asdfsdajfkaslfjl my friend is halfway through s3 of TMA and her guess for the podcast IS:

“Oh, I think there will be an actual apocalypse. They’re not going to be able to stop one of the rituals. I think most of the archive staff will become Avatars or die. Maybe they won’t though, maybe they’ll get out of it and end up somewhere else, away from it all.”

Me: