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Stormy Grey
It would be safe to assume that Conway is destined to end up in their debt. A lot of his dialog seems to lean towards having a history that would involve alcohol, and he swallows a pretty expensive bit of that special Hard Times commencement whiskey. And with his leg taking the skeletal form that all of the workers have in the distillery, there's a pretty good chance his soul had already been tainted. He was essentially sweet talked by the devil himself.
Part of the side-episode "Here and There Along the Echo" covers this in a special hidden message encoded in a numbers station broadcast. Since it requires ~50 minutes of waiting and a lot of math to decode, I'll explain further in the spoiler below:
After the community figured out the pattern and decoded the message, it had revealed a piece of prose.
"By night we suffer, wandering,
night frees the imprisoned spirits,
and his cage abandoned Cerberus himself strays.
At dawn the law demands return to the pools of Lethe: we are borne across,
and the ferryman counts the load hes carried."
It was discovered that this was a part of a short story from Elegies by Sextus Propertius, a Latin poet.
Due to the short's nature speaking after the death of a character, there are references to both Cerberus and Charon, associated with the River Styx. We can interpret that the ferry we saw the crew boarding at the end of Act 3 of KR0 is the Zero's analog to the river of the dead. So, by accepting his position at Hard Times, Conway has accepted his condemnation.
"By night we suffer, wandering,
night frees the imprisoned spirits,
and his cage abandoned Cerberus himself strays.
At dawn the law demands return to the pools of Lethe: we are borne across,
and the ferryman counts the load hes carried."
It was discovered that this was a part of a short story from Elegies by Sextus Propertius, a Latin poet.
Due to the short's nature speaking after the death of a character, there are references to both Cerberus and Charon, associated with the River Styx. We can interpret that the ferry we saw the crew boarding at the end of Act 3 of KR0 is the Zero's analog to the river of the dead. So, by accepting his position at Hard Times, Conway has accepted his condemnation.
