I'm assuming the Rift happens about the point where Jack initiates the reckoning. "The Rift" is probably the point where the game gets broken, diverging from the standard way it's supposed to be played?
Something like that.
It's affecting the trolls, too, hence their trolling campaign, evidently to get the kids to not royally screw up everything.
We don't really know what it is, though, aside from a few tidbits the trolls give. But it sure sounds ominous, doesn't it?
I recently went on an archive binge as well. I am now an expert on this comic.
The Rift is the meteor belt between the Medium and Derse. It's where the meteors for the Reckoning come from.
No no no, that's the Veil. You wouldn't know the Medium from the Incisphere if it kicked you in the face. And I know you edited your post but I still want to make this joke.
Tavros can't see Jade's future past The Rift, not past her dreambot exploding.
Whatever The Rift is.
Isn't that when Skaia goes Hell bent for leather after 24 hours and hurls the entire Veil into Earth to protect itself? Maybe they can't see past that because the fuckhuge meteor looming over Jade's place means there won't be an Earth around for them to look at?
No no no, that's the Reckoning. The Rift is something else entirely that we have not yet seen. But I guess it tears all of Paradoxspace a new one, hence it also affecting the trolls.
Oh. Right.
I wonder if her laptop thing was destroyed when the tower blew up. Because either that meteor is a few seconds away from squishing her (again) or it's very far away and is much bigger than expected.
Yeah, it's enormous. Took me a while to realize that Becquerel is staring at it past Jade's tower at the end of Descend.