lore-discussion

[tiny plover]

I beg crytek where's our sad man

He's got like a harem of hunters following him but he's just lying low. Probably because Chery has the moon in a headlock atm.

[granite shard]

He was just mentioned in the lemat carbine marksman lore, in passing but still around

In the trans day of visibility stream last year one of the writers mentioned their HC is that lulu & sofia have kinda adopted him and so I’m thinking he’s with lulu rn out of the fighting

[warm quartz]

Yeah, nun and witch hunter dripped guy's blood into a bucket

[warm quartz]

You mean nun and witch hunter

[tiny plover]

In the lemat mark. lore?

[warm quartz]

sniper lemat

[tiny plover]

Still need to grind it out, dreading it lol

[granite shard]

One sec I saved it

[tiny plover]

My laziness has rewarded me yet again. Thank you kindly

[granite shard]

Haha of course

[warm quartz]

Unless Lulu and Sofia were playing dress up, they adopted kevin only in your fanfics

[tiny plover]

yeah, thats just some writer's headcannon no?

[warm quartz]

In my fanfics Hardin and Redneck adopted him

[granite shard]

Ok I said I was going off of what one of the writers was saying was their HC and liked. It’s also not saying that he lives with the witch hunter & nun but that he’d be upset if they died

[tiny plover]

In my fanfics Hardin adopts Monroe and nurses him back to stability through the power of love

[warm quartz]

Wtf

Monroe is the pillar of stability

[tiny plover]

In other writing snitbits, they talked about the Concubine and the Luz Lights lady following Kevin and his gang

[high stone]

Maybe I’m just a weird old man talking here, but the urge to ship these violent criminals is baffling

[tiny plover]

https://huntshowdown.fandom.com/wiki/Devil's_Moon:_La_Luz_Mala_Herald_of_the_Moon

Found it

[granite shard]

That’s abt lunar pact stuff. Concubine/Luz mala/prodigal daughter/witch hunter/sofia/lulu/etc were all in the lunar pact

[tiny plover]

None had died or shown up since, so you'd assume the harem lives?

[granite shard]

It’s because it’s fun :)

I think the lunar pact has generally split up onto other things but the core group likely takes care of him

[tiny plover]

I also value sarcasm to such a degree it makes others think less of me.

But to each their own lol

[warm quartz]

At least it's not anonemas mask

[tiny plover]

Thank god

[granite shard]

But yeah idk where exactly Kevin is atm but likely somewhere out of the fighting now that chary’s out of the picture for now

[high stone]

Here’s my fanfic: Killbuyer was executed by a landowner after he tried to climb through their 13 yo daughter’s bedroom window

Kevin died on the way back to his home planet

[tiny plover]

The Moon?

or rather from the Moon back to Earth lol

[warm quartz]

It's a simpsons joke

About deleting a character

I dont like the new dlc

I hoped it would be weapons decorated with bullets

I like bullets

But no, it's burned british guy

At least he has some swag with his shoulder things

[high stone]

The Penitent died from staph infections from his self inflicted barb wire wounds…(he only lasted 3 days)

[warm quartz]

He is one note character

That's why I like him so much

[high stone]

That’s true

[high stone]

Was this real?

[granite shard]

Yes

[high stone]

Where can I see old streams?

[granite shard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74PtsNm2Tc

[high stone]

Oh thanks for finding it!

[high stone]

I’m not up to date with the lore for each character, I didn’t know there are so many trans and NB characters, that’s great that Hunt has that representation

[frozen drift]

So rotjaw was discovered by Hardin first?

[warm quartz]

Probably soloed her first like in the trailer

Really starting to hate Felis

She knows she can't have Hardin so she wants to kill him

[real dove]

lmao wut bro naw she's my feral anarchy queen here to take out the trash

[warm quartz]

Wile Hardin doesn't want her to prance around the swamp licking poop

Oh woe her

[raw gust]

Felis possibly smells worse than redneck

May have to dock redneck some points on the smelliness chart in light of the fact that he has a daughter

[languid notch]

what about revenant?

[raw gust]

Smells like an old folks home

The real question is who is mama redneck 🤔

[rotund ferry]

i mean tbf, can’t blame revenant, fella is a corpse

the others tho just need a mf shower

[raw gust]

Everyone likes the Bayou Catgirl until they remember how cats react to bathing 😔

[mint wind]

Depends on his daughter smell.

[real dove]

You act like all the hunters aren't stinky in some way

Half them wear wool/fur jackets/clothing

Even your beloved Hardin is gonna reek. Dude wears a leather jacket.

Just cause she wears the skull, doesn't make her a cat like wut lol

[visual finch]

All hunters stinks

[green pollen]

It’s a Louisiana swamp filled with rotting flesh and gun smoke, it’s gonna smell rancid

[icy brook]

Dropping your sharps or other black powder gun in swamp water before and after shooting it a dozen times in 90% humidity is the most horrifying aspect of Hunt

There isn’t enough oil in the world to make that right

[green pollen]

You may as well just stick the barrel in the mud and leave it

[real dove]

have you seen some of these skins/ how guns looked before they started cleaning them

we basically have hunters doing that as is

tg we are getting away from the era of mud and rope gun skins

I adore these new ones

[green pollen]

I liked the mud and rope skins. Gave that swamp vibe

Best one I personally think is that slate bayonet skin they added during TOS

[real dove]

I don't mind a few

but 3 events of em was a bit much

It made sense to have some- after all, the rain n undead n sunken boat n rotjaw n such made sense with them, but idk, not a huge fan and really preferred cleaner, prettier guns

which with this event we

are getting

so it works out

[green pollen]

Fair enough

[empty basin]

It is a nice touch how the dirtier your weapon gets after you are downed. I myself like the dirty weapons for the immersion, but also cringe seeing guns that dirty, especially when you think of how rare and of how much money they would be worth today

[tiny plover]

I mostly just cringe at the amount of times I beef it for the gun to get that dirty

[empty basin]

I think that's when I 1st noticed it was in a match I had been downed 3 times

[noble scarab]

Don’t tell me you don’t like the vetterli with the dead frog tied to it

[high stone]

Don’t forget some of it is brackish water - you’ll get some niiice pitting started 👌

[noble scarab]

The water in the land of the dead can’t be good for them either

[high stone]

LotD is def outside of my HC

(I kind of wish they’d add jamming if you fail to clean your weapon after you extract)

[high stone]

Does this include the fabric ribbon wrapped skins?

[empty basin]

Finally got to entry number 7. This was the first lore entry of the event where it had me thinking; "Oooh ok! Here we go!" and left me wishing it was a longer entry. Excited to find out more!

[high stone]

Whoa

[atomic flax]

Anything to Lonely Howl beyond what you can find out beyond his and his parents character descriptions? Really wish he had a trials

[real dove]

Yeah. I'm a sucker for the bone ones and the clean/engraved guns. But that's just me, if you like the ropes and mud that's cool too. I'm just hype to see a whole bunch of clean (imo) pretty guns getting added after asking for a guns only DLC with these kinds of skins in it.

Would be neat to get some kind of gun smith or engraver hunter who came with more pretty skins but I'm good with the ones we are getting

[granite shard]

He’s in felis’s chapters this event. I don’t know how prominent he will be but he had a role in at least the first chapter

[warm quartz]

Anyone got the full story?

I was getting killed by centipidies the first minutes of the events, someone must have the full story

[high stone]

No, I’m with you..the ones with random loose-wrapped fabric ribbons feel as silly as the ones with cord tied all over them. I do like the “Marwood” though, the rope for a sling seems cool on a beat up Rival.

[real dove]

Yeah! There are some I don't mind, but most of em are pretty eh to me

[real dove]

https://youtu.be/K_JgXxl0CJ0?si=0jc60dag0_QDDtI0

yw

[warm quartz]

@real dove wtf does Hunt D&D DM mean?

They really did refer to bosses as boss targets

And Rotjaw gave Hardin limp 😢

Apparently benefactors are just a bunch of rich folks dabbling into the occult, playing poker betting bounties

Hardin was shot with a bullet that made his ears bleed

Deafening ammo coming?

Okay, maybe benefactors aren't just a bunch of rich folks

Hardin discusses Backers in a letter to Benefactors

Circus never stops, does it?

Eh, the event is basically NEW MAP COMING NEW MAP COMING NEW IS COMING GUYS

They use whiteshirts and boss targets as termins

At least it confirms that Felis is stupid and doesn't know much about wtf is happening

She's the wilderness girl just there for some killing

Yet she seems to know hierarchy of whatever is happening

[high stone]

terminologies??

[warm quartz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cg_GBqU7sA

terminuneses

[restive patrol]

wonder what they're going to start referring to hunt maps as instead of "the bayou" since it sure as hell sounds like its a map set out West.

especially that last entry, referring to how the drowned are being left in Louisiana to deal with the corruption there

[high stone]

Maybe he got hit with explosive?

[high stone]

Pretty interesting, there’s some really poetic stuff in there…thanks for uploading @real dove !

[amber harbor]

The caldwell chain pistol early access skin may be a connection? The Benefactor

[real dove]

Ywyw I am happy to share!

And dunno. I agree, sounds like we are going more west, though not really sure why?

Outside of chasing felis

But need to reread, mostly just wanted to get these out for folks

[noble scarab]

boss targets as a name kinda are bad, but they've referenced white shirts before, so that one is at least not as egregious.

also not a huge fan of Felis' voice actor

Hardin sounds great tho

[high stone]

“White Shirts For Sale - Used Once - Fair Condition - May have stains, holes. Patching service available for additional fee - inquire at AHA Exchange Post #12.”

[warm quartz]

no?

[clear mortar]

not really a lore question but what year does hunt take place in ?

