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Someone get this diva an umbrella ☔️

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No i havent outgrown it because i had great taste at 7 years old

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"but physical media is worse quality and will break with time" I DON'T CARE! I WANT TO OWN THINGS I LIKE! I WANT SHELVES FULL OF DVDS, CDS, AND A LIBRARY!

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FINALLY bought a physical copy so I can play on playstation :3

I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH

AAAAHHHHH🥹

Bring back physical games for pc. I hate that if I want a physical copy, I have to buy for playstation😭

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Emotional support tressym

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I just had to, omg I love him..

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I just really like him🥹

Also...

This paper: marker paper for alcohol markers

What I used in this drawing: paper mate pens, coloured pencils, watercolour brushes, acrylic marker and micron pens

Ye this paper was NOT having a fun time but who cares LOL

Gotta draw my baby 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

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This is the funniest interaction ever LOL

Also, hello other Addair fan

Hihihihi🤭

MY HUSBAAAAAND🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Me is happy :3

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Hihihihi🤭

MY HUSBAAAAAND🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Me is happy :3

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I want to heal so fucking bad

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Please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks it was ABSOLUTELY STUPID for Billy Chamberlain to talk shit about the wife of an EX-BOXER. If that’s not a death wish, I DUNNO WHAT IS.

(Unless he didn’t know, then that’s just his mistake)

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I wanna kiss Roy on his big ol’ bald head.

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Can we please normalise owing our favourite shows and movies as dvds and blu-rays?

My mum is giving me so much hate because "it's 2025. Nobody is buying dvds anymore, except for you. Stop living in the past, it's embarrassing."

EXCUSE ME??? THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!

And guess what

I need no subscription service

No Internet

Nobody can take this away from me

I can watch it whenever I want

AND I get the bonus of having a cool looking shelf 😎

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Trying to make a relationship web of all the SWTD relationships

I got everything I could find, but let me know what Im missing or shoudl change and if there's any famous relationship headcanons I should note down!

The blue highlighted one's are one idk what to do with. Might've forgotten to recolour a few lines- lol

shhh, i totally didnt forget to add Raffs👀💦

Also here's a legend:

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Fellaaaas, TCR answered a bunch of questions on reddit!! It is probably one of the most biggest loredrops we've gotten so far. I copied everything onto a word file for later analysis. But not today, I am not feeling too well mentally after therapy....

A day before it started I asked people on my discord for questions, so I grabbed a few questions from @pickleddandelions @yourlocaltrashpandaxoxo @joliackermann @wild-pontoon-lad @rubus-yunnion and my own and posted them on the thread.

Without further ado, here they are!

Is Rob related to anyone from the Beira D Crew? Or is he a close friend to Mhairi?

This, I can clearly confirm: no. Rob is actually in some sense Mhairi's subordinate, but things don't work like office politics down under the sea. Hans is deeply experienced and networked in the commercial diving community in the North Sea, and he linked up to sponsor Mhairi's efforts early. Hans was aware of a young, very reliable saturation diver with exactly the type of wreck-diving profile that the expedition needed, so he set up Rob with an interview.

But Mhairi and Rob (and Hans! Can't forget about our elder statesman from Stavanger) became incredibly close in the preparation for this expedition. So however it started, they certainly were all close friends and colleagues by the time of the dive. Enough that they can be quite harsh with each other without worrying about losing a relationship.

How are Suze and her kids doing after recieving the news? Did she ever talk to Mhairi when she planned this dive?

I can't say too much about the McLeary family left behind... but I can say that Mhairi was very comprehensive in the course of reaching out to all the families of the fallen. She (Mhairi) spent years of her life managing this charity and getting to know all the people lost. She definitely made a visit to Suze's home, especially seeing as they were both in Glasgow.

How things went in that discussion? I won't say just yet.

One can find infected Scooby (name of the bodyhorror model) in the basegame, stuck to the ceiling. But playing through Siren's Rest we find Scooby on the ground holding the emergency phone. Was this intentional, or is the infected version someone else?

Names of character models sometimes get swapped around during development, so if you're poking through the assets, that may or may not be a reliable way of figuring out who's who.

What I will say is that it is very intentional that in Siren's Rest, Scooby is found where we find him, near the phone. Is there a discrepancy there? Or is there a clue?

In the basegame, we have two McLurgs on the deck. One of them is talking to Bruce and we wondered if that one would be Fergus? Since they would later venture down into engineering with O'Connor

I'd refer you to my comments above on the naming of character models not always being what you want to rely on.

The one talking to Bruce is Fergus. We hear them together on that first phone call from Caz's perspective. Good deduction.

Now long before the events of SWTD, Alan McLurg was assigned some of the crappiest jobs on the rig. Same as Toby Boyd. They were both pretty surly, and preferred their own company, so they made the best of it.

