thread: Abe HD Ideas
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03-26-2012, 04:55 PM
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(a) Maybe it's a mystical light.
(b) What other factors present in the games (not interviews) aren't accurately represented on the map, in your eyes? No, they haven't explicitly stated as much.
(c) That's the trouble with your idea. You keep needing to add more and more unseen details to make it make sense. If Big Face was certain Abe was the blue Mudokon foretold in prophecy, why bother waiting for him to escape RuptureFarms?
(b) How many revisions has the map gone through? How many faults were found in it? The current version may well be more accurate than the first, but I'm still not going to declare it correct.
(c) Because prophecies are tricky beasts and Big Face wouldn't be confident in them.

In any case, I'm not adding any more unseen details than you are. You're suggesting that Big Face keeps guard over the borders of Monsaic Lines, walking back and forth and curing the injuries of all who find themselves there. That seems unlikely to me.

On the other hand, it seems logical that the Native muds would have all sorts of prophecies and would watch the stars, birds and various other omens. The Mudokon paw moon/meteor shower idea has been dropped, but it would have been just one sign of many that the saviour was coming.

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That’s kind of how it is already – a Story Stone in Monsaic Lines gives the first indication that you should be saving Mudokons, if I remember rightly.
Nope. Take a look at the LED screen here:

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