Who is INV? The 9th SECRET Slugcat Explained! (Rain World: Downpour Mystery)

[@ness6714]

I headcanon this to be Moon's absolute fever dream in the (totally not dead) coma she's in because of how batshit crazy it is.

[@ZirconiaGacha]

That would honestly make sense, she had a bond with so many slugcats that she might as well be one in her dreams

[@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8]

Alos pebsi is canon to a degree if the overseers on 5P are anything

[@EeveeMaster547]

SAME this is my exact headcanon too. Inv is just Moon's fever dream before Hunter wakes her up, built out of her fragmented memories and garbled information her overseers are sending about a slugcat on the grounds.

[@gladoseon4117]

@@EeveeMaster547and the dating sim is what she dreams about when nobody is nearby imo

[@DrDeez-do9zo]

The fact that you can just use children as weapons in this campaign 💀💀

[@zombieboss5178]

you could use them before but instead of weapons they could be used for food (if your a psycho) or as a distraction if your evil

[@ZackShark1]

@@zombieboss5178 yummers

[@eduardodavidsuarezluna4337]

@@zombieboss5178 apparently im a psychopatic insane person who should be locked away for all of eternity now

[@zombieboss5178]

@@eduardodavidsuarezluna4337 apparently L:

[@NumerousStones]

I also kill the slug pups to eat

[@pikatheminecrafter]

Inv's story can be explained into the canon easily. Inv spends his life tripping balls, or completely insane. When Moon's can fell, her matter rarefaction cells got knocked out of their slots, becoming damaged in the process. They then got scattered around scavengers and the rain. Inv finds them, and being off his rocker believing them to be eggs, takes them into its den each night. The red and hurricane lizards he sees everywhere, are just white, green, and pink lizards, among others. The Miros Vultures are just vultures. The red centipedes are normal pedes, if they're pedes at all. The rot and nacho dip is "floor is lava" hallucination, and Inv passes out in contact with it, presumably to be picked off by a lizard or something later. Pebbles didn't find a triple affirmative, he saw a slobbering drugged or otherwise insane slugcat drop into his chamber, and spaz around for a while. Pebbles put him out of his misery. And so on.

[@green_creeper288]

This makes too much sense.

[@Bob_the_Router_Sniffer]

This could imply horrific things for the slug pups in this campaign

[@lowqualityfrog]

@@Bob_the_Router_SnifferWhen the slugpups explode, in reality they just die, and the other creatures retreat quickly with one of them taking the body.

[@randostreams5855]

Nuh uh

[@EggSaladSammich]

This is my new head canon for Inv

[@RowanSkie]

Fun fact, the campaign guide creators are the first two people that managed to do the whole Inv campaign without dev tools! So they definitely know the best ways.

[@Vivigreeny25]

“This makes slugpups viable as a weapon.” Well that’s a sentence I literally never expected to hear

[@Catwhumanears]

...(Artificer left the chat)

[@trampoline11x]

That is now the second game ive played where they hid a dating sim/visual novel as a challenging easter egg. The other one is ultra kill...

[@5000Seabass]

Fear and Hunger

[@sympleton7439]

@@5000Seabass I literally have a Dungeon Nights playthrough open in another tab rn lol

[@arrontheprotogen9276]

Machine

[@splabicado6510]

@@arrontheprotogen9276 turn back now

[@funnydotyes]

6:24 the grunts are actually cut down version of heavy tf2 screaming

[@michaelfinlay1412]

ive heard similar screams in ultrakill, specifically when you launch filth into the air for more than a couple seconds

[@ryanr0cks144]

I find it to sound way closer to the yelling of those bomb dudes in Serious Sam

[@randomcatdude]

it's definitely a stock sound

[@Youmu_Konpaku_]

I thought that sofanthiel was mostly a joke but i never thought somebody could make a full length video dissecting it into something else entirely lol.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

I'm disappointed the community hasn't created a mod to have the "Game over gamer" lines play for every slugcat yet. When this is added to every slugcat it will truly be a finished product.

[@OneFluffyKiriko]

this + the uwu mod will be mandatory to install to get the true rainworld experience

[@grandmagunsales2125]

Don't forget exploding on death! If Inv's Slugpups are anything to go by that mod is cannon as well

[@JNJNRobin1337]

sofanthiel has slugpups?

