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Look. Sometimes when reading something like this, you just have to... mentally correct the things that don't make sense.

"The Basement" has apparently been in the hold of a boat (probably a super yacht) this entire time. We don't know how many rooms there are but there's at least a dining area, a bedroom, and a couple of office spaces. There's also a decently sized BDSM dungeon with similar equipment scattered around Ian's various work spaces. This is fine. Nothing unusual here.

Benjamin appears to suck as an agent because he's better at fighting than sneaking around. He also got trained by a small group within the CBI since he was young (after his parent's deaths) which is really sus. Any time he does something incredibly stupid, I remind myself: It's not his fault. He grew up in a cult and doesn't know better.

I'm considering the storyline as a 'how I met your mother' and that various things in the retelling have been exaggerated. Ian does not have a third arm as a dick. Benjamin was properly lubricated off screen before taking anything up his ass. It's also possible that just like Ian appears to be super strong, Benjamin is super stretchy there.

So. Before it was confusing because we didn't know what was going on (and I'm pretty sure we still don't). And now that we've learned that some characters have been pretending to be NPCs, rereading is going to be such an experience (and also I'll be judging everything someone says). -- how do the players know that this is a game called Dreadful Nights anyway?

But I'm also still seriously confused by the latest chapter -- are they saying that they picked Bada up from the side of the road (tunnel) but he doesn't know this because his existence/memory only starts from when the prologue stops and the game officially begins (when he 'wakes up')? Or was he in the car the entire time but it's still the same scenario??
(And every time I think about what they did to Bada, it makes my heart hurt).

So Ch1 ... Seongchan stops Doha's tape and sends a villager to distract him from noticing (can the 'players' notice this, or is Seongchan being extra paranoid?).
Ch2: Doha's been reset to factory settings. Hence why he's saying things different to the previous sessions. Bada and Doha are both sus of each other.
Ch5: Bada's played the game over 50x (so Doha and Seongchan have been faking it that long + they must've played longer than that before Bada joined the team). [No wonder Seongchan prefers the 'die early and have someone else progress in the game for me' approach].
Ch7: Doha creates a new save file. [Seongchan's tape is removed].
Ch8: Doha 'wakes up' while driving. [No tunnel now?] Abandoned House location becomes available. [Since the House is only 'completed' on Seongchan's save file and that's no longer active].
Ch11: Bada mentions his memory issues. Hyungshin (blue hair) partially recalls the game.
Ch13: Bada gives info on how he thinks the tapes / save files work. Doha kills the killer twice.
Ch14: Doha seems sus of the tape explanation.
Ch15: Bada learns Doha already killed the killer (but didn't tell him). Bada is not happy.
Ch18: Bada wakes up in the game. [This is likely not the next session since Doha said he ejected Bada's tape around this point].

Okay this is getting waaay too long. I wonder what a "true" NPC looks like? Doesn't do anything? Won't talk unless spoken to? Obviously it was different enough from the others that Doha was willing to give up his own save file to keep Bada from hearing the "truth".

My new headcanon is that Bada went into the game to fix a bug or two (can't kill the killer, save files not working right) and got trapped. Who knows how long the game has been looping for. And the other 'players' were sent in to rescue him. (maybe they're playing an updated/patched version of the game). Either way, everyone's stuck now...

The only bonus is that I've finally figured out how the tapes work.

You know what. All these revelations have told me that you can't trust anything they're saying. Everyone is an unreliable narrator.

With the option of removing tapes / interfering with them.. who knows if what Doha or Seongchan are saying is the actual truth? They may believe it is, but someone else (Bada?) could have wiped their tapes (save files) in the past and they wouldn't be any wiser.

Saying that Bada is an NPC based off not being able to kill the killer.. isn't necessarily the 'truth' either. They're making assumptions about the rules of the game and stating them like they're facts.
For example: In one of my DnD sessions my party learned that in order to push open a particular door we would have to dance or else we'd be electrocuted. It turned out that the door was completely safe and that the dancing turned off the lightning spell that activated whenever someone touched part of the building. But because we'd touched the door first and been zapped, and then did a little dance and didn't get zapped, we made the assumption that we always had to dance to not get zapped (which technically worked but for the wrong reasons).
Hence, there could be other reasons why Bada can't kill the killer. Maybe Bada is playing the game on hard mode? Or maybe it's a - good at solving puzzles, but can't damage anyone - thing. Not sure what the others would be.. good at acting, bad at staying alive? Good at fighting, bad at working as a team?? Yeah, I don't know.

I'm also suspicious of the line "It was like you were born to be a gamer"... Is that foreshadowing?

I'm irritated.
Here we have Karnan: Traumatized. Mentally unstable. Emotionally manipulated since he was a child. Thinks he's the reason everything turns to flames (well...).
Then along comes the head of the IPA. And you'd think that someone in his position knows a thing or two about de-escalating situations?
Nope.
You have Karnan figuratively standing at the edge of a cliff. And instead of talking him off the ledge, that asshole shoves him off instead, and then has the audacity to blame him for falling (rampaging).
I get that it's happening for the "plot" but it's so unrealistic that it's pissing me off. Does no one have any training for this? How have they become such a big organization without learning something this simple?? Arrrrggggh.

The chapters have been cut in half so they don't match up with the raws at all. I was trying to find the missing chapters "81" and "83" and they don't technically exist.
Chapter 47 in the raw starts halfway through 79, and ends about a third into "81" at best guess. Chapter 48 is 81-82. Chapter 49 is 83 to most of 84.
While it feels like it's been forever since she was asked to get the earring (ch "26/27") to when it was delivered.. it's actually only been 30 chapters (ch 18-48)... Which is still kinda ridiculous.

I'm not sure why I looked into that. I think I wanted proof that it wasn't that long.. but they still really stretched the time out.

What the actual hell. Here I am, coming back to this after months, hoping to find out what happened in the last chapter so I can decide if I should start reading it again... And do I get any information? No. It's just a bunch of people squabbling that their need to have shitty translations provided by a bot weekly is better than placeholders that give us the officials.

But hey if that's your preference.. we can always ask Jujucat to stop uploading here, since you don't seem to appreciate them at all.

Yup it's a PWP. He'll never get clothes, or if he does, he'll lose them. And any new characters are only there to bring us back to more sex.

So if those three can be considered more 'human' I wonder if the "4th" one (chap 10) is more 'snake'?
And what are the gummies actually? Since Mugo seems disgusted by them.. Maybe they clean up the sacrifice leftovers.
Too many questions. Not enough answers.

... did the Redhead actually fall off the balcony.. or did he get beaten up and all the alphas are all in on providing an alibi? Who's read the novel?

Huh - well whatever she thinks, her father, the king, defied a prophecy that affected his kingdom.. to keep her alive and safe.