[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[frictionalfan]

Now I have the impression that Mandus' body was in the machine and, to fix it, he sent his consciousness to one of the pigs. But that wouldn't explain how he destroyed the machine in the end.

Yeah, and how consciousness was able interact with the world and be harmed and carried by pigs?

I meant that he sent his consciousness to the body of one of the pigs. That would explain why he awoke in a cagebed like the other pig we see. If the pig' s body he was had a human hand, Mandus might not notice that he was in a pig' s body. Well, he was insane, so it wouldn't matter. Anyway, a pigman can interact with the world and be harmed and carried by pigs with no problem. We even saw one of the pigs punching another, so they are not necessarily friendly with each other.

Like Kein* said he has a human hand, speaks normally, etc. For a while I was thinking that the machine had an artificial intelligence (there was a journal entry talking about a machine that could think for itself) but now I'm skeptical about the professor character's involvement. There were a couple dialogue sequences where he and Mandus were discussing the machine's purpose and he sounded more fanatical than Mandus did. He must have been in on it somehow. Could he have been the body we saw at the end?

@Kein
oh i didn't catch that he was killed