[@hornetisspider]

@@JNJNRobin1337 yeah but black and red and explodes on death

[@KCrouch-t2o]

it has been done

[@JesusisKing-b4j]

I don't remember anymore exactly but i think when talking to spearmaster INV complains about being removed from arena mode, and they removed nightcat so i guess that might be him. Though nightcat was just a reskin of survivor. But back then all the arena slugcats were reskins so idk

[@kbroughs3097]

"A yeek spawns everytime inv enter a pipe. These things vibrate with motion" +20 respect for that reference

[@d0ubl3d]

Huh

[@Silly_with_silly_intent]

Strongest hunter: "NoOoOOOoo YoU dOnT uNDErStanD hOW dIFicult It Is FoR mE tO beaT tHe GaME!1!1!" Weakest Inv: -Dies to a running bird for the 974th time -tries again -refuses to elaborate further

[@tigran010]

I cant belive! devs didnt include a "romantic supper" scene in Artificier route

[@damprat141]

My personal headcannon is that this is simply during the hight of pebbles attempting to flush out the rot, right after moon fell, and this random slugcat carrying a dislodged broken peice of advanced machenery was stumbling its way through, until it comes across a very manic , very angry five pebbles that just kills it

[@Eclipse_is_no_longer_an_idiot]

I like to think that inv is like the deadpool of slug cats, he's aware of us but he's too high to really give a shit

[@hybridanimus6412]

If you’re on switch it’s sofanthial in Morse code the left bumper is dots the right one is dashes have fun :)

[@Ice-Aoi-mutantheart-fan]

Aw man… morse code

[@someonewithabag3165]

Honestly didn't know it was a real slugcat until I actually typed the secret message, yep it's 100% real and very hard

[@Dani751PL]

five bebbsi hits diffrent. Some claim that "thats how asencion tastes like"

[@DogBat]

Slugcat dating Sim is something I would unironically play

[@Zenala]

Watching this as someone who has never played Rain World is a hell of a trip

[@nekomataumbreon]

The slugpups looking like that could be in reference to one of Minkus's Rain World shitposts as at the end of one of them, it changes Survivor to look exactly like Inv's slugpups do (keep in mind the shitpost came out around when Downpour was announced but before we found out about Inv)

[@Somebodythatlikesgames]

Ohhhh, so that's why it says that it's a dating sim.

[@beanz3333]

The editing in this video is so perfectly timed and funny 😭

[@zoxolotl]

a yeek spawns???? vibrates with motion??? I LOVE YIIK!!!!!

[@squeaky1963]

Alex Yiik loves you too

[@whenlifedoesntgorightgolef7304]

I'M YIIKING OUT

[@Ethan13371]

I like how in the intro you played the danger theme with the erratic pulses

[@SolarPhantom787]

I find it so, scary and odd that INV has been there since the beginning of MSC, from an idea/meme to reality (Oh hey there I am at 0:08 behind INV)

[@DarlexGardenWarden]

Imagine someone that has never played nor seen RW before seeing the intro thinking INV is a horror thing and then immediately realizing he's a shitpost

[@usidiots9123]

by the way garbage wastes softlocks you in 90% of the shelters

[@christhefirstxenosian5544]

"Chant his name upon 7 or 8 inscribed bricks of a pillar" 7+pillar My gamers its the 7th column. Bungie is among us.

[@christhefirstxenosian5544]

Trick accidentally made a among us reference Edit: frick not trick

[@CheeseDanishMysteriousness]

Gogus impastr :skull:

[@christhefirstxenosian5544]

@@CheeseDanishMysteriousness no not that among us

[@safetyawareness5353]

MARATHON reference in RAIN WORLD!

[@RakeV8]

AMONG US

[@voidentityUTX]

my headcannon is inv is literally a fever dream of a slugcat or a thoughtform of saints ptsd (greylock reference lol)

[@Anpedu]

I need to know the story behind the sofanthiel crucifix image

[@sherbetstudios8075]

I am now all for being one of those people that will try to take this absolute shimshow of a campaign and make it match up with the lore in the most absolutely ridiculous and sabotaging way to the actual lore as possible. Life goals people.

