Artificer - Dream Sequences

[@grandmagunsales2125]

It's so odd not seeing the karma move in the shelters but it makes sense. Every day Artie wakes up and chooses violence... and that's the other thing, everyone else hibernates, Artie just naps until morning

[@Lush_Produce]

So just reminisces while resting?

[@chickennuggets8685]

Artificer did not choose violence, violence was forced

[@DundG]

​@@chickennuggets8685 Somtimes both align.

[@Ee-lr5de]

@@chickennuggets8685 violence was accepted and became her purpose and reason to live

[@CaptPatrick01]

While other scugs sleep, Artificer broods.

[@MafiaPenguinEnt]

When I found a slug pup, I lost it to leeches similarly, even swam down to try to save it, no use, it was cruel, man.

[@AltKaxREAL]

It's like a nightmare... It's so damn sad

[@char1190]

worst thing is their food bars wont go up... at least for me.

[@froggo9369]

@@char1190 is multi player on, if so you can’t feed them unless it’s off (go to remix and close it)

[@mooncake2560]

@@char1190 that’s because you’re not supposed to have Jolly coop on

[@mooncake2560]

@@char1190 it makes it so you can’t feed the pups

[@rissmebesce71]

Slowly the dreams become nightmares, the last ones are more like the fantasies on how she is obsessed on kill the scavengers.

[@dr.snailracer1912]

one sad thing i noticed is that in the dream where her second slugpup dies, Artificer wouldn't have originally made that jump without the grenade boosting her she feels guilty that she didn't die with her slugpup, that she lived

[@spence8507]

She could've just swam and jumped back out though

[@dr.snailracer1912]

@@spence8507 to be fair there were like 10 leeches there in the water, i bet i couldn't get out in a situation like that

[@spence8507]

@@dr.snailracer1912 yeah but you don't have explosion powers

[@dr.snailracer1912]

​@@spence8507 fair point, you've checkmated me

[@veinfish]

@@spence8507she has very bad oxygen

[@coffeeris]

In mine, in the dream with the squidcadas, a vulture came down and nicked one of the pups. This wouldn't be so bad if it didn't proceed to NEVER PLAY THE REST OF THE DREAMS so the entire time I was confused as to why Artificer hated scavs so much

[@eliasalarabi6298]

imagine Artificer but instead of a hate for scavs she's absolutely livid for vultures

[@sonwig5186]

I killed all the squidcadas but one, which the other slugpup used to float around with (very cute)

[@chickensky1121]

@@eliasalarabi6298 Instead of bomb powers, she can fly and shoot harpoons at stuff. It would be absolutely terrifying.

[@satoruriolu6132]

For me it skipped the scene where she loses the green baby, but I did have nightmares later, and blue pup got stabbed by the scavs. It skipped one of the scenes in the middle lol

[@epicman60]

Swooped down in mine too, and it ended just as it cornered us. I honestly thought it was intentional, it shows narratively that she fights to protect the babies.

[@holysnails]

Oh my God I never got to see all the scenes and i thought it ended whenever they got to the scavenger toll. So the little baby stole a pearl because it was shiny and the scavengers started attacking them? God, no wonder artificer wants all scavengers dead so bad, the way her babies passed away and how she was forced to leave one behind was so heart wrenching I can't stand it. Also is the final cut scene how she got her scar too?? And with how she seems to have dreams of different rooms with a single scavenger almost feels like recurring nightmares. Almost like she's punishing herself or she's so angry she can't help but dream about murdering scavengers.

[@Nardology500]

You got it, right on bro. That's why I posted these videos; The story behind this is actually pretty sad as well as climactic.

[@peet7392]

i think this scene is different for other people i watch a streamer and he got the scene where the blue slugcat escaping with pearl get stabed with a spear in the head , and also the green slugcat get taken by vulture at the roof top instead of going down in the pipe

[@peet7392]

I also want to know how she get the exploding power from

[@forkgodsdescendant2503]

@@peet7392 Probably got so angry once her body suddenly learned how to create a bio explosion from it. Like some anime rage power up

[@forkgodsdescendant2503]

Nevermind, she always had it

[@comradpingu5745]

The dream music getting deeper and darker just send a shiver down my spine, I knew that her story would have been sad but I wasn't prepared for those nightmares... Poor mother, just wanted a happy life with her pup's

[@1potato23potato]

fr

[@MaxwellCatAlphonk]

Then blue found a pearl, ate it, scav came, killed it. Arti and green try to flee, green fail jump and end up in pond full of leeches. Why. Why had this to happen. Couldn't Arti just have raised her children instead? Then the extinction of scavs wouldn't have been neccessary. Then everything would be better. But no. The scavs were dumb and killed them. Why.

