or maybe,
5-Val broke up, because she found out the MC fuckin' around with Iris and Erynn like Rabbit
If that's why, i'm not even mad
It also crossed my mind that Val might call to cancel the emo party. But if we get the invitation, that means we’re in a relationship with her (officially or not), so calling to cancel would be pretty lame. For me, it’s something related to the tournament. I’ll keep standing by the fact that Ethan didn’t do anything wrong to Val.
Nyx did say in the same blog that the party is one of the things on her schedule(before the party she's gonna work on a mysterious scene with an unnanounced character).
So even if Val is having second thoughts about the party, i believe there will be a way to keep it.
I've never done a run where I didn't help Erynn with the blackmail, never have the heart to not help. Does the stuff between Ethan and Val change if you're not involved with the blackmail plot? That might need a different phone call?
Although I think in the update Nyx said that it was a small phone call that turned into 5 scenes to bring all the different routes to the same point. She didn't specifically say they were all variants of the same call, she just said that doing the first call made her think of other scenes she needed to do. The part about bringing all the different routes to the same point, I read it as being a few calls / talks with different people to get them all to the same point in the story depending on your route.
If you don't help Erynn, there's no need for Val to rescue you from Ethan because he simply let's you go, he and his goons don't attack you... she doesn't meet him there, she never gets on his radar.
Ethan also never meets John because you aren't helping Erynn against him, so the plot for John to pose as a businessman never kicks off.
And yeah i get it, i don't even have this save anymore, too disgusting for me to keep it.
Could be, maybe different characters reach out depending on your choices.
the logic makes sense to me about multiple variations, but I can hardly think of 5 either. Maybe the Zach punch not punch is one of them, potentially the track stuff too depending if it's Layla or Tori? Those could come up in the discussion.
I did think of a possible number 5, maybe she finds out from Layla that you didn't break up with Alexis.
It's not unrealistic... but i do hope it's something better than Val finding out off screen.
Doesn't seem like that's the version shown in these previews, she seems fairly calm (she's in a pensative mood, but calm) while the MC is angry, if it is the "you lied to me" i think it would be the other way around.
Well I guess it's more Val dating or not dating. If she has met Ethan or not.
It could be that she's calling to talk about his suspension and they talk about training for the relay and getting together for that. Another small variation could be that you chose Tori and not Layla as the fourth. Another variation is obviously if you actually punched Zach or just pushed him.
Yeah, it's possible to not date Val, but still get the Ethan scene... if she rescued you instead of John... Val bumping into Ethan will trigger.
Even if for whatever reason the relationship died since.
I did include that on my list already.
The other things, Tori, Zach... We'll have to wait and see exactly what causes these variations.
A lot of the Val variations feel like they could be covered with just having a few slightly alternative lines in the script rather than needing different scenes. Still think the 5 scenes are short calls with different characters and you get whichever ones you need on your route. Something like:
If Alexis doesn't know about the blackmail > Call and tell her
If Melissa doesn't know (can she not know about it?) > Tell her
If Val didn't help MC with Ethan > Warn her about him
Maybe call John depending on whether you punched Ethan at the club or stuck with the plan?
That kind of thing, I'm sure there are others I haven't thought of...
It would get all the characters in the story onto the same page no matter what route you're on going into the final part of the blackmail plot.
At the moment Alexis only knows if you are dating her.
I think Melissa always knows, Erynn tells her herself later, it's automatic.
I don't think it's gonna be John because we spend time with him earlier in the day.
I know one can always do a "hey John i forgot to tell you..." but come on, it's unnecessary, the things we need to tell John will be said to directly to his face.
Yeah, there's a phone call, we don't know if it's always with the same person, maybe it is, maybe it isn't...
Choices you made cause this call to play out differently.
And we suspect Val is at least one of the callers (or the only).
Val could be calling about other stuff, team practices, keeping you updated... and then the conversation goes toward Ethan stuff or Zach stuff...