VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.8.5 Public] [Caribdis]

[Son of Durin]

The sushi scene was one of my favourite scenes in the entire game.
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The music totally cemented it (for those who play without sound, it's worth going back to this scene and putting the sound on! )

And Alex's attempt to underplay the awesomeness of the sushi:

mc: "This is not normal sushi! It's like... having an orgasm in your mouth!"​

Alex: "Oh, for fuck's sake, don't overreact. It's just a handful of rice with a slice of tuna on top of it."​

mc: "TASTE IT!"​

Alex: "*Sighs*"​

Alex: "Fine, I'll eat one. Will you shut up and start focusing if I do?"​

mc: "YES!"​

Alex: "*Eating the sushi* Mmph..."​

Alex: "*Eating the sushi* Mmhappy? Can w--"​

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*Mouth Orgasm Time*​

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mc: "AND?!"​

Alex: "(Sweet Mother of God, this shit is divine.)"​

Alex: "(It's the best thing I've ever tasted. It’s like the nectar of the gods.)"​

mc: "It's amazing, isn't it?"​

Alex: "*Clears throat* Um... y-yeah, it's not... {size=27}n-not bad."​

mc: "NOT BAD?!"​

Alex: "O-Okay, enough!"​

Alex: "We didn't come here to drink and eat, mc!"​

mc: "Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry."​

Alex: "No more distractions!"​

Alex: "Dalia, Nova, and all the others are counting on us! So we need to stay focused, no matter how ridiculously good the food is here."​

mc: "So you admit that that sushi was amazing!"​

Alex: ". . ."​

Alex: "Jesus Christ, it was glorious! How can it be so fucking good?! Do you think we can sneak a platter out of Eternum?"​

mc: "Right??!"​

Alex: "It was like... having an orgasm in your mouth!"​

mc: "I know!!!"​

Even the final, "I know!!!" is just golden to me. It's like the dev looked into my brain, found out exactly what would make me laugh my ass off, then then wrote it down.

Ah: that. I remember now. I do love good sushi, both the kind you consume, and the kind you merely eat.

 

[Elhemeer]

The sushi scene was one of my favourite scenes in the entire game.
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Oh yea, remember the scene, totally forgot it was sushi.

 

[Dorfnutter]

The sushi scene was one of my favourite scenes in the entire game.
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The music totally cemented it (for those who play without sound, it's worth going back to this scene and putting the sound on! )

And Alex's attempt to underplay the awesomeness of the sushi:

mc: "This is not normal sushi! It's like... having an orgasm in your mouth!"​

Alex: "Oh, for fuck's sake, don't overreact. It's just a handful of rice with a slice of tuna on top of it."​

mc: "TASTE IT!"​

Alex: "*Sighs*"​

Alex: "Fine, I'll eat one. Will you shut up and start focusing if I do?"​

mc: "YES!"​

Alex: "*Eating the sushi* Mmph..."​

Alex: "*Eating the sushi* Mmhappy? Can w--"​

​

*Mouth Orgasm Time*​

​

mc: "AND?!"​

Alex: "(Sweet Mother of God, this shit is divine.)"​

Alex: "(It's the best thing I've ever tasted. It’s like the nectar of the gods.)"​

mc: "It's amazing, isn't it?"​

Alex: "*Clears throat* Um... y-yeah, it's not... {size=27}n-not bad."​

mc: "NOT BAD?!"​

Alex: "O-Okay, enough!"​

Alex: "We didn't come here to drink and eat, mc!"​

mc: "Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry."​

Alex: "No more distractions!"​

Alex: "Dalia, Nova, and all the others are counting on us! So we need to stay focused, no matter how ridiculously good the food is here."​

mc: "So you admit that that sushi was amazing!"​

Alex: ". . ."​

Alex: "Jesus Christ, it was glorious! How can it be so fucking good?! Do you think we can sneak a platter out of Eternum?"​

mc: "Right??!"​

Alex: "It was like... having an orgasm in your mouth!"​

mc: "I know!!!"​

Even the final, "I know!!!" is just golden to me. It's like the dev looked into my brain, found out exactly what would make me laugh my ass off, then then wrote it down.



