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i thought Victoria vandalized the poster?

Was it? I forget the exact context that poster shows up. The handwriting matches up closely with what we can safely tie to Nathan

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I don't know if this particular theory has been made before, but I think I know how it's going to end:
Max is going to save Chloe by using Warren's "seflfie" at the party and go back in time through it. That's why Mr Jefferson is announcing the result there and why you "bump" into him. That should be enough to find a way to stop him/warn Chloé.
 
Just finished ep.4 and slowly working my way through the spoiler thread, so just some random thoughts. I guess the butterfly on a bucket pic that Chloe takes from Max in ep.1 is going to come into play in the final episode. If you search Chloe's wallet in ep.4 you see she still has it. So, Max will be rescued by David who is still tracking Jefferson. She'll use the Warren selfie to travel back and save Chloe. Some important stuff will then happen during which Max will learn that Chloe being alive is what's causing all the bad shit to happen. She'll then use the butterfly pic to travel back to the bathroom and let Nathan shoot Chloe.

I'm actually hoping that the 'Chloe needs to die for the bad shit to stop' theory is not going to be right. The sacrifice someone you love for the greater good ending is a bit of a cliche, a la Pete Tyler in the Doctor Who ep Father's Day.

If Chloe is indeed the cause of all this, how does that relate to the Prescott's seemingly knowing about the storm? They constructed a $1.35m bunker and called it Stormbreaker, Nathan mentions in the trailer that a storm is coming.

Also, found this on Youtube whilst searching for the music from the Vortex Club party. This is the first track that plays.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReCdPcaDn4M

Notice the publish date and channel avatar. Pretty cool.
 
This might be a stupid question but is Blackwell Academy a highschool or a private college? Max is 18, shouldn't she be in a college? How old are the characters in the game?
 
She has some extra dialogue option including a quote that may or may not be relevant foreshadowing. Haven't seen it discussed either. It's by Robert Frost.

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

No idea what this refers to - finding the extra graffitis when going off-path in the junkyard at the end there of Ep. 4 there, or if it refers to the percentage of people that chose something, or if it's hinting at a reward for doing the extra most don't like helping her all five times (she does mention you helping her all the time reminds her of that quote, so...)

Great point. You could be onto something

This might be a stupid question but is Blackwell Academy a highschool or a private college? Max is 18, shouldn't she be in a college? How old are the characters in the game?

Some people are 18 when they are seniors and others aren't. Could depend on your area and when they are okay with you starting school. Some places want you to be a certain age when you start and others are okay if you turn that age when soon enough in the year. So it affects what age you are when you graduate at the predicted page. I've seen lots of people think it was a college to the point where I also asked the same question in the OT and David said something about PC college kids or something too. But everything else points to high school. I don't think any college or university is referred to as an academy anyways (aside from the rest of the stuff pointing to high school).
 
Maybe Nathan's spirit animal is a red herring. Since this is explicitly Nathan

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We're led to believe this is also his work

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But how could he have that animosity and then suddenly be elated when he thinks she's actually alive

Wait, the poster says Rachel went missing in April. The game takes place in October. But when they found the body, they could easily identify her. So she disappeared for months but was only recently killed, less than 2 weeks, probably.

There's something more to Rachel's case than just: She's dead.
 
Wait, the poster says Rachel went missing in April. The game takes place in October. But when they found the body, they could easily identify her. So she disappeared for months but was only recently killed, less than 2 weeks, probably.

There's something more to Rachel's case than just: She's dead.

Did they ever actually open and look into the bag, though? Didn't seem like it.
 
I also think there's something up with the Rachel body but the doe leading us to the lighthouse and then to that grave does make me think it's her. I don't see many others it could be except... Nathan? His jacket was in the Dark Room. But the body wouldn't smell this early. And even with rewind powers by Jefferson, people wouldn't recall seeing him that very afternoon. But there could be something in play regarding the date and such.

Notice the publish date and channel avatar. Pretty cool.

I did know about the artwork for the album being a blue butterfly but that publish date is a great observation. There's no way something like this was planned, but that it matches perfectly with the Vortex Club party Kate was drugged at is fucking insane.

Great point. You could be onto something

Thanks, I didn't get that dialogue and when I saw it on Youtube I found it way too specific to just be thrown out like that. It feels important, just like Jefferson's announcement of the Everyday Heroes and Warren's selfie before the party.
 
Not unless it turns out a alternate Max turns out to be the villain all along.