[warm quartz]

Presumably 1896

[real cedar]

The Hunt itself is a range from at least 1894 to presumably 1896. Mama Maye's description and a blog post about Elwood Finch both mention the Hunt in 1894, and the Bloodlines video says The Reaper was inoculated on October 31 and has been hunting for 107 days and counting, meaning he either started in 1894 or 1895, and the year has since changed. Most lore references 1895.

[real dove]

All of the tides/moons happened in 1895. The actual hunt goes back further, with pelican Island prisoner experimentation happening in 1893, but there are clips and lore bits dated further, though some of them could be simply the researcher of our times collecting stories.

We are supposedly entering into 1896 with this event, but it could also still be 1895 following up TOD. But assuming it's now 1896

[livid cave]

I think the dolch 96 is an experimental version of the dolch 1896 right

so it was from just before 1896

[real dove]

Hard dates in the lore set 1895 for the tides and moons. The guns are kinda all over

[rotund ferry]

Though that's just the event we're playing, in old lore videos it was stated the conflict goes back ages and was located wherever you reached the edges of civilisation.

[real dove]

^ true. We've been fighting either multiple or one sculptor over the ages. The first possible infection of Louisiana is dated to 1812 when Blanchett flooded and bodies floated up. But yeah, there's stuff about humanity/the aha tangling with beings like our sculptor before.

[granite shard]

I think they said the new map will bring us into 96– desolation’s wake is probably the end of December 95

[clear mortar]

Okay thank you to everyone that answered lol

[real dove]

Yeah, I think the same thing, but there's no real dates so could be either way :/

[granite shard]

Yeah, I just think they’ll make a big deal for the shift in years 😂

[frozen drift]

So, what alignment lore wise are the Corvids?

[noble scarab]

They’re with the death pact

[frozen drift]

right. wanted to make sure

still... why? is it because they can do their twisted experiments on the people?

[acoustic whale]

is the sculptor a family man

[frozen drift]

Probably not…

[warm quartz]

Death pact made some kind of deal with the Death

Corvids may not be part of the pact, just like Hex Breaker isn't part of the Drowned

They just kinda hang out

[high stone]

Seems like the only ammo that would land and make your “ears bleed”.

[warm quartz]

Centipedie mixed poisons for the demented

And she was the one who stole Statesman at that moment

And he didn't say nothing about his leg exploding

[high stone]

I guess? Tbf, the writing on that entry is pretty tough

If it was the current poison, it seems like they would’ve mentioned blurry vision

Anyway

[worthy nova]

I also assumed explosive ammo, for this reason…concussive blast making his ears bleed…

[high stone]

And it’s also weird they don’t mention the blast, so who knows

[worthy nova]

yeah…poison ammo I would expect blurry vision, dizzy, and being unable to heal mentioned

could’ve just been another poison type, and we’re trying to fit the lore into the gameplay paradigm, but who knows.

[warm quartz]

🙄

[worthy nova]

What

[worthy nova]

I didn’t say anything unreasonable

[warm quartz]

I'm just confused anyone read this passage and came to a conclusion that it must have been an explosive bullet

[worthy nova]

which poison makes you only bleed from your ears?

[high stone]

I think he said it…the concussive blast = bleeding ears/ ruptured eardrums

And I agree that seems weird with the rest of the passage, it’s like it’s intentionally written to be misinterpreted

Odd

[worthy nova]

If it’s some new poison = who knows.
If it’s current game poison =can’t heal like Hardin did, and doesn’t make you bleed.
But! I really don’t know.

[empty basin]

I originally read it as dum-dum rounds and it being an attempt at an old saying like; "I have so much it's coming out my ears." kind of thing... But then when I saw explosive rounds in the battle pass I thought those but I'm not sure what silenced weapon has explosive ammo in Hunt.

[worthy nova]

Was also just wondering this (silenced/explosive)

[high stone]

Haha this is bananas

[high stone]

Me too but then I thought “did he get shot in head? No…one ear? It says both ears…….”

[empty basin]

Since it was supposed to be a transcript of Hardin talking in an interview, I thought it was just an attempt at an old saying like; "I have so much corn I don't know what to do with it, it's coming out of my ears!" I was bleeding so bad it was coming out of my ears!
I have heard an old timer say; "I have to pee so bad my back teeth are floating!" So I kind of thought it was an attempt at dating the dialogue kind of thing.

But with how much Hunt relies on sound, I could see them coming up with something to temporarily defen you like a flash bang does blinding you

[high stone]

Could be! If that’s what is meant, it’s a really butchered version of that phrase

[high stone]

Flash Dart for hand crossbow would siiiiicck

[empty basin]

And like it has been said in here some of the writing felt a little "rough" so that's what made me think it was an attempt at a saying or something like that.

But that's why this chat is great! Love getting to see everyone's ideas and what they get out of certain parts of the lore

Makes me see things I never thought of at all, lol

[high stone]

Lol I guess so! It usually feels like making Ikea furniture that came with mistranslated instructions..

“What is this?? What could that even mean? It shouldn’t be like this..”

[empty basin]

"Well that piece must go here... Wait no, no, over here!"

[rare dirge]

also i know theres lots pointing to it but i think many people forget it says what year it is on the steam page for hunt showdown in the description

i wonder if this will update when the new event comes out and we move to 1896?

[mint wind]

Say, do we have more infos about Mara and Hannah, apart from the drilling lore ?
Hannah is said to be responsible for giving birth to the first meathead, and Mara became mad hunting them (basically slaughtering her nephews).

[high stone]

Are we allowed to post Reddit links in here? I found one I think everyone might find interesting

[visual finch]

If those are relevant and not against any general rules of the channel, i guess there's no problem in posting those

[high stone]

Thanks! The OP here has some great points about the games “unique and original” presentation - and the “identifying features”, of Hunt. Good food for thought, I think, especially relating to the tone of the lore!

https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/16yjoei/this_game_is_increasingly_disappointing_and_i/

[rotund ferry]

thank you thank you thank you I'm always annoyed each event waiting for someone to upload the entire thing so I can have a bed time story

[real dove]

No problem! It's odd to me Hunt doesn't do it themselves at the end of the event but glad to be of service at the start lol

I run a hunt showdown themed dnd campaign! Took the hunt concept and smooched it into 5e. It's a monster, but I'm proud of it lol

[warm quartz]

Who keeps deleting messages?

[zenith perch]

Weird question, not sure if this is the place to ask. But what weapon charm fldo you guys think fits Brood and Bile's weapons?

They give me Demented vibes

[mint wind]

If you have it, Ouroboros.

[zenith perch]

I don't, the other obvious choice would be argent crown but I wasnt able to get it

[mint wind]

Then either the key or the hourglass from the current battlepass maybe ?

[zenith perch]

I also think that maybe Eye Gouger could work

[mint wind]

A bit too crude imo.

[real dove]

it's in person, sorry!

and we are also full up lol, i have more players than I really need

?

[zenith perch]

Fair

I think it could work maybe

[real dove]

lol okay, i was like, wut? I can't please everyone

[zenith perch]

[real dove]

I really want more about Felis and Lonely. My fav 2 hunters when I first started, would love to know how they became friends. Odd to me that the rest of the Wolf family isn't ther

there

or mentioned to be therer

[empty basin]

Lonely was almost the Legendary Hunter I went with to start. I'm not a role play person but I thought to myself if you were alive in 1900 what would you be doing? So I went for Mountain Man as my "neutral karma" and if I was to go down the "bad karma", shit hustler route, I went with Black Coat.

And they reminded me of RDR2 characters I had made lol

[real dove]

I like MM, but I collect skulls irl and just really vibed with LW's look, as well as Felis's. I'd absolutely be a feral bone and pelt clothed hunter if it was in Hunt lol

fair. My RDR2 gal was pretty normal, but my bud had what we called the "homeless deer god"

I played Felis originally, then lonely, then devolved from there. Rotate between felis, lonely, scarramooch, Devil's Ads mostly now. Just depends on the day

[empty basin]

Homeless deer god, lol

A lot of crazy ideas come with that title lol

[real dove]

he was a scraggle faced dirty skin guy, wearing one of the special elk jackets that looked a bit ratty, with worn and holey pants, no shoes, etc...

it was great in cutscenes

my gal looked pretty proper and fit with the AI, and then there was this man who clearly didnt know about bathing

[empty basin]

I guess I have always played video games that let you create your character with that mindset; "If I was born into THIS world what would I be doing or what decision would I make with the knowledge this character has?" Maybe it was my fondness of choose your own adventure books as a kid

[rare dirge]

I like thinking I’m a silly little time traveller putting myself in the boots of someone there

Like that one back to the future movie

[warm quartz]

Personally, I would like some Sergeant Bridgewater lore

He seems like down to earth guy

[rare dirge]

He is my top 3 favourite hunters I use

Probably moved down more due to the Mountie taking the slot as my favourite but

Still one of my favourites due to just how cool he looks

His hat his wonderful beard and head of hair

The cool bandage eyepatch

The general outfit he has going on

[rotund ferry]

bridgewater is cool, I do wish we had a bit more civil war vet hunters
they'd be the main group coming out to kill for bounties
I need my general sherman of hunt showdown

[warm quartz]

Bridgewater isn't civil war vet

[rotund ferry]

do we know what war he was in? It says on his dlc page that he seeked out the fight in the bayou because the injustice of war. Was he in any war at all or just fancy words for saying he didn't like the militaries regulations

[rare dirge]

Uhhh I’m pretty sure he was a civil war vet there really was no other war and I’m pretty sure the outfit he wears is just from the civil war

Or was that a different character

I’m like 99% sure we have a civil war vet in the hunters

[rotund ferry]

yeah the only US involved war after the civil takes place after hunt

unless we're counting like county wars and stuff like that

[rare dirge]

Even then

[rotund ferry]

theres a lot of tier hunters in uniform

[rare dirge]

A legendary hunter I mean

[rotund ferry]

I'm not sure if there were any other legendary

scrap beak was a confederate judging by his trailer if that counts for anything

[rare dirge]

AH RIGHT

Prodigal daughter

She wasn’t apart of the civil war but her uniform was like a thing she was given that was apart of it

Let me look it up rq I’m pretty sure that’s what it was

Yep her mother was in the civil war and her uniform was passed down to her

[rotund ferry]

I forget theres like a shit ton of history with women being information gatherers and spies in old wars

[warm quartz]

Ridicilous

Everyone know women weren't invented until like 2000

Therefore they were missing for the most of history

[granite shard]

Bridgewater was likely involved in the Indian wars

[granite shard]

The captain is the only civil war vet on the roster I believe

[rare dirge]

The captain? When does it say that?

