(05-01-2025, 03:24 PM)ChicletPrime Wrote: ....she got blasted by something nebulous, got her new heart+1 (was that an injury that happened on the field? or a deliberate medical experiment while she was in the hospital for more mundane wound care? magic 8 ball is uncertain but it starts off like it just sort of happened to you (shards of something got embedded) but after the Zayne conversion over Grandma's box... hang on, I should strip this out and move this somewhere else

This is kind of the good stuff.

I'll be honest, the writing isn't THAT good in this game, but its leaps, bounds and several more bounds beyond what I was expecting so five gold stars to Infold for exceeding my (possibly too low?) expectations.

The implication, or at least the implication that I got, at the start was that you were injured during the arrival of the