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I love this one a lot! Unreal layout and artistic flair, the variety of myths and the novelty of their collision with the weird alien sci-fi stuff is just sublime. The aesthetic flair of the Apotheosis Engine reset procedure is the most baller shit of all time - I love little crunchy pixels. And all of the different creatures? Love it. Amaze amaze amaze.
My main point of confusion is in establishing the initial reset point (sometime after meeting S4vant but not during?) and what the still-lucid colonists think of the looping. If the AE was discovered three weeks ago, what have they been doing since then (since resetting would presumably not let them progress forward in time?) Based on everything here I assume there is an intended explanation/process, I'm just not inferring it after a couple read throughs!
One of my absolute favourites I've read so far. Well done, I may have to run this one day!!
Thank you so much for your kind words. You've made my day.
I should have said "the first reset occurs immediately after meeting S4vant." I'll have to fix that. Or, I'll just change it to "while" as you suggested, since I don't have the space.
It was my intention that it wasn't time that's being reset, just how reality is currently structured. In my head, the remaining colonists are just resigned to their fate (except for Phin) and have kind of just shut down. They've all seen hundreds of bizarre and horrifying things happen and they've even been hurt and may have even 'died' before. But, now that you mention it, I think 3 weeks is probably too long, so I will shorten it.
Thank you again!
Oh I took "after they meet S4vant" to mean that it became possible for a reset to occur after talking to him, since the triggers for a reset seemed not to be met just by talking to him! I'll need to give it another read, I think I may have been too caught up in assuming there is a full time loop vs. a reality reset.