Also I figured it out I was thinking of another character and they were not a vet just wore the outfit from the civil war

[granite shard]

His DLC blurb

He was in the union navy

[rotund ferry]

damn

might have to buy him then

[rare dirge]

That’s pretty fire

[real dove]

Yeah, bridgewater is a "buffalo soldier"

the war ended in 1865- so some of the folks could have fought in it (and we def have older t2/3s who are in uniform) but likely most weren't a part

sorry, just saw you said that about the t2/3s

[rotund ferry]

they'd have to be pretty young to still be in fighitng form... ignoring grannie...

black people could serve the union in 1862 so at the most blackwater would be 51 by 1895...

which... maybe? but I doubt it

looks a bit younger

[real dove]

nah, buffalo soldier for sure

he's still younger

[granite shard]

He’s prob in his 20s-early 30s

[real dove]

guessing 30s

i think most our hunters are in that range

[granite shard]

Hunt models are weird abt depicting actual ages tho

See: kevin

[real dove]

true

[rotund ferry]

then this dude a fraud for claiming to experience the injustice of war smh

[real dove]

i was gonna name him too

[granite shard]

He probably fought in the Indian wars which were going on into the early 1890s

[real dove]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

nope, he saw war

[rotund ferry]

right, I concede

[granite shard]

He probably was like “oh this is fucked” irt forcing people out of their ancestral homelands lol

[rotund ferry]

I fucking love manfiest destiny

[real dove]

and while black skinned folks may be able to fight, doesnt mean they get the happy treatment everyone else did

[rotund ferry]

graahhhh automod.
but yeah black soldiers were still treated terrible even in the north and after the civil war. My favorite closest to realistic representation is the movie glory

[rare dirge]

Plus y’know I’m sure as a minority that received discrimination I’m sure he felt bad to put discrimination against other minorities in that war

It lines up

[cunning pollen]

Shame there was no cooperation between the marshal and the sheriff

I hope eventually the marshal catches on with whatever is happening in the bayou

[rotund ferry]

I thought they hated eachother

[cunning pollen]

They do but the meeting seems to imply the marshal doesn't believe Hardin

Even in the description of her trial it seems she doesn't really understand what's going on

[round star]

Not sure if this is the right channel, but does someone know, what kind of revolver the statesman has?

I mean, as seen in the trailer, his main gun seems to be a bornheim, which he stole/got from a dead guy.
But this revolver here, looks a lot like the caldwell conversion named - The Pearl.
But according to the lore of said gun, this wouldnt be fitting, so maybe its a new conversion? Or there is a reason, why he has this gun?

[green pollen]

That’s a peacemaker

Or Pax if your going but hunts names

[round star]

intresting. thanks.
curious to see if this will become a skin eventually.
was wondering since i saw that he had a revolver and not the bornheim in his holster

[green pollen]

Hoping it’ll be a skin

[round star]

maybe the lore of this skin might bring a bit light, who he might be.
since the whole storys about Mr. Chary, i was always curious that Kevin got a skin, but Mr. Chary didnt. And seeing people discuss if he might be Mr. Chary, sounds really intresting.

[rare dirge]

He isn’t

Mr chary will be a big deal when he becomes a hunter

Not a t25 hunter in a random filler pass

Also mr chary is fighting the moon rn

Or something

[round star]

true.

but still really curious who he and the orginization he is working for is and if they have something to do with mr chary or not.

some of the lore of hunt got really inresting, but also really confusing over the years imo.

[rare dirge]

He is assumed to be AHA related and probably knows of chary and probably met with him before or something but I doubt they are significantly related

[rotund ferry]

that reminds me

I was looking back when hunt did recap videos (imagine) and I'm pretty sure we see Mr Charys silhouette... I'm sure that was a big deal at the time but again those recaps are fucking ancient

so I guess this is him and finch

[rare dirge]

Yeah that’s also where I made the mistake about Kevin being the kid because I just started the game and saw the silhouette of the kid

Pretty sure they just used the kids silhouette for the recap though

So I don’t trust it

[rotund ferry]

it's also hunt so even if it was him at the time I'd place all my money on retcon

[rare dirge]

No it was easy to see they were saying “Kevin” and the kids name isn’t Kevin

So

Easy to disprove

Just they used the silhouette

Of the kid

Said it was Kevin

[round star]

tbh, i only really hope that if they ever bring someone like Mr Chary or other AHA Guys, i hope they are Human and more like the skins they did in this event.

Bit tired of all the undead and monster lore. Even tho these crazy boss lover hunters, have an intresting background - also wondering if there will ever be a spider boss hunter.

[rotund ferry]

not the first time they've done that... or well it was but theres other examples

bone mason is lulu in her flashback in her dlc trailer

[rare dirge]

Right that was hilarious

Lulu is also the reapers wife

(They reused the model there too)

[rotund ferry]

I think they will. I had your same fear but this event has taught that they are leaning back into the civil human stuff. If you read all the chapters they talk about rich men pulling strings and whatnot

something like the high table from john wick

[frozen drift]

Are the drowned and death pacts “allied”?

I’m up to chapter 5

[rare dirge]

All the pacts we meet are still kicking around even if they just have a few members

[rotund ferry]

death pact is kinda nice to everyone rn
they just did that one thing to mr chary & friends

[round star]

only have unlocked 3 so far, but really curious this time. last events didnt even bother me that much, because of these weird hunters who sit in my game and probably never will be played.
and yeah, this high table or secret masterminds in the shadows, sounds really intresting imo.

[rare dirge]

“Ok we got rid of the pricks we are gonna go back to figuring out what the FUCK is happening rn thanks for understanding”

[rocky bloom]

I stand corrected It's Mr Chary's & Finch's right hand man silhouette's according to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Stq9APzWPA

[rotund ferry]

I mean honestly the dude on the left looks like statesman
I'm sure he's not, statesman probably wasn't even a thought at the time, but it's still interesting

[green robin]

So of the legendary hunters available to us do we know who is left from and members of the AHA?

The witch hunter and the hex breaker both seem to be. The hillbilly was inducted

[granite shard]

Everyone is technically a member of the AHA, it’s just that the AHA is a mess now

[green robin]

From what I remember the Louisiana branch disbanded some events ago, final nail in the coffin with finch getting thrown in a hole

The witch hunter however was sent from the New York branch (headquarters?)

So any hunters after that and many of the cults that we started with were not aha

Unless stated otherwise.

[granite shard]

They’re all part of the Lousiana branch of the AHA

[real cedar]

Finch says in Devil's Moon that the Lousiana AHA "can no longer sustain itself" though he also says it may still outlive him, and he hopes people keep fighting, alongside bolstering forces from eastern and western branches. So the branch is in dire straights but not disbanded

[high stone]

Interesting

[clever thistle]

that handle covering is 100% is the model of the pearl

I would say its not a pax and is instead a conversion but even the model in game is really weird since the loading gate is on the opposite side (left hand side) of the gun

[rotund ferry]

I'm pretty sure someone did a close up on the handle of that gun in his holster and the pearl and the screw isn't the same

[clever thistle]

I would love to be proven wrong

Because that loading gate reversal is really really weird

[real cedar]

That could be explained as a modeler error, it got flipped. Similar stuff appears on some of the guns, inverse writing engraved on the Dolch for instance because half of a model got mirrored.

[round star]

I also wouldn't wonder, if its just there, because it looks fitting - even tho, im always wondering, why some legendary hunters, carry something that also could be a weapon, tool or even consumable skin on their body, but has no skin in the game.

[real dove]

we have quite a few of these, and I always wonder the same thing, esp. for DLC hunters

you'd think at the least they'd come with skins they are wearing lol

[round star]

exactly
but i think if they would start with this now, we probably would have even more skins for weapons, that already have tons of skins.
at the same time, would be a cool chance to bring more lore to already existing characters.

i mean, is it clear for which weapons a skin gets designed?
Is it lore related, based on how many players, play these or just like in OW, if one of their designers has a good idea, they make this skin?

[icy brook]

I finally got around to reading all the event lore, it’s pretty enjoyable actually, moves the lore along, the last chapter is pretty confirming of some things we’ve thought were coming for a while now

[real dove]

AFAIK it's not real clear. at least to me. I know they make skins for the most used guns over less used ones, that way people buy those skins/dlcs/etc. But then we have event weapons that don't get a skin while we get skins for things that already have tons of skins. But I think it comes down to making skins for commonly used weapons over lesser used ones for profit reasons.

It is odd to me that we do get knives/guns/etc that the hunters "carry" but don't actually have in the line up

but could be that it's not as simple as add that skin over a gun as it seems from where I'm sitting

[round star]

the thing with the most used guns is something i heard somewhere before, but its sometimes hard to believe, when i see stuff like martini henry getting a new skin - i mean, i dont have the numbers and cant really tell, just from my pov. but thats for example a gun, which gets a new skin and i think i only saw one person in the last event, play this.

