/r/RimWorldTales
SrGrafo's Rimworld Comics, it's a series of stories based on the game Rimworld.
Playing the game is not necessary to read these comics, however it does enhance the experience.
/r/RimWorldTales
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19:43 UTC
FwaaaaaaHHHHHHHHH (no spoilers)
This will just get buried under all the other posts about recently finishing the comics BUT FUCK the ending was so good. All I could do was groan and moan in despair. I cannot wait to read it again. I had to slow myself down at many points to fully appreciate and comprehend the details.
Anyone ever read something so good that you space out and simply watch it all go by in your mind like a movie and forget that you’re reading? Yeah.
Everything was perfect.
19:06 UTC
Just finished and..
I wanted to say what an amazing story this was. Makes me want to get the game its based on and play it.
I love how the ending loops back to the beginning to start again
16:05 UTC
Anyone have a link to the first episodes or know how I can read it in chronological order?
20:31 UTC
Since so many loved my first drawing, I tried improving it using the comments. Hope I didn't miss any tips
09:00 UTC
A little fan art I made
00:03 UTC
Know it's not much but I tried to put together something opposite of Tynan
10:06 UTC
Why does SrGrafo have to kill almost everyone
22:12 UTC
Rimworld Tales - Easter Eggs
21:09 UTC
What's the next comic going to be?
Will it be Rimworld Tales the sequel or based entirely off of another games?
04:39 UTC
My Merch came in today! Hope everyone gets/got theirs too! :D
23:27 UTC
Have not played rimworld but read a lot of comments in this sub from people who have and I just want to make sure I understand some things.
So Randy Random reveals to a guy what kind of universe they are living in and he becomes the Defiler.
There is another enlightened person who is some blue man and he saves noodles and that’s it right? That’s all he does throughout the entire comic? And he wants to escape the loop and we see through Grafo’s merch reveals that he ends up succeeding I think (he flies out of Grafos mouth through some black wormhole or something). Also who the hell is the red man he was talking about to Grafo in the merch reveals?
Randy and the Defiler setup the entire story. Every major plot point is just them trying to create the scenarios allowing a moving scenario to exist for the players enjoyment.
Can somebody explain all of the predictions and foreshadowing done by Lilians drawings?
18:34 UTC
I didn't understand RimWorld's end, can somebody explain some stuff?
Like: who is Randy? What is Randy? What is the man in the sky doing? And why are there a dog and a man who can see him? Is it because it's all a videogame? Is it correlated to the RimWorld game I casually found on Steam? Who is Sarah's boss? I enjoyed reading the comic, it strengthened my depression but I think I'm missing some reference. Maybe I just had to think about it myself but I really can't think of anything so please help
10:57 UTC
Comic were great!
I only started reading thwm a couple of days before the finale, and instantly got hooked. SrGrafo did an amazing job and I would love to see what he does next. <3
08:02 UTC
I just learned that this comic existed today, and binged it
Wow, that sure was something. Incredibly impressive to pull off a narrative driven story with such a simplistic art style. Especially to have it in a style where the timeline jumps back and forth. This was one of the better reads I've had in a while.
05:32 UTC
(Shitpost) This is clearly the reason why the air went blue. Randy plays Magic the Gathering using the Blue Deck, and he likes to rip off card descriptions for his plots.
20:37 UTC
Randy Not So Random & The Storytellers
Ok, sorry for putting up multiple posts, but now that I've gone through the comic again I'm hoping you all take the ride with me! Specifically, I've been thinking again about Randy's statement to the Defiler (i.e., guy with the dogs) in Chapter 82 that "[i]t loops endlessly once you know." And I'm convinced that it's a statement about Randy's awareness of the player and the fact that Randy sees the world looping endlessly as the player starts new games, etc. And his statement to the Defiler, in turn, means that once you're aware of the player you are taken out of the random generation and flung into the loop where you get to see and experience the player making new games: you become a Storyteller like Randy.
And if you think about, and look through the various comics, you realize that the entire comic is just a story told by Randy and the Defiler for the benefit of us as the readers/players. In fact, almost every major event of significance that leads to the final confrontation with the Moths is influenced by Randy and/or Defiler in some way. So let's take a journey!
