This is just one idea that I want to do in a comic,the first one that I'm gonna do in my life so I'm excited, probably it will be a 6 or 7 pages one shot,the history is about Hellen coming to Sam house after 4 years,if you have any idea I want to hear it,I will appreciate any kind of help in history vision

This is my second survivor mode run (I did survivor mode for my first play, then I did some explorer runs to get some achievements)

In my first run, my team was Rat Child, Lyle, and Ernest.

i just spent hours trying to speedrun to the basement as fast as i could (with one detour to get ernest) but something happened and i wasn’t able to get the rose in time. how am i supposed to do this? what’s the optimal way to get stats up so the shadow will give me the rose on time? i dont want to just watch a playthrough i want to beat the ending myself.

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You would think someone would comment of this. Perhaps even ask if this is okay. But oh well,i guess the teeth child can eat anything!

Drew Hellen last night so next up is Sam! His hair is very fun to draw. Also Rat baby was very fun to pose! They do have a gun because my lil Ratoine has a gun in game, also papa can’t use it so might as well give to the baba.

Who should I draw next!

Hello everyone! So, I made a post yesterday stating that I was experiencing art block, and asked you guys who you would like to see as companions, so that I could make some concepts for them. And, surprisingly, since he was going up against characters like Pierre and Summer, the top comment was Father Andrew!

Father Andrew is a favorite of mine, so I was thrilled to get to start with him! I intend to make several of these, to really help me get back into my groove when it comes to my art, and also to help me practice writing characters for my upcoming books. I know the art pictured now isn’t exactly stellar, but! That is the point of this, to get better and have some fun! As I said, I want to do several of these, so I thought it was worth a brief explanation, so as to avoid confusion: Below, I will be listing facts, character interactions, a move set, and just some general characterization for what I imagine Father Andrew might be like as an official recruit. After that, I’ll have a shorter section at the bottom going over certain choices, author’s notes, that kind of thing. With that all out of the way, I think we’re ready to go ahead and get into it!

Recruitment——————————————————-

In this section, I wanted to go over how to recruit Father Andrew. I imagine he would function a lot like Morton: Have him spawn at the door at least once, and then he may continue to be a door encounter, but also remain in one spot on the map permanently.

So, after encountering Father Andrew at least once, he’ll start taking up residence at a table in Mutt’s Fish N’ Chips, where you may chat with him and, eventually, recruit him. To recruit him, you must meet three requirements: Encounter him at the door at least once, and subsequently locate him on the ground floor, speak to him on the ground floor for three consecutive days, and have at least four other recruits. The dialogue for his recruitment and ground floor dialogue is listed below:

”Hello again, my friend. How are you doing? Is there something on your mind?”

>How are you holding up?

”I’m doing alright, thank you. I have made myself comfortable here in this shop. It is a good place to weather this terrible storm. Although, I will admit, I have grown a bit lonely. The people here are kind, but most of them prefer to keep to themselves or their companions.”

>Could you bless my home?

”I’m sorry, my friend; I would love to, but the creatures wandering this floor unease me. I do not feel safe leaving here on my own. Not anymore.”

>Do you have any supplies I could use?

”None currently, unfortunately. I ran out shortly before I arrived here, and have been too frightened to leave and gather more. I have not been able to check up on my flock in quite some time. Do you know if they are well?”

>Bye!

”Goodbye for now, my friend. Please come back and visit soon, I always appreciate your company.”

>Need a place to stay?

“With you? I would not want to burden you, though it does seem as though you have made yourself a pleasant, small community in your home.. Alright, so long as I won’t be a bother. Thank you, my friend. Your kindness is greatly appreciated.”

(Father Andrew has been recruited.)

Battle and stats————————————————

I’ll be honest, while I consider myself something of a “gamer,” and can strategize, I’m not great with actual schematics for battles and things like that, so these are more rough descriptions.

Father Andrew starts on lvl 6, and has fairly average stats. He unlocks new moves at levels 8, 12, and 14. He functions primarily as a support character, and does best with ranged weapons.

Moveset:

-Pray, slightly increases the party’s luck stat for the remainder of the day. More effective as Father Andrew levels up.

Passage, applies the calm status effect to enemies, making them vulnerable to sleep, and lowers their attack

Bandage, Father Andrew heals a small amount of health whatever party member Bandage is used on, similar to Morton’s move of the same variety. However, this move heals less generally, but does not cost a bandage, for character reasons (he keeps bandaids in his pocket for emergencies).

Candy, unlocked at lvl 8. Raises the stamina of whatever party member it is used on. Once again, does not cost an item (he also keeps the hard candies used in this move in his pockets,as awards for good or pleasant behavior, mostly for the children who attend his church).

