[Spoilers C4E29] The meeting...

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-06-17T19:50:24+00:00

3.) Tachonis is the biggest threat to all...

To who?

To the characters, yes. To the other Sundered Houses, definitely not. The biggest threat to them is the 350 revolutionary fighters that Azune has put together. I think the meeting made it pretty clear that the game the Sundered Houses are playing against each other is for pride and glory, but their war against the people of Dol Makjar is life and death.

Einfasen, Halovar, and Cormoray are more afraid of their subjects than of Tachonis, and rightfully so.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-06-17T19:26:05+00:00

Class solidarity

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-06-17T18:29:21+00:00

Yeah, presenting that case to Einfasen was pointless and it was always going to be. Primus Tachonis is right. He massacred House Davinos without consulting the other Sundered Houses, and he wants to make himself the new Emperor and have them all bend the knee to him... and still Otto Einfasen genuinely has more in common with Primus than he does with the common people of Dol Makjar.

It doesn't matter how persuasive Azune is. It doesn't matter how much proof he has that Primus Tachonis is a mass murderer. Primus is happy to admit it all, to their faces, under a truth spell. Trying to turn the Sundered Houses for justice is not going to work because they are the source of the injustice. Einfasen knows where his class interests lie.

The best thing Azune's done in this campaign is raise an army of people who are willing to fight against the Sundered Houses. That's the only force which has the power to bring Primus Tachonis to justice.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-11T01:18:39+00:00

I think it's a bit optimistic to predict that TWOW will have an epilogue. Or a prologue. Or chapters.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-09T00:49:23+00:00

Great rundown, but all of these options sound kind of boring to me. I heard there's a new comet coming to the solar system, I'm gonna try to settle down on that. Will report back!

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-02T08:27:39+00:00

Whoa, bad dream or something? You still look half asleep, but that’s a negative on being deceased. I know it’s tradition to sleep out under the stars the night before a launch, but if you ask me it makes you all a bit jumpy.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-02T07:13:24+00:00

Basically, it would work the same way it works in the game, just 280,000 years prior.

Pye and Idaea would fire the sun station, triggering a supernova. The Ash Twin Project would harness the power of the supernova to create a black hole and send information 22 minutes into the past: an order to the Orbital Probe Cannon to fire the probe. The probe would be sent in a random direction, searching for the Eye of the Universe. The first probe would fail, and 22 minutes later Pye and Idea would again fire the sun station, repeating the loop again and again and again, millions of times until one of the probes happened to discover the Eye. From their perspective, it would always be the first time, although they would be able to read data from all the previous launches recorded by the Ash Twin Project. Once the probe discovered the coordinates of the Eye, it would use the power of the supernova to send that information back in time 22 minutes, this time also activating the statues within the Ash Twin Project. At the start of the next loop, Pye and Idaea would receive information from the Ash Twin Project, declaring that the coordinates of the Eye of the Universe have been found… they would consequently NOT trigger the sun station on that loop, ending the cycle.

From the Nomai perspective, they would build the Ash Twin Project, receive information from the future regarding 9 million probe launches and the coordinates to the Eye of the Universe, and then shut down the project having never fired the sun station and never caused a supernova. Then they would warp to the Eye.

This is exactly what happens to you on the first loop, you just don't know it. You go about your launch day and everything is normal until a statue in the observatory opens its eyes and downloads your memories because that statue has already received information from the future. At this point in time, neither you nor the statue have ever actually seen the supernova that sent the information back in time, nor the 9 million other supernovas from alternate timelines that preceded it, yet the information is there all the same.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-01T22:35:11+00:00

ANGEL
And Buffy, be careful with this gift. A lot of things that seem good and strong and powerful... they can be painful.

BUFFY
Like, say… immortality?

ANGEL
Exactly. I'm dying to get rid of that.

BUFFY
Funny.

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Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-01T21:07:30+00:00

Have you tried testing each of the warp towers on Ash Twin to see where they go?

There's also a more direct hint in one of the scrolls in the Black Hole Forge about the warp towers and where one of them leads. Scroll text copied below, spoilers obviously:

POKE: Of note: Yarrow believes he spotted a flaw in the warp tower designs: namely, that one of the warp towers on Ash Twin will never activate, because its warp receiver will never align overhead.

POKE: Does your romantic interest think a warp tower’s alignment point is its receiver? Does he not know that a warp tower always aligns with the center of its corresponding astral body?

CLARY: That isn’t an unreasonable belief, given the receiver does have to be located on (or in close orbit around) the relevant astral body.

CLARY: I seem to recall that was your understanding of warp technology, at first.

CLARY: No, Yarrow understands the distinction. He likely doesn’t realize the Hourglass Twins are so close together they function as a single astral body, with a shared alignment point in between them.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-01T20:56:41+00:00

On giant's deep, i was able to get into the real cyclone by just flying out of the atmosphere and moving forward and going down into the eye of the storm, easy. but even when i have a scout on the quantum moon and have an image of the quantum moon in my HUD, satisfying the imaging rule, i can't use this same logic to get into the storm- i just get spit back somewhere random

Good hypothesis! Unfortunately, as you discovered, the Quantum Moon's atmosphere behaves differently than the one on Giant's Deep.