[real dove]

Yeah, I dunno. without the game in front of me, I can't say for sure but it's odd to me that we get skins for gun variations that have multiple, but not ones for ones that only have 1 or none. Part of me wonders if this is why we havent seen stuff like skins for the beetles- I can't recall the last time I saw a beetle in use. but IDK. I'm not an artist for crytek lol

[granite shard]

yeah I really liked how the event both kinda served as a wrap up to the tides trilogy and then brought us into the new stuff

[icy brook]

^

[granite shard]

I think my biggest issue with tide of desolation was how there was no real conclusion to stuff

which now makes sense, since they wrapped it up here haha

[real dove]

It's interesting that it seems like we are coming to an end with NOLA.

[icy brook]

Explaining that Lynch is influencing but not present is a good use of her, no possibility for a Hunter skin in the near future though

[real dove]

Any new maps are going to be at a new location

I'd be shocked at this point if we got a skin for her, Finch, or CHary

[granite shard]

I think they could do a lynch skin but just have it like

"this was lynch early on"

[real dove]

if we went back in time

yeah!

Young lynch. "The Irish Witch" lol

Female Hunter DLC when

but yeah, I doubt we'll get one of her or the other big players

[rare dirge]

We will get mr chary as a hunter eventually

I’m convinced of it

There’s no way they keep this guy as this main mystery villain only to NEVER make him a hunter

I have a strong feeling he will be a hunter next year (could probably even be a dark tribute hunter LOL)

[real dove]

Last time we saw him he was getting his ass kicked by the moon

so idk

[rare dirge]

I highly doubt he is gonna die give it an event or 2 I’m sure we will see him again

[real dove]

poorhaps

idk

[rare dirge]

They wanna sideline him for now though for sure

[real dove]

oh yeah

I'd assume they'd bring him back if they do an event back in NOLA

maybe

[rotund ferry]

I think he's just getting the lynch treatment

[real dove]

But i doubt he'll show up in the new map

[rotund ferry]

he'll randomly appear like 5 events later

[granite shard]

Yeah I think they’re trading off chary for lynch as the main baddie rn

[ocean linden]

Good, Lynch is much more interesting

[warm quartz]

Yeah

Chary is easy to defeat

Lynch goes around killing people solo

[strange garnet]

Was there ever any lore around the older events like light the shadows?

[warm quartz]

No, there were no unlockable stories

[real cedar]

From what I've been reading, just the phrase itself appears in multiple places

[tiny plover]

I mean the rest of the wolf family is actively hunting Lonely Howl down for the horrible murdering he does, so it would make sense that while they might Vibe with the Primals, they rightly dont vibe with him lol

[real dove]

afaik they kissed and made up

sounded (to me) like lw and fam were together beating the dogshit outtas chary

[tiny plover]

Make it a fucking Tribute skin for her "Early on" look and a dlc or bb skin for her "Demigod/Demon" look/vibe

[tiny plover]

Source? If its new event stuff dont sweat finding it, Ill get it eventually

Vaguley avoiding spoilers, at least in the sense of just straight up reading the stuff Ive yet to unlock

[real dove]

Whatever event they beat the crap out of chary. Tide of shadows?

[tiny plover]

I thought he got the shit kicked out of him like... off screen? Am I thinking of Finch and Gar beating his head in, or was that Chary?

[real dove]

Idk, I'm not up to hunting it down rn. Petcha's thing with Luna was either we kill him or he rejoins. To me sounds like he rejoins but maybe they'll chase him to the new map

The wolves smacked him around too before hauling his ass to cardinal, but I could be recalling that wrong

[tiny plover]

One of us will re-read it out of boredom or researching purposes, Im not sweating it till I need to connect old lore to new

[noble scarab]

gar beat him with a hammer then the wolfpack found him

it wasnt stated if it was just the two of them or all of them

[granite shard]

They were also all grounded part in Devil’s moon so the likely reading is they made up

[high stone]

How would you guys sum up Lynch’s role/history in a sentence? (it can be a long sentence, lol)

[noble scarab]

lynch gave the AHA the special demon juice that powers up hunters and lets them fight the corruption, she also manipulated the drowned and may have had a hand in destabalizing the AHA

[high stone]

Is she just a person? Is she supposed to be a witch?

[rotund ferry]

they call her the white haired witch or something like that

I mean she's a person that practices dark magic... her and... pretty much every single hunter in the game would be labeled a witch in olden days

[high stone]

Oh yeah, I’m guessing she knows a lot more than the instructions for muting clues and banishment, etc. that the normal initiates get..

[rotund ferry]

she's holding the cards rn tbh

in the last chapters of the event || they imply she'll be able to do something to all the hunters through the demon juice she made for them ||

[high stone]

Hmm!

[amber harbor]

Didn't they change the formula after she left to sterilize hunters? Or maybe it still has the same base, so the mind control or whateveeer works

Dont think they will do that, but just imagine her all like "you're so fucked, I control the demon blood now!"
And the AHA be like " well yes but actually no, we haven t used the same formula since you left"
Lynch so close yet so far yet again

[fickle sluice]

can someone please tell me what NOLA stands for? I can't find an answer that makes sense to me

[warm quartz]

@humble kraken posted lyrics for new song

Blood is a acquired taste
Hunger and thirst, both have their place
So why don't you sit down and stay
You'll just be late

You'll say it
Not the time or place,
But if it's illusion there's no stakes
I deal the cards and hope you'll awake,
The queen of spades

Fold your hand
We'll turn the page
I've write the first line,
This ink won't fade

The story always starts this way
The first known place

Now bloody,
Splattered on the stage
Every act must end this way
The final scene, the howl of pain
Night follows day

And now you,
Know you like the game
Blade in your hand,
A bird of prey
Men worry is the price you'll pay
A cause refrains
An an acquired taste

[real cedar]

At first glance I'd assume it means New Orleans, Louisiana. LA is the state's abbreviation.

[fickle sluice]

I see, thanks!

[real dove]

Yep, Nola stands for New Orleans, Louisiana. Sorry, I dont normally feel like typing out lousiana lol

[fickle sluice]

no worries, that's why we can talk and ask 😄

[real dove]

forget constantly that not everyone lives in the south/US. Herg american dum brain

[tiny plover]

Lol yeah, thought with the Gar talk you were referencing Enola but just a letter off

Which speaking of Sidelined Characters... That poor fucking girl just wants her dog/daughter back

And is likely getting Gaslit by Lynch as of writing for Lynch's own nefarious BS

[high stone]

Ngl I’m not a fan of the weird “Demon Juice” angle for the serum, but 🤷‍♀️

[chrome tree]

Sorry to insert myself but I wanted to ask what does Magna Veritas mean in regards to Hunt. I’ve read it means great truth but is it something special with hunt?

[rare dirge]

thats the like level 5 badge for the trading cards in hunt right?

oh yeah lol i got it

i got no clue though something about justice im sure

[visual finch]

It literally translate to "The Great Truth", if that can help

[mint wind]

So, for the main villains, we have Lynch and Chary, one is doing misdeeds and using the Sculptor's work to make her own corruption, while Chary wants to harness the corruption power for his own benefits ?

[lucid anvil]

This is interesting to me. Granted, I missed lots of the older stuff from serpents moon, and I’ve not read as bad as they seem since I’ve not completed the book yet, but… it’s curious she’d help set up the AHA and later (possibly) help to destabilise/destroy it. I feel like I must be missing something here you know?

[lucid anvil]

Not fully sure. Know chary is fighting the moon in the land of the dead atm as of the end of last event. since that’s like his whole goal. To kill the moon.

Weird goal tbh

[mint wind]

The moon is special tho.

It's an entity that was fighting against Chary in Devil's Moon.

[real dove]

Dunno if he was fighting her as much as he was getting his ass kicked lmao. Dude kept getting beat down by folks.

[lucid anvil]

Hey! He’s trying his best!

[warm quartz]

Yeah, moon isn't exactly in his weight class

[granite shard]

The moon was just waiting to throw hands w him, good for her

[lucid anvil]

I’m sure they’re having fun together lol.

Nice little fight in the land of the dead

[granite shard]

the moon's having fun for sure

[real cedar]

Bio from the new DLC:

Rumors began to spread through the decks of Britain’s Atlantic fleet: a traitor was in their midst. The two ships that sank near Cape Verde did not go down by accident—and the perpetrator must have been among the survivors who were rounded up for interrogation. Three walked the plank, found guilty of conspiracy, but it didn’t stop another ship from sinking that same night. A frenzy spread amongst the soldiers, and the officers executed all remaining survivors of the sunken ships. With the crisis averted, calm spread through the fleet once again—until fire and oil burst forth from the head ship in an explosion that razed the armada.

A dozen ships were scuppered, but the culprit was ultimately found: a single humble officer. With naught but his service rifle, revolver, and a penchant for gunpowder’s destruction, he had decimated the fleet. Such a heinous crime demanded he be made an example of and humiliated, lest other would-be rebels take inspiration. On trial, the man proclaimed himself to be Francis Fawkes, heir to Guy Fawkes and dedicated to his ancestor’s mission.

He was sentenced to burning at the stake. On November 5th, The Conspirator was paraded in the streets and burned atop a historic bonfire: bound, masked, and dressed as an effigy to be mocked by what remained of the Navy. The flames of consequence melted his skin and welded the mask to his visage. In total agony, childhood memories flooded his mind in a fever dream: a sickly father’s pained groans, a vagrant mother’s bitter tears, and a frail grandmother’s lullaby—wondering about life if history had been different. Spiteful, The Conspirator lived long enough for the fire to burn through his restraints. Survivors of his wrath say he descended with eerie, royal poise. Spectators fled and homes burned as The Conspirator searched for water. To this day, those streets remain rubble and ash.

Pleased with his work, and with intentions to someday finish the Gunpowder Plot’s mission, The Conspirator fled. Hearing of good money and good use for his spite-fueled talents, he made his way to the bayou, continuing a lifelong crusade.

