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quote:I am beginning to doubt they will ever kill Quark. I mean we just had the mass death ending, so either we're not doing it, or it's being saved for the True Ending to break our little loving hearts.
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GilliamYaeger posted:Don't forget - she's a time traveler like Sigma and Akane. Letting someone die/be humiliated is fine when you can just jump back to a time where it never happened. Akane wasn't a time traveler, she was just able to send and receive information from future (present to us) Junpei.
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Onmi posted:I am beginning to doubt they will ever kill Quark. I mean we just had the mass death ending, so either we're not doing it, or it's being saved for the True Ending to break our little loving hearts.
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Apr 18, 2015 02:18
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I suppose we should always bust plot locks when we have the chance. Let's finger Dio.
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Glazius posted:I suppose we should always bust plot locks when we have the chance. Let's finger Dio. pre:Login: dio Name: Left Directory: /vlr/dio Shell: /bin/bash/face On since Tue Dec 19 07:41 (UTC) on console, idle 00:18 (messages off) No Mail. Plan: Infiltrate facility, plant bombs. Be a dick.
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So I'm working on this story based game, a character piece and a pretty serious sci-fi thriller. We just finished the part where a professionally trained secret agent tells the protagonist that terrorists might have launched an attack with a biological weapon. Do you want to see a screenshot?quote:Also kinda weird how Clover went through the whole 999 adventure which heavily hinted at a frozen Egyptian priestess called Alice and then JUST COINCIDENTALLY happened to pass a secret agent also called Alice who looks just like the frozen Egyptian priestess and dresses like a stripper at an Egyptian themed party. And boy, the group sure was effective at stopping Sigma from going through the door, huh? Funny how they haven't been that effective with anyone or anything else. But they can totally use the power of teamwork and physical prowess when they need to frustrate the player! VagueRant fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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Apr 18, 2015 09:45
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That reminds me again that it was noted that Clovers face was glitched in the game so that she smiles way more often than she should I sure hope thats the case
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Apr 18, 2015 09:55
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Kangra posted:You're right, we should have done this earlier. 
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Apr 18, 2015 12:09
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For some reason I've never seen this thread before today. Checking out this thread made me blaze through all of the 999 lp, and after the first update I decided to order Virtue's Last Reward so I could play through it myself. Thanks for introducing me to this awesome series.
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Glazius posted:I suppose we should always bust plot locks when we have the chance. Let's finger Dio. Goodnight, everybody!
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Apr 18, 2015 16:06
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Poll's closed and you'll never believe what won.
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Apr 18, 2015 16:33
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Fedule posted:Poll's closed and you'll never believe what won. i'm glad we're going with my idea of just closing the thread and LPing Commander Keen 3
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Apr 18, 2015 16:38
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VagueRant posted:Also kinda weird how Clover went through the whole 999 adventure which heavily hinted at a frozen Egyptian priestess called Alice and then JUST COINCIDENTALLY happened to pass a secret agent also called Alice who looks just like the frozen Egyptian priestess and dresses like a stripper at an Egyptian themed party. I don't think 999 was particularly written with a sequel in mind so Alice's existence is Uchikoshi trying to justify the joke he made at the end of it.
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Apr 18, 2015 16:39
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Fedule posted:Poll's closed and you'll never believe what won. will i actually not believe it or is it the option which i believe won which is the bomb one
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Some housekeeping while I work on the upcoming stuff: I think I've got any arts that people drew for the thread in the fanart post (2nd post) and the spoiler gallery but if you remember anything I forgot could you poke me about it? There were a bunch of times I realized I hadn't updated it and had to kinda try to remember stuff myself but I'm not sure I got it all. BTW: That spoiler gallery I just linked will always be "safe" for anyone who's read up to this post.
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Do the rhymes count?
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Fedule posted:Some housekeeping while I work on the upcoming stuff: I think I've got any arts that people drew for the thread in the fanart post (2nd post) and the spoiler gallery but if you remember anything I forgot could you poke me about it? There were a bunch of times I realized I hadn't updated it and had to kinda try to remember stuff myself but I'm not sure I got it all.
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Fedule posted:Some housekeeping while I work on the upcoming stuff: I think I've got any arts that people drew for the thread in the fanart post (2nd post) and the spoiler gallery but if you remember anything I forgot could you poke me about it? There were a bunch of times I realized I hadn't updated it and had to kinda try to remember stuff myself but I'm not sure I got it all. Looks like you missed my post featuring Dio's hat.
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Tarezax posted:Looks like you missed my post featuring Dio's hat. I can't see the image, it gets a 403. Could you reupload it to lpix?
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Lovely. I'll sort that when I get home.
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I started reading this LP about a week or two ago and I'm finally caught up! What a wild ride it has been and it looks like it is going to continue to be so! I'm really hoping for some more robot explanation. This is a wonderful LP, thank you for the hard work put into it.
