VN Ren'Py Imperial Chronicles [v0.11] [Lazy Monkey]

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renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Users\Name\Downloads\Imperial-0.6_Coronation-pc\renpy\main.py", line 470, in main
renpy.game.script.load_script() # sets renpy.game.script.
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self.load_appropriate_file(".rpyc", [ "_ren.py", ".rpy" ], dir, fn, initcode)
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File "C:\Users\Name\Downloads\Imperial-0.6_Coronation-pc\renpy\script.py", line 590, in finish_load
check_name(node)
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Windows-10-10.0.22631 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.3.2.24090902

Sun Oct 20 18:52:31 2024
any fix for this

 

[Uriel ☁]

 

[Bro In The Game]

Poor thing, I hope we have the option to detain and brainwash her instead of letting her die by beheading

 

[With The]

damn, hope we got option to keep her alive.

 

[Raziel_8]

Yay, i'm all for beheading her, kinda wish the MC would do it himself thought

 

[pollokoala]

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Overview:
The young prince has been in exile since childhood. Unexpectedly, he gets the opportunity to return to his home. But there will be many dangers on his way, because the closer you are to the crown, the more rivals and enemies you have.​

Thread Updated: 2024-10-10
Release Date: 2024-10-10
Developer: Lazy Monkey

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Version: 0.6
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Language: English, Russian
Other Games: Monkey Business
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man this is REALLY good holy shit

 

[Hadgar]

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[Loquete]

I'm mainly playing Cass's path, so I would rather have the option to behead the wife and marry Cass instead lol.

 

[Marvoch]

It's important to keep in mind (maybe you misunderstood what was mentioned in the game) that the king first consulted oracles on his own initiative, some of whom persuaded him to believe in a prophecy that his son would be responsible for his downfall or death. It appears that the queen mother attempted to bribe or recruit oracles to mitigate the impact of others on the king, thus protecting her son by influencing the king's ever-changing opinions. It is said in some conversations with Cass, and possibly with the mother, that these oracles, were dishonest charlatans, they exploited their tremendous influence over the monarch to gain personal power. Apparently, several of them served on the council.
It seems that it was an informal alliance between Cass, a few advisors in the council and the Queen Mother that finally got rid of these highly influential false prophets, although it was mainly Cass who accomplished this thankless task. Some of the advisors at the first meeting with the prince mentioned that the situation had become chaotic with the numerous oracles present at court and at the council, bordering on disorder and certainly internal warfare for power at court, especially with an irascible, fickle and mentally unstable king.

We can only assume with some uncertainty that the king was apparently responsible for the death of his first wife, but he didn't seem to appreciate it, and no doubt his eldest daughter as a result. Yet Cass may have been led to believe by her hatred of her father that he was responsible, and by her own family on her mother's side. I have no idea what happened to Conrad's father, the king's relative. Once again, the king could be responsible for the disappearance of other individuals in the court or in the nobility of the kingdom, but we must also remember the period of unrest and wars that took place during the time of the Red Emperor and undoubtedly after his death.

In my opinion, you see Cassandra as a victim of circumstance, which is technically true, but only in part. However, we mustn't overlook the hatred she feels towards her father, the hostility she shares with her stepmother, and the jealousy towards her half-brother, the heir apparent due to his male gender.
The incident between Elis and Cass reveals a complex dynamic of love and hate, aggression and competition, and a clear rivalry for the throne. It's no doubt for this last reason that the Queen Mother can't stand Cass; apart from her character, she's even a threat by definition, and court intrigues abound. Lady Alaina has seized the opportunity of this accidental quarrel between the two of them to convince the King and Queen to keep the young prince away from court (to keep him away out of fear for the former, and for the Mother to protect him from intrigues and threats).
It seems obvious that she aspires to rule, motivated by revenge as much as ambition, with the support, voluntary or forced, of her half-brother, whom she deems essential to the fulfillment of her designs. In her cynical, pragmatic view of life, she believes only that the ends justify the means, and that the most ruthless prevail.