[strange garnet]

i hate how they reuse assets in trailers

the son of gunpowder trailer has hardin being the one doing the burning of the conspirator but the new dlc bio implies conspirator is british and burned the british fleet down in europe before coming to the bayou

[real cedar]

Another point of interest: there's an IMCO lighter tied to the Martini-Henry, though it's a 1920s design, referred to as a trench lighter. Lighters were invented in the 1800s though so it's more of a pedantic anachronism.

[granite shard]

It would be cool if they’d make new assets and stuff for the trailers but it’s prob not cost effective to do that

[random lava]

we do that already, like the passsenger cart in the desolation wake trailers

[rare dirge]

I mean that trailer was pretty fuckin sick

Reuse assets or don’t either way the trailers always turn out amazing

[warm quartz]

Well, it could possibly be that Hardin burned some other poor fool

Son of Gunpowder had iron mask on him

[noble scarab]

my thoughts were that hardin burned someone else and this guy was just having ptsd

but also this guy doesnt really have a reason to be in the bayou, he's just here to vibe while he figures out how to destory the monarchy

[warm quartz]

I mean, if you can blow up a swamp then you can blow up anything else

[earnest jungle]

My assumption was The Conspirator was have a PTSD flashback because of the Dark Inferno

[acoustic whale]

why did they make Hardin a bad guy 😦

he looks like a good sheriff

[warm quartz]

They didn't and I'm suprised

I thought the event would be "Felis good Hardin bad"

Because of all the Felis simps

But I was pleasantly surprised

Hardin is a hardass who ultimately wants to protect the people

[warm quartz]

On the sidenote, what did they use to write back in 1895?

Good old fountain pens and feathers?

[high stone]

Typewriters

First portable ones became available a few years before ‘95

But yeah, at a desk, dip pens for the cheap & poor, pencils, charcoal, fountain pens

Pencils = graphite and grease/wax pencils

I also always though Hardin was a, “sort of bad” guy

[icy brook]

Not so much in the 1890s, but from the 1860s to 1870s sheriffs and their deputies could be pretty crooked, just look at Henry Plumer

[high stone]

Looking at 21st Century Sheriff’s deputies, I’m going to say they can always be crooked

[real cedar]

To me everything he does can be considered villainous but at the same time he's not out to get anyone, he's just super mission focused
Sending orphans to clear out the bayou then killing those who come back cause they might want revenge
enslaving prisoners to build an army
Giving folks alcohol and then burning them cause they were about to be monsters

[tiny plover]

Yeah, at the end of the day, Hardin is a big supporter of "The Ends Justify the Means."

Good vs Evil is relative, for all the good he does is inherently tainted by all the evil shit he does, assuming you're taking a very Black/White point of view.

Which, considering he almost single handedly organized the AHA's initial plans of attack, from bringing in new hunters (Forced or otherwise) to keeping shit afloat after Huff died and Lynch disappeared, isn't entirely fair of an assessment. That is if you can overlook the Child Crusades.

Which, if you can, get help lol.

[cunning pollen]

He also seems to hold some homicidal tendencies let's not get it twisted

In this new event we see he loves a chance to unwind

I'm curious to see how his story goes now that he is seemingly leaving the post keeping him in check

[tiny plover]

I mean, EVERYONE in Hunt is some kind of maniac or another. Even the "good" ones. Just because you dont flay people alive and wear their skin just to sleep well at night doesnt mean you arent a bastard. I mean, every single hunter is a killer, some trained or more experienced, by all people cool with taking a life

That being said, based on what I've read thus far from Hardin, he seems to crave order. He's not so much interested in protecting the bayou in the same way others are, he just wants to stomp out the chaos plaguing it.

More nuance to it, y'know?

[warm quartz]

I think it's more of the western "muh civilization" and not D&D lawful stupid paladin

[tiny plover]

Essentially

[warm quartz]

What I mean is he thinks it's better for the people

Not law for the sake of the law

So if you have to make one of your deputies kill some homeless vargants with a baseball bat, then so be it

[cunning pollen]

That lawful stupid paladin thing is a bit closer

As lawful stupid from what I see is born from confidence in one's own truth

[warm quartz]

No, lawful stupid paladin's thing is obsession with the law

No matter if it does good or bad

Just as long as it's lawful

Just like chaotic stupid wears his panties on top the pants because it's so chaotic

[high stone]

Hardin looks pretty sinister, too

Is that his real name? Did they allude to him using a false identity before?

[rotund ferry]

I do think Hardin is just based off old west brutal sheriff stereotypes, shoot first ask questions later type of guy

at least he's no jim miller I guess

[strange garnet]

Idk I think there's a few decent hunters

Archeologist, researcher, the kid, Marshall brewer

[warm quartz]

Archeologist is an accomplice to Prodigal Daughter's mother

Researcher participaties in hunt out of scientific curiosity

The kid doesn't do it out of the kindness of the heart either

[rotund ferry]

what did prodigals mother do

[warm quartz]

Marshall Brewer reached AHA's inner circle which implies she wasn't quite benevolent to everyone around her

[warm quartz]

She was a civil war vet

One could say that Kevin is a good chap, but you have to remember that he's Moon's lap dog

[rotund ferry]

I wouldn't really say just serving in the union makes you a bad person unless you were like one of Shermans rabid men

[warm quartz]

It's only a matter of time before she makes him do something vile

[rotund ferry]

the candle stuff was a bit fucked up from Kevin but lesser of two evils I guess

[noble scarab]

the kid is basically billy the kid, a known murderer.

all of the hunters are murders and the like, some of them are just a bit less likely to shoot you

the detectives are probably pretty civil unless youre in their way. sgt bridgewater is probably pretty ok, hes just there to fight the corruption

mountie too

[rotund ferry]

jack is 100% corrupt, candice would be by association but she isn't really noted to be aggressive

I mean both of them hang out with Chary anyway so they're fucked up

[real cedar]

One of Candice's journal entries under the New Army Swift says her one true reason to remain in the bayou is "I simply wish to stain my hands even darker with blood."

[warm quartz]

I think we can agree that there are no "nice" hunters

All of them kill people

[rotund ferry]

I stand corrected, so glad I main her <3

do we know much on hex breaker yet? He felt kinda good to me. Sounded like he came down just to deal with the curse and lynch.

ofc gameplay wise they're all murderous sociopaths but lore wise I feel there has to be at least one dude who is around just for the curse and only carries his guns for self defense

[high stone]

Hardin’s also got the very flashy outfit, for a Sheriff…or he did, in the tone of Hunt 2018. Seemed like he could be one of those characters that care more about having the badge and the station of power than the ethics of law enforcement…smelled like a bad guy

[rotund ferry]

didn't hardin make children and prisoners fight the curse in the beginning of it or am I misremembering

[high stone]

Yeah

[rotund ferry]

prisoners I can see in a last resort situation but children isn't really forgivable

[warm quartz]

It was orphans

[high stone]

I dunno…that was when it still seemed like the incident was a secret, huge problem, and orphans and prisoners could be people that no one would look for if they went missing…it’s all out the window now.

[warm quartz]

Yeah, and Huff resorted to recruiting asylum patients

Around ten of them

And it was considered an army

And most of them were shot by Samuel Colt's son

[high stone]

Oh yeah, weird stuff

[rotund ferry]

I mean I can see why you'd recruit prisoners because like you said above and they've also probably already done something violent so you know they can fight. Pretty sure Ukraine did that.

orphans is still pretty fucked up, asylum patients are interesting

[high stone]

Haha, Russia you mean

[warm quartz]

Both did

[high stone]

Makes sense

[warm quartz]

But let's keep politics somewhere else

[high stone]

Sure, even though it’s not exactly politics

[rotund ferry]

it will if we continue

[high stone]

if you say so

So why was it secret before? Public panic? Or was someone responsible partly for the incident?

[rotund ferry]

I'm sure theres an actual answer that I don't know about but I'd assume it's the just the fact that the paranormal shouldn't be confirmed to the world.

honestly proving a spiritual existence to society would be bad and proving it doesn't exist would be bad. World would change drastically some for better but honestly probably more for worse. Though that's only if the people who knew about it decided it was from a god like sculptor, some thought it was a disease

[high stone]

Maybe! I’d go with bedlam/panic, and coverup…I think Christianity and the idea of spiritual realms as real places was an accepted concept then…

[empty basin]

Wasn't spirit's and medium's kind of like a big fad in the early 1900's? Wasn't Lincoln's wife into spirits and the paranormal or something like that?

[rotund ferry]

you're right, it still is kinda, we have to swear on the bible in court and such.

was replying to heavy knife but you're right too anarcho

[empty basin]

Yeah I squeezed in there right as you answered, lol

I mean you have to give the hunter's some credit for having the guts to try and do anything about the corruption, the one's who are trying to fight it. I would think for mostly everyone at that time period, the Corruption would be seen as something only the Church would have the power to fight, so when that was no luck trying anything you could to fight it and not just see it as armageddon and flee is admirable

Sending kids to do it and all the experiments... Not so much 😅

[high stone]

Yeah, definitely bad news…I bet a lot of people get scared off before they get anywhere near a “boss” monster

[real dove]

Lmao you mean like that dude who got fucked bugged by the assassin and noped out? Lololol

[empty basin]

Bounties make it more believable in the idea that most would be motivated by greed over defeating the corruption lol

[tiny plover]

Bro no, could you imagine if fucking Bill down the street knew how to use blood magic to summon an imp that like... sneaks into your home and moves your phone around, or moves ONE of your shoes to another room.

If everyone knew how to.. yknow.. basically sell their soul's to The Devil (Sculptor, Death, any other powerful demon) like a fucking Warlock, which anecdotally turns you into a violent sociopath, BUT it gives you cool powers like... not scaring animals as easily? Everyone would do it.

People use that shit in lore to bring back the dead, cause various calamities, and you want MORE people to be able to do that?

