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Here is speculation about the thing I put in spoiler tags a little while ago. I think BASIL's aggressively cute cheerfulness is being set up for some tragic irony. It's a pretty common device to give a character with an awful home life a sunny disposition. I don't think we'll witness abuse when we get to his house; his friends have apparently been to his house lots of times so if that's happening it's under wraps. We might walk in on a suicide at his place. A suicide content warning is the first screen of the game. Or he might die; suicide would be the most ironic but his death would be tragic regardless of cause. Perhaps the house itself is spooky in some way. Or like his parents are hoarders, but they hoard *horror game* stuff like weeping souls in jars and furniture that bleeds. Or they're alcoholics. You know, a problem you're not gonna *really* notice as a kid unless your parents point it out.

I know I should go to BASIL's house but I'm reading the combat guide. This seems like a really fun battle system. It feels very Pokemon-like to me, with all the focus on turn order and stat increases and decreases, and the way the emotions have a fire->grass->water->fire relationship. I like the followups, the general symmetry is kind of neat.

RIGHT! BASIL's house. He lives in a shoe. That's cute. We go up to his front yard and he walks ahead of us. He takes a photo of everyone, which comes out blurry but that gives it character. He keeps talking about how cute we look, which is weird for a preteen boy to say about 4 mixed-gender kids his own age, even though it *is* true. There's a thing where KEL and AUBREY get in a big ol' pushing fight over wanting to see a photo (I guess they can't both look at it when they have to occupy adjacent tiles on a 2d grid) and knock BASIL over, causing him to drop his photo album. Fortunately none of the pictures got damaged, so we go inside.

Oh right, he doesn't live with his parents. And his house is a normal house with a bunch of potted plants everywhere. So now we're putting back the photos that got dropped. We're doing this from memory. Because "OMORI has a really good memory." Oh right, the story is actually things like "Putting the flower crown on BASIL" and "BASIL with the flower crown reading to OMORI" so it's pretty obvious what order that happens in lol

We finished putting the photos back in order and AUBREY and KEL apologize to BASIL for knocking him over. Then BASIL notices another photo behind him. He says he doesn't recognize the photo but it seems somehow familiar. A long, spidery web of shadows grows beneath him. His eyes get red and the text grows distorted and he says "No..... MARI?" There is some static, and a door closes, and then we're back in the White Space, where the soundtrack has been replaced by a heartbeat.

MUY INTERESANTE

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