theatre#cube escape paradox#cube escape#rusty lake#mine#reblogs
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aewsome game :3
#rusty lake#cube escape#cube escape: theatre#thriller game#indie horror game#escape game#game rec#i HIGHLY recommend the rusty lake series#if youre into puzzle solving or indie horror#a lot of them are free to play too :3
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Not only did I make these photos, I SPEDRUN ALL THE RESPECTIVE GAMES TO TAKE THESE SHOTS.
#jakob eilander#caroline eilander#cube escape: theatre#rusty lake: paradise#rusty lake: hotel#cube escape#rusty lake#c-v-c-e edit
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you can tell the brainrot is real...... (watching old danandphilgames videos) (specifically the first keep talking and nobody explodes) (imagining dale and bob playing it) (even though they're from. 1972 and obviously the game did not exist yet) (and they would both likely have ww2 childhood trauma so bombs are not really a good idea here) (anyway)
#libra.txt#anyway. i think very fondly abt dale&bob#even though there is no reason for them to actually be friends#since they only interact with each other in canon because of laura's death#and their only 'interactions' are not what would have Actually happened!#(cube escape: theatre being inside of dale's mind)(and the scene in the white door being bob dreaming)#(therefore neither are reliable accounts of their personal interactions)#like technically the only time they interact outside of mind shenanigans is the very brief bit in case 23 chapter 2#when dale looks through the window and sees bob in the holding cell + bob becoming corrupted#like yeah bob comes up to the window and smashes it#but he and dale don't /technically/ interact#anyway all of this to say that i believe they were childhood friends but dale completely forgot abt it#(partly due to [gestures at childhood trauma both canon and implied] and partly due to just growing up and forgetting stuff)#(like i completely forgot one girl i did a play with in 5th grade and then we went to the same high school and she's still miffed)#meanwhile bob is miffed that dale forgot. and also bob's going thru it bc he's now the lead suspect in laura's death#if you're still reading this: hi i forgot where i was going
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#i played this on the piano in cube escape theatre lol#music#soundcloud#ambient#rusty lake#cube escape
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Reasons to LOVE Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
It's brand new in cinemas, so there are still plenty who ain't seen it, so if you're among 'em best skip this and just GO SEE IT, it's SO well worth it, genuinely it's one of the best new movies I've seen so far this year. Hope you love it as much as I did!
So, yeah, there you go - SPOILER WARNING, FOLKS!!! If you don't wanna get spoiled, RUN!!!
Still here? Okay, here we go then ...
This really is, UNAPOLOGETICALLY, a comedy. I mean yeah, this is a classic fantasy action adventure in the Willow, Krull or Ladyhawke mold, but it is also very enthusiastically POKING FUN at the classic conventions of the genre ... albeit CLEARLY done with great affection and love for the material, as only the best lampoons can be. So this is more The Princess Bride or Galaxy Quest than Your Highness or Spaceballs ...
Chris Pine is ALWAYS at his best when he's being FUNNY, so he is PERFECT here. Edgin is most definitely a bit of a douchebag, but he's the sweetest, most lovable douchebag you'll ever encounter.
Holga. Literally just EVERYTHING about Holga. She's my favourite character in this, this REALLY IS the best role that Michelle Rodriguez has EVER HAD, if you ask me. She's a total badass, a truly AMAZING FIGHTER, but I love that despite her dour demeanour she's actually quite sweet, gentle and really a great innocent in many ways. She's an absolute cinammon roll and must be protected at all costs.
OH MY GODS!!! All the easter eggs, SO MANY easter eggs ... FAR too many to count throughout, all the references and nods and winks to the game itself, all the spells and races and creatures and stuff ... but I love how the movie NEVER beats you over the head pointing any of it out, it just lets you enjoy it. So the proper fans will get a huge kick out of spotting it all, but casual viewers will just enjoy it as rich worldbuilding colour and flavour.
Seriously though, it's a D&D fan's DREAM!!! Not just the mimic, or the owlbear, or the gelatinous cube! SO MUCH to spot ...
Justice Smith's Simon gets THE CLEVEREST and best introduction in the film, I love the theatre scene, he's SO BAD at this while also simulataneously being really great. Totally sums up this gloriously clunky hot mess of a sorcerer ...
the opening is GENIUS, totally sets the movie up as it means to go on - the parole hearing is a brilliant comedic take on the scene-setting infodump which is brilliantly carried through in the way the movie delivers exposition in a fun way or just lets you absorb it through what's happening in each scene. This is the perfect, TEXTBOOK way to do it.
"That is one pudgy dragon!" LOL
Doric. Just EVERYTHING about Doric. Sophia Lillis' tiefling druid is a wonderful diminutive little action hero, so fiesty and capable. I love her. It's just a shame she's not primary coloured, I'd have loved it even more if she'd been blue, or red ...
