Written by Ian Flynn, art by Jamal Peppers and Patrick Spaz Spaziante. Bea mentions that the library that she and Mae visit is one of the nicer ones around, and that it was funded by "some rich guy" back in the day, mirroring the Carnegie Libraries; Andrew Carnegie helped establish over 2, 500 libraries, and the first American one was in Pittsburgh. Too Dumb to Live: - Mae spends a good portion of the game using power lines to get around.
Doomed by Canon: Granddad dies before the start of Night in the Woods. And Now for Someone Completely Different: In a brief scene in Angus and Gregg's apartment, all of the main characters except Mae are there. Bitterly divided and hopelessly outgunned, Quantum and Woody are getting torn apart! Edd Vick on Facebook. One tradition is for the inhabitants to sit outside by the campfire at night and spot the thirteen constellations. At the end, Mae asks Gregg if she can move with him and Angus to Bright Harbor, and Gregg ultimately says no, but does say that Mae can visit any time she wants. Mae frequently writes "GREGG RULZ OK" in her journal when making an entry that involves him. The Lady in the Shoe. It exists contemporaneously with all of space and time, observes time as if all events are happening at once, speaks of a hole growing in all things, and shows Mae blind, twitching creatures at the edge of reality.
Only one of them escaped to the woods, and Gregg says that he wants to do the same. The Old Gods: The Black Goat, a creature "as black as the space between stars" that lives in a hole in a long-abandoned mine. Positive Friend Influence: In Bea's route, she will play this to the womanchild Mae. Clandestine Chemist: Implied to be the case with your missing / deceased friend Casey, as one of his murderers refers to him cooking up meth with a cousin. Recurring Riff: Some melodies appear in different tracks throughout the game. Rod And Reel Repurposed: If you choose to tag along when Bea goes on a house call to fix an old furnace, you can attempt to cobble together a fix of your own using various objects you find around the basement, including a fishing pole. It's a perfect comic to hand to the young dreamer in your life or share with your family. Mae mentions that with her breakdown, Dr. Hank's advice that she keep a journal is utterly useless to help with her disassociation. Right before going to the party in the woods, choosing the right choices will have Mae reveal some of her experience when she was in college, like how she wasn't able to make any friends while she was there.
One of their Saints is known to breathe fire and eat people... okay, that last one is disprovable by historical records. X-Ray Sparks: Mae being subject to Harmless Electrocution is a Running Gag, and when she is, her skeleton is invariably visible. Aunt Molly gets Mae to the hospital and orders the friend group to stay in one location— Angus and Gregg's apartment— until they could figure out what the heck happened. Mae gets angry at her friends when they won't believe her about a ghost, because she did see something, and someone has been watching them during their ghost hangouts. "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Adina gives one to the Forest God, who is angry that Brown told Adina it was sick. When Mae witnesses kidnapping on Harfest and tells Aunt Molly about a ghost she saw, her Aunt doesn't believe her and takes home, apparently ignoring the incident. His idea of treatment for Mae's obvious mental problems, which have resulted in her having a nervous breakdown and previously led to her putting a kid in the hospital, is a journal. Go legally brain dead from lack of oxygen due to choking on my entire ass! Of Runaways and Stowaways.
The blue canary night light in the Borowski home is a reference to They Might Be Giants song "Birdhouse in Your Soul". In the promo, Angus is well versed in nearly all the constellations and what they mean. They apologize to each other the next morning and are on good terms when Mae gets a potentially fatal head injury. Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide Book 1. The name "Mae Borowski" abbreviates to Mae B., and her onetime best friend is "Bea". Even though Gregg has a job, an apartment, and a serious romantic relationship (unlike Mae), he demonstrates immaturity on multiple occasions. Upon doing so, they notice there is a diamond tattoo on it. Gregg is the only one of the main cast without any explicit baggage in his past, and it turns out even he has a pretty meaty traumatic incident he's never talked about. Rude, Red, and Royal. Guardians of the Galaxy #8.