I... may have replayed the 3 "Openbound" walkarounds multiple times. There's honestly something magical about the dream bubbles, and getting to wander through them meeting new trolls? Yes please. Meenah was a thoroughly entertaining guide. By that point I was used to the sheer amount of reading this comic requires, so putting together the history of the Beforan session was enjoyable.

I was not the terminally online type when it was written, so maybe I'm just not seeing the stereotypes behind the characters so much. I watch a YouTube channel called "izzzyzzz" which deals with lot of the web culture stuff I've missed out on. At one point, they covered a crowdfunding scandal involving particularly obnoxious Tumblr celebrity of the kind who gives progressives a bad name - and I went, "Bloody hell, that's Kankri! Only worse."

(And yes, they could have done better with Damara. Her Alternian Ancestor version is an awesome concept: a time-travelling harbinger of chaos and oppression. I didn't retranslate most of OG Damara's Google-translate Japanese, and apparently I was wise not to!)