| Astral World | |
|---|---|
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| Basic Info | |
| Japanese Name(s) |
映し雲 |
| Effects | None |
| Collectibles |
WP #356 |
| Events | None |
| Notable NPCs | Scissor Monster |
| Other | |
| Connecting Areas | Forest World Obentou World Frozen Glade |
| BGM | 🔊 octave_03 🔊 2_27 – Nightshade Corridor |
| Map ID | 1427, 1434 |
| Version Added | 0.116c |
| Last Updated | 0.120b patch 4 |
| Primary Author | Towihanu |
| Contributing Author(s) | octave |
Astral World is an area accessible from Forest World, after pulling the pink curtains.
Features
Astral World is a calm and serene landscape, its palette mostly consisting of cold colors like dark blue and purple. Clouds and stars can be found here, as well as what appears to be fences that are made out of glass.
Southwest of the entrance is a large spiky cloud with a doorway. Entering this cloud will bring you to Frozen Glade.
Slightly northeast of the entrance is another large cloud that has a doorway like shadow to it. Interacting with this brings you to the Nightshade Corridor.
Nightshade Corridor
The Nightshade Corridor is a dark place that is ill-lit by light coming through the windows, which can be brightened up by using the Lantern effect. Traveling either way reveals that the area is actually dotted with objects that resemble gyoza dumplings. These can appear in six different shades of color and move quickly when mashing Z. After traveling in either direction until you are in a room with an orange and red dumpling with a beige bottom lining, turning the opposite way will reveal the portal to Obentou World. The Lantern effect is not needed in order to reach this area.
In some areas, you can use the Spring effect to walk on the upper windowsills. While up here, the room will be brighter and you can see through the darkness a bit easier.
When belly-sliding some ways to the left of the entrance using the Penguin, you'll find a giant bow-legged creature with green skin, red marks on its legs, a huge pair of pincers, a long, tapered tongue, and an unknown red orifice (most likely an anus or an eye), called the Scissor Monster. It will flick its tongue upon entering or leaving its territory. This creature reacts to several effects:
- The Lantern causes it to flash the orifice on its body, forcing Urotsuki to unequip it.
- Chainsawing its legs will make it open the orifice, but will not kill it.
- Ringing the Telephone effect or equipping the Eyeball Bomb makes it periodically flash its orifice.
- The Marginal effect will make its pincers move.
- Usage of the Child, Bug, or Fairy effect will make its tongue flick. If any of these effects are used, its movement pauses.
Directions
Nexus → Forest World → Astral World
Trivia
- While this world has been implemented by octave, it has actually been created by Towihanu, as the former has implemented it in advance on behalf of the latter.
- The characters in Nightshade Corridor's Japanese name, 暁座, mean "Gyoza", when made into Onyomi, alluding to the floating dumplings.
- The Scissors Monster in Nightshade Corridor was initially left undiscovered, at least by western players, until it was found within the RPGmaker editor by accident on July 2022, well over a year after its initial implementation. It was originally believed to be unused, but was later found to be accessible in-game by a few players on Yume 2kki Online who used the Penguin effect, nearly a week after its discovery.
- A duplicate of Nightshade Corridor's map exists within 2i9's map folder in RPGmaker’s map tree under ID #1529. This is most likely an error.
Gallery
What a beautiful landscape!
To Nightshade Corridor
What am I looking at?
I wonder where this leads to…
The green monster, initially believed to be unused.
A better shot of the monster, somewhat well-lit.
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