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

[PervyParadox]

I still think she's the least interesting of the girls. She's just your shy childhood friend and a relatively good Eternum player. Everyone else has something else going for them:

• Calypso is a Weapon of Atlas
• Nova is a world-class hacker and a world-class Eternum player
• Alex is the CEO's daughter
• Nancy is a master strategist and a hot mommy figure
• Dalia and Penny are hot sisters
• Luna has a weird power and is one of the best summoners in Eternum
• Annie is... Annie

Even Chang knows how to pull off a perfect heist.

Calypso, Alex and Nova are load-bearing characters essential for the plot. The Carters and Luna could be replaced with different characters in theory: like, you could have a bookworm sister and a punk sister instead of an athlete sister and an influencer sister, shuffle the roles around etc. Annie could be removed from the game with almost no scar tissue remaining.

Ahem ahem.

. Annie is the first girl we see in the game, even before entering the game proper​

. Annie introduces Eternum to Orion, and gives him money on his first time​

. The date with Annie takes place in Andromeda and lead to us learning more about the LORE of Eternum​

. Annie recovers the Gem of doom from Garrington​

. Annie solves the mystery in the last update​

. Orion wouldn't have went to Kredon if not for Annie, he says it himself​

. Annie is the cutest​

Conclusion :

Annie could be removed from the game with almost no scar tissue remaining.

No.
Removing any of the LI from Eternum would result in very painful and burning scar tissue. They're all very interesting, they all bring something important, and they're all irreplaceable. Stop pushing this "least interesting" button please, my gawd this is so...

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[Chief Caon]

Just to add on, and tell me if you disagree, but it seems clear to me that Caribdis is setting up Annie to have a massive carry in a later fight after it being revealed that everyone else thinks she's some weak little girl. She about to pop off soon.

 

[Yvier the Duck]

Just to add on, and tell me if you disagree, but it seems clear to me that Caribdis is setting up Annie to have a massive carry in a later fight after it being revealed that everyone else thinks she's some weak little girl. She about to pop off soon.

Annie is a lovely girl, top tier childhood friend and cute as fuck, but since chapter one she did less than nothing.
"Welcome to Eternum, explore the server while I disappear all the time".
"Of course I want to go with you and Luna to that scary server and do nothing!"
Etc. Etc. Etc.

Even Caribdis knows it and make jokes about that in the last update, and I'm sure she will be important to the story and she will shine more than anyone, but just now is the most bland of all.
Again, I love her, she is amazing, but being the childhood friend her connection with Orion is off camera, we have to accept a relationship builded before the game starts, when the other girls build that connection in the game, and that's a problem with the childhood friend character that Caribdis has ignored. "My bully is my lover" is a game that make the "prebuilding" perfectly and make the relationship with Emma, Aine and Gwen better just with a pair of flashbacks, and maybe is the only thing Eternum needs to Make Annie Great Again, but having another 6 incredible girls in the game, Annie character needs something more.

 

[Takkatakka]

Annie is a lovely girl, top tier childhood friend and cute as fuck, but since chapter one she did less than nothing.
"Welcome to Eternum, explore the server while I disappear all the time".
"Of course I want to go with you and Luna to that scary server and do nothing!"
Etc. Etc. Etc.

Even Caribdis knows it and make jokes about that in the last update, and I'm sure she will be important to the story and she will shine more than anyone, but just now is the most bland of all.
Again, I love her, she is amazing, but being the childhood friend her connection with Orion is off camera, we have to accept a relationship builded before the game starts, when the other girls build that connection in the game, and that's a problem with the childhood friend character that Caribdis has ignored. "My bully is my lover" is a game that make the "prebuilding" perfectly and make the relationship with Emma, Aine and Gwen better just with a pair of flashbacks, and maybe is the only thing Eternum needs to Make Annie Great Again, but having another 6 incredible girls in the game, Annie character needs something more.

Honestly I half expect this to be Caribdis as well while writing this sequence:

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"Oh crap, I never actually showed the players what she can do! Well...lets just make it a running gag now..."

 

[Dorfnutter]

/scrch skrch scrtch

 

[Alandir]

I mean we still have a lot of updates to go through until the inevitable reveal so...plenty of time to solidify the bond amongst the girls until then...

Yeah, I mean. I do suspect that's it's going to end up being the same 'shrug -> threesome' reaction we got in Oialt. But a man can dream of something more interesting.

 

[Anti Venom]

wtf are you talking about. A crush indicates romantic feelings, not just physical attraction. Of course penny can tell he's physically attracted to her, that's why she keeps teasing him.

Well said bruh because a bit of flirting, complimenting and teasing between mfs can mean so many things. Anything from Orion might just be a horndog who finds her especially hot to he might be the man she shares the next half-century with (ikik true love talk in this economy… plz don’t ship me off to area 51, i have a family). Seems fair to want to play it safe before jumping to conclusions.