[@MaxwellCatAlphonk]

Just let Arti live her happy life with her pups

[@flyingstonemon3564]

​@@MaxwellCatAlphonk Not all scavs should die because one or a group of their kind did something wrong, Arti choose ultimate violence as her only joy in revenge fueled grief, the scavs responsible were stupid, but she became worse than them overtime by a long shot with the massacre... In a perfect world, scavs and pups are alive still and Arti at peace.

[@peppermintgal4302]

In the first dream after the dreams of the deaths, I didn't realize you could move the scavenger, so I just watched artificer moving around manically, occasionally violently shaking back and forth, while there was like some creepy scavenger face hiding in the darkness watching. This whole story was traumatizing.

[@guineapig67890]

The fact that the sound that plays when you are going into a dream gets even more and more distorted and uncanny adds to Artificier's sadness from the death of her slugpups and her rage against the scavengers.

[@leafydonn309]

If you ever tried to fight scavengers in arena mode this is the hatred you get for them:

[@Ottomancat5256]

I feel you there bro 😔

[@Gatoviotas]

i hate scavengers so fucking fmuch

[@LordoftheNightWolves]

The dream sound that plays before each one gets more distorted each time as the dreams get dark in tone

[@sharkfactory2323]

you can actually control the characters in these dreams. i dont know how exactly but i managed to do it on accident

[@sharkfactory2323]

nevermind i watched the whole video and you already knew that

[@michaelbavdek5727]

Rollercoaster of emotions

[@sharkfactory2323]

@@michaelbavdek5727 thank you i really try

[@misfit_raven4367]

@erby389 nope youre only a scav in one of the dreams. youre blue in the first dream, arti in the second, none in the third, blue in the fourth, and none in the fifth - then youre switching between arti and the scav in the room with each other every dream.

[@Neppiko]

I never got the full story of why the artificer hated the scavs since I only had the first 2 dreams through my playthrough, I'd assumed it was because of losing the pups but I didn't know how. Now I know. And I'm even more satisfied with the ending now that I know.

[@Steven-nq7fx]

The vengeance ending is satisfying, but for me the ascend ending is more poetic. She let go of her wrath and pursue transcendence. Ascending, and finally be free of from her vengeance. Edit: she doesn't truly "ascend" but rather disappear from the world (explanation below)

[@hollowcookie9648]

@@Steven-nq7fx Sorry to break it to you but she isnt in peace. She doesnt ascend due to her wrath and instead becomes an echo

[@Steven-nq7fx]

@@hollowcookie9648 But her doesn't "ascend" doesn't make sense because that is againts her entire journey; letting go of revenge. To quote from TurtleToad: "For Artificer's ending, I'm not really convinced that she an echo as many community members seem to believe. I think that would be antithetical to her journey in the first place of finding all the echoes. If the player chooses to find the echoes, they actively forgo seeking revenge, and instead dedicate themselves to the more difficult path of enlightenment. I think this demonstrates Artificer's will to move on and let go of her anger, which binds her to this world. I think this is reflected in the ending. After seeing her pups again one final time, it was enough for Artificer to finally let go of them and leave this world behind." My theory is that since she doesn't get accepted by the Void worm, she just dissipate from the world instead of Ascending. The only thing left that binds her from the world is a revenge for her pups, but once she let them go she can finally be free from the attachment. But because she's not truly pure, she doesn't ascend but instead vanish.

[@mishagaming1075]

@@Steven-nq7fx ...What's the difference between ascending and vanishing?? Ascending is just a more fancy term that the ancients used to describe LITERALLY VANISHING FROM THE WORLD.

[@Steven-nq7fx]

@@mishagaming1075 It is my theory, so take it with grain of salt. In how I see it, vanishing is an imperfect ascension, but different than being an Echo. She is not pure because of her sins therefore she cannot truly ascend, but she also cannot be an Echo because she has no self-attachment on her. The purpose of going on Pilgrimage is to let go of all she has in the world: Feelings, Possessions, Emotions, etc. If the Ancient was stuck in the world because of their self-attachment (ex. Drainage System Echo saying they still enjoy their world and doesn't want to ascend), it doesn't make sense if Artificer were to turn into an Echo because that is againts the point of her journey. Then again, it's just my theory. If you have a strong argument feel free to prove me wrong.

[@ziyolore2008]

I like to imagine that the nightmare with the singular scavenger is meant to represent the memory where Artificer finally snapped. She’s trapped in a small room, with no visible way out, and this scav just comes out of nowhere. It may have been taunting her, or maybe even trying to console her. But it didn’t matter anymore. Seeing the face of the species that utterly destroyed her life finally pushed Artificer over the edge, turning the poor scav into her first victim, thus setting off a chain of events that would lead to the eventual massacre that would unfold. (Or maybe I’m just looking too deep into this.)

[@summeryknight7451]

Good stuff

[@misfit_raven4367]

nah im with ya

[@WolflFlavoredTea]

yeah...honestly thats why the artificer is legitimately heartbreaking and nightmare-inducing..all it takes is one moment and you will go down that hellish slippery slope. Honestly remidns me of Kieran in pokemon scarlet and violet's dlc.

