#Existence of the OLD_DATA do NOT interact. /j

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I am once again thinking about how the Scrybes interacted with each other through all the various game mechanics. Like, the whole general plot of the game is that they are constantly fighting over what tone the overall game will portray and yet they simultaneously don't seem too interested in fully cutting each other out of the stories in order to push their own stories to the forefront.

We only really got a peek into PO3 and Leshy's storylines so I can't speak on Grimora or Magnificus but in both of their campaigns, they introduced aspects of the other scrybes' gameplay. Leshy brought each of them specifically into the game as beasts so that they could be a part of it, even going as far to bring Grimora's usage of bone tokens. Meanwhile, PO3 goes as far to implement aspects of each scrybe's mechanics into the gameplay with the beast power ups for Leshy, the Frankenstein/death power-ups for Grimora, and the use of gems for Magnificus.

I find this particularly fascinating considering how it contradicts the entire storyline and it adds a strange and honestly kind of sad layer to the Scrybe's relationships to each other. It was clear they at least acknowledged and possibly even admired certain aspects of each other's campaigns and there was genuinely potential for it to go better.

Maybe if they were less stubborn and weren't as focused on bending the story to their own genre and their own genre's alone and creating a story exactly as they envisioned it, then maybe things could have gone better? Maybe they could have worked together and made a cohesive story and used each other's creativity to add little spikes of their own flair to it? Maybe they could have found a way to create something that they were all satisfied with and could have successfully finished their story with each other rather then the ending that we were given?

In the end, though, it's what makes the game all the more tragic. They could have worked together but they were stubborn and because of that, none of them could achieve exactly what they wanted.

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