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

[OnlyUsedForNever]

More personalized story and Cardi has already did a choice with who to bust a nut in during the 3some. As a man of supreme culture, painting Nancy’s walls all day every day. That was my reasoning anyways for wanting a choice.

But you can absolutely have a more personalized story without entire branching paths and exclusive content that you have to replay the game to see.

Like your example, giving me the option to choose who to nut in during a 3some, etc is a very very different thing from having to abandon one girl's scenes entirely in order to get another's.

While I agree that more personalization and choices would be great for Eternum, i think they'd be better off as minor dialogue changes, control during sex (like who to nut in), etc rather than straight up "which girls content do you want to sacrifice" and making you replay the game.

Although I do appreciate your commetn because it does clarify that maybe a lot of people voting were just confused what exactly Caribdis even meant by "brancing paths" and yeah, just assumed it meant "more choices? yes please!"

 

[plong]

About Thanatos, something is very sus, a couple of points:

• Thanatos finds the first gem and dies IRL (AFAWK) shortly after, and then becomes the most famous and strongest Eternum player.
• Thanatos invariably show up almost directly when a gem is found or if it trades hands.
• Thanatos shows up on the Ogygia server hours after the the MC and co entered it through a hack which was only valid for 30 minutes. How did he do that and why, since there was no gem involved although one of the named weapons might be of interest to him.
• Thanatos is talking down to the MC like an old warrior but is supposed to be a 20-something guy that has been dead for 5 years.
• One of the last things Thanatos says to the MC before Calypso breaks the dimeritium-chains is *"You will be remembered when we build a better world, soldier"*. He uses the word *we*, which means there are more people involved.

If we take into account that the ownership of a gem is tracked by Ulysses it seems Thanatos has access to that information, if we also take into account he could access Ogygia hours after the hack expired it must have been Ulysses that facilitated his access.

As someone mentioned tongue-in-cheek quite a while ago, "William Bardot is Thanatos", which sounded a bit farfetched but is it really? I mean, not that Bardot is Thanatos but it is entirely possible Thanatos is played by someone that works for Bardot - like a mercenary or the like. We also know from the MC's meeting with Bardot at Alex's place that the he knows a great deal more about the nature of Eternum which further gives credence to him being behind Thanatos.

Also, considering everything else when it comes to Eternum and people becoming NPC's and MC's ability to jump between worlds it's entirely possible we have a "

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" situation - but that's an entirely different discussion.

 

[e6mill]

Thanatos shows up on the Ogygia server hours after the the MC and co entered it through a hack which was only valid for 30 minutes. How did he do that and why, since there was no gem involved although one of the named weapons might be of interest to him.

And he left again. Something which we needed Caly to accomplish ourselves (at the time.)

 

[Dorfnutter]

About Thanatos, something is very sus, a couple of points:

• Thanatos finds the first gem and dies IRL (AFAWK) shortly after, and then becomes the most famous and strongest Eternum player.
• Thanatos invariably show up almost directly when a gem is found or if it trades hands.
• Thanatos shows up on the Ogygia server hours after the the MC and co entered it through a hack which was only valid for 30 minutes. How did he do that and why, since there was no gem involved although one of the named weapons might be of interest to him.
• Thanatos is talking down to the MC like an old warrior but is supposed to be a 20-something guy that has been dead for 5 years.
• One of the last things Thanatos says to the MC before Calypso breaks the dimeritium-chains is *"You will be remembered when we build a better world, soldier"*. He uses the word *we*, which means there are more people involved.

If we take into account that the ownership of a gem is tracked by Ulysses it seems Thanatos has access to that information, if we also take into account he could access Ogygia hours after the hack expired it must have been Ulysses that facilitated his access.

As someone mentioned tongue-in-cheek quite a while ago, "William Bardot is Thanatos", which sounded a bit farfetched but is it really? I mean, not that Bardot is Thanatos but it is entirely possible Thanatos is played by someone that works for Bardot - like a mercenary or the like. We also know from the MC's meeting with Bardot at Alex's place that the he knows a great deal more about the nature of Eternum which further gives credence to him being behind Thanatos.

Also, considering everything else when it comes to Eternum and people becoming NPC's and MC's ability to jump between worlds it's entirely possible we have a "

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" situation - but that's an entirely different discussion.

Some notes:

-It's theorized that his ability to jump servers is due to having Hyas at his disposal. We know that the other Weapons of Atlas - Dione and Calypso - have a teleportation ability of some kind, so it's possible that Hyas has said ability as well (albeit not as powerful as that of Caly's portals).

-Another theory is that Wyatt is an Immortal like Orion and the Founder, which could explain how he is able to teleport freely and such. The only issue with this is that his teleportation doesn't seem to be instantaneous like Orion's as shown in him being late back in the World War server. However this could be attributed to him being dead so his teleportation ability could be gimped or compromised somehow.

-It's theorized that Wyatt is either working with William or the latter is feeding him information about the gems in order to prevent other players from acquiring the gems and foolishly giving them up to the Founder later on. Could somewhat explain the "we" talk back in Ekabar. This doesn't explain how he is able to track Orion's gem back in Ogygia tho, but then again it's possible that he has some sort of artifact for that or he could sense the location of a gem due to his undead nature (the dead seem to have some connection to the gems after all, as evidenced by the dead family at the Red Herring providing Orion with a Gem of Doom as a reward for his efforts).