[@Silly_with_silly_intent]

12:37 Nintendo players: *(the joke is suffering)*

[@chickensky1121]

5:06 I was expecting a Mickey Mouse laugh after this line XD.

[@HeyHereTer]

I once went through rainworld folder out of curiousity and found images of this slug cat. All of them where really weird i didn't know it's a easteregg till now.

[@Tetrimis]

So basically the talking is actually Andrew fm (the red text) who is telling applebread (a famous streamer) (and the green text) To play his “awesome sweet new mods” So yeah

[@lowestpaper4186]

“this makes slug pups a viable weapon ”, dose this mean you considered then as a weapon beforehand

[@jayfox4291]

bruh that's wild that they added something so memey. Now i get the dating memes.

[@mildlymarvelous]

“Eerily similar to a best-selling book called the Bible” I LAUGHED SO HARD-

[@nicolanzas8849]

SOFANTHIEL!!

[@Biker_Gaming]

OKAY THAT’S IT YOU ARE BANNED FROM MIKEY MOUSE FAN CLUB

[@TallthinksOLD]

@@Biker_Gaming if your going to use that meme, at least spell his name right- :')

[@AveryGoner]

@@TallthinksOLD They can’t use his real name, without the risk of being sued

[@Biker_Gaming]

@@AveryGoner this is true, since I got sued 5 times over this

[@goodgamer1419]

Inv may also refer to invalid as that is the abbreviation in coding

[@raptorgirl3456]

I didn't know slugpups spawned as Sofanthiel but- now that I have seen one I wished I didn't know

[@karacreed0723]

Since Inv is connected to Arti's drone and special region, I guess it's implied the proper ending to Inv's [ending secret] is with Arti

[@littlebadassgaming]

can someone compile all the " game over, gamer " voicelines for when inv dies?

[@flurocrest]

I need that 💀💀

[@RakeV8]

@@flurocrest And I need Chara

[@cristalschroeder4485]

You can’t hide from me forever balagaga

[@notkmr]

this entire video sounds like a top-tier of shitpost

[@minnarew]

helo i am minmin, i did the art mentioned in the description

[@XBloodyBaneX]

Funny how Inv is considered Non-canon, when the other DLCat feel like fanfictions of Rain World. At least Inv is parodical in nature.

[@Thy-Chu]

him basically goes to afterlife only for find a mate, very dedicated

[@mbcodes18]

According to the wiki, shorelines water is supposed to be flipped, but it doesn't work.

[@sfeqz572]

im pretty sure the grunting sound has the same sfx as the scream in ultrakill

[@XBloodyBaneX]

*Seven or eight bricks of a pillar" confused me, because, or symatically, OF a pillar implies the bricks are only Parts of a greater structure, and that, without those bricks there would still be a pillar. While "7 or 8 bricks IN a pillar" could be interpreted the same way, but symatically could be interpreted as "a pillar made up of 7 or 8 bricks." When I read the first riddle, was racking my brain and spending time all over Rain World looking for pillars in the game with something inscribed on the bricks.

[@MemeGuy15]

I don’t want you to be sad, riddle guardian. But I just need to know how to obtain the slug cat. But hey, stay strong and maybe someone will one day answer your riddles.

[@thethunderchieftain5464]

Ah yes,Sofanthiel....the incel Slugcat who also happens to be every other Slugcat's favourite punching bag.

[@goattranslation]

He's the slugcat behind the slaughter

[@jeffythebird3841]

i stumbled into this campaign and had to google about it to see how to turn it off i shouldnt be here i only got 19 hours, Ive been playing UNISG on stalker and typed it while pondering the ending which was not good for my mental state this place is way to hard/scary for a player like me

[@the_blue_jay_raptor]

Inv also has the most cursed 3d model from tsoewoe

[@howlinghellgar2214]

This is so surreal and I don’t know why

[@scaryandscared]

That aint apple thats micky mouse

[@DaSilverIngot]

For unlock it you must type “sofanthiel” when in the main menu

[@hozic9929]

the best slugboy

[@kiwi2850]

Andrew isn’t well.