Max is the Villain, she figured out how to warp time and space to create weather anomalies and was so jaded and sad in her timeline that she figured the only way to fix everything was to just wipe the town off the planet and all the Prescotts along with it, Rachel is just a young Joyce who somehow found a way to move forward in time to fight the evil Max but got caught up in bullshit along the way.

And then there's also the fact Chloe has unknowingly been in love with her timetraveling mom, which is a metaphor for her family problems and that she needs to make peace with her actual mother.

That's how this would reach MGS2 tier.

I knew I didn't trust Warren for a reason.
 
Maybe Nathan is trapped (between some arrangement with his dad and Mr. Jefferson), like the beached whales...

Also someone theorized Nathan's dad or grandfather may also have time travel abilities, and used it to accumulate wealth... Maybe that's why those old documents and pictures were in the barn--it's a place he can depend on to stay constant.

Maybe nature gave Max the ability so she can bring balance back to the force.

So Max is going to throw a huge hissy fit and kill everyone at Blackwell?
 
That's like the second weird "mini character" picture I've seen of LiS (made even weirder by Kate and Chloe in a case in the corner).

Is that a thing in general, or just for LiS?
 
Max is the Villain, she figured out how to warp time and space to create weather anomalies and was so jaded and sad in her timeline that she figured the only way to fix everything was to just wipe the town off the planet and all the Prescotts along with it, Rachel is just a young Joyce who somehow found a way to move forward in time to fight the evil Max but got caught up in bullshit along the way.

And then there's also the fact Chloe has unknowingly been in love with her timetraveling mom, which is a metaphor for her family problems and that she needs to make peace with her actual mother.

That's how this would reach MGS2 tier.

You forgot that Warren is a time traveling young William Price. His attempts at get close to Max and his spying on her (he's also using Brooke's interest in him to use her drone to watch Max) are part of his efforts to stop Evil Max.
 
  • Blue butterfly
  • High school setting
  • Teenager with supernatural powers
  • Teenagers playing detectives
  • High school kids being targeted/murdered
  • Seemingly innocent culprit
  • Relationship systems
  • Apocalypse scenario mixed with crime
It's all there!

Some dances gonna put you in a trance
Let's party, let the boogie hit your body
Move everybody, move that body
Make sure you don't hurt nobody
I say hey, hey, hey
Fueling the fire with a burning desire, yeah
Get up off of that thing
Dance and shake, yo let's swing
Come on, girl, let me rock your world

She has some extra dialogue option including a quote that may or may not be relevant foreshadowing. Haven't seen it discussed either. It's by Robert Frost.

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

No idea what this refers to - finding the extra graffitis when going off-path in the junkyard at the end there of Ep. 4 there, or if it refers to the percentage of people that chose something, or if it's hinting at a reward for doing the extra most don't like helping her all five times (she does mention you helping her all the time reminds her of that quote, so...)

Works pretty well with the "if you save Chloe, you loop back to episode 1" theory. Two roads diverged is very clear when it comes to having two choices, and the less traveled by, be it just them guessing most people will choose to save Chloe or just that Max already have tried many times, is the one that will allow time to move forward.
 
Some dances gonna put you in a trance
Let's party, let the boogie hit your body
Move everybody, move that body
Make sure you don't hurt nobody
I say hey, hey, hey
Fueling the fire with a burning desire, yeah
Get up off of that thing
Dance and shake, yo let's swing
Come on, girl, let me rock your world

Song's amazing. Persona 3's soundtrack as a whole is amazing but that dorm track feels so right.
 
Song's amazing. Persona 3's soundtrack as a whole is amazing but that dorm track feels so right.

Definitely the most underrated song in the game. It pains me not to see it in the top whatever they show during concerts. What's wrong with people for not liking this song :C
 
Definitely the most underrated song in the game. It pains me not to see it in the top whatever they show during concerts. What's wrong with people for not liking this song :C

The bass line is so great and the feel of it is perfect. To be fair though, the competition it has is crazy. I don't think it's a matter of people not liking the song, it's just that the votes are heavily skewed in P4's favour and among the P3 tracks only the most important ones come out - Velvet Room theme, battle theme, main theme, ending theme, boss theme, etc. I'd also love it to see it be performed live in concert. They've done When the Moon's Reaching out Stars yet the Iwatodai Dorm theme hasn't been done at all from what I've seen.

On topic:
About Nathan's whereabouts, the last thing he says (besides crying if you let Warren go crazy on him) is his dad's on his way. So I have to assume wherever he is has got to be related to that.
 
Oh, didn't notice that, didn't think we'd actually get to see Mr. Prescott. Can't wait.

