hey why does nobody ever talk about how the rot seems to be like. the only other possible method of leaving the cycle. yeah yeah yeah it eats you and you respawn in-game but I believe that’s just Game Mechanic and not Lore Mechanic
the rot seems to consume literally anything it can reach. metal, dirt, brick, water, meat, plant, whatever. and then it becomes part of the rot. it can never revert back (good example is hunter becoming a longlegs + the way pebbles’ structure can’t fix itself anymore when iterator structures are usually able to for normal damage). it becomes one with the rot until the rot dies like we eventually see in silent construct and then whatever was consumed dies alongside it. or inside it?
and the X markings on each lump that makes up a mass of rot, which just so happens to be spherical/circular, feels almost very intentional of resembling the karma 10 symbol??
maybe I am just seeing correlations where there are none but it SEEMS like the options for leaving the cycle are: get horrifically and slowly consumed by the revolting, squelching mobile embodiment of death OR crawl deep beneath the earth, give up all worldly desires and possessions, and get your body & your essence itself horrifically and slowly scrubbed away with an acid so strong it removes you from reincarnation entirely to exist fuck-knows-where. and are either of those really worth it?
