

gremlin wife
Finally I am caught up on the metaplot, and Dev's stuck on the soul projection thing just like everyone else, lol


cacopheny
finally someone I can kind of reply to /tosses Soldat at that with their dead-soul-person experience

cacopheny
they basically assume they're in a disposable temp body that gets remade again when they die


gremlin wife
Dev's not sure if he likes that more or less than astral projection

cacopheny
nah see worst of both worlds: their original bodies are back in their worlds, AND they got dumped into new ones until they're done voidtraveling! so it's both

gremlin wife
COOL GREAT THANKS SOLDAT

gremlin wife
realizations no one else will get: the train is a Soulcatcher that somehow can magically generate new Shells for its passengers!!!

gremlin wife
(I've been reading a really interesting sci Fi romance novel series)

☕ Aro ➽
book deets plz

Gloomurai
I'm trying to keep up and just... i feel every time I feel I got it, something else pops up and im like 'where the fuck did that come from?'

gremlin wife
what's gor you stumped,
Gloomurai
? I'm sure someone can provide some cliff's notes if necessary

Revenge Guac
/slides in here for cliffs notes purposes

Revenge Guac
I occasionally have "wait what's the metaplot" issues, so I'm happy to help if I can

gremlin wife
I'd hoped you might stop by x3

sherreon
I will also assist where I can


Gloomurai
I think the last one i was like 'wat?' on was mention of perma death?

Gloomurai
the general idea, if i read right in general is; soul copies that been pulled onto stations/the train, though the train isn't acting like a void craft/whatever is supposed to, so the tethering isn't got all its normal points, and they not sure why its acting this way

Revenge Guac
I think there's some contention as to whether it's soul copies or whether it's "your consciousness is here, your body back where you came from is comatose" - IDK that we've gotten a full answer for that one yet

sherreon
Not a copy, it is their soul/essence/whatever. And normally their bodies are placed somewhere safe first before tethering, creating a better 3 point contact. Characters have 2 point contacts because their bodies are unaccounted for

Revenge Guac
but yeah, the long and short of it is, everyone still has a three-point tether; the train just didn't go through the normal processes, so it's not as stable as it would've been had they been official tethers

Revenge Guac
(the car that you build in a cave with a box of scraps may still run, but it's not as stable as the one assembled by professionals.)

Revenge Guac
the only case of permadeath we've had was an NPC - someone from the same world as the train (which is gone, presumably eaten by darkness) on their own voidcraft. the voidcraft was destroyed, and even though they were physically okay, when the craft went down, so did they.

Gloomurai
ah ok ok, thank you

Revenge Guac
(which was our first indication of Oh Fuck We Are Bonded To This Train)

Revenge Guac
no problem
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Gloomurai
i swear my brain just doesn't retain meta stuff in games, despite my best efforts to try and learn them

Revenge Guac
ngl that's one of the main reasons I don't have one of my mains in the game

Revenge Guac
because he'd pull at the metaplot until it came apart and I just cannot keep up with that

Revenge Guac
so I feel you there

Gloomurai
I'm so far keeping my one who would just with his head down and like 'nope, busy, not listening' but thats also due to not really knowing his story yet.... so /shrug

Gloomurai
got possible theories he could have something to do with souls? So i dont wanna comment on anything without knowing wtf is going on with him

gremlin wife
oh man that has the potential to be really cool depending on how his canon develops

gremlin wife
also
☕ Aro ➽
here's the series I mentioned