[ Well, he might regret that alias later. But he can only regret it so much when he's not getting stabbed, so. Maybe hope remains. ]

Yeah. I'd say it's just incentive to get to the cliffs, but it's heavy-handed. [ It's supposed to be that almost anything is possible with coding, right? Something so forced and disjointed doesn't give much incentive. ] If a rat in a maze can't smell cheese, who says it's gonna bother walking?