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Hobgoblin2099 posted:She just remembered a funny joke at an inappropriate moment is all. She might just be into the idea of severed limbs.
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It'll be interesting to see if this ending offers us anything useful to get past another plot lock, because even assuming Sigma wakes up again, this is a "walking dead" scenario. The 9 door is sealed for good, and Dio has left, meaning he can't give us any information on the location of the Number 0 bomb.
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Dec 16, 2017 22:03
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I wonder what everyone’s reaction to Sigma’s white blood will be now.
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Well that was certainly a creative solution
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Dec 17, 2017 02:34
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It's been long enough since I played the game that I have no memory of these events and it's wild. 
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Dec 17, 2017 03:07
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Materant posted:Dio had already dragged himself completely past the threshold anyway. All Sigma would have accomplished by holding on at that point in his drugged-up state would have been to be dragged even further out. He'd lose more of his arm, but if he was lucky maybe the robot hand would lock up and maintain a death grip on Dio's ankle after being severed. You know just to really gently caress with him.
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Dec 17, 2017 03:19
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Too drugged to move, too, so he goaded Dio into dragging him there. I didn't catch that when I played.
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Dec 17, 2017 03:22
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I'm so glad this is being updated again. I hate Dio so much and I hope K chokes the poo poo out of him the instant they're outside.  It's been awhile though so I don't remember what the status of the bomb's was this timeline. Is everyone left inside getting blown up anyway?
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Zoe posted:I'm so glad this is being updated again. I hate Dio so much and I hope K chokes the poo poo out of him the instant they're outside. Not this timeline, and with Dio escaping that seems vanishingly unlikely.
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Bruceski posted:Too drugged to move, too, so he goaded Dio into dragging him there. I didn't catch that when I played. I actually did not realize that until now.
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Dec 17, 2017 06:06
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I do like how the protagonist of these games can sometimes be an unexpectedly constructive rear end in a top hat.
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... ... Mm...? Listen in: [English/Japanese] Sigma! Sigma! Finally awake, huh... Where am I...? I rubbed my eyes and slid my legs off the bed to stand up. ...Well, to be honest, it was an examination table, not a bed. Which meant... VLR OST: [Placidity] You guess? Well, I wasn't there to see it. I was out, just like you. But I was in the AB room. Why? I can't believe him. He didn't want me voting, so... Whoa... And after he knocked you out, he voted "betray," which brought his BP up to 9. Yes. So...where is he now? With Dio. You told him to go. Remember? Oh... Yeah... Arm...? I heard what happened. Cybernetic arms, huh? Can't say I'm surprised. I was starting to get a feeling something was up with you. Oh yeah... How's Quark? I'm right here! Man, I'm glad you're all right. Feeling better? Yup! Thanks to you! You got the medicine from that jerk Dio, right? Luna gave it to me and now I'm better! Thanks! You're the best, Mr. Sigma! You saved my life! [Music fades out] It seemed they'd shared stories while I was asleep. Everyone knew now how I'd made a deal with Dio, and about the journal we'd found with the Latin in it. Clover and Phi seemed to have done most of the talking. 999 OST: [Riddle and Puzzle] We're not infected, the rest of the world is! That means this place isn't a quarantine facility... It's more like a shelter... I thought the same thing you did, but then Sigma pointed out a couple discrepancies. Yeah. Phi and I have already gone over it, but... I explained what I'd noticed. Listen in: [English/Japanese] Maybe someone anticipated the pandemic. I donno who. Probably Zero. Anyway, they grabbed us before the pandemic really started. Then they put us in the shelter. But then after a while he got bored, so he decided to have us play this game to kill time. Who on Earth would make people he rescued play a game where they could die just because he was bored? What...? You're the only one who's gotten injected so far. And when you did, it was only Soporil. What are you saying? That what I did at the number nine door was all pointless? No, that's not what I mean... I'm sure there's tubocurarine in the bracelets. The ADAM's analysis confirmed it. But what if the ADAM is lying? If you're going to do that, then we don't have anything to base any speculations on. You could say the newspaper article was fake, or that the Latin journal wasn't real. Or the journal was real, but my translation was a lie. You made it up?! No. My translation was accurate. I'm just making the point that once you start talking about this stuff being fabricated, it doesn't stop. ... ... What...? Uh... I was just trying to stress that I don't think Zero would do this to pass the time. (How do you make that mistake...?) However, I do think Clover has half a point. Meaning? That part seems reasonable. Well, if the virus was spread on purpose, then I could see how that might make sense. Yeah. He went around before the rain started falling to gather them all up... Right? Are you saying that we were rescued because we're all that's left of humanity? We were brought here because someone knew there would be a pandemic that would turn us into an endangered species? Does that mean we're supposed to...repopulate the planet...? ... ... Repopulate... Hm... I looked around and did a quick inventory. Four women, an old man, and a kid... That meant I was the only young, fertile male... If that was the case... Maybe there wasn't any reason to escape. If the newspaper and the journal were right, then the world outside was crawling with a deadly virus. Why would we go expose ourselves to that? This would be the safest, happiest place on Earth... ... ... VLR OST: [Sinisterness] There's no point to any of this now. No, that's not true. The game might be over, but