[rotund ferry]

yes, it's way better to keep anything spiritual a secret honestly. This is why I also think proving/disproving religion in the real world would be terrible too. Without saying what I believe in I see it as if you prove religion society basically collapses, most people would want to just spend their entire life at church and whatnot instead of working, so many morale questions would be raised... Which under that specific situation wouldn't be the worst outcome ever but it's still something to avoid. and on the flip side if you disprove it I feel society would also collapse at some point, without a morale code people feel they're forced to follow crimes would raise, people would be more cold, and depressed.

thats how I view it at least, way better to keep it a secret even if we could find an answer, humans aren't made for messing with magic or spirits

[high stone]

Probably just more complicated than that

[real cedar]

In the pins there's a collection of Developer Q&As from 2018-2019, but looking for the source I only find the last Q&A session in the discord. Did they happen somewhere else, or are they from a deleted channel? If the latter, is there at least a date when they occurred?

[real cedar]

Ah, dredging through 2018 discussion I'm getting the impression there was a previous Hunt discord from this one.

[river socket]

You have people that just pop into the Bayou like the burnt marshal who already had supernatural abilities. I think it’s more common than it appears and that the corruption isn’t just in the bayou

I think at least the basics to mystical practices exist all throughout, but maybe the Hunters are enhanced thanks to the corruption

[random lava]

it was a channel found in archive https://discord.com/channels/350201607788429323/456375402638737421

[real cedar]

I was looking through that and the questions from the doc aren't in discord itself. Were they written into the doc?

[random lava]

not sure what doc youre refering to

I think some of the old members made a doc to get some answers from narrative back then but I am not sure it was a long time ago

[real cedar]

Yeah, hard to track down exact details 😅 I've got enough context to be happy though, thanks for answering
Var'uun made a doc containing a bunch of Q&A answers, it's in the pins on this channel as well.

[amber harbor]

@sinful trout

[ocean turtle]

Wth happened in the Bayou in a summary?

[real dove]

lmao. Evil entity corrupted the local population, turning them into monsters, and took a liking to a man made of bugs, a pile of corpses, a taxidermized monster, a giant prehistoric undead gator, and a civil war vet with an addiction to shiny objects. Global monster killing group known as the Hunter Association took offense to this, and began recruiting/forcing people into the corrupted region to kill the monsters/boss targets. Several people decided they wanted to be Powerful Beings and attempted to take over the Moon, The Sculptor, or both, so far ultimately failing to do so. These people ended up mostly ripping the local American HA chapter apart. The swamp got set on fire a few times, a door to the land of the dead got opened and then closed, it finally started raining occasionally, and now most hunters are on either the goody two shoes/murderhappy law train or the feral monster infested primal train.

[real dove]

important to include: one of the people who wants to be a Powerful Being puts on a play for his boyfriend.

[frozen drift]

So… did sheriff Hardin step on the doctor’s snare?

[real cedar]

Probably not, since the text says the appointment ended, implying the sheriff died.

[frozen drift]

Hmm… I haven’t gotten far into the story yet

The event story that is.

I’ll check back when I know the full one

[warm quartz]

Hardin isn't the only sheriff in USA

And he isn't an idiot

[frozen drift]

Ehh… the hunt can make people do dumb shit

[high stone]

Would be cool to get some “deputized” versions of Legendary Hunters..

Deputy Marshall Henry Monroe when?

Sheriff’s Deputy Carcass Gunrunner

[empty basin]

Have any of you ever noticed North of Maw Battery, in the brick ruins there is a circle of brick, looks like a well filled in with dirt, and there is a hand sticking out of the middle, but it looks like the hand of a wood doll or something.

[ocean turtle]

yeah,some of my friends said with more than 3k hours told me he never saw that before,maybe foreshadow something i guess

[empty basin]

That's why I brought it up here was to see if anyone knew anything about it, lol

When I first noticed it I thought it was a trait spur so I ran over to grab it

[tiny plover]

Theres a bunch of Google Docs of compiled lore in the Pinned messages if you wanna skim through

Gun Book entries, Monster Book stuff, old event lore (not sure if thats up to date but I think the wiki is), etc

[empty basin]

Ok I will look it up, just like to ask people in here 1st

[worldly sonnet]

That has been there for as long as I can remember. I assume its a zombie movie EE.

[obtuse timber]

Did the statesman’s wife die?

[warm quartz]

Where did you get that?

[obtuse timber]

There is like a locket and he talks about poison a lot

[warm quartz]

What locket? Event's end charm is a clock and there is no indication it belongs to the Statesman

If it did, it would probably have "M" on it's backside

[empty basin]

Unlocked the last entry today. Can fairly say now that overall I enjoyed it

[sharp flare]

Is the Centipede the same person as the Beekeeper?

[rare dirge]

no

[warm quartz]

I've noticed it's second week of the event and we still didn't get discord pact badges

[tiny plover]

And? I mean eww but other than that?

or is that a new loading screen lore bit I havent seen

[warm quartz]

I collect these

[tiny plover]

I see I see

I always get the same old ones Ive seen 2000 Times, makes sense you look for the unique ones lol

[empty basin]

Essence of bounty? Wonder what the benefactor's are doing with that besides poker chips...

[tiny plover]

Whatever the Elites use adrenochrome for

[empty basin]

@tiny plover I always thought it was funny in that scene; "oh you are freaking out on some crazy drug you have never heard of or done before? Here, do some cocaine about it."
😅

[warm quartz]

I think here they call targets the bounties

And things we carry out are the essence

[empty basin]

Oh ok never looked at it like that... Guess I never really thought about what we were extracting, just that it was some sort of "token", but I could have been taking that too literally.

[frozen drift]

Is the statesman dead?

[empty basin]

@frozen drift Not from my understanding of the event story.

Hardin talks about "returning his hat... For now."

[still quest]

I took the time to read all the DLC stories in detail from the Steam pages. Holy shit, they did not hype Witch Hunter enough. The types of witches they dealt with were hell creatures that wore women's skins like Buffalo Bill to disguise themselves. They would lure young girls to their sides so when their current skin suit started to rot, they could skin and devour their little helpers and make a new suit. Circe's sister was skinned alive by one, living just long enough for Circe to find her and she told Circe that the with who skinned her was on her way to Louisiana to find and kill Circe.

[empty basin]

Yeah I never knew much about or what she is about, lol

[warm quartz]

Yes, Circe's family used to hunt witches and witches killed everyone but Circe

[real cedar]

I've got a crack theory that Lynch is the witch. She's got white hair like Circe's sister would and gets described as a witch by the Drowned Rat in Tide of Desolation. There's plenty of ways it could be wrong though, Rat could've just been using it as a phrase rather than a fact, or the description about "the last of the witches" could've been incorrect

[warm quartz]

No, Lynch most probably came out of the forest as a white haired child with a machete

[real cedar]

That part could track too, since we don't know the age of Circe's sister. And then there's the trouble of Collins' work being unreliable - how would he ever know about that story, who would tell it to him?
Overall my theory isn't very concrete but I very much believe it until some new lore disproves it

[upbeat kiln]

I mean.. That's Collins for you. He likes to exagerate 😄

[warm quartz]

In moon lore Circe says that her sister looks exactly like her

So Circe looks for witch wearing her own face

[real cedar]

Hmm yeah that does put a wrench in the theory

I don't want to go "well then clearly this entire story from Collins is entirely made up" cause then you're free to discount any lore you disagree with which is a bad trap to fall in

[granite shard]

for collins it's not generally that the whole story is made up

but that the greater scope of it is true but the details might be fudged

[real dove]

gotta look at his stuff with wide angle lense for sure, can't trust the details too much

[granite shard]

imo it makes his stuff more interesting

I love how them playing into the unreliability allows for deeper analysis

[warm quartz]

It doesn't

It just so they can take whatever lore they want back

[real dove]

I like it just cause it's realistic to me. dude is trying to sell stories- they do the same thing irl "based on a true story"

which, yeah, means you gotta look further into everything but with a grain of salt. idk. I just like the character a lot

[granite shard]

what's the point of having different types of sources in game if not to play up the way those sources are more or less reliable

it's one thing to have a researcher's note going "collins' work should be taken as both utter nonsense and the gospel truth until it comes out one way or the other" and not play that up at all, and then another to actually commit to contradicting things he said

[real dove]

it also like... thats how storys written about real events are too

they aren't 100% accurate

they fluff them

[granite shard]

yeah!

[real dove]

but yeah, like, they say hey it's not to be trusted but can be trusted

[granite shard]

also like it provides a solid framework for them to change things up without it being a true retcon

like hunt was not expected to last six years

[real dove]

yeah

I still think/hope we get a lore book

more than the BOW

with a timeline

gimme the RN's notebook

would LOVE that

[granite shard]

if only

[real dove]

tracing the sculptor over the ages

bunch a little chunks- rubbings from when it appeared in egypt, cavemen drawings, etc

timeline with when they think it appeared

[rotund ferry]

Hey i got a question about this season

So did we get new hunters after the tides of desolation

Did things go back to normal or not really

[real dove]

Not wholly sure I get what you mean. we have 2 new ones with this event- statesman (who shows up during the event in the event writings) and centipede (former Demented turned primal). New hunters as in new non legendaries who are showing up to hunt down bosses/lesser ai?

To me, it sounds like the drowned are what are now keeping the monsters at bay, likely still recruiting new hunters, and i assume not everyone in the legendary group are headed to wherever the next location is

have a hard time imagining reptilian leaving for example

but yes, i think other than many of the legendaries leaving and the drowned now running the show, everything returns to "normal"

but that's my take

[rotund ferry]

The drowned are the rat the thirteen mate oh and the kid

[real dove]

Yeah

[rotund ferry]

So many of the legendary hunters are retiring now

[real dove]

Rat, Kid, pirate

Retiring?

[rotund ferry]

Like leaving

[real dove]

no, they're headed to the new map

[rotund ferry]

New map?

