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stable wigeon
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no solid proof though obviously but still jungian psychology was mentioned in TWD website so i would think collective conscious would have to be somehow relevant

royal notch
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Anyway, time to go to bed for me. See you tomorrow! Laura_Love

stable wigeon
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see ya

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bruh what happened to my message smh

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o i edited instead of replied

azure bay
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Dam... I seem to forget a good question from some previous discussions

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@stable wigeon do you have some unanswered questions? I collect those time to time

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Helps me comprehend my situation with understanding the lore

stable wigeon
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yes actually

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if i recall

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you believe RL follows chronoclasm?

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@azure bay

azure bay
stable wigeon
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oh ok

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nm then

azure bay
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I rather tend to think of a multiverse

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It's the least messy time travel theory

stable wigeon
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yes but

azure bay
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(& lets everyone be happy) :з

stable wigeon
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lol i agree

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there is definitely multiverse involved

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but i tend to think there is a bit of plastic history in that

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the narrative only follows one timeline

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if it didnt then it would be a mess

azure bay
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It might just focus on the most successful timeline & then follow Dale to the one where he saved his parents

stable wigeon
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yea

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but what is the medium via which

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we see the multiple timelines in paradox

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presuming it is indeed "real"

azure bay
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Paradox seems to be rather recursive & the only versions of Dale that create the paradox are corrupted

stable wigeon
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even dearhead?

azure bay
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Dunno

stable wigeon
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i wonder what causes it tho

azure bay
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I can just tell that corrupted Dale is able to see all the iterations at once & they all seem to go one after another

stable wigeon
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it is the only time we have seen something like that

azure bay
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What's the matter?

stable wigeon
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why do you say corrupted dale sees all iterations

azure bay
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Maybe not all

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But a lot of them

stable wigeon
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why do you say that though

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oh u mean in the player?

azure bay
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His way has crossed with the ones of many versions of himself. & normal Dale has encountered only the corrupted one

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Like CS sees everyone

stable wigeon
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ohhh

azure bay
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& everyone see only CS

stable wigeon
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so ch 2 is cs

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ch 1 is human?

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sorry i forgot

azure bay
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The paradox is normal Dale watching corrupted himself killing Laura

stable wigeon
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right right

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then we see that in first person

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i still cant think of the motive for this seeing as laura is supposedly already dead right?

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or does he have to kill all iterations of laura or something?

azure bay
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I think no

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Dale somehow makes her live by sacrificing himself

stable wigeon
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in cave she is a CS

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mostly

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that iteration she died then right? the only time we previously saw her as a CS is when her dead memories are extracted

azure bay
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I guess, he could retroactively rewrite the history in a way that he commits suicide & she lives

stable wigeon
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that could explains

azure bay
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Maybe corrupted Dale was actually the murderer

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However, these statements have no real evidence to support them

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Another possibility is Dale's sacrifice making Seasons possible

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Sadly, I don't currently have enough time to think how these assumptions work with the bigger picture

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& I'd prefer to start with the earlier games

stable wigeon
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remember the cave

azure bay
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The Cave could also mean possession of Laura by a different CS

stable wigeon
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is that possible

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can someone elses CS possess you?

azure bay
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Maybe

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Maybe not

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The suicide is weird for 2 reasons

stable wigeon
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i dont recall ever seeing a CS control a living body

azure bay
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  1. cutting throat is not a usual way of suicide
  2. Both William & Laura put a great effort into getting back to life
azure bay
stable wigeon
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hmm

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u right

azure bay
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I want you to remember that these are also interpretations

stable wigeon
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but doesnt make more sense for Laura's CS is the one involved?

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in seasons

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well ok

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nevermknd that

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the thing is

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i am not inclined to believe that dale CS killing laura in paradox is the same in seasons

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it happens at a different setting

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it seems to be represented as its own event

azure bay
stable wigeon
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but she was already dead

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thats why i think we are talking a different laura

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like u said

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possibly one which dale sacrificed himself

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i always found that noose in ch 2 interesting

azure bay
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I also see a way of paradox being not limited to Dale's mind.

The paradox in global sense could take place when a corrupted Dale possessed Laura & made her killed herself while another Dale started his investigation

stable wigeon
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yes that is what i think too

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i dont think it is taking place in his mind

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well technically perhaps

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but the events are real events

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that have happened/are happening/will happen

azure bay
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Ok. I guess it's time for me to sleep

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Cya

stable wigeon
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gn

floral mauve
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so there is the fucked up part, is CS formed from a cube or a kind of traditional soul form that comes from someone else's body

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thats why I have several thought about classifying different type of CS

cerulean crypt
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Corupted body, corupted soul , cotupted person?

floral mauve
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yes!

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thats my classification

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However, the great nowherecaw disagree with the corrupted dead body part

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I think Laura is special

cerulean crypt
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But we see Lauras body become corupted

floral mauve
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yes

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basically we can describe it in a easy way

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CS is like some sort of layer

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like venom

cerulean crypt
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But Guests , they don't have body, there is only soul

floral mauve
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exactly

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they are cubes

cerulean crypt
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Guests are cubes with layer around them?

floral mauve
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nah

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I think they are just cubes that has been treated by Mr Owl in a special or accidental way

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because normally black cubes dont just form a damn CS out of it

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also, a person can produce more than one black cube

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how there isnt more than 5 guests

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might dublicate

cerulean crypt
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Maybe other guest leave the hotel alive?

floral mauve
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since a person can produce more than 1 black cube

cerulean crypt
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Maybe this cubes was concentrated?

floral mauve
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maybe

cerulean crypt
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and they were more powerfu;

floral mauve
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but I thought cube is solid

cerulean crypt
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and that could possibly lead to breakout

floral mauve
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you cant just fuse cubes

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or can you

cerulean crypt
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But it can be denser

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maybe cubes are not so dense

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also some cubes are bigger

floral mauve
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true

cerulean crypt
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in Games cubes are similar size to Rubic Cube

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in Live action they are bigger

floral mauve
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I more believe that the black cubes that have been activated can form a CS

