05-28-2025, 08:15 PM
i am undaunted, no question! fear not even, as it were. i am more worried that you're over there tapping your fingers, waiting for me to just catch up already :P
as mentioned somewhere 400 threads ago, i've played FFXIV for years so i am very much on the train of chewing on each revelation as it is introduced because honestly? you can only do it for the first time once and this story is just good enough (so good enough!) that it's worthy of decent levels of contemplation. when the warning comes up "several cutscenes will play in sequence, please allow sufficient time to view them in their entirety", i GROK that and my heart (and spleen!) are fortified and ready.
never play FFXIV, stick to your guns. the story will eat you alive at points and spit out your mangled bones. i have cried at so many points in the game, its nearly embarrassing.
but to sum up the CURRENT thing we're on, since i'm still at work and stuck for awhile longer:
-- Joseph The Traitor howled about how the chip in his brain made him do it
-- Caleb has a choke collar on his uniform and the Ever symbol is on its breast
-- The dude creates black holes; his control of his evol has to register off the charts, that's insane. SIDE NOTE: its never explained in the Anecdote how Caleb got himself home from being lost and adrift in Deepspace, but quite frankly the mind boggles with excitement at the obvious answer.
-- He is an accomplished and smooth liar and he appears to code switch in the blink of an eye
-- Ergo: He's playing "us" somehow. He's likely been given orders to lead us down a certain path, using his (potentially manufactured?) familial familiarity.
-- For the record, I don't believe Caleb's feelings are anything other than genuine; but I do think he's being instructed to use them in certain ways
EDIT: I started Caleb's Orbit fights this morning and woah, hey! WE LIFT UP IN THE AIR AND SHOOT TOGETHER for the Ardent Oath and my fucking god, that is so goddamned cool, i need more of it. I was so startled I didn't even try to get any screenshots, but the next time I'm in there, I am SOOO going to try and bag that for the hoard collection of Cool Moments In This Game.
as mentioned somewhere 400 threads ago, i've played FFXIV for years so i am very much on the train of chewing on each revelation as it is introduced because honestly? you can only do it for the first time once and this story is just good enough (so good enough!) that it's worthy of decent levels of contemplation. when the warning comes up "several cutscenes will play in sequence, please allow sufficient time to view them in their entirety", i GROK that and my heart (and spleen!) are fortified and ready.
never play FFXIV, stick to your guns. the story will eat you alive at points and spit out your mangled bones. i have cried at so many points in the game, its nearly embarrassing.
but to sum up the CURRENT thing we're on, since i'm still at work and stuck for awhile longer:
-- Joseph The Traitor howled about how the chip in his brain made him do it
-- Caleb has a choke collar on his uniform and the Ever symbol is on its breast
-- The dude creates black holes; his control of his evol has to register off the charts, that's insane. SIDE NOTE: its never explained in the Anecdote how Caleb got himself home from being lost and adrift in Deepspace, but quite frankly the mind boggles with excitement at the obvious answer.
-- He is an accomplished and smooth liar and he appears to code switch in the blink of an eye
-- Ergo: He's playing "us" somehow. He's likely been given orders to lead us down a certain path, using his (potentially manufactured?) familial familiarity.
-- For the record, I don't believe Caleb's feelings are anything other than genuine; but I do think he's being instructed to use them in certain ways
EDIT: I started Caleb's Orbit fights this morning and woah, hey! WE LIFT UP IN THE AIR AND SHOOT TOGETHER for the Ardent Oath and my fucking god, that is so goddamned cool, i need more of it. I was so startled I didn't even try to get any screenshots, but the next time I'm in there, I am SOOO going to try and bag that for the hoard collection of Cool Moments In This Game.
