That is great to hear! (And, yeah, I really like Alice in Wonderland as well, it is my favorite Disney tale, hahjhaa, what a nice coincidence. Myrddin and I are pals in that regard.)
Warning of long text below, I apologize. You don't even need to go through it all, honestly. (Only perhaps the bug report, but they are minor.)
And I'll try to share what I've thought so far, even though I am probably missing details for my theories, hahah. Although, I do plan on theorizing more after the big update in June.
But before that, I did notice possible bugs in the game, and I will use this chance to mention them:
- The furniture question does not disappear even after the player has already asked it. ( If I'm not mistaken, the question is something along these lines: "How did the furniture get in here?" )
- (Possible bug) Myrddin does not react accordingly when the player changes the ambiance sound. He always says we picked the same one (granted, I only tested with two sounds: rain and wind, if I'm not mistaken). But I don't know if it is intentional or not. Maybe he doesn't identify the different sounds for lore reasons?
- In the Linux version, the cube CG is missing! At least in my case, that's what happened. I had played on the browser first, though. So I knew the CG was supposed to show up. In the end, I installed the Windows version and used Wine to run it on Linux. I managed to get to the scene with the CG, so I'm guessing it is only related to the Linux version:
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That's it regarding bugs.
Now, regarding my initial silly theories
- Myrddin: his name has an interesting meaning. It is related to a semilegend of a mad man who ended up having prophecy powers... Interesting.
"While there his insanity only grew until he finally reached enlightenment and recieved the gift of prophecy."
Plus, he had a twin sister. Reaching very poorly here, but maybe his sister is involved in all this or is part of the voices? I have no proof, just found it interesting to know that he haas a twin sister. He was also reinvented as Merlin in some books and legends. ( Which is such a nice detail since I really like the Arthurian tales. ^^ )
Myrddin does have special abilities inside the cube: some could say he behaves like a warlock or wizard. Additionally, being stuck in the cube might drive him "mad" like in the legend. However, my problem here is that he doesn't seem to have much memory, when he mentions he doesn't have a past or future. Still, his predicament does look like a magical prison of sorts. So whoever locked him there was probably an equally (or more) powerful wizard...
- The ASCII85 code: his first sentences are a short poem mentioning him being trapped, but also a door which dreams of being opened. Interesting that he was muttering that right at the moment we arrived. Also interesting that he mentioned at some point in the game that he does know how we got there. I wonder if his mutterings are part of a spell that would create our connection, and he was simply waiting to see if the idea would work out or not, giving him a chance to finally talk and interact with someone. That does reinforce the wizard side as well.
Finally, the sentence in the game description is related to the last one we got in the current version of the game: the false messiah. Since Legend Myrddin is a "prophet" of sorts... Hmm... someone does not want us trusting him, huh? Perhaps the voices and dark eyes do think they are in the right.
So far im leaning towards the idea that Myrddin is the Messiah. and the voices believe he is in the wrong, or, at the very least, is untrustworthy.
- Whenever the voices or weird sounds show up: I tried to correlate all the times the weird sounds show up, and one got my attention:
When we mention if we feel strongly toward our name or not. In that instance, no matter what answer we give, Myrddin responds the same, and that caught my attention. While that does happen in other moments as well (due to the limitation of variations in a game, of course), the fact that the weird sound was there as well makes me believe that Myrddin's name is important and in tune to who, or what, he is. And the voices agree with that. That is also why we can add more meaning to the Legend Myrddin tale.
- The first book: okay, when I first heard it, my immediate thought was: Myrddin is or was that silhouette. Perhaps they took away his memories and he was stuck in the cube as a means to not destroy the world anymore. That line of thought is, in a way, related to the odd questions he asks us before his past/future breakdown: he asks for how long can someone suffer until what they did is excused, and if someone is being good only because is being watched.
However, that was just my first thought. Honestly, I believe Myrddin isnot going to end up being completely, 100% evil. B ecause I can see there are sides of good in the way he is written in the story so far. So, now I'm more inclined to the idea of Myrddin being the prophet who tried to warn the other kingdoms of the upcoming attacks from the silhouette, OR he is merely a part of the silhouette, who could, perhaps, receive a second chance, atonement! Anyway, early theories here, of course.
In any case, I do think that first book is VERY related to Myrddin's nature and past. Like he theorized, maybe he did create the book with his unconscious memory. But, at least regarding him trusting the player and wanting to be free, I don't think he is lying about those. So far it appears he really trusts the player in a way that gives him hope. So I hope we can help the good side of the story.
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I'll stop now hahaa, im probably missing a lot, but it was a nice thinking exercise. In the next update, I'll come back to my theories and see if any of them were useful.
Thanks again for creating this very enjoyable game!