Incest, violence, rape, murder, all of these "illegal-in-the-real-world" things in a fantasy setting can be exciting for a lot of people, but many people draw the line at paedophilia. When the movie Snatch was being created, Guy Ritchie wanted to make Brick Top come across as truly horrible, and they first considered a ********** ring, but then felt that would just suck the fun out of the movie, and went with dog fighting instead. Me personally, I don't want to see a kid being abused in the real world, a movie, or a game, even if that kid is a fictional character inside a fictional game setting. Some plots warrant it, but if I could step in and put a bullet in the offending character's head, I'd do it.

Of course, my simp mc checked which option would result in the most Alex points, and then I put a bullet in the cunts head.

Ah: that. I remember now. I do love good sushi, both the kind you consume, and the kind you merely eat.

Oh yea, remember the scene, totally forgot it was sushi.

Spoiler: Funnily enough the sushi scene was foreshadowed way back...

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[ArDZer]

Oh yea, remember the scene, totally forgot it was sushi.

Too bad Alex never got to get her hands on more sushi to smuggle it out of the Rockefeller server.

Spoiler: An acquired taste

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[sampow]

Too bad Alex never got to get her hands on more sushi to smuggle it out of the Rockefeller server.

Spoiler: An acquired taste

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And the mc found an eternal spring of sushi, so all's well that ends well.

Spoiler: Y'all know what's under here... :p

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[theblasbla]

Spoiler: ...Are you legitimately equating the crimes of the pedo in-game to what is essentially liking loli porn?

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It's really simple to defend it actually. Leaving aside the whole "the NPCs might be actual people" thing, the other player has no reason to believe that the NPC is anything more than lines of code, an object. Child abuse is wrong because it harms children, but regardless of whether the other player is a pedo or not, if the NPC really is just lines of code then he isn't harming anyone.

And again, this is more about how the Dev had to virtue signal like this by bringing internet arguments into his game.

Spoiler: Incest, violence, rape, murder, all of these "illegal-in-the-real-world"

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Morals aren't about feelings, and just because you can't stomach those things happening in fiction it doesn't mean there aren't other who can. At the end of the day it's fiction, so morality really doesn't even apply to it.

And yeah, same, of course I'm going to choose the option which gives more affection points. Just sucks that it's the option that affirms the Dev's virtue signalling.

 

[Dorfnutter]

And the mc found an eternal spring of sushi, so all's well that ends well.

Spoiler: Y'all know what's under here... :p

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Are you implying, good sir/madam, that Alex's pussy tastes like fresh fish?

 

[Dorfnutter]

It's really simple to defend it actually. Leaving aside the whole "the NPCs might be actual people" thing, the other player has no reason to believe that the NPC is anything more than lines of code, an object. Child abuse is wrong because it harms children, but regardless of whether the other player is a pedo or not, if the NPC really is just lines of code then he isn't harming anyone.

And again, this is more about how the Dev had to virtue signal like this by bringing internet arguments into his game.

And yet part of your argument is that Orion acted rashly because he may have not known despite all signs - with the way the story is told and what we've learned throughout - that says otherwise.

So again, I'm not sure why you're insisting on the "lines of code" and "not real" argument for the child NPC when we as players ought to know better at this point.

Also again, it's hard to argue against the "not real" excuse when the child looks like a real-life equivalent of a kid in their universe. No uncanny valley, "it's just the art style that makes it look like a kid" excuse here. Even worse is the fact that the "game" basically allows you to feel with all senses the sensations of doing it in real life. So if the pedo eventually goes the distance and porks the kid, his experience is pretty much a 1-to-1 representation of what it really feels like to rape a kid.

Which again, is pretty hard to defend, really.

 

[Dragon59]

Loli porn is actually legal in most countriesthat allows porn, including America.


I'm not making you or the Dev do anything, all I'm saying is that virtue signaling is a dumb move, especially if you make porn.

The fact that you accuse those whose opinion differs from yours to be "virtue signaling," says more than enough. I'm excommunicating you from my feed.

