Wa so cools

[AUDIO FILE DETECTED, PLAYING RECORDING, TRANSCRIPT COMPILED]

Alright, seems like this thing’s recording. Fuck. So, today’s, uh, day one on this “Target” planet. I... fuck, what do I even say? How do those four-eyed bastards even write their fucking reports?

Anyway, name’s [REDACTED], number, uh, “A-0000002”. They dropped me down here to grab some cargo, sooo...

They issued me a fucking AK-100. At first I was like, what the fuck? Why the hell did they give me some grandpa-era antique? And they tell me, “Be grateful you got anything at all, mutt. They could’ve sent you down there with fucking nothing.”

They gave me six mags too. I was thinking to myself, “Wait, I signed that fucking contract?”... Oh right, the contract. Basically: “Cargo. Return. Freedom.” And cash. A shitload of cash.

Lost my train of thought there. Ah yeah, gear. They gave me a brand-new jetpack with an extended fuel tank. I’ve worked with these babies before, so nothing new for me.

They gave me a last-gen smart helmet, [REDACTED]. Pretty fucking good — night vision, combat analysis, target acquisition, recording, etc. Had those too, though I’ve worked with newer ones.

An all-inclusive mini-exo. So yeah, like they didn’t send me into a cave on the “Target Planet”, but into a fucking assault op.

Like I’m gonna have to shoot somebody... Oh yeah, and if you four-eyed intellectuals can hear me: I’m not used to fighting without drones, so if anything goes wrong, feel free to write me down as Cargo 200 right away...

So what else... Oh, the small shit: MREs — they told me right away there wouldn’t be enough for the trip there and back, eat whatever the fuck you find; water purification tubes; a flashlight, in case the helmet breaks; a laser drill; a shitload of batteries and power cells.

Basically, the suit’s packed to the fucking brim. Med kit’s decent too...
So, I think I’ve covered all the starting bullshit.

The capsule was tiny. They shoved me in there like a fucking mutt in a kennel. Then again, I’d already done ten years inside — wasn’t exactly new to me.

The airlocks opened, and I smelled...
Death. Went down. At first I thought it was a Cargo 200 in black camo... Took a closer look. Nope. Some dog-like thing with a big tail ending in orange and dog-like legs.

Got closer. Yeah, no — that sure as hell wasn’t no fucking dog. The front legs looked way too much like human arms, except the claws were way too long; the back legs were like a dog’s.
Head covered in yellow blood, three fuzzy horns that I first took for ears. Didn’t feel like checking the guts — the thing stank way too much...

My helmet, by the way, flagged the corpse when I looked at the head. Gave me a report: MSN-CARGO, whatever, date, #424652 SAW-01, physical status — deceased (no shit), last mental status: “Suicidal tendencies”...

There was depth, calories, and the best part, fuck — casualties: “Unknown + 4276”...
Those four-eyed bastards didn’t tell me half the story. Apparently, I’m not the first one in this cave. Then again, maybe I’m lying — maybe I’m the first Human here...

Anyway, I’ll describe the caves later. Decided to head back to my capsule for now and record a report. That’s all, folks.

[END OF RECORDING]

It looked better in my head :p

Inspired by @it.me.bob4 on TikTok

one of cas:u's biggest strengths for its atmosphere was its intimacy, it was just you and the guy you're directing down the planet. it sold the loneliness so well, made everything feel like your fault, your bad decisions, you caused this poor thing to suffer. but now there's just this... other thing? that speaks to you? and taunts you? and also apparently the directing thing isn't canon and you're just supposed to be the expie itself but the observer still talks to you and not the expie? i'm not crazy for thinking this is just a massive downgrade in both lore and immersion right

I love survival games, but at the same time I was a furry for a very long time and grew attached to this community.

I love animals too. What leads to that?

I watched the trailer and the dialouge and the whimper sounds were too much for me. "I don't want to die" dialouge with whimpers in background or the crying and expie being scared are just too much.

