The dark gods helped chart their (Rose and Dave's) course through this spacetime maze to deliver them to this location, at this time. Take that for what you will.
I didn't even think about it, but that's one of the biggest revelations of all. Recall this conversation, when the plan was made-
TT: You're going to have to help them.
TT: Even if you don't like them.
TT: They're being massacred.
TT: Presently, already, and still to come.
TG: whats that mean
TT: It means time doesn't work rationally out there.
TT: Nor does space.
TT: But that doesn't change the reality of the threat.
TG: who cares if theyre getting killed
TG: theyre hideous and obnoxious
TT: You're underestimating the nature of the threat.
TT: At this point, the threat isn't to our session, or any given universe.
TT: It's to the perpetuation of reality itself.
TT: You wouldn't be saving them, per se.
TT: You'd be saving everything.
The more they elaborated on the nature of the
Green Sun, the more it gives the impression that the Gods of the Furthest Ring were just bystanders to all this commotion, denizens of empty space being caught up in a bigger problem. And the assumption I made was that it was the
Green Sun itself that was killing them. The Gods were helping the players destroy the
Green Sun so it would stop destroying them, since as mindblowingly huge as the Gods are supposed to be, a flaming ball of gas twice the mass of a universe would probably do the trick.
Whether or not any of that is true, it's not even an assumption that the Gods didn't intend for the players to
create the
Green Sun when and where they did. Hussie's straight up saying that's what happened, even if the reason is open to interpretation.
So, with all that in mind, what's their angle? What do they want, and what do they know that no one else does? Are they somehow in league with Lord English? Are they trying to stop him from destroying universes by incredibly circuitous means? Is Lord English
not the threat to the perpetuation of reality? Or, as Lovecraftian gods of darkness are want to do, did they just lie to Rose and make her think she'd be saving reality, when ending existence is exactly what they want?
So, he fled the session through one of the only ways available, by riding a meteor through a portal back to Earth. The meteor was the one host to the frog ruins, and he tucked himself in the same time capsule the White King did not too long ago.
Oh. Okay, still seems weird to me that Jack could enter a capsule specifically described as only being able to open at certain times, but at least we cleared that up.
All of Act 5 could be subtitled “Jack Noir Kills Everybody” and that’s pretty much the guiding principle I had in structuring it from the start. Jack Noir has killed every major character, in one way or another (with maybe a few exceptions, like PM), including the entire population of two universes.
In one form or another, he has killed pretty much everyone except Jade and Aradia, twice for John, and a few minor characters. I'd put together a list, but why bother. That is pretty awesome when you think about it.
As the black queen of Derse, her basic role is to oppose creation. She wars with Prospit, and stands in the way of the heroes who seek to create a universe. Since she was exiled from the session, she could no longer fulfill that role. So she was offered another way, by Doc Scratch, in an agreement of mutual interest. Since she couldn’t oppose the creation of a new universe, she could facilitate the destruction of another.
That actually clears up a lot of lingering questions I had. Who and what is was Snowman, and why was the existence of Alternia's universe tied to her existence? A
Wizard Cueball did it.
Scratch gave the queen the powers of Snowman, and bound her life in some mysterious way to the troll universe itself (turning the typically red blood of a queen to blue, the color signifying that universe). Which is of course, another giant frog much like the one Jack killed, which we have never seen from the outside.
Either Hussie doesn't remember pictures he posted forty hours ago, or he just confirmed that the tadpole in the 8-ball in the volcano on mini-LoFaF (in a hole in the bottom of the sea) is
not the Alternia universe. That means there's something else in that tadpole, and another session out there
somewhere that made Alternia. Strap yourselves in boys and girls, we're going for a ride.
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