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o yea LOL omg awk sorry about that literally slipped out of my mind

Haha, no, we can just blame it on your subconscious! Plus your subconscious had good ideas, so it works

I think this colab is a fantastic idea <3 those poor villagers that get sent to the void, I had to send so many there from my cycling town

That sounds really interesting omg (and that sweater one was really cute ok)

Let me know if there's anything you need help with : D

Also I feel like the void is some evil force or something that comes and swoops the villagers away since their whole houses just disappear at 6am LOL

lynn105 said:

Also I feel like the void is some evil force or something that comes and swoops the villagers away since their whole houses just disappear at 6am LOL

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This makes me imagine a tornado coming and sweeping away an entire house—with the villager inside of course. Or like some strange portal is inside their house and once it's 6am the portal is at it's peak and sucks them along with their house into the void.

MindlessPatch said:

This makes me imagine a tornado coming and sweeping away an entire house—with the villager inside of course. Or like some strange portal is inside their house and once it's 6am the portal is at it's peak and sucks them along with their house into the void.

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:O omg or perhaps a special character comes in and picks them up like a grim reaper

Yeeeeeee, yes guys! This is what I love, how everyone has their own imagination and creativity!!!

I imagined the trains as being important. They're stuck in this dark and gloomy place, and the trains are symbols of their entrapment and their rescue. They have to catch a train if they ever want to leave, which is why villagers just show up into your town after you've been riding the trains! But some of them have been there so long, they've turned wild and don't want to leave! And if one of them is sick, the others have to race to help them catch a train!

I wonder how the void as a physical presence would manifest itself, as a world and a captor?

WELCOME TO THE VOID​

Welcome to the land where the trains don’t stop, and the music doesn’t play, and the rules have disappeared; where the weeds grow rampant, and the rocks become mountains, and the animals aren’t so cultured anymore; the land is dark, the land is afraid, and the land is wild.

This is The Void. Everyone and everything you know has disappeared here. Pitfalls that were discarded, villagers with no place to go, paths trampled on. This is where it all ends up. No doubt you wondered where Re-Tail stored its trash heaps, or where your path was deleted into, or what happened to your villager who disappeared.

You found it.

It’s here.

And now you’re here, too.

Everyone who comes here is different. I’ve seen a thousand different people with a thousand different gleams in their eyes. They chose how to make their way out here. So will you.

I recommend you run, or get real good at hiding, until you figure it out. The Void doesn’t wait. The Void will do its best to rob you of everything that you are. That its job. To delete the unwanted data.

And The Void will do its best to destroy you.

Fall by a tiger who was once your friend. Become lost in an eternal bamboo forest. Sink into a black cosmos that starts in your soul.

But you’ll figure it out.

I’ve seen it before.

I’ve seen people run. I’ve seen people hide. I’ve seen them grow wild and untamed here in this black jungle. I’ve seen them barely survive. I’ve even seen them fall.

And occasionally,

I’ve seen them live.

So tell me.

What's your story?​

I was brainstorming this morning, and I'm adding this text as a sort of mood-setter. How's it feel? Yes, no, maybe so? Any edits anyone wants to suggest? I would want to add pictures to any introduction we do, but I figured I'd write up a text introduction just to see how we felt about the basic premise. Does anyone want to build stories off of this?

What if Rover was like the 'grim reaper' or in other words the person who ensured all voided villagers got on the train? Or perhaps because his personality is quite cheerful he tries to help the sick characters enter other towns. He is the one you see on the train so perhaps he rides the train waiting for voided villagers to board and then he attempts to help them?

Edit: So perhaps he operates the void or he was one of the first voided villagers who stayed in it for too long and now can't leave.

Edit: oh my gosh quickly read that introduction. And that is gold! Amazing! I'm about to leave for school but I managed to read it and gosh that's a good introduction.

MindlessPatch said:

What if Rover was like the 'grim reaper' or in other words the person who ensured all voided villagers got on the train? Or perhaps because his personality is quite cheerful he tries to help the sick characters enter other towns. He is the one you see on the train so perhaps he rides the train waiting for voided villagers to board and then he attempts to help them?

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omg i can totally see that!! he can be the figure in a black hoodie and all you just see is his piercing glowing red eyes and his smile

MindlessPatch said:

What if Rover was like the 'grim reaper' or in other words the person who ensured all voided villagers got on the train? Or perhaps because his personality is quite cheerful he tries to help the sick characters enter other towns. He is the one you see on the train so perhaps he rides the train waiting for voided villagers to board and then he attempts to help them?

