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[wavewright62]

I think I can't just stay quietly and wait, so better just to have conspiracy over what maybe happens.

There are road signs pointing to Keskusta (Centre) and Niemelän tila (Niemelä's farm). Lalli and the crew are coming from Center (possibly meaning the center of the village) and going towards the Niemelä's farm. As the map of Saimaa has established before, the farming parts are surrounding the village centers.

They might just go past it but you know, I can't help but have a bad feeling about every small detail o___o
Trolls aren't the reason why the village got wiped off from the world map, but would the farm connect in any way? Only times shows.

Indeed, the name of the farm wouldn't be included like this for no reason.  I'm not sure why there's a sign indicating the centre, as there isn't a wharf at this bridge, it's elsewhere at the settlement.  Perhaps there's a separate wharf on the (right-hand) half.
*sits and waits next to Temteno*

[Keeper]

We do have somewhat of a record of the length of Reynir's hair at different ages.
The page suggests that he didn't really start growing it until his childhood was fairly advanced.

I just had a hilarious realization while looking back at this page: Bjarni is a mechanic. What happened on his job to make him say, "...and that's when I knew what death looks like." ? XD

[Grade E cat]

I think that a stream transcript that got posted before the people taking care of it got too busy has Minna explain that Bjarni once had to make a repair a little too close to the location of a fight between his crewmates and a sea beast, or something like that.

[wavewright62]

I just had a hilarious realization while looking back at this page: Bjarni is a mechanic. What happened on his job to make him say, "...and that's when I knew what death looks like." ? XD

I think that a stream transcript that got posted before the people taking care of it got too busy has Minna explain that Bjarni once had to make a repair a little too close to the location of a fight between his crewmates and a sea beast, or something like that.

Oh, I just thought he'd been called upon to help repair the Dalahästen at some point.

[Noi]

The exact transcript is:

Q.: So how did he find out "how death looks like" as a mechanic?
A. (1:08:04): Well, first you go working on a sea-beast hunting ship as a mechanic, and you look out the window, and the warriors that are supposed to fight sea-beast on little hunting vessels get completely crushed by the monster and there you are, the mechanic looking out the window, seeing all of it while you’re fixing a leaky pipe or something, and then you have nightmares for the rest of your life.

[wavewright62]

The exact transcript is:

Q.: So how did he find out "how death looks like" as a mechanic?
A. (1:08:04): Well, first you go working on a sea-beast hunting ship as a mechanic, and you look out the window, and the warriors that are supposed to fight sea-beast on little hunting vessels get completely crushed by the monster and there you are, the mechanic looking out the window, seeing all of it while you’re fixing a leaky pipe or something, and then you have nightmares for the rest of your life.

Scholarship for the win!  Thanks for that.

[Grade E cat]

Calling it now on the off-chance it's one of the few times I'm right: Tuuri enacted that "take a boat to the other islands" plan and Onni went after her. The two of them avoided whatever happened in the village proper because they were put in quarantine after the incident.

EDIT: Thanks to a combination of now having a job, having a rule against logging into anything personal that isn't my e-mail from work, France's one-hour difference with Finland and this week's early updates, I got proven wrong in record time  .

[wavewright62]

Nah, Grade E cat, it could still happen.  It's not a bad theory at all - certainly plausible!

[Grade E cat]

I had just realized exactly the same thing on my own when I saw your message. One of my unspoken assumptions was that if I was right, they were already there. My speculative energies may or may not be entirely focused on various means via which young Tuuri could be introduced right now...

[thorny]

Did we just see Ensi's big mistake?

[Solokov]

Seems like a small mistake with big consequences.

[Oripoke]

I don't think this was Ensi's mistake. But it's likely going to play a role in whatever destroys their village.
It came out of weeks in quarantine, and we know their village wasn't killed by a Rash outbreak, so it isn't anything biological... my intuition is that it has something to do with dark magic, or maybe a malicious spirit.

[thorny]

Whatever it is, it's making Hilja avoid cats.

Are we sure it's not a Rash outbreak? On page 107 Mauri says it wasn't a troll attack; but maybe he just means a troll attack from outside. And he does refer to an "outbreak". But isn't Hilja supposed to be immune?
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[Demopans]

If the outbreak was magical in nature, then wouldn’t cats have already detected it?

[LooNEY_DAC]

My working theory is that Hilja was taken over by a troll but not infected so that she would pass quarantine, smuggled the troll with her through quarantine as the suspicious bundle, and then it infected her, and now she has infected that guy by breathing on him.

In other words, what we're seeing here is a deliberate, well-planned strategy to infiltrate and destroy a settlement rather than a brute force assault. The obvious counter would be to have mages and/or cats at every quarantine facility scanning every last thing that goes into/through the facility.

I also think the kade will turn out to be a trollified Hilja.