Lost shitter!

Submitted by Bucket Brigadier Rockin’ T! This is from The Amazing Digital Circus: Lost Demo! The game features captivating diorama-based storytelling using a combination of physical objects and digital enhancements. These little scenes can be so fun to make. Selecting each piece of the overall aesthetic reflects something of ourselves. Within that itsy bitsy, miniature world, everything is placed just so, representing one’s desire for authority, and an outward façade of an idyllic family life. Yet frustratingly, the actuality is a fucking shambles, with a dead-eyed spouse anesthetized by chemical escapes and children who have severed all contact. Strange how everything collapsed. It was probably someone else’s fault.

This game features a shitter as a prominant landmark, part of a threefold goal to crack this universe’s secrets. From our brigadier: “The title screen seems to imply the game is actually just called Lost, which I guess would make sense since the point of the game is finding things. It’s basically a little fangame for a show that’s a series of fetch quests. I don’t think there are plans to flesh out the game and it’s currently only about 20 minutes long.

You’re playing as the jester girl in the center! There are 3 locked doors that you have to find keys for. They’re scattered around the map of the circus. I think probably they’re locked since the only purpose of the game rlly is just to find things. You find keys, pillows, memory cards, coins, a hidden character, and gloinks (little colorful creatures).

One takes you to this bathroom, one to a mirror room where you see a person begging you to get out in your reflection, and one takes you to a supply closet. When you unlock this door, a red comedy mask jumpscares you. None of the ppl here have bodily functions anymore, so this is just like. For funsies.”

Mannshire Fort shitter!

The Governor of Mannshire, Weber vir Lecri, lives in this fort, along with these twin shitters. As anyone who has worked in council government will tell you, the shitter is doing all the work. The shitter may not be signing the decrees but, without question, it’s authoring them. Its brother - the one closest to the wall - functions as an Attorney General of sorts.

Velvet Room shitter!

From Bucket Brigadier ILikeSocks! This wilson is coming straight to us from Persona 5 Royal: “Dude I cant even begin to explain what the fuck is going on in this franchise. One big LSD fever dream. I’m in prison for reasons? Idk. It’s called the velvet room, it’s in every persona game that I’ve played. Not sure why this time it’s taken on the form of a prison, I’m sure I’ll get there at some point.”

Flushing a toilet without a lid in a room with fuzzy wallpaper sounds like punishment to me! But doesn’t that cot look sooooooo comfortable? It’s like they thought the walls and bed should swap materials.

Island Asylum shitters!

I know it sounds like a reggae ragecore quartet, but “Island Asylum” is really just the starter/tutorial zone where you first spawn in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. It’s convenient how many games commence in the prison setting, because it gives you a rather immediate gauge of the shitter quality you ought to anticipate throughout the rest of it. Sorry did I say prison? I meant hospital. This term is interchangeable. Marinate your senses in the presence of these Wilsons located at a plague detention center where a cult, untethered by government oversight, punishes average townsfolk with knives and immolation. The plague is called “the Wyrdness”, and it makes you like semi-transparent and glow a little bit. And I guess you die from it, but I’m sure sleeping on a damp stone floor or getting set on fire doesn’t help.

In the first frame we see our very own personal shitter, as well as that of our roommate (amazingly, we both get one!) This cell has a certain Dunwall Prison vibe to it. But leave it up to Tainted Grail to #BuildABetterBucket - I’m loving that center handle, which facilitates carrying, even if it does make #2 a little challenging. Maybe you can sit against it.

For this second one, of course there wasn’t any point to the curtain in the corner that doesn’t even extend anywhere or afford comfort and privacy. Such things are forbidden in hospitals, churches, and carceral blocks - I think this was supposed to make the player notice this location and come in to talk to this lady, whose name is Lisa. Lisa was special for not dying right away. But she does, eventually, and this was her shitter! There’s also this other one that belonged to a guy who just burns forever. In this frame, you see that the Island Asylum is definitely a repurposed cistern, but why? This is the only building on the island - does it require a municipal drain channel?