Edit: So perhaps he operates the void or he was one of the first voided villagers who stayed in it for too long and now can't leave.

Edit: oh my gosh quickly read that introduction. And that is gold! Amazing! I'm about to leave for school but I managed to read it and gosh that's a good introduction.

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Ooooh, okay, I love that! And what about Porter? There is a theory that Porter used to be a villager in one of the original series. Maybe he and Rover got stuck between the two sides, and now they're the connection between the two worlds. I can't decide if I want them to be good or bad though! Because they seem so nice

Or if there are two evil twins, and the villagers don't know which one they're going to get? Maybe that's a little out there.

I'm definitely going to make a story and put them in it.

Also, does anyone have any suggestions for how to structure the collective cache of the Void? Just one big thread? People can just post? (Idea: it might be fun to have a theme each week/month/season - like, how Rover became part of the Void, or something like that) I'm not sure how to organize things. If no one has any suggestions, I'll just do it, but it might be messy!

This is all an amazing idea guys and I love the intro Jesusfreakette! I can image it all right now! The villagers entering the void filled with darkness, loneliness, the struggle to survive where nothing exists, time is frozen and like you said, not music and no rules! And yes Rover and Porter could be working aside with each other XD

I'm really looking forward to this

HOKAY. So I got excited.

And instead of doing my work, I wanted to play around with this Void idea. I figured, "Hey, we're trying to figure out what we're going to do, what's it's going to look like... HOLY SMOKES WHAT IF I MADE AN ACTUAL SAMPLE PIECE THAT SOUNDS MORE FUN THAN BORING THINGS."

So I made an introduction to a story for this Void idea about my newest villager, Timbra, who me and her owner literally saved right out of the Void this weekend. And I did sketches and words and I promise to stop spam-posting. If I ever learned self-control. I'm posting this to serve as an example right now of my vision for ONE example of how we could do it. Just post things like this in a thread like one. Do we want to have things like this? Do we want to have serials, and have little things like this go on? Would it be a good idea to limit people aka myself so that we don't spam post all the time with ridiculous ideas and half-baked schemes? Is this actually a good idea, or am I just excited in the moment?

Additionally, I'll probably make a real thread for this Void thing in a few days. I just want to make sure everyone is able let their opinion be heard before I do anything crazy. So. Please, I would really really really love to hear any and all opinions, ideas, or maybe you got excited like me and built an introduction to a story. Just let me know so I can figure out what is going down.






I didn’t mean to leave.

The Darkness came to my door, and it told me to start packing. You’ve probably never heard of the Darkness. Why would you? I never had. It’s only seen when it comes. When it looms over your future. Sinks into your heart. Beckons you to come.

You’re probably wondering why I obeyed The Darkness. I did try to argue with it. But it has no ears to hear with. It wouldn’t listen. It just kept commanding I start packing.

So I started packing.

I knew that someone would come for me. I knew exactly who would come for me. They would hold my hand, look me in the eyes, and tell me never to leave. And not even the Darkness could argue with that.

So I kept packing. I might have been afraid, but I knew the Darkness would never have me.

And the days slipped by.

Those days were strange. Nothing is so terrifying as knowing your world is falling apart, but I was filled with oppositional hope. I was certain, but everything stood on shaky ground. I would not be had, my friend was coming for me, and I would march out of my house triumphant. My day would come, and The Darkness would not be in it.

I did not know then that something was wrong. My friend had gotten lost, mixed up in time and dates, and had disappeared with a blink. He would return, but not in time for my day. My day would come, and I would be alone.


And still I waited.

As the hours crept by from morning to dusk, I became more and more aware that I would not be rescued. That I was alone in this, and I was not going to be enough.

The Darkness was coming.

It was already here! It had packed away everything I owned, by my own hands, and I could feel it worming into my life and soul, ready to begin its takeover.

I cannot remember which hour fear shattered my delusion, but I do remember it was dark outside my window, and I knew that I was going to disappear. I couldn’t be sure what was going to happen. I’d never disappeared before, or been claimed by The Darkness, or been deleted before. I wondered if someone would come and snatch me away, or if a great black wave would drown me out, or if I would just… disappear.

As my fear fed me a thousand thoughts, and I worried and wondered, with no answers and not even sure of the questions, I became aware of one thing. I decided on one truth.

The Darkness would not have me.

