Arcomage posted:

Lazy Bear's idea is basically what I thought was going on here, yes. None of this is real, and we're playing as the memory of Lafcadio, aided by the memory of Eleanor, offering a chance for Lucas to finally escape his guilt complex.

It's pretty interesting how they set that up - earlier in the game for example, I thought that the ghost of Sixpence might be haunting the dealer he built, given how it was spouting lines at Clay that almost certainly weren't programmed. But in this context, it's probably more that Lucas is projecting some of the builder's personality on his mental construct of the dealer. It doesn't even matter whether or not Sixpence actually built a card-dealing death robot at any point as long as that's a thing Lucas could imagine him doing.

It is pretty interesting that there's no portrait of Lafcadio Boone in the gallery, though. Quite possibly that's a good sign - it could well mean that Lucas has moved past tormenting himself over Lafcadio's death regardless of how his guilt (as exemplified by the man in the golden mask) feels about the matter.