Edit: Addendum:

-Everything being a simulation ala Thirteenth Floor undermines the revelation from the Andromeda tapes that people like the creators of Alien have been able to project into Eternum long before the founding of Ulysses or the creation of the VRMMO. That coupled with the revelations provided by William and Eternum's probable ties with Caly's story about Anima imply that Eternum has existed for a very long while, possibly even before humanity in the "real world" even existed.

Also it kinda undermines the point of this game being set in the same universe as "Once in a Lifetime" where the big reveal in that game is that magic and the supernatural exist in the setting, so any scifi component that this game has is essentially a smokescreen that masked its true nature, which we are now finding out in the recent updates.

 

[Kieffer221]

I have finally completed my run of the current build, it was so enjoyable that i took the time to 100%.

I really liked and it even lifted up my spirit even with having bad news lately. I sincerely hope this game is finished with like a thunderstorm in Kredon to overshadow briefly the unstoppable rain.

 

[lucik93]

I.NEED.MORE!!!!

 

[Opa Wants]

I.NEED.MORE!!!!

Quick somebody call the Doctor we have a serious case of ETERNUM withdrawal syndrome!
(can be temporarily relived in OT)

 

[Leinad_Sevla]

Like your example, giving me the option to choose who to nut in

Letting the player choose where to cum and on whom to cum should be standard in AVN´s.

 

[Dorfnutter]

 

[ChipLecsap]

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You know Princess, it's better if you prepare, I can't promise you I will be Gentle, and I'm not even sorry.

 

[Zegion101]

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Min 6 more months wait at this pace

 

[Dorfnutter]

Ooooh, a potential extra update extension...

 

[Lynava]

Ooooh, a potential extra update extension...

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So we have to wait another five or six years?

 

[Opa Wants]

So we have to wait another five or six years?

Dorfnutter, Time to go into ANGRY Mountain Dwarf mode.

 

[Dorfnutter]

So we have to wait another five or six years?

Prolly 3-4, since we might get 0.10 and 0.11 next year assuming Cari sticks to his current dev schedule.

 

[housekinokuni1974]

that game is pure gold

 

[bitofaperv]

Oof.

I went from "Hell yeah - 1/4 down" - to remembering that the last update was December. We're halfway through the dev cycle length for that update at 4 months, but have only 26% progress... I thought the music issues only set Cari back a couple of weeks?

 

[Dorfnutter]

Oof.

I went from "Hell yeah - 1/4 down" - to remembering that the last update was December. We're halfway through the dev cycle length for that update at 4 months, but have only 26% progress... I thought the music issues only set Cari back a couple of weeks?

Dev progress for the update didn't begin until after the Public Release, which was back in the middle of January.

Edit: So yeah, technically it's only been less that 3 months since development began...

 

[minibaer12]

Oof.

I went from "Hell yeah - 1/4 down" - to remembering that the last update was December. We're halfway through the dev cycle length for that update at 4 months, but have only 26% progress... I thought the music issues only set Cari back a couple of weeks?

We have a saying: Good things take time, and sometimes with a detour!

 

[plong]

Edit: Addendum:

-Everything being a simulation ala Thirteenth Floor undermines the revelation from the Andromeda tapes that people like the creators of Alien have been able to project into Eternum long before the founding of Ulysses or the creation of the VRMMO.

The problem I have with this statement is that according to Langston's audio logs, #48 to be specific, they only say the creators of Alien had a dream which doesn't explicitly imply they projected into Andromeda, but it doesn't preclude the possibility either so it isn't an established fact.

That coupled with the revelations provided by William and Eternum's probable ties with Caly's story about Anima imply that Eternum has existed for a very long while, possibly even before humanity in the "real world" even existed.

Also it kinda undermines the point of this game being set in the same universe as "Once in a Lifetime" where the big reveal in that game is that magic and the supernatural exist in the setting, so any scifi component that this game has is essentially a smokescreen that masked its true nature, which we are now finding out in the recent updates.

What's to say that Eternum/Once in a Lifetime universe isn't a simulation? That was the whole point with The Thirteenth Floor, simulations within simulations which is highlighted by how the movie ends with a scene were the protagonist is in the "real world" which then ends with the distinct visuals and sound of a monitor turning off:

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It also conveniently means that any backstory and history can be entirely manufactured and no one in the Eternum-worlds would be any wiser to how they came to be.

And as Axel points out in Ch6 "The amount of processing power that’d be required to run such a game would be unfathomable., And yet... there is nothing", which discounts the possibility they are living in a simulation that's parallel with those available through Eternum, which in turn means the servers aren't in their simulated world - they are one level up and it's we, the players, who run the simulation. I know it's a metaphysical bullshit argument, but it is still a valid argument when compared to any other argument having to do with the Eternum-universe and how it exists.

Do I believe this is the case? Not really, but it's an interesting argument to kick around while we run around in our own universe that may be simulated too, constrained by the rules imposed by its creator.