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« on: December 19, 2016, 09:06:30 pm »
Throwing in some ideas, questions and half-remembered bits and pieces after completing the game myself a couple days ago. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or smirk knowingly if I get close to some kernels of truth. I'd make another thread but honestly, this one has already provided enough food for thought to be worth keepin' around.
Questionwise, how much do we really know about Eidein? From what I recall, basically all the information on him including his identity and reason for finding Tchort all come from the Original Report which is, let's face it, a mishmash of half-truths, obfuscation and outright propaganda. Is "Aiden Travers" ever mentioned anywhere else in-game?
With regards to Tchort itself, while we do get some tangible answers to how precisely it came to be from the Faceless as well as some tantalising motives for why it might not have been as accidental a creation as it first seems(the various logs and emails effectively confirming that many researchers in Hollow Earth were suffering from potentially fatal health complications due to exposure to mutagens, psi-phenomena, etc), but there are still quite a few mysteries surrounding it, particularly if we take the timeline as presented - it would be almost a century between Tchort's probable birth and Eidein's discovery of it, which leaves a rather long period unaccounted for, even if you accept that it would have taken some time for it to reach the state we encountered it in. I also ponder whether it was truly a hivemind as suggested, or if some particularly powerful.... component individual, shall we say, was directing the majority of its actions. This is of course, assuming we can take the evidence in DC at face value.
Other minor ideas that aren't especially relevant at the moment, but may be at some point:
-Six's mobility power is not a simple move-from-A-to-B, but rather a relatively nuanced Temporal Manipulation power that involves moving through both time and space, giving the appearance of instantaneous teleportation. I'm reasonably convinced of this one, especially with the new expansion confirming such a psi-school exists and even seems to have some visual effect similarities. Of course, if this is true, then it could have some rather far-reaching implications on how we view the plot.
-The fact that nobody seems to know(or at least talk about) why the surface was abandoned beyond the vaguest reasons, even individuals with exceptionally long lifespans who really should know SOMETHING, is significant in some way. There may be someone or something intentionally suppressing that information.
-Dude's apparent longevity and insane prescience are the result of a robust fungal diet. Remember kids, eat your greens. And brownish-reds, in this case.
Think that's everything off the top of my head. I got through the Deep Caverns relatively quickly, only a handful of hours, so there's likely little things I've missed, especially since I never returned the Cube to the Faceless.
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