Did you get that one from Discord? I seem to recall seeing that theory there the other day...XD
Nope, just thought of it while I'm playing honestly. I'm not on the Discord at all. Reason I'm thinking she's on the Syndicate take is that she continues to bump into MC despite whatever else. I suddenly thought about the envelope. I think there's a plausible thought she may come up again as a connection to the Syndicate OR a human group we know since she's busy doing her own thing. She's still a wild card but I just can't help shake the feeling she'll be important right along with Annie.
Well if that's the case then I suppose you're not the only person thinking of that possibility, though in the case of the theorist/s at Discord they thought having a prostitute/hooker that's revealed to be an agent either playing for the side of right (Syndicate) or wrong (Ulysses) is a textbook Cyberpunk trope. And we all know Cari has a thing for tropes (lol).
Running through the game again, now I'm on chapter 1 and already discovered :
Likely unintentional, given that some of the maps used for Eternum has also been used in other HS1/HS2 VNs (i.e. the place where Orion meets Nancy for the first time also exists in "Fates Collide," which is set in another city in another universe (and no, the Chang cameo in FC doesn't count)).
Yeah I know. Likely used because of the "star" reference (there's been a lot of that in the game, likely due to "Orion" and all). Also one of my crackpot theories is that the true ending might play the lullaby version of that just to signify that the danger is past and the story is finally over-
All of that is likely just pop-culture reference quotes for the sake of humor and such. Not likely gonna age well, but I suppose that's just how Cari rolls, I suppose.4. When Nancy asks MC to clean up, he refers to Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars, whose line "It's a trap" has become a meme.
5. A reference to the MCU and Cap's line.
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I guess, it's just a set for the environment, other VNs also have such matches.
I still have to run through the first game of Caribdis to understand it better. I initially thought that Eternum is like the Matrix and Ready Player One combined, soul stealing is like a Soul Killer virus, but I talked to a friend who knows Eternum and he also claims that Eternum is the astral world, or parallel realities. And the lore of Eternum is based on techno-magic, not sci-fi cyberpunk. Allows me to look at the game from a different perspective.
Anyone with at least some knowledge or interest of the occult and/or how astral projection works will likely come to the same hypothesis given the stuff we've learned so far (i.e. Playing Eternum feels like a 'vivid dream,' People like the 'Alien' creator has access to Eternum via dreaming even before Ulysses and the neural implant came into existence, Orion himself having accessed Eternum or at least came close to it via hallucinogenic substances (the shrooms back at the costume party) and by dreaming (the most blatant evidence being his "first bleeding" event, the second being him finding himself at the Collector event) - both being legit ways on how to induce an out-of-body experience and therefore create an astral projection).
Please note that the Sydicate Messenger wears a 6 pointed Star of David while the other images show a 5 pointed star. If the Sydicate really does use symbols, they will rarely use them one way or the other.
I guess for people who study the occult it is. I am unfamiliar with this area, limited to watching 15 seasons of Supernatural and similar projects.
it can be a rank and not a symbol. 5 stars a newbie, 6 stars an administrator, 7 stars the boss, etc.
Out of body experiences are not necessary in my opinion to explain the events. There is always talk of an implant that you have to "install" before you can access Eternum. For me, an implant implies something that I can no longer remove after installation. This interface is always available afterwards. The bodysuite, i.e. the additional technical modules, would only be necessary to compensate for the incompatibilities of the respective user. Users who experience phenomena in reality experience something like the augmented realities provided by Google and Microsoft glasses only at a much higher technical level. However, such "appearances" require a minimum amount of bandwidth for data exchange. That's why Orion had his vision at the gas station and not somewhere while driving with Luna and her dad.
Except again, you have the dilemma of this going against the events* and rules that were established in the past game and the author's insistence that they share the same universe. Had Cari kept the shared universe thing a secret, then the sci-fi implications of the story could be taken into consideration without issue. However, the shared universe thing (as well as the secret ending in OIAL - which establishes that OIAL is just some sort of "server" to Eternum - being clarified by Cari as non-canon and just a fun easter egg of sorts) kinda makes that difficult unless you throw all of the established rules of the setting under the bus.
So, what you're saying is...
