. . . Is this reaching you? A little animal, on the floor of my chamber. I think I know what you are looking for. You're stuck in a cycle, a repeating pattern. You want a way out. Know that this does not make you special - every living thing shares that same frustration. From the microbes in the processing strata to me, who am, if you excuse me, godlike in comparison. The good news first. In a way, I am what you are searching for. Me and my kind have as our purpose to solve that very oscillating claustrophobia in the chests of you and countless others. A strange charity - you the unknowing recipient, I the reluctant gift. The noble benefactors? Gone. The bad news is that no definitive solution has been found. And every moment the equipment erodes to a new state of decay. I can't help you collectively, or individually. I can't even help myself. For you though, there is another way. The old path. Go to the west past the Farm Arrays, and then down into the earth where the land fissures, as deep as you can reach, where the ancients built their temples and danced their silly rituals. The mark I gave you will let you through. Not that it solves anyone's problem but yours. . . . At the end of time none of this will matter I suppose, but it would be nice if you took another way out. One free of... frolicking in my memory arrays. There is a perfectly good access shaft right here.


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Five Pebbles is a major character from the 2017 survival exploration game Rain World developed by Videocult and published by Akupara Games. He is an iterator, a complex supercomputer built to solve the Great Problem: How to ascend beyond the cycle of reincarnation without using Void Fluid.

The artificial intelligences within worked to solve the problem and their failure to do so drove many, including Five Pebbles, to madness. In his frustration, Five Pebbles began an experiment to create an organism capable of self-replication and rewriting the self-destruction taboo out of his organic cells.

Doing so deprived Looks to the Moon of her water supply, eventually causing the whole facility to collapse and leaving her in an incapacitated state - When Looks to the Moon forced communications with Five Pebbles to plead for him to stop the excess water consumption, he reacted with rage, as Looks to the Moon had interrupted him at the defining moment, and caused his experiment to fail. This would result in the rot , a type of infection affecting Iterators resulting in cyst-like outgrowths.

By now everyone knows that I am a big fan of 'arrogant' or 'mean' characters, especially if they are robots (P03, Wheatley....) so it was destined that I would like Five Pebbles. I first played Rain World on December, 27th 2023. At this point, it had been out for six years and I knew nothing about it, which was exciting, as I always get spoiled for whatever new thing I'm getting into.

I was instantly smitten by the game itself, something so unique and different than anything I had ever played. At that point, I would have had no idea the way this game would capture me. One night, I stayed up extremely late to play, and I think the moment I fully fell in love with the game was the ascent from General Systems Bus into Pebbles' chamber. I was already in love with the level of detail that Five Pebbles' region had, when Random Gods started and I travelled through those gorgeous rooms, I genuinely was in awe. Of course, it was nearly five in the morning... but I still feel the same way, a year later!

Ultimately, Five Pebbles is really nothing like the characters I referenced earlier, and I think that's why he's so special to me. At first he comes off as considering himself leagues above the little slugcat. But throughout every campaign, you piece together the truth of his character: a person who feels trapped, created to find a solution that is out of his reach. Guilt-ridden but devout to his solution. Self-sacrificial after losing everything by his own hand. He's multifaceted, but never intends to be a bad person. Obviously, I could talk about him forever. Hehe...

WIP // These are relationships that I find interesting between Five Pebbles and other Characters. This page will be constantly updating as I think more about him.

Looks To The Moon

Five Pebbles' close neighboring iterator and sister. The two's relationship is highly complicated, with Five Pebbles being the reason that Looks To The Moon's structure collapses. Despite this, she cares for him deeply, and he similarly cares in his own way.


The Artificer

The Artificer is a violent and vengeful slugcat, whose accidental contact with a citizen ID drone gives it the special ability to venture into the Metropolis region atop Five Pebbles' superstructure.
The two are similar, though Five Pebbles decries the violence that the Artificer carries out.

In no particular order, but all are important to me.

  • Five Pebbles is nonbinary, being fine with all pronouns but favoring he/him.
  • Despite being a supercomputer, he is autistic. This one is a bit of me projecting!
  • He is the smallest of the Iterators in both Puppet and Superstructure height. This is because he is the newest - new tech keeps getting smaller! (Also, I am short, and projecting... again.)
  • His favorite color is blue, with it being the color of his overseers.