#though since we have to die to loop back and softlocks Exist we expect we'll run into that many times more

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Hello, viewers. When we last left off, we were hanging out in the House, waiting for us and our party to eventually be frozen in time in a glorious rest period labelled "victory is impossible, but there is absolutely nothing actually forcing us to loop back, so we're just going to wander about and continue to explore and poke around at things like normal until the inevitable creep of the Curse gets us, because we have friends who we might like to chat with and a sudden lack of responsibility or formal time pressure, so there's no real reason to loop until forced".

Unfortunately, we are also playing a video game that will not let us simply hang out in the House of Change until the creeping Time Freeze eventually Gets us, and we must unfortunately succumb to the scripted events. Waste of life, honestly. Life, and a whole bunch of free time we could've used to get information that might be useful next loop.

Maybe if Siffrin responded to things in reasonable ways and took rest stops and other such things they would not get into whatever wretched little spiral eventually traps them. We know that this is a lot to ask of a mildly suicidal idiot who just gained the ability to euthanize themself with zero consequences, but still.

What a pointless death.

(Part 20 is here)

Ah, Loop. Well, good to know that we can spend our most precious memories to loop forward in time, we guess...? In-universe, is this just us bargaining our memories to go against the loop's will? We don't think Siffrin has a lot of those to spare, honestly. No wonder they've got a sieve brain if they're sacrificing memories to go forward in time.

We don't actually trust the vague mechanisms of time to know how to distinguish useful memories from useless ones, the same way we don't actually trust people to divide "useful" from "useless" in other things. It's always A Useless Trinket until you actually need it for something, and things that are discarded are far harder to get back than things that are simply lying about the place, waiting to be picked up.

Lazy we may be, but we always enjoy poking everything. We are looping back to Dormont.