Thats the thing, you cannot really do a bad Ending like this. Bad Endings are totally fine, but they should basically happen relatively quickly so that people can load a previous save and do a different decision (this will obviously not work for people who only use one savefile and overwrite it all the time).
that is already in the game. i advise not playing the game without using a "walkthrough"
Equally frustrating to obtain an artifact that has no use. It just becomes a decoration at that point.
Oh it does have a use. It just isn't going to be used for the main story and instead will be used for a lewd scene in the future (as was heavily implied by the Collector himself back then).
Could you tell me? With a Spoiler of course.
It's implied by Cari on Discord that taking the Founder's artifact will lead to a bad ending in the future.
Yeah, I figured that. I think so much more could have been done with it though. Missed opportunities in storytelling. I have no doubt there will be something interesting in store either way though.
Ok, so there is no bad ending for it yet. The way it was worded it sounded like there is already a Bad Ending which happens way after the respective choice.
don't remember all of them, but if you choose the any other gift than the necklace to Annie in your first visit to Eternum. Annie will die and lose her level in the Andromeda server.
I would think it would actually be an artifact the Founder uses to control others at opportune moments.
Feels like it would invalidate the open-ended nature of the Collector whodunit if he made the artifact a mandatory story item tho. At least that was the vibe I was getting from Cari's posts about the matter.
Possibly. The artifact just seemed like it would be far more useful as a plot device than a sex toy.
That is very true, and it might very well be that. But there was some lines by the syndicate guy similar to "this time around" or something like that, if I recall correctly. And somebody else (I'll be damned of I remember who) also mentioned something similar in this update. That's what made me think of circular time. Which would also align with some Greek philosophers, too.
That's true. Would still be compatible with both Dorfnutter's theory of prescience and mine of circular time, though.
There's also the fact that the dev's chosen nick is Caribdis, yet another Greek mythology reference.
It would be interesting if the thing that was "different this time around" were to be the poly juice potion hehe...
Does this lead to a Bad End? Aka the game is over or you lose a path? If not, I would not really count that as significant.
I had noticed that the developer chose Caribdis, the sea monster/whirlpool that destroys everything in it's wake.
You're probably thinking of Idriel's glass talk, which to me sounded more like her observance on the inevitability of change in a system despite seemingly beginning with the same parameters, and not a damning reveal of the universe being timelocked in some sort of groundhog day scenario (something which I am not really a fan of because that would imply that Orion is just THAT dumb for not having a sense of deja vu throughout the whole story and that the Syndicate is just as dumb for letting the loop continue for far too long). Something something Battlestar Galactica something something Head Six's Law of Averages something.
You´re probably right, and Cari shouldn´t waste a lot of time making a scene outside of the current love interests. I still see a chance that Callypso will get a scene, with or without those elven maids.
I was thinking less of groundhog day and more of Empedocles' theory of time being cyclical. I think it was Empedocles, though I could be mistaking him for some other philosopher. I'm any case, if it's the whole of time being cyclical, they're wouldn't be reason for a deja vu. But that theory is not a hill I'm willing to die on, just a thought that is probably wrong. If it was indeed Idriel (and I don't doubt you for one moment), then that makes the comment extremely unreliable.
