Your thoughts on having Talbot Grimes (The Blight) as a playable survivor ingame?
The short version of this guy story.
He is the The Alchemist from Hallowed Blight event. He wanted to help people with his potions but unknown to him, he caused some deaths with them. He learn about the deaths he caused after he got kidnapped and he feel very guilty about it and want to redeem himself.
He get rescued by a mystery school that were studying forbidden texts. The school wanted to use his knowledge and made him help them. He was so close to a breakthrough but the school drugged him, took his research and moved him to a different location and kept him drugged each time he wake up. The last time he was able to wake up, the Entity started whispering to him. He wrote what he thought was his research on the walls of the room with a stone. After that the Entity took him and forced him to join the trials like the other survivors.
He found Vigo lab and learned that the Entity become weak during Hallowed Blight and he can get out if he used the flowers that show up during that time. He experiment on a dead rat with the serum. The rat come back to life for a short time and bite him, which made him addicted to the serum and made him very powerful. He was able to capture killers and he experimented on them.
When Hallowed Blight ended the flowers died and he couldn't find anymore. The Entity took advantage of that and turned him into what he is now.
He isn't a killer born out of evil, but driven crazy by the Entity and unlike most of the killers he didn't want to kill people, which is one of the reasons he was picked as a survivor by the Entity and not as a killer because he didn't have it in him to do so.
If the devs decided to add a survivor version of him this will open the door for them to create a killer version of the already existing survivors and help expanding the lore more.
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No. The entire point of Talbot is how his ambition drove him mad enough to become a Killer.
I do want a Survivor from the 1800s like him, but not Talbot himself.
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Personally I'd lvoe to have survivor versions of all original killers ingame, just to see where in their lore the 'want of a nail' point is. bonus points if there'd be special mechanics when they face their counterparts
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He becomes what he is because the Entity took advantage of what happen with the serum accident. If he didn't get addicted to the serum he will still be trying to find a way to get out of the realm.
They can create a friend who is trying to find Talbot after he went missing but adding Talbot will give us a chance in getting a killer version of survivors and it make more sense adding him because they already established him as a survivor.
The reason adding Talbot as a survivor work better because he was originally a survivor, not a killer. I don't think we will get a survivor version of the killers because lorewise it won't make sense, but creating a killer version of a survivor work because this is something they established with Talbot.
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what I meant with 'want of a nail' (check the meaning here: ) With the 'main' lore it wouldn't make much sense, yes, but i'm talking about alternate timelines, where things went just a little different. What if Anna's mother had survived the encounter? What if Caleb had never started working for bayshore or never agreed to the warden's deal? What is Sally had found a different job after her husband's death? etc.
it's small things that could have led the current killer roster down a path in which the Entity might have snatched them as survivors.
And, hell, the entity has a rotten enough sense of humor for all we know to bring those versions (as well as killer versions of the survivors) into the mix for s---s and giggles.
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Agree, the Entity have a rotten sense of humor, which make you want to punch it in the face if it had one. Don't know if the devs will go with alternate timelines but lets wait and see if this will be added to the lore or not.
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A bit off topic: I know he was bitten by a rat, but I can't remember where it was showed, can someone help?
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It's marked as "23 October - Experiment".
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Thanks I forgot about those.
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Hopefully no, i don't like the idea of having a killer version of survivors and vice versa, i'd rather having new characters instead of an alternate version of one.
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Talbot is past his survivor days. He was a survivor for a while but left to experiment with ways to get out and then, yknow, got voided and then become a serum junkie. Time is weird in the Entity's realm but I doubt that the Entity would be crazy enough to exploit timelines enough to have Talbot go against his future corrupted self.
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I don't mean having him as a survivor because the Entity decided to exploit timelines somehow, I doubt it can be done.
The devs said the idea for him is Jekyll and Hyde. Talbot (Jekyll) is still in there trying to break free from Blight (Hyde). They can either make him get help or make him free himself (going back to survivor) because they established that the Entity can be fought.
Entity having a morbid sense of humor will create an identical version of Talbot when he was Blight to torment him about it or Blight will be there for gameplay, like many things we have as gameplay, but I prefer the lore reason.
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