Life is Strange

I want it to be The Doctor.

...

*crickets*

So the owl from the Prescott Barn?

Wait whut

Did you not get that picture?

There's an owl in the barn, and when you examine it Max says "Well, hello Doctor Who... sorry, I had to."

Oh my fucking God Max

I didn't get that, I just took a photo of it and moved on with my life, I didn't notice you could use the Look option

Oh my God Max

T'was a creative pun.

Listing off all the unanswered questions I can think of:

• Where did Max's powers come from?
• How do we kill a tornado?
• What's causing all of the strange weather?
• How will Max escape the Dark Room?
• How much is Mr. Prescott in on this? We know he built the Dark Room, but we don't know if he's aware of what Jefferson is using it for. The Dark Room is apparently designed to resist storms. Does that mean that Mr. Prescott knows about the weather?
• Are Jefferson's actions related to the strange weather?
• What is Nathan motive?
• How much was Nathan involved in Rachel's disappearance? Does he know that she's dead? He seems genuinely horrified when he kills Chloe the second time at the start of the game, which makes me doubt that he's killed before
• Is Victoria really the next target, or was that binder meant to distract Max?
• How much does David know?
• What is David's relationship with Nathan and the Prescott family?
• Is Chloe dead for good? Hella no!
• Is Principal Wells more important than he seems? He's listed as a main character in the journal, but he hasn't really done much.
• Why does Samuel have Rachel's possessions? Does Samuel know about Max's powers?
• Are Stella the unremarkable Blackwell student and Stella the frequent customer of Frank's the same person?
• Did Rachel also have the power to rewind?
• How did Rachel become a spirit doe?
• Will the decision regarding Alt!Chloe affect anything?
• Will Square-Enix ever make another movie as great as Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within?

Edit: Forgot one:

• Why is Max heading towards the lighthouse in her vision of the tornado?

edited 30th Jul '15 5:53:48 PM by lrrose

This is neat. And terrifying.

A bizarre wish: I hope that sometime in Episode 5, Max is in the diner talking to Chloe (who's alive again), when this starts playing on the jukebox.

'Who put this on?!' 'It's on random.'

Oh shit.

What if the game is one big "Groundhog Day" Loop and we only find out in Episode 5 by rewinding all the way back to being in Jefferson's class on the day Max first gets her powers?

edited 31st Jul '15 1:43:01 AM by higherbrainpattern

Considered it. Wouldn't be pleased.

I remembered something a bit odd about the doe.

In Episode 1, the Doe is solid and not opaque looking. But, in episodes 2 and 4, its opaque and ghost like.

So, what does that mean? Early installment weirdness??? Or something deeper since this series has proved over and over again that no throw awayline isn't fully thought out and considered?

My first thought was that maybe Rachel was alive, but I have my doubts that grass could grow fast enough to cover up her shallow grave by the time of Day 2 and, based on Max and Cloe's reaction, it sounds like her body had very significantly decayed (enough that they don't want to show us the body too, which is for the best anyway). Which also couldn't have possibly happened so quickly.

Another thought. Rachel has been missing for 6 months. Its October. This means she went missing around March to May, give or take that the '6 months ago' lines may not be perfectly accurate. Kate is the lateast victim. Based on the order of the binders, we can assume and infer that there have been no vicitms between Rachel and Kate. But, there have to be two, maybe even 3 dozen binders in that cabnet. Just how long has this been going on???

I thought Jefferson was a relativly new teacher at Blackwell too. And the invoice about how expensive the Bunker's restoration was is still laying around as though it were fairly recent. So what gives?

I'm pretty sure the doe was trasnparent in episode 1 as well.

Re: these questions

My answers (I don't have all of them):

I think the tornado is caused by Max's time travel shenanigans, so to solve it, she's going to erase herself from the timeline and/or go back to stop herself from changing anything.

I think Nathan or David is gonna save Max. Somehow.

I think Rachel also had the power. But I'm not super certain. I'm like 65% sure.

I think the decision regarding Alt!Chloe has to come back somehow, even if it's just something like merging the timelines and Chloe remembers and is like "Whoa holy shit I can't believe you [did whatever you chose to do]!"

Square-Enix will never make another movie as great as FF:TSW.

higherbrainpattern: That's pretty much exactly my theory. Groundhog Peggy Sue, to be exact.

It was during the Friday!Storm segment at the end of the episode. When it appeared at the light house, it was solid.

If it wasn't that time, I know for SURE that there was some point where the doe appeared and it was solid and not opaque.

I was sure that Rachel had the power before, but I'm less certain now. Still, if the doe if unaffected by rewinds, then I think it's still possible that she did.

Just got the chance to play tonight.

What? WHAT?

Rachel?!

Jefferson?!

CHLOE!

JEFFERSON!

Ohhh, my feels. I simultaneously look forward to and dread the final episode.

And I was so sure that Rachel would be alive but trapped somewhere, possibly to do with time powers of her own, but man. That got to me.

I was so certain she was too.

EVERYONE seemingly had a good opinion of her and I thought she was just rewinding to be friends with everyone.

I never even considered that, but yeah, that would make sense.

I still find myself conflicted between what I as a gamer want to do, and what I think Max would do. Do I look in every nook and cranny and ratch through all the drawers and talk to everyone, or do I just hurry the fuck up and get, for example, Chloe's pain medicine?

On the subject of that, sorta, and almost certainly it was discussed already but I've been avoiding this thread since Monday, how many of you helped Chloe to die? In real life I am in support of assisted dying, but I just could not bring myself to do it here. I think it was mostly that I thought Max wouldn't do it, but even though it's just a damned game that was a tough decision. I hope I never have to make it in real life.

edited 31st Jul '15 5:41:29 PM by artfulscruff

Best part of waking up is Pricefield in your cup.

I think Max might have a contact high.

So apparently Nathan's jacket doesn't always shows up in the Dark Room depending on your choices, I wonder what that could mean.

I don't recall seeing that. Which choices?

I have no idea. I just saw a playthrough where it was there and someone said that in their playthrough it wasn't there.

Could they have just missed it?