Mastodawn

Anyone got any theories on where the final episode is headed?

I personally buy into the SOMA theory for the show. I think all the characters are just virtual copies made by the VR headset, so they're never going to be able to get out. It tracks with the fact that there's a "brainscans" folder where the humans are stored in .dat files, it makes sense with Scratch having had a brain tumor since he'd want to scan himself to live forever, and the way Kinger reacted to Abel by saying it doesn't make sense that they could get out, all points to them being virtual copies.

It'd be a pretty dark ending but honestly that fits with the show.

That said, I'm curious what other theories people have

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Nyx Allocer

@Rusty this feels like where everything is leading to a degree I feel. The fact that everyone's initial reaction is instantly "How do I take off the VR headset" and from what I can tell, Pomni seems to have ended up there by finding the machine in an abandoned building and slipping the headset on to check it out.

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Nyx Allocer 5d ago

@Rusty this could also explain why they don't have a complete memory of who they are and how they got here, only the general stuff. It can only create an approximation of who they are but can't get deep enough to replicate them entirely.

Abstraction may be somehow realizing this fact and having their sense of self completely collapse. Causing them to use the "conjuration" ability on themselves to become skewed.

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Nyx Allocer 5d ago

@Rusty it could also be that, Cain was in full control of their environment AND them, as he's shown to be the source of the profanity filter and he's the one who's given them those bodies. So Abstraction has an origin in him since he's shown as abstracting when he was being developed before he killed Abel (the blue dot) and absorbing them. The original flaw was still there and he probably modeled their consciousness after his own.

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Nyx Allocer 5d ago

@Rusty one possible ending is that it's literally just ends up with a full reset lol. Everything is back to how it was at the start but Cain is "stable" and they all just have Never Ending adventures because they realize they were just pale imitations of Humans to begin with

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Rusty Corgi 4d ago

@nyxallocer I'm trying to figure out if their memories of the real world are actually as shallow as they appear or if the narrative is just moving so fast that they haven't really had a chance to discuss it. I think the brain scans were actually probably pretty deep, and anything they're missing like their names or other memories were probably a result of Caine messing with them.

I'm not sure exactly how they're going to end it. Maybe they'll escape to the internet where the *true* horrors exist. But honestly I think it'll probably just be them accepting their fate and learning how to conjure in the digital world to make it palatable to live there with the option to delete themselves down the line. I'm curious if Kinger can, I dunno, clear the cache I guess? on the .dat files for the other players and revert them from being abstracted.