I think you answered this before but what's the significance of the entry items?
It depends for each character, and yes I’ve done a big post about this before! But let me do a brief recap of them.
John’s eating an apple, loss of innocence, beginning of the journey, and in the Gnostic Context, it symbolizes Sophia reaching down to Humanity and giving them the chance to escape the cruel, material world.
Rose smashes a Bottle open, a symbol of Void, a symbol of her Mother, as well as symbolizing the beginning of a journey like how people smash bottles on a ship when it’s first leaving the dock. That’s a thing that happens right?
Dave’s is a game of patience, of waiting, until the Egg cracks and opens up. Again, beginning, but also the Gnostic Egg, to Create a World, you must Destroy one first. The shell of the egg is the world, for the chick to be born, it must destroy it. This is a direct parallel to the way SBURB works to create a Universe.
Finally, Jade has a piñata. While it’s not exactly indicative of a beginning like the rest, maybe because she’s already been dreaming in the game for a long time, she has to smash a symbol of her best friend, which parallels to the Kids having to stop Bec-prototyped Jack afterwards, and perhaps even her assimilation of Bec upon becoming God Tier. Of course she also has to do this blindfolded, like Rose’s Leap of Faith, she has to take a Blind Shot.
Jane evokes John’s entry process, but then there’s no Apple, indicative of a Void Session. Once everyone is together, they enter through Jake’s Caliborn Piñata, hinting on this being a Session that will smackdown with Caliborn at one point, as well as mirroring Jade’s process. And of course, Caliborn’s Collapse into a Black Hole is both because of a Dead Session’s extreme conditions and odd way of working, his Cherub Nature, and the general Destruction of Everything theme surrounding Caliborn.
