#I just like talking abt video games! I think even corny dorky games like dead island are fun to rly dig into

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Just writing ideas down before I forget them. I actually rly like the larger implications of the whole "the zombie outbreak is actually manufactured to usher humanity to the next level" because who's to say that they hadn't been working at it for a while?

The art that Francesca draws

looks really similar to the art in the GOAT pen

which looks similar to graffiti on the street,,,

what if they had been putting shit in the water for a while and only truly kickstarted the event when they were sure at least someone would be immune? Is that why things got so bad so quickly down in the sewers? Because it was already there before the outbreak started fully.

(all caps are from @itszombietime I haven't gotten around to recording my playthrough yet)

It's worth noting that the blood vessel design that Francesca is drawing looks a lot like the overlay that happens when there's an "earthquake", and also of note, there's at least 3 or 4 "earthquakes" when we're being loaded onto the plane. the earthquakes are already sort of thematically linked with the numens, as they seem to happen most when we're near another one (i.e. when we're getting on the plane, the numens finds us in the sewers, when we're approaching subject noah, and so on).

I also wonder if our plane was shot down not just because of Robert turning mid-flight, but because there were canonically six potential numens on board. I wonder if Robert was found to be infected but still let on anyway just to test the flight. I wonder if this happened to more flights than just ours. There's also graffiti about the plane specifically going down.

I mean, look at it this way, no shoes lady (Kondstant? Konrad? icr) has a squad of two other numens with her. I'm not entirely done with the story, but I'm betting we don't see that many more numens? (I'm only like two quests away from finishing so I'm betting on there not being another 11th hour twist) So Lola-No-Shoes has two besties who evolved, she alludes to more but never rly shows them, seems very intent on waking us, specifically, up.

I just wonder if there's a connection there. If something got put into the water to get people acclimated to the acrophage and that's why we see the similarities in artwork across the city, that's why the artwork looks like what happens when there's earthquakes which looks like what flashes across our vision. I also wonder if Francesca is also a potential numen but just hasn't gotten "awakened" by no-shoes-worstie-lola.

I don't know, I haven't finished the game yet and it's been a hot minute since I've played dead island 1, so there's probably something I've looked over! I'll come back to this once I've replayed and gotten all the journals etc etc