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[moveslikestrider]

Dave: Get your damn gear.

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[moveslikestrider]

when you die normally
you can get revived with just a kiss
the dream body takes over in that case
but if killed and placed on your quest bed or you know die on it
your dream body ascends becoming the godtier self and you continue on

the secret is
the second quest bed and the dream body
theres another location besides the main battlefield and the planets
the moons the dream bodies are on
within each moon is the other quest beds
if the dream body dies on it
even if you already died once
you ascend anyway
thats something we found out the hard way
so i can back that up

[freshprints]

Does that mean you died twice in your session?

[moveslikestrider]

shit you caught onto that one fast
nothing really gets past you does it
yeah i did
didnt think you could but then i accidentally went godtier and here we are

[freshprints]

And if you didn't know that you could, that means you must've spent at least part of the game thinking you never would — the portion after you'd died the first time, but before you ascended anyway.

...

How did it happen? The times you died.

[moveslikestrider]

[...]

[moveslikestrider]

i spent most of the game operating on a different plan than the rest
my aspect is time
that means i have to obey whats already going on
the time loops

[freshprints]

You knew your destiny and couldn't change it. Is that what you mean?

[moveslikestrider]

[It takes several minutes before he answers.]

the whole business of timeloops is you have to complete the loop
if you dont then it becomes incomplete and any loops you made before that could become meaningless
meaningless loops are quickly cleaned up because time is fickle
no
its very precise
what it doesnt need it gets rid of
thats why overthinking it is a bad idea

[freshprints]

[Clearly one or several nerves have been struck here.]

Divergence from the path of the loop. Dead worlds are cleaned up by being eliminated; it stands to follow that a meaningless loop, then...

[...]

I understand.

For every choice, there was the potential for an elimination.

[moveslikestrider]

[...

Yeah it's a bit of a nerve that got hit here.]
the more loops you form in a chain
the more potential that one incomplete will collapse the whole thing
and possibly everyone else with it
the mistakes actually happen
you just dont see them in action because theyre alternates of the alpha timeline
to prevent the alpha from being doomed they give warnings
but any shift from the original loop leads to the death of the timeline that is no longer the alpha
and sorry sucker giving the warning

[freshprints]

And you're the alpha.

Ergo, you've encountered a fair amount of suckers as warnings, haven't you.

[moveslikestrider]

yeah i have
the bodies stick around and thats pretty upsetting to people so i had to dispose of them
but the first sucker is still around he just became something else and we became two different people
the thing is
being the alpha
being a doomed one
none of that actually means a thing
im just the one that survived

[freshprints]

Dead bodies have never bothered me much.

But then, I've never had to dispose of my own.

[moveslikestrider]

i bothered me at first
but once you see it once its pretty boring
it wouldnt be like that for jade rose and john

so i got rid of them


[But it's not everything.]

[freshprints]

Is that how it is all the time? You're the one tasked with protecting the others because someone has to do it, and it might as well be you. Because you're the one with the resilience to handle it.

Or maybe it's just that someone's given you that job anyway, so there's not much you can do except fulfill it.

[moveslikestrider]

its a bit of both

[freshprints]

That's fairly lonely, isn't it?

[moveslikestrider]

its not like it could be helped
i had to keep going or it would doom everyone else
no matter what i just had to deal with it

[freshprints]

That doesn't actually answer the question, you know.

[moveslikestrider]

sure it does
what i felt about it doesnt matter

[freshprints]

...

It does to me.

[moveslikestrider]

[...]
it sucked
and at the end i couldnt even tell jade she was going to shoot me
because if i had id have just dragged her into a doomed timeline

[freshprints]

Was it an accident? You don't make it sound like she did it on purpose.

[moveslikestrider]

she tried to shoot something that warps space
so
it redirected the bullets
dont think i need to go into details

[freshprints]

And she didn't know that would happen, or she never would've taken the shot in the first place.

But you did know, and couldn't do anything about it. So in the end it's not just that you had to die, but that you had to do it at the hands of a friend who never would've hurt you if she'd known, but who couldn't have known even though you had the power to tell her, because things were preordained to end up that way and trying to spare her from it would've gotten her killed for the trouble right along with you.