we've still got a lot of unanswered questions. In fact, we've got even more questions. So? Are those answers going to open the number nine door again? ... ... It's all over. Why we're stuck here doesn't mean poo poo. The eight of us aren't leaving, ever. That's all that matters. Eight...? You...you're including the old woman? Yeah... ... ... ... ... ... ... What if the old lady is Zero Sr.? We never even considered that. But that would mean the person in charge of all this was murdered by somebody. That doesn't make sense. Maybe she wasn't murdered... Huh...? Are you saying...she was infected with Radical-6? And killed herself? But we didn't find a knife or any kind of weapon in the AB Room with her. Maybe she was killed somewhere else... And then someone carried her in there... What? That's ridiculous... ... ... Maybe we missed something. S-Sure. Okay. After a few silent minutes, Phi suddenly stopped. She pulled something from one of the old woman's sleeves, and held it out toward me. Listen in: [English/Japanese] It looks like an ID card for this place. Since it's got her picture on it, I'd say it's a safe bet the card is hers. Huh... Looks like her name is... K U R A S H I K I... Kurashiki... Ever heard it before? Nope. You? No... Anything on the back...? It says... "JUMPYDOLL." Well, actually it says "Pass = JUMPYDOLL," so I'm guessing "JUMPYDOLL" is a password of some sort. What the hell does that mean? Beats me. Looks hand-written... She must have put it on here herself so she wouldn't forget it. Yeah. We were still looking the card over when I heard a commotion from the other part of the room. Alice! Oh no... What're you planning to do with that?! 999 OST: [Trepidation] Phi and I turned around and gasped. Damnit! We ran to the other end of the room, and skidded around the partition— There stood Alice, her hand wrapped tightly around the scalpel. She didn't seem...stable. Her eyes were flat and hollow. Her face was an emotionless mask. She was not well. The look on her face was all too familiar... ...Quark. She looked just like Quark had before he went insane. But that meant... [Music cuts out] Her hand moved, lifting the scalpel up high in the air, then driving it down toward her heart—! Haha, loving welp. Let's take stock; Dio - at large K - ??? Alice - dead, AGAIN Clover - probs traumatised af Quark - not dead  Radical-6 - still extant so everyone except Quark is probably hosed ...Yep, we done well. At least we found a password for something, though! And hey, we are getting dangerously close to the end. Next time. we'll hit up the second most popular poll option, and go see what the nineth lion is up to.
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Dec 18, 2017 00:53
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Man imagine if you had gotten here first right after the arm reveal from the Sigma route.. The old lady being Akane barely registers for us now but that would have been something to open all the speculation with in a different universe.
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Dec 18, 2017 00:55
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Oh, right, Alice was infected too, wasn't she?
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Hmmm... I guess it would make sense for the computer to have multiple passwords and ID's. But seriously how did they manage to miss finding that ID card before? You did a terrible job searching the body.
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Dec 18, 2017 02:40
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I keep forgetting what has and hasn't been revealed. Thus, time for more shitposting! 
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Super Jay Mann posted:Man imagine if you had gotten here first right after the arm reveal from the Sigma route.. The old lady being Akane barely registers for us now but that would have been something to open all the speculation with in a different universe. maswastaken posted:Does anyone in the group even look like Akane "Zero the First" Kurashiki? It's been on people's minds for a while, at least... and there has been speculation about the old lady in particular being a much older Akane, but I will refrain from quoting that for the moment.
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I like this game, but this is such a dumb ending. Just "Surprise, the old lady is Akane." and then Alice kills herself. For something called the Quark Ending, it barely deals with Quark at all beyond him being a plot device. The Tenmyouji Ending did more with him.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I like this game, but this is such a dumb ending. Just "Surprise, the old lady is Akane." and then Alice kills herself. The whole reason for why Sigma had to vote Ally so Dio could betray and kill him was so that Dio would give the antidote to Radical 6 to Quark. That's why this is Quark's ending. Yes, He did get a lot more development in Tenmyouji's ending, but we learned far more about Tenmyoji than Quark there. This is what happens when you have a character who is barely a part of the story - his ending was just called his because they needed to name one ending after him, even if he didn't play much of a part in it.
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All the endings own, gently caress the haters.
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Well, Sigma still thinks of himself as young enough to try for the Harem Ending
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I'm glad I decided to start reading this thread last week and so I caught up here just in time (hopefully) for all the conclusions! Unlike all those poor folks who have been waiting since 2014.
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I love how Sigma instantly stops caring about escape once he thinks he can get some action 
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Started reading since last week and something bothered me about Zero III. It was all played up and then... it just faded away. For an advanced A.I. made from an quantum computer, it didn't made any impact on the story much at all. Any generic video would've done the same job.
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Luckyellow posted:Started reading since last week and something bothered me about Zero III. It was all played up and then... it just faded away. Those rabbit puns are super advanced ok
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bewilderment posted:I'm glad I decided to start reading this thread last week and so I caught up here just in time (hopefully) for all the conclusions! Unlike all those poor folks who have been waiting since 2014. Heh, that is exactly what I thought when I found this thread two years ago.
