Motivations would make a lot more sense if they moved events around a bit

It really feels like the characters didn’t have a super strong motivation for enacting such a desperate plan to get the bones. Jade didn’t even have a backup plan for when the tree got pulled, he was just going to die down there. But why was it all of a sudden so crucially important they do it immediately?

I feel like they tried to make it seem like things had gotten so much worse because of what happened to Roger, but that doesn’t seem like a big enough concern to do something as desperate as locking up Victor and pulling up the bottle tree. It’s not like there are corpses busting into colony house on the regular.

You know what would have made a ton more sense as a motivating factor? If the talismans had been taken \*BEFORE\* they went to pull the tree up. That would absolutely force the level of desperation Jade has when he’s ready to just kill himself to get those bones out.

Personally I think that probably was originally how it was plotted out, and they ran into issues where they couldn’t find a way to make that scene happen until the tree was already being pulled. It just seems like their motivations for pulling the tree are pretty weak but would make total sense if they realized the talismans were gone.