{"message_id":13670119,"content":"\u003Cdiv class=\"reply media\"\u003E\n  \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/2DArray\" class=\"hover_profile_simple img\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"avatar for 2DArray\" class=\"user_avatar man\" height=\"40\" src=\"http://cdn2.kongcdn.com/assets/resize-image/40x40/user_avatars/0000/0670/2d.jpg?1617-op\" title=\"2DArray\" width=\"40\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_details\"\u003E\n    \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/2DArray\" class=\"sender_name hover_profile_simple\"\u003E2DArray\u003C/a\u003E\n    \u003Cspan class=\"date\"\u003EApr 24, 2012  10:06am\u003C/span\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_contents\"\u003E\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"show_more_text_block\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"truncated_text\"\u003E\u003Cp \u003E(Spoilers ahead!)\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp \u003ERemember that the story is told in two places:  The real world (which is only seen in the comics) and the game world (which shows how Kathryn feels about her surroundings).  Most of \u0026hellip;\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca class=\"show_more spritegame\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.truncated_text\u0026#x27;).hide();\n    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.show_more_text_block\u0026#x27;).down(\u0026#x27;.full_text\u0026#x27;).show();\n; return false;\"\u003Eshow more\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"full_text\" style=\"display:none;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(Spoilers ahead!)\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERemember that the story is told in two places:  The real world (which is only seen in the comics) and the game world (which shows how Kathryn feels about her surroundings).  Most of the \u0026#8220;weirdness\u0026#8221; in the comics (including Jack coming out of the portal near the end) involves the transitions between those two places.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(Seriously, the spoilers are about to start)\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe implication from the first game\u0026#8217;s flashback is that Kathryn dies in her last room (or, in game-world terms, she falls into a bottomless pit).  Now remember that Fixation introduces \u0026#8220;safe\u0026#8221; pits in chapter 3, and some levels have both safe and bottomless pits next to each other.  Both types of pits look the same to us, and we learn from Kathryn that the differences between them aren\u0026#8217;t necessarily clear to the characters, either.  What if Jack just didn\u0026#8217;t piece together what happened until later, after the game ended?\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca class=\"show_less spritegame\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.full_text\u0026#x27;).hide();\n    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.show_more_text_block\u0026#x27;).down(\u0026#x27;.truncated_text\u0026#x27;).show();\n; return false;\"\u003Eshow less\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"clear\"\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"reply media\"\u003E\n  \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/BlackstarHalo\" class=\"hover_profile_simple img\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"avatar for BlackstarHalo\" class=\"user_avatar man\" height=\"40\" src=\"http://cdn1.kongcdn.com/assets/resize-image/40x40/user_avatars/0588/7007/ZZZZZ_Little_Cutie.gif?11562-op\" title=\"BlackstarHalo\" width=\"40\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_details\"\u003E\n    \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/BlackstarHalo\" class=\"sender_name hover_profile_simple\"\u003EBlackstarHalo\u003C/a\u003E\n    \u003Cspan class=\"date\"\u003EApr 25, 2012   4:54pm\u003C/span\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_contents\"\u003E\n      \u003Cp\u003EComics?\u003Cbr /\u003E\nLike the kind you buy?\u003Cbr /\u003E\nIf so, i would like some!\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"clear\"\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"reply media\"\u003E\n  \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/2DArray\" class=\"hover_profile_simple img\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"avatar for 2DArray\" class=\"user_avatar man\" height=\"40\" src=\"http://cdn2.kongcdn.com/assets/resize-image/40x40/user_avatars/0000/0670/2d.jpg?1617-op\" title=\"2DArray\" width=\"40\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_details\"\u003E\n    \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/2DArray\" class=\"sender_name hover_profile_simple\"\u003E2DArray\u003C/a\u003E\n    \u003Cspan class=\"date\"\u003EApr 25, 2012   5:15pm\u003C/span\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_contents\"\u003E\n      \u003Cp\u003EI was referring to the ones in between chapters.