some commentary on this DE dev log:
"To be from Revachol is to be Revacholian. To be deserted, destroyed. A drug addict with an immunodeficiency disorder. A joke and a clown and a loser baby."
is this saying harry has an immunodeficiency disorder...? or just giving an example of the Revacholian Condition.... if it's harry, my god man, please get out of the trash cans.
"Below Precinct 41 there’s a kebab merchant called Kuklov who makes kebabs that make you immortal if you can eat three and survive."
this is canon. to me. and i think harry has achieved it.
"Once we were an octopus that straddled the world, sucking up natural and human resources from Iilmaraa to South-East Seol. The city state that screwed the whole world."
city-state confirmed 👍🏻 that's just pleasing to me, a puzzle piece slotted in. also hmm, the seol thing, hmmm. i wonder if that's not meant to be Samara/Safre, though? though, seol was an ally to the suzerain during the revolution so... maybe here "ally" really meant more like "vassal state".
"In the ‘20s, the city was divided into zones de contrôle under foreign nations: the Mesque Zone, the Occident-Graad zone, and the International zone. The International Zone is west of the river."
i wonder how canon this is? i wonder what's up with the mesque zone, assuming it's east of the river? there seems to be quite a few mesque people in revachol, i wonder if this is why... like, the rising fascism as a pushing factor, and loosened emigration policy from mesque to revachol as a release valve...
"In the Revachol Citizen’s Militia, a citizen-funded police force as safe (and well-funded) as that nuclear reactor."
well this just spells it right out huh
"Radio networks criss-cross the air, spewing meaningless, feverish political rhetoric."
harry and the furies have spent too much time growing up listening to revacholian radio.
"Your bell bottom pants make your ass look fat"
does harry have ass or not? the debate rages on.
"It’s up to you – and you alone – to save the whole world. To untie the great knot. To crack the case. To resolve reality. You are the last Revacholian hero. The Revacholian hero has nothing, but he must conquer everything." "All you have to help you in this – the last and the greatest of the cases undertaken by man on Earth, in the sheer face of death and history – is Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi from Precinct 57."
this rings to me of manic thinking, and also woofa doofa says some things about harry's breakdown. but also. gay. "I AM THE ONLY MAN IN THE WORLD WHO CAN SAVE EVERYTHING -- except, also, lieutenant kitsuragi 🥺" such is harry's faith in him.