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I have a notion. Notable: I didn't bring it up before, but here we see the first very obvious instance of the flowchart lying to us. Other plot locks have always let us see the empty nodes below, but this one hides them until it's opened. There are other locks like this. This is more or less the only reason I'm considering maybe showing the entire visible flowchart in a screenshot later on. Can you believe it's nearly been an entire year since this plot lock was raised? Everything was going so well for me until I finished my Final Year Project, did my finals, graduated and got a job. I think we need a recap. Previously on this route: Sigma betrays Alice in retaliation for "last time" and is somewhat nonplussed when she allies and makes him look like a total dick. This is quickly forgotten about when an antimatter bomb shows up in the Crew Quarters. After the next round of explorations, Quark and Alice come down with nasty cases of Radical-6. Quark is sedated and Alice disappears, to be later found by Phi in the Garden along with another bomb. In the next AB Game, Signa and Luna ally with Phi who betrays them in retaliation for "last time". Phi, having accrued 9 points, is about to escape but Sigma talks her out of it by quoting her favourite Latin proverb at her. Everyone makes up and goes back to worrying about the bombs. While searching for the implicit #2 bomb Phi briefs Sigma on quantum physics-based time travel and states explicitly what Sigma was beginning to suspect; that the two of them are capable of jumping between the branching timelines of the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition, and that causality may not be as straightforward as they thought. Briefly they consider if any of this is serving a purpose - but they are interrupted by the discovery of the last bomb in the Control Room. Clover - who is totally not a government agent by the way - wonders if someone isn't trying to blow the reactor. Everyone gathers in the infirmary and Phi is about to pat them all down for evidence when Sigma suddenly blurts out- -before blacking out. We rejoin our heroes at that exact moment... VLR OST: [Consternation] Listen in: [English/Japanese] "Who Set Up Us The Bomb, Part A" Well, we're about to find out. Sorry K, but could you hold him down? A-Ah, well... It's on him, I promise. Knock it off, Sigma! You're doing this all backwards! So? This isn't a court. Besides, all we want is to know who set the bombs. Rrrgh... And why are you getting so worked up anyway? If you're innocent, then a search will show that and I'll look like an idiot. Nice try, but that's some bullshit totalitarian logic. I don't think so. What are you even basing this on? How do you "know" I set the bombs?! Because... Just spit it out! The Myrmi-what? I beg your pardon? Oh, that's not all I know. I know about Free the Soul, and I know about Brother. What the hell are you talking about? I can tell you the details later. But there's no question that you were the one who set up the bombs. I don't know who the "Myrmidons" are! And I don't know what Free the Soul is, and I certainly don't know anything about some old fart called "Brother!" Heh... Oh, Dio. Tell me, how does that foot taste? "Who" the Myrmidons are? I don't recall saying the Myrmidons were people. And what about Brother? How would you know his age if I haven't said anything besides his name? ... ... Wait...so... A terrorist? Oh dear... ..."Left"? Well, looks like I won't be able to talk my way out of this one. Seriously though, when did we get so famous? The Myrmidons aren't supposed to be something anybody knows about, let alone you two jokers. ... ... Yes, I'm the leader of the Myrmidons. My real name is Left. I was sent here to stop Zero Sr.'s AB plan. That's why I planted the bombs. If it looked like the plan might actually succeed, I was supposed to blow this whole place sky-high. AB plan...? What's that? I should've been more careful. Then again, it's not like it really matters. After all, you're going to die here. ...What? Goddamnit, no— I leapt toward him— Whoa there, heh! Better not come any closer! You think I'm not prepared for this? Take one step, and it'll be your last. Then...that thing you're holding... It's the detonator. Yeah, I guess it is. Now back the gently caress off! D-Dio, please, calm down! If you press that button you'll die too! So? Believe me, there's plenty more where this came from. What...? Now that we've cleared that up, back! Off! ... ... Come on, move it! Go go go! We had no choice. Slowly, carefully, we backed away. All of us, except for one... Tenmyouji. Hey! Grandpa! Your hearing gone? I said back off! No. Rrgh! You... I'm not screwing around here! I can see that. So why don't you do it? Go ahead. Press that button. What!? Tenmyouji! Something wrong? Hurry it up. I'm not getting any younger. ... ... Oh? Do I sense hesitation? What's the matter, Dio? Scared? Well? Urgh... Gnnnnnn... You son of a bitch... Ho ho ho ho ho... So you were just bluffing? I'm not bluffing, goddamnit! You hear me!? I'll do it! Oh, I'm sure you will. But there's really something I should tell you... See, that detonator you're holding... ...It's a fake. [Music fades out] Wh-What?! For just an instant, Dio's eyes twitched down to the device in his hand. That was all the opening Tenmyouji needed. He cried out as he leapt through the air— Tenmyouji's leg shot out, knocking the detonator from Dio's hand. ... ... What happened? The detonator... He doesn't have it anymore... What...? Wh-What's happening...? 