Arguably, the earliest event in the story (not counting the Defiler in Chapter 82), is the assault on Tynan's colony. The results, as I posted elsewhere, was that Tynan's mother died, the colony captured a few of the attackers, and Sara (Moth Queen) and Evan (Major) were kidnapped by the attackers (Chapter 40).
And why did they attack Tynan's colony? Because the Defiler made them/told them to do it. In Chapter 41, Tynan's father "asks" one of the captives why they attacked and is told that "HE USES THE DOGS AND HE NEVER SLEEPS," which is a direct reference to the Defiler as we see him in a later chapter:
In a later chapter, we find out that while Tynan's colony deals with the aftermath, Sara and Evan are being held and tortured by the same attackers. At the end of Chapter 60, after Evan provokes their captor into killing him, Sara grabs the resurrector mech serum from a box that randomly crashed through the roof of the building where they were being held. That box includes a note signed with an "R" for Randy:
We find out subsequently that Sara and Evan both escape and grow up to be the Moth Queen and Major, who Sara continues to resurrect after subsequent deaths. It's alluded to in Chapter 68, and confirmed in Chapter 74 where we hear that Sara has been "using" the serum (i.e., an ongoing use):
That, incidentally, is also why Stan thinks that he can take the serum with him during the raid on the Moths:
So, thus far we have Randy and Defiler involved in the moment that arguably started Tynan, Oliver, Sara, and Evan on their various journeys. Who's next? Huntsman.
Some time after the raid on Tynan's colony, Huntsman is shot in the leg and taken to the Spiders. After some misadventures, in Chapter 30, Sophie manages to free him, but not without getting seriously wounded. She then confesses that the Spiders knew about Huntsman -- that "months before [he was] in the forest," they'd heard about "Huntsman the Shooter."
And who told them? While it's not really stated, the smart money is on Defiler since he says in Chapter 66 that his "favorite surgeon lived" in the colony. And since the colony wanted to get Huntsman (and Val, the surgeon, was willing to sacrifice his own daughter to get him), my bet is that the Defiler told the Spiders to grab Huntsman.
But what else was the Defiler doing with the Spiders? While I admit that this is a huge stretch, I think it's also possible that the Defiler gave one of his dogs to the Spiders: Gadget. That's the dog that was with Mark in Chapter 15 and then follows Skye, that takes Noodles to the Ants colony in Chapter 61, and that pulls Huntsman out of the burning Spiders colony in Chapter 59. There's a weird and goofy throw-away line in Chapter 59 where Gadget "insistently" barks for Skye to grab Huntsman:
But, since Gadget and the Defiler's dogs look very similar, it could be that Gadget isn't just some random pet, but that he was hanging around the Spiders colony because the Defiler "use his dogs":
In Chapter 33, as Huntsman is laying wounded in the woods (abandoned by Skye and Gadget), he's found by Zach, who tells him that he's saving up money to enter a space program run by the Moths. Huntsman gives him a ring, and Zach heads off to the Moths and, then, to space:
Not long after his meeting with Zach, Huntsman wanders over to the Firefly Colony, where he makes a home for himself. In the meantime, the Moths arrive to trade with the Spiders and find that the colony is destroyed. After pitching a little nutty about missing silver, the Moth Queen (Sara) and the Major (Evan) report what happened to the Defiler (Chapter 66). At the end of the conversation, Evan/Major says that he has tracked the "people responsible" (Huntsman) to the Firefly Colony and says that the "Orbital Beam" is ready. The Defiler stops him, telling him that he needs the Fireflies alive, "FOR HIM."
Now, who is "HIM"? It can be either Randy or the Player/Reader, but the ultimate purpose is the same: the Defiler needs the Firefly Colony (and Huntsman) alive to keep the story he and Randy are telling on the right track.
Oh, and remember Zach? Well, he made it to space, tracked his moods on the wall with little smiley (or, more often, frowney) faces, and and struck up a conversation with a very nice girl from Sector 555. In Chapter 22, when Zach finds out that the Moths are ready to destroy that sector, he attacks the others on the ship. The ship then crashes down to Rim World, and, as others have pointed out, the last face on the wall looks very much like the in-comic face for Randy:
That crash also made Stan leave the Ants colony to look for survivors. In Chapter 65 and Chapter 75, we see that while Stan was off pulling Zach out of the crashed ship, the Ants colony was attacked and Stan's daughter was killed. Now, and again this may be a slight stretch, I think the same attack also killed Lillian (Mike's daughter) in Chapter 11, which is what sets both Mike and Andrew on the journey in Chapter 1 (see also Chapter 64).
