History Fridge / ReturnOfTheObraDinn

* Seconds before Abigail is killed in the kraken attack, Martin tells her that the captain is below decks. This suggests that Witterel was threatening the mermaids at the exact moment she was struck down. Her death scene is the very last one shown for "The Doom", indicating it took place very shortly before the third (intimidated) mermaid called off the kraken's attack. Was Abigail's death a coincidence of timing, or did the second (defiant) mermaid somehow sense the woman's last words to Martin via her link to the terrible squid, realize that she was the captain's wife, and ''deliberately'' command the kraken to crush her in retaliation against the man who'd just shot her companion?

* The damage to the gun deck's woodwork inflicted during the crab-rider and kraken attacks was never repaired or even patched, because by that point both of the ship's carpentry-workers are dead.

* Just before Abigail is killed in the kraken attack, Martin tells her that the captain is below decks. Her death scene is the very last one shown for "The Doom", meaning it took place shortly before the last mermaid called off the kraken so Witterel. Was Abigail's death a coincidence of timing, or did the still-defiant second mermaid somehow sense the woman's last words to Martin via her link to the terrible squid, realize that she was the captain's wife, and ''deliberately'' command the kraken to crush her in retaliation against the man who'd just shot her companion?

** The Inspector's bookcase back home has a shelf with various artifacts. ''What has the Inspector seen'' in their travels that the Obra Dinn doesn't even elicit a reaction from them?

* Just how common are morbid and/or cursed artifacts in the world of ''Obra Dinn'', anyway? By apparent pure chance, not one but '''two''' such items - the Formosans' shell and the surgeon's Memento - wind up sharing this nondescript small cargo ship for the same voyage. Either that's the biggest coincidence ever, some higher force engineered their proximity, or creepy magic is a ''lot'' more common in the game's setting than it's comfortable to think about.

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* Just how common are morbid and/or cursed artifacts in the world of ''Obra Dinn'', anyway? By apparent pure chance, not one but '''two''' such items - the Formosans' shell and the surgeon's Memento - wind up sharing this nondescript small cargo ship for the same voyage. Either that's the biggest coincidence ever, or creepy magic is a ''lot'' more common in the game's setting than it's comfortable to think about.

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** Speaking of the white mist, there's a practical reason why you have to be looking at it to keep it moving: it ensures you'll follow it from deck to deck if the next fatality was on a different level of the ship, so you won't get trapped behind an obstacle and unable to inspect the death site if the stairs were occupied.

** Speaking of the white mist, there's a practical reason why you have to be looking at it to keep it moving: it ensures you'll follow it up to the gun deck while tracking the Cook's demise, and not wind up trapped on the orlop deck by the blockage on the stairs, unable to see what's happening above you.

* The way the white tracer-cloud coils and meanders its way from one corpse to another, as if it can't plot a simple straight line from A to B, may seem as if it's deliberately trying to frustrate you. But its dawdling may be an unavoidable side effect of the Memento's having been designed as a ''pocket watch''. How else can a mechanical watch indicate ''anything'', if not by circling round and round?

* If Henry Evans knew what happens in "The Bargain" (which he must have, since he would have no reason to give the chapter that title otherwise) then he must have used the Memento Mortem on the monkey's paw himself. So why did he leave that chapter of the book blank rather than filling it out himself? Because he wanted to make sure he could trust the inspector and ensure they had thorough understanding of what happened before giving them the means to learn where the Formosan chest is located in present day.

* Why was the inspector not required to identify the stowaway? Because the investigator is an insurance adjustor for the shipping company. He/she is only required to identify liability for the company. The company would not be required to pay any liability for a stowaway.

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Fridge Logic

Fringe Logic: Why is the unnamed stowaway the only human death on board where the Indspector is not required to identify the victim? Because, as a stowaway, they're not covered by the ship's insurance.