Unexpectedly for them, they got along pretty well and even kept a darkly comic competition going on down in the Mud House. Kept tallies. Whoever got to ten first had to buy a round of drinks for the other guy. McLurg, always grunting and disapproving, seemed like someone you'd not want to spend time with. But he came to like the younger Boyd, and he'd volunteer for tougher jobs when he could, just to give Boyd a break.

He'd never have admitted this to Boyd, though...

Does the guy from the vents and mudpits have a name? Who is this person Finlay lend her lighter to?

Yep. Alex Cranstoun is the one in the vents. He'd gotten Finlay's lighter fair and square after everyone got drunk after a darts competition. Finlay doesn't remember what happened that night, and so by the start of the events of SWTD, she thinks she's just misplaced it. But when disaster strikes, the fecking lighter doesn't even work, and it was all Cranstoun had... He tripped and fell into having one of the worst deaths possible, trapped at the bottom of an unclimbable space. The poor man.

A specific question for Iain Gillespie or Jade Jacson- I've found a few unused maps inside the gamefiles with pontoon legs covered in ribbons. Was the player meant to travel through one of the legs at an earlier point? Was it already planned from the start to have all goop calcified, or have some "living" parts remain?

Lead Design Jade: "I'm always amazed at how fast you guys can manage to get into the files so quickly!  Yeah we played with the idea of having to go through the pontoon leg at the very end of that scene, "something" was supposed to pull you below but it wasn't working well with the feelings we wanted the player to feel for that time so we decided that the focus on the door felt like a better moment and transitioned nicely to the next scenes.  I won't talk too much about the calcified goop/coral. I think it's better to leave some mystery to it"

I know it's probably prefered to keep it up to interpretation, but is the Siren (as we call the new antagonist) supposed to be a manifestation of the men who were infected? Or is it simply what remains of the creature after the explosion?

I'll say what I said in response to BillyJayGaming... I find it very interesting that the community believes there is a fixed creature of mostly human size that is the only presence here.

Let's consider what we all presumably know about how it operates. It has physical absorption capabilities. It has some sort of latent psychic induction capabilities. It seems to absorb people body and mind. And it comes from the deep.

Is that what Mhairi interacts with? And if so, is that exactly and precisely just an amalgamation of the workers from the Beira D? If such an entity exists, would there have been nothing else it ever absorbed, ever in its history? Hmm........

Could we learn more about Hans?

YES! THANK YOU FOR ASKING. I love grandpa Hans. Hans is in his 60s, and he's a sort of elder statesman of the North Sea. He got his stripes working in the dockyards of Stavanger, Norway, and he was universally loved as a mediator and union man over there. He had a very different set of influences than Trots, for example. He is hugely influenced by his childhood in the Second World War, during which the British navy put mines all around the Norwegian coast (Operation Wilfred), to dissuade a Nazi invasion by sea. Whatever the intentions, Hans developed a profound distaste for the bringing of violence and lack of regard for human safety to the waters of the North Sea. He used his position to focus on worker safety, which is why -- as he got older and ventured farther and farther into the North Sea to work on commercial projects -- he remained concerned about any oil rig disasters.

The isolation is a prime environment for terrible worker conditions. After the destruction of the Beira D, his sorrow for the people lost directed him quickly to Mhairi, who seemed to be the only person trying to do something about it. He offered his experience and mentorship, and the two of them built a partnership to plan out this expedition.

We're also curious about the King Brothers, Torkill and Abernathy. Is there any additional lore info to them? Or perhaps something we will see in the new *secret* chapter of the artbook?

I'll give you a little detail about the King brothers. Hector and Gregory are their names, which are modernised versions of the names of kings of Scotland from the High Middle Ages. Giric mac Dúngail, a king of Alba (or of the Picts) and Eochaid ab Rhun, a king of Strathclyde, were rumoured to be family members who ruled jointly in the 9th century.

Glen Torkill was the inventory manager, and he was a bit officious, perhaps a bit pompous, but altogether meticulous. He never left his inventory rooms, and we find him having "gone down with his ship", so to speak.

Gordon Abernathy... he got trapped down there. And his death is not a good one, as Mhairi remarks.

How many people worked on the rig, on the day of the explosion?

I don't recall off the top of my head, but there are more people than Caz interacts with personally. I believe it's about 30-ish

Whom did the Nic mug belong to?

Dominic Clague

One last silly question, what is Addair's full name?

Malcolm Addair

And that's it!!! I was sitting in the bus while the answers came in and in my head I was doing 10 backflips and so happy to finally have gotten answers to stuff we've wondered about for ages. FINALLY we know that McLurg talking to Bruce is Fergus!!! We did it Reddit!!!

I had multiple vine boom sounds in my head when they revealed the vent guy is Cranstoun, like.. there is zero info about this guy in the basegame or files. And suddenly we finally know what happened to him!

For all the other answers, go check out the reddit post and feast your eyes on the lore. We eating good tonight.

Also random side note, someone asked about the "To My Ewan" journal and this was their answer.

Hhhmm how odd, I wonder what they are implying... no. that's sillyyyyy, or.. is it? *vsauce music plays*