Finished the penultimate...
Starting off with Willy blaming Tenn for Mitch dying. Honestly, I had thought that he died because he thought he could take on Lilly. I never blamed Tenn. I stood up for him. Then it was time to interrogate Abel with AJ. Had to pet Rosie first. I know Violet told me not to be afraid to rough him up a bit, but he just looked so pathetic in that chair. Felt that I wouldn't be any better than him if I did. Not only that, but AJ is standing there watching. Tempting as it was, I restrained myself and even let him have a smoke. (flashbacks to TWAU) But when he started coughing up blood, I thought that he intentionally poisoned himself so that I wouldn't know where to find Louis and the others. Turns out he got fucked up more than I thought he did after falling from the balcony and he was terrified of turning. So he told me where to find them in exchange for mercy, as AJ had put it.
When we were doing reconnaissance on the boat Delta was on, the first thing I thought was that Kenny is rolling over in his grave right now since Lilly is riding on a boat and he never got to since ours was stolen. After we put our plan together, We actually ran into Minerva. Didn't expect to meet her like this. The way that everyone described her, the Raiders turned her into the opposite. She thinks my leadership is gonna get everyone killed? Fuck that. It's the Raiders who'll get everyone killed with their slavery and sadistic bloodshed.
After that tense and somewhat awkward reunion/first meeting, we had to go get James. I knew asking him for help wouldn't be easy, but holy crap did he have me work for it. First with keep the walkers distracted while he gets his mask back, which started off easy with just two of them, but then three more showed up. I thought I was gonna have to kill at least one just to stay alive, but the cutscene saved me before I got overwhelmed. And them, James had me walk among the walkers in his barn to see them the way he does. Doing it in first-person was so scary and nerve-wrecking. Thought I was gonna end up dying, but I made it to the wind chime okay. I really liked the music that played in that moment they all stared at it. In that moment, they actually looked like they were at peace, even for a moment. Oh, and I found that salt-lick and re-lived good times. "How do you know? Did you lick it?" "...I don't know."
HAHAHAHAHA!
I can actually understand where James is coming from. He really believes that a part of us is still within the walkers. But since we'll never get a cure for them, we'll never know. When AJ started talking about the possibility of Clem getting bit, I did not like this conversation at all. I personally don't like talking about stuff like that. And I'm really hoping that she never does get bit. After that, Violet and I started talking about Minnie. To me, I feel like whatever feelings that she's had for Minnie before are now faded out after that chance encounter. She actually gave me a pin with stars on it to remember that night on that bell tower. Dancing with Violet like that, it was so romantic. I was happy for them. So distracted I was by their intimate moment, I actually jumped when AJ came bursting in. I didn't even have time to react to prevent a beach ball from bouncing off Clem's head. Kinda spoiled our moment, but also kinda made for it with a little play time with the ball.
That party was pretty cool. Everyone having a good time before running head first into the gates of Hell. AJ looked so goofy dancing like that and I let him write on the banner "SURPRISE DUMMIES!" Oh, my God, this kid. XD When Willy was talking about blowing up the boat, I thought he was crazy. But, it might work if it means Delta can't come for us anymore. Then they had me tried to guess their evaluation profiles. It's no card game, but it did seem interesting to be able to learn more about these kids. Violet's was very sad. Her grandma lost her husband and committed suicide over depression, yet she didn't even notice because she had the TV volume up high and wanted to watch cartoons. Honestly, if someone came to me and told me that story in a non-apocalyptic time, I would've thought that their kid was a psycho. But I can't hate Violet for it. She obviously feels horrible for it. That song that she sang was beautiful.
And then we get to have another conversation with Lee as young Clem.I liked it so much. Again, makes me wish that he was kept alive back in Season 1. Even more so when Clem changed into her current self and he was like "just look at you". Like a father seeing his daughter become so grown up and matured. I really liked the callback on him telling her to keep her hair short. I know that it was all pretend and a dream, but it was just so good talking with Lee again. And then, it was time to go to war.