[@sodreir.8666]

The Artificer is like Rain World’s Guts, left with nothing but with it’s rage and bloodlust

[@moseygosey]

100%

[@ExposingOreo]

2:24 The moment I saw the little guy look up, I knew something was about to go wrong

[@CaptPatrick01]

3:14 Imagine if you surrendered the pearl the game gave you an alternate ending where instead of facing off against the chieftain he instead sends his _ultimate warrior_ to challenge you in a duel to the death instead, and now the Artificer is forced to fight and kill her own pup now all grown up. Perhaps the cutscene would show that she didn't even realize it was her pup until removing its mask. That would be dark as hell, it would be perfect.

[@memeyartist5591]

thats an absolutely insane idea, i love it-

[@mishagaming1075]

And then after she finds out it was her pup, she kills the chieftain, all the scavengers, and then grieves near the pup's body.

[@baffled_hawk]

THAT WOULD BE SOOO DOPE FOR AN ALTERNATE ENDING! Considering the death of her first child wasn't really shown unlike the second one

[@mimi_arts8130]

Reminds me of that one book by ferdowsi

[@thenyan3095]

Yeah at first I was like “oh, so it’s not gonna show the scene of the scavenger killing the kid? That’s a little weird, it’s a very important detail is it not?” But this idea is so fucking dark I love it

[@ravenstar1397]

The dreams getting progressively more distorted is horrifying

[@gasmaskloner6180]

It also gets more hollow and ghostly sounding like cries and pain from something or someone maybe her mind begging for the pain to stop?

[@ravenstar1397]

@@gasmaskloner6180 oh god

[@XArtificerx]

How do you guys know what goes on in my head 😰

[@ravenstar1397]

@@XArtificerx LOL

[@merc_lord]

I like how the dream noise gets deeper as artie's memories become ptsd nightmares

[@incendiarycrocs7449]

I was so sure that the first slug was gonna be brought up by the scavenger, then you fight/reconcile with them once you find out they're with the leaders in the city So when it got stabbed through the head I was quite shocked

[@flutefox3177]

when

[@octopode170]

@@flutefox3177 the arti cutscenes are generated on the spot rather than being premade recordings, so sometimes some details don't happen. what usually happens is that the first slugpup hangs onto the pearl and gets a spear to the head for it, but since this pup dropped it in a panic, the scavs didn't continue the assault. the shaking of the screen while it fades to black implies that the rain is about to come, and that the slugpup died to that instead

[@Fanatator]

Aka: Small pup sparks up a genocidal cross-species war

[@Acefdiamonds]

Cute baby causes genocide

[@blujai777]

thank you for this, i have a bug where my game crashes at the dreams and i can't watch them

[@iwilltakeyourpassword453]

same! really glad someone uploaded them, thanks man

[@SoupShwoup]

same. it just shows the shelter I'm in but red and slows my pc until rainworld crashes or I close it

[@llbenll3685]

I fixed it by turning off jolly coop. I don't know why that solved it

[@adumbdannia]

same, it's either that or they take an eternity to load

[@IIdot]

i feel so bad for artificer now :'[ now i am sad for both hunter and artificer

[@brendancappelli2611]

Why hunter?

[@aarepelaa1142]

@@brendancappelli2611 hunter has giga ultra mega hyper cancer.

[@qazisgone7292]

@@brendancappelli2611 Super cancer lol

[@darkmodeenjoyer3367]

@@qazisgone7292 no turbo cancer With legs

[@IIdot]

@@brendancappelli2611 hunter has this sickness/cancer which is slowly making him weaker and kills him on the final cycle or if he dies while he is weak which is a permanent death but now in downpour you can see him (his corpse) walking around in an appearance of a long legs he as very small tho if you kill him and sleep then you can see a red slug cat icon in the top left of the screen. (Dang this took forever) there are a few videos of hunter long legs or HLL

[@crazysapling2933]

Good to see the cutscenes play out the way they should. A lot of them were bugged on my end and I could control random things or the characters would stand still after a little One of them I was controlling the scavenger in the scene it was so confusing at first

[@Brownerbricks]

wow! You should have killed the other scavs!!!

[@stealthxg5045]

Not bugged, in one of them you're supposed to control a scavenger. The Artificer then kills the scavenger you're controlling.

[@Brownerbricks]

@@stealthxg5045 what if you dodge and weave and escape?

[@larsthememelord3383]

@@Brownerbricks its most likely that your in an enclosed space

[@Brownerbricks]

@@larsthememelord3383 oke doke

[@MaxwellCatAlphonk]

Someone should code a game mode for Arti that lets her raise her children. No scavengers killing them brutally, just an alternate universe.

[@xen5558]

There's also a variation of the last one where you control the scavenger and the artificer is controlled by AI. You can even kill artificer.

