VN Ren'Py The Lost Chapters [v0.6.2a] [Asura Interactive]

[gregers]

I'm just hanging on in the hope that once this interminable flashback ends, there'll be an option for the MC to go "Well that's all very interesting, but not really any of my problem. Bye now." and then go off bowling or something.

 

[Agni2013]

I was wondering what's with the flod of notifications.

It's starting to get really hard to follow with all the weird names, alternative names, and goddesses.

Cool update though, might have to replay it a few times to try and get the gist of the story.

There is a new option that summarises the story so far. Give it a shot and suggest any improvements tou might want.

Got to say, not a fan of the massive prequel arc I suddenly got after finally picking the game up again, since last year, or so, lol. I mean, yes I've always wanted Mara's backstory, but having it from Selene's POV and it being this long at that is just draining...The only positive I got out of it was Morrigan's introduction, and Mara with a dick, which was a hot image I didn't think I wanted at the time, but definitely enjoyed. Still this is torture, as someone who isn't a fan of Selene really, and now got to be away from Xue and Kyra for an unknown amount of time update wise. Oh also the game definitely needs a clean up on the constant changing of titles like mother and father, or which name Selene is using in the past, it feels like continuity errors, and throws me off while reading personally.

Thank you for following the story along with me. I understand that this can be difficult, but the prequel is necessary to explain the characters you see in the present. We are back in present times with the latest update.

This is my main pet peeve with the game (apart from the lack of my girl Chloe). Sorry for forgetting some of the names but we have:

A) Eve who is also Father/Mara/and Nyaveu or something like that??
B) Morrigan who is also Mother/Lilith(?)/Kiki-kuku-somethingsomething(?)
C) Selene who is MC's lover according to her, but also her daughter (which would make her Kyra's sister?) and Xilisleine or something like that.
D) Daru is the grandmother of Selene and also hates Mara's gut.

Also I laughed at Yoko (Mother) and Yuki (Daughter).

Still, Ironically, love the game it keeps me engaged.

Chloe is the focus of the build I am working on.
A few things you might find interesting and clear up the confusion.

A) Eve in her past life was Mara. In the past timeline she and her lover Morigan created Selene to be their daughter. Nenyve is a mythical hero whose stories are told in the present, who may or may not be based on Mara.
B) Ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is from the epic of Gilgamesh. Translated as Lilith in English. The world of 'The Lost Chapters' is very much inspired by pre-semitic Indo- European cosmology. Danu is name after the Irish deity of the same name. In my story she is blessed with the power of Airmeith/ Airmid, the goddess of healing. As per the myths both them are of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
C) Yep
D) Yep

I'm just hanging on in the hope that once this interminable flashback ends, there'll be an option for the MC to go "Well that's all very interesting, but not really any of my problem. Bye now." and then go off bowling or something.

Funny you say that. As I said, this game will respect your choices, especially the obvious ones like that.

 

[PinkNova]

I was wondering what's with the flod of notifications.


There is a new option that summarises the story so far. Give it a shot and suggest any improvements tou might want.



Thank you for following the story along with me. I understand that this can be difficult, but the prequel is necessary to explain the characters you see in the present. We are back in present times with the latest update.


Chloe is the focus of the build I am working on.
A few things you might find interesting and clear up the confusion.

A) Eve in her past life was Mara. In the past timeline she and her lover Morigan created Selene to be their daughter. Nenyve is a mythical hero whose stories are told in the present, who may or may not be based on Mara.
B) Ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is from the epic of Gilgamesh. Translated as Lilith in English. The world of 'The Lost Chapters' is very much inspired by pre-semitic Indo- European cosmology. Danu is name after the Irish deity, who was blessed with the power of Airmeith/ Airmid, the goddess of healing, both of who are of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
C) Yep
D) Yep



Funny you say that. As I said, this game will respect your choices, especially the obvious ones like that.

I understand, and thank you for replying. Personally I very much enjoy your game, I've been here for a few years now, lol. I continue to look forward to your updates. Now as far as the update is concerned, I did enjoy figuring out basically Chloe's identity even if we had clues before, although still not sure why, or how unless Selene did it too, but given she wasn't in the first timeline. I'm guessing Lilith is most likely the culprit on the reset so far, and possibly Kyra coming to the past if it wasn't an accident as a result instead. (Not a spoiler for others, but a theory).

 

[MisterNephilim]

A few things you might find interesting and clear up the confusion.

Thanks!

Also forgot but Eve/Mara is also the Monster King right ?

 

[PinkNova]

Thanks!

Also forgot but Eve/Mara is also the Monster King right ?

