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[grim-tales]

Hey! That's MY catchphrase!

Sorry

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How do I get some clues to the Director's Office password? Or maybe I can't do that bit yet.
I've seen lions eating the sun before - in security, and in the garden, maybe the ID/password is that Latin phrase?

 

[Jintor]

You'll know it when you see it. In the meantime, keep playing.

 

[grim-tales]

I guess:

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I could try another branch..? I dont remember seeing the ID and password before anywhere though

 

[Jintor]

Dude trust me. Go check out another branch. You'll know it when you see it.

 

[grim-tales]

I'm in the

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rec room

- Decided to investigate the branch more fully to see what would happen..

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I did the pool puzzle - now what? How can I get some jukebox coins?
I love the part with K not knowing what a mounted deer head was - poor loveable K

 

[grim-tales]

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Forgive me.. I used a guide for the dartboard puzzle to tell me the rules... how the hell was I to know what the "relationship" for the darts is if they dont tell me? I found the pool ball puzzle much easier.
K riding on a Zero Jr. ride is freaky shit xD

 

[PurpleMaster]

The amount of people that hate that puzzle is really high! I admit I've been lucky!

 

[grim-tales]

I mean..

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I made 91 and it failed me the first time, and I didnt understand. If it set out some rules/clues at the start I could have worked it out instead of just using a guide to find rules. Bastards xD

 

[Lusankya]

The game gives you all the hints you need to solve the dart puzzle.

 

[grim-tales]

It did?

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It just said there had to be a "relationship" between the scores but didnt say what?

 

[Lusankya]

Maybe you missed a clue? You should have found a paper which showed you the relation between the colors.

 

[SolarKnight]

It's never outright said, but it's implied enough I guess. I mean, I could figure out what I needed to do by myself (although I still needed a guide to do the other requirement of the puzzle both times >.>), but obvious is definitely not something I'd call it.

 

[grim-tales]

Yeah I needed a guide to help me with the requirements too

 

[grim-tales]

I think maybe I'm getting close to

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K's ending (or at least I know more of his story) - it sounds really sad I am convinced he's a real person inside that suit, and from birth he was made to think he was a robot, or something - as his "memories" showed a Chibi K in the suit - awww ^^ His story about wanting a mother to care for him, scold him but also love him was so sad

 

[grim-tales]

I just got a 'To Be Continued' (with a lock): Oh man....

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But what an ending! I find out some of K's story, and the twists provided more questions than answers - Dio said he killed the old woman, but then he is found dead in his TREATMENT POD with a SMASHED BRACELET???!! WTF?!? Who smashed his bracelet like that, and why? I dont want K and Phi to die

 

[Rinj von Scoot]

Barreled through Quark's, Alice's, and Sigma's endings (already did Clover/Tenmyouji/K/Dio), holy shit Sigma's ending

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going from "wait so HE'S a robot (in addition to suspecting Phi) too?" to "wait cybernetic arms? how does that solve the 'five minutes of life' lock--oh shit no wayyyyy."

And then wondering if

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he'd really use the number 9 door to chop off his hand and yep, there it goes.

Also with Quark's ending

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I have no idea what to make of the old woman/Akane twist. Like I understand the individual components but my brain can't put them together in a way that makes sense. I've gotten seven endings and only now am I finally realizing that I have to reluctantly ignore the entire concept of linear time when trying to make sense of anything.

It's interesting that

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it's pretty obvious that the lock #8 path is Phi's, and the only one left after that (which I can now do I think, given the password JUMPYDOLL), would have to be Luna's and/or the true ending. Either Luna isn't important enough to get her own ending (admittedly she gets a lot of play in Sigma's) or there's some mindblowing revelation coming, like her being Zero or something.

I am loving this game so much. I want the answers but at the same time I don't want it to end.

 

[Jintor]

AHAHAHA I FEED ON YOUR CONFUSION

YES, YES, TELL ME MORE OF YOUR BRAIN MELTINGS

 

[grim-tales]

I don't want this game to end.. MORE.. MORE.... ARGGHHHHHH....

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The part with Dio/smashed bracelet made my brain melt - it goes against not only what the rabbit said but everything in 999 too. And if Zero is one of the team who killed Dio? Why did he kill the old lady? Seems the old lady was part of the original team and Dio took her bracelet?!? The old lady seems a bit like the 9th Man in 999, IMO.

 

[Vibed]

Sometimes, I just want to yell at people when they're predictions are so off. I say to myself, "How did you even come to that conclusion for your theory? THIS IS THE ANSWER!!!! DID YOU NOT PICK UP ON HINT #347 EARLIER?!?!"

Similarly, I also want to shout the answer at someone when they're predictions are so close, but not quite right.

 

[Jintor]

I eagerly await the moment that grimtales' head rips clear off his body

 

[SolarKnight]

I eagerly await the moment that grimtales' head rips clear off his body

Dibs on not cleaning the mess of the inevitable mindplosion.

 

[Jintor]

Hell, i might go back and look over my own posts as I go through the game. My 999 posts are somewhere on the PA forums...

 

[grim-tales]

Sometimes, I just want to yell at people when they're predictions are so off. I say to myself, "How did you even come to that conclusion for your theory? THIS IS THE ANSWER!!!! DID YOU NOT PICK UP ON HINT #347 EARLIER?!?!"

Similarly, I also want to shout the answer at someone when they're predictions are so close, but not quite right.

Which one am I?
Judging by some of the posts here, I'll be dead by the time I get a proper character ending xD
But the story is soooo good....

