cannot comment on your theories but i am enjoying them. also agreed the writing in this section is weak, in my opinion it tricks you into thinking it’s an important decision you are making but there isn’t one and you’re just being railroaded here, because they needed to reveal who is in the prism + destroy lae’zel’s faith at this point in the game. if you opened the map you’d get the notice that when the map is red, it means you cannot use fast travel in that area (to other portals or to the camp). should first have been encountered in auntie ethel’s basement
The other option, of course, was to not go through. Which isn't much of one, but it's there.
cannot comment on your theories but i am enjoying them. also agreed the writing in this section is weak, in my opinion it tricks you into thinking it’s an important decision you are making but there isn’t one and you’re just being railroaded here, because they needed to reveal who is in the prism + destroy lae’zel’s faith at this point in the game.
if you opened the map you’d get the notice that when the map is red, it means you cannot use fast travel in that area (to other portals or to the camp). should first have been encountered in auntie ethel’s basement