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Welcome to day 5... With the feeling that we are approaching a point of no return, Sara frantically tries to wrap up as many side quests as she can. Most important of all, our outfit is approaching peak communist vibes with the acquisition of a new hat... https://t.co/oRP4nssylt

The moment we’ve all been waiting for arrives: we find a tape and perform the strangest, saddest, most Lynchian karaoke of all time. Nobody is ready for how this is going to go down, and how emotionally baffling it will be. https://t.co/Tf8pk0npJB

We get anodic dance music and probably important computer science related research to coexist in the abandoned church - and our protagonist gets a controversial new shave. https://t.co/Z2SjuZ4cHE

As the mystery deepens, personal desires and tensions intermingle more and more with political motivations. We start to wonder if there are any true communists left in Revachol… and what it means to be a communist, and also a flawed white male. https://t.co/PFHf8TpVvV

A series of uncomfortable truths and startling gender politics are coming to light in the main plot… so of course Sara decides it’s time to help Soona fix her computer or find a hole in the universe or something. Side quest time! https://t.co/NdZNfG85r2

There’s still a lot to do in Revachol, but we solve at least one mystery: the death of the working class corpse. It’s a far more mundane and quietly tragic answer than you might think. https://t.co/etkHOx5VMc

On day 4, we discourse about queer and lesbian slurs, and we finally get to talk to the woman we saw mysteriously smoking a cigarette at the very start of the game… https://t.co/bwGzzifK8w

As the hunt for the indulindian phasmid and the mercenary’s killer continue, we encounter a woman who confronts our protagonists with something of a twisted mirror of themselves… as pigs. https://t.co/7QfPgNaSuR

After a long conversation with Evrart Claire, Sara thinks they’ve come to a conclusion about exactly what kind of a person he is… which raises some interesting critiques of the trade union movement. https://t.co/UWlF7bgzb5

Upon entering the abandoned church, Sara tries to get to grips with Dolores Dei... who is she, and what does she represent exactly? What's the relation between politics and religion in Elysium? https://t.co/oZ8LybBaGm

Our exploration of the newly unlocked parts of Martinaise unfurl further mysteries: of the Feld Building and its history in relation to the World Revolution; a death by the water; and some strange phone calls... https://t.co/nFhXXMfYLy

We meet a group of kids who want to repurpose hallowed ground for the worship of anodic dance music, but before going to church we find someone we've been looking for! https://t.co/1rAstFa6U7

Day 3 begins, and it's good to have Kim back, even if Sara can't figure out why they want him to like her so much. We head to the fishing village at last, unravelling many new secrets, and gaining new (older) accommodations. https://t.co/qg1zkxglux

Before Day 2 comes to a close, we finally meet the Smoker on the Balcony's mysterious Sunday Friend. Let's just say neoliberal gays make Sara homophobic. https://t.co/VC4EyZu7DX

In the Doomed Commercial District, we talk to ghosts, and finally find a living person among them - a mysterious dice maker who has somehow survived the vagaries of capitalism, which ate whole the rest of the district. https://t.co/fuhh0HTc0F

Sara continues the investigation alone, now that Kim has gone to fulfill other, supposedly more important tasks. What is even the point of this game without the problematic cop yaoi? https://t.co/DtFhQ1rC9n

Doing Evrart Claire's dirty work gets us a step closer to solving the murder - specifically, we're finally able to get that body down from that tree. Took long enough... https://t.co/YHk9UIeEX8

Waking up to another day in Elysium, we start unravelling the intricacies of the Dockworkers Union, a path which starts with the militant Hardy Boys and ends with the slimy Evrart Claire. https://t.co/a5qG0ooN2s

Sara investigates the communist ghosts of a run down apartment building; rummages around in the trash; debriefs with Kim; and ends day 1 by slipping into a symbolic nightmare of Lynchian proportions... https://t.co/Hxp53c9Cf5

In this episode of Disco Elysium, Sara finds herself pulled deep into a conversation with a woman who, probably not coincidentally, resembles the Great British Witch: Margaret Thatcher. https://t.co/FGhVV3OTTO