VN Ren'Py Completed Once in a Lifetime [v1.0] [Caribdis]

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Nanakiiii

Nanakiiii

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Jan 19, 2022
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Dylan741 said:
True, except I never said that.
My first post in response to the users request was:
"David will interrupt you if you forget this two things:
First you need to have the Magnus Grimoire, second you need to talk to the priest first (he will not help you if you don't have the book);"
Need to have, please notice, I never said grab the grimoire.
In order to get the book, you need to go to the mansion and "choose to save the girls" instead of "take the grimoire", but the user never said anything about that, so we don't know if he made the correct choice there.

The discussion continued with Coaxmetal quoting my post with: "This is wrong. Leave the grimoire and refuse to take Astaroths hand during the drug trip gets the priest to delay David."
This is incorrect, because you don't take the grimoire during the drug vision scene, you only have the choice to accept or refuse Astharot hand.
If you refuse, after this scene at the Magnus's mansion, you have the chance to get the grimoire only if "you chose to save the girls" and also save Judie "facing Magnus".
Assuming these were the choices the user did, at the wedding you have the grimoire AND the possibility to seek the help from the priest.

So in short I never said anything about taking the grimoire, but that he need to have it and this, if you allow me, is a big difference, and there's no space for a misunderstanding.
Now that being said let's end the discussion, it's useless and it can lead to have a bad atmosphere in the thread and we don't need that.:)
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Coaxmetal said:
You are just not understanding what I wrote. They are clearly two different scenes I am referring to.

My recommendation to everyone is to get the wt mod and follow the green choices. I had zero issues.

I’m out.
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Dylan741 said:
I agree with you one 100% I did the same and never had an issue, this discussion should never have happened, I apologise If I sounded rude to you, it wasn't my intention please forgive me. :)
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Awww man, so Wholesome! Thank you guys for being helpful and respectful. All of this to help a stranger enjoy all the content this great game has to offer. You're all awesome.
 
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Mesdia

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May 18, 2022
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Finally, now i understand. But it is like a wrong path design. When I voluntarily took grimore, Rebecca's path must be canceled(at least I expected that). Thanks to everyone for their help and discussion.
 
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LaPusca

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I don't write often comments, but I want to say I liked Once in a Lifetime and I love the game so far. I'm at the café where they do the quiz right now. Love the character models and the comedy moments are quite good.
 
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Dunner

Dunner

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Mesdia said:
Finally, now i understand. But it is like a wrong path design. When I voluntarily took grimore, Rebecca's path must be canceled(at least I expected that). Thanks to everyone for their help and discussion.
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I guess it's more about understanding the MC at that point. Yes I myself would jump in to take the book since it's there but if you think back to the previous encounters (From Japan to the village), everyone warns you about the book one way or another. This should put that obvious "is this really worth it?" question in your minds and realize that saving the girls is the way to go especially since the MC is going through all this hell to keep them safe.

The problem is that people get immersed in the game and by the time you reach that choice you already spent 1-2 IRL days (unless you're a god at reading or play all day :KEK:) so people forget the clues the other characters left for you.
 
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Punto

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If you play through the variants are very critical and also show the variety of the game. But still the wt-mod made things easier. I think it's crazy when someone says take wt-mod through games and then he's out. Didn't even need to play the game. I think the game with the horror inserts is very good and I am extremely satisfied. Good work and keep it up.
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Delta-amb

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Dunner said:
I guess it's more about understanding the MC at that point. Yes I myself would jump in to take the book since it's there but if you think back to the previous encounters (From Japan to the village), everyone warns you about the book one way or another. This should put that obvious "is this really worth it?" question in your minds and realize that saving the girls is the way to go especially since the MC is going through all this hell to keep them safe.

The problem is that people get immersed in the game and by the time you reach that choice you already spent 1-2 IRL days (unless you're a god at reading or play all day :KEK:) so people forget the clues the other characters left for you.
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It makes so much more sense to grab the book because it's right there in front of you. Without prior knowledge, and having some experience in picking things up that are directly in front of you, you should be making the assessment that grabbing the book is an extra 2-3 seconds of work, while running back to the girls and then coming back for the book is significantly more than that. Also one of them is a ninja.

