Spiral Knights - What is the arcade?

What is the arcade?

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Wed, 09/18/2013 - 21:46

Waffleconecake

What is the arcade? Home?
All I know of are the missions given to me by my employers and the sickening and frozen halls of the devilite offices.
I have always known these halls; they are my home and where I was raised from a Vee.
They were where I was changed into the much more weapon capable form I am of today.
They are where my armor was made to be most effective in.

What is the arcade? Battle ground?
Is it the place where our blood is shed, our lives are lost, our humanity thrown out for the chance of victory, the place where love dies and hatred blossoms like poppies in spring, the place of blood pacts of revenge, or is it where we are all left unknown and story-less to be thought of nothing more then a causality?
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What is the arcade? Game for the powerful?
So "knights", what is this arcade you speak of? Is it the deep freeze? Is it the plague spread? Is it the work place taking over? Or was this all the plan of your commanders. To freeze you out. To make you sick and unable to fight. To force you into facing your greatest enemy.

Or was this some "accident", some "mistake made by someone"?
Who knows, this could have been planed. Maybe not by the Spiral Order but I could see this being the works of a greater force then any of us or our home towns, home states, home countries, home strata,and home planet.
We don't know who is pulling the strings, turning the gears, dropping the minerals, but we do know one thing; It isn't either of us.

Wed, 09/18/2013 - 22:25

Whimsicality

In his madness, the architect betrayed the pact. Twisting his creation into a game of death.

Wed, 09/18/2013 - 22:31

Khamsin

The arcade is a forgotten

The arcade is a forgotten relic.

Perhaps one day that will be fixed.

Wed, 09/18/2013 - 22:53

Writhes

People know it as the Arcade

People know it as the arcade but knights know it as the clockworks. The arcade is a sandbox to people but to knights it is a vast realm of constantly shifting terrain to explore. To people and knights it is a way to keep the experiences fresh and exciting as apposed to predictable and boring.

Wed, 09/18/2013 - 23:36

Fangel

sentient

A frozen machine of unknown origin,
Whose gaze brings beings in from far away
Spiraling down its endless maze
Where their fate will soon enough be made

A place where one can show their skills
Or fall to the teeth of danger
Bottomless pits lie underneath this shaky, unreal earth

Come plague and blizzard from its core
A punishment for all
A place once full of variety
Has met its curtain call

... And us knights are at fault.

Thu, 09/19/2013 - 02:17

Mystrian

Arcade

Arcade wiki page

Thu, 09/19/2013 - 09:33

Batabii

The arcade is this great place where people play video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables

Thu, 09/19/2013 - 09:45

Khamsin

@Batabii

"The arcade is this great place where people play video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables"

"The arcade is a forgotten relic. "

Sigh. Going to the arcade used to be a lot of fun. Aside from physical games, most of the stuff in the arcade you can get at home though.

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