VN Ren'Py Ripples [v0.8.0 Public] [Jestur]

[ImariKurumi]

Yes, they are mutually exclusive, at least for now, most people think they will converge in the future. But for now you lose content with Jessica if you don't break with Skylar and will lose content with Skylar for breaking up with her.
So chose break-up if you prefer Jessica or not if you prefer Skylar.
Jessica best girl though

Goddammit. And yea, i'm team Jessica but the episodes so far(i'm on episode 5) were heavy on Skylar/Luna content, so i'm leaning more towards her. There's hardly any substantial content on Jessica and MC's family to make me feel invested, it's unfair to force players to choose so early in the game.

I'm guessing the guy in wearing the mask making MC time travel is the future him? Usually that's how it goes for time travel stories. Will we get to meet April(Scarlett's sister) in 2019? Since she is part of the faction trying to preserve the timeline and she knows everything. Iirc, so far nothing has been mentioned about her in 2019, is she even alive?

 

[Discrepancy]

Goddammit. And yea, i'm team Jessica but the episodes so far(i'm on episode 5) were heavy on Skylar/Luna content, so i'm leaning more towards her. There's hardly any substantial content on Jessica and MC's family to make me feel invested, it's unfair to force players to choose so early in the game.

Skylar has much more lewd content, Jessica not much yet, but the next update will be focused on her so we got that to look forward I like Skylar too, if we didn't had to chose, Skylar would be one of my favorites, I only play one route so that limits my attachment to Skylar.

I'm guessing the guy in wearing the mask making MC time travel is the future him? Usually that's how it goes for time travel stories. Will we get to meet April(Scarlett's sister) in 2019? Since she is part of the faction trying to preserve the timeline and she knows everything. So far nothing has been mentioned about her in 2019, is she even alive?

The guy wearing the mask is probably MC or his father, but we don't know yet. We don't know if April is alive (if she's mentioned in 2019 I can't recall), she will probably appear in the future if I had to guess yes.

 

[DarkWalker13]

All the girls will be fathered by someone else, I doubt it will be show or even talked about for most girls, but MC won't be the father of anyone, dunno why you guys keep believing that, even if Jestur planned on that in the beginning, which I don't know, now he will never do it or his game will be nuked from Patreon.

Oh no, Dont get me wrong. I much prefer the route where there is no Incest weirdness built in, at least for this game. It's just gonna make things feel worse. (Hence my original post was much against the logic, no way this shit works type).

Sorry, can't remember who Lizzy is, is that the tattooed girl from MC class?

Yes, her. She is 21 yo/same as Skylar Age but started school late.

Remember too that Dani remembers messing around with MC. Context makes clear that he doesn't remember this--it's already happened in her timeline, but not his. Ignoring parallel universes, this most likely means that one of them (presumably MC) traveled by a fairly-short time interval.

No, that is wrong. MC didnt remember because the events with Dani happened under the Seven Minutes game where Dani and MC makeout inside Closet not knowing who she was.
During Episode 6 Danis Bathroom Scene (if you are on her route), she comes out with it - that the girl in closet was her during that game and MC is shocked, since he didn't knew it was her until now. For him the kisser was a mystery girl, then few minutes when they kiss again in bathroom, MC even remembers the taste and feeling of Dani's Tongue.

Nothing to do with Time Travel, it was just an anonymous kissing scene.

Infact the scene is referred to even in first few minutes of game where we are told about MC sexual experience - a Handjob from Skylar and a Seven Minutes of Heaven with a mystery girl in a closet (Kissing).

So MC first kiss is Dany, first sexual experience is with Skylar and first sex is with Krystal.

Dude, thanks for answering, when I rediscovered the game, and get to that part I was like "Damn didn't we fucked here before?" then I forgot about it but remembered it now, when we talked about the old version, and was thinking, did that really happened or I'm confusing it with another game!

But also yes, I too remember banging Skylar in the park! Specifically, I remember her riding MC cowgirl on a picnic blanket. I don't have that version anymore but I don't think you hallucinated it either.

The scene both of you are referring to is Episode 6 Skylar Date if you are on her path, Ep 6 ends with Skylar Date going to an overgrown park undermoonlight, where she and MC have sex in the open at night on a picnic blanket - Including the Cowgirl Position being referenced.

In Park (Episode 1), She does go topless for MC where they throw rotten food at Shelby and have some kissing scenes and her pressing bare chest on MC.

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Finished Episode 6 last night. Jessica Photoshoot was nice and a good step towards making her not 24/7 angry in convos with MC. Skylar Date was hot.
Riley scene was well... something.

Alice breaking up with Toxic BF and knowing more about Luna were good plot points.