Also, the sacrificial ending with Cass that you mention only works if you as MC decide to do it, otherwise her plan proceeds pretty much normally (which is inconherent, that Elis does nothing to prevent it, so it's a pretty forced choice and intended as dramatic), with the prince ending up quite often in prison depending on the branching chosen.
So yes, she's a victim of circumstance, born a woman and therefore excluded on principle from the succession; her mother died in troubled circumstances; she's hated and despised by a good part of her family (the father, the mother-in-law, and many at court fear her or distrust her and her intrigues).
She is undoubtedly manipulated at least in part by her mother's side of the family in her resentment of her father and desire for revenge, yet she is unscrupulous and ruthless, and will stop at nothing to satisfy her personal ambitions. Cass believes that a true ruler must be prepared to do whatever it takes to consolidate his power, even if it means betraying allies and killing those closest to him, which is why she asks Elis to “ suicide ” her in a branch of the game, but also for love.
For me, Cass is clearly responsible for her actions from beginning to end, despite the initial circumstances of her life. At various points she could have made different choices and taken completely opposite routes, but she's a stubborn person who will never listen to reason. So for me, she's someone who can't know any form of redemption in her arc, which is what the game wants by design.

The mother has dirtied her hands far less in comparison, and has doubtless resorted less to dubious methods, even if we still don't know what she's up to with Lady Alaina and the elves of her native clan. It's likely that these two women will try to influence Elis to become a more compassionate and just sovereign with regard to the fate of the kingdom's elves, or perhaps Lady Alaina will try to push the future king to promote them through partisan politics in favor of the elves.

Interesting answer, but I have to make a couple of points.

The earliest prophets consulted by the king, the real ones, all said the same thing, that the king would be overthow by his strongest seed (and it was open to free interpretation as to whether the strongest seed was Cassandra or MC, since MC is male but a half-bred, while Cas is a pure-blood, but female). So the king's opinion was not "ever-changing", he simply wasn't sure which of his two eldest children was the enemy (and it turned out it was Cas).

The false prophets, those used by the queen to contaminate and confuse her husband's mind and save her son (in addition to removing him from the court to raise him less in line with human ideals), opened the season of power-hunting in the palace, probably followed by other false prophets invited by the king himself to provide clarity on the multitude of opinions.

We know for a fact that the present king is a patricide (he has the curse on him, having been "punished by the gods" for killing his father) and has placed the responsibility for his father's death on his older brother, leading to his execution, and thus is also a fratricide. This is by his direct admission. So the blood emperor was killed by the present king. Taking this into consideration, I do not see why it's odd to think that he could have killed his wife as well once the alliance with the West had run its course. It's not only Cas who is convinced of this, but also Priscilla. In any case, I am not aware that we have confirmation one way or the other, so it is possible that it was really suicide.

In my opinion you are misreading Cas' character. Her actions, from what she says and does in this update, are not driven by personal motives alone (which there certainly are, she wants to be powerful, she wants to be part of the kingdom and her family and she wants her mother avanged), but she has invested herself with a messianic role for the kingdom. Whether she has lost touch with reality or not we do not know, but it's certain that the current king is inept and the kingdom is falling apart. We also know that she truly feels affection for his brother (and to a lesser extent for Elin), preferring death at his hands once she was turned down. But if left alive, precisely because she has a role greater than herself to fulfill, she goes ahead with her plan, ready to do almost anything to carry it out and trying the late recruting MC into it.

In the end, when she is captured, she feels only hatred toward the world because her family (her brother) chose to let the kingdom die rather than do the right thing for a father that never loved him. We will have to see how this will be handled in the next update.

Talking about her as a child, perhaps as a young girl she wanted to be queen, but now things have changed drastically. It's clear that she has been preparing the stage for his brother's coronation for months, if not years. So much so that when (and if) the current king names him heir, it is clear that her plans are falling apart.

Now that the kingdom, in one way or another, has been saved by the current king, I am curious what the next hurdle will be.