 

[rebel836]

I don't know what everyone is losing their fucking minds about but I just played the whole game through from the beginning just to extend the experience and it's STILL NOT LONG ENOUGH!

 

[sampow]

Morals aren't about feelings, and just because you can't stomach those things happening in fiction it doesn't mean there aren't other who can. At the end of the day it's fiction, so morality really doesn't even apply to it.

And yeah, same, of course I'm going to choose the option which gives more affection points. Just sucks that it's the option that affirms the Dev's virtue signalling.

I don't know if I agree with anything you've written there, except that people have different preferences.

Morals totally are about feelings. Of course society heavily dictates various morals, but we all have our own moral compass, based on upbringing and our own feelings. A person can "feel" something is right or wrong. Doesn't mean they are necessarily correct though. Some will say looking at drawn ** is wrong, others will say it's fine since there are no victims.

I also don't know about this "virtue signalling" argument. I don't believe the dev wrote that scene to get points with some anti-fake-** crowd. He put it in because it was an interesting dilemma for the mc. Alex's response isn't necessarily the dev's response; it might be, but it's not a given.

But anyway, the dev providing the antagonists argument, "I would never do this in real life!" and "...Don't you understand? It's not a real kid!" is a fair argument. If it were true. But like the mc responds, "He once was."

The mc actually believes the kid may be an imprint of a real child. And what does that mean? Is the child now just a program? Is Thanatos now just a program? Do their "souls" still reside in the machine? Are they even in a machine? Like Axel says, where are the servers?

Also, the scene highlights a dilemma that will be real soon enough in our own world. When AI behaves self aware, does it have rights? Many stories and movies have been made on this topic.

Don't cheapen such an interesting subject by simply labelling it, "Virtue signalling".

Are you implying, good sir/madam, that Alex's pussy tastes like fresh fish?

"What's the difference between eating sushi and eating pussy?"

It's the rice.



Seriously, you guys haven't heard of those connotations?

 

[SlapE]

Finished the update the other night and WOW, that was so damn amazing.

The Annie and Alex scenes were both... god damn.

I definitely think Alex moved up a few spots for me, but also... that ending with William Bardot has me a bit worried, we can never have an ending where we just chillin and everything good.

 

[Son of Durin]

I don't know if I agree with anything you've written there, except that people have different preferences.

Morals totally are about feelings. Of course society heavily dictates various morals, but we all have our own moral compass, based on upbringing and our own feelings. A person can "feel" something is right or wrong. Doesn't mean they are necessarily correct though. Some will say looking at drawn ** is wrong, others will say it's fine since there are no victims.

I also don't know about this "virtue signalling" argument. I don't believe the dev wrote that scene to get points with some anti-fake-** crowd. He put it in because it was an interesting dilemma for the mc. Alex's response isn't necessarily the dev's response; it might be, but it's not a given.

But anyway, the dev providing the antagonists argument, "I would never do this in real life!" and "...Don't you understand? It's not a real kid!" is a fair argument. If it were true. But like the mc responds, "He once was."

The mc actually believes the kid may be an imprint of a real child. And what does that mean? Is the child now just a program? Is Thanatos now just a program? Do their "souls" still reside in the machine? Are they even in a machine? Like Axel says, where are the servers?

Also, the scene highlights a dilemma that will be real soon enough in our own world. When AI behaves self aware, does it have rights? Many stories and movies have been made on this topic.

Don't cheapen such an interesting subject by simply labelling it, "Virtue signalling".



"What's the difference between eating sushi and eating pussy?"

It's the rice.



Seriously, you guys haven't heard of those connotations?

Smell, not taste. Sweaty can kind of remind you of tuna salad; but it can still taste just fine.

 

[Ellyx]

Finished the update the other night and WOW, that was so damn amazing.
The Annie and Alex scenes were both... god damn.
[/ISPOILER]

This update is definetly one of my pref, we have everything in it humor, story/revelations, sexiness. After replaying it, and I will say this as an Annie fan, the scene I least preferred in this update was Annie's one mainly due to the teasing at the end and when you know how good the others scenes are this scene leaves us "hungry" for more(I preferred the others 2 scenes of Annie). As Dorfnutter said, I think next update will feature a Nova scene similar to the Alex one and I do hope Luna is getting a nice scene without feeling "unatural"

 

[ArDZer]

I don't know what everyone is losing their fucking minds about but I just played the whole game through from the beginning just to extend the experience and it's STILL NOT LONG ENOUGH!