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for example, activated like drop in the lake, or collect other black cubes and make it denser

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but its just interpretation

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I still believe that Laura is different

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especially her body

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she was made by a tree

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maybe that can keep her corrupted soul still attached to her body

azure bay
stable wigeon
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i.e bob

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all the hotel guests are theirbown thing

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ig bob is like dale kinda?

azure bay
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He thinks that Laura is the biggest exception

stable wigeon
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i see where hes coming from

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tbh

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i believe in the corrupted body bit

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not the corrupted person bit

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a cs IS its own person

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unless its not

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i.e. hotel guests

azure bay
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I effectively see no difference in abilities of souls & bodies

stable wigeon
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yes i agree

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was that a counterargument? im confused lol

azure bay
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At least in the past he anticipated Laura being an artificial human that was the only one to become a corrupted body after death

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These 2 traits of seeming uniqueness makes him think that they are connected

stable wigeon
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so are we distinguishing corrupted bodies and corrupted souls?

azure bay
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It's debatable

stable wigeon
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indeed

azure bay
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But for now I see no reason to do so

stable wigeon
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i always associate the source of corruption with a black cube

floral mauve
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I think Laura still has her CS in her body

stable wigeon
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actually

floral mauve
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like soul

azure bay
stable wigeon
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^

floral mauve
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not the guests

stable wigeon
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it seems this way

floral mauve
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they left the bodies

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in the form of the cube

stable wigeon
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everyone who is emotionally unstavle

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oh right yes

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i i thought he meant every person has a CS in them

floral mauve
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I meant dead ppl

stable wigeon
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not the other way around

floral mauve
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she is made of a damn tree using the sacrifice of the entire clan

stable wigeon
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lol

floral mauve
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she is the only dead body inside the game that has become a CS

stable wigeon
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a body is a body

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Bob?

floral mauve
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like a parasite

floral mauve
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he is like Dale

stable wigeon
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hes both

floral mauve
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partially corrupted

azure bay
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ok, you made me move to the desktop

stable wigeon
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bro he shot himself in the head

floral mauve
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he didnt die

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he is in TWD

azure bay
cerulean crypt
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Bob is still alive

stable wigeon
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i think

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here is the blurry line between dead and alive

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what happens after you die?

floral mauve
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bruh, nothing even shows that he shot himself tbh

stable wigeon
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whatever happens after you die didnt happen to bob

floral mauve
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he doesnt have a permanent hole on his head afterwards

stable wigeon
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yes but again idk

floral mauve
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Mr Crow's special hallucinate blood Mary

stable wigeon
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since twd is from his prespective i take it with a grain of salt

azure bay
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Bob could die, go corrupted & then be intact after corruption is gone (we don't see a slice on Laura's throat when her corruption goes away for a moment)
Bob's shot could be either non-lethal (as it happens sometimes) or even an illusion

floral mauve
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yes

stable wigeon
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yes this is something i was thinking

azure bay
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What I want to say

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that's all interpretations

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based on different fact

floral mauve
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but the thing is do we know how Laura died at the begining?

stable wigeon
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yes

floral mauve
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killed by a CS, suicide?

stable wigeon
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i see the cave as irrefutable evidence

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suicide

azure bay
stable wigeon
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i think paradox was a different timeline

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maybe

azure bay
floral mauve
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she was depressed as f, she could kill herself tbh

stable wigeon
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i dont think it matters if it was under her control or not tbh

azure bay
floral mauve
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true

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she coud have overdose prozac

stable wigeon
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true true

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prozac very interesting

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science in a game of fantasy

azure bay
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I want to return to CS

stable wigeon
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yes srry

floral mauve
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none of other CS went into a dead body and walks with it

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maybe Bob is the case, even though I thought he is still alive while walking as a CS

stable wigeon
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again i think it is possible bob did but i see how

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i see how it seems unlikely

floral mauve
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its like a cursed iron man

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someone wears a CS

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whereas a dead person wears a CS

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its different

stable wigeon
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wym

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by person

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oh nmn

floral mauve
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I think Bob still has a chance to become uncorrupted whereas Laura barely has any changce since her uncorrupted side is dead

stable wigeon
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i get it

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yes i agree

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unless

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sorry i wont say it again lol

floral mauve
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its like two power inside your body

stable wigeon
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ye i see that too

floral mauve
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a dead ironman but with a moving armor

stable wigeon
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cs manifests from black cube and can take over the body

floral mauve
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thats the case I saw

floral mauve
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but I am not sure

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I think its not like take over body

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it exists inside the body

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like some kinda hidden force

stable wigeon
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well

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that depends if youre talking about lauea or dale/bob

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right

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also rq about bob

floral mauve
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well...yeah

stable wigeon
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i dont think shooting himself was a hallucination in any way

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he could have lived possibly due to the cs

azure bay
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  1. I see no reasons to diversify CS as they all act pretty similarly when unleashed.
  2. They also all seem to be caused by negativity=black cube in one way or another. Everyone has a potential to corrupt & it likely depends on the amount of negativity & mental strength of a person.
  3. Corrupted souls are not parasites that share our bodies with clean souls. That contradicts samsara & souls being always one.
  4. I see Laura's case as a CS being bond to the body (like the drowned one in The Lake) the reason it's got unleashed is unfortunate memory extraction.
  5. Owl doesn't show that Laura's & Bob's Theatre cases are much different.
  6. Laura's unusual origin doesn't mean that she's inhuman. And even if it did that wouldn't mean that it should affect her seemingly unique state of corruption
floral mauve
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he didnt have any sign of being shot afterwards

stable wigeon
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or maybe he just chad thru it

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oh shit

stable wigeon
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one how did dale extract his memories then?