By this point, Tynan has stabbed Tarn, taken Noodles, and is at the Firefly Colony. Peter, one of the Fireflies, has visions of Randy and as a result, the future (the story), and feeds information to both Huntsman and Tynan. This is one of the purposes that the Defiler had in mind when he spared the Firefly Colony from the orbital beam (which, by the way, would come from the ship that Zach was stationed on). From Chapter 20:
Shortly thereafter, in Chapter 51, Tynan returns to the Firefly Colony after hunting with Huntsman to find that Tarn has attacked and set fire to the colony. Peter, again, tells Tynan that he had a vision of Randy and forecasts the final moments of the comic. Randy then appears (very faintly) behind Tynan -- as if to make sure that the story is still proceeding as planned:
After Tarn dies from injuries, Noodles is captured by a family of cannibals and is freed by one of the other captives. In Chapter 58 Noodles then encounters the "Blue Man" or the "Anomaly" -- who, like Randy and the Defiler, seems to understand that Rim World is a game and that everything loops. However, he seems to be a reluctant storyteller:
The Blue Man puts Noodles into a cryptosleep casket in a nearby ruins so he can "sleep over this nightmare," which is where Mike and Andrew find him in Chapter 1. The story then proceeds to set up the finale as Randy and Defiler planned: Tynan hunts for Andrew, finding him just outside the Ants colony. Noodles dies in a raid orchestrated by Tarn's former raiders (who were working with Tynan reluctantly). Andrew then proposes a raid on the Moths, who have a resurrector serum. And then we see the confluence of all the moves that Randy and Defiler made to set up an interesting story for us the Reader/Player:
- The Moths have the resurrector serum because Randy gave it to Sara and Evan
- Sara and Evan have made it to the Moths because they had the serum and because the Defiler urged the attack on their original colony to drive them out
- The Defiler has manipulated Huntsman and Tynan to the Firefly Colony so that they could hear from Peter, who would instruct them on what will happen in the future
- Stan goes with the group because of Randy's interference on behalf of Zach and Stan's daughter
- Andrew and Noodles escape (because of Peter's/Randy's warnings)
- Tynan and Huntsman fight to protect Andrew and Noodles (but ultimately die) in accordance with the advice that they received from Peter/Randy
- Tynan, Oliver, Sara, Evan, Huntsman, and Stan all die; Andrew, Zach, and Noodles live
- Randy and Defiler remain alive, aware, and ready for the next loop.
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Oh, and as one last small bit of fluff -- check out the Defiler's throne in Chapter 66! If I fiddle with the image a little, you can see that he's connected to a cryptosleep casket, which may explain why he doesn't need to sleep and his long lifespan. Also, that may suggest that he is based in an Ancient Danger ruin.
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ANYWAY! Sorry for the ridiculous length, but thought I'd just unload all of this on you guys since it's been bouncing around in my head.
EDIT: Typos, Defiler image at the end, and clarified some mix-up between Mike (dead) and Andrew (not dead).
EDIT 2: Thank you, all, for the awards (you know who you are).
19:21 UTC
Does anyone know if there are any mods that add a Tynan cape to Rimworld?
Please dear God I need this.
18:21 UTC
Am I the only one?
14:31 UTC
Is there a good story explanation/recap
I just finished reading all the rimworld takes comics, and I really enjoyed them, but I didn't understand the plot that much. I was wondering if there is a good story recap of what happens in them. Thank you for any help!
09:58 UTC
This is me realising it's the end of this beautiful series.
05:44 UTC
Loved the final scene in Blue part 2 so I turned it into a wallpaper!
20:28 UTC
This smile is what hurts the most about the finale
19:43 UTC
Blue #83 (part 6)
19:30 UTC
Blue #83 (part 5)
19:26 UTC
Blue #83 (part 4)
19:22 UTC
Blue #83 (part 3)
19:17 UTC
Blue #83 (part 2)
19:12 UTC
oh god oh fuck it’s happening
17:53 UTC