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

[Takkatakka]

I actually was kinda left with the same feelings during that cliffhanger.
But i was sitting there afterwards thinking, considering the fact that Eternum is almost basically leaking out into the real world,
i'd imagine that somehow something fantastic will happen.
We are the chosen one.

If Cari doesn't want to spend a lot of the next upgrade without the MC, he has to pick up the story with Orion pretty early. I wouldn't be too surprised if the game starts with Orion waking up somewhere in Eternum.

 

[jefi2000]

I mean, as long as Cari doesn't end the update with a cliffhanger worse than the last one, I think we'll be fine...

...if not, well...

I highly doubt it, certainly not a perilous cliffhanger this time anyway. Cari is actually a decent writer, and if he's following the archetypical "hero's journey", which it certainly seems like he is, this is the part where the hero is at their lowest, arrogance set in and slapped them down and the next episode will see some level of struggle but coming out of the other side with a newfound strength and renewed belief, but with a now deeper understanding of themselves and what they have to do.

Perilous cliffhanger after perilous cliffhanger is a cheap cliché, Cari actually has legit writing talent.

 

[YRUSEGME]

Perilous cliffhanger after perilous cliffhanger is a cheap cliché, Cari actually has legit writing talent.

I would also point out that most of Cari's cliffhangers haven't actually been perilous, per se. It only feels that way because the latest two cliffhangers have felt more dangerous than the others. Being confronted by Bardot and being shot and left to die are pretty perilous. But when Benjamin's death was revealed, Calypso showed up, someone was knocking on the door before the heist, Orion meeting the Founder or the revelation that Thanatos was a dead man? Those were great cliffhangers, but not ones that put Orion or anyone else in a spot of any real known danger. They stopped the action are a precise narrative point to increase tension before the next release. Cari isn't just putting his characters in danger in order to sweep in with a dues ex machina to get them out again. Each cliffhanger has been a little different in both how it's set up, and how Cari plays it off. It'll be really interesting to see what he does with this one.

 

[kuriAUS]

Guys the next update was leaked by some serious hackers, and I got to see the next update's ending:

Orion trips and fatally impales himself onto a giant metal spike. The spike for some reason explodes and Orion's body is scattered into a pink gory mess. The story seems to be definitely over with the main character obviously dead.

Then a narrator breaks the 4th wall and says "Orion seems to be dead... or is he? Tune in next time- on DRAGONBALL Z!"

*theme plays*

 

[DougsLeftNut]

Well... there is someone who is ready to become a temporary MC...

Spoiler: C h a n g

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Some would say Chang has been the real hero all along.

 

[TanyaC]

I actually was kinda left with the same feelings during that cliffhanger.
But i was sitting there afterwards thinking, considering the fact that Eternum is almost basically leaking out into the real world,
i'd imagine that somehow something fantastic will happen.
We are the chosen one.

So I hope something good comes along.

I also believe that this platform must already be almost born in our real world, perhaps with 3D masks or some chip connected to our head or skin... I've seen everything in technology, I need to research and see if something like this already exists.

 

[Dorfnutter]

I highly doubt it, certainly not a perilous cliffhanger this time anyway. Cari is actually a decent writer, and if he's following the archetypical "hero's journey", which it certainly seems like he is, this is the part where the hero is at their lowest, arrogance set it and slapped them down and the next episode will see some level of struggle but coming out of the other side with a newfound strength and renewed belief, but with a now deeper understanding of themselves and what they have to do.

Perilous cliffhanger after perilous cliffhanger is a cheap cliché, Cari actually has legit writing talent.

He warned people on Discord a while back that 0.8 was going to have a scary-ass cliffhanger, only to reveal that he moved that cliffhanger to 0.7.



And now he's saying 0.9/0.10 is going to have a massive one too. But given how he likes to shuffle things around, there's the potential danger that said cliffhanger will show up as early as next update instead. Hence my worry.

 

[NiiChan]

He warned people on Discord a while back that 0.8 was going to have a scary-ass cliffhanger, only to reveal that he moved that cliffhanger to 0.7.

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And now he's saying 0.9/0.10 is going to have a massive one too. But given how he likes to shuffle things around, there's the potential danger that said cliffhanger will show up as early as next update instead. Hence my worry.

Everyone gangsta until Cari puts a massive cliffhanger on each update moving forward.

 

[cbarc]

Guys, my friend who sails the high seas is asking how long it took for 0.7 update to leak after it came out for demon lord tier members?

 

[e6mill]

Guys, my friend who sails the high seas is asking how long it took for 0.7 update to leak after it came out for demon lord tier members?

Several seconds.

 

[Dorfnutter]

Guys, my friend who sails the high seas is asking how long it took for 0.7 update to leak after it came out for demon lord tier members?

Last 2 updates were leaked a few hours after it got out, mainly by some DL patrons who finished the update then leaked it after. With luck, same thing could happen again next update.

 

[S0meTh1ngG00d]

God damn game is perfect!!! But I'm a little bit upset that dialog in the end not changing if you have only one girl or even 0, it still says "You became arrogant, intoxicated by power, by WOMEN..."

 

[Takkatakka]

God damn game is perfect!!! But I'm a little bit upset that dialog in the end not changing if you have only one girl or even 0, it still says "You became arrogant, intoxicated by power, by WOMEN..."

Yeah, it is very set in the canon harem route, everything else is pretty much a deviation from the expected.

 

[xkevlarex]

God damn game is perfect!!! But I'm a little bit upset that dialog in the end not changing if you have only one girl or even 0, it still says "You became arrogant, intoxicated by power, by WOMEN..."

Yeah, but No. Eternum is kinetic novel with great story and good-written characters, adding more plot branches means less or worse content with each update. And its very annoying to replay multiple times roughly the same content every update to see full story.

 

[Erotica Biblion]

God damn game is perfect!!! But I'm a little bit upset that dialog in the end not changing if you have only one girl or even 0, it still says "You became arrogant, intoxicated by power, by WOMEN..."

Rhetorically that still works, because "women" there is being used in a categorical sense.

 

[sexypeanut]

And now he's saying 0.9/0.10 is going to have a massive one too.

I missed that info!

 

[Takkatakka]

I missed that info!

I mean...saying that there will be a big cliffhanger at the end of an Eternum patch is a bit like saying "this year there will be a new Call of Duty coming out". Even if it wasn't publicly announced yet, everybody knows it will happen anyway.

 

[yogurtbreeze]

Does anybody know release date of 0.8?

 

[Mamonetti]

"this year"

With "this year" you mean "this year 2024"? I mean, this answer, depending on when it's read, can perfectly mean "this year 2024+"

 

[laxons2]

Hell Yeah.