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two

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this is all from dales perspective

floral mauve
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exactly

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thats the unreal part

stable wigeon
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bob cant be an unreliable narrator here he isnt the narrator

floral mauve
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neither does Dale

stable wigeon
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wym

floral mauve
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Dale's elevator journey is not 100% true

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as shown in Birthday

stable wigeon
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why do you that

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i feel i have previously missed something important lol

floral mauve
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What happened in Theatre is debatable

stable wigeon
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because?

floral mauve
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because they are high as f with a flying fish and Dale can just extract ppls memory with his bare hands

azure bay
floral mauve
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yes

azure bay
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however

stable wigeon
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why are we so sure it is only a lesson

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we literally witness bob turn into a cs

floral mauve
azure bay
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we can't say for sure if that wouldn't happen IRL

stable wigeon
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bob wasnt part of the play

floral mauve
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exactly

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so does that make him true?

stable wigeon
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yes

floral mauve
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not necessarily

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he still heard the Lady in blue

stable wigeon
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i dont believe they conjured the theatre out of their ass

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i think it was a memory of dales

azure bay
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the shot could be that magic that lets Bob live & Dale extract his memories. And flying fish... It not even weirder than most of things that actually happened

stable wigeon
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it only makes sense

floral mauve
stable wigeon
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but why wouldnt it be

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sure its a lesson

floral mauve
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its a lesson created by Mr Owl

azure bay
stable wigeon
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yes

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a lesson but it still took place somewhere

floral mauve
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Dale must be high as f in that bar

azure bay
stable wigeon
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and i think bob shooting himself was real because he turned into a cs

floral mauve
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we cant prove he shot himself

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I have another approach

stable wigeon
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no but we witnessed what corrupted his body

floral mauve
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maybe after he returned from CS back to human, he cured the wound

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like Laura's throat

stable wigeon
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yes i agree

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thats what i am considering

floral mauve
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CS, a special medicine

stable wigeon
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anyway shit i have an interview tomorrow gn

azure bay
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so

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Theatre

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I think that originally Dale has visited it

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even met Bob there

floral mauve
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exam in 2 hour

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gotta go

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bye

azure bay
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alright

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godspeed

royal notch
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I think that Birthday and Theatre are the same thing: in the reality, things are gone differently, and when Dale revisit them, the memories are modified by the Lake in order to teach to Dale HOW TO WORK with his past, just like he learned after drinking the green vial in the Paradox room.

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And i also think that those lessons have to be for EVERY memory he has. We see only those 2 because are the most important.

cerulean crypt
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Bday was very important,but why theatre?

royal notch
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Theatre is literally the explaination of everything for him! Samsara, corrupted souls, memory extraction, enlighteneds... Also, is here where Mr Owl say to him what he may become.

astral frost
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In my opinion, this would make the whole story more simple and linear to explain

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At least, it is the theory that I can connect most of the games to

azure bay
azure bay
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CS actually kill Laura, Harvey & Dale in the cabin in one version of the story

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Paradox true endings are also contradicting each other

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Something like that could be also seen in TWD

royal notch
azure bay
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He is expected to be mentally cured via rewriting his traumatic memories. Otherwise psycological wounds are still present.

If memories are the only thing rewritten then he lives in lies from then on

royal notch
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Yes, and for this reason i'm sure he knows what is his real past.

azure bay
royal notch
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Not necessarily.

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Jakob still remember his mother's terrible death, and now he is the governant of the Lake!

azure bay
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He has to work harder

royal notch
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If Dale has to work even harder, then why he shouldn't do also the same things Jakob did?

azure bay
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Jacob did nothing for his enlightenment. The elixir & sacrifice were provided by Caroline & that's quite enough for becoming an asur

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But Dale in order to have a stronger boost by seemingly the same elixir has to get a head start

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That's why he clears his mind, faces his demons & gets a higher state of consciousness

royal notch
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That's what i'm saying too. But i think you want to mean something else.

azure bay
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I want to say that fixing his past trauma wouldn't have a great effect if he still remembers the original ones

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That's the very thing that hurts him

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His old memories

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They have to be erased if Dale is to be pure

royal notch
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I don't agree with the last sentence. I perfectly know that Dale is hurted by his past trauma, but i don't see any proof that he literally has to FORGET them to be pure. I think that a wise man like he will have to be can't just... pretend to have had a good past just to be pure. The inner peace is a thing that you have to reach by yourself, by what you are, by who you are. I mean, i think that Dale would live in lies if he will be convinced to EFFECTIVELY have had the past he see in the elevator rather than knowing the difference.

azure bay
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In psychiatry in order to cure the trauma Dale would need to accept it in order to carry on.

Apparently he does not. He fights it instead. If it's not erased then it's still present & has to affect him until he deals with it in one way or another

royal notch
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Exactly, DEAL WITH IT. That's exactly what the green vial teach him.

azure bay
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No

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The green vial is about stepping aside & letting Laura take his role instead

royal notch
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"Stepping aside" is the thing i mean. The sacrifice for Laura, for my point of view, it's only a test to see if Dale has really a good heart. But it doesn't happen really. Anyway, the green vial teach how to step aside with his memories, it change only the purpose. The green vial says It for let him sacrifice, but the real use is to make him leave his past behind, but without forgetting It.

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Otherwise, as you said, he would be affected by them.

azure bay
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  1. Paradox is before Birthday
  2. The green vial ending is one of the ways to completely end the story. Dale dies, doesn't look into another cube, doesn't start another Paradox iteration. The end.
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And another thing: kindness is not dealing with psycological trauma

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These things are independent

royal notch
royal notch
azure bay
royal notch
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You sure? Couldn't he exited from the room just like before, looking at the cube, and starting again in the second room?

azure bay
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We even get the bonus movie scene of Dale dying

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& Laura staying alive

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With the paradox cube turning white

royal notch
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Is he really dead or just passed out ? That Laura is real or another Paradox vision? The cube couldn't be just a pure simbolism like for Birthday?

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(for "passed out" my traslator means "svenuto", i mean "he lose his consciousness temporarly")

azure bay
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In birthday it's not symbolic

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Memories are actually changed

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About everything else I'm also sure.

royal notch
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My idea is that Dale woke up again, get out of the room, and he start again in the second room, where this time he find the golden cube and the hidden elevator.

azure bay
astral frost
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@azure bay is right on this point

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You could discuss about their canonicity

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But they exclude each other

royal notch
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OK, let's assume that for a moment. In this case my question is extremely simple: WHY? Why make Laura revive? Why make this whole project about him just to let him die? Why literally fu-- everything up just to revive a person that has perfectly showed not wanting to live???

covert wyvern
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im unsure what the context here is

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but I think wanting to revive youyr own brother

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is perfectly valid reasoning

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lmao

royal notch
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For the third time? Also, It was Laura, not William.

