Q: what is the cure to the Rash?
A: nothing, there was never going to be a cure found. The only cure is a bullet to the head.
IIRC, didn't the experimental vaccine in ADV 1 technically stop people from mutating into trolls? I have this memory in my head about Mikkel saying something about "different bone structure" on the bodies that had used the vaccine. The vaccine couldn't save their lives, got their souls stuck in a limbo but, IIRC, it DID stop the mutation, right?
IIRC, didn't the experimental vaccine in ADV 1 technically stop people from mutating into trolls?Cure, not a vaccine. It stopped the bodily modifications, and thus at least the patients acting out any mental corruption, but they would then suffer brain death (http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=619).
I have this memory in my head about Mikkel saying something about "different bone structure" on the bodies that had used the vaccine.While it is true that the cure had been used on those bodies (http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=417), he pronounced the changes to the bones as an effect of The Illness.
One thing Minna mentioned quite recently, maybe some mont or two ago is also that she has forgotten many of the ideas she may have had before. Not just now, when she had decided to end here, but also before. It is a part of her process apparently.Reminds me of the interim title she had for SSSS that she never told anyone because it was way too spoilery, and had entirely forgotten about later on ...
Yeah, I think the Rash may have all along been a Black Box Plot Device. Minna may never either have known or have tried to work out what caused it, how it works aside from the effects she wanted for the story, or how or if it would end.
Maybe they're working on setting up a settlement there, since transportation is easier from there.
(There are no civilian families, or military families either, as Tuuri hadn’t seen children for years).Tuuri was a non-immune in a place with a 92% immunity rate, and a central area designated "civilian quarters" (http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=70), even though civilians made up less than a fifth of the population. There is some cleansing going on (http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=86), but no explanation is ever offered why they'd be doing that in a place so hard to reach from the other Finnish population centers. There is considerable export of timber from Pori, but I'm not convinced that that alone makes a stronghold that far off inland worthwhile.
Doesn’t the area around our-world Keuruu have some sort of military base? Maybe sheer inertia?... I can find references to activities of an engineer regiment (https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Finnish_Army_units), NBC trainings of the Rapid Deployment Forces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Rapid_Deployment_Force#Conscript_training), the Explosives Centre (https://logistiikkalaitos.fi/en/explosives-centre), etc. etc. in Keuruu, but it seems that the outright base they had there has been axed (https://yle.fi/news/3-5297442) (and apparently repurposed (http://motorsport-solutions.com/keuruu-insideservice/)) ...
Stream on 5th February 2022
Q: What about the fire in Emil's dream?
A: [ . . . ] Emil's mom is however dead, but she would have died when Emil would have been really young.
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Then she came up with something on the spot. She actually pronounced it canon in the discussion. Mom had been fed up with dad working too much at the research facility, and committed arson to get rid of the facility. When she was fleeing the scene, she slipped on ice and broke her neck, and died!
That's flat out contradictory. Yeah, she just isn't paying attention any longer.
And yes, thanks, Jitter.
Maybe the mother started a fire, and died running away, but did not start the final fire.
Actually, I'd prefer to think that this is Minna's joke and not canon.
Well, maybe they went to Keuruu because Veeti used to live there? Their one known relative even if he's as distant as their grandmother's cousin. Old one, not living long after that.
The thing I said about the fire reaching the house was meant as an explanation of how a fire in a research facility, or even just in town, could have turned a rich family into a poor one.
Emil had tutors, then went to public school for about two years, then joined the Cleansers and served for about two years. Since he was 19 when the first adventure started, that means he was 14 or 15 when he stopped having tutors. He wouldn't have had tutors after the family became poor, so that can't have happened while he was a small child.
In addition, if they'd become poor when he was a small child, then he'd have grown up being poor; it wouldn't have come as a shock to him, and he'd have learned the habits mostly of poor people, not of rich ones (though his parents might have kept some of the habits of rich people, which might still have affected him. But his mother's habits couldn't have continued to affect him if she was already dead --)
I think I remember Minna saying, very early on, that one of the prologue characters was still alive in year 90, though very old? Since by then I think Ensi was known to be dead or otherwise gone, I think I had presumed it was Veeti?
Emil had tutors, then went to public school for about two years, then joined the Cleansers and served for about two years. Since he was 19 when the first adventure started, that means he was 14 or 15 when he stopped having tutors. He wouldn't have had tutors after the family became poor, so that can't have happened while he was a small child.