Erfworld

I'm a little confused about why Bonnie looks so troubled.

And the city talking to her is indeed interesting. We still don't quite know what the deal is with this new weird city.

Bonnie is troubled because her new Ruler is goofing around like a boy inside an amusement park, leaving her inclination towards rigorous order somewhat... unfulfilled.

Or from Jed's perspective, Bonnie looks troubled because she is not mellow.

I wonder if this is how to achieve peace in erfworld? More Jed the Heads?

I really want to see Bonnie drunk on Gold Rum.

I suspect it will be a different Drink Order for each character. Still, mellow Bonnie will be worth seeing whatever the spirit.

It's also known that Archons really, really dislike Juggle Elves (because they're the natural counter to all the Archon's combat abilities). She could just be vaguely disgruntled about them being here at all, regardless of the fact that they're allies.

That was quick

Aaaaand... you called it. Nice. The tower seems to have acquired some kind of weird Hippiemancy effect.

edited 20th Jun '16 4:52:30 AM by Fighteer

Building more Jeds sounds like a very, very bad idea.

Dunno, if you wanted to bring peace to Erfworld, you could do worse than construct a Jed in each side's capital...

You know what happened when Easter Island got going building all those things right?

No, and neither do you.

I mean, do we have any historical records, there?

edited 20th Jun '16 8:02:12 AM by Fighteer

EXACTLY

Yeah, Parson's thoughts on what its Signamancy symbolizes were ominous. But possibly he's got it hilariously wrong in some way.

There's a historical consensus about it so far as I know. It didn't end well after they deforested the island to make those statues. And we've already been told that Parson recognizes the Signamancy as being quite ominous at best.

I'm beginning to think that there are more hidden stats that we don't know about, starting with Mellowness.

I am very, very happy right now.

Cart before the horse. The Signamancy of things in Erfworld reflects Parson's own knowledge and preconceptions, so Jed is not necessarily a direct analogue to Easter Island, merely Parson's Popcultural Osmosis ideas about it.

edited 20th Jun '16 8:26:18 AM by Fighteer

He could just as easily be based on Tiki bars. So far as I know, Easter Island didn't have rum. Or spas.

edited 20th Jun '16 8:28:51 AM by DeMarquis

I don't think that's relevant, especially given how Erfworld is absolutely overflowing with pop culture knowledge.

Erfworld's "pop culture knowledge" is all a Signamancy reflection of Parson's knowledge. If someone else were to be transported there, it would fit itself to their minds.

Isn't that arguing against your own point? That means Jed's Signamancy formed specifically because Jed is ominous and Erfworld put that into a form Parson would understand.

Wait, do we know that for certain? Did everyone's signamancy change when Parson arrived? Were the Transylvitans not vampire-mafiosi before? Were the Archons not stewardesses?

Well, yeah, but I don't think that its ominous nature is specifically intended to mean that, "What happened to the Easter islanders will happen to anyone who hangs out with Jeb too long."

That said, I do have to wonder what plot purpose it serves, other than to keep Stanley occupied and unable to do stupid things.

Good question. That's something that I can't quite piece together from the narrative. It seems to want to have it both ways — either Erfworld's Signamancy retroactively rewrote itself in its entirety the instant Parson arrived, or it's always been this way, which contradicts the notion that it's adapting itself to him. I suppose the whole thing could have existed for his benefit from the get-go, knowing that he would be The Protagonist, but it seems awfully convenient, and adds support to the idea that it's All Just a Dream.

Which makes sense only for present-tense events, not for the extended flashback segments, which Parson could not have been a party to and, for the most part, has not been told about.

edited 20th Jun '16 8:45:20 AM by Fighteer

Perhaps it's all in the eye of the beholder and the narrator/audience POV is viewing the world as Parson would.