Or the desperate "f*ck please help me etc." when he was chased or hurt dialogoues were so sad...

Maybe I'm too sensitive but I really cant bear the physological horror aspect of this game. Seeing and hearing that little fella scared, sad, hurt or dying is just too much for me... And I only saw the trailer. He looks so cute and innocent! How to get rid of that feeling so I can try out the game when it comes out?

dune is now addicted to blood, not just flesh but now his diet is mostly blood

What are these other characters everyone keeps talking about? Like the velvets and stuff? Are they just really rare npcs or something? Idk I need answers

Credit to: u/bluewolf3691

https://www.reddit.com/r/casualtiesunknown/s/RzHLlXsZ4F

Hey y'all,

This is a discussion of the uses of flour items.

Currently, there is only one flour item, rye flour, which lasts 5 hours, weighs 0.5u and costs 2 trade credit. You can buy it from traders or craft it from 1u valueless rye bulb drops using 0.5 hammering, which both makes storing the rye bulbs more compact, and gives you discovered crafting recipe. The bulbs 30 minute decay time isn't worth attempting to maximize around. the extra space isn't worth squeezing an extra 30 minutes over an already overkill 5 hour decay time.

There are 3 recipes you can make with them. I think it is worth it to craft all of them at least once, because they each give you at least 20 hunger solving on top of the mood and int exp boost of a new recipe.

Each recipe takes one rye flour to make and 1 heatsource. I will be assuming that you eat them all at once to keep this somewhat short, and only noting how long it takes to lose a bite.

Starting with Bread because it is the simplest.

It costs 150 water quality to make and you get 0.75u, 8 trade value item. If you use clean water that's 13.5 quenching you forgo to make it.

The bread itself gives you 6 hydration and 27 filling, so that's really only 7.5 hydration for 27 hunger, IF you use the most efficent source of water quality. .

i find it really useful to use less efficent sources of water quality, mostly a mix of hell mixture mini-barrels (using dirty water for example) and chocolate milk/alcohol.

It takes at least 1 hour to lose a bite of bread, and you gain 0.51 kg directly eating it

Trade value wise, you are generally gives up 2 for the flour and 2 for the water quality for net 4, which generally pays for the cost of the campfire, while not requiring fluid containers or temporary bottle management to use.

Next is Pancakes

Pancakes costs 100 water quality and 100ml tree sap to make a 0.8u 12 value item. using clean water, that's 13 hydration and 4.5 hunger given up to make it, as well as 0.17 kg weight. and about 0.8 sickness and 0.5 mood

Pancakes give you 30 hunger and 3.75 mood, 4.5 sickness, and 1.23 kg weight in 3 bites, making this easily twice as fattening as bread, but it takes about have an hour to lose a bite.

Pancakes are ... hard to set-up, but you just need to get lucky with a mini barrel or be in layer 5 to have roughly the same set-up cost as bread.

Not as good long term storage of hunger as bread, but a bit better at producing trade value, as tree sap and clean water are 15 and 14 trade value respectively, so the fluid bit of the recipes costs about 3 vs bread's 2, but you get an extra 4 trade value.

Next is Nutrint Bar,

This requires no water but 25 fat quality and durability 50% produce to produce a 0.5u 10 value item.

This gives you 37.5 hunger and 0.406 across 3 bites that don't decay, ever, making this the best storage of pure hunger satisfying in the game at not much weight gain.

Unlike water and tree sap, the food/drink parts of a bar craft are not ... particularly easily stored and consumed. You aren't forgoing 150 to 200 ml of perfectly drinkable fluids, but like 0.25u or 25 ml in fat worth of somewhat sickening and/or upsetting meat items, and using produce that is either somewhat dangerous to eat (all custom produce besides geofruit) or decays really fast (geofruit).

Which makes it arguably the best flour use in terms of storing hunger, but can be somewhat finicky to set-up, given produce limits.