Last bit of Persona off-topic: Backside of the TV (Lotus Juice Remix) ended up being pretty sick, I'd be ok with a revision of Iwatodai Dorm by him.
 
Have a feeling we are going to go back to that alternate universe in episode 5, just not sure when or for how long.

So far more or less every decision even the small ones have had an impact later in the story. I think this will also be the case for the decision of putting Chloe to rest or not, or at least I hope so.
 
Have a feeling we are going to go back to that alternate universe in episode 5, just not sure when or for how long.

So far more or less every decision even the small ones have had an impact later in the story. I think this will also be the case for the decision of putting Chloe to rest or not, or at least I hope so.

Max burned the photo that let her go there though. At that point I guess it's because she feels she's done with changing things too much/didn't like going to the new reality she'd created.
 
Max burned the photo that let her go there though. At that point I guess it's because she feels she's done with changing things too much/didn't like going to the new reality she'd created.

She also ripped up the contest entry but it seems to be hinted at coming back in the menu for episode 5.
 
She also ripped up the contest entry but it seems to be hinted at coming back in the menu for episode 5.

yeah, max ripping up the photo was something I've wondered for a while since that photo is the preview picture for ep5,
but I guess she could recover it if she rewind time back to the point where she takes the selfie in Jefferson's class on Monday, but I don't know how that scenario would work, she have to save chloe again and then what, find David and get Jefferson arrested? lol
 
Maybe Nathan's dead. Every shot we get of the bag in the ground it's never actually opened. Nathan's jacket is at the Dark Room and he's nowhere to be found at the Vortex Party.

Instead we only run into Jefferson, who trips on his words quite a bit when Max ask if Jefferson had seen Nathan.
 
Just finished Ep. 2. Looking through my stats, if anyone remembers back, was there a way to be friendly with Taylor?

Also the tamper/didn't tamper railtracks thing. I thought I was tampering with it by cutting the wire. Says I didn't tamper with the railtracks.
 
Maybe Nathan's dead. Every shot we get of the bag in the ground it's never actually opened. Nathan's jacket is at the Dark Room and he's nowhere to be found at the Vortex Party.

Instead we only run into Jefferson, who trips on his words quite a bit when Max ask if Jefferson had seen Nathan.

Nathan's jacket is a determinant item. It may or may not show up in your playthrough, depending on what choices you make in the previous episodes. And although the possibility of Nathan being dead is moderate, I do think the body in the ground is Rachel's. Chloe noted a strong smell from the grave. Even if Nathan was killed right after his encounter with Warren, there is no way his body would reek that fast.
 
Wait what? What choices determines if Nathan's jacket is there or not? Seems like a minor thing to be a "consequences" of some of our choices.
 
Just finished Ep. 2. Looking through my stats, if anyone remembers back, was there a way to be friendly with Taylor?

Also the tamper/didn't tamper railtracks thing. I thought I was tampering with it by cutting the wire. Says I didn't tamper with the railtracks.

What! Get out of here and go here

This is the spoiler thread, so any spoilers are unmarked.

As for your question, yes you could be friendly with Taylor by rewinding after she told you about her mom and then asking her about it.
 
Wait what? What choices determines if Nathan's jacket is there or not? Seems like a minor thing to be a "consequences" of some of our choices.

Nothing is completely confirmed yet, but it might be linked to whether or not you blamed Jefferson or Nathan for Kate's suicide/attempted-suicide. If he was suspended, then he's probably spending more time in the dark room than usual.
 
Wait what? What choices determines if Nathan's jacket is there or not? Seems like a minor thing to be a "consequences" of some of our choices.

I posted about it in the OT

Found a playthrough that didn't have the jacket and checked the choices. No jacket -> Intervened to help Kate. Reported Nathan. Comforted Victoria. Took the blame for Chloe. Told Kate to wait for more proof. Answered her call. Didn’t try to shoot Frank. Saved Kate. Blamed Mr. Jefferson. Stole the money. Kissed with Chloe. Sided with Chloe. Kept Frank’s dog from harm. Chloe has David’s gun. Frank is friend. Max pulled Warren off him. Said yes to Chloe. Warned Victoria and she believed.

I think it might have to do with blaming Mr. Jefferson.

I think maybe by blaming Jefferson that playthrough avoided Nathan getting suspended and thus he didn't go to the Dark Room that day so his jacket wasn't left there. As for the selfie, that'd make sense.

I agree Jefferson tripped over his words a good bit when he said he last saw Nathan that afternoon. He seemed to realize he said something he shouldn't have.
 
I can confirm that I did not blame Jefferson, got Nathan suspended and his jacket was in the Dark Room in my playthrough.
 
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