Yes, Eve is the reincarnation of Mara, but she's basically her going by that she still has glimpses of memories, but it seems at least her powers and memories are suppressed for now. I don't know if she's still immortal, or if that's tied into being "Mara", since we would need conformation from Lilith herself to know if Mara's immortality is restored, or not with her reincarnation. Selene at least believes that if Eve awakens as Mara again that her power would be restored at least.

Another thing to add is that it seems Eve isn't just a human with Mara's memories, or soul, but possibly whatever Mara originally was, going by the fact people don't see Eve as human on either side.

 

[gregers]

Funny you say that. As I said, this game will respect your choices, especially the obvious ones like that.

Getting hyped for the bowling minigame! It's what the people crave.

 

[GHS-GHS]

Returning to the game after almost a year away:

Am I the only one who thinks that some of the Lains should disappear from the face of the earth? I like the character Ashley, she's a brat who believes she actually has some power and is a master manipulator, even though she's just a pawn on the Lains' board. They seem to follow a self-fulfilling prophecy, the more they fixate and act against it, the worse the situation gets and they don't realize it!

Well, I've heard rumors that there will be multiple endings in this game, so it's possible that there's a route where, to draw an analogy with another Sim game Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, siding with the Lains is similar to siding with the Kuei-jin.

 

[GHS-GHS]

I did not imply you were. Apologies if I came across that way.
Everyone has their preferences, and that is how it should be.

I understand that people don't like this content in games, especially when the MC is involved, but in some situations I think it's a necessary tool to demonstrate the problems and/or traumas of a certain character. Removing this requires a more explicit text explaining how the situation got to where it did.

If I'm not mistaken, the simple insinuation that one of the characters, Selena, went through this at the hands of the Lains family, made it clear to me that they are not virtuous or the good guys who fight to protect humanity, but rather a somewhat intolerant group that worsened an already existing conflict.

 

[GHS-GHS]

Dev, I am happy that you are fine and the game is alive! I look forward to seeing how you tie together all the plot threads you've created

 

[trickster12]

how much mind control is in the game?

 

[Kyle Randall]

There's ony one thing that PISSES ME OFF with this game: It doesn't have a wiki, a journal, a diary, anything that helps us track down WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!!! This is more confusing than DARK! Everytime that i come back here, i have to replay bcs i've already forgot part of this godamn lore.
I love games with a good story and writting, and i've seen so many games far simplier than this one, that even when not needed, had features such as this. And then i come to this game and have to fry my brains trying to remember a billion of names, places, objects. Fucking hell...

 

[Kyle Randall]

how much mind control is in the game?

Up to where i already played, you only decide whom you're going to bang or not (somewhat). You have no real influence in the plot

 

[JenPayne87]

I know this probably is strange question but is there something that is going to go on between Eve and Chloe?

 

[JenPayne87]

Is there a walkthrough for this game?

 

[L7Bear]

Been following this game for quite a while (thinking "The Lost Chapters" was a side-story to their main game, which I couldn't find - especially since it starts so "in media res" that it feels like lost chapters to a completely different book), but finally started playing it recently.
That said, I'm pretty well into it (although maybe still years behind) and really enjoying the content.

Two (2) questions, the second much more depraved than the first:

Spoiler: Number One: The Poll Above

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Spoiler: Number Two: The Lost Exorcism

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ETA (Edited to Add):

• Pressing "S" goes to the Save instead of taking a screenshot.
  • How can I/players take a screenshot?
• The whole system of forcing the quickmenu to display if you want to see the dialogue, then making the player go to "menu" in the quickmenu before they can get to the Load / Save / Preferences is just annoying.
• Even though I have it set to skip only "read text" using either ctrl or the mouse scroll wheel skips all text anyway.
  • 
  • You can even "RollForward" past choices, although that at least causes an error:
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• Many MANY more minor issues I'm not even addressing here (partially because of the effort to do screenshots)
  • (a few spelling/grammar typos)
  • Once scene goes from Selene in the morning to "Meanwhile" with an Eve/Chloe scene the night before.
  • Another scene goes from a flashback (dream?) to "Sometime earlier" in the flashback(dream?)
  • The chronology of this game is "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff" which doesn't seem as much intentionally confusing as just the order that things occurred to the author.
    • That's not terrible. This is how Robert E. Howard wrote the "Kull of Atlantis" and "Conan the Barbarian" stories, although he did recognize that the "Kull" timeline became an untidy mess and tried to do better with "Conan".
      
      • In particular, he framed his original stories (something lost in many of the pastiche novelizations that infused his work with other, less interesting writers) with the idea that Conan was an old man (or perhaps had become an ancient god himself) and was relating these tales to the author/reader as if they were sitting around a campfire and he was just plucking random stories from his life's adventures.
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  • And so much more - like misgendering female characters (with dicks) as male, etc.

Beyond edits, and edited to adds, a third spoiler with a comment.

Spoiler: Lilith

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