Always excited for new updates!! I cannot wait for the art update it looks SO awesome.
Not gonna lie though Garrett, I am... not a huge fan of the whole Alien thing, it seems very out of left field? And super creepy. Not trying to be critical! It's just very strange for what the game has been building up to so far. If you have any vague explanations or insight about it you want to share, I'm totally willing to hear it!
Good luck on the update! I better see you in two weeks!! (joking im sorry)
Ah, I suppose I should have emphasized that it wasn't added merely to act as a cliffhanger! The bulb-- and what's inside of it-- were originally going to be introduced near the beginning of the next layer, so if you can believe it, this has actually been planned, as a narrative element, reasonably far in-advance. I'm just sliding it in a little earlier, here... To build tension!
As far as what it is goes: "Alien" is an interesting interpretation, but certainly more science-fiction than what I'm ultimately angling for. I'm hesitant to explain exactly what my intentions are, both because I don't want to give myself credit for writing I haven't published yet, and because I think that doing so would somewhat spoil the act of interpretation from the standpoint of the reader. I can only offer you assurance in my belief that this is a necessary step toward the resolution of at least one thread in the story's tangled web of metaphors.
