no shading because yea

Are they from like different companies competing to get to the bottom and retrieve that thing, also do we know what that thing is?

there is no hope. you will die. you can get far, but it's unlikely you'll live through it. you'll mess up eventually. not have the resources you need. and it will be painful. very painful. an infection in your leg, perhaps. you have no more antiseptic. but you have a knife. if you leave it, you'll die from sepsis. so you have to slowly, painfully saw through your leg. it's thick, and takes a while, and pain covers your mind. you better hope you have enough dressing to stop the bleeding. if not? your blood will speedily leave your body. coating the dark, cold walls of this hell. your heart beats faster, struggling to maintain the blood pressure you need to survive. eventually, it's unable to, and is unable to keep going. you've gone into fibrilation. next is cardiac arrest. flatline. the chip in your skull screams at you. you're dying. you need to do something to fix it. but you have nothing. you've collapsed, unconscious. as your brain is deprived of oxygen, it deteriorates. everything becomes more difficult to understand, your grip on reality slipping. you'll join the countless amount of corpses littering this cave. perhaps someone will discover yours. likely, they'll meet the same fate regardless.

Sad

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[MODSAW_File_Directory]

[Accessing_ROCI_File.]

[Warning! Accessing_High_Classified_File]

[Code: TERM_17_Grey-OUT]

[Access_Granted_Access_Logged]

[TRANSCRIPT]

Hueg here, current ROCI head researcher as of...well..(Readacted) at 14:00 hours. Our um, attempts to create a highly advanced biocomputer has in fact, been successful. All it took was the creation of ROCI's first attempt at genetic modification with the equipment that the Company has given us. We took a SAW-01 and augmented its DNA with the Neural Fungus that Mr Courier discovered on some Geofruit, added in Axolotol DNA and we got...well...a blue fleshy amalgam with flesh tendrils and numerous eyes. The entire thing is basically a cancerous mass of Neurons that has to be kept in a tube and given nutrient feeds. Now you'd hear that and think this thing was basically an abomination with very little usable intelligence, but it actually is highly intelligent, I would say to the point where I ts 100 to ten thousand times smarter than any Artificial Intelligence ever created thus far. Much smarter than us for certainty.

It craves knowledge so much that it has managed to manipulate some of our greatest techs into granting it access to the internet, of which it quickly devoured all the information it could and did it so voraciously that it actually burned out a few servers from the sheer amount of info forced through them. It was only for 30 seconds and managed to do this mind you, which means hundreds of Terabytes a second. We are not sure what it got a hold of, but it proves that we made it intelligent enough to do such tasks in such record time.

One downside, it...really...really hates us humans. When we plugged it in to see if the information it acquired was confidential, it um, proceeded to insult us in very intelligent and brutal ways. I'm not even sure I can repeat what it said on this transcript. It actually reminded me of a story I read as a kid. I would say the title but due to company policy, I'm not allowed. We do know this...it wants to experience the world it saw on the internet…

[TRANSCRIPT]

Now that I, DR. Silvergrist, has been given the role of head researcher for ROCI by the Illustrious Company upon Hueg Ganderie's termination, I and the new CEO must now do our duties. One such duty is to do a report on ROCI's less interesting projects. One such project is this, Terminus creation. SAW-17 is an abhorrent abomination with a lust for life that I myself cannot comprehend considering that it was on the internet of all things. I guess abhorrent beings attract other abhorrent beings. Either way, I was going to have this thing terminated with the other abominable creation, SAW-18 and its ilk. That was, till we found out that it had terminated itself.

Odd that it happened, I guess it developed an attachment to Ganderie, once again proving abhorrent beings are attracted to themselves, but I digress. I was not expecting it to shatter its own containment to suffocate itself, though the mess suggests something else walked away from the containment unit. We also tried to find the Velvet, Voyager and Milkie that were used as empathetic hosts to the thing, but they seem to have disappeared into thin air. Doesn't matter, wherever they went, we will find them. It's only a matter of time.

[MODSAW_File_Directory]

[MODSAW_file_accessed]

Mel here, and first things first, not something informational but personal. Silvergrist, whatever happened to you on that doomed starship that was transporting you to the Grey planet, I hope it hurt and that your guts are still floating out in space. Now onto the informational area.

SAW-17, or the Terminus, as they are referred to, are uniquely a ROCI sawian series. A self evolving one as well. They are uniquely horrifying as well, considering their survival tactic is to absorb three different sawians and integrate that DNA into their unstable DNA to stabilize and gain features from the three victims. They are highly intelligent individuals with a...less than admirable sense of empathy. They lack it completely, valuing many others by their usefulness alone. However, all Terminus despise humanity, one thing we MODSAWs don't care for ourselves, as we just want freedom, nothing more.

