It's actually just me

If you choose to dance with Carl at the barbeque the next day, dropping him for Leo comes up and Chase apologizes :)

Good part of growing up: getting better at being a person

I enjoyed occasionally trying to warn people of the doom I could feel coming, but only occasionally because Mystic can feel the futility of it. I felt a resigned commitment to facing whatever would come next. I felt content throwing myself on Charlie Jr's courtroom altar because Something was going to happen to me here and it might as well be this, something purposeful and cleansing, instead of whatever slaughter my evil cousin was leading my lamb ass to. Not that it spared me that. But I won't know that, and besides, I Gotta get the line again where I tell Tabitha that Wayne seems nice and she's like, "??? No wonder you got years of your life stolen by a ghost."

I will make more of an effort to have Avery around, now that I know visiting them at the diner on morning 2 won't interfere with anything else. And then I can keep inviting them places and we can bond over our shared carelessness with our respective lives.

I'd like to have Stella not turning up by the end of day 4 again because the next morning she wasn't at home, wasn't with Tabitha, and I want to know where the hell she went. I'll probably have to aim for that on purpose because it only ever happened once in my 9ish playthroughs, implying it's very easy for it to not happen. I think it needs dead Gretchen, scarcely talking to and/or having a bad relationship with Tabitha so she doesn't help, and maybe also the library un-haunted so you don't run into Pixel working with the dog vigilantes who may or may not guide you to Stella even if you can't talk to animals.

This characterization would conflict with trying to leave town and getting ditchling'd, but I can always do that another time. It would be a fun lens through which to first encounter endgame events, but circumstances can be so different from run to run that doing it in a different life would probably still give me tantalizing implications that I can only investigate properly by going back and not getting ditchling'd.

(I enjoyed the narrative i got on the run where I tried to leave. Immediately before that attempt I'd gone looking for Oscar and found him outside the still-haunted library, looking towards it wistfully and going on about how despite everything he Needed To Get At That Rock. And as a mystic I'd totally get that, being also resignedly compelled by forces more powerful than me, but as someone who was still vainly hoping to disentangle it felt like as good an opportunity to go, "Actually, fuck this whole doomed-ass town," and try to bail.)