[real dove]

yes

new map coming sometime this year

sounding like it's outwest/in the north

[rotund ferry]

So maybe new bosses

[real dove]

Speculation is colorado or north of that even

possibly

unknown at this time

to me at least

[rotund ferry]

Hopefully a rogue hunter boss

That would be fun

But I wonder if the burnt Marshall is alive or dead in the lore

Because the lore is a little bit confusing

[real dove]

there

there's quite a few ??? status hunters

[rotund ferry]

Hm?

Wym

[real dove]

the death pact shot a bunch at the end of the TOC

during chary's play

[rotund ferry]

…

Ok so the infection spread

But why would some hunters betry I’m trying to understand that

[real dove]

sorry, at work. not sure what you mean. Betray? are we talking about this crrent event, the future, or past ones?

TOC ended with Chary's group, the infernal, getting shot by the death pact, as they wanted to open a portal into the LOD and the death pact didn't want that

[rotund ferry]

Sorry I’m just not cought up with the lore

[real dove]

all good

[granite shard]

the infection seems to have spread through the mosquito that landed on the drowned rat's cheek at the end of the last event

[rotund ferry]

Death pact shot the infernal because they wanted to open a portal to the land of the dead

[real dove]

but it's not said that the legendaries from the inferal are dead so

??? status

[rotund ferry]

So the burnt Marshall could be alive but also could be dead also

[real dove]

Schrodinger's Crispy Man

yes

[rotund ferry]

If he is alive and he opens the portal more dead hunters could rise

[granite shard]

no

the portal to the land of the dead opened through a very specific set of circumstances

the initial portal required:
Mr. Chary (out of commission for the time being)
Rotjaw's cage (used up)
Captain Lafitte's soul energy (burnt up)
Finch's soul energy (could still be used I guess)
The Murmurstone (destroyed)

and then the big fuckup portal required destroying the murmurstone with finch's blood, the last of which was used up when it was shot at the murmurstone

[rotund ferry]

Uhhhhhh

Long story short complicated

Very complicated

Because that seems very confusing

[granite shard]

I mean like it was part of an entire event storyline where things got explained

[rotund ferry]

Did not complete the event sadly

[granite shard]

the story is posted on the wiki

[rotund ferry]

Is there any audio of they story or no

[real dove]

yeah, I know at least TOD Smalls has on her Youtube

I'm sure there are others

just google "Event Name- story"

[granite shard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_hQToaLEg

[real dove]

prolly will get them

[granite shard]

https://huntshowdown.fandom.com/wiki/Tide_of_Corruption_Story

[real dove]

https://youtu.be/K_JgXxl0CJ0?si=_u_gpI99a11f4SjH

Current event story as well

:3

[rotund ferry]

Ty

[real dove]

npnp

[rotund ferry]

But also ngl the lore on drowned kid sad tbh

Man got killed by the butcher

[neat juniper]

skill issue

[rare dirge]

Meh bro kicks ass now

[rotund ferry]

And his head was a pumpkin

[rare dirge]

If you read his hunter description in game the drowned kid kicks ass

He is out there proving his worth and killing anybody that doesn’t acknowledge his worth

Badass

[real dove]

turns out dying was the best thing to happen to him

[rare dirge]

Apparently

[neat juniper]

it's to die for

[rare dirge]

The kid is one of my personal favourites I was devastated when I heard what happened in ToC but when he came back it was hype

[real dove]

pfp accurate to being posting

[rare dirge]

My pfp is just me as the kid

[real dove]

nah, mean gorb

[rotund ferry]

Tbh I like scrapbeak

[real dove]

meant*

Scrappy is cool. Love his design

[neat juniper]

don't doxx me like that

[rare dirge]

Yeah I know I had already typed that before you sent that

[rotund ferry]

The assassin and spider nope

[real dove]

ah gotcha

[neat juniper]

i am huge fan of rotjaw

[real dove]

sames

I like her a ton

[rare dirge]

Huge fan of rotjaw too

[real dove]

she's annoying to fight but i really love her

[rotund ferry]

Rotjaw just a gator

[rare dirge]

She just a lil gator :3

[neat juniper]

i remember how i saw her on first day in the bushes and i just instantly went "A CHILD"

she was so shy back then

you could pet her if tried hard enough

[real dove]

if she snapped at the stars and rumbled and such in game like she did for reptilian, I'd roll up on her and hang out

[rotund ferry]

Were there any hunters that showed no mercy?

[neat juniper]

i think a lot

cain for example

[real dove]

how many gators do you know that have necro-acid powers?

[rare dirge]

The demented pact in the entirety

[rotund ferry]

Reptilian

[real dove]

I WANT her to get a lil paper crown

[neat juniper]

A BIRTHDAY GIRL HAT ON HER BIRTHDAY

[real dove]

YES

[rare dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/petting-aligator-crocodile-gif-25954785

[real dove]

enola snuck into the land of the living

[rare dirge]

Me to rotjaw:

[real dove]

and now gives her little hats

[rare dirge]

Gar sitting there making hats for rotjaw

[rotund ferry]

That pig hunter hiss

Was he the leader of the demented pact

[real dove]

the first time

the second batch it's the Cowl

[rare dirge]

And I’m pretty sure most of them get sealed into the land of the dead right?

Eating whatever it was they were eating

And the beekeeper gets ran over by a boat

Or something like that

[real dove]

the other pacts also seemed to be actively killing them off

in this event

[rare dirge]

Yep

[real dove]

tho centipede was converted

[rare dirge]

Good on her for that one

[real dove]

so could have some former demented turned

[rare dirge]

I’m a lawful man myself but primal > demented

And I’m lawful because the Mountie is literally just me fr fr

[real dove]

fair. I'm team felis

[rotund ferry]

My brain

There is a lot more I need to know about them

What about the person with spikes on his arm

Because in the trailer he died not sure about lore

[real cedar]

The Beast Hunter? He's not mentioned in Tide of Desolation best I can tell, despite being one of the pre-pledged hunters. Trailers can be iffy on lore.

[rotund ferry]

Ah

[rare dirge]

Pretty sure he is mentioned alive in the desolation lore

The trailer isn’t accurate

Seeing as we see the beekeeper also die

And she isn’t y’know dead

[rotund ferry]

I thought she was

[rare dirge]

Ok well yes I’m pretty sure she is dead now but she died to a boat or whatever in the land of the dead not cut by a katana in the land of the living or whatever

Like in the trailer I mean

She didn’t die like that

[rotund ferry]

Ah

She was part of the demented pact so yes

She was dead anyway

And scarecrow also

[granite shard]

scarecrow's demented but not canonically dead

trailers aren't 100% canon

[rotund ferry]

Ah

So technically they are being hunted down rn

[real cedar]

Yeah. If we never hear about them in lore again, it could be safe to assume they died at some point or another, either in the Desolation or the purge. Except Monroe, he seems a little more of a character than the other one-note Demented.

[rare dirge]

I’m sure all the pacts will survive one way or another

With a few members each

We heard about lunar pact and a few other older ones back in tide of desolation

So everyone is still kicking around with their pacts we just ain’t hearing anything from em

[warm quartz]

Law pact rise up

Other pacts are just Felis and Lulu simps

[real cedar]

I wish the Mountie showed up in the storyline, sad that some pre-pledged hunters don't get screentime

[rare dirge]

The Mountie is just me fr fr

I am sad we didn’t hear from him though

[high stone]

It feels like at this point this applies to…everything lol

[real cedar]

Text based lore at least has the assumption of being canon. Whether or not it's accurate to events, it's a fact the words were written down in universe. Trailers on the other hand are more often fluff until proven canon. Like the first Rotjaw trailer to physically show her featured Sheriff Hardin, but you'd be hard pressed to say it's canon that Hardin was the first to discover her and live to speak of it - until some text lore said the same.

[granite shard]

I mean, to an extent yeah. They’re all documents that are written by people with their own biases

[granite shard]

Hardin actually mentioned in the recent event being the one to find her! Trailers still seem to be dubiously canon tho since the tide of desolation one has the demented squad getting wiped

[real dove]

Could have had multiple 'first' encounters- after all, reptilian found her but did not engage. But yeah, cool that they seemed to have made that canon.

[real cedar]

At the very least, Hardin is the one who made the discovery public and claimed credit for it.

[real dove]

Yeah! Dude def comes across as the "I'm sooooo important" type lmao

[granite shard]

Yeah lol. I like how the latest event has kinda played up him being a self important jackass

Like he seems to have no real sense of the greater picture, just what will get him farthest

[real dove]

Hardin: will suck cylinders for ammo and rank

Yeah. I'm hype to see if DOD and the grounded, plus the death, plus the primal all turn on him

Death be traveling with, but I sure doubt they will stay

Sofia not know for liking jerkfaces

[real cedar]

I view it as being a lot more materialist than other hunters, believing that if you just shoot the bad guys hard enough that order will be restored to Louisiana. He's unempathetic to people but has some kind of genuine care for the state of things

[real dove]

Eh, he's not doing it for the greater good to me, he's doing it for him

[granite shard]

Idk, when the death pact was like “hey you probably shouldn’t be killing these people because we really need everyone rn” and he was like “lol. Lmao even. I’d be doing worse if I wasn’t sheriff” it felt really short sighted to me

Plus them going “the whole lynch serum running through is probably is bad” and his “haha I don’t care abt who made the gun I shoot” response

Like I don’t think he’s a complete idiot but I also think he doesn’t really care to think abt the greater supernatural picture

[real cedar]

For sure, that's what I mean by materialist. The one part that makes me think he cares about more than himself is when he describes the Statesman viewing the bayou as the ruins of a previously great place, while Hardin views it as chaos needing order - he still has hope for saving it. Though perhaps that can be viewed as wanting to be the one to save it.