[@PickledPeterPicksPrettyPickles]

Here's basically the whole story from what I've gathered: Artificer used to live in the Garbage Wastes with her 2 children. They lived their cycles peacefully together. Until one cycle, they had to pass a scavenger toll. Artificer and the green slugpup went across smoothly, but the blue slugpup noticed something... shiny. The blue slugpup stole one of the pearls without Arti noticing. The scavengers noticed this however and took it as offence and murdered the slugpup. Because of this, the Artificer and her remaining pup were seen as enemies and starting attacking. They almost got away but one explosive got a little too close to the Artificer and the green slugpup, when it detonated it sent both of them flying, however the slugpup landed in a pool of leeches, and they dragged her to the bottom, drowning her. When the massacre started (beginning of Artificer campaign) the Artificer started getting dreams of the past. Except as the slaughter continued, including any poor creature who was in her way died. The dreams became more like nightmares, like Vultures appearing in dreams attacking them. But once the Scavenger Chieftain was killed. Then all dreams from then were nightmares, turning once peaceful memories into an inescapable purgatory. I like to believe that these nightmares play because the Artificer had forgotten what this was all about, revenge, but she turned into a massacre. So now her nice dreams are replaced by a room with a poor scavenger, becoming the next victim. But as the Artificer finds more Echoes, she feels remorse. The scavengers are afraid of her, there was no point in fighting anymore. She then saught out the Echoes, and ascended, except, she couldn't let go of her rage. So she didn't ascend, but rather vanished. Forever.

[@RealistSophist]

I massacre scavs in any campaign. They ain't deserve any remorse considering they lose a single pearl and murder something that's very clearly a baby. I'm not sure what the hell they expected to happen after they murdered the children of something with an infinite arsenal of explosives.

[@Pseudoaquanaut]

Considering dreams have power in Rain World, I think the nightmares might be the world’s way of saying “You’ve gone too far, and we cannot forgive you.”

[@IHaveNoValue]

I have to disagree with you on that one, sadly artificer becomes an echo because she still holds her wrath against the scavengers, you cant ascend while feeling wrath or hatred to another

[@ZaynIsLameish]

I believe Artificer became an echo

[@bluphenyx]

​@@IHaveNoValueLook at Artificer's ascension art, and then Saint's ascension art. No, I think Arti did manage to ascend- she let go at the very last moment.

[@thepurplecone4488]

I had a slug pup for 17 cycles and lost it to a scavenger who threw a bomb at me and knocked it off a cliff I than went as survivor to kill the entire scavenger population this was before downfall with a mod that added small slugcats that you could carry around.

[@sonwig5186]

Lol when you get to play as the slugpup who gets left behind I managed to kill so many of the scavengers that they ran away before it ended.

[@themushroominside6540]

in a different timeline, blue slugpup becomes chieftain instead of mom. But for real, since both the slugpups died within the same cycle, wouldn't they just wake up in a shelter with their mother as if nothing happened? Like the blue slugpup is gonna wake up and say, "yeah taking that pearl was a bad idea so I'm not gonna do that anymore", and by the time when they approach that very same scavenger toll things would go much more smoothly though the mom would be wondering why blupup is so skittish around scavengers now. If the artificer wasn't so insistent in killing the scavengers and died that cycle like her kids she would have woken up right beside them. its like how if you have slugpups of your own, you'd just commit self deletus to start over if one of them happens to die.

[@garycoleman5746]

@@themushroominside6540 why didn't she just die? is she stupid?🏺

[@Unimportant_egg]

​@@themushroominside6540well if you saw both of your children die infront of you you would want to get revenge right?

[@thisperson102]

@@themushroominside6540 I feel like the concept of waking up again is more-or-less tied to the timeline and dens. Since we play as Artificer, in this timeline she went to sleep after her pups died, thus ‘removing’ them from the timeline. If she let herself die she most likely would’ve woken up besides her pups again; but instead she let her anger destroy her and ‘locked’ her pups into an unfortunate death. That’s why she sees them one final time in the Void Sea, since they’ve effectively been ‘crossed out’ by their mother’s retaliation against the Scavengers instead of letting herself be killed by them to wake up near her pups. There’s also a chance that Artificer didn’t actually KNOW about that quirk of their universe, since she might not have actually ever died before.

[@emms]

I didn't realise I was the one controlling the blue pup in that dream, so it just stood there admiring the pearl and immediately got stabbed in the head...

[@Link_Bird]

I actually managed to escape as the pup in the fourth memory, so it was really weird to me that they just disappeared by the fifth one.

[@zigaudrey]

So, Artificer WAS an pyrotechnic expert before the lose of its pups than just being one out of rage.

