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2000, Cristalina, Rezende.

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SIGH NO MORE: ACT ONE

jefferson: what did i miss?

hamilton: the entire first act...

jefferson (whispering in french accent): or did i?

hamilton: what

Okay so Sburb just got launched, and that’s probably the menu, with appropriately house-themed cursor. In the left corner we have what looks like the camera controls, and then we have a few options : SELECT, REVISE, DEPLOY, PHERNALIA REGISTRY, GRIST CACHE, EXPLORE ATHENEUM and ALCHEMY EXCURSUS

Okay, so I’m gonna go on a limb and say that select, revise and deploy are actions commands which are pretty straight forward, revise being the trickiest one, but I think it might just be a “edit” button. Edit what now, I’ve got no fucking ideas

Phernalia registry, the symbol is a captchalogue modus and I think it might have something to do with the old word Paraphernalia, which means “collection of equipment”, from ancient greek pherne, the dowry. Did I ever mention I like etymology ? Cause I do. Anyway, I’mma go with inventory for this one.

Grist cache, looks like grist means dechaffed grain but anyway what’s important is that the image is some kind of gem, it’s a cache, it’s probably the gold purse, or whatever currency this game use

Now that was a fun read, the Athenaeum is a roman litterary and scientific school funded by the emperor Hadrian, and since you “explore” it, it could be the quest journal, assuming this is keeping the mmorpg vibe it had, or maybe a bestiary or some sort of lore encyclopedia, something to do with knowledge, that’s for sure

And finally the Alchemy Excursus, and hey I know both those words, what are the odds ? Anyway an excursus is a digression, a sidestory that the greco-roman authors used to splice shit up and stop people from falling asleep when their works were read publicly, and here, I’d say it’s used to talk about some kind of crafting system, which would go both with the alchemy and still symbol and the side-thing idea

WTF

Oh ok so it makes a lot more sense why we saw the game menu IT S BECAUSE JOHN HERE IS IN THE GAME AND TT IS LITTERALY PLAYING WITH HIM I TAKE IT BACK IT MAKES NO SENSE IT BREAKS REALITY AT ITS CORE AND ITS A FUCKING AWESOME CONCEPT

So now that TT is for all acounts a god in John’s world, it beg some questions that I’m sure will be answered soon but it is still fun to speculate. Was John transported in a virtual world or is TT playing with the real world and which is the most alarming ? Does her powers have limits, like distance or size of the selected object ? If not, can she de-orbit the Earth with her little house cursor ?

And hey, that’s a captchalogue modus card right there below the chest

Yeah so indeed this menu was for camera control, and it gave us a nice clear view of John’s glassy mess of a room. Really having a Sims vibe here with the zoom and the green color

Jefferson: What Did I Miss?

Hamilton: the entire first act...

Jefferson whispering in French accent: or did I?

Hamilton: what