The Wildshape Escape! XD Yeah, I love that, that's THE BEST set-piece in the whole movie, definitely, when Doric gets cught out spying and has to shapeshift on the fly to get away, and it all plays out in one immersive single shot that just leaves your heart in your mouth ...
Oh, the Speak With The Dead montage, that is comedy GOLD. Funniest scene in the whole movie. And with added payoff at the end! XD
Rege-Jean Page's Xenk Yendar. Oh boy, that paladin is something else. I love how LITERAL he is, he's like Drax in GOTG but much more intelligent. Y'know when Holga says: "You're not a lot of fun, are you?" to him? She's so wrong. I just wish there was more of him in this ...
The heist! Oh, the heist! So good ... the portal trick, it's great, love the way they did that, and then that HILARIOUS bard illusion distraction - Pine skipping the song like a broken record was just chef's kiss!
That wonderful wibbly-wobbly illusory reality thing whenever Simon tries to atune to the Helm ... wow, that is some spectacularly trippy shit. Granted, twice is fine for terms of pacing, but I could've done with a few more scenes of that, it's fascinating.
Hugh Grant really has just become a MASTER at playing smarmy, slimy duplicitous gits now, hasn't he? Forge is a reprehensible prick and I love it.
I love how they made Bradley Cooper a halfling for his cameo. They're never gonna let him live down the fact that he's now probably best known for playing a two-foot-tall talking racoon so forever after he will be a Short King.
Wow, Daisy Head's Sofina is a CRACKING villain, she's just SO CREEPY!!! I love how coolly menacing she is, a brilliant dark necromantic wizard that just makes your skin crawl. Especially at the end ... IS SHE a lich? Is that what they were doing there?
That whole big action climax, the showdown in the city centre is FIRE!!! It's so amazing, so brilliantly dynamic, with EVEN MORE great easter eggs! Simon and Sofina having an insanely awesome "arm wrestling" bout with Mage Hand versus Earthen Grasp (I think that's the spell, couldn't be sure), oh my gods! So cool ... and then the way they neutralised the threat! Brilliant.
Chloe Coleman's Kira is an absolutely adorable delight, and I think she's ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED in how pissed she is at Edgin for abandoning her. It makes the payoff when they finally make up so much better.
And that resurrection scene at the end? Yeah, sure, I saw that coming a mile off, but it was so well done, and they played it so well, that it was still SUCH a powerful scene even so. Just perfect.
Seriously, they just did this whole thing SO PERFECTLY. It's visually STUNNING, really it just looks AMAZING, and the action sequences are BRILLIANT but always feel entirely necessary for the story, which is how you want to do it. Best of all, though, is THE PACING!!! This is such a quick, breezy film, it just barrels along at a spectacular clip, so it never drags. Mark Kermode is right, even though this is two and a quarter hours long it doesn't FEEL LIKE IT, it feels like a super-trim 90-minute movie.
And it ties everything off nice and neat, too. Sure, there are definitely possibilities for the future, going forward if they make more, but if the movie DOES tank then it's fine, because this really does do a great job about feeling self-contained and telling its own complete story, so if we DON'T get more it won't be too big a disappointment ...
#dungeons and dragons honor among thieves#the D&D movie#dungeons and dragons movie#chris pine#edgin darvis#michelle rodriguez#holga kilgore#justice smith#simon aumar#sophia lillis#doric the druid#regé jean page#xenk yendar#hugh grant#forge fitzwilliam#chloe coleman#kira darvis#daisy head#sofina the red wizard#reasons to love#reasons to love the D&D movie#2023 in movies
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Rusty Lake Drawings List:
Seasons
The Lake
Arles
Harvey's Box (another version)
Case 23
The Mill
Birthday
Theatre
The Cave
Cube Escape Collection
Paradox
Paradise
Hotel
Roots
Samsara Room
The Past Within
Underground Blossom
#I made an index/list for anyone interested#i also need this for myself tbh#i like to be organized#rusty lake#rusty lake fanart#cube escape
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Paradox is not included because it's very different from what came before and not free.
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Doodles once again
#berry’s art#rusty lake#rusty lake hotel#cube escape theatre#Harvey#The young bird#mr rabbit#ms pheasant#technically#LOLLL#david eilander#Elizabeth Eilander????#I’m autistic idk if she’s pheasant or not#logically I know she probably is but..#tw child endangerment#tw child abuse
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at the bar making cocktails for your ex boyfriend and asking him to light my cigarette, waiting for him to throw up ingredience for my cube collection and shoot himself while crying over you before i can explore his hole
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