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2020-04-16 19:36:05
Edit: Seems 404 has been "fixed" and is no longer glitched. There are, however, other similarly messed lions around. There's a small list at the end of the post.

Once upon a sunny April 16, 2020 I was refreshing the front page on the search for interesting kings. Then I got something unusual in the Random Player box.

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Now, my browser will sometimes hiccough and not load something properly so I didn't think much of it. There's a lot of layers on the lion art on here, after all. But there was no name, either. Naturally, I had to click.

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Upon posting it in the chat , everyone's brains collectively broke. Seems it wasn't just my browser. This was a lion that Should Not Be, a cursed lion. It's someone's king, but it's a cub. The site doesn't register it as having any stats, base, eyes, sex, genetic color, skin, or personality. Viewing its pride or heritage makes the site simply say that the lion doesn't exist. Someone suggested it may be a test lion. We started calling it 404 as a name.

You can view the lion >>> right here << for now. There's always a possibility it'll get fixed or removed in the future, as the staff in Help said that the owner of the lion just has to reach out to the staff to fix the bugging. However, the truth is boring and there's LORE potential. This thread is for having fun coming up with ideas around 404 or just to appreciate the magic of () while it lasts.


Offerings to the Shrine:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |


Other cursed lions found by followers: 夕暮れ, 808, 303, 505, nice digits,



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Edited on 06/02/21 @ 17:33:04 by Deixis🐁 (#184153)

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2020-04-16 20:46:55
@Ellie In-canon, you're either killing them or bringing them to a safe place to live away from poachers. Hopefully. As far as site mechanics go, they're the same action. The lion is removed from the game, the only difference is what Karma value is attached to the action. Here's an EXTREMELY ROUGH idea of how it works.

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Obviously, Chase doesn't affect the Karma value at all, but comes with a chance of a female lion being added to the Chased pool for players to find.



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2020-04-16 20:50:58
^ unless its a mutation, then there also murdered



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2020-04-16 20:57:58
Should we start doing sacrifices again?



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2020-04-16 20:59:20
Assuming we started in the first place))



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2020-04-16 21:04:55
That's a question. Does karma farming give 404 more company and grow the pride we can't see? Or is it a separate process? Since there's no way to actually measure it unless you're keeping track, you do as you like in your den. For all we know, finding a "404 not found" has already caused some plane of existence to collapse since its some kind of contradiction. I like to think that any lion lost to the void ends up in The Pride That Doesn't Exist.



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2020-04-16 21:07:09
404s existance also raises more questions, are there more lost to the void that haven't been discovered yet? If so how long till we find them if at all? Whats behind the mask of "This lion doesnt exist!" Have they been erased completely or has a fracture of them lived?



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Edited on 16/04/20 @ 21:08:58 by Centrels (#178893)

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Posted on
2020-04-16 21:09:52
So many questions because of a small glitch.



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Posted on
2020-04-16 21:16:09
Made a sacrifice



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2020-04-16 21:20:21
ok ok ok, so gathering what we know thus far:

a lion ai under thats been named 404 lives in a realm between realms, in the nowhere of lioden. he is striving too collect more and more lions into his pride/army. these means of collection are still under speculation.

i like too think that maybe the The Pride That Doesn't Exist is an overarching term for multiple prides, many different kings & their prides in this 'nowhere' land. maybe 404 is a sort of king-of-kings for these lions?

have we considered that this is what happens when you are inactive for a year and your lion resets? this is where you females go.

(i also something that makes me a little happy too think about is 404 retrieving the females in the chase pool too save them from the cycle.)



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2020-04-16 21:21:31
Imagine how many subs he has.



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2020-04-16 21:22:56
maybe 404's pride is an afterlife of sorts, but for the lions who reach 16 yrs old and 'die' but don't get saved in your pride gallery thing? maybe those lions (+ immortals) are considered eternally damned, and our lions hope for the day they get chased and 404 comes too retrieve them?



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2020-04-16 21:23:21
oml, thousands



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2020-04-16 21:25:41
what if to make a sacrifice we chase lions with the description "for 404" (wow tongue twister) so that if my idea of him seeking out the females in the chase pool is true then he can help those ones in particular? people chase hundreds every day so like, they have to go somewhere



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2020-04-16 21:26:43
Oh god, he probably has so many potatoes and ugly lions



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2020-04-16 21:27:04
Oh man, "retrieve them". So he just runs through the void looking for lost lions, bringing them to his pride? That's just what he does all day (or whatever measurement for time they might use if applicable). A lion afterlife came up earlier. We know a sort exists since ancestral spirits appear, and you can see them in the pride dynasty in someplace cloudy with a halo. Maybe it's like the TES universe with all sorts of pocket dimensions, some of which are afterlives. Lions that don't get into the cloudy place end up lost and unseen. Only 404 can find them.



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