[9.10] Just A Corpse
on September 9, 2021
at 12:12 am
What has shay seen in her time
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9.10 Transcript
Shay: Um, hey?
Shay: It’s just a corpse. Weeks old, I’d say.
Kiro: Rest in peace.
What has shay seen in her time
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9.10 Transcript
Shay: Um, hey?
Shay: It’s just a corpse. Weeks old, I’d say.
Kiro: Rest in peace.
Shay has unexpected qualities and perhaps experiences… So now we know a bit more about what happened to the crew. Guess all those bears got a few of them as well. 🙁
Well, it seems was right in this being a remnant of the crew. RIP. Shay’s reaction to the sight is so nonchalant. What else has she seen here?
Is it really? I’d swear it grabbed hold of that pipe.
I think it was the water level dropping.
It’s not like these kids haven’t seen human remains before, but I guess some people get used to it more easily than others.
Poor Kiro, knowing that she effectively condemned that guy to death merely by showing up.
I think it’s older than weeks, but props to Shay for not being shaken by seeing it. And yeah, what’s that poor girl been through to have such guts?
Wait, I thought there was a clause that even if a single person dies they are all doomed. Did I misunderstand that part? Does it not apply to the crew of the ship?
Strictly speaking, if we abandon the narrative convention that there has to be some hope for our protagonists, the conditions of the curse could be interpreted to mean everyone was doomed to die the moment Kiro arrived, but the curse could be broken for the following generations if they can all refrain from murder.
Kechika said they have to make it through the winter without killing each other to break the curse. Raiding the ship for food kind of assumed the crew was dead in the first place, so either this whole enterprise was doomed from the start, “natural” deaths don’t count, or the doomsday clock only starts counting deaths once winter starts (using a creative interpretation of “make it through the winter”).
edit/addendum: Kechika describes the curse on page 6-14, and how to break it on page 6-24. I don’t remember whether there’s somewhere else the comic might have said they need everyone to survive to avoid the “everyone dies” ending, apart from it being much more difficult to maintain order and keep people from murdering each other if the winter starts killing people.
@melaredblu
There’s a huge difference between seeing video game characters die and seeing real dead bodies.
I know, but there are bones in the Death Course. That’s what I was referring to. I’m assuming most of these kids have seen them, but perhaps not?