We're one side, according to Laurens. When we found him I tried to find a way around into asking if we were alone on our side or not but didn't get much. I guess yes is the most obvious answer anyway. Whatever the other four are playing for it isn't our best interests.
I don't recall the exact wording but the way what Charlotte said about Joe Davis was described to me what's stuck in my mind was that the shadow devoured him. I'm basically picturing the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from the Muppet Christmas Carol with a black hole swirling in its center sucking him in. At this point I don't know whether there were things said that made me think that or if I've just made that up entirely. However it looked my guess is he has been assimilated.
There's also whatever is living in the core of the ship. Shepard called it an 'it', anyway. There's it and then there's a someone that pulled all of us from the core. Though when I asked Smiley how we get to the white room he said we're already there. But according to the soldier Charlotte said Davis told her we were supposed to be in it already, which implies that we are not.
Smiley Gallagher Shadow It at core Someone who pulled us from core Van Rijn Ward & Resnik Us
Some combination of that = 5. At this point I'm not entirely convinced Ward & Resnik are even at the table, but I don't know who else it would be. It could be that we began with four but they're getting whittled down. It would be nice if we could come up with a way to push Laurens or Charlotte on any of these points but I've run out of ways to approach it.
I wonder if it's a coincidence that we have a shadow and a white room. Not to say that the white room = Good necessarily but just that I wonder if the cliche dichotomy means they're the two main forces in opposition here. But it sounded from the soldier's conversation with Charlotte like the shadow was meant to get us to the white room, so maybe not.
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I don't recall the exact wording but the way what Charlotte said about Joe Davis was described to me what's stuck in my mind was that the shadow devoured him. I'm basically picturing the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from the Muppet Christmas Carol with a black hole swirling in its center sucking him in. At this point I don't know whether there were things said that made me think that or if I've just made that up entirely. However it looked my guess is he has been assimilated.
There's also whatever is living in the core of the ship. Shepard called it an 'it', anyway. There's it and then there's a someone that pulled all of us from the core. Though when I asked Smiley how we get to the white room he said we're already there. But according to the soldier Charlotte said Davis told her we were supposed to be in it already, which implies that we are not.
Smiley
Gallagher
Shadow
It at core
Someone who pulled us from core
Van Rijn
Ward & Resnik
Us
Some combination of that = 5. At this point I'm not entirely convinced Ward & Resnik are even at the table, but I don't know who else it would be. It could be that we began with four but they're getting whittled down. It would be nice if we could come up with a way to push Laurens or Charlotte on any of these points but I've run out of ways to approach it.
I wonder if it's a coincidence that we have a shadow and a white room. Not to say that the white room = Good necessarily but just that I wonder if the cliche dichotomy means they're the two main forces in opposition here. But it sounded from the soldier's conversation with Charlotte like the shadow was meant to get us to the white room, so maybe not.