And still Eternum's v0.6 has to be publicly released. The Eternum withdrawal syndrome should last for about 5 months or so (which would be an estimated time for Caribdis to develop and release v0.7 for the higher tiers, that's if the project doesn't encounter any issues along the way). As a poster I saw online once with this caption says:

Spoiler: Everyone's been at this point after finishing the current version

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[Dorfnutter]

This update is definetly one of my pref, we have everything in it humor, story/revelations, sexiness. After replaying it, and I will say this as an Annie fan, the scene I least preferred in this update was Annie's one mainly due to the teasing at the end and when you know how good the others scenes are this sceneleaves us "hungry" for more(I preffered the others 2 scenes of Annie). As Dorfnutter said, I think next update will feature a Nova scene similar to the Alex one and I do hope Luna is getting a nice scene without feeling "unatural"

Unless of course...Cari makes good with his idea to have a non-lewd update by killing Orion and trapping him in Eternum, leading to him spending the entire update trying to get back to the real world (and also leads to Caly finally crossing over in the process)...

 

[Ellyx]

Unless of course...Cari makes good with his idea to have a non-lewd update by killing Orion and trapping him in Eternum, leading to him spending the entire update trying to get back to the real world (and also leads to Caly finally crossing over in the process)...

I mean storywise it can be good but I will react like this:

Spoiler: No lewds?

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and after this one we would have Chang's pov (and Micaela)for all 0.8

 

[rebel836]

And still Eternum's v0.6 has to be publicly released. The Eternum withdrawal syndrome should last for about 5 months or so (which would be an estimated time for Caribdis to develop and release v0.7 for the higher tiers, that's if the project doesn't encounter any issues along the way). As a poster I saw online once with this caption says:

Spoiler: Everyone's been at this point after finishing the current version

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I can see why addicts have a hard time quitting. This is gonna be a long ass rest of the year

 

[Plaguerave]

Can we all agree though that Calypso is most definetly not an NPC

I'm still waiting for a nice ass shot thought we woulda seen that in the

Spoiler: Calpyso Tour

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[theblasbla]

Spoiler: I don't know if I agree with anything you've written there, except that people have different preferences.

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Lets assume that the child NPC really is an actual person turned into an NPC... where exactly is the interesting moral dilemma there? If it really is a child then of course causing it harm would be wrong. The best defense you could give the other player is that he's ignorant of the possibility of the NPC being an actual person. This is reflected in how the two options are "Kill the bad guy(good option)" and "Accept the bribe from the bad guy(bad option)". It's very cut and dry what the intent is.

The Dev put actual, reasonable, real world arguments in favor for of taboo erotic fiction in a scenario where it can't be anything but wrong. It's the equivalent of having enemies spout capitalist rhetoric as they loot a village or having the asshole character in a romance VN be a Men's Rights Activist.

That's not an attempt at having an interesting moral dilemma, that's just virtue signaling. If you really want an interesting moral dilemma, have a player character corner a young bandit NPC. The player needs to kill the bandit for a quest and is about to execute it, does MC intervene or does he let it happen? If the MC intervenes, the NPC kills the other player before running away. If the NPC dies it will respawn after a while, and the other player will be able to log in after 24 hours at Level 1 if he dies. No lasting consequences except their suffering, but whose suffering does the MC prioritize? Fuck, Marry, Kill... and no saying "Fuck" twice.

Spoiler: Also again, it's hard to argue against the "not real" excuse when the child looks like a real-life equivalent of a kid in their universe.

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What the child NPC looks like or how real it feels doesn't matter if it's not actually real, and to the other player, that's what he thought it was: Not Real. That's all the defense that's needed really because no reasonable person would think that NPCs would be actual people.