Looking this over I think the key takeaway is that rye flour is worth considering as a 20+ hunger 0.5u item that doesn't really decay edible (5 hours is overkill) that requires some finessing to actually eat, and gives you access to 3 recipes for mood and int exp. Bread is the easiest and decently long lasting, while the pancakes is the mood and weight option that is medium long lasting that needs a harder to source liquid, and the nutrient bar is the best in class hunger solution that actually requires a decent amount of set-up (meat/produce is somewhat bulky and can't be processed into less bulky stuff without a heatsource, and fat shouldn't be stored in your drinking fluids.)

Note

The game engine could easily support a bag of flour type item with more than 1 flour quality, but I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't happen in the Nov 9 out of demo/EA/now a full game release

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Im so sorry

[Joke post if you couldn't tell, not an actual comic part]

I have a theory that the name sawians came from the Polish capital Warsaw.

War-SAW
Idk lol. What are your thoughts?

warmup sketch

made in garry's mod, left 4 dead 2, bonelab, and project zomboid

Art by me, made for u/ServiTheFox

Milky n Voyager

Blep

my references are happy

^{(Dialogue for 2nd picture because I FORGOT TO LEAVE SPACE FOR TEXT})

Biscuit: What do we do with Orion? We have to move out but they're still sleeping...

Stringbean: I guess we'll have to take them with us. Teddy, are you able to carry them?

Teddy: I can, but if they call me a fat oaf again I'm throwing them into a hole...

(3 Doritos later...)

Biscuit: Are you sure you're not overencumbered carrying them?

Teddy: Nah... They're smaller and lighter than I thought. I feel if I sneeze they'll explode.

Biscuit: Snicker Well, it does make sense... Just... try not to drop them.

^{YES I KNOW MILKIES AREN'T CATS BUT I'M GONNA MAKE THIS ADORABLE PRECIOUS MILKY PURR BECAUSE IT'S CUTE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH (raig})

Anyways, this is a joint collab-style drawing that u/roblox_cat and I did, for u/bluewolf3691. We kinda had the same/similar idea about Orion being gonked out of their shmeeve for so long the team may as well carry them if they wanted to leave. (Especially considering how narcoleptic these creatures are... which I'm uncertain if Bluewolf actually planned for their comic [Would explain Orion not waking up in said nightmare, as far as I'm aware narcolepsy causes extremely vivid and horrible hallucinations/nightmares in your sleep])

Poor thing was so goddamn eepy that they needed to be picked up and taken around like another item. Next thing you know they'll legitimately be an item with a description like

"Orion"
"They're knocked out. Seems like it'll take a while for them to wake up."
"Weight: 0.50u"

And yes, Roblox_cat gave me permission to post both their artwork and mine (Then again I did offer them if they wanted to post them both instead xp) cuz it's so hilarious we basically thought the same thing based on a random comment of a foliage bag

I hope all Orion and Teddy enjoyers appreciate this drawing and I hope it brings a smile to everyone's faces. Remember to stay positive and smile :D. Even if Orion barely smiles themselves (I'm gonna sic Teddy to hug them and never let them go and keep them like a squeaky plushie)

Also, Biscuit paw looks off in the top panel because they're amputee on the arm that would be closest to Orion, so they need to use their other paw to gently scratch their head. Orion would probably never accept that kind of treatment but they're asleep sooooooo :3c

(i fucking made them have school bags because i have ZERO clue how to color their damn bags in the first place. dont judge me the comic is literally outline-only)

Either way... I hope you all get a laugh out of this and find both these artworks cute <3. Go shower u/roblox_cat with love too since they drew the first picture. And we both wish you to have a lovely day <3.

^{stop hesitatting with your anxiety and post the thing ive been here an hour staring at the "publish" button save meeeeeee. \})^{Pseudoshork worried noises\})

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I don't really use reddit at all, but I really wanted to share this song around that I made to hopefully bump up the views some more on my channel! Not expecting to get much outta this, but it took 2 weeks to finally finish the song and about 30+ hours overall to draw over the models I posed in SFM and is by far the most effort I've personally put into a song, so please consider giving it a listen, it'd mean a lot!