#--what is essentially a natural disaster mass extinction event type thing. hes a more sympathetic figure

[beeapocalypse]

the end of chapter 2 WAS very cool and interesting. yelped when the ancestor said he received A Letter (THE LETTER?). i am going to be writhing every single day until the new chapter gets added and the story progressed

#i was a little eh :/ on his characterization initially but it does kind of feel like this is some Other aspect of the man. hes dead now-- #--but the heart of darkness DID use him as a weird avatar thing so even beyond the strange of him maybe communicating after death who the-- #--hell knows what that means. like a different asepct of the same man spoke to the heir who was dealing with atrocities which were-- #--DIRECTLY the ancestors fault as opposed to the prodigy who has a canonical past with the man and is dealing w-- #--what is essentially a natural disaster mass extinction event type thing. hes a more sympathetic figure #<-- is scholar the right title instead for the '''player character''' (VERY loose usage of that term) of dd2? idk #the scholar is slowly growing on me as well. weird cowardly academic who accidentally scoops up perhaps the most-- #--qualified mercenaries to deal w the end of the world and would maybe get pummeled into a pulp if he mentioned the ancestor in a-- #--casual light #like hes telling them abt the iron crown or whatever and says smth like 'oh my mentor [ancestor last name] and i' and immediately-- #--every single mercenary side eyes each other HARD like um. did you hear what he just said. especially funny if the runaway is there too-- #--and has no idea what is going on and why all of the other guys have twelve layers of history w each other #<-- i DO want to write smth playing w that concept. like maybe when the stagecoach travels thru the sluice or they encounter the-- #--antiquarian or whatever just smth with the idea of her being an outsider and seeing+hearing all these things she has no context for #i really do want to like her but she does not have the stellar characterization and dialogue writing of the first game to prop-- #--up the so far weak stuff of the second so it is SO hard to find anything of interest 😔