Something that tends to go unnoticed unless one reads the comic more closely — it appears Jake entered his session at a serious disadvantage compared to his co-players. He was the only one to enter the session without a dreamself and without his house — the room globe he lived in was not what entered his session, but rather the ruined remains of where his house (like Jade’s) originally stood before it got blown up the night his grandma died. The alpha session was already Sburb on hard mode, but Jake? Poor guy wound up having to play on challenge mode while at it too.