\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"clear\"\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"reply media\"\u003E\n  \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/Tikikala\" class=\"hover_profile_simple img\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"avatar for Tikikala\" class=\"user_avatar man\" height=\"40\" src=\"http://cdn3.kongcdn.com/assets/resize-image/40x40/user_avatars/0075/8042/1364841505.218042194699.png?28779-op\" title=\"Tikikala\" width=\"40\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_details\"\u003E\n    \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/Tikikala\" class=\"sender_name hover_profile_simple\"\u003ETikikala\u003C/a\u003E\n    \u003Cspan class=\"date\"\u003EMay 10, 2012   9:31pm\u003C/span\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_contents\"\u003E\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"show_more_text_block\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"truncated_text\"\u003E\u003Cp \u003EAh, I see. This was the part confusing because I haven\u0026#8217;t played CoM for years and my memory of the ending cut scene to the game got faint D: I mean, I thought Jack \u0026#8220;killed\u0026#8221; Kathryn b\u0026hellip;\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca class=\"show_more spritegame\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.truncated_text\u0026#x27;).hide();\n    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.show_more_text_block\u0026#x27;).down(\u0026#x27;.full_text\u0026#x27;).show();\n; return false;\"\u003Eshow more\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"full_text\" style=\"display:none;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAh, I see. This was the part confusing because I haven\u0026#8217;t played CoM for years and my memory of the ending cut scene to the game got faint D: I mean, I thought Jack \u0026#8220;killed\u0026#8221; Kathryn by cutting her out of his life and returning his old life. I guess this is not the case. Now, I hope her death was not Jack pushing her off his house. his house was not even that tall to kill people. :P (Now can I ask how exactly he killed her? He carried no weapon when he was with her in the last chapter of Fix, yet he managed to pull up a green box to bury her. Maybe the green box is a metaphor for soil now?) And last but not least, I can safely assume that Kathryn\u0026#8217;s ex-roommate or her parents or her co-workers figured that she stopped contact and something suspicious happened?\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca class=\"show_less spritegame\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.full_text\u0026#x27;).hide();\n    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.show_more_text_block\u0026#x27;).down(\u0026#x27;.truncated_text\u0026#x27;).show();\n; return false;\"\u003Eshow less\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"clear\"\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"reply media\"\u003E\n  \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/2DArray\" class=\"hover_profile_simple img\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"avatar for 2DArray\" class=\"user_avatar man\" height=\"40\" src=\"http://cdn2.kongcdn.com/assets/resize-image/40x40/user_avatars/0000/0670/2d.jpg?1617-op\" title=\"2DArray\" width=\"40\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_details\"\u003E\n    \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/2DArray\" class=\"sender_name hover_profile_simple\"\u003E2DArray\u003C/a\u003E\n    \u003Cspan class=\"date\"\u003EMay 11, 2012   6:50pm\u003C/span\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_contents\"\u003E\n      \u003Cdiv class=\"show_more_text_block\"\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"truncated_text\"\u003E\u003Cp \u003ETikikala, you\u0026#8217;re on the right track, but you\u0026#8217;re still missing some stuff.  You\u0026#8217;re right that in between the two games, there\u0026#8217;s a period where the characters start to realize th\u0026hellip;\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca class=\"show_more spritegame\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.truncated_text\u0026#x27;).hide();\n    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.show_more_text_block\u0026#x27;).down(\u0026#x27;.full_text\u0026#x27;).show();\n; return false;\"\u003Eshow more\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"full_text\" style=\"display:none;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETikikala, you\u0026#8217;re on the right track, but you\u0026#8217;re still missing some stuff.  You\u0026#8217;re right that in between the two games, there\u0026#8217;s a period where the characters start to realize that Kathryn has disappeared.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of the questions you have are given specific (but sometimes subtle) attention.  The green box, for instance, gets a sturdy literal explanation in Fixation.  Other details, however (like the specifics of how Kathryn died), aren\u0026#8217;t actually important to the story, and were never even written.  Remember that the important part is always the cause.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca class=\"show_less spritegame\" href=\"#\" onclick=\"    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.full_text\u0026#x27;).hide();\n    $(this).up(\u0026#x27;.show_more_text_block\u0026#x27;).down(\u0026#x27;.truncated_text\u0026#x27;).show();\n; return false;\"\u003Eshow less\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"clear\"\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"reply media\"\u003E\n  \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/Tikikala\" class=\"hover_profile_simple img\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"avatar for Tikikala\" class=\"user_avatar man\" height=\"40\" src=\"http://cdn3.kongcdn.com/assets/resize-image/40x40/user_avatars/0075/8042/1364841505.218042194699.png?28779-op\" title=\"Tikikala\" width=\"40\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_details\"\u003E\n    \u003Ca href=\"/accounts/Tikikala\" class=\"sender_name hover_profile_simple\"\u003ETikikala\u003C/a\u003E\n    \u003Cspan class=\"date\"\u003EMay 19, 2012  10:58am\u003C/span\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"reply_contents\"\u003E\n      \u003Cp\u003EAh, okay okay :) thanks for answering.\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003Cdiv class=\"clear\"\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n","new_url":null}