In the first Endtown story, Sparkplug Sanders was repeatedly tormented by dittos as they took him through a replay of his traumatic memories time and time again. It Eas implied that they showed him the visuals only, and his memories filled in the words.In the second story, Wally was shown a video of his own traumatic memories, which he viewed with Holly present. He narrated them to her, as once again there seems to have been no sound. Nor did he have any ability to turn the memory replay off. However, the pictures were insubstantial. At one stage, a truck passed straight through them. Dittos can create doppelgangers of anything a person can imagine, even (or especially) something he is not expecting to see. However, as they are blobs of very little mass, the creatures are barely-substantial shells. Their greatest effect is to trick or panic the subject into a mistake. That’s what we know so far. Now, we are dealing with a situation where it is possible these rules may not apply anymore. Or they may. Or they may not. You can’t be actually harmed. Or maybe you can. Would you bet your life on it?I’m beginning to think this whole set-up is crafted to turn Wally into someone more suited to comforting Holly’s broken soul. You never know what to expect with Neathery’s stories. In that regard, Endtown is not the fare to suit everyone’s tastes. They’re not an end-of-a-working-day-sheer-me-up. But they are masterpieces.
In the first Endtown story, Sparkplug Sanders was repeatedly tormented by dittos as they took him through a replay of his traumatic memories time and time again. It Eas implied that they showed him the visuals only, and his memories filled in the words.In the second story, Wally was shown a video of his own traumatic memories, which he viewed with Holly present. He narrated them to her, as once again there seems to have been no sound. Nor did he have any ability to turn the memory replay off. However, the pictures were insubstantial. At one stage, a truck passed straight through them. Dittos can create doppelgangers of anything a person can imagine, even (or especially) something he is not expecting to see. However, as they are blobs of very little mass, the creatures are barely-substantial shells. Their greatest effect is to trick or panic the subject into a mistake. That’s what we know so far. Now, we are dealing with a situation where it is possible these rules may not apply anymore. Or they may. Or they may not. You can’t be actually harmed. Or maybe you can. Would you bet your life on it?I’m beginning to think this whole set-up is crafted to turn Wally into someone more suited to comforting Holly’s broken soul. You never know what to expect with Neathery’s stories. In that regard, Endtown is not the fare to suit everyone’s tastes. They’re not an end-of-a-working-day-sheer-me-up. But they are masterpieces.