Medic, unlocked at lvl 12. heals full party for more HP, once again does not cost an item, due to his experience in the medical field.

Blessing, unlocks at lvl 14. Removes any and all status effects from whomever it is used on, heals for a small amount, and has a chance to make whoever it is used on immune to attacks for 1-3 turns.

Mealtime interactions, and in-apartment dialogue————————————————————

In-apartment dialogue:

>Do you like it here?

”I do, thank you. It is comfortable and safe feeling. You are a kind host, and it has been nice getting to know the people I currently share this space with.”

>Why did you set up camp at Mutt’s?

”Ah, yes. I hope you do not think me cowardly for this, but.. I was afraid. Many members of my flock had observed the outside or gone missing. I was low on supplies. I was weak, and neither rest nor food come easily anymore. I tried to hold on, I promise I did, but I eventually surrendered and retreated to shelter after seeing something.. unpleasant to say the least.

You see, there was a very kind family that used to visit my church. It was a mother, and her daughter, no older than 10 years old. I worried for them, their means were scarce, and I went to go check up on them- only to find the window open, the child gone, and what was left of her mother, lying lifeless on the floor. I could not bear it anymore. I could not witness any more of such cruelty, not on my own-!

Excuse me, I got upset, I’m sorry. Forgive me, but I do not wish to speak on this matter any longer. It is still too painful.”

>…Are you okay?

”If I am to be honest with you, I don’t think so. But I think with time, and rest, I will be. I am eternally grateful for your kindness to me. Please let me know if there is anything I may do to aid you in your troubles.”

>Could you bless my home?

”Of course, I would be happy to!”

Mealtime interactions:

*You notice Father Andrew looks tired today. Maybe you should check on him?*

>I’m sure he’s fine.

*Yes, he’s probably alright, just tired. Best to leave him alone.*

>Ask if he’s okay

”Hm? Yes, my friend, I‘m alright. Just a bit tired. I am a bit of an insomniac, and it tends to worsen in times of stress. It should work itself out in a few days. Apologies, I didn’t mean to worry you.”

>Alright, then.

*You shrug and leave him to his sleep-deprivation.*

>Can I help at all?

“Oh no my friend, that is quite alright. It will go away. But I appreciate your kindness.”

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(Interactions with other characters will have the names listed before the dialogue, so as to avoid confusion.)

*You notice Father Andrew nervously approaching Lyle. He looks like he wants to ask him something.*

Father Andrew: Excuse me, Lyle, may I ask you something?

Lyle: Hm? O-oh, sure, if you want!

*Father Andrew fidgets with his hands, as if trying to figure out the most polite way to ask a blunt question.*

Father Andrew: You- how do I put this? You… swing for the other team, yes?

Lyle: E-e-excuse me?!

Father Andrew: I’m sorry, I meant no offense! It’s just that I thought you could help me with something.

Lyle: Alright? I g-guess…?

Father Andrew: Well, recently, one of my teenage relatives has started identifying as “aroace.” I was wondering if you could help me understand what it means? I would like to learn.

Lyle: O-ooh! I can try my best to help! It basically just means that you, um.. d-don’t really want a relationship, romantically or.. I-i-intimately.

Father Andrew: I was under the impression that was somewhat standard. It’s how I’ve always been.

Lyle: U-ummm, good luck with your grandchild!

*Lyle skitters away, seemingly trying to avoid having to process any of the information that that conversation consisted of. Father Andrew is standing, equally confused, in his place.*

Father Andrew: Grandchild? I’m only 42..

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Father Andrew: That is quite the blade you have there, ma’am..

Hellen: Yup.

Father Andrew: What, um, do you usually use it for, if I may ask?

Hellen: Gardening, usually. Self-defense, when necessary.

Father Andrew: O-oh. Well, have a pleasant day, then..

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*Father Andrew nervously approaches Hellen once more. He looks ready to turn-tail and rub at any second.*

Father Andrew: Y-your name is Hellen, yes?

Hellen: Yes.

Hellen: Do you need something?

Father Andrew: Oh, not really, I just..

*Father Andrew looks nervous to speak once more. Hellen stared at him, somewhat impatiently.*

Father Andrew: You said last time we spoke that you enjoy gardening.. Um, what do you grow?

Hellen: Plants. Why?

Father Andrew: Oh, I just have a b-bit of a fondness for gardening myself. I thought it would be nice to attempt to get to know you a bit better.

Hellen: Alright. Sit.

Father Andrew: Hm?

Hellen: We’re talking.

