>>16975053It was sort of hinted at in Ch. 6 Pt. 2 yet it's never come up at all, a subsystem I've had since the beginning where I expected Anon to get plastered.
In the beginning, there was an invisible roll to determine how things in the world were. Out of every option ranging from nothing at all to cataclysmic tension, a relatively tame 2 out of a potential 6 was rolled. There's a world state that's directly tied to how things have gone so far in the story; while Anon can die, he's not the only one, nor is death/a bad end the only outcome to losing. Right now, this is still the best possible outcome, because despite everything, Anon's managed to come out on top of all of his encounters that really, truly mattered. There's a world out there where Polka had her heart pierced with her own sword, where Marine was knocked off her ship in a final desperate action to defend himself and went splat on the pavement below, where Noel was ran through. Where Mio really did lose her fucking mind due to crippling isolation in a world with a far bloodier history. But those are all what-ifs.Board's really going fast again.