Looking forward to back in Past in Ep7/8 now

 

[DarkWalker13]

The guy wearing the mask is probably MC or his father, but we don't know yet. We don't know if April is alive (if she's mentioned in 2019 I can't recall), she will probably appear in the future if I had to guess yes.

I'm guessing the guy in wearing the mask making MC time travel is the future him? Usually that's how it goes for time travel stories. Will we get to meet April(Scarlett's sister) in 2019? Since she is part of the faction trying to preserve the timeline and she knows everything. Iirc, so far nothing has been mentioned about her in 2019, is she even alive?

The only mention of April in 2019 so far is MC asking Alyssa if she had any Aunt or Uncle in Episode 5 after School Project (Since he met April in Episode 4), to which only reply MC got was "She used to have an Aunt, but she's no longer around and she rather not talk about it"

So either some incident with April or somehow April and Scarlett parted on real bad terms in current timeline, since in 1999 April was Scarlett's everything.

 

[Discrepancy]

The scene both of you are referring to is Episode 6 Skylar Date if you are on her path, Ep 6 ends with Skylar Date going to an overgrown park undermoonlight, where she and MC have sex in the open at night on a picnic blanket - Including the Cowgirl Position being referenced.

In Park (Episode 1), She does go topless for MC where they throw rotten food at Shelby and have some kissing scenes and her pressing bare chest on MC.

No, we talking about an old version the game had before, we might be misremembering things, but I'm pretty sure MC on that version fucked Skylar in the park at night on the old version on episode 1.
If I'm wrong someone that played the old version will correct me eventually, but Ozymandias played and thought the same as me.
Edit:did some search and this seems to confirm it https://f95zone.to/threads/ripples-v0-8-0-public-jestur.56110/post-10486993
Walter Victor thanking your 2023 post from the far 2025 future

 

[QwertySmurfy]

Sorry, can't remember who Lizzy is, is that the tattooed girl from MC class?

Yeah

 

[1tomadeira]

Sorry, can't remember who Lizzy is, is that the tattooed girl from MC class?

You probably didn't recall because she was spelled Lizzie in game.

 

[Discrepancy]

You probably didn't recall because she was spelled Lizzie in game.

It's been so long that MC is on the past that I start to forget the present
Nah, I thought it was her, but wasn't sure.

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

No, we talking about an old version the game had before, we might be misremembering things, but I'm pretty sure MC on that version fucked Skylar in the park at night on the old version on episode 1.
If I'm wrong someone that played the old version will correct me eventually, but Ozymandias played and thought the same as me.
Edit:did some search and this seems to confirm it https://f95zone.to/threads/ripples-v0-8-0-public-jestur.56110/post-10486993
Walter Victor thanking your 2023 post from the far 2025 future

The park scene you mean was toned down, but there was no sex in that one. Her first scene was the one you go on her car to a trip later on.

 

[Discrepancy]

The park scene you mean was toned down, but there was no sex in that one. Her first scene was the one you go on her car to a trip later on.

I thought the guy on the post I linked was talking about the scene in the park, no idea then where I got that idea.

 

[danb35]

During Episode 6 Danis Bathroom Scene (if you are on her route), she comes out with it - that the girl in closet was her during that game and MC is shocked, since he didn't knew it was her until now.

I remember this part, but not MC's saying earlier in the game that he'd done this. Interesting.

But also in the "other time travelers" discussion, we need to consider Skylar. She's completely gone for a week--not only can't MC reach her (which is kind of understandable under the circumstances), neither can anyone else. This by itself doesn't prove anything with respect to time travel, but when we see her a week later, she's more than a little evasive about where she's been, she has extensive tattoos that she didn't have before, and I think we're meant to understand that she couldn't have gotten them in a week. And if that's the case, not only has she traveled in time (to where/when, we have no idea), but she's done so in a different way than we've seen MC do (she spends, let's say, four weeks at her destination time, then returns to one week after she left).

 

[Meiri]

I remember this part, but not MC's saying earlier in the game that he'd done this. Interesting.

But also in the "other time travelers" discussion, we need to consider Skylar. She's completely gone for a week--not only can't MC reach her (which is kind of understandable under the circumstances), neither can anyone else. This by itself doesn't prove anything with respect to time travel, but when we see her a week later, she's more than a little evasive about where she's been, she has extensive tattoos that she didn't have before, and I think we're meant to understand that she couldn't have gotten them in a week. And if that's the case, not only has she traveled in time (to where/when, we have no idea), but she's done so in a different way than we've seen MC do (she spends, let's say, four weeks at her destination time, then returns to one week after she left).

Oh, she has definitely time travelled, the game even makes a point that her full sleeve couldn't be made in just one week.
The question is where did she go and who sent her there, our team or the bad guys from the plant? Because the way it happened seems more likely it's the second...

