Entirely [SPOILER]-y endgame questions!
If you haven't beaten the game, shoo, go away.
>!1. Do you get any distinct changes to the ending if you prevent Barathrum from reaching the ship, maybe by boxing him in with sowers? The locket seems to strongly suggest that starshiib exist--or at least, that someone is trying to convince us all that starshiib exist. Does it show up in the epilogue if Barathrum dies or is prevented from launching?!<
>!2. For the textual completists: the other archon Resheph says is still puttering about Qud with base intentions--does this refer to Ptoh? Does it refer to the creature you freed in the Tomb of the Eaters? Were the Mechanimist deities bound by Resheph something other than archons (even though they are purportedly his brothers)? Was the betrayal contemporary with the first Covenant, or does it predate? !<
>!3. I've never taken the time to find nanocrayons, but if I were to, can I create endgame items too? What about endgame critters?!<
And lastly, a fun anecdote which nonetheless deserves a TW: suicide:
>!For this run, I thought I'd let Phinae Hoshaiah (the High Priest of the Rock) come up the Spindle with me. Thought it'd be a cool experience for him and everything. I managed to get him on the golem (which was a finicky process), and we sat with Barathrum as he had his breakdown and explained the Resheph is the cause of the plagues. After the dialogue ended, Phinae walked to the exit hatch and threw himself off the golem.!<
>!Phinae ended up in the Arrivarium anyway, so there was a bug either in his jump or in his surviving. But even if that was emergent storytelling, it was emergent storytelling at its finest.!<