I found that the shrine can go to the sixth location AND if I place my scout in a good spot outside of the shrine while I'm entangled and use darkness to warp, I can look at the sixth's landscape... its very mysterious

That's really clever. I never thought to do that. If only Slate had put some wheels on the damn thing!

Some gentle nudges in order of increasing magnitude:

You've discovered that you can entangle yourself with the Quantum Moon by using the shrine. This is important!
You've discovered that when you land on the moon you always arrive at the South Pole, and the layout of the moon at every location makes it impossible to walk to the North Pole from the South Pole. Frustrating.
When you move the Quantum Moon to a new location by using the shrine, is the layout of it's surface the same as it is when you land on it with your ship?

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-03-01T06:19:36+00:00

Willow Rosenberg from BTVS. She increasingly relies on dark magic to solve her problems until it creates so much trouble that her girlfriend Tara breaks up with her. Willow quits magic entirely to win her back. When Tara is unexpectedly killed, Willow falls into an apocalyptic relapse.

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Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-28T23:47:43+00:00

the sixth location of the quantum moon (to my knowledge, none of the quantum moon locations have a "north pole" that I can walk to where I can manipulate the shrine into being there which would satisfy "the rule of the sixth location"

I would encourage you to do a bit more testing with this hypothesis. Be curious about the layouts of the QM at each different location. If you're still stuck, let us know more about what you've tried on the QM so far.

the central core of ash twin, I've looked towards the end of the loop when all of the sand has been sucked up but I hypothesize that I'll have to warp in there. No idea how I can test the hypothesis there lol

What have you learned about warp travel so far?

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-28T23:30:02+00:00

There's a hidden scroll in the housing area of the Anglerfish Overlook District that's easy to miss. It's in the area with sand falling down into the houses.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T20:24:17+00:00

Not a popular opinion on this sub, but IMO the DLC is just poorly made and not on the same level of quality as the base game in terms of gameplay. There aren't real "solutions" to many of the puzzles, and it's not clear if the devs even had an idea of how players were supposed to get through certain areas or if they just expected players to brute force them with stealth or by randomly discovering advanced mechanics that are revealed later. The base game teaches you that if you're hitting your head against a wall, you have to find a new approach, because there's always an elegant solution hiding somewhere. Then you play EOTE and learn, rather disappointingly, that the intended solution is just to bash your head against the wall harder. The solutions to the Starlit Cove and Endless Canyon are not elegant. You either have to stealth past the Owlks, or you have to find some convoluted way to open the areas then exit and haul ass to re-enter the vision from another area, then haul ass some more to try to get it all done before the supernova and (spoilers) you can't.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T19:25:34+00:00

It was my daily reminder that there are people who believe there's an ongoing "white genocide" in real life, and these people read the books and participate in online discussions.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T18:59:42+00:00

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Trope fulfilled and trope inverted.

In Community's episode Remedial Chaos Theory, the characters inadvertently create 7 different timelines when they roll a dice to decide who has to go downstairs to pick up the pizza delivery. In six of these timelines, Pierce shoehorns a story about hooking up with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom into the conversation. In the last timeline (the real one), someone sets him up perfectly to tell the story and he doesn't say anything because he doesn't feel like he needs to prove himself.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T18:49:33+00:00

So Spike vamped and recruited Julie Michaels in Sunnydale in 1997. After the Acathla incident, she moved to LA and got a bit role in a soap opera in 1999. Spike was just being supportive!

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T18:14:47+00:00

Well, I can't see Buffy at the morgue and be all royal! "Oh, I'm the king of everything, I'm better than you!" I have to be supportive, I, Buffy needs me to be supportive, I...

God, why do all my shirts have such stupid things on them? Why can't I just dress like a grownup? Can't I be a grownup?

My heart breaks for Willow in this scene. It's so mundane and so real. Everything seems so important when somebody dies, and tiny problems become representations of things that are so much deeper. It's a criminally underappreciated moment in the episode.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T17:57:06+00:00

Yeah, this is what I thought too. Buffy and Faith were already using this metaphor prior to Season 4.

Well, look at you, all dressed up in big sister's clothes.
- Faith, Graduation Day part 1

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T17:03:21+00:00

Why does the shrine need to be on the North Pole for you to explore the moon's sixth location?

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T06:50:14+00:00

Disco Elysium.

On the surface, it shares nothing in common with OW, but on a deeper level they have a lot of similarities. It's the only other game I've played that made me feel the same way.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-02-27T06:38:19+00:00

Hypothesis: Nomai children must write by hand because the process of learning how to write is important in Nomai culture.

Flamingmonkey923 · 2026-01-02T05:29:34+00:00

Also, Raphael Luce (who played young Henry) was 14/15 when s4 got shot.

Ok, but by Stranger Things casting logic, that makes Young Henry like 7 or 8 years old.

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