I was surprised that the church sequence doesn't kill you. I only got shot once in the Whirling-In-Rags.

Quite frankly I had such a high Inland Empire on my playthrough that the only things I’m sure are real are the things Kim or my good friend Horrific Necktie backed me up on.

The pale is incredibly interesting as a concept.

Entropy.

But filled with memories of things that happened before and maybe in the future too.

The pale driver gives you evenore context.

They aren't continents; calling them continents implies a planet, but the planet is long gone, broken apart into isolas (containing both land, including full continents, and sea) floating in the Pale, which is very much not fog.

The Pale isn't... anything, really. A literal lack of being. Not matter, or energy, but space-time broken down into pure entropy where direction and time lose all meaning.