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Laura decided to kill herself.

astral frost
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They can guide them, but not control them

covert wyvern
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I see im not exactly caught up on the subject

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ignore me

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LMAO

azure bay
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Nevermind. I had poor connection & did not see a ton of messages

royal notch
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Are you OK now?

azure bay
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Yeah

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I guess

azure bay
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Change some memories

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Learn some lessons

royal notch
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But then why choosing Dale? I mean, is literally trowing a life away.

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Just to have another back.

azure bay
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I don't tell that's the plan

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Either way they are having 1 person dead & 1 person enlightened

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& I bet Owl with his grey morality doesn't care about human lives that much. He's dealing with the higher matter & more global goals

royal notch
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In that case, Dale is not so important. He can just be replaced with her, without having any consideration.

azure bay
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Probably not

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But that would probably be Laura's problem

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To find abother chosen one to replace herself after another century or 2

royal notch
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The point Is that Dale must have something more than Laura. Otherwise the mind union would be useless.

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To activate that machine, Is needed her good and bad memories, a blue cube, her mind AND DALE'S MIND.

azure bay
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I can imagine him having just a bigger potential

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Maybe he's the only one to meet criteria for becoming dev

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Laura as an asur would do but not that efficient

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But honestly, we have no idea what happens if Dale refuses

royal notch
azure bay
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It's about the right ritual

royal notch
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But if Dale is clearly more important, then why make him replace with Laura?

azure bay
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They just need someone for the rule of 2

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It seems to be the matter either of luck or choice of one of them on who is to win

royal notch
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But nobody Is drinking the elixir, Laura can't even do It because is dead. Dale's way to reach enlightement is different, is completely about finding his strenght by his past. If Dale is just someone for that rule, then why use the mind union? Why the machine needed exactly HIS MIND? Everything else we see comes from Laura (except the blue cube, we don't know where it comes from), so why they needed Dale?

azure bay
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Neither Jacob drank elixir

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He was affected in non-materialistic way

royal notch
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But he started from it. Anyway read the rest.

azure bay
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I guess that Dale just suits

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He could be the only one to take thus journey

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He's smart & traumatized

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The fact of overcoming himself seems valuable all in itself

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Dale is believed to be the chosen one

royal notch
azure bay
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Probably he can't be completely replaced

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She probably can be enlightened

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But not as high as Dale

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Laura seems to be there as a mean to get elixir

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& as a potential sacrifice

royal notch
azure bay
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I guess so

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But it's up to Dale to choose after all

royal notch
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But he choose because Mr Owl let him know that HE CAN DECIDE! The point is: why?

azure bay
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You assume that Owl is completely in charge of Paradox

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That may be not the case

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Maybe he even tries to affect this choice

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In the movie Dale knows that he would die after drinking the green one. This consequence was on TV during his choice

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He just needs to know that it would also save Laura

royal notch
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I know, and i'm sure he choose the sacrifice. The point is that the enlighteneds should avoid to make him take this decision.

azure bay
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As Edd said, they may guide him but not choose for him

royal notch
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Also, if you drink the green vial, you always choose to die for her.

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But this is impossibile, since we see the final real ending.

azure bay
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These 2 endings contradict each other

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& create 2 different stories

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We've been following just one of them

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Seasons could belong to the other

royal notch
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The real one can't happen if Dale always choose to die.

azure bay
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Dale doesn't always chooses to die

royal notch
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In the game, it's the only way.

azure bay
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Why so?

royal notch
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You can't finish that ending without die.

azure bay
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I don't get your message

royal notch
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If you play that ending, the only thing you can do is to die to revive Laura. This can't be possible, because we wouldn't have any real ending (golden cube and elevator)!

azure bay
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That just means that the story may end in 2 different ways

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Dale dying may be the actual way to end his story

royal notch
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And a waste of time for the enlighteneds.

azure bay
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What can they do if that's the best way?

royal notch
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It's not.

azure bay
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They are not all powerfull

royal notch
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I know, but also i don't understand why take this whole risk.

azure bay
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Do they have a choice?

royal notch
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No, but it's about that point that i'm not sure.

azure bay
#

They have their limitations

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Maybe they are also not that smart

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They seem not to have the elixir

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Their time is also limited

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As soon as elixir's effect on the dog wears off they will probably die

royal notch
#

If Dale reach enlightement, the Lake itself will get some advantages.

azure bay
#

the most interesting thing is that the lake would seemingly prefer Laura

royal notch
#

When?

azure bay
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"you cannot save her unless you sacrifice yourself. The lake will be grateful"

royal notch
#

It could mean that the Lake will be grateful for the sacrifice itself, not for Laura's salvation.

azure bay
#

either way Dale seems to be not the priority

royal notch
#

Dale is the chosen one... by the Lake, i immagine.

azure bay
#

We have no idea on what exactly the chosen one is

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in Paradise Jacob seemed to be one

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but who did choose him?

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The Lake?

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Caroline?

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Nicolas?

royal notch
# azure bay The Lake?

I'm pretty sure: if the Lake receive someone else as sacrifice, It doesn't enlight him (like Caroline). Nicholas is only trying to reach it, at the point that he doesn't care who will be sacrified (he accept to switch his son with his wife, i'm sure that if Jakob would have died, he immediatly would have continued with David, Elizabeth and everyone). So, i think that the choose is by the Lake.

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So, if is the Lake that choose his next governant, i don't understand why It should prefer Laura.

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And i don't understand then why it make Dale decide about that thing.

