Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191116162010/@comment-4010415-20191124021502

Sentry 616 wrote:

1. Multiple phases makes sense, but how many stages are we talking about here? Also, why was it abandoned if it still had Dust?

2. What was wrong with the old scrols?

3. FRACKING JUMPSCARES! 1. My only guess is that the accident has left some instability, and I can only imagine that Jacques was forced to shut it down, which is why he was pissed.

2. I've talked about it before, but the old Scrolls had a weakness in their design.

The old style was two pieces that separate from each other via a pair of thin rods that telescope. If something damages or breaks one or both of the rods, the Scroll is immediately screwed up because the rods can no longer telescope to shift the Scroll back into compact mode. It's possible that severe damage to this infrastructure could even interfere with the hologram screen itself. And we know that the rods can be damaged because Adam broke Blake's Scroll simply by stepping on it in Volume 6.

The new style appears to be much more durable in design. It is one thick piece that projects the hologram screen from the side. The only downsides I see are that this smaller design would make it easier to misplace, and while the built-in screen helpfully gives you a display without deploying the Scroll, it could get damaged. Of course, even if the built-in screen gets damaged, that doesn't make the Scroll become useless, as that's not the main screen - just like the outer screen of an old fashioned flip cell phone.

3. I KNOW, RIGHT?!