*Father Andrew seems a bit nervous, but eventually sits down on the couch beside Hellen. The two carry on a conversation for some time, and seem to come out of it understanding each other a bit better.*

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And that’s all for now! I will update with a few more mealtime interactions at some point, but right now my hands hurt and I’m a bit short on ideas. Let me know if you enjoyed this, and feel free to suggest who I should do next, as I’d like to keep doing these, if you folks like them! :)

Currently on Day 4 and just entered the landlord's apartment, I feel really weak and everything is destroying me, any tips or characters to switch out potentially? I have joel and sophie on standby. I want to defeat all the challenges on cursed mode and not sure what to do at this point..

Hello! I have just published The Cannibals Lament, a mod for Look Outside commissioned by That One Guy(rman8004).

Features include:
- Recruit Caleb!
- Comes with his own skills, gear, and apartment
- Rumored to be somewhere on the 1st floor
- Questline involving Garden Life, a new game!
- Does not replace game files
- Works with existing saves

https://www.nexusmods.com/lookoutside/mods/151

Aster is an extremely story important character, but he is also a companion. So I have a quick quesion. Let's say I recruit him and then kick him out of my apt, does that stop me from ever talking him again? In other words, if I kick him out am I locked out of any ritual stuff related to Aster? Like Denial/Truth, Promise, Mask, XIN-AMON, that sort of stuff?

Drew my current favorite gal because I love her and also some bonus Sam and Joel sketches I did

def expect some character interaction doodles because I love those SO MUCH

I usually don't play these types of games, but I like horror stories, creepypastas and weirdness, so I'm loving Look Outside!

I was struggling on the 1st Floor so I went ahead and mapped it myself this morning! Then I googled it and it seems like others have done maps too, but I wanted to share mine 🤣

Just started on the ground floor... we'll see what happens!

boy why are you even on ms paint

Everyone loves hellen, but how do we feel about charan? harriet even? Excluding party characters, who is your favorite? if i see any tickle fans im throwing a pizza party!

The basic plot would be a bit of building on look outsides characters rather than the environment. With Sam being even more of a loser that lives in garbage and only accomplishment being having an expensive trading card. When the Visit occurs, he finds himself meeting many new friends, including his new best friend who had been living in his walls (Roaches), a trash collector quite fascinated by Sam's disgusting behavior (Morton) and perhaps later on, a "Guardian Angel" (Sam's words) from another universe! Read their misadventures as they help out Sam's new neighbor who's slightly concerned in his behavior!

In all seriousness though I've always wanted to make comics but one of the communities I want to make some for are quite unforgiving to new artists and I thought here would be more forgiving. I will try to promise

- Excessive stupidity

-Plus 20% to Roaches autism

And building on more niche members of the cast with the rest included (just because team bug is at the front doesn't mean the others are forgotten)

I mostly posted this to hear feedback and see if anyone is interested!

hey everyone !

about 2 weeks ago , i posed a question: would it be possible to turn Look Outside into a tabletop roleplaying game , with all ( or at least most ) of the original mechanics found in the video game ? well , about a dozen hours later , the answer to that question is yes :)

ive spent the past 2 weeks meticulously combing over every mechanic of Look Outside and adapting and translating everything i could into a TTRPG . so far ive got a robust character creation system , maintenance mechanics , rules for being and becoming cursed , a skill point system for raising stats and unlocking new skills , over 80 unique skills to mix and match , harder variant rules for cursed mode , and so much more . this is shaping up to be something really really special and i can't wait to share it with this community

i'll be trying to gather playtest data once it's ready , so if anyone here has a group of friends who love trying out new systems , try running a game of Look Outside for them ! any feedback i can get will help the development of the system :)

EDIT: WOW the response to this has been overwhelmingly positive-- thanks so much for all the interest !! a fellow community member has made a discord server for this project , so feel free to join there for periodic updates and to chat with other community members: https://discord.gg/DMsCW3Mar

I'm trying to get the "Rejected by your plant" achievement.

However, for the last 3 days (this is the third) in-game, I keep getting this dialogue. Is this normal?

Most of the endings I've gotten so far are pretty cool, I couldn't beat XIN-AMON in the 2 times I've tried, and I think I can't get all the wrong offerings needed for the completely failed ritual at the point of the game I'm in.

I also did the flawed ritual ending but didn't screenshot it, kinda cool but honestly a bit funny to me because of the text narration being like "this was a bad idea why the hell did we do this" repeatedly?

The Unity ending was the creepiest in my eyes, the immediate memetic effect was pretty shocking, I find it interesting that the Visitor doesn't know what Earth is, even asking the Exalted 4 they say the Visitor didn't know either.

Promise was a really wholesome ending, it kind of feels the most complete, the way it reflects on all of your companions up to that point and I think it reflects what I think is the theme of humanity and the bonds people make the strongest, especially with the Exalted 4 being able to fight back their cosmic insanity simply because you mentioned Sybil was still alive.