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Yeah,so slugcats have the same intelligence as a scav? Which is around the intelligence of an homo erectus

[@Eclipsed_Embers]

it makes sense, considering that turning weapons into explosives costs food pips it would seem that her explosives likely have a biological element to them (perhaps her saliva or some other secretion is explosive or something) it's possible that she or one of her ancestors was purposed for creating explosives (or at least a chemical that just happens to be explosive) and that's why she has those abilities after all, being a purposed organism seems to be the excuse given for the odd abilities of Spearmaster and Rivulet, Hunter was purposed (despite being pretty basic in terms of abilities), and it seems plausible that Saint was too. the only slugcats that seem to be natural are Survivor and Monk who are definitely the two most basic slugcats (I didn't mention Gourmand since while Gourmand is likely natural his odd abilities in gameplay seem to be a product of his campaign being a story being told by the other slugcats, thus resulting in some exaggerations), therefore it seems reasonable to explain any odd abilities of slugcats as them being purposed in some way

[@theterrorofdimensions1326]

​@Eclipsed_Embers Actually, Slugcats in general are all purposed organisms or were descended from one. Apparently, their original purpose was to clean out pipes or whatnot. Why some of them have different abilities can be attributed to either artificial changes in biology (like with Spearmaster), or evolutionary changes over the years descending on the environment they lived in.

[@ssneakyandfriends1626]

Oh if you want the slugpups, eat stuff as gourmand (theres some sort of food quest)

[@muaddib4378]

YO WHAT IF THE GOURMAND IS ACTUALLY PREGNANT??

[@Foxett25]

@@muaddib4378 OH WAIT. THAT WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE SCENCE! it's fat, but

[@larsthememelord3383]

@@muaddib4378 that would make gourmand crushing things with their rotundness a lot more messed up

[@zsaidmiranda4971]

@@larsthememelord3383 lmfao

[@humankktheblueslime]

just watch a streamer reaching the second dream, then at the end of the dream a vulture fucking spawn, now he's convinced Arti is seeking revenge on the vultures lmao

[@J1407b_slugcat]

Was that skurry?

[@Machinewashere]

i wonder why the scavengers were attacking in the first place, i don't know how far in the timeline demoman is but its sad to see the scavengers just go after the slugcats like this.

[@TheDestroyerOfHumans]

Generally speaking scavengers are territorial, they have their own dens, patrols and passage guardians, 2:31 is such a place because of the skull the little slugpup was climbing too. In the next dream you can see the white slugpup holding a pearl, which scavengers love, so the fact that the family snuck by their gate was one thing, but then stole a pearl was another. The next dream after that because the family had still crossed without payment so they continued to attack. This is a thing that can happen in normal playthroughs if you don't pay the fine. Its a reputation thing.

[@bean370]

Arti is before hunter and after spear master ( spear master is the first in the timeline )

[@graycatsaderow]

Also slugpups are a common medication treat for scavs

[@bean370]

@@graycatsaderow where did you hear this from????

[@DistinguishedSeal]

Demoman? I'm deceased 💀

[@sethnosek2889]

Thank you. I only got to see like half of these because sometimes when I got into a shelter it would just be stuck on a loading screen forever so I'd have to restart the game. it seems like they fixed that bug a few days later though.

[@inthebackground7122]

ironically i didnt learn this is how the dreams were meant to go until i saw this video ahaha. most of the dream sequences i had ruined by a vulture coming from nowhere and throwing off the mood of the entire thing and its actually pretty funny. From stealing artificer to literally distracting the scavengers from the slugpup. then i completed the campaign before seeing the slugpup drown and artificer/scavenger killing each other thing.

[@Voxen712]

I like how the melody slowly turns deeper with each dream and gets completely distorted on the dream of the pups death. In later dreams its not as deep anymore but stays distorted, like the way arti chose to attempt getting over it made her more mad and lost over time.

[@doodle_bear291]

When I got the dream where it's just you and a scavenger, There weren't any spears that I could find, just a single rock. the scavenger wasn't armed. I killed it with blunt force trauma and by mauling it, and it couldn't do anything about it. I wasn't even sure what was going on, I just felt that wild, primal fear predators feel as they defend themselves. It felt very profound.

[@rossgabriel8881]

2:43 Oh dear god

[@Nardology500]

Moments before disaster

[@holysnails]

Poor baby was just curious and thought it was pretty 😭 it hurts so much

[@ladno1342]

​​@@holysnailsarti should have carried both of them like many players do. That's not really responsible. Especially at a scav toll

[@holysnails]

@ladno1342 I like to imagine that arti was a parent that wanted to give their child a bit more freedom to move around, maybe she's such an apex predator in her environment it didn't pose much of a concern until finally came a day she was completely outnumbered and taken off guard.

[@ladno1342]

@@holysnails makes sense

[@_-laly-481-_]

0:40 That green baby has as much skills at this game as I do

[@YinAndYang_ii]

Relatable

[@Unserioussam328]

i know these are supposed to be heart wrenching. but the first sequence when little homie eats a rock as its fading to black... lmao.

[@piotrsawek3613]

What are the triggers for the dreams? Number of cycles? Specific region or shelter? Killcount maybe?

