Paradoxes (SPOILERS)

[unwaveringresolve]

I finished the game, read all the diaries and news articles, and found the secret ending that you need the spirit radio to get , and I wonder about a few things.

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1. Tesla's canonical death. IRL, Nikola Tesla died in a hotel room in 1943 - not from suicide, but from a heart attack. But in this game's alternate history canon, Nikola threw himself off a balcony - you can even find a news article about it in his bedroom. BUT, if that's true, how can it also be that he was bludgeoned to death in his home sometime in between 1918 and 1929? The Invisible Hours doesn't seem to operate on multiple-universe theory, given how using the time machine turns the game into a stable loop. So... what happens to history now?
   
   
2. Flora's whereabouts. Does anyone know where Future!Flora goes in between Chapter 0 and Chapter 1? There's a bit of a time gap between chapters, but I searched the whole house and I can only find Present!Flora. Unless she threw herself from the cliffs, which seems unlikely given that she headed further into the house at the end of Chapter 0. She could have escaped by using the time machine again, perhaps, but I don't see how she could have gotten safe-door open again. Where did she go?
   
   
3. The spirit radio. Tesla's diaries indicate that it doesn't let you talk to ghosts - it lets you receive messages from the future. Hence, Tesla is able to receive communication from his future self, and so is the player. The messages the player receives through the radio suggests that Young-Tesla-Who-Lives-In-The-Future-And-Is-Not-Dead knows what is going to happen, and has chosen not to warn Old-Tesla-Who-Came-Back-to-The-Past-to-Die that the plan to undo six celebrities' "mistakes" will end in Old-Tesla's death. But if that's what happens, why does Young-Tesla then ask the player to jump off a balcony? What purpose does that serve?

[pizza4life]

Flora disappearing can be attribute to how the nature (in this game) restore itself by erasing people who are not in their timeline (in this case future Flora), so you could say she disappear in the thin air soon after she killed Nikola. Its just my theory on how it happened

[unwaveringresolve]

Originally posted by Arthands:

Flora disappearing can be attribute to how the nature (in this game) restore itself by erasing people who are not in their timeline (in this case future Flora), so you could say she disappear in the thin air soon after she killed Nikola. Its just my theory on how it happened

Interesting idea, but can you think of anyone or anything else that got erased in this manner? After all, Flora's locket and the murder weapon didn't disappear.

[Rack]

She killed Nikola to get further access to the time machine and has five minutes to do so. The most logical assumption is she went down there and used it again. She knows where it is and having opened it before should probably not have a lot of trouble doing so again. The biggest problem is the cable not being connected.

[pizza4life]

Originally posted by unwaveringresolve:

Originally posted by Arthands:

Flora disappearing can be attribute to how the nature (in this game) restore itself by erasing people who are not in their timeline (in this case future Flora), so you could say she disappear in the thin air soon after she killed Nikola. Its just my theory on how it happened

Interesting idea, but can you think of anyone or anything else that got erased in this manner? After all, Flora's locket and the murder weapon didn't disappear.

That's true, and I admit I have no explanation for that. That theory was just made up by me to help me sleep better, lol. I'll just think that its only living entity that disappear because only living entity can create the device to time travel.

Got to admit Flora disappearing while the locket and the murder weapon remain, is problematic. There's no place for her to hide on the island. There's no boat for her to leave the island, its stormy and there's bound to be some footprint, etc