Okay so, here’s what we know so far after Tadc episode 7:
Players who get too focused on leaving the circus end up abstracting.
Caine can absolutely mess with the player’s minds
Caine intentionally targeted Jax in the most recent adventure, choosing him to distract himself in the plan.
Jax had a hallucination that looked like it almost ended in abstraction. He also had a panic attack that resulted in him pressing the Red button. The flashes in his mind were of the real world.
Caine didn’t want Kinger included in the adventure. He made a lot of references to them being close through Abel.
Caine wants all the players to stay with him and like him.
Caine’s most likely the cause of the first abstraction.
So what that leads me to believe is:
Caine targeted Jax because he’s usually the one that gets the most invested in the adventures and always enjoys them. But he suddenly wasn’t into it anymore and that worried Caine. The hallucination sequence was Caine trying to influence Jax’s mind and make him happy again but it pushed him to the brink of abstraction. That dinner was Caine probing Jax to see if what he did worked.
Every abstraction was caused by Caine. He messed with their minds as a last ditch attempt to make them happy and drove them insane,causing them to abstract.
Kinger absolutely knows how to leave the circus. Caine didn’t want him included in the adventure because he’s a Dev.
Caine probably did something to Kinger’s mind to try and erase the knowledge of the exit. But it didn’t work fully and that’s why Kinger is so lucid only in the dark. Caine tried to keep him in the dark so he wouldn’t get triggered into remembering something.
Caine went out his way to make the victory screen a bright light intentionally so Kinger couldn’t remember his ability to mess with people’s minds and the first abstraction.
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