Five Pebbles (character)

Five Pebbles is the iterator met at the heart of the Five Pebbles supercomputer, inside the General Systems Bus subregion. He is one of only two iterators you can meet in the game, the other being the ailing.

Gameplay
Five Pebbles is initially non-aggressive and will vary his interactions based on the Slugcat. The first time you meet him as the or the, he will raise your karma to rank 10 and give you the Mark of Communication, allowing you to receive telepathic communication. Meeting him as the will instead provide the same effects as meeting an Echo, and will add 5 to the character's cycle count. Lastly, he will give you directions to escape the facility and ultimately complete the game.

About
Five Pebbles was one of seven known iterators, working to solve the Great Problem: How to ascend beyond the Cycle of reincarnation without using Void Fluid. The problem was so great to the Ancients that they created huge, complex superstructures high above the ground, large enough to house cities atop them. 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. The process of this experiment is described in the pearl found in Chimney Canopy. Doing so deprived of her water supply, eventually causing the whole facility to collapse and leaving her in an incapacitated state until  revives her with the green neuron containing slag keys. 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 worst possible time" and caused his experiment to turn into the instead. By now, it was too late for Looks to the Moon, as she succumbed to her lack of water. Additionally, he created the infestation in the  region, by dropping infected material there in an attempt to get rid of the  in his own superstructure.

If you visit him for a second time, he will be displeased by your visit, and only let you stay a short time. On the third visit, he becomes hostile and demands the player leaves immediately. Stay too long and he will kill the player through unknown means.

Dialogue
Main article: Five Pebbles (character)/Dialogue.

Trivia

 * Five Pebbles can move freely around his chamber while can only slide around her island, because of the damage she has sustained.
 * Unlike, Five Pebbles wears a cloak. She dressed similarly to Five Pebbles before her ruin.
 * Five Pebbles has four yellow dots in his forehead, but they're too small to be seen in game.
 * Five Pebbles reveals that his hardware is succumbing to damage by time, and by extension the other remaining iterators' superstructures. Looks to the Moon is worse off.
 * Five Pebbles' puppet has no HP in his code, rendering him unkillable.
 * Despite this, if the player manages to hit the puppet, he will defend himself and respond violently, interrupting his dialogue and killing the player.
 * If the player stays too long in his room, Five Pebbles will kill them.
 * He will also kill the player if they exit back to the Five Pebbles area, sleep, and return to his room.
 * Because of ’s possession of a Citizen ID, he will not kill them if they are to re-enter his room, choosing to ignore them instead.
 * Of all the Slugcats he encounters, he dislikes and . He's most friendly to  (as they share a ),  (as they both suffer from the   and they were sent to help ) and  (As they're his last hope to truly save ).