[@VallyPally]

im pretty sure its number of cycles

[@glurt628]

it is number of cycles, you get one dream every 5 cycles

[@Saltine_Cracker446]

Oh god how the dream music slowly becomes more and more distorted as artis life goes downhill

[@icy1277]

Fun fact, (mostly unrelated but) Artificer is featured in dreams apology video. It's in the thirst trap section, and at the very start. You see someone with an arti pfp.

[@veinfish]

☠️

[@-ShanWasTaken-]

I know I'm late to this comment but i cant for the life of me find what you're referring to, I'm looking at the part around the part where he shows the comment section of penguinz0's video

[@icy1277]

@@-ShanWasTaken- its one of those parts where its scrolling through a bunch of tweets

[@Mj_proxier]

this is sad they killed her baby's they didnt know that they was not go past the toll

[@lazylonewolf]

Yeah um, I threw my pups into the bottomless pit in the 2nd dream. Pretty much ended the dream quick. 🤣 It's ok they're not real they're not real they're not reallll You can actually control one of the characters in the dreams: 1st dream: One of the slugpups 2nd dream: Artificer 3rd dream: None, IIRC 4th dream: Slugpup that was left behind. You'll either get speared or like this video, left to die in the rain/scavs. I think you can control the slugpup because it might be Artificer hoping and coping that there was _some_ way that the slugpup escaped. There's none. 5th dream: I've actually finished the "job" before I even saw this, but I think you can't control anyone because of the importance and impact of the scene. Like goddamn, being knocked out while your slugpup is drowned by leeches. 6th dream+: Apparently you control the helpless scavenger? I didn't even reach the 5th dream before finishing Artificer's campaign.

[@cononsberg6919]

I know in the 7th dream you control the Artificer, I got that one but not any of the others after 3

[@c_8004]

i only got the first three and then finished dawg i didnt even know how the slugpups died i just wanted to obliterate scavs for an entire campaign because i dont like them

[@hollowknightenjoyer]

same

[@epic_burger_3000]

i love how the music goes getting creepier and creepier every dream

[@ZedAmadeus]

Jesus. The one where the baby drops into the water and is drowned by leeches is genuinely brutal, and just.. .really effective cinematically. I never saw that one on my playthrough... Think I beat the campaign too quickly.

[@leonardomanhaesmello6409]

Am I the only one who after getting the crown from the scavenger king still kills them for revenge?

[@T3sl4]

How else are you gonna get a tasty snack along your journey?

[@tinnedteainsyrup8943]

Scavs killing a sluppy out of spite or cruelty is actually accurate. I tried to pass the Outer Expanse scav toll with my mint pup and they killed me, so my pup jumped into the water and swam past. The scavengers hunted them with special effort and stabbed them in the water💀

[@skittlemastergrimm750]

very sad the first dies to scavs then the second falls off artificer's back and is drowned by leeches so its understandable why artificer hates scavs so much

[@XArtificerx]

It is understandable

[@molemaniac]

(Spoiler Warning) Theories I’ve seen that could explain Artificer’s ascension ending. 1. Arti’s children were only pups and as said somewhere else, they may have lacked worldly attachments like adults do, somehow being exempt from being trapped in the cycle, which would explain why they showed up in the void for one last goodbye. 2. Artificer’s dreams were only from her perspective and her children somehow survived to ascend(?). Notice that she cant be 100% sure if the scavs killed her first pup as she left them behind, out of view, and if the second one got leeched as she was incapacitated by the explosion with her eyes closed. Her Dreams/Nightmares were fueled and shaped by the guilt and rage she feels from that day. 3. Ascension allows a true escape from the cycle. As you ascend, you notice a lot of yourselves swimming by you towards the light. This could be interpreted as all your other (successful) selves from other timelines finally coming together into one singularity or maybe just escaping toward the same goal. This could be the case for the slugpups but not for Arti. She was wholly doomed the moment she indulged in vengeance against the scavengers. (The problem here is that if the pups WERE in the cycle, they’d wake up next to their mother again and would either somehow survive or be separated from her yet still persist. Maybe all their paths pointed towards ascension and that Artificer is still doomed to being an echo no matter how you put it. Though this doesn’t take into account the option of defeating the Scav King and forever being locked into the plane of existence) This is confusing but maybe, there’s actually a timeline out there where she’s happy and her children are fine and well. All timelines and ascensions could be their own. Some of you are successful, some of you are not and others are REALLY not. 4. Given the void wish theory, Arti got her desires like the other slugcats upon ascending (and failing to). Whether this was actually real or just a dream as they cease existence(?) is up for interpretation. 5. Rain World’s ascension logic is convoluted and not meant to be understood unless it serves a purpose. (Bet even the creators don’t have an answer lol) Most if not all these theories are flawed and we just gotta take it for what’s seen on screen lol. (Also gave Arti She/Her pronouns if the MSC Dating Sim is anything to go by)

[@Nardology500]

Love the theories, this community is filled with journalist majors comparable to the classics, coming up with highly thought up ideas and explanations, and we all use a cat dating simulator as a baseplate

[@nylonswordsman]

Arti is the mother of these pups, and it's a bit difficult for a male to give birth...