999 OST: [Chill and Rigor] Oh, you really hosed up, Tenmyouji! This is what happens when you try to show off! Wh-What? I'm sorry... This is my fault. I didn't have time to tell you how it worked... What are you saying? The detonator isn't supposed to be separated from Dio. If it is, then the timer on the bombs automatically activates. drat... How much do you know? ... ... If that thing ever gets more than a meter away from me, it activates. When it does, it starts the timers on all the bombs. So thanks to this old fart, you get to try and defuse a bunch of activated bombs on a countdown. You can go ahead and destroy the detonator if you want. Once the timers have been activated, they'll go off anyway. How long do we have? When do they explode?! You should know, Sigma. Why don't you tell her? ... ... Thirty minutes. Th-Thirty minutes?! That's crazy! Yeah... H-How do we stop them?! The emergency deactivation passwords. None of us know them, though. Right, none of us know. But there's someone who does, isn't there? What, hoping I might spill the beans? Nice try. Unless one of you is secretly a medium, I think you're poo poo out of luck. Wait, a medium...? [Music fades out] Heh... Well, I'm out. Peace! Wait! Stop! VLR OST: [Strain] I threw myself toward Dio and wrapped my hand around his wrist, slamming it to the floor. He struggled, but I put all my weight on it and kept his arm pinned. poo poo! Let go of me, goddamnit! Get off of me! Let me goooo! He continued to struggle, but I wasn't going to let him go. I shifted my weight to free one of my hands, and started trying to pry his open. Hey! Hey! I'm not loving around, all right?! Let go of my goddamn arm! By then the others had run over and piled onto Dio along with me. Even then he refused to stop. With increasing desperation, he tried to get the hand I had grabbed to his mouth. We don't have a choice. Luna, go get the Soporil! No! If we put him to sleep, we can't get what we need out of him! You think I don't know that?! What other choice do we have?! Every minute we spend wrestling this prick is a minute we don't have to deal with those bombs! We don't have time for this! Rgh... poo poo! What're you doing, Luna?! Go! Right! Okay, I've got it! I'm ready when you are! Grraaaaaah! You can do whatever you want to me, you loving cowards! You're still gonna die! Go ahead, tell yourselves you can fix it! Run around like idiots before you get blown to atoms! Serves you loving right! You're gonna burn! Oh for God's sake... Luna, shut him up! Right! H-Here it goes! Graaaaaaagh! Urrrrgggraaaaah! Hnnnnnnnngggghhh—! [Music fades out] ... ... *Pant* *Pant* As they began to climb off of him, I finally pried Dio's hand open. There it was, just what I'd expected. A small, unassuming capsule. I didn't know what was in it exactly, but it was undoubtedly some kind of poison. I stumbled toward the sink, and tossed it into the drain. 999 OST: [Trepidation] Twenty-five minutes or so, I believe. And how much time until the white doors open? We put in the password and stop the bombs. We searched Dio, but he doesn't have a note or anything with the codes on it... Hm... Well, only one option left, then. And that is? We trust our hunches. That's... Are you suggesting we just...guess? Do you have a better idea? Well, no, but... Before I can tell you, everyone has to promise to do exactly as I say. No questions. What's your answer? We all nodded. Good. First of all, Sigma, you're coming with me. R-Right. The rest of you, listen up. I want you to take Alice, Quark, and Dio to the floor B warehouse. Huh? Why? Didn't I say "no questions"? ... ... Good. That's it. We're done. That's...it? Is there a problem? I seem to recall you promised to do exactly what I told you to do. ... ... Sigma! You're with me! Phi turned without waiting, and headed for the door. Before I could blink she was gone. I gave everyone else in the infirmary a quick thumbs-up and a shaky smile. Take care of these guys, okay? We'll see you back on floor B before you know it. So... Just trust us, all right? Good? I couldn't think of anything else to say. I turned and ran after Phi.
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Welp.  Time for everyone to get a crash course in the morphogenetic field! I'm thinking Phi is either going to blow poo poo up or we're going to run into another plot lock in short order.
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Okay, given that we've got passwords for two of the bombs, I'm assuming we'll run into a plot lock soon that means we need to go back and get the other codes. Tenmyouji's hesitation when the 'medium' was brought up is also interesting. Didn't Clover say in her path that espers can reinforce or suppress other espers' powers?
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Apr 29, 2015 21:32
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ApplesandOranges posted:Tenmyouji's hesitation when the 'medium' was brought up is also interesting. Didn't Clover say in her path that espers can reinforce or suppress other espers' powers? He's not hesitating, he's realizing that Dio's about to kill himself.
