[Zomboid]

Ok, here we go.

Spoilers!

1. His becoming the prophet had nothing to do with quantum physics; it's just what happens if Booker went through with the rebirth thing. It's not explicitly stated, but it's likely that there are universes where the floating city thing doesn't even happen. The whole infinite universes thing means there's an unlimited number of differences, both big and small, in an unlimited number of universes. This is easier to make peace with if you've been reading DC Comics for a while. 2. The female Lucete says, in one of the voxophones, that it's likely because she's in two worlds at once (her pinkie finger). That's not the case for anyone else, and it's probable that by the time Lucete figured that out, she and her "brother" were murdered shortly after. 3. Remorse, or something along those lines. She's clearly not happy with the way things turned out in her world, and seems to have realized that the only way to prevent that scenario from playing out in multiple universes ("Songbird stops you every time...") is to help a version of herself be saved by Booker. 4. She's pulling them into a new one. 5. I'm not sure which one you're talking about, but it happens twice, and she opens up the tear both times. 6. No idea. Personally, I think it's a reality where, somehow, things worked out and he never gave up his kid. Also, he's dead after wounded knee, not at birth. If he learns to live with himself and his decisions, he's the Booker we play as. If he gets baptized, he becomes Comstock. Theoretically, he's still alive, just before that point. 7. I don't think so. I guess it's possible, but Elizabeth seemed pretty sure that she was bringing him back to the beginning. Plus, you see all of the alternate Elizabeths disappear, which seems to imply that it worked and Comstock/Columbia never existed. 8. I think they just picked that spot because it was symbolic--that's where everything changed. They could've easily been there at any time before the baptism took place. We, as the players, recognized the place and knew what happened there, which also makes it easier to digest (in theory). 9. Yeah, that's a pickle. It's also really fucked up because, as far as I can tell, old Elizabeth got the Lucete "twins" to bring Booker to Columbia to attempt to stop everything in the first place. I think it's pretty strongly implied that our Booker isn't the first one to make the journey (think back to the "heads or tails" scene), too. To avoid giving myself a headache, I think of it like this: Booker becomes Comstock and takes Anna--creating plenty more universes and setting this story in motion. The story plays out plenty of times in plenty of ways, but eventually the old Elizabeth in our story wants to put an end to all the misery and the Lucete twins help her to bring Booker in to become a hero and undo it. That's just an over-simplified version that I refer to when I want to tell my brain to fuck off, but it seems to help.

Really, this sort of story is always going to have a lot of discussion and plenty of plot holes which could be proven and unproven, but at least we're discussing it, which is kind of fun in and of itself. Like the Terminator movies! I prefer what I consider to be a well-executed story like this than a massive bed-shitting like in Mass Effect 3.

I am sooo tired and a lot of that probably didn't make sense. I seriously just went out for lunch like an hour after waking up, went home, and played pretty much all day. I feel kind of out of it.