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Thesaya posted:Heh, that is exactly what I thought when I found this thread two years ago. I'm so glad I played the whole game through before even seeing this thread the first time. Can't believe Sigma is Rey's dad!!
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Luckyellow posted:Started reading since last week and something bothered me about Zero III. It was all played up and then... it just faded away. Yeah, he doesn't seem to have had much of a role at all in a really long time. He needs to take a page from Monokuma. Kind of a meh ending but the refresher course on what exactly they knew about the virus etc this timeline was nice given that I can't remember any of this anymore.
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Zoe posted:I can't remember any of this anymore. I'm really sorry about this next bit.
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This was the very first plot lock we ran into (if you don't count that it's not strictly a plot lock) on our very first run through the game. It feels like that was, like, years ago. I believe this is the largest amount of gameplay it is possible to have between discovering a plot lock and being able to open it. Previously on this route: uhhhhh man where do we even loving start with this? Here's something; everybody except Sigma and Phi is dead. Alice got Radical-6 and stabbed herself because that's apparently a cosmic constant, but Clover belives Luna did it. Luna was injected with tubocuarine under suspicious circumstances; our heroes suspect Clover did it. Clover was herself killed along with Tenmyouji in the infirmary; Clover left the mysterious dying message "016" on her inner thigh, though. Quark is missing, but his bracelet was found on Temyouji, suggesting nothing good. Dio and K were found dead in the Rec Room, and it seems K thought Dio did everything. Someone, somehow has opened an AB gate - Sigma and Phi think it's Quark - but then we had to stop because Sigma really wanted to investigate a computer in the Director's Office but didn't know the login. All throughout this route, we've teamed up with Luna and faced her in the AB Game, and she has allied every time. She openly trusts Sigma, and you, thread, evidently came to trust her too, even before we went on to see her never once pick Betray in every other game in the flowchart that we've seen. It's a hell of a route. We've been seeing the lion/sun motif pop up constantly in the various rooms we've escaped from; The weird globe/prism thing in the Lounge. The light switch in the Security Office. The coin box in the Rec Room. The painting in the Treatment Center. The engraved tray in the Laboratory. The pond in the Botanical Garden. The plush doll in the Archives. And of course, the wallpaper on this very PC in the Director's Office, which has two heads. Nine in all. That shift key is really annoying btw VLR OST: [Desperation] Phi... Come...come over here... Listen in: [English/Japanese] What's wrong? I...I got in... What?! How did you figure out the login?! I-I don't know... I just... I just knew it... "I just knew it" means "I just knew it!" You gave me the same line when I asked you how you knew my name! Why are you bringing that up!? It doesn't have anything to do with this! You sure?! It might! ... ... What...? I don't... ... ... ... ... Uh... Look, just...forget about that. Come take a look at this. Sure. Fine. Just let me get right on that. Are you out of your drat mind?! Tell me what the hell is going on here! Why do you know how to log in to this computer?! Are you even listening to me?! [Music fades out] We continued to yell at one another for several more minutes. But no matter what Phi asked me, I could never come up with an answer that satisfied her. Eventually, she seemed to give up. I don't think you're lying. drat right I'm not. And the AB Game deadline isn't getting any further away... All right. Let's see what this thing has for us. It looks like there's tons of stuff in here. ... ... Oh, can you tell me the ID that you put in? I can try searching for that. Maybe we'll get a hit. I gave her what she'd asked for. "GTF-DM-L-016" Her search returned several files, and after examining them for a moment, Phi opened one. Looks like it. So was GTF-DM-L-016 a GAULEM's ID? Don't ask me. You seem to know more about all this than I do. ... ... Fine. Whatever. Just read the file. Maybe it'll make more sense. Let's see here... Fedule fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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LUNA IS A ROBOT I am shocked beyond belief, how could anyone have seen this coming? 
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This was the first route I went to, and I followe the thread the same way, and then it took forever, and I came back and ran into that. I was just. Shocked.
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Super Jay Mann posted:LUNA IS A ROBOT Even worse! HER BUTT IS A DROW  AND HER ANKLE A FORA
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I truly hate that in the previous ending we saw, you get the ID card with "PASS JUMPYDOLL" written on it, and it's not used here. I still forget if there's even any hints about what username/password to use for this computer.
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Dec 20, 2017 00:55
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JUMPYDOLL would make a great name for a lovely Child's Play knockoff.
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irlZaphod posted:I truly hate that in the previous ending we saw, you get the ID card with "PASS JUMPYDOLL" written on it, and it's not used here. Well yeah, the endings that give you the username/password specifically mention "should you encounter a two-headed lion devouring the sun", and refer to the entries as "the first gate" and "the second gate".
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irlZaphod posted:I truly hate that in the previous ending we saw, you get the ID card with "PASS JUMPYDOLL" written on it, and it's not used here. They're explicit about where to use the passwords for this computer when you're given them, yeah. Fedule posted:
Fedule posted:
e: beaten to it
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