I liked how everyone met James for the first time. They warmed up to him mighty quick. Especially Willy. Then James talked to me about his boyfriend and how he slit some poor kid's throat. He wants me to make sure that AJ doesn't become a killer, and I intend to. I want to raise him right. Kissed Violet again for luck. Then it was time to pull out the ol smearing in walker guts trick. Violet talked like she had done this before. Sneaking up to the pier and through the boat was pretty stressful. And then we ran into Minnie again. I fulfilled my promise to Tenn and told her that he forgave her. She said that she'd help, but then she cold-cocked me just as I was about to get Louis and locked us up. That two-faced cowardly bitch.
Louis...
Oh, my God, what have they done? When they said that Louis had his tongue cut out, I felt so guilty and sad for him.
TKA, I'm so sorry this happened to him. [img class="smile" style="max-width:100%;" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png" alt="
"] I don't know if he'll ever recover from this. Fuck these raiders for traumatizing him like this. And then the She-devil finally shows her face again. I just wanted to say "Fuck you" or even spit in her face. Damn the consequences. But the most fucked thing was the build-up that Minnie said that she killed Sophie, her own sister. I thought that Marlon was bad, but she's just even worse. Whatever chance at trusting her she had with me had been thrown out the window. I didn't even hesitate to ram the door on her. I can't even imagine how hard it had to have been for Violet when she had to shoot her with the crossbow to save me.
Had to get AJ back from Lilly, but then James and Tenn got grabbed, too. That fight between Clem and Lilly was brutal. It's all been leading up to this. Managed to fuck her leg up with AJ's help, and then he got the gun. Lilly's first reaction? "I give up. I'll let you leave. We won't bother you anymore."
I could just tell that she was hoping we'd buy and wait till our guard was down before killing us. I wouldn't let it happen again. So, despite what I told to James, I let AJ finish her off. He went pretty ballistic with the gun. I hope I can get him to not do this ever again. And then Mitch's Masterpiece went off and... cliffhanger. Goddamn cliffhanger.
My God. This really was worth all that time we had to wait after that clusterfuck of a mess that happened with Telltale. So dramatic, intense, heartwarming, brutal and... Thank you so much to Skybound for allowing this to happen.
MY RELATIONSHIPS:- Everyone on the boat is
MIA. I'm getting AJ, Violet, Louis and all of my friends off that boat and back to the school in one piece no matter what.
- Abel is
DEAD. Personally, I never really liked the guy. I didn't want to kill him, but there was just no saving him.
- Lilly is
DEAD. And you know what the ironic part is? She gets shot the same way Carley did. What comes around goes around. Good riddance.
STATE OF THE SCHOOL:- Ruby was proud I didn't recognize her official Ericson evaluation. My guess was that it was Marlon. Hope she managed to grab a horse and get out okay.
- Willy was excited that I wanted to name the bomb. Hope he made it out okay with the supplies.
- Rosie is worried about everyone. Poor doggy.
MY CHOICES:* I mercy killed Abel. I gave him my word I would.
* I respected James' beliefs and didn't kill a single walker. I was very tempted to when it was getting crowded, but I was saved by cutscene.
* I named the bomb Mitch's Masterpiece. Mainly did it to honor him.
* I let AJ attack Dorian to keep her from cutting off Violet's finger. I thought that AJ could get the cleaver and attack with it. Instead, he freaking bit off a piece of her ear. Holy shit. At least Violet still has all her fingers.
* I told AJ to shoot Lilly. I guess in that moment, my judgement became too clouded by my anger towards her, but I knew that she was lying. I just couldn't take the chance of her getting someone else hurt or killed. Not anymore. Sorry, James. (Oh, and
Bio? You're welcome.)
I only found two collectibles. The sketch toy (did a picture of Lee on it), and the school pennant flag. When I do replay the episode, I'll try to find the others.