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ApplesandOranges posted:Okay, given that we've got passwords for two of the bombs, I'm assuming we'll run into a plot lock soon that means we need to go back and get the other codes. This is looking more and more like the "victory" path, so I am expecting more plot locks. Have we even found all four bombs on this path, though? Or is the reactor the fourth bomb?
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ApplesandOranges posted:Tenmyouji's hesitation when the 'medium' was brought up is also interesting. Didn't Clover say in her path that espers can reinforce or suppress other espers' powers? Yeah, Dio basically said "The only way you'll get more information out of me is to channel my spirit back from the dead."
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And back to notes about the translation, I really love Dio's unapologetic "gently caress"s, they set the perfect frantic tone compared to his usual smooth talk. It's almost refreshing to see used properly since it seems so rare in games other than shootmans targeted at 13 year olds
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Sentient Data posted:And back to notes about the translation, I really love Dio's unapologetic "gently caress"s, they set the perfect frantic tone compared to his usual smooth talk. It's almost refreshing to see used properly since it seems so rare in games other than shootmans targeted at 13 year olds Effective use of profanity is an art.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Have we even found all four bombs on this path, though? Or is the reactor the fourth bomb? According to Color Printer's flowchart, on this route we have found 3 bombs - Bomb 03 in the Crew Quarters, Bomb 01 in the Garden, and Bomb 02 in the Control Room. We know there's a Bomb 00 somewhere, but not where it is. We have passwords to disarm Bomb 03 and Bomb 00 (which is how we even know there's a Bomb 00).
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W.T. Fits posted:According to Color Printer's flowchart, on this route we have found 3 bombs - Bomb 03 in the Crew Quarters, Bomb 01 in the Garden, and Bomb 02 in the Control Room. We know there's a Bomb 00 somewhere, but not where it is. We have passwords to disarm Bomb 03 and Bomb 00 (which is how we even know there's a Bomb 00). Well, consider all the rooms that have been opened up this route: Warehouse A Warehouse B Lounge Infirmary Archives I doubt it'd be in the infirmary, since someone would have spotted it by now. Sigma and Phi were just in the archives, so probably not there either. That'd leave the two warehouses and the lounge. The last option would be whatever Ambidex room Dio voted in last round; he voted alone, so he would have had time to plant it there. ApplesandOranges fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Fedule posted:"Who Set Up Us The Bomb, Part A" Hobgoblin2099 posted:That would be the ultimate feline pun. 
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Well, I guess we have no chance to survive and should make our time.  On a more serious note, I don't understand why they sedate Dio. I mean, sure, if he kills himself then they don't get more passwords. But they're sedating him heavily to the point where he likely won't wake up within the timeframe of the bombs going off. I mean, Quark was out for a long while when they injected him, remember? So, it just seems kind of pointless, I suppose. Either he dies or he goes to sleep longer than they have time to grill more information out of him. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Fedule posted:Notable: I didn't bring it up before, but here we see the first very obvious instance of the flowchart lying to us. Other plot locks have always let us see the empty nodes below, but this one hides them until it's opened. There are other locks like this. This is more or less the only reason I'm considering maybe showing the entire visible flowchart in a screenshot later on. It has nothing to do with the plot locks. The game is hiding which routes have the white doors.
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Holy poo poo, Sigma was so competent here. And everything is going so well. I mean, aside from all the imminent exploding death...
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:This is looking more and more like the "victory" path, so I am expecting more plot locks. Have we even found all four bombs on this path, though? Or is the reactor the fourth bomb? No, this is looking like Phi's Ending. Every Ending and Game Over are paired together in a certain route.
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Mraagvpeine posted:No, this is looking like Phi's Ending. Every Ending and Game Over are paired together in a certain route. I guess so (although it's Phi so that still could be the "good end"). According to the flowchart, we've accounted for 5 pairs of endings, and there are 6 branches left, so I'm not sure what's going on there. Maybe they'll somehow merge two of them or else there will be a couple more generic game overs. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I guess so (although it's Phi so that still could be the "good end"). According to the flowchart, we've accounted for 5 pairs of endings, and there are 6 branches left, so I'm not sure what's going on there. Maybe they'll somehow merge two of them or else there will be a couple more generic game overs. If you assume the 'extra' combinations (like picking Alice for the second CD if you betray her) just lead to a But Thou Must situation, then it lines up perfectly: each door we pick at the beginning leads to three possible outcomes for grouping in the second round, one for each door. That makes nine routes, for each of the players. So far we've gotten three (Dio, Alice, Clover), and we've found the dead ends for two of them (Quark, Phi). That just leaves K, Tenmyouji, Luna and Sigma, assuming the last one even has a route for himself.
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