[@dustinjones7458]

Since you control some of these dreams the canon is somewhat fluid and up to the player. Some people have said they killed artificer when controlling the Scav-this could just be a vision of an inevitable future.

[@emirkara8660]

I thought that the second pup drowned because it fell into the body of water.

[@INeedTherapy0]

@@emirkara8660 pretty sure the scavengers were the ones who knocked it into the water, then it was drowned by the leeches - making it the scavenger's fault.

[@hollowknightenjoyer]

I decided to throw my Slugpups off the Tower in the second dream.

[@mcleslieplayz4921]

The audio for the sleeping gets progressively worse and worse, providing a good tone for what will happen. Such a nice touch

[@ammarPC]

in one of the dreams one of the squidcadas absolutely YEETED a slugpup off a cliff

[@ZaynIsLameish]

I was playing the survivor campaign as arti and I found a green pup, just like the one who drowned

[@Lumine_9]

In first dream with fighting scav I was controling scav for some reason. I killed arti

[@nylonswordsman]

arti is supposed to kill *you*, but these things happen when you give the player control of the enemy

[@south452]

I beat Artificer’s campaign in a measly 11 cycles (not blindly, I knew of my destination and all that.) so I’m actually gonna catch myself up on the dreams that I missed (aka, probably most of them, minus the first 2)

[@tinnedteainsyrup8943]

Artificer is so difficult for me idk why💀 Spearmaster is easier. I got to Moon in 14 cycles and just left the Precipice.

[@thatterrariaguidenpc8054]

the way the blue slugpup get left behind and the green one just drowned with the leeches, that's horrible man.. thats really fucking horrible

[@SoupShwoup]

Nooooo my game crashes every time one of them happens, so I didn't even know these existed

[@Cinderpelt2036]

Artificer is the best strong female character in video game than every female character in modern triple a games

[@ERS127]

Now I want someone to make a parallel universe mod artificer campaign called: „the Mother“ where the pups don’t die

[@ADerpyBlobfish]

This is very helpful because I was SO mad that I couldn't experience this one dream cause it kept on crashing

[@ЕлінаВолочай]

The artficer had two chilldren. THEIR SUPER CUTE

[@_-NatureMations-_]

I got to the end of the game soon after getting the dream of blue pup dying Lol Rhanks for giving me the opportunity to see the rest!

[@atlasdwyer8220]

Wait, I might be dumb, but at what point does arti lose its eye?

[@chadacoo.6824]

When the second pup dies, from the explosion spear

[@infamoussquad7884]

Bro in the last dream before the nightmares where the second slugpup died, they made it to land with me and softlocked my game lol

[@littlelost_things2822]

this vid is a lifesaver since none of the dreams have loaded for me! i have to restart the game everytime i get a new dream

[@Eleanor-e9w]

The looming sense of dread when the pup climbs up to the rain deer skull is unmatched when playing as arti for the first time 😭

[@Iamascug]

0:15- dream 1 1:27- dream 2 2:17- dream 3 2:51- dream 4 3:33- dream 5 4:19- dream 6 5:11- dream 7 5:45- dream 8 { *ALL DREAM TIMESTAMPS IF NEEDED! ^^* }

[@AuroraStudios13]

I think the distorting dream music really vocalizes her descent into madness (And grief)

[@sodreir.8666]

I can’t stop thinking that the last thing Arti saw with her left eye was her pup being dragged to the deep

[@leechesg]

(SPOILERS) I only saw two of these by the time i got to a shelter right next to the chieftan scav, but i always knew those bastards killed the babies. I usually end up being an enemy to the scavs just by coincidence because they accidentally stab me or are scared enough to throw rocks at me while im trying to give them gifts

[@peppermintgal4302]

Generally you have to suffer a bit of abuse from the scavs if you want to make friends with them. I generally don't blame them for it because like... this is the same world where giant centipedes try to electrocute you, I can see why they're paranoid LOL

[@Pulowski]

A friggin vulture came down in the second dream sequence in my game lmao, I grabbed hold of the blue one and tried to escape

[@deboraluz27]

That is possibly the most angry slugcat if i ever saw one

[@null-slapbattles]

On that second dream I threw the slugs off the edge

[@bobby-mccool]

in my artificer playthrough, i basically speedran (?) the game and so i did not get all dream sequences. thanks for the video!