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Unless that is false, and only a test to see how much Dale is altruist.

azure bay
#

Jacob getting enlightenment & all the others doing so are 2 separate rituals

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They tried to sacrifice Caroline

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apparently that didn't work

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Jacob was crucial for their ritual

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Caroline just performed another one right after

royal notch
#

The rituals weren't so different, both got burned alive. Only, the Lake, using the memories it received shortly before, manage to enligh Jakob. Now, It has Dale's memories to enlight him. There are so much coincidences.

azure bay
#

what's more

royal notch
azure bay
#

the elixir ritual always requires 1 sacrifice to counter 1 enlightenment

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here we have 5 for 1

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& no elixir

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therefore, they had another source

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probably less preferable

cerulean crypt
#

But they have not phiisical elixir

azure bay
cerulean crypt
#

like that one Alchemist drink

azure bay
#

Caroline saved it exclusively for Jacob

royal notch
cerulean crypt
#

Maybe Golden cube is his elixir

azure bay
royal notch
#

Then, again, other coincidences. Dale can perform the same ritual of the Eilanders (the only difference Is that this time It could be direct, since the memories in the Lake are hits). What's more, he will have a CONCRETE elixir way more powerful than the drink. So, i don't see why the Lake should throw away this whole project.

azure bay
#

Dale is the only person getting enlightenment from Laura's sacrifice

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Eilanders are 5

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& they had no access to Caroline' memories

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therefore, no access to elixir

floral mauve
#

in the end

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you gotta sacrifice the right person

cerulean crypt
#

How you know that?

floral mauve
#

thats the rule I guess

floral mauve
cerulean crypt
#

Only one known

floral mauve
#

seems to be reincarnation

cerulean crypt
#

Maybe he is son

floral mauve
cerulean crypt
#

IDK i don't played Paradise yet , so i can't tell

floral mauve
#

if he isnt special, through induction, we can agree that the rest also received the same treatment

floral mauve
royal notch
# azure bay Eilanders are 5

I don't understand where's the problem! The Lake is so powerful, It could "thank" the whole family to have received memories and the choosen one!

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Also, this time Dale is the only One not enlightened yet, who should be enlighten more?

floral mauve
#

Mr Owl?

royal notch
#

If Mr Owl Is called Mr Owl, Is a enlightened...

floral mauve
#

According to what I understand, Mr Owl's first main target is to reach the deva stage

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then he wanted to leave the hotel and Lake to Dale

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whereas Mr Crow doesnt care about next stage that much, he prefers to revive his brother

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thats just what I understood from the plot

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maybe I am wrong all the way through

real lantern
#

Yeah, but becoming the whole humanoid animal thing is becoming enlightened

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Not the next stage from that

floral mauve
#

therefore, how you describe the process of entering deva

royal notch
real lantern
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We havent realy had a game confirmed name for it, so realy just "become deva" lmao

floral mauve
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or become god

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they are kinda equal

royal notch
#

I tend to think that only Dale will be able to become "It".

real lantern
#

Yeah, we just use the whole enlightement thing because the game calls it... i think

floral mauve
#

tbh otherwise why is Mr Owl obssessed with extracting memory

real lantern
#

I cant actualy remember where in the games they said that

floral mauve
#

like Mr Owl definatly wants something for himself

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not some kinda philantropy

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just randomly give enlightment

royal notch
floral mauve
real lantern
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Yeah, the lake demands sacrifices

floral mauve
#

thats why he wants someone to do it after he left or become god

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to feed the lake

real lantern
#

Thats probably why he wants to get that weight off his shoulders and give it to dale

floral mauve
#

yes

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this is why I think the plot I thought of makes sense

royal notch
#

Or maybe he know that his time is limited.

floral mauve
#

but the problem is why doesnt he just abandon the lake

royal notch
#

Ehm... To avoid apocalypse?

floral mauve
floral mauve
royal notch
#

All of them!!!

floral mauve
#

we dont exactly know what will happen if no one feed the lake memory

royal notch
#

Well, that was Is rage for only 10 missing memories...

floral mauve
royal notch
floral mauve
#

So basically there is one guy is responsible for the lake through all time

royal notch
#

I think so.

floral mauve
#

first Caroline, then Jakob, and maybe Dale/Laura

real lantern
#

Wait, so the 10 plagues were a kind of punishiment for missing a "payment"?

floral mauve
#

wrong payment

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maybe

royal notch
#

But yes.

floral mauve
#

Caroline must have been keep feeding the lake to avoid some sort of punishment

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we know she knew the cubes

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so she knew the process of dropping cubes

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Imagine Caroline is a famous kidnapper near the lake

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lol

royal notch
#

Always to find enlightement.

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We don't know when exactly starts this cult.

floral mauve
#

ohh, so basically the whole Eilander family uses traditional sacrifice to reach the enlightment

royal notch
#

Trying to reach It.

real lantern
#

I mean, at this point lets go crazy, what if the eilander family was created by the lake to serve it

royal notch
floral mauve
#

maybe thats how it begins

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Elixir is actually not the traditional way of getting enlighted

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its the sacrifice

real lantern
#

Wait, what?

royal notch
#

I agree. But It was time to stop, i think.

floral mauve
# real lantern Wait, what?

The sacrifice of the first born is usually how to get enlighted, but Caroline decided to find another humane one

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Is this interpretation reliable?

royal notch
#

Maybe not of the first born. The Lake Just decide Who Is the choosen one.

floral mauve
royal notch
#

They didn't know!

floral mauve
#

Its from their history like family story

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I dont know how to say it in English

floral mauve
#

they were decided to sacrifice Jakob at the beginign

royal notch
#

Nicholas only want to reach enlightement, no matter Who It will be sacrified.

royal notch
floral mauve
#

Because Caroline is his wife!!!

royal notch
#

What do you mean with that?

floral mauve
#

So basically, he changed idea because he thought that if Caroline doesnt work he could try it again

real lantern
#

Yes, we knew that already, the sacrifices were the old way to get enlightened, and then, good old jakob, now as mr.owl after his mom sacrificed herself, told the alchemist brothers about the lake and its powers, how it could create eternal life, and bla bla bla, the alchemist brothers, build their house there, and move in, focused on creating this elixir, after some time of testing, they finaly create it, a crude thing, that can only extend one's life, but, its good enought for now

floral mauve
#

yes

real lantern
#

Sorry, i got a bit excited LMAO

floral mauve
#

thats most likely to be the story

royal notch
#

👏 👏 👏 👏

floral mauve
#

However, the problem I encountered is

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How the fuck did Caroline extract memories

