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The "janitor" and its role in the game.
I cant stop thinking he *was* part of that cult maybe.
And how he kinda *give* hints to mae on harfest act.
And the tombstone on the graveyard.
Who is the janitor.
The "Ghost"
Is he really. "normal" or is a paranormal entity?
How he crossed the gate, holding up a teen. can he walk through solid objects?
How he "appeared" right in the end.
The arm foreshadowing. At the ending elevator scene, he lose an arm.
On early builds he looks like a big gator with glowly eyes. but ofcourse really tall more than a normal person.
The "god"
Does the rest of the cultist seen these "gods" mae saw on her dreams?
What are really these gods, and why they dont care.
Do sacrifices really help somehow?
What is really under the hole?
Did they survive?
maybe I didnt pay much attention but.. I dont understand these "gods" or cultists motive and the hole.. that "eats" everything.
The Pentagrams.
something mae said catched my attention. on the lost constellation on the frozen lake. the reflection was supposed to be the "after life"
She mentioned that a star in the reflection its looks like a pentagram.
What are the meanings of these pentagrams.
and how mae find these "patterns" specially on the ending cave.
The Arm.
Why cultist carried.. an arm of someone already dead?
....the meaning of the arms on the story?
The tatto.?
The dream sequences.
What they really mean?.
The guys that play the music. who are they and what they represent?
The shadows?
The animal gods? what are they. and why mae experiences them.
I may have more questions. gotta play the game again to get more answers.. OR more possible questions.
Re the arm, Lurv is "punished" because he screwed up and left the arm lying around in plain view. But how he managed to lose it is unexplained.
The trolley reference is interesting, the moral choice at the end doesn't seem to be obvious at all. If they tell the authorities about the cave-in, and the cultists get rescued, then there is no evidence against the cultists, and they can continue on their murdering spree. The alternative is to leave them to die a horrible slow death, likely because of starvation.
A big theme of Night in the Woods is the way people create patterns in order to create meaning from nothing. The stargazing minigame is probably the most obvious example of that, as the stars are just dots in the sky until people give them shapes and stories.
This is also what's going on with the Three Weird Teens and the pentagrams. Mae is looking for patterns in her own life, and finds these patterns with other people (the Bombshell at the party, the sax player in the abandoned stage, the sticker on the Party Barn door, the support beams of the mineshaft etc). Point is, she can't find a pentagram without running into somebody, and making a connection with them, however fleeting. When she runs into trouble in the woods, thinking about the people she's met keeps her going.
Mae talking about how the pentagram looks like the ghost star ties all this back in with the constellation motif, and pattern-finding. People are just people - it's how they treat one another that gives life meaning.
tl;dr, the teens are just teens, and the thing about pentagrams is just confirmation bias on Mae's part. But it gave her an excuse to talk to people and find her own meaning in life, which is ultimately what helps her out of the mineshaft and lets her move on with her life.
He also looks eerily like the statue in the graveyard. Not saying he's actually an immortal being, but in Adina Astra's tale in the supplementals, the major antagonist is someone who has lived forever through the sheer will to survive.
As for the "thing in the hole"; the tagline for the game is "At the End of Everything, Hold on to Anything". Whether or not there's anything truly supernatural going on, the cultists have grasped on to the belief in this entity in the face of their town's slow death. Whether that means they're truly in thrall to a demonic entity, or just performing a horrible ritual to try and feel a sense of control, is up to interpretation. Certainly, they've still been feeding the pit but the town continues to collapse. Although, we did get a new taco place. Tacos del Diablo!!!
There are multiple explanations for this, rational and not-so rational. They might be both true at the same time.
I'll start with the not-rational stuff.
The "god" in the hole, and the spirit animals, are probably entities that come from outer space or another plane of existence, similar to H.P. Lovecraft's Outer Gods[en.wikipedia.org]. They view humans pretty much as we view insects: some don't care about them, some kinda like them or want to study them, some want to mess with them just for fun, and some want to have them for breakfast. The hole-god is definitely in one of these two last categories. Since it's depicted as a goat by the cultists, it's probably based on Shub-Niggurath[en.wikipedia.org], "the Black Goat of the Woods" (one of Lovecraft's entities). The cat-god might be based on Ulthar[en.wikipedia.org]. His speech about the endless void and the entities that populate it, for whom humans and their lives are of no consequence, sounds very Lovecraft-ish.
I don't remember if the cultists claim to see any of the spirit entities outside of the hole-god, but they definitely see this one as a goat (there's a painting of it in the Historical Society). They believe that by sacrificing humans to the god, they'll be granted their wishes (restoring Possum Springs to its former glory). It's unknown what's actually in the hole, though it's probably what counts as the god's physical form, or some kind of portal to its reality.
The musicians are ghosts of former Possum Springs musicians, who died playing in the woods (they're mentioned by the saxophonist playing in the Party House attic). They were probably entranced by the hole-god, hence why Mae sees them.
Basically, classic horror stuff. Now for the rational interpretations:
When you go to the library with Bea, you can find an article about toxic gas that seeps from underground Possum Springs, that gives people hallucinations and might come out in certain houses. Mae complains often about headaches and may be under the influence of that gas. Since she has tons of visions in the mines, it's quite probable that the gas might come from the cultists' hole, and that they suffer from it too.
Another explanation is sleep paralysis[en.wikipedia.org]. It's a condition that causes you hallucinations (often shadowy, ghostly beings) which can sometimes manifest outside of sleep if you have sleeping problems or mental health disorders (and both apply to Mae). It does not explain how the cultists share the same visions though.
Once again, both rational and non-rational explanation can apply to what's happening in NITW.
This is so true it almost hurts.
tl;dr: the cult is capitalism, mae (and the player) feels like they didn't accomplish anything because the cult was merely a physical representation of these ideas but mae realizes that they permeate contemporary society
I was thinking about the gas too, but in this case how Eide (the "Ghost" guy) can be explained? I mean, his clearly supernatural powers like hovering above the ground, walking through walls and probably some psychic powers - influencing Mae's mind and giving her nightmares (though it could be the Goat-Hole God doing). Not even mentioning the infamous "fence-jumping" about which Mae kept telling everyone after the Harfest. If the toxic gas is responsible for Mae's and cult's behaviour, than how the hell Eide is capable of doing all these things? Everyone saw how he suddenly appeared in the elevator and even tried to drag Mae down. And Mae's friends also saw him when they were searching for ghosts in different locations. He certainly couldn't be a mass hallucination of both the cult and the protagonists.
So, all in all, right now Eide and his superpowers are things that debunk any kind of rational interpretaion. Unless there is a good and logical explanation of his actions and abilities.
(But personally I think the real answer is probably a combination of rational and irrational causes.)
It seems we won't be able to say for sure if it's just gas effecting people or truly a freaking Lovecraftian God living under the town and turning people insane WHILE giving his worshippers superpowers. Anyway, this duality of the situation makes it only more interesting, which is certainly a plus. I hope we'll find answers in the future. Some of them at least.
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im also wondering, can gasses cause anything like this? in the library, their was a news article talking about gasses that were making people go crazy, hallucinate, etc...