It's more that it's a show of her... Standards?... Curiosity?... She's more or less breaking down. Whether that's from the connection with Orion as shown at the gas station, or something else, I really don't know.
Unless Orion turns into an orc while they're in a warcraft server or something, she better fucking not.
Well...
Anyway just to be clear I'm not saying she's being the way she is because of some sort of compulsion to be Orion's "hound." Rather, I'm saying that that's what I think is going to be her "role" given the many references Cari has been constantly throwing throughout the story regarding Orion (default name) and his mythological counterpart (i.e. the "coincidental" number of the LIs corresponding to the Pleiades, Orion's weird obsession back in Ogygia in hoping that Calypso was a ranged weapon that hunters usually favor (crossbow), Orion's body recently growing "larger" (in the myths Orion is basically a giant), Nova referencing Orion the Hunter when she saw his costume in 0.5, "The Huntsman" being one of the nickname/title choices this update).
The only direct connection they have with each other in the myths is that they're characters in Homer's "The Odyssey," with Caly being a nymph who lived in the island Ogygia and was a "love interest*" for the hero Odysseus/Ulysses, and Orion the Hunter being encountered (or more accurately, seen) by Odysseus/Ulysses during his trip in the underworld.
But wasn't there a myth where Orion was put into the stars for his deeds? That's usually a big thing about Greek/Roman myths where heroes go into the stars which helps us connect to Andromeda and such. That might help with the metaphysical aspects/ supernatural aspects we're seeing now.
There are many variations of the myth regarding Orion (even his placement in the stars had variants: some say he died due to a scorpion's sting and placed in the stars as a reminder for everyone of his folly, some say he was struck down by Artemis and was placed in the heavens, some say his relentless pursuit of the Pleiades sisters forced Zeus to put them in the stars and he followed suit).
All this Orion talk is just making me more hyped for 0.8 than 0.7 tbh. Have a feeling that "The Big Hunt" is going to be his "Butcher of Blaviken" moment (in that it's going to be the event that will be associated with his name/title even once everything is all said and done). 'Course I could be wrong, but still...
Eh, we all know that woman's full of shit. I'm more on the belief that the "monster" attacks are incidents of Eternum's native inhabitants fighting back against the encroachment of the "dreamers"/players who're moving in to their territories in search of those damn gems, and not some "grand plan" that's going to come into fruition later on.
It's more like the words of someone trying to make sense of something that's happening throughout the servers. Like how certain "prophets" say that certain natural phenomena is the sign that the biblical end times are near. Like I said, the attacks are likely the result of players starting to move into territories where the more monstrous natives reside, and those attacks are likely going to continue as they expand deeper and deeper into places where they shouldn't (like it was mentioned in Andromeda that the player-occupied territories are still expanding, so as time goes on, hostile encounters with species like the Xenomorphs are going to be a more frequent occurrence).
It is, like so many other things in Eternum, a cool and well-placed reference. For those who don't know it, it's from the comic story Vader Down, a star wars comic set between Episode IV and V iirc.
I am not so sure but the first image had definite Mass Effect vibes to me. Some confusion I had here is with the next line going:
mode now.