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including balancing the lake

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also how did she manage to make her memory float everywhere on the island

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In addition, how can Jakob just see the memories inside the black cube directly

real lantern
#

Maybe by burning the person and performing some ritual? Killing the person but also extracting all the memories

floral mauve
#

otherwise it would be easy to extract Laura's memory

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dont need a mill to do it

real lantern
#

But mr.crow wouldnt want to burn his reincarnated brother

floral mauve
#

you assume he knew Laura is his brother

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he doesnt know it most likely otherwise he would not cooperate with Mr Owl

real lantern
#

And maybe they need to be alive for the whole burning thing to work

floral mauve
#

BRUH

floral mauve
#

god damn the real theorist is here

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I am gonna run

#

bye

#

argue with him and you will get all the answers in different fucking way

real lantern
#

Althought interesting... if i knew my reincarnated brother was depressed i would try to talk to him

floral mauve
azure bay
real lantern
#

But, william doesnt remember anything, so it would be weird if an old man came to you and said he was your brother, and you were once a fat alchemist

azure bay
#

yeah, a good point

real lantern
#

Even weirder if he was in crow form

azure bay
floral mauve
#

nah

#

discuss with ppl

azure bay
#

so are your really willing to avoid discussions with me?

floral mauve
#

nah

#

this is not the place

#

you guys continue on the theories

real lantern
#

Anyway, lets get back to business, the humanoid and full human forms are interchangable right?

floral mauve
#

(otherwise Damy is gonna murder everyone)

covert wyvern
#

I am certainly sharpening my banhammer

#

but that's always the case 😉

azure bay
#

the others are unknown

real lantern
#

Like we see in cave, where you can keep turning MR.crow into human and crow again

#

Yeah

real lantern
covert wyvern
#

ALways ready.

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unless i'm asleep! 😄

real lantern
#

Oh wait, he's from muspelheim

#

Its surtr if anyone was wondering

real lantern
#

Unless they all live in hiding

azure bay
#

they could exist on the different level of matter

real lantern
#

True... the vanderboom kids dont seem to see MR. Crow when they traumatize albert

#

The poor fella

azure bay
real lantern
#

Hmmmm....😅

azure bay
#

I'll reiterate

#

do you feel like Albert deserves better?

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& all his misdeeds are not really his fault

real lantern
#

I mean yeah, he was realy crapped on his whole life,

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But he was kind of a dick, i mean the only guy with the ivory grave in the family cemetary lmao

azure bay
#

I don't think that people usually chose their coffins

#

Rose is more likely to pick this one

#

perhaps a sign of love

real lantern
#

I dunno, maybe at that time no, but last time i went to the cemitary i saw a sign saying "THIS PLACE IS RESERVED FOR ....."

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So people are thinking about their resting place lmao

azure bay
#

well

#

land on a cemetery is not cheap

#

but here it seems to belong to Vanderbooms

real lantern
#

Yeah, althought we never get confirmation of where the cemitary is

cerulean crypt
#

Near house

azure bay
#

on the opening screen it was marked to be near the chapel

cerulean crypt
#

And this actualy makes sense

#

it can be cementary chapel

real lantern
#

We do!? Well mistery solved lmao

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While we are talking about the cemitery, i dont think that rose literaly put all the bones from the graves into a new skeleton that opened its mouth and it had a timepiece inside

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I think that its just simbolic that she went graverobbing in the family cemitary until she found it

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The other parts were just to make the gameplay fun

azure bay
#

since the timepiece was last seen alongside with William's corpse & James seemed to be ignorant about those, the bones could belong to William & be disposed by his CS

real lantern
#

What do you mean? That his corrupted soul scattered the bones in the graves as they were dug across the years?

cerulean crypt
#

We don't know if william has a Funeral

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his body was hide inside clock

#

we don't know what happend next to the body

floral mauve
azure bay
#

I mean that CS could hide the timepiece inside his former body & dig it down in order to be safe

real lantern
#

Or do you agree with me that the cemitery level is just to show that she went indiana jones, but only in williams grave, that she found... somehow after his corrupted soul hid it?

floral mauve
#

which might prove that the elixir might keep the body fresh whether he is dead or alive after drinking it

real lantern
#

Oh, sorry, didnt read your message

azure bay
#

but it's too early to tell

real lantern
#

Yes

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Im honestly just trying to think of everything i can that we never thought about lmao

#

All the hands (or atleast most of them) have an M or N cant remember, simbol on them, is that just the artstile or do they maybe mean something

azure bay
#

hands of Vanderbooms also have those

#

could be just sinew

real lantern
#

Yeah, im probably overthinking lmao

spare glacier
#

okay i have a question

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when i started to play at cube escape : paradox i was like omg this game is so cool

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and there is the thing you habe to do with the tv numbers to find channels

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you have to put 3 numbers

high talon
#

Are you asking for help?

spare glacier
#

but once I put in 3 random numbers and came across a channel that had nothing to do with the story

#

no

high talon
#

ah okay, and hm?What channel exactly?

spare glacier
#

the video was launched and there were men playing the trumpet I think (this was a few years ago)

high talon
#

uh..

spare glacier
#

but I can't remember those three numbers

high talon
#

i think its just a easter egg s all

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nothing else

spare glacier
#

so i was asking if someone also find it

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yeah i think that too

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but it was pretty scary haha

high talon
#

ohhh

#

yeah yeah you saw this likely:

spare glacier
#

YES

high talon
#

That's Albert Vanderboom

spare glacier
#

aaaaaaah

covert wyvern
#

its a good old throwback to Roots.

spare glacier
#

and how was you supposed to find these umbers

#

numbers

high talon
#

theres hints ingame ifi recall

covert wyvern
#

aye but

#

I'll have to stop you all

#

this isn't about theories at all.

spare glacier
#

i havent played roots yet

high talon
#

oh right sorry nfdbkfd

spare glacier
#

ah yes youre right

covert wyvern
#

lets keep it at that ;p

spare glacier
#

ok thanks

cerulean crypt
#

Is it proven that CS can teleport or Bilocate?

