Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

To: SangToareGirl, DiploLover, and RelatingHen

From: Ben, & KM

Hey, saw the new chapters that came out, so I wanted to give my thoughts out for those.

SangToareGirl, I managed to catch up with The Five Talons of Aberration. So I’m telling from the setting that it takes place in Aberration (the MC Kiri has an Yi Ling and the title is based off of it). It seems that some sort of town had been built in the caves of Aberration, which Kiri is situated in. The Five Talons mentioned in the title are probably some dangerous/powerful artifacts of sorts that will be used to accomplish a goal or secure/save the world. The prologue was mysterious but very fun to decipher. The town in Chapter 1 may be linked to the Prologue, as it seems the woman in the Prologue was thrown in the pit by the villagers of the town. I’m guessing the creature that was hunting her was a Nameless, as the appearance matches (i think) and it’s described that she climbed out of the shadowy place of “no names”, which correlates to Nameless. I do not think the girl in the Prologue is the same as Kiri, but I’m sure they’ll meet (if they are different people). Anyway it’s cool so far, we can’t wait to read the rest.

DiploLover, Chapter 9 was really cool and ominous, especially Astra’s nightmare. When Shadow mentioned “powers beyond” it makes us think that there’s more than just FrostPaws and FlamePaws and whatever other Paws there are. Perhaps it’s linked to Pax’s time powers, as I don’t think a ‘TimePaw’ would be a thing (time and the elements are on completely different leagues). Also, makes us wonder why Shadow made Astra do all of the work if he’s that powerful. I suppose laziness gets to the best of us. Also I guess the main ship will be Astra and Prince anyway… sorry Pax. We’re not exactly kicking our feet and giggling, but we think it’s fun nonetheless. Anyway, cool chapter, we’ll be around for Chap 10.

RelatingHen, thanks for letting me know that Terad is Level 100. So for some reason I thought Terad had died when it was actually Sodden? I just misread it. Also it was cool to see how the respawn mechanics worked for the other humans: they lose all of their levels, which is why Sodden and Rod were so low level when the Giga killed them. It was an epic battle though for Chapter 10, and really fun to read. It was nice to see that Terad and Rod sorta made up for what happened. I’m still curious about who Rod’s old tribe/boss was, I’m supposing we see them in Aberration segment of the story. This is definitely gonna be a lengthy story, but we have the assurance you have the resilience and willpower to march through and finish it. Oh yeah, we were also pleased to see hints at meeting other tribes at the end of the chapter. It’d be nice to see their opinions on the other characters, as we haven’t really gotten any new characters so far. I hope we run into Dundo and Nesan again at some point, since I believe we haven’t seen them since the Carcha Incident. Anyway, we’re intrigued to see how Section 2 / Part 2 of the story goes!