Hiya, fellas. Thank you all for your well-wishes. It might startle you to learn that I write a lot, especially where my quest is concerned, and some of my answers to your questions are very long. In an effort not to stay up until a stupid hour of the morning answering every single one of them, I will address them in a 100% arbitrary order over the next couple days, and then I'll do my final little essay at the end. Sound good? Let's start.
>>6337064>>6337007>What would have happened if we didn't flub that last roll?>i want to know what wouldve happened if that last roll had been a 2If the Recharlottizer 2.0 had been successfully built,
Charlotte would've been returned to the world in really bad shape, her mind mangled by ~50-70 years of void exposure / total nonexistence. I would've determined the specifics as I wrote it, but she would've had serious memory loss and likely further brain damage. Gil would've accepted this and spent the following years rehabilitating her as much as he could, paralleling how she took the time to rehabilitate him years ago (also Real Ellery's rehabilitation). It would've been ambiguous if he ever succeeded, and, even if he did succeed, how their relationship might've changed-- I imagine it might've taken on a paternal aspect, since Gil in the final epilogue scene is 75+ and Charlotte would still be 23, if not mentally much younger. In this way, the Recharlottizator failing is the more "romantic" ending, even if it leaves it unclear whether the two actually reunite. Deciding that is an exercise for the reader.If Charlotte wasn't consigned to complete nonexistence (i.e., if you guys chose merely death or merely memory loss),
I would've still rolled for Recharlottization, and if it succeeded, Charlotte would've returned in better condition. (She'd have memory loss but less brain damage if you picked memory loss, and she'd be close to usual if you just picked death.) The trade-off here, of course, is that she'd return to an imperfect world, one where she wasn't able to help everybody she promised to help-- and she'd have to have that on her conscience for the rest of her life. Also, certain actions you took raised your Recharlottizator chances (e.g. That Guyifying Real Ellery), and if you skipped those because you had to make trade-offs, you might've flubbed your roll even harder than you did, and with less to show for it. So don't feel bad about the path you chose-- it was certainly the most heroic one. 