>>6031586>Charlie's original reference pic had her with a much less round faceYes, that was my early-early design for her, back when she was Ellery's ex-girlfriend and more one-dimensionally 'mean girl.' I switched it to picrel during the planning process over the summer, and you can see that it's a lot closer to the modern design (though obviously I've taken liberties, lol).
>Also Arledge was a character in original drowned which I keep forgetting.Yes! A major one! He hung out with Ellery for almost the whole quest... though they have yet to meet in Redux. Maybe someday.
Upon rereading, Eloise was very wary of Arledge in OG Drowned in the same way she's wary of Monty now-- I guess they must've patched things up in the intervening 3 years? >Also Richard used to talk with a weird underline.Yes, I scrapped that because it needed a text generator and it would've been a total PITA to do that for every one of his lines. I'm extremely happy I did, lol.
>Also how did Ellery resolve the situation with Foursarre and the crab research facility? Seemed like a sticky situation.Ellery """resolved""" the situation in the most classic Ellery way possible, which was to accidentally drop between timelines mid-experiment,
wind up in the body of Redux Ellery, and subsequently get crushed into "being" Redux Ellery, memories and all. This is why he's so confused in the epilogue, and why his manse is so screwed up in Thread 2, though it effectively has zero bearing on the rest of the quest (since he "is" Redux Ellery, for all intents and purposes). What happened to the "real" Redux Ellery? Either he got killed by the transfer (and OG Ellery died in his timeline), or he got dumped into OG Ellery's body and the same thing happened. It doesn't really matter. The important thing is that OG and Redux are in different timelines, which conveniently accounts for all inconsistencies between their characters and setting. :^)