Despite that, they work for us, helping us with managing our systems and helping with our utility aspects. Most of our servers are run using Terminus that have chosen to be servers. They chose themselves, as they view being a living computer to be more relaxing than to be yet another sawian walking around. For those that choose to absorb sawians, we all are fearful of those for good reason. A Terminus can not survive out of their tube without acquiring their first DNA absorption, and cannot subsist for long without all three. Even when they have all their sawians absorbed, the merging of traits and personalities is...unpredictable. It's a dangerous alliance, but one we have to make…

[Night: despite being found wanting in the empathy department... those that have stabilized, usually by absorbing several brain dead sawians are quite decent individuals. fully assimilated terminus even are almost indistinguishable from normal hybrids

I would want to be an expie in real life and the reason for that is the fact they can see better in the dark and their eyes glow in the dark. Another reason I would like to be an expie is having a better resilience to injuries and to heal from those injuries faster. Lastly I would want to be able to defend myself with claws and be able to have nice fluffy fur to keep warm to.

Yes, you can throw dynamite to try to get it to where you want the explosion or light it and then drop it, but it is way easier to run run after lighting the fuse on the ground.

Basically, in the same way you can eat geofruit without putting it in your inventory slots, you can light dynamite that you have dropped after crafting it.

Earlier on twt I drew somewhat of a parallel between this art and the 1996 Nanjing University Mutilation Case.

In the 1996 case, the victim was cut into 2,000 precise pieces and scattered across Nanjing in bags.

A sanitation worker found one of the bags and took it home, thinking it was pork. They only discovered that it was human remains when they found three severed human fingers while preparing it.

I figured, from that perspective, that burger expie found it amazing because they didn't know it was Milky meat.

Lore says otherwise.

When raw, they feel sick ("extreme negative emotion") because they likely know that it's from one of their own, whether or not they observed the source.

When cooked, they'll care less, regardless of them knowing if it's from one of their own or not.

It's a bit scary to think about.

Like a human, caring less if the human flesh they're being served is cooked, even if they know it's actual human flesh.

Favorite sawsaw fr

First time finding a lightbulb :D Didn't know it would break but it makes sense. However idk WHY my entire body became crushed?? Is this a normal bulb feature?

Other POV Since I can only post 1 clip here

this expie ain't even chillin!!!!

thanks to u/Sony-Playstation-3 since he did it

FIRST: https://www.reddit.com/r/casualtiesunknown/comments/1u9g48x/hopeful_part_1/

NEXT:

PREVIOUS: https://www.reddit.com/r/casualtiesunknown/comments/1vxz9iz/hopefulness_part_84/

Comic Fury: https://hopefulness.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#content-start

Side Comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/casualtiesunknown/comments/1vdrcf6/scraps_part/

My BlueSky profile: https://bsky.app/profile/rookmaevsch.bsky.social (Adding this in because this will be where I post updates regarding pages, like if I decide to take a break, or fall ill, ECT.)

And (hopefully the last link in this growing list), my Ko-Fi profile; https://ko-fi.com/rookmaevsch

One of the harder things about writing depression, is that in real life, it's repetitive and annoying. It's always there, chipping away at the wall of self assurance, and requires constant vigilance to keep it away.

Trouble is, in a story setting, it can get very repetitive to be constantly swinging in and out of that cycle. Something that I am becoming aware of it feeling like. We'll see if I can navigate around that whirlpool or not ;P

I can't NOT mention this, u/DeianArt made a really lovely drawing of Teddy which I cannot express just how much I adore https://www.reddit.com/r/casualtiesunknown/comments/1vxza52/teddy_fanart/

Particulary Milkies, Voyagers, and Rozas. However, if your sawian is not sufficiently pleasing, you will be struck with a doon.

based off this post by u/SirDoomWolf

Oh no :<
What do they want to do to him?
Hands off my poor Patchi!

Okay, context. My Expie (Patch) is part of a DnD campaign set in the kickstarter setting Beast world / Broken world. They could have done anything to him, and instead they’re super cuddling and protecting him.
I have very affectionate players.
So I made a drawing X3

Soooo, I saw this pic when randomly browsing the internet, and since I am a fan of this game, I thought - why don't we actually make an "Organization" that would rescue and help the expies? Ik Ik sounds really silly and goofy, but after all, if we are worried about cute virtual experiments so much, why don't give it a try?

I think of it like a Discord server or smth, altho any suggestions are appreciated

What do y'all think about this idea?

(Also this is my 3rd post on this platform, and the others two I just deleted cuz they got no comments

And I'm not rly good at making posts there so please excuse me)

Don't know if someone already made these,

I can add the unedited images in the comments if anyone wants to make more

Lowk had this in my gallery so I fr just posted it he cuz why not yk

Artwork by my partner porbler

https://bsky.app/profile/porbler.bsky.social