On the other hand, having played the game up to that point you also know that you are persistently rewarded for two things:
1. Perving out like it's the last day of Spring Break and you got half a box of almost-expired Cialis in the trunk
2. Going over-protective on your girls as if you're an Amish father and your fifth daughter just came home at 6pm with her left sock slipped down below the ankle

The book is the whole reason you went out there in the first place, and sacrificing what pretty much amounts to *everything* for the girls instead of asking them to wait for 2 seconds is an odd judgment call on behalf of the BH. It's one of the choices that has the least obvious consequences in my mind.
 
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hibben

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Delta-amb said:
It makes so much more sense to grab the book because it's right there in front of you. Without prior knowledge, and having some experience in picking things up that are directly in front of you, you should be making the assessment that grabbing the book is an extra 2-3 seconds of work, while running back to the girls and then coming back for the book is significantly more than that. Also one of them is a ninja.

On the other hand, having played the game up to that point you also know that you are persistently rewarded for two things:
1. Perving out like it's the last day of Spring Break and you got half a box of almost-expired Cialis in the trunk
2. Going over-protective on your girls as if you're an Amish father and your fifth daughter just came home at 6pm with her left sock slipped down below the ankle

The book is the whole reason you went out there in the first place, and sacrificing what pretty much amounts to *everything* for the girls instead of asking them to wait for 2 seconds is an odd judgment call on behalf of the BH. It's one of the choices that has the least obvious consequences in my mind.
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I agree with that. Glad I played with a guide, 'cause my reasoning was the same. That said, by using a guide, I played this game more like a linear novel than a choose-your-own-adventure book, so it didn't really bother me. It's just how things played out for these characters.
 
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Dunner

Dunner

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Delta-amb said:
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Yep we're in agreement here. As I said IRL, logically, I'd take the book and run like hell after the girls but it's already established that the book is bad so I would expect something to go wrong.
Obviously, I wouldn't expect it to be about Rebecca but I wouldn't be surprised if I got a bad ending for not thinking about all the warnings.

It could've been done differently, like make the book be locked in a cage and you have to find the key or go save the girls.
 
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1993(Redacted4You)

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Apr 30, 2020
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If I remember correctly, you said you was going to come back and add/change a thing or two. Am I wrong, or are you still going to do that? Sorry for hounding you.
 
Dylan741

Dylan741

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1993(Redacted4You) said:
If I remember correctly, you said you was going to come back and add/change a thing or two. Am I wrong, or are you still going to do that? Sorry for hounding you.
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If for "you" you mean Caribdis, I must inform you that they are working on their new game Eternum, a work that show premises to make they committed to it for a long time, so those extras will not be added to the game in the foreseeable future, I'm afraid. :)
 
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DevilsRival

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Sep 23, 2020
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Just got this exception is there a way to fix it?

Code: 
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
KeyError: u'mc'

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Full traceback:
  File "script.rpyc", line 14569, in script
  File "G:\Files\WebGames\Onceinalifetime\Onceinalifetime-1.0.0-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 706, in execute
    renpy.exports.say(who, what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "G:\Files\WebGames\Onceinalifetime\Onceinalifetime-1.0.0-pc\renpy\exports.py", line 1336, in say
    who(what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "G:\Files\WebGames\Onceinalifetime\Onceinalifetime-1.0.0-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1126, in __call__
    what = what_pattern.replace("[what]", sub(what, translate=True))
  File "G:\Files\WebGames\Onceinalifetime\Onceinalifetime-1.0.0-pc\renpy\character.py", line 1115, in sub
    return renpy.substitutions.substitute(s, scope=scope, force=force, translate=translate)[0]
  File "G:\Files\WebGames\Onceinalifetime\Onceinalifetime-1.0.0-pc\renpy\substitutions.py", line 253, in substitute
    s = formatter.vformat(s, (), kwargs)
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 563, in vformat
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 585, in _vformat
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 646, in get_field
  File "/home/tom/ab/x64lucid-deps/install/lib/python2.7/string.py", line 605, in get_value
KeyError: u'mc'

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.3.2.320
OnceinaLifetime 1.0.0
Thu May 26 15:37:43 2022
 
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