Frost Sparks

edit: 4 hours after posting (remove 2 duplicates and the post about macking they cheese. added the idaidaida cassettes, attention all bitches please survive, and the purple bison)

MUSIC #1: https://cohost.org/irina/post/7843200-empty
MUSIC #2: https://cohost.org/alloyed/post/7654023-ok-here-u-go
MUSIC #3: https://cohost.org/summer/post/2261084-3-years-ago-i-took-m
MUSIC #4: https://cohost.org/floatie/post/4947056-two-new-songs-opini

please take care of yourselves and stay in touch! this is not the end! we are so much stronger than the sum of our parts, we are chosters, and we will survive this. keep sharing mutual aid, keep sharing contacts. keep making art, keep breaking down those walls. keep talking to each other and keep loving. it's okay to cry. it's just a new chapter. it's not the end. it's not the end. <3

p.s if i missed any important attributions feel free to call me out and i will try to fix it!

making this public. anyone is welcome to join but if you're just looking for cohost servers, please join this other one:
https://discord.gg/VjRwQGGgHS

sorry for taking such a long break from updates! i never stopped working :3 ironing out snow clan has been a long process and I'm still not sure if I'm done but I think this looks pretty good!

brief summary:
Jamotch is the leader that everyone looks up to & obeys, but hardly anyone has ever seen him in person. Iceimov is the only one he talks directly with. Iceimov relays information to Dakia and Pyobyo while he himself stays busy with research and playing with robots.

Dakia is the sole voice of the king to the people. She sees herself as equal to Iceimov, but in reality she's dispensable. Pyobyo enforces the king's will, tries to live mostly as a normal citizen, but everyone treats him with the same caution as a wild bear. He's known to joke about his authority and use it as leverage in games and such.

The rest are all workers, working to build and maintain the clan. Everyone believes they have a sacred privilege over nature and non-clanmates. They believe you should have to work for everything (they're the only clan that uses money), gender binary (unless you're bottom class, in which case it's all the same), and breaking social norms too significantly is rarely received well (unless you're high-ranking).

been thinking about how the game should begin and i got a new idea today. so my house irl has been overrun with flies for weeks now, and it has taken me until yesterday to realize that they're getting in from under the windows so no matter how many we kill, they always come back, until we can fix that.

this inspires me- flies are a very common issue, they live practically everywhere. maybe the game could start with this same thing, tho without the windows issue. you start in your house with pixplat shouting that he can't stand these flies anymore and has no idea what to do. this is the perfect challenge bc flies operate on 1 braincell. you can easily see that the majority are swarming the garbage, containing rotten food. a few more are also swarming exposed fruit in the kitchen, and others clinging to windows and lights.

possible solutions:

• take out the trash (this will leave the flies that were swarming above the trash can to swarm the house, going to the fruit & windows as the others are)
• throw the fruit in the trash, then take it out (same as above, only now the group that was fixated on the exposed fruit will join the rest, as they all cling to the windows and lights)
• open the windows (flies on the windows will escape, and if the trash & fruit have been disposed of, all the flies will escape, unless you left any lights on in the house!)

note that you do not have a flyswatter, and if you try to do it with your "hand" it will be gross and not work, because you are made of gelatin. however, if you are at a loss, maybe you can explore the rest of the house and find a fan, which will push them around and help get them out the door if you can't figure it out.

i think this, or something like it, would make for a really good intro / tutorial level. this thought process is the core of the game- just figuring out how stuff works and using that to solve puzzles that naturally exist all around us. using that knowledge & science to do awesome things and improve things in ways no one has ever considered. but also later on, the complexity of people and life and nature, proving that science is an eternal journey, and nothing can be completely understood or controlled. we take what facts we got and we make it work.