Got bored, decided to read a bit about Illusionist class, just spitballing some things
Hmmmm... There was this one illusion that Kali couldn't have made, since she was dead at that point... And it was well past The Black Screen Incident...
Back on track, D&D 1st ed Illusionist -> separate class of Magic-User (in later edition renamed to Wizard), with few but very strong spells, capped to 7th level spells
Spells were up to 9th level (back again to 7 and 9)
This is the only class capable of casting "Alter Reality" in 1st edition
Duration is up to DM, could be unlimited even. Can only be removed with Dispel Illusion, Dispel Magic, anti-magic items and disbelief (Mike my stupidest child, start asking questions NOW; where did your mom's scars go? why were your graduation gowns orange?)
Is this what Vecna needs Will "one last time" for? Is that why we're not shown Will's vision? Did the worlds merge and we're seeing mass illusion? Because I absolutely do not believe it was just for finding Max, that entire scene was pure bullshit and we all know it. Demos can hear washing machine but suddenly can't loud ass radio in a quiet room? Bruh. Also, THE BLACK SCREEN, yet again. Just like before Steve's fakeout (?) death, where everything turned into pure unfiltered bs.
Maybe "you don't get to write the ending" means something more? Now Vecna is writing the ending, but what if El comes back and dispels it? Which is why Netflix has been vagueposting about El in the tub?
Also Illusionist is the only class that can cast "Prismatic Spray". Dustin said he used this spell to defeat one of Vecna's acolytes in Eddie's last campaign. Except it's impossible, he's always been playing a dwarven Bard. Idk if it connects at all or not, I rewatched that scene but they didn't show it, I just heard number 12 again (number of hitpoints he and Erica had on last roll).
(why the f are we keep coming back to those same numbers, 7, 9, 12...)
Going forward with the guidebook, Sorcer is not a class in this edition. It exists as a player title for level 9 Magic-Users. Illusionist follows a different table, and at level 9 they're called Spellbinders.
Wizard is a title available to Magic-Users at level 11 or higher. Oh cool, another neat number coincidence. Who's officially the Wizard in the Party? Jane/El. Cool. Totally meaningless, right?
Another point to "Will isn't a Sorcerer"... unless Mike is for some reason playing loose with rules again? Which we can already see with him having Zoomer and a Knight in the final game, another 2 classes that don't (and never have) existed, and the storyteller bs. Michael the control freak "say over NOW" Wheeler, homebrewing? Yeah right.
And at the end of that last game, Will is not playing Illusionist. He's not playing a Cleric either. He's playing a Magic-User. How do we know? Because no other class has an acces to Meteor Swarm spell, which Lucas tells him to use. But it's a 9th level spell, available from level 18. He's not a Sorcerer anymore, from 11th level you're a Wizard. Why are they still calling him Sorcerer? Why the hell is he an Illusionist? Is he pretending to be another class?
One more interesting tidbit
I want to focus on the Astral Plane
"[...] movement through the Astral Plane is speedy, and
while there the individual needs no food, drink, rest or even sleep."
Certainly answers a few questions, such as why did nobody need to rest or eat in between runs to UD, or how the hell Will even survived in the 1st season. Another thing pointing to UD=Astral Plane
"The psychic wind is the most dangerous, however, for it can either blow the traveller about so as to cause him or her to become lost (thus coming to some undesired world or plane or be out of touch for many days)". You mean like this?
And the wormhole from Material Plane obviously leading into the Abyss, home of Demogorgon(s).
Damn Dustin, sounds awfully familiar. Is this why they reference the tunnels? Is Will actually a demon lord, along with Vecna? If Vecna really did won and The Black Screen was a telltale of that it would be possible monsters actually pissed off to a different dimensions/layer, the one he's just created, while party was trying to kill him.
I was going somewhere with it, having some connections about all that but by the time I got to my PC and wrote things down they were all gone from my stupid ADHD ridden brain. So, maybe someone else might come up with something? Maybe it's a bunch of nothing and suffers can't even check the tabletop guidebook they’ve been referencing for a decade? Maybe when he kiss elven blood transer?
I dunno. The parallels are paralleling and the numbers are numbering but I can't come to clear connection with anything. My head hurts. I'm going to sleep. I hate you d*ffers.