[granite shard]

Yeah I think he wants to be the one to save it bc he wants that power

Both felis and Hardin are incredibly short sighted in the event imo

Anarchy vs authoritarianism

And then the death pact trying to get things back on track bc there’s an actual problem that needs solved

[silver cargo]

how far in the event lore are y'all ?

[real cedar]

Personally I'm like chapter 5 as far as unlocks go but people have released the full thing online

[silver cargo]

interesting

[granite shard]

I’m around halfway through in my own unlocks but I watched the compilation on YouTube

[real dove]

Finished it

:3

[silver cargo]

Note that The Researcher the hunter is not the same Researcher compiling all of the documents we have in the Book of Weapons/Monsters.

This is insane whiplash. Are we sure that's the case? ( going off the pinned document )

[real dove]

Yeah, I'm super curious about the next event now... Drowned are out, Demented are gone, Infernal appear to be dead or mia at the least... Lunar may have merged in with folks and smugglers the same thing... Could just be these same 3. dunno. looking forwards to it frfr

[real dove]

The researcher we have making the BOW and such is in the future. not the hunter.

The person gathering the lore is in our time, looking back on the past

Harold black is mentioned in the lore if that helps

[silver cargo]

understood

[real dove]

be odd to mention yourself\

[real cedar]

Is there something specific that points the researcher to being from our time specifically rather than some time after 1895? I know one of the furthest dated pieces of lore is a 1977 article about graffiti that isn't in the game anymore. Just the idea that the researcher compiled that note in the Louisiana Event dossier?

[real dove]

Honestly, idk if its current time or sometime well after the events in 1895, or what. I only know that the RN is looking back and making notes on a previous encounter with the sculptor

i looked for that "for sure" info but tbh I'm at work and cant dedicate any real time into it

[real cedar]

Thanks for checking 👍 my own notes didn't have anything on it so I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something

[real dove]

yeah. couldnt recall if it's in one of the AMA they did ages ago o what

be cool if they did another of those

[real cedar]

It'd be scary to do another, we've got several years of unanswered questions backed up. I think my primary one would be who the hell are the F.W.B that interview John Victor in the mosin entries.

[real dove]

truf

[warm quartz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAv5nk0Qrfw

Lawful pact video
Hardin gets shot in the first 5 seconds

https://tenor.com/view/sad-trollface-sad-troll-gif-21649584

[warm quartz]

I mean, hunters are killing each other in the bayo anyway
If he kills all the bad apples things are going to get better

[warm quartz]

Untrue, in his interview he first got the still alive ones dead drunk and only then got them dead

If he was really an ashole he'd just go "You're infected goodbye"

[real cedar]

At the same time, burning people who are infected but not turned can't be described as particularly empathetic

[warm quartz]

That might be, but he isn't the "I have the money everyone protect me and do what I want" jerk, he's out there kicking heads and cracking ass

I don't get the big breeches vibe from him

[granite shard]

if he really wanted to bring order to the bayou he could also try and stop hunters from killing each other for no real reason instead of continuing the cycle of essentially mindless violence

[real dove]

@granite shard the lunar, death, drowned, and grounded (under DOD) are our likely group of "hey, we should maybe fix this issue and will need everyone to do so", chuh?

i get than my gal isn't really the most stable

[granite shard]

honestly throughout everything I'd say the grounded have looked at the bigger picture

[real dove]

tho she's cooler than murder cop

fair

[granite shard]

I think they never particularly were against the lunar pact as much as they were against the fact that the lunar pact was also destroying the bayou in an attempt to stop chary

[real dove]

yeah. tho with him gone, id assume they've calmed down

seemed like Drowned have got the lowest chances of whatever is gonna happen with lynch in the future

whenever we get recalled to the swermps

at least kid n rat

[granite shard]

how do you mean?

tbh I feel like the drowned have the potential to be the most impacted by lynch

[real dove]

rat and kid owe there living to her, no?

[granite shard]

yeah

[real dove]

yeah

so

sorry poorly worded

[granite shard]

I guess I'm confused by what you mean by lowest chances lol

[real dove]

they are likely to be turned into hr puppets

[granite shard]

oh yeah

[real dove]

most likely

followed by the lynch innoc folks

assuming some of our naturally resistant crew didnt ever get it

moses (maybe daughter?)

etc

[real cedar]

Is natural resistance still canon?

Moses' bio got changed

[real dove]

did it?

herg

[granite shard]

honestly if they changed him up a bit I wouldn't be too mad

give them a chance to make him more than a fat dumb redneck joke lol

[real cedar]

Yeah, it just says "William Moses, proud proprietor of Moses Poultry, is anything but chicken."

Which is sad cause the previous lore was way cooler

[granite shard]

I'm mixed on the old lore bc natural resistance is neat but it felt like the way they went about it was just a "he's too dumb to be infected" joke as opposed to a meaningful look into what could make people less likely to get infected

[real dove]

yeah. I liked the natural immune

lame. agreed that he should have more of a personality but also

i know plenty of rugged dope redneck folks who are badasses

idk. mixed feelings on that redaction

[granite shard]

I think why I'm fine with it is bc he felt less of "rugged dope redneck who's badass" and more of "the joke is that he's so stupid that he somehow was immune"

idk I think it gives them more room to explore things with him

[real dove]

true. love that he has a daughter now

[granite shard]

and hopefully they'll be able to explore the idea of a natural immunity to the corruption that's not tied to a joke abt a guy being an idiot lol

[real dove]

yeah

Would be cool to have all the Innoculated Pact and the Immune Pacts

maybe not cool

but, in terms of the possibility lynch becomes a big big bad

[real cedar]

It'd be a big change in the history to have enough hunters for an immune pact, currently its assumed every hunter gets the inoculation, isn't it? More likely something new would have to grant sight and resistance rather than it be natural.

[granite shard]

tbh I don't see that being a sort of pact scenario

honestly I wouldn't be surprised to see lynch not have a big role in the next event trilogy

[noble scarab]

fingers crossed the next event deals with the new map

[granite shard]

with the way the story for this event wraps up, there's no question that it's gonna be abt the new map

the spread of the corruption & the backers I think will be the core of the next trilogy's conflict

[real cedar]

I'm torn between wanting it to be southern Oregon or wanting it to be California. I really thought it was going to be more north before I read the story, but all the hints point to those two, especially one vision about trees taller than Sofia has ever seen.

[granite shard]

honestly I have no dang clue where the map's gonna be

we've had stuff pointing to like five different places so it could be the PNW, it could be closer to canada, or it could be in the rockies

[real cedar]

The main clues I think point to California/Oregon is that it's through the desert and past the mountains, and then the trees line. If not for the trees it could be anything even marginally west of the rockies, and if not for the desert it could be more north, as the main railway at the time that heads through the desert leads to California only. The line connecting Louisiana to Colorado or Utah doesn't touch desert unless you go the roundabout way.

[real dove]

I think she will be the reason we come back to Louisiana, I for sure don't think she'll be involved in the next one

[high stone]

PNW might be cool

It’s wet…not that warm, but wet, at least

[high stone]

Do you have an old railway map you’re referencing?

[real cedar]

Honestly I just googled 1890s USA railway maps.

There's several of them in various conditions so I looked over several

[high stone]

Oh ok

[real cedar]

The Union Pacific railway is the one that goes all way from Oregon through California, Arizona, Texas, etc and reaches New Orleans. It also branches north from West Texas up to Colorado, which is the roundabout way I mentioned. So it still could be Colorado, if Sofia has never seen an evergreen before and considers them tall enough to be noteworthy.

[high stone]

Yep

[real cedar]

Grand Mesa Colorado has swamps too, and is technically past the mountains

[high stone]

I keep entering discussions about Hunt being Southern Gothic - Horror (in terms of genre, and the intent for the tone of the art, original music, etc.)…I looked up the Wikipedia entry for it…I forgot how well it fits!

“Aimless violence…fantastic nightmares…religious extremism..hoodoo/voodoo..”

[granite shard]

honestly the southern gothic aspect of things is what got me so interested in the first place

and I'm a bit worried we might lose some of that going west if they try and chase more of the cowboy idea that a lot of the community wants hunt to strictly chase

[real cedar]

I wonder what kinds of folklore elements you can pull from regarding the more western states. It doesn't have the same types of settlers, so you're not getting french gothic or voodoo anymore. Native folklore seems like the one thing they have going for them.

[high stone]

Yeah…I’m a broken record

[high stone]

I think besides the presence of Louisiana Voodoo in LA, i’m not sure there’s that much local folklore in Hunt anyway… the ritual stuff is probably closer to a Lovecraft-style black-metaphysical magic (dangerous and difficult to execute, often with a high price) but we’ll see

[rotund ferry]

I was wondering about lore about meatheads I regret it

[visual finch]

We've all been there, welcome to the club

[high stone]

Was the Sculptor only mentioned in that one letter, before they added it to stuff like The Redneck’s new bio?

[real cedar]

The name was in Spider mastery 5, Crossbow mastery, Nagant silencer mastery, just for some of the early book stuff

Oh shit the Redneck bio got updated with his old lore back 🥳

[high stone]

What? Fr??

[amber harbor]

The sculptor wasnt actually supposed to be its name, but the community took it and ran with it so ig they made it canon and it started showing up in more places

[real dove]

He did!? Hell yeah

Make him the great dad who leads the next pact against Lynch when she becomes an issue in a few events along with his daughter. Maybe this means natural immunity is back?

[icy brook]

The old lore mentioned a sculptor being present in Stillwater in correspondence media, but that was old stuff that’s all retconned now

[real cedar]

Yeah, that letter was interesting for calling it "a sculptor" and talking about how it seems more powerful than normal ones rather than how every further piece of lore now calls it "the Sculptor"

[high stone]

Right, that’s what I remembered

[real dove]

I think they went from multiple versions to 1 that shows up throughout history

which, ngl, I like a bit more. Like humanity has been fighting this thing but not really winning, just repressing it enough for it to be someone else's issue.