Board Thread:Current Major Glitch Discussion/@comment-31592479-20170327212416

While I wait for the FL servers to return from the netherworld, I wanted to ask one of the questions that originally drove me to look for this forum.

WARNING, I WILL BE POSTING GAME SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD. This question is mostly directed towards those who have played through a LOT of levels. (I'm currently at level 124, having only been playing a few months.)

I know, from reading the wiki, that it's a fact of game play that quests are finished in highly variable order, which means that bits and strands of the overall story happen in different orders.

But the problem I'm having is more or less that different things are happeneing AT THE SAME TIME, when they should happen in sequence.

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For example:  I had Jacqueline pop up for a single brief appearance very early in the game (in early December, for me), and then vanish. She had never been introduced, and the quest thread where she had appeared disappeared and never returned. I only found out today, by reading the wiki, who she is.

Steffan's first appearance, for me, was what (I think) should have been his second or third, since it referenced a previous meeting. I've worked my way around to what is, I think, his first appearance, which is happening at the same time as what I think is his third. Michael and Danny have also been wandering around in time.

Lewis was simultaneously poncing around asking for paints and frames, hunting for stuff to contact poltergeists, running away into the paintings, and running away again after being confronted by Vincent about a mysterious meeting. The Diary page for this last event has disappeared out of the diary, so

The stolen objects didn't actually get stolen until several weeks (for me) after we had already been dealing with the theft. I learned that Cornelius was the Ghost without having learned who Cornelius is.

Rosalind, at some point, had a vision and made some predictions, and May saw something weird, but I've encountered the follow-up quests for these without the events actually having happened. I've now had a warning about Rosalind's "third prediction", and I don't know what it was.

I currently have quest threads relating to Rachel Fox and Dietrich and Gustav, but Rachel showed up before she had been introduced, and I still don't actually know who Dietrich and Gustav are. Rachel, VIncent and Steffan all recounted weird stories on very thin context.

Alice was the most erratic of the lot! She has simultaneously been:  just arrived and being fed and put to bed; amnesiac and being shown inkblots; getting worked on by the Ghost's contraption; reacting to the Archivist's story (which he hadn't even started at that time, and he still hasn't finished) and asking for doll clothes; vanished, leaving her creepy doll behind; sick with a cold and in need of herbal remedies.

The business with Alice in particular has completely and terminally confused me. I've been coping by not really caring too much about the storyline, but sheesh! Is this normal? Have other people had things happen wayyy out of sequence?

They say that Time is "what keeps everything from happening at once" -- and in my game, that seems to be broken. . . It isn't keeping me from enjoying the game, which I love, but I'm soooooo confused!

Sorry this post is so long. Can anyone make sense of this? Or even just pat my hand and tell me it's all right? 