Finally we see Brother Syrius and his shitter - This guy caught the plague and because he’s so noble he’s researching the effects on himself. Well, let’s not be fooled. In spite of the Plague Cosplay items on display (the wall-mounted shackles, shabby furnitures, and grubby clothes), this guy was absolutely an architect of this establishment and fully deserves every last lashing you donate to his cause on your way out the door. Don’t worry, that shitter is on your side, as I’m certain it was given no special treatment here.

Hidden Treasures shitter!

Submitted by Bucket Brigadier Rockin’ T! These snaps come from Yakuza: Like A Dragon: “I talked to a guy outside the bathroom who said I was stylish and handsome and that I should head into the bathroom to find the secret door in the back. The first opened stall had a briefcase on the toilet which contains a random item. In my case, it was a garlic seedling. N then one of the party members walked in n started doing his flexing idle animation which I managed to capture. Investigating the hidden door … A GAMBLING DEN⁉️”

Yakuza games are all about curiosity, and bravery. There were so many things that could have been concealed behind a hidden panel in the bathroom, especially when enticed to explore it through flattery. Of all things, the last most would expect is a colorful, festively-lit scheme to free you of your wealth!

Aunt May’s hideous pepto bismol shitter!

Lordy Me! This is some never been renovated since this house was built in 1937 shit! Submitted by Bucket Brigadier Rockin’ T, this Spider-Man 2 bathroom is in Aunt May’s house, “but it’s in disarray after her passing. Peter’s been living here n he always needs to rush out suddenly. N she’s not around to clean up after him. Peter makes a comment when he walks in that he might spruce it up w some candles.” Really, Peter? Candles? Not Lysol? Windex? I mean some of this can’t be helped, for instance, the wallpaper ain’t going anywhere too soon. But what excuse can you conjure for the standing water on the floor, you filthy pig. The toilet, dude!! Open the shower curtain, let that thing dry out! A window that can open is considered rare quality loot in the shitterverse, PLEASE USE IT! Something about great power and great responsibility, anyway, I’m sure Aunt May is deeply disappointed from the grave and frankly so am I. And what’s with the cow portrait?

Revenging Knockout shitter!

From Star Fetchers: Escape from Pork Belly. Submitted by Bucket Brigadier Rockin’ T! “It’s abt 2 girls who were kidnapped by a gang n forced to become champions of a fighting arena in order to escape. rn she’s on her way to save her friend n she’s PISSED so ig she’s also taking out any random gang member she passes by. n the sink thing is a trippy sequence that takes her over to the next area.” Jesus, talk about getting caught with your pants down! Gotta say, I love her style, the guy was surrendering, hands up and everything, and she doles out the punishment regardless. Taking notes!

Uncertain Ends shitter!

Submitted by our 2020 Bucket Brigadier of the Year, Azi, this shitter is from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! And he’s asking the questions that true brigadiers will contemplate when encountering a scene such as this: “Idk if that confetti is roses specifically. Maybe carnations. I’m still early in the prologue. Just thought it was funny there’s an outhouse on the ROOF of a building. Where does the poop go? Into an abandoned apartment?”

Thanks for everything, Julian

Julian LeFay (nee Benni Jensen) served as Bethesda’s chief engineer and lead programmer through Arena, Daggerfall, and Battlespire, and later worked as a contractor on Morrowind. Among other achievements which shaped our culture, Julian cofounded OnceLost Games and in 2021 the upcoming project The Wayward Realms was announced.

Last week, Julian LeFay left his body after enduring a lengthy diagnosis of cancer. But let’s remember him as Julianos, the Elder Scrolls god of logic and wisdom, the ruler of Literature, Law, History, and Contradiction, and who created Pelinal Whitestrake’s Shield of the Crusader. This character was based on Julian. The “eye” of the Elder Scrolls constellation The Mage is a planet called Julianos, and Stendarr orbits it as its moon. This is where it is said Julianos himself resides, a plane of existence that cannot be understood by mortals. These anecdotes speak volumes of the respect and admiration that followed Julian, as well as the impact his work carried. Julian LeFay was a cosmic architect of our collective mythos. Thanks, for every beautiful thing you gave us.