[@flankerberkut1]

Socavangers: "NO pearls, no mercy" Artificer: "NO pups, no mercy, prepare for die you all assasins"

[@The_Blackfur]

i came onto this video because one of the dreams bugged out for me (3:55, bomb was thrown wrong, but the rain eventually made the slug pup fall into the water), god damn ;-;

[@jessiesowter]

I use switch to play rain world so downpour hasn't come out yet for me, but like- how did the pups die? I thought cycles existed

[@duckyducktm9197]

Same question here

[@IIdot]

One of the slugpups took a shiny pearl from the scavengers and they started to chase them down and shot them with a spear the 2nd one fell into the water and leeches got them and the reason why artificer didn’t go back (exit and rejoin) is because of story reasons

[@jessiesowter]

@@IIdot that doesn't explain anything I didn't already know

[@fridge9734]

They will probably be reborn in centuries after, so in Artificer's timespan, she will never see them again

[@tenbrackets]

there’s a few different theories to why the pups dont just reincarnate next to arty: 1) The pups were so young that they hadn’t yet formed any attachments to the world and ascended when they died 2) The pups are only dead from arty’s pov- they woke back up again but in a separate timeline

[@Grimmet2137]

is it me or arti is drunked at last 2 dreams

[@Nardology500]

Kind of

[@seternal134]

Thanks for uploading these, can't watch them all yet but I needed to see the second one because of the whole infinite loading screen glitch that's been around for half a year now.

[@aguywhotrystogetsubject1184]

3:51 THIS IS SO FREAKING CRUEL, EVEN WHEN THE SLUG PUP GOT TO THE WATER LEECHES STARTED TO GO AFTER IT-

[@Machinewashere]

The scavs: destroy the child. Eliminate the offspring

[@epikdummy6702]

tbh I thought the slug pup that fell into the water was blue and if it was blue then it could’ve tied into rivulets story since artificer did a explosion jump making a explosion noise and the rivulet’s campaign starting with a explosion sound before we see rivulet falling onto the ground, however I don’t personally believe that rivulet is the slugpup that fell into the water because 1. it’s fully grown, 2. it has axolotl fins, 3. it’s blue and not green, and 4. in the artificer ascension ending we see the artificer reunite with the souls of his dead children, however since the flashbacks are like, memories and can’t be fully remembered the slugpup could’ve have axolotl fins, which could add a lot of lore but then again, the ascension ending exists, and there are major time gaps between multiple campaigns.

[@Cynical_Crow]

Thanks so much! My game glitches out every time I get her dreams so this really helps :)

[@janvernw]

This is how I discover one of the world’s best IA game ever.

[@ExposingOreo]

I still find it funny that a small child finding pearls shiny started Arti's PTSD and crusade against Scavs.

[@xenocid164]

I like the one where we get to control the scavenger

[@Itscatgamingpero]

man the sounds are calming

[@Whydoiexisthere-]

God I suck at artificer so much the dream sequences would be affected to 💀💀💀💀

[@Incatnito-insane]

omg the way the music before the dream gets darker and darker

[@willowsoda]

my first slugpup got hit with an explosive spear. ouch

[@ToffeeTuff]

I’m actually kinda mad that I didn’t get to see all of the dreams before I killed the scav king, because now it only plays the nightmares and I never got to see the cutscenes the intended way T^T

[@Nataboopink]

Artificers kid: **takes a pearl** Scavengers: *”So you have chosen death.”*

[@johnmathis952]

I recently noticed during my playthrough that the cutscene music gets lower and more distorted as the dreams go on

[@geleeegelee9625]

there needs to be a mod that would be a diffrent timeline with arti with her baby still angry at the scav's and kills them

[@geleeegelee9625]

also scavangers are self centered idiot's who got so mad over a pearl

[@haunbeuii1635]

@@geleeegelee9625 I mean, scavengers are technically smarter than slugcats

[@geleeegelee9625]

haun if they were smarter then they would have not gotten angry over a single pearl that could have been replace

[@haunbeuii1635]

@@geleeegelee9625 a pearl is like 100 bucks to them, if someone stole 100 bucks from you you wouldn't get mad?

[@geleeegelee9625]

@@haunbeuii1635 yes but not that mad to kill their children

[@moronribbons5774]

I never noticed that the dream intro jingle would get lower pitched the more they had (I always rush to metropolis too fast lol) It sounds so desolate and distorted toward the end, I'm not sure if that's meant to feel hopeless as though Arti is giving up on finding their kids, or already has and is becoming more and more unhinged every time they remember how the world had wronged them... Maybe representing Arti slowly losing sanity as their dreams fade to becoming little more than another means of expressing their hatred of the world they live in.

[@Runwithmewillya]

"Shallow graves lead the way to old vendetta's and blighted Vengeance"

[@Lobstersoup2000]

Okay it can't be just me who thought artificer was the father, not the mother.

[@Osseus666]

Gastropods are hermaphrodites so i think that a slugcat would be too. So both?

[@Lobstersoup2000]

@@Osseus666 Ohh, that's a cool concept.

[@ladno1342]

​@@Osseus666an echo says we're a rodent. Pebbles says something like "wet mouse" to rivulet if I'm correct. Maybe slugcats are indeed rodents?