VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.7.5 Public] [Caribdis]

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Dorfnutter

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Lilybelle said:
In regards to this, allow me to paint a picture:

Option A does indeed ruin the Alex Path. But how about for Option B, he kills us right then and there :eek:.And now you're thinking "That's absurd. We can't kill Orion" To which I say, "Sure we can. We just have to bring him back". It's possible this instance could be used as a very significant plot point. What if when we die, our soul (or something of the sort) ends up in Eternum. Then we recall the letter we received from the "young maiden" previously. Using its power, instead of the "real world to Eternum" situation we keep finding ourselves in, we end up with the reverse of going from "Eternum to the real world".

Do I believe this possible as I write it? No. But that's only because I think it's too early for this angle and would create to much confusion without a massive lore bomb. There Could be a massive lore bomb given next chapter because of where we left off but based on the pacing so far I'm more inclined to believe this concept has more merit later down the line. From the viewpoint of Mr. Bardot doing this might've "yielded the intended result" but from the perspective of us as the readers with the pacing of the game in general it would be viewed as lots of plot holes due to our lack of information which isn't worth listing out for this crackpot conspiracy to make sense.

Just something to think about.:coffee:
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I mean I mentioned in a convo we had before that a potential scenario for dragging Caly to the real world would be if Orion gets excommunicated and he gets whisked away to a hidden "server" where the other excommunicated players are processed to NPCs, leading to a prison break event and Orion's ass getting saved by Caly at the last moment, but in the process porting her and Orion to the real world (leading to this funny event that I hypothesized earlier).

That could still work in the event that Orion gets himself killed in the real, though the aftermath of getting back would probably be funnier in a morbid sense (imagine Orion waking up in a morgue instead of strapped in the VR set in his room, and then he finds Calypso and she starts to think that people in the real world kill themselves and then revive after whenever they go in and out of Eternum, and then the extra hilarity of them trying to escape said morgue while everyone there either screams at the sight of Orion having revived from the dead or gets obliterated one by one by Caly (and Orion panic-screaming at her to stop vaporizing people)).
 
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Lilybelle

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Dorfnutter said:
I mean I mentioned in a convo we had before that a potential scenario for dragging Caly to the real world would be if Orion gets excommunicated and he gets whisked away to a hidden "server" where the other excommunicated players are processed to NPCs, leading to a prison break event and Orion's ass getting saved by Caly at the last moment, but in the process porting her and Orion to the real world (leading to this funny event that I hypothesized earlier).

That could still work in the event that Orion gets himself killed in the real, though getting back would probably be funnier in a morbid sense (imagine Orion waking up in a morgue instead of strapped in the VR set in his room, and then he finds Calypso and she starts to think that people in the real world kill themselves and then revive after whenever they go in and out of Eternum, and then the extra hilarity of them trying to escape said morgue while everyone there either screams at the sight of Orion having revived from the dead or getting obliterated one by one by Caly (and Orion panic-screaming at her to stop vaporizing people)).
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I recall both of these positions you previously made. However, there are notably different monkey wrenches created by the real world body dying rather than the Eternum body and that creates some Massive questions that would need to be addressed: the first one that comes time mind being the (probable) bullet hole in his body (unless we do something like chloroform/suffocate him)
That said, it'd be pretty amusing to see which of the two of them would produce the bigger reaction when everyone else sees them :LUL:

wait a moment...

Chloroform/suffocate? Not dead, just unconscious? Almost like a dream? Option C!: We decline Mr. Bardot, and he has us knocked out. We use the time while unconscious to introduce more plot! Simple, effective, plausible (y)
The narrative can be spiced up however is deemed fit with this basic blueprint.
 