#

'cuz William in roots can be both inside well and outside well

astral frost
#

It is not proven, since some of the CS seems linked with their Human bodies (for example Bob)

#

But some of them,like William or Caroline, can appear and disappear

cerulean crypt
#

But William has no body

astral frost
#

Yes

covert wyvern
#

if semi solid / ghostly

#

I don't see an issue with them being to do that.

#

lol

astral frost
#

Yes yes

#

In fact we can see William's body in one of the first levels

#

It proves that William's body and his CS aren't bound together

cerulean crypt
#

So prodably they can teleport ?

azure bay
# cerulean crypt So prodably they can teleport ?

I think so.

In Seasons CS appears & dissapears pretty often.

They seem to teleport away on their defeat in The Lake & Harvey's Box.

Bob, Rabbit & Boar seemingly teleported away after breaking windows in Case 23, Theatre & The Cave respectively.

Finally, a CS seen in the forest of Paradox has disappeared several times

#

Ah

#

Laura in The Mill has disappeared on our very eyes

cerulean crypt
#

But maybe they can turn invisible

#

William wasn't seen by most of family

azure bay
#

Most of the time they simply don't have to turn invisible

cerulean crypt
#

If William can do both why other can't Samuel_Think

azure bay
#

They probably can

#

Did they have reasons for doing so?

cerulean crypt
#

But Bob in CE: Case 23 has o body

#

so they can also telleport matter

azure bay
#

CS with a body & without it seem not to differ that much in their abilities

#

I don't think the devs were thinking through physics of CS

cerulean crypt
#

If they can telleport it will be almost impossible to capture or destroy them

azure bay
#

Mr. Owl seemingly can somehow contain them

#

Ay least temporarily

#

We have Guests being held roughly for a year, Laura was kept in the big cube, Bob wasn't willing to escape TWD

cerulean crypt
#

But what about Dale

#

he was corrupted

azure bay
#

His corruption literally helped him escape the room in Paradox

cerulean crypt
#

NVM Paradox was in mind

royal notch
#

He Is at risk of corruption, like Bob.

cerulean crypt
#

Risk of corruption?

#

He is on borderline

azure bay
cerulean crypt
#

partialy corrupted partialy not

royal notch
#

Exactly.

cerulean crypt
#

Hmmm... if they can teleport it will be very hard to control them when they are freed
If you wan't prevent them for doing something you need to make them focus on something else
Maybe this is what Mr.Owl was doing in cave
He made CS focus on him to let the Dale pass

#

if CS know that Dale is important they could just teleport and kill him

azure bay
#

Or he took control over their memories

#

& memories were directly connected to them

cerulean crypt
#

But his suit is partialy destroyed like something attaced him...

azure bay
#

No idea on what it was

#

& most importantly when

#

I guess, making Dale enter the cube wasn't enough

#

Dale was chained to the chair

#

So was Laura

#

Who did that?

cerulean crypt
#

The only possibilyty is mr.Owl

#

Maybe CS can't enter the cube

#

and Mr.Owl don't want Dale to go outside

azure bay
#

Not sure is Dalr would

#

I guess it was in order to counter his potential corrupted form

royal notch
#

I absolutely agree.

cerulean crypt
#

We don't know when Dale was inside his mind he can't be something like lunatic

#

Maybe he could unintencionaly walks

cerulean crypt
#

But Dale has no listed Sleep walking in his psychological evaluacion

#

In CE:Paradox

cerulean crypt
#

Can i somewhere found what other patients of TWD are curing for?

high talon
#

I dont think it was ever stated

covert wyvern
#

Don't the other patient files have reasons for admittance on them.

#

?*

#

It'd have to double check

azure bay
#

Other files are on the TWD site

#

You have to log in before reading them

floral mauve
#

I wonder can CS even walk

#

do they just teleport instead of walking

#

(or floating lol)

astral frost
#

Bob was acting like a normal person in TWD after all

floral mauve
#

true but he has a body isnt he?

#

CS is like an external layer covered on his body

#

so I guess he cant teleport

azure bay
#

Paradox kinda does as well

#

& even The Mill

#

once again

cerulean crypt
#

And the Roots

azure bay
cerulean crypt
#

William is both outside the well and inside the well

#

He either teleport or Bilocate

azure bay
#

Bob, Laura & probably Dale had

cerulean crypt
#

NVM my bad

#

But we see Bob disaper in Police Station

#

he turn invisible or teleport

azure bay
azure bay
#

Returning to the original subject, I don't really see any qualitative differences between corrupted souls & corrupted bodies

#

If there are any, they don't affect their behavior

#

the only thing they may affect is CS abilities to change samsara state

#

Bob seems to easily go back & forth with corruption of his. Others that we know about don't

#

however, there could be different reasons for that

#

starting with Bob leaving his human state just unofficially

#

& ending with soft magic & the author's desire of the story to happen

floral mauve
azure bay
#

his corruption in TLS likely was a dream but It could reflect the one in Theatre that might be not completely a dream/an illusion/an alteration

stable wigeon
#

tls?

royal notch
#

"The Lost Soul", i think.

azure bay
#

👍

real lantern
#

Whats "the lost soul" again? The bar from TWD?

azure bay
#

the club. Most likely the imaginary one

real lantern
#

Thanks!

hidden ledge
#

I think when you die at Rusty Lake you become a corupted soul but like ghost without physical body

azure bay
hidden ledge
#

I said at Rusty Lake. We see it happen with William, Emma and Samuel and Ida. I think when someone dies there death as a bad memory turns them into a corupted soul. We see that when a person dies they do leave a memory of that (Van Gogh)

azure bay
#

among these 4 only one is confirmed to become a CS

#

Emma seems to become just a free souls for a time being

#

the fate of the others is unknown

hidden ledge
#

Ok but the CS that you get from extracting memories all have bodies right?