 

[Marvoch]

BTW, the white coronation is clearly the one with better content, but it has too much death and destruction, for my mage I think I'll go with the green variant where MC lets himself be blackmailed.

 

[Deleted member 4375198]

I had the same impression as one of the users above, the route where you join Cass to carry out the coup d'état has little content, however it is the most interesting route so far. Great game, I hope the dev maintains the quality level. superb story.

 

[n00bPanda]

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Lazy monkey coming up with 1000th way to kill Cass by the end of the game (I SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE):

 

[Lord Kata]

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Lazy monkey coming up with 1000th way to kill Cass by the end of the game (I SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE):

Yes the Cass deaths compilation is already quite funny

 

[Tomy75]

Damn, saves from 0.5 give errors as the variable cass_sub did not exist back then and I think it wil be important for the future (maledom vs femdom). Any patch or script I could apply?

 

[n00bPanda]

Damn, saves from 0.5 give errors as the variable cass_sub did not exist back then and I think it wil be important for the future (maledom vs femdom). Any patch or script I could apply?

Use 0.4 save if u have one otherwise nah no fix yet

 

[Ebonheart (FR)]

Interesting answer, but I have to make a couple of points.

The earliest prophets consulted by the king, the real ones, all said the same thing, that the king would be overthow by his strongest seed (and it was open to free interpretation as to whether the strongest seed was Cassandra or MC, since MC is male but a half-bred, while Cas is a pure-blood, but female). So the king's opinion was not "ever-changing", he simply wasn't sure which of his two eldest children was the enemy (and it turned out it was Cas).

The false prophets, those used by the queen to contaminate and confuse her husband's mind and save her son (in addition to removing him from the court to raise him less in line with human ideals), opened the season of power-hunting in the palace, probably followed by other false prophets invited by the king himself to provide clarity on the multitude of opinions.

We know for a fact that the present king is a patricide (he has the curse on him, having been "punished by the gods" for killing his father) and has placed the responsibility for his father's death on his older brother, leading to his execution, and thus is also a fratricide. This is by his direct admission. So the blood emperor was killed by the present king. Taking this into consideration, I do not see why it's odd to think that he could have killed his wife as well once the alliance with the West had run its course. It's not only Cas who is convinced of this, but also Priscilla. In any case, I am not aware that we have confirmation one way or the other, so it is possible that it was really suicide.

In my opinion you are misreading Cas' character. Her actions, from what she says and does in this update, are not driven by personal motives alone (which there certainly are, she wants to be powerful, she wants to be part of the kingdom and her family and she wants her mother avanged), but she has invested herself with a messianic role for the kingdom. Whether she has lost touch with reality or not we do not know, but it's certain that the current king is inept and the kingdom is falling apart. We also know that she truly feels affection for his brother (and to a lesser extent for Elin), preferring death at his hands once she was turned down. But if left alive, precisely because she has a role greater than herself to fulfill, she goes ahead with her plan, ready to do almost anything to carry it out and trying the late recruting MC into it.

In the end, when she is captured, she feels only hatred toward the world because her family (her brother) chose to let the kingdom die rather than do the right thing for a father that never loved him. We will have to see how this will be handled in the next update.

Talking about her as a child, perhaps as a young girl she wanted to be queen, but now things have changed drastically. It's clear that she has been preparing the stage for his brother's coronation for months, if not years. So much so that when (and if) the current king names him heir, it is clear that her plans are falling apart.

Now that the kingdom, in one way or another, has been saved by the current king, I am curious what the next hurdle will be.

For my part, I don't believe that all the prophets, or those claiming to be prophets, who were first hired by the king before the queen got involved were all credible or trustworthy, that's my point of view.
By ever-changing decisions, I meant above all the volatile, inconstant nature of the king, who is quick to change his mind when his advisors give him one opinion, then another completely different one, and he himself sides with whomever has more influence over him at any given moment.
So I wasn't just referring to the prophecies, but above all to the context, which gives us an idea of the monarch's behavior and the troubles of that period of his reign, when alleged prophets dominated the court.

