soon may the wellerman come, your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
the reviews are in
soon may the wellerman come, your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
the reviews are in
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.
they used to do nothing to me back in the morally neutral lab. it sucked
you were the control
fuuuuck what were they doing to the other folks #fomo
ALICE: So each of the cases is categorized on four metrics with a standard integer scale, thatโs your DPHW.
GWEN: Okay. Now Iโm pretty sure I need to try and keep them as even as possible.
ALICE: Ok, so, it makes sense that if youโre low on โWโ that means we should probably prioritize processing cases with a higher rank on that metric to bring the average up, right? โฆ So, itโs just a hunch but I bet if we have a look at old cases and then try and sort by โWโ we can find out which cases got the biggest scores in that metric and reverse engineer what you need โฆ Now, unless Iโm wrong, which, letโs be honest, is pretty damn likely, when we cross reference this shortlist for common terms weโll 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 heโs got 2 of the 5 cases ranked as โ8โ 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 weโve 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 itโs at the top...
โฆOr Freddie is lying about whatโs needed, and intentionally trying to send things haywire.
Not too much mercury or the world ends, not too much sulfur or we all go madโฆ
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE TELL MARKIPLIER
no fucking way
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
you are not wrong bestie
in the Pleistocene age when humankind first began to walk upright: knee problems
"Kill them with kindness" WRONG. drop the opera house chandelier on them.