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Luka's Broken Bow

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Alxeander J Newall and his strange need to trapp characters voiced by himself in their own house for days on end to survive on peaches.

I THINK I FIGURED OUT THE NEW ENTITIES SYSTEM IN TMAGP.

I haven't seen any other fan theories like this, but if anyone else thought of this first, please let me know.

Anyways, alchemy obviously plays a big part in the magic system of the protocol universe. And I've seen several people bring up that Celia mentioned the three primes of alchemy. Based on my very non-expert google knowledge, the three primes are salt, mercury, and sulfur. Salt represents the body, mercury represents the mind, and sulfur represents the soul.

In other words, physical horror, psychological horror, and existential horror. There are three fear entities in this universe; Salt, which is fear relating to the body/physical harm, Mercury, which is mental/emotional fears, & Sulfur, which is existential fears. This lines up pretty well with what Colin said:

This time, the way to keep the entities from entering our world is to keep them balanced. And based on what we've seen, the way to keep the balance is probably by sacrificing people to them.

This next part is a bit of a stretch & I don't expect it to be right. Something interesting I noticed, all the Externals we've met so far seem to be Salt-coded. Maybe the OIAR is only in charge of the salt part of the balance? What if the Hilltop Center and the Magnus Institute were in charge of the other two elements? Colin didn't mention what happens when there's too much salt, but we might see that for ourselves soon.

if i had a nickel for every time i listened to alexander j newall voice a character who had to survive on peaches, iโ€™d have two nickels, which isnโ€™t a lot, but itโ€™s weird that it happened twice, right?

ALICE: So each of the cases is categorized on four metrics with a standard integer scale, thatโ€™s your DPHW.
GWEN: Okay. Now Iโ€™m pretty sure I need to try and keep them as even as possible.
ALICE: Ok, so, it makes sense that if youโ€™re low on โ€œWโ€ that means we should probably prioritize processing cases with a higher rank on that metric to bring the average up, right? โ€ฆ So, itโ€™s just a hunch but I bet if we have a look at old cases and then try and sort by โ€œWโ€ we can find out which cases got the biggest scores in that metric and reverse engineer what you need โ€ฆ Now, unless Iโ€™m wrong, which, letโ€™s be honest, is pretty damn likely, when we cross reference this shortlist for common terms weโ€™ll find out what Freddy thinks you need and that... is... more... Bonzo?

Loving finally getting a breakdown for why DPHW is important, here.

Now I, like the utter nerd I am, have been tracking the DPHW of each case on a spreadsheet, and therefore was able to do some quick sorting just like Alice. Bonzo is definitely our highest W scorer of the lot โ€“ heโ€™s got 2 of the 5 cases ranked as โ€œ8โ€ on that metric, though he tends to score pretty high on P and H as well.

However.

We are not low on W. When you add up the total DPWHs of every case weโ€™ve gotten so far, you get:

D โ€“ 136 (average score 3.2)

P โ€“ 148 (average score 3.5)

H โ€“ 210 (average score 5.0)

W โ€“ 218 (average score 5.2)

W is the highest metric. So either it needs to be the highest, and the balance only works if itโ€™s at the top...

โ€ฆOr Freddie is lying about whatโ€™s needed, and intentionally trying to send things haywire.

Not too much mercury or the world ends, not too much sulfur or we all go madโ€ฆ

ppl in the age of cell phones: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of books: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of textile art: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of picking lice: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of cooking: fucking up their necks

in the age of keyboards: carpel tunnel

in the age of writing by hand: carpel tunnel

in the age of squeezing water out of wet clothes after cleaning them by hand: carpel tunnel

in the age of using hand-sized stone tools: carpel tunnel

in the Pleistocene age when humankind first began to walk upright: knee problems

norris. why are you reading a case about being trapped in a room and having nothing but peaches to eat.

got emotional seeing an eiffel-like man out with his young, extremely frizzy-haired daughter. likely a symptom of some disorder

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