 

[Ellyx]

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[Ungawa]

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[Stefansu91]

As for Penny... I hope it goes slow as hell. We need another photoshoot where MC gets in nude, penny in lingerie, and the whole thing making it about him getting hard AF trying to control himself. Blue ball the dude, Penny!

I'd like to see something similar to Milfy City with Caroline.

 

[Dorfnutter]

Guys vote for Alex

...Erm, poll linking is against the rules, you're gonna get her disqualified that way. -_-

 

[Ellyx]

As for Penny... I hope it goes slow as hell. We need another photoshoot where MC gets in nude, penny in lingerie, and the whole thing making it about him getting hard AF trying to control himself. Blue ball the dude, Penny!

I'd like to see something similar to Milfy City with Caroline.

 

[Njk283bsjla]

...Erm, poll linking is against the rules, you're gonna get her disqualified that way. -_-

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Sorry I didn't know

 

[Dorfnutter]

As for Penny... I hope it goes slow as hell. We need another photoshoot where MC gets in nude, penny in lingerie, and the whole thing making it about him getting hard AF trying to control himself. Blue ball the dude, Penny!

I'd like to see something similar to Milfy City with Caroline.

/sees the accursed one's work being mentioned

Me:

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[Yvier the Duck]

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Quack the fuck!? Copy my message integrally, don't ignore the "is a lovely girl, top tier childhood friend and cute as fuck" you beardless dwarf!

 

[Zeus95]

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That is hands down the funniest thing I've seen on this site.

Thank you.

 

[Dorfnutter]

you beardless dwarf!

Beardless?

BEARDLESS?!?!



THAT'S IT, I'M GETTING THE SPIT!!

 

[Dylan741]

I once had a thought of recreating the HS look in DAZ... Maybe I'll start looking into that again...

Spoiler: my daz library

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edit: there are a few issues with this render that I would probably try to fix if I was going for an AVN release... But to me, it escapes most of the pitfalls that alot of the DAZ games I've seen fall victim to... Or maybe I could be just entirely wrong...

Spoiler: a quick 10 minute DAZ 4k render that I resized down to 720p (HD) and autocropped

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It's good, especially being it a quick renders so it miss some of work with lights and shadows, BG and some improvement at level of post production ( filters and retouch).
I would say that at the moment, the best examples of how to work with DAZ and how to give a good render can be found in the work of: Oceanlab ( though he is slooooaw), digi.Bi, Stone Fox Studios, Naughty Road ( very original but fantastic nonetheless) and Gallant Trombe, imho of course, but what you showed is definitely interesting, wish you best of luck for your project.

 

[Dylan741]

Beardless?

BEARDLESS?!?!

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THAT'S IT, I'M GETTING THE SPIT!!

 

[Solak]

I think Caly is the exception to the others. As we were warned, she wasn't deemed complete, hence the server lockdown. She was "trapped" in a box that looks exactly like we see with that guy and the "NPC" kid in the current update. I'm thinking the WoA were actually created from "players"/"NPCs". Her reprogramming wasn't finished and so she still retained herself and more of what her magic could do. Either that or she's actually just something from the MC's imagination. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if her home was actually from the game he designed in the past.

The only problem I see with Hyas being able to cut a path between servers is that he keeps asking others to "open the portal". Unless its like you say and it only works with close servers.

Not sure why you insist on theorising as though Eternum is just a digital game, a bunch of code. Hasn't Caribdis given us enough foreshadowing that it's not? If Nova can hack a visor to steal a person's inventory at launch but can't once they're inside the game or even modify any single variable, that means something is off. What they've programmed has so far been foreshadowed as being accessing other worlds while maintaining a link to the Earth to prevent death, as well as installing exit gates. There's more of course, such as NPCs having chips just like players, or physical activity in Eternum resulting in consequences in the real world.

We can also see the 10 gems of doom floating around Calypso's ancestor, giving him the ability to use magic apparently. With Calypso being clearly unhappy with being seen as merely a tool, the chips, the reprogramming and whatever else, it's clear that she's her own person. Meaning that she and the gems of doom far predate the creation of Eternum's chips. And seriously, inability to even take screenshots in a game where you can have tons of different outfits in many types of worlds? No DM-ing while in-game or any such usual commodities found in any MMO? No character screen in-game to check level, stats, equipment or inventory? There isn't even a tutorial for new players! No in-game images on the net (as revealed in a conversation with Penelope). Why don't the devs have images of their own game?

You can't properly theorise if you continue with the assumption that it's just digital code. The game has abundantly made it clear that something's fishy and you'd need crazy infrastructures to support such vast amounts of data, yet there's no such thing back on Earth, and no way to modify any variable "in-game", not even for a hacker who can get access to a very secure server or remotely hack a secure casino computer in record time to feed it false info.