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Dorfnutter

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Lilybelle said:
However, there are notably different monkey wrenches created by the real world body dying rather than the Eternum body and that creates some Massive questions that would need to be addressed: the first one that comes time mind being the (probable) bullet hole in his body (unless we do something like chloroform/suffocate him)
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If Orion dies by bullet shots and Caly ends up porting alongside him in the real then I can see the morgue incident with him waking up and seeing the bullet wounds in his body reopening. He then starts struggling to stay awake due to the blood loss and says that he doesn't want to die a second time, but then a healing touch starts mending him, to which he looks at the direction as to where the healing light is coming from and is shocked to find Caly there beside him, mending his wounds...

...still doesn't change the fact that the situation hilariously devolves right after that. :KEK:
 
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Dorfnutter said:
If Orion dies by bullet shots and Caly ends up porting alongside Orion in the real then I can see the morgue incident with him waking up and seeing the bullet wounds in his body reopening. He then starts struggling to stay awake due to the blood loss and says that he doesn't want to die a second time, but then a healing touch starts mending him, to which he looks at the direction as to where the healing light is coming from and is shocked to find Caly there beside him, mending his wounds...

...still doesn't change the fact that the situation hilariously devolves right after that. :KEK:
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The best part is that if that Does happen and Any physical contact is made, I think there's ABSOLUTELY going to be jokes made about her touching him as well :KEK:
 
Dorfnutter

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Lilybelle said:
The best part is that if that Does happen and Any physical contact is made, I think there's ABSOLUTELY going to be jokes made about her touching him as well :KEK:
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That'll probably come sometime after they made their escape and such, with Orion likely using it to tease her and all while she goes all flustered and in denial as always. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Alex always goes hard. :LOL:
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You are mistaken this scene, it only shows how serious Alex is taking her physical training to improve her skills. She does proper stretching and asked Axel to stay out of her range but this prick didn't listen to her. While working out, he got into the line and payed for not listening to her advice. So she didn't show being hard but caring. :cool:
 
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Elhemeer said:
As someone who always renames the MCs out of habit, and didn't make enough of the mythological connections until well into the game, and is old, I went with a name inspired by his transformation, nostalgia, and a lack of actually remembering what it was like to experience the thing that spawned the name ...

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In general, I will go with the default name if it exists--unless the default name is Anon, MC, or the like.
 
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I checked the code and she has a path variable and a point system just like the other main LIs. I wonder if the reason she is not listed is because caribdis does not want to spoil new players? But yes it will be nice to have her own outfits/gallery scenes like the other LIs.
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If my theory is true, then her RP won't matter because Caly will just love or hate Orion, but her fate is ultimately tied with him. It's similar like the elf in her fairytale, but Orion is both the master and liberator of that story (depending on player choice). The fact that Orion can conjure her is a sign that she's currently not free, despite she says she'll not be imprisoned again. The question is can she kill Orion? She can hold Orion still with her power, but can she obliterate him? My guess is that she can't, and that she can freeze Orion only because he hasn't discovered his true power yet. Once he starts knowing more about himself, he perhaps can even wield some of her power, like that villain from her story. If true, then in a way, she really is his weapon.
 
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Ungawa said:
A few corrections here:

Jerry is around to show that you can be killed and resurrected from scratch just find. The big deal is excommunication which was explicitly shown to us with regards to Ben's death. That also is shown with the murder mystery where Luna and Annie Alex shine that we are tied to this plane with the MC in some capacity.

Arasaka is a Soul Killer virus. Source: I'm a tabletop player that loves Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red and I'm real familiar with the lore besides the 2077 game. That particular virus kills you then makes a copy to put onto the net. And don't get me started on Rache Bartmoss and the RABIDS. That guy was crazy.

Good post btw.
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Thank you. I read a bit of Cyberpunk lore after playing 2077 so I'm familiar with the concept, but it's more of a generic reference. The concept of digitization of the human mind. The same can be said about some episodes of the Black Mirror, such as San Junipero.
 
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Alex...The best animation and performance .. 100/100.
well done Dev ... you have taken the animation to the next level.

If you anyone does not agree than.. challenge the 100/100
 
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