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>Why didn't Radula wait until almost everyone in the universe was dead and no one one could really resist the awakening of the Cacophony?...
Most of this falls under the category of "Radula being lazy", which sounds counter-intuitive but from a fractal causality standpoint I feel like it makes some sense.
When Radula enters the real world, that forces it to become part of causality. Every action it takes causes the universe to branch out into another infinite network of possibilities, which means more universes that require invading. And since the Chorus, which in theory is its primary target, is hidden among the folds of causality, its goal would be to keep the infinite possible realities to the smallest infinity possible. So it is forced to follow the natural progression of causality, which is why it finds the whole thing so frustrating. The Book helps it keep on track and keeps it from interfering too much in the order of causality, making for the most efficient possible harvest. By keeping the Book away from Radula, the Chorus expanded the labyrinth of universes to live in.
This is also the reason Radula doesn't just hop into the universe, gather a critical mass of followers and kill itself immediately. Sure it opens up the universe for the Cacophony, but it also creates another identical universe where the Chorus can still hide because Radula is still alive. Although in theory, there was a universe where Radula killed itself on top of the tower as suggested in the intermission, and the world ended because of it.
>When the Cacophony starts eating the universe, causality will require it the mostly happen at a specific point in time before it spreads to the past and then the future?
Each universe has a specific point where it breaks through, in accordance to causality, but once it does the Cacophony doesn't just eat matter, or energy. Once it gains a foothold it starts to break down the laws the Chorus put into place. With those gone every moment is the future and the past, and everything that can happen, happens all at once: basically the Cacophony's natural habitat. Its goal isn't just to eat the universe and move on: it wants to eat every universe forever in a white hot, temporal singularity of hunger.
> Shit, he already detained the Professor before even the tower, it seems like.
Unfortunately time/space hijinks can make a mess of any story, especially a reader-driven one. So for all the talk about everything happening at once and nightmare dimensions, I tried to keep it pretty straightforward. Radula treats time more like a landscape it can roam around in, rather than the straight line we all travel, but it uses major events like the tower, or mental connections with those asleep close to the book to pinpoint its location.
>Also, we never did get this answer when I asked it in the main quest, but has the government mostly always known about Radula and the other world and stuff, but it doesn't tell the lower brass?
I operated under the assumption that Radula didn't reappear in the real world until the professor unearthed the Book somewhere in the mid-east some time before the events of the story. His adventure would probably be interesting to tell at some point, and I regret not getting a chance to develop him, but any knowledge the modern world had of Radula would have been a result of his reappearance.
After the tower the Chorus swore to keep any further involvement with mortals to an absolute minimum, to keep from awakening the Cacophony. Whether or not the US government in the story has had contact or knowledge of aliens is something that would probably be discussed in the next part of the story. I definitely think they would be present in the universe, and probably a great deal of them have encountered Radula in one reality or another (*cough* crossover? *cough*), but I haven't decided if the government would have had any involvement with them.
>I'm really intrigued on how the world's governments would react to all this news, potential for how it would affect warfare, medicine, etc. Even culture.
That'll probably be an interesting thing to see play out. Of course, when you have the combined knowledge of literally everything that ever happened, ever, the problem becomes: how do you find anything useful in it?
>Also what was Dale studying in College?
And what was he going to ask his professor that got him into this mess? Did Homework literally wreck most of Dale's life (and face)?
Professor Schreater was Dale's Cultural Anthropology teacher. I figured Dale for a history major out of convenience, but he would probably be studying something in the humanities (or whatever you'd call that in a world of animal people). I imagined that Dale would have been looking for Schreater to see if he had found anything interesting in his recent trip overseas.
>I realize we know Dale the least, despite being the main protagonist. Or the first. Honestly Beth is probably the most main one. Lot about her.
Dale is kind of the main protagonist in that he is the most of an audience insert. He was honestly kept as much a blank slate as possible, allowing the suggesters to build him through their actions rather than his past. He could have been a drug addled, crowbar-wielding psychopath with the right decisions, and while that would have been fun, I'm glad things worked out for him. I was even open to pretty much any possible romantic entanglement people suggested (minus Jeff), with the understanding that was a horror story about a crazed, unwashed drifter, not a dating-sim.
Beth on the other hand had a very clear role, personality and background from the start and was someone who was questioning a lot about herself. I never expected to have the audience control her as much as they did, but I'm really glad she got so much screen time and I think its really awesome that she became a main protagonist in equal standing. My only frustration with writing her sections ended up being the deaf dialogue. It made for an interesting story in the hospital, but unless they were in immediate danger I started assuming that they found some way to communicate with her that didn't involve wheel-of-fortune style fill in the letters.
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