[@RADIATOR1212]

To unlock inv you need to type “sofanthiel” or something on your keyboard

[@mihaleben6051]

5:54 you wot mate? I TRIED SO MUCH WITH MONK NO DAMAGE FOR TAHT CYAN LIZARD I GUUEES CANT HAVE GENOCIDE.

[@MeatCanInc]

Nice "The ring" reference there at the start

[@Treyway31201]

Based YiiK reference

[@onyxrin1946]

Wait where lmfao

[@Treyway31201]

@@onyxrin1946 around 8:05

[@AltKaxREAL]

Based Niko pfp

[@Nikowo1610]

Based Niko pfp Edit: NEVERMIND THE PERSON ABOVE ME LITERALLY COMMENTED THE EXACT SAME THING WORD FOR WORD

[@henrygrey7857]

Thanks Andrew

[@TheCoolRaboot]

Heres a small tip: if your going to play as Inv/enot/sofanthiel make sure to have the "remix" mod on so you can customize the colours of Inv/Enot/Sofanthiel to something more bright so you can see them more easily because its so hecking dark when you play as them.

[@derphater6140]

non rendered outskirts look like an average madness combat video it has red, white, and black those are my first thoughts on this video

[@t-rex1019]

The 9th secret slugcat! Holy shit theres 8 more!?

[@burgerdogVR]

4:30 Bro had to explain the joke Oh yeah. Does anyone else hear heavy tf2 when he screams?

[@EnderD1980]

Yes

[@T1M3L3SS_]

thanks andrew

[@VynalDerp]

good night, g a m e r

[@PitchGreenScreen]

Rest in peace.... GAMER

[@ValeraMoth]

Actually, inv stands for invertebrate

[@soulbounddoll1826]

I am confused as to what is going on. This sounds like a lot of nonsense.

[@Balagaga]

yeah this balagaga guy should take his medication

[@chri-k]

that’s the whole game for you

[@neongalaxy9976]

Way too epic

[@GP22855]

Inverse.

[@GP22855]

Also. Type Sofanthiel in main menu to unlock this

[@brojax_animating]

You deserve more than a thousand subs

[@akirapink]

moreso troll than kaizo i think?

[@casualmoon]

i think it's a pretty even split of both tbh

[@toddfrog5623]

G A M E R

[@YinAndYang_ii]

Pain is life.

[@guydudething2795]

It's nightcat

[@davethelake5899]

To add salt to wound? Isn’t to add it salt to injury?

[@Prixoruno]

more like, add gasoline to the broken arm

[@ottergauze]

A wound is an injury? Adding salt to a broken leg isn't going to hurt like adding salt to an open wound.

[@pastabenda2415]

game over GAMER

[@asteriskzFR]

Bro wtf how am I supposed to do that on console when it comes out :(

[@lunactiathemoth]

they are watching you

[@thesilentpuppeteer]

mmmmm Pebbsi reference!

[@fourthconsciensethemindful]

10:44 TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS Yep, That's It

[@ez9566]

goooooodbye GAMER

[@Thy-Chu]

good night, GAMER

[@sandrolarocca3113]

Was that Opsiian at the start?🤔

[@anikahartmann269]

Tne wachger = Tne INv

[@Rurumeto]

GAME OVER GAMER

[@rosagrant734]

You need to type the drones name easy

[@British_manndem]

Oh you thought I was going to play the inv campaign NAH

[@partypooper2659]

Invisible

[@neztex2920]

Isn't Inv and Nightcat two diffrent slugcats? Or was i misinformed...

[@RakeV8]

inv is nightcat

[@Robotboy-m2h]

Yeah, the riddle is helpful, but the only problem is that I play rain world on a console

[@tumabiilofrelan7024]

Rain world Mysterious and unique world that leaves you with more questions than answers Rain world devs and community Worst discord manchildren furries you'll ever meet

[@nerfjanetreal]

what did you except from furry devs with a rainbow flag on their discord server icon? a mysterious religious themed survival game with crazy things never seen in any game before

[@Foxett25]

Videocult is a really cool team of ppl. They are in touch with the community but ALSO make shitposts.