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Poor Tobi.

This page reminds me a lot of the Spiral temple entrance. Like a return to a fictional world.

(here for instance: https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_496
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_502
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_504)

Holy shit they're outside

This is, of course, the place where Shalhia is destined to be have her emergency Trepanning operation performed. https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_2811

It's fine I'm sure :)

Finally.

I've no idea where we're going with this now that we've escaped the death game. Maybe to Shalia's HQ?

And now WE get to see where the others ended up!

@Tom: There's a good chance that Shalhia, who is insane, will die in the next little while.

She may dodge the prophecy, but hasn't actually tried, she's just been the same old self righteous thug, lashing out at everyone she considers to be inferior, i.e. everyone. I suppose Levin would have left the dungeon by now if Binky and Foxy hadn't dodged *their* prophecies, so there's that. But why would he shoot someone outside the game? Then again, Binky herself may be the shooter!

Regardless, that's likely what happens next, someone shoots her (freeing her victim, Tobi), or doesn't.

@Tom: There's a good chance that Shalhia, who is insane, will die in the next little while.

She may dodge the prophecy, but hasn't actually tried, she's just been the same old self righteous thug, lashing out at everyone she considers to be inferior, i.e. everyone. I suppose Levin would have left the dungeon by now if Binky and Foxy hadn't dodged *their* prophecies, so there's that. But why would he shoot someone outside the game? Then again, Binky herself may be the shooter!

Regardless, that's likely what happens next, someone shoots her (freeing her victim, Tobi), or doesn't.

I'll note that the fuzziness that always indicates Shalhia's instability is present in this page.

Wow, I must have felt strongly about that.

@Whisper lets be honest from Levin's point of view he's got reason to blow Shalhia outside of the game. So does Maria I'm still not convinced she's actually dead but I'm a paranoid lunatic by nature. Front page though.... could be another phantom, I think this is why I love Tobi's arc most in many ways. Sooooo many possibilities, so many questions.

@Whispers

I have never seen a worse character read

You know, I think that the images next to the character's might be indicator's to their fate.

Burk's is a Star on a Flag, as he's unbound by fate.

Noah's is a Grave, either indicating his fate is to become an undead, he'll be possessed by Ciel, or, potentially, he'll end up replacing Chernyl as the avatar of nightmares, resulting in him being rendered comatose & effectively dead.

Tobi's a Puppet, likely hinting that she's fated to be controlled by the Council Of Vermin. I feel like we're the closest to her destined fate.

Held's is a drop of Black Water surrounding a pink butterfly & crown. We're really early into her story, but I suspect it will end up involving a lot of Black Water.

@Ghost: Well he certainly does now. But if Binky and Foxy has been killed by the ghoul (as per Foxy's vision) and he'd left the game earlier, he wouldn't have any such reason. So... nothing's changed that would save her. It's not like there's a Foxy related pile of corpses lying at the entrance.

@someone: Are you suggesting that Shalhia is sane?

Or that kidnapping Tobi with intent to enslave is somehow good and morale behaviour? For the rest, for one example, see how she behaved as she left Tobi's possessions behind with a self righteous sneer. And of course there's the whole "Shame on you for treating a death game like a death game, now stand aside, I have innocents to enslave!" dealy.

@Darius Drake: That's a *very* interesting observation. Held's butterfly could be the fairy she encountered.

I'm not sure about the rest, but... given the Windows-Minori connection? I could see him being flat out replaced. And you know, the Grey Child did tell him he'd die if he didn't use a hyper specific wish. Windows took that as a threat, but it could have been a warning... and/or a prophecy.