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When you first enter destiny tower, you find a tablet known as “Tabula Rasa,” which translates to “blank slate” in Latin. It's a concept that describes the idea that people are born without any innate knowledge, and that all knowledge comes from experience.

While climbing destiny tower, you’re given a few choices to make that will change the tablet and your destiny. At one point, you run into Team Skull, who has allegedly repented for their crimes and asks for forgiveness. If you choose to forgive Team Skull, your Tablet turns blue, and the name changes to “Tabula Aquae” or, “Tablet of Water.” If you choose to not forgive them, your tablet turns red, and the name changes to “Tabula Ingis” or, “Tablet of fire.”

Next, you find Team Raider and Team Charm locked in a heated rivalry, both pushing for Wigglytuff to join their team to make it to the top. As their argument escalates on one of the floors, they put the decision in your hands—leaving you, the hero, to choose which team will claim Wigglytuff. The team you don’t choose will challenge you to a battle at the end of the floor.

Once defeated, you’re faced with a choice: either forfeit their ambition and grow stronger yourself, or forfeit their soul and allow one of them to join your team. Choosing to forfeit their ambition after not forgiving Team Skull causes your tablet to glow orange, transforming into the “Tabula Pugna,” or “Board of Battle.” On the other hand, choosing to forfeit their soul after forgiving Team Skull turns your tablet green, evolving into the “Tabula Silvana,” or “Forest Tablet.”

If you make contradictory choices, like forgiving Team Skull and forfeiting their ambition, or refusing to forgive them and forfeiting their soul, the positive and negative outcomes cancel each other out, leaving the tablet blank and neutral once again.

Anyways, after 60+ hours of gameplay, I am unbelievably excited for the next update!! I can’t wait to see where my choices take me!

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For the second major choice, forfeiting the opposing team’s ambition makes your character stronger, which could have negative consequences later in the game. On the other hand, choosing to forfeit one of their souls spares that Pokémon, allowing them to join your team.

Now, let’s say you decide not to forgive Team Skull but choose to forfeit one of the opposing team’s souls. I believe the positive and negative choices cancel each other out, resulting in a neutral tablet. This happened to me both times when I made one negative and one positive choice. However, it’s also possible that the tablet automatically neutral’s out after the opposing teams battle.

One dialogue discrepancy I noticed when making these choices was during the fire drum sequence, where it called me “virtueless.” I don’t remember seeing that dialogue in my first playthrough, when I forgave Team Skull and forfeited the opposing team’s ambition. Instead, I recall it saying something more vague, along the lines of, “Move aside, you are not the one I seek.” If this is the case, that difference is VERY interesting.

Another thing I want to highlight is Hoopa’s dialogue on the final floor, when you ask about the seven treasures. They mention the different melodies each one produces and suggest that we might not be so different from each other. I’m curious whether this dialogue remains the same regardless of your choices or if it changes based on your decisions.