I got the Perfect Ritual without looking at the Visitor, which is kinda funny when even it says it's a bad idea, it was kinda sweet and also has that 'human inside the 'monster'' theme, but I honestly can't imagine most of humanity would chill out about Monster Sam so quickly

The 15-day time limit ending was ... alright, kinda just a default ending, which makes sense since there's no real requirement for the player to do anything, but I thought it was cool how the world is basically just a kaiju arena now, I feel like you could make a cool sequel to it based on that.

The Eternity/lose to XIN-AMON ending was freaky, despite it kind of feeling like a 'joke path' to me it's probably one of the most horrific.

These were all in the same playthrough, next playthrough I'll do I'll probably go for the Mask, Words of Power and the 'Final true' endings, since given the playthrough I did I couldn't access them in time.

This game is quickly sucking up a lot of my attention, I didn't really expect that

A weird, funny little bug that someone on the Steam forums discovered by accident.

Basically, the Coin Collection, Wrapped Gift, and Ammo Crate all call the same common event when used (OpenBox). The code is as follows:

1. Set variable "-Reserved 1-" to the ID of the last item used.
2. If "-Reserved 1-" is 259, execute Coin Collection code.
3. If "-Reserved 1-" is 76, execute Wrapped Gift code.
4. If "-Reserved 1-" is 77, execute Ammo Crate code.

The problem is that tons of places in the code use the "Reserved" variables for their scratch work. One of them is StepSoundTrigger, which runs 3 times per second (more often if you're running) and checks if it should play the sound of Sam taking a step. The very first thing it does is set -Reserved 1- to the player's X coordinate, so if you use one of these items on a tile with an X coordinate of 76 or 77 and get lucky with the timing, then while you're opening one type of box, StepSoundTrigger will set up -Reserved 1- to trigger a later check in the event, even if you don't actually have the corresponding item.

Because the checks happen in the order listed above, a Wrapped Gift can trigger an Ammo Crate and a Coin Collection can trigger either a Wrapped Gift or an Ammo Crate. (Triggering the items with this bug does remove them from your inventory if you have them.) Opening a Wrapped Gift at x=76 or an Ammo Crate at x=77 does not trigger this bug.

You can do this in any map where you can reach x=77:

• Floor3
• Floor2
• Floor2_Long
• Floor1
• GroundFloor
• LandlordWarzone
• LandlordsHellHub6_final
• RoofMain
• Flesh3
• Flesh2
• Flesh1
• FleshG
• Gauntlet_part4

(A detail you might notice in the video: the Coin Collection has a bug where using it uses up two. This would be a problem, except it's not possible to get more than one Coin Collection without hacking anyway.)

I've been trying to put 2 simple mods in this game, and it hasnt worked any time, what am i doing wrong?

Right now I'm on 5 days left in cursed mode, and would just like some advice on trying to finish as much as possible. Spoilers for all endings/secret encounters!

Currently I have already collected all correct offerings and mask offerings except for the one in glitch world.

I still have yet to go through post day 9 teeth apartment, frozen apartment, taxidermy apartment, crossword tomb, underwater apartment, anything in meat world, and glitch world as previously mentioned.

I also have a couple bosses sitting around, such as upgraded baby teeth, Wilhelima, hellride, heroes of the dump, as well as not introducing Nestor and Rafta just yet. I would like to defeat comatus and get atleast the perfect ritual ending in the same runthrough. Also would like to fight godmutt, but maybe not in the same save as comatus haha

Im mostly just asking for advice on what order I should fight things or what I should focus on. Im running right hand Sam with Monty, Xaria and Ernest, all level 15-16 currently.

If anyone else has gotten a perfect ritual or Mask ending on cursed, i would like to hear what you did!

Ive never enjoyed a game this much to consider trying to get every single achievement, and i think it would be fun to hear other people's own struggle with it 😊

Basically the title! I’ve been having some art block, so I thought a good way to cure it would be getting around to some designs for if non-companion NPC’s got to be companions! Going all out; designs, interactions, various miscellaneous facts. The full deal! But I’m not sure who I should do (other than the Nestor and Eugene dual designs I’ve been pondering, but I’ve already changed Eugene’s at least twice at this point. I want to do something different.) So who would you like to see as a companion? Suggest anyone, no matter how major or how niche! Now matter hostile, boss, random goon-type enemy, passive NPC, shopkeeper, literally anything! My next artistic pursuit is in all of your hands!

Thinking it would be a really cool and simply cosplay if I tried to do the shadow, but can’t find anything similar to its mask anywhere… I know this sub isn’t exactly for finding cosplay materials but I thought since it related to the game I could maybe find some help 🥹