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Oh, she has definitely time travelled, the game even makes a point that her full sleeve couldn't be made in just one week.
The question is where did she go and who sent her there, our team or the bad guys from the plant? Because the way it happened seems more likely it's the second...

One thing to keep in mind is that when the MC is away time travelling he seems to be away on the present for the same amount of time he's been in the past, so what's the deal with Skylar then.

 

[Meiri]

One thing to keep in mind is that when the MC is away time travelling he seems to be away on the present for the same amount of time he's been in the past, so what's the deal with Skylar then.

That was true for the original machine in the abandoned plant, but this new machine he used with Darci seems to be different and could have other rules.

 

[danb35]

The question is where did she go and who sent her there, our team or the bad guys from the plant?

Everyone else that we know has time-traveled has told MC about it; Skylar hasn't. I don't take her as being malicious (I hope not; to this point she seems like a sweet girl), but perhaps being manipulated and/or coerced.

this new machine he used with Darci seems to be different and could have other rules.

We really don't know about either. The old machine sent MC back 20 years, and then returned him, he having been gone from 2019 for the length of time he was in 1999 (IOW, exactly 20 years each way). Could it have done otherwise? We don't know, and I don't think we're given enough information to even make an educated guess. The new machine, as far as we've seen, has done the same. Can it do otherwise? Again, we don't know. We see other time-travelers, and it appears that their travel hasn't followed what's thus far been the norm with MC. If they've been using the same machine, that means it isn't restricted to working in that way.

Now, if you grant the existence of a time machine, it seems more than a little weird to have designed it to only work in the way MC's seen it work--to only move people back and forth by exactly 20 years at a time. That alone suggests it can do otherwise; we just haven't seen it yet. I think we will, though.

 

[ImariKurumi]

So the one responsible for Jenny's death/MIA is the MC?
Honestly, she's probably MIA and hid her daughter too.

Seems like the catalyst was when MC chose to reveal everything to her, setting the stage for her involvement. Seeing as how April also disappeared, they both probably started working together and infiltrated the powerplant. MC likely did not return after 1999 possibly due to interference from the adversary(or the dev don't want to turn the story into a multi-year affair). So the adversary gained substantial progress on the timetravel research during his absence after 1999. Jenny & April got desperate because they weren't able to stop it so they planned a sabotage on the powerplant to inflict a major setback on the research. Their secondary objective is also to set in motion MC's involvement in the decades long operation.

But the appearance of future Darci and Masked Man means the adversary is still on track with timetravel tech despite all the timetravel and inteference of the timeline. Was mentioned that they still aren't capable of timetravel so it's just delaying the inevitable. Afterall Masked Man did conclude that timelines are fixed, i.e. fate & destiny. Then what the hell is the point of trying to fight fate? He's is desperate mode and kept meddling with the timeline in hopes of a breakthrough to change his future?

 

[icewolf81]

We really don't know about either. The old machine sent MC back 20 years, and then returned him, he having been gone from 2019 for the length of time he was in 1999 (IOW, exactly 20 years each way). Could it have done otherwise? We don't know, and I don't think we're given enough information to even make an educated guess. The new machine, as far as we've seen, has done the same. Can it do otherwise? Again, we don't know. We see other time-travelers, and it appears that their travel hasn't followed what's thus far been the norm with MC. If they've been using the same machine, that means it isn't restricted to working in that way.

Could be Darci from 2039 20 years back to 2019 and than with the machine there back to 1999.

Everyone else that we know has time-traveled has told MC about it; Skylar hasn't. I don't take her as being malicious (I hope not; to this point she seems like a sweet girl), but perhaps being manipulated and/or coerced.

And I think Skylar has traveled through time, but is threatened/convinced to not tell the MC (yet).

 

[danb35]

Could be Darci from 2039

Could be, but I don't think so. I do think Ninja Darci looks notably older than 2019 Darci, but not 20 years older. But maybe we'll learn more later on.

 

[Jaga Telesin]

Could be, but I don't think so. I do think Ninja Darci looks notably older than 2019 Darci, but not 20 years older. But maybe we'll learn more later on.

Might be a time dilation effect of travelling to the future? i.e. travel back and you don't age much per hour, but travel forward and time dilates you so you age much faster per hour there.

Just spitballing.

 

[Discrepancy]

Might be a time dilation effect of travelling to the future? i.e. travel back and you don't age much per hour, but travel forward and time dilates you so you age much faster per hour there.

Just spitballing.

I've seen less plausible theories on this thread than this one so why not?
But it's probably just another kind of technology for time traveling that the MC don't know about yet. Shit Ninja Darci is from the future, so more advanced tech maybe