Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29781728-20170704205617

It may be hard to find an explanation for everything in the R2DA Universe, and how it all works. You can't boil it down to science, as many things are simply impossible. You can't boil it down to radiation, a dream, or anything. You simply have to work with what you're given and form something based off of that, and that I will do.

You must realize that the game is heavily unrealistic. Some water kills you instantly, some doesn't. You fight a giant crab, a giant polar bear, a strange icy rhino, a pumpkin, and a clock...

Hmm. A clock.

Given how clocks are associated with time and how vastly powerful Chronos is, we could infer that he has some sort of time-based power, and is likely immortal. Just think about how long he probably sat there before the survivors popped up, and now he has to fight them. A pity!

Chronos is very taunting and condescending, always telling the survivors that he will easily win, and sometimes he does, and sometimes he doesn't, as there are infinite rounds in R2DA, and it never ends. This is the same with all other maps as well. The survivors are always doomed(?) to repeat their rounds, popping up in random places, somehow earning money, "experience", "ranking up", and getting brought back to life, time and time again.

So what's going on here? I would believe that Chronos is extremely powerful, more powerful than he appears. Sometimes, he allows the survivors to win, and sometimes he just brutally destroys the unprepared survivors. Why? Because this is all for his amusement.

If you think about it, an immortal, all-powerful being, ESPECIALLY one that could control time, would fit in especially well into R2DA. He could have created the crab, the rhino, the polar bear, and the pumpkin, and along with this, all the zombies. Furthermore, rounds are often based around time, and often repeat. If Chronos is well associated with time and has the power to control it (in the fight, you could say that rewinds time around himself, rebuilding the arena and healing himself), he could easily make the survivors repeat rounds for his own amusement. Time-based situations also fit in well. I'm sure an immortal being likes nice, round numbers.

Using his powers, he could also grant survivors weapons, "ranks", supplies, etc. Perhaps the survivors that have been involved the longest in his time-looping games for personal amusement are liked the most by him, and are thus granted a higher rank. Possibly, those who kill the most zombies are given a figurative "cash value", as they're more entertaining to watch.

And every now and then, around certain times of year, the all-powerful clock comes up with something special to entertain himself - a giant snowman, a cake, a pumpkin...

Finally, after years of watching all this and laughing to himself, the clock finally gives up, and does something drastic so he could finally have perhaps, a little bit of fun - allowing himself to fight against the survivors.

Even after everything dies, Chronos can simply rewind time and do it all over again. Although he is immortal and will get bored after many millenia and finally give up on his creation, Chronos will continue to create new things, all to entertain himself. The survivors will likely almost never get to escape the loop of endless suffering created by Chronos reversing time to watch things turn out differently, probably by throwing in a Brute at different times, perhaps causing one survivor to trpi and fall into some water that miraculously instantly kill him...

Chronos is the bored god that controls everything that occurs in the R2DA Universe, and one day, he will get tired of it all and stop.

As will Place.

But that's just a theory.

A game theory. 