 

[SolarKnight]

Judging by some of the posts here, I'll be dead by the time I get a proper character ending xD

Don't forget to get all the gold files before you finish so you can be extra deader by the end of it all.

 

[grim-tales]

Suggestion noted

 

[darkvir]

The game is moving fast and furious now... All I have left is Phi's ending! I gotta go out tonight, no................! Don't want to stop playing!

 

[PurpleMaster]

Oh, dear Grim, expect your mind to be shattered after you unlock Lock n.1!

 

[grim-tales]

I guess I am getting a bit carried away
Time to finish all of the left branch and see where it takes me...

 

[Ragingnight]

I don't think you need all the gold files to get the secret ending. I think I missed one and still got it. I think the only requirement is beating every puzzle on hard.

 

[PKrockin]

I eagerly await the moment that grimtales' head rips clear off his body

I live to bear witness to that beautiful instant when pieces of an unsuspecting player's brain sail majestically through the air.

 

[grim-tales]

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I'm not looking forward to Luna's reaction when I've betrayed her Its only Round 1 but it won't be good. Her bad Game Over was horrible
Sigma's feelings sum it up perfectly:
Trust takes years to build
Seconds to break
Forever to repair

 

[Rinj von Scoot]

Oh, duh,

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I guess Phi's ending might be the true one? I just got the "leaping between worlds" infodump. I'm confused by the lock for the number zero bomb--it's in the IG replicator room, right? So I've seen it already.

I should've realized that twist sooner though. The crew quarters was the first puzzle room I did, and I thought a bit about the implications of Schrodinger's cat and then completely ignored it after that. I really like how the plot flowchart isn't just an esoteric mechanic, and it's actually built into the game's lore in a way. There were glimmers of this the first time I replayed an AB game, but I didn't really consider the full implications. I just thought "oh, the plot changes based on the path, like the 3-way door intersections" and left it at that.

I still have the left-most path and that last(?) lock to go though. I felt like I needed a break.

 

[grim-tales]

I'm stuck on the pantry puzzles - I think I figured out the

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acid/alkaline water thing, but beyond that what the hell am I supposed to do? How do I figure out what to input on the screen (seems like a series of letters/numbers and columns but they could be anything) :s

 

[PurpleMaster]

I'm stuck on the pantry puzzles - I think I figured out the

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acid/alkaline water thing, but beyond that what the hell am I supposed to do? How do I figure out what to input on the screen (seems like a series of letters/numbers and columns but they could be anything) :s

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Think about calendars!

 

[grim-tales]

Ah ha...!
I think I worked that out, thanks ... but

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I needed a clue to work out "The day the man was abducted" meant YOU, when finding the file password, I didnt know who it was talking about

 

[RedSwirl]

Okay, I'm still sort of early-on. Haven't gotten to any endings, but I just to got to

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K's autobiography

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From all that I've seen so far, an overarching theme of the game seems to be

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machines' failure to imitate man or something like that. There's this, the Gaulem's, the explanation of the Chinese Room, etc. I'm still going with my theory that one or more of the game players is themself a Gaulem, but may not know it themselves. I also think the participants who keep showing up dead in fact killed themselves (or at least their bodies did, or something).

 

[grim-tales]

I recently did

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K's autobiography/story too - I found it so sad! Now I'm not sure if he was actually a robot really - maybe he was conditioned to believe he was one or something

 

[RedSwirl]

Also, maybe it's because I've only followed three paths so far (and gotten no endings), but I haven't interacted with Quark much at all in this game yet.

 

[RedSwirl]

How the fuck do you get endings in this game?! I've gotten three "To Be Continued" messages and no endings so far!

 

[Jintor]

The game's designed basically so you'll eventually stumble into the right path with the correct amount of info and then unlock a full ending, which will unlock a full ending, and so on and so forth

 

[RedSwirl]

From what I saw real quick, Dio's and Clover's endings are the only ones that don't have any requirements. Are those supposed to be the endings you see first?

 

[Jintor]

idk bro

you'll have more fun stumbling around

 

[GSR]

From what I saw real quick, Dio's and Clover's endings are the only ones that don't have any requirements. Are those supposed to be the endings you see first?

They're the easiest to get first because they don't have any requirements, but they don't have to be. My first ending was Tenmyouji's. I didn't get Dio's until a whiles later.

 

[Rinj von Scoot]

Yeah, +1 for stumbling around here too. Don't worry about it, just let the game take you wherever it takes you!

 

[The Technomancer]

I actually deliberatly tried to prevent myself from getting character endings until I had fleshed out most of the flowchart, to give the entire playthrough a kind of "narrative inertia"

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Such goodness. I've been sick the past couple days so I haven't been here, but lots of mind craziness which is to be expected

Keep going guys. ^_^

I actually deliberatly tried to prevent myself from getting character endings until I had fleshed out most of the flowchart, to give the entire playthrough a kind of "narrative inertia"

Interesting technique. I couldn't stop myself with proceeding further, kinda put myself in Sigma's shoes and just wanted to experience things in order. Next playthrough I'll try that though best I can

 

[RedSwirl]

Wait, is there even a "true" ending that occurs after the nine character endings? Or is one of them the "true" ending?

 

[Jintor]

Wait, is there even a "true" ending that occurs after the nine character endings? Or is one of them the "true" ending?

Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. Can you repeat the question?

 

[RedSwirl]

Oh shit do you actually NEED the gold files? I've only gotten maybe two or three of them out of the several puzzles I've done so far. Would I have to repeat those puzzles?

 

[Jintor]

No, but you do need to complete on hard