I probably didn't dwell long enough on this case and the content of the prediction. I've probably kept in mind that the king imagined that it was his son in a bit of discussion or comment at the beginning of the game, and mainly when Elis and Cass confront their father at the time of their putsch/treason.

I'm not convinced that the king actually confessed to being the author, or rather the instigator, of his father's murder. In my opinion, the use of the term “parricide” is mainly intended to sow doubt and guilt in Elis, and perhaps the king is at the same time confessing to having his hands soiled by an act committed within his own family; I'm rather inclined to believe in an admission of guilt regarding the death of his brother. However, I could be wrong.

You can indeed assume that he had something to do with his ex-wife's death, although we only have Cass and her aunt, presumably her maternal family as well, to support this thesis. So I'm not saying that he's not responsible in some way for her death, but we don't have much to support that thesis at the moment. We'll see later if the game brings us more conclusive elements to support this line of thought.

Elis's removal from the king's court may well have accelerated the crisis of power and the boundless ambitions of the various protagonists in the monarch's entourage. Yet the situation was undoubtedly already set to explode at any moment. I think it was Lady Alaina in particular who was responsible for the exile, having talked the king into it and promoted the idea to the queen.

I think our opinions differ on this point, and that your interpretation of Cassandra's character is quite free. Cassandra did not really intend to get along with her in-laws, nor to be accepted by the king's family, and makes no particular effort to achieve this throughout the game (the cause is nonetheless shared, the rejection is quite mutual on both sides).
I don't see how she plays a messianic role, even if you place her behind the finality of the prophecy concerning the king. Cassandra's relationship with Elis is ambivalent and evolves according to the choices the player makes in the game. Some situations are therefore likely to affect her mindset or her behavior towards Elis. I don't think she has very strong feelings for her relatives on her mother-in-law's side, apart from Elis, but only if the player steers their relationship in that direction very early on.
We agree that the king is inept at ruling his country, but this is hardly surprising.

Still, regarding everything to do with Cass, such as her personality, personal motivations and ambition, I've already expressed my point of view and won't repeat it. It seems to me that you may be too involved and that your affection for the character may be blinding you, leading you to draw conclusions and make erroneous assumptions. Nevertheless, I have no problem with the fact that we disagree, I simply prefer to avoid going round in circles in a debate where our opinions differ.

 

[Tomy75]

So I finally completed the last update and see 6 different paths, please correct me if you saw more than 6:

1 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and don’t kill her. He goes to jail where he also refuses Cass’ blackmail. He escapes. White crown.

2 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and don’t kill her. He goes to jail where he accepts Cass’ blackmail. Green crown.

3 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and don’t kill her. He goes to jail where he accepts Cass’ blackmail but as he is married to Isis, he accepts that she poisons Cass. Red crown.

4 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and kill her. White crown.

5 – MC accept Cass’ deal. Green crown.

6 – MC accept Cass’ deal but then accept Callahan’s deal to become his right-hand. MC kills Cass. Red crown.

 

[Dubbed Tales]

So I finally completed the last update and see 6 different paths, please correct me if you saw more than 6:

1 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and don’t kill her. He goes to jail where he also refuses Cass’ blackmail. He escapes. White crown.

2 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and don’t kill her. He goes to jail where he accepts Cass’ blackmail. Green crown.

3 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and don’t kill her. He goes to jail where he accepts Cass’ blackmail but as he is married to Isis, he accepts that she poisons Cass. Red crown.

4 – MC refuses Cass’ deal and kill her. White crown.

5 – MC accept Cass’ deal. Green crown.

6 – MC accept Cass’ deal but then accept Callahan’s deal to become his right-hand. MC kills Cass. Red crown.

most content in route 1. (for elf queen)

 

[dkatryl]

most content in route 1. (for elf queen)

2nd most route 5. (Cass, obviously)

 

[Uriel ☁]