azure bay
#

there are different ways of corruption

hidden ledge
#

Lauras CS and Bobs one teleported i think

azure bay
hidden ledge
#

I think the person if alive has to be aware of the extraction. Bob wasn't aware of his extraction(we see his cube in one of the days) and so he flickered between noraml and corupted state

azure bay
#

no evidence of that

#

& Owl was talking exactly about Laura in his letter

hidden ledge
#

I don't think even they have a set in stone lure about everything

azure bay
#

then there's even less reasons for coming up with such specific rules

floral mauve
#

Do you think the devs have came up with a specific set of rules for the characteristic of the CS?

covert wyvern
#

im going to say probably not.

cerulean crypt
#

They all black

floral mauve
azure bay
#

something general at most

covert wyvern
#

ye i mean they're all black, but some are bound to bodies, others stuck in tubes attached to cubes

#

I dunno seems a bit random crowgiggle

#

but who knows!

cerulean crypt
#

Some have no body, some are on living humans

azure bay
#

I think all of them are connected to their painful experience

#

this experience is stored in black cubes

#

they are connected to them even when the cubes are away

cerulean crypt
#

Black cubes are created when you etract bad memories

#

CS are also "created" in that procces

azure bay
hidden ledge
#

I also think they are connected. In the cave we see Owl "pacify" them by holding the cubes

hidden ledge
azure bay
hidden ledge
#

the events of theatre and birthday are not 100% truth. they are inside Dales memories he even says it"The lake is changing my memories, my past isn't what it seems to be"

azure bay
#

that doesn't mean that the lake would change 100% of them

cerulean crypt
#

Like Theatre as place was real

hidden ledge
#

of course but in reality what probably happened is that bob was drunk there and dale just arested him without actually taking cubes from his brain

azure bay
cerulean crypt
#

But his job requires him to take Bob to intterogacion
I guess

hidden ledge
#

He was arested during case 23 which happens after the real events of theatre

azure bay
#

Bob could've been arrested by anyone

#

but not Dale

cerulean crypt
#

And for anything

hidden ledge
#

what? he was in dales office

azure bay
hidden ledge
#

have you played the white door secrets?

azure bay
#

outside his office

hidden ledge
azure bay
cerulean crypt
#

Bob was prodably interrogatet 'cuz he was one of closest people to Laura

azure bay
real lantern
#

Yeah, bob is a prime suspect for laura's murder, so dale has to arrest or interrogate him or whatever as a cover to his lake research, because if he came to the police station and said "yeah, i went to the crime scene and all this weird shit happened, body came back to life then dissapeared, il stay in my room and research a lake for a bit" would get his partners... worried

cerulean crypt
#

Bob was Laura's (maybe) BF

hidden ledge
#

yea i know

#

sorry

#

brain fart

#

poor bob man.. at least now he is happy

azure bay
cerulean crypt
#

Well , Bob will have motive for killing Laura, Revenge for broke up

hidden ledge
#

bob is probably the only happy person right now

azure bay
hidden ledge
hidden ledge
azure bay
#

I doubt so

cerulean crypt
#

Is that even a real book?

hidden ledge
hidden ledge
#

i forgot the name of the girl

real lantern
hidden ledge
#

was the name of the girl in the white door sarah?

azure bay
hidden ledge
#

what does PD stand for?

real lantern
#

Police department

#

Like SFPD =san francisco police department

hidden ledge
#

oh i cant wait to see dale in the hotel

cerulean crypt
#

He can report himself?

#

IDK how it is called

hidden ledge
#

well he didn't do anything so idk why he would surrender for something he didnt do

cerulean crypt
#

He was drunk
He can be easly manipulated

real lantern
#

Yeah i dont see why he would say he killed her... when he didnt

hidden ledge
real lantern
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Yeah, he was her ex boyfriend, so they thought it could have been some kind kind of revenge murder or something

azure bay
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or once again, the whole situation could be under Owl's control

hidden ledge
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Why tho.. Owl was interested with bob probably because of his relationship with Laura. Also weirdly enough Dale said "I need your memory" implying he already knew some stuff about rusty lake

azure bay
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Bob could be there just in order for Dale to be able to get that freaking cube

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If Bob was arrested for longer, he wouldn't show up in TWD on august 13

cerulean crypt
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Didn't he escaped?

azure bay
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while TWD was aware about him long before

hidden ledge
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he just vanished like they always do

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don't you hate it when your suspect just vanishes

azure bay
cerulean crypt
hidden ledge
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I think his corruption was already in process

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thats porbably something owl did

azure bay
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listen

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Bob was in Owl's possession already in Theatre

hidden ledge
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after he vanishes he wakes up on the street

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and calls the white door

azure bay
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Would Mr. Owl risk Bob if he wasn't so sure that he returns back to him?

hidden ledge
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he does go in the white door after case 23 since he has memories from it

azure bay
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Bob was in Owl possession already in Theatre (more than half a year before the scene of Case 23). Once again would Mr. Owl risk losing him for the reason of his arrest if he wasn't sure that Bob would escape & came directly back to him?

floral mauve
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thats a bit weird if we see Bob before case 23 tbh

royal notch
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Why are you saying that Bob was already under Jakob's control?

floral mauve
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Dale be like: I dont even know who you are

hidden ledge
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dale is a sad boi 😦

royal notch
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Not as Bob.

hidden ledge
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bob is now happy and is with sarah. dale still in that damn elevator

floral mauve
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he is like a loser in all persepective which is a pity

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which is kinda sad

royal notch
hidden ledge
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dale is in the lake which is full of FISH. he is mentally dying

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the fish probably bully him

floral mauve
hidden ledge
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nah he hates them

floral mauve
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he is scared of the fish but brutally kill them

floral mauve
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if you know me

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but thats not importatnt

hidden ledge
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i love his face when he finds the fish in paradox film

floral mauve
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oh my the theory ppl are all coming

azure bay
cerulean crypt
floral mauve
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no