I might disappear, or be carried away by a black hawk, or arrive on a train that never went anywhere.

But never could The Darkness have me. I would stand in the midst of any destruction it threw at me, and swear to it that I would always, always, be me, from my little home next to the orchard, and I would never forget that.

It was such a feeble thought. But when you look up at your house and realize that the shadows are darker
than usual, it might seem a better comfort than you ever realized. There was nothing else I could do but tell the Darkness it could not win.

If someone heard my thoughts in that little, dark house, they never said it. I felt so alone.


And the hours crept by. You never realize how long the night is, till you stay awake and watch the minutes creep. But it’s hours and hours of just darkness and waiting for the sun to come up. Two oppositional thoughts.

And at last dawn came.

The terror that filled my soul when I realized I could see light in the sky, and I knew my hour was nearly upon me. My day was nearly done.

And my day would not be a victorious.

I wish I could tell you some poignant truth I realized in those moments, or that I stood upright and watched the enemy come and bravely faced it, or even that I just went out screaming and kicking, with a blaze of passionate glory.

But instead, I closed my eyes and hid among my boxes and cried.

I could hear the minutes creeping by.

5:52.

5:53.

5:54.

It was a mockery of how helpless I was. I could do nothing. I could nothing but wait as my life burned.

5:55.

The worst imaginable catastrophe was upon me. All the fear and terror that had been my watchguardians throughout my life were now ringing with panic so loud I was deaf. Second after second burned away in mockery of the little sheep with her eyes closed.

5:56.

I held my clock tighter and shoved my eyes closed even more.

5:57.

The Darkness would not have me. No matter what happened, I was me, and I was from my little house next to the orchard, and I was the sheep crying with her eyes closed. It would not take that from me.

5:58.

Wasn’t there supposed to be a moment, when you’re freezing to death, when suddenly you feel warm and glad again?

5:59.

I didn't hear 6:00.


That was my day. The day I lost everything. And while I can say that this was the quietest catastrophe I’ve ever known, and those hours are agony I cannot ever wash from my memory, this day is only an introduction.

That was the day I entered The Void.


But this is the story of how I escaped.

GOD THAT'S GOOD IF THAT WAS A BOOK I WOULD SCREAM AT MY MOM TO BUY ME ONE JESUS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA YEA

And maybe do like [001-Timbra] ? idk it kinda looks cool hehe

You should do your work though U:< lol

lynn105 said:

GOD THAT'S GOOD IF THAT WAS A BOOK I WOULD SCREAM AT MY MOM TO BUY ME ONE JESUS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA YEA

And maybe do like [001-Timbra] ? idk it kinda looks cool hehe

You should do your work though U:< lol

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Thanks!!! I made it in, like, 2 hours and I'm kind of crazy-sauce right now from working all weekend and not eating enough vegetables!

And I know I should do work! But sometimes I just get excited!!

EDIT: Oh! And a numeral system could be a really good idea! Thanks!

OMFG THAT IS AMAZING!!! I don't usually read books but if this was one, I would definitely buy it OMG! I literally got sucked into the story, it was so deep >w< I love how you've described everything in Timbra's perspective perfectly! And that countdown from the clock too omg, it would be soooo scary in the villager's perspective especially Timbra's!

I really do hope you continue with it! It's such a cliff hanger, I would really love to see what happens next ^^ I can image it now! All of those poor villagers that went to the void >.< I can imagine a lot of Kangaroos and Anteater villagers there (since they are so unpopular) ;_;

But seriously, keep up the good work x3 Ah so exciting!!!

Really love your work. <3
It's so touching and sweet, reminds me of many children book I own and cherish.

This is really amazing! Keep up the good work c:

Thanks guys!

I guess if nobody objects to just thought-blurge-posting, we can do it like that! A numeral system is a great idea. Balancing long serials like that with some kind of table of contents on the front page might be good - like listing which page number each chapter can be found. Possibly possibly creating external links. I dunno. And we'll probably definitely have to limit people like myself to just posting every few days... maybe proof reading, there are plenty of errors in my stuff when I just thought blurge. And if nobody else offers any more thoughts, I'll just start the thread with this kind of system soon!

Also, we need more funny stuff. All my work has been so cerebral lately. We need balance with some funny stuff.

Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

I'm resurrecting this thread! .......5 months later........!

Anyways, I'm back to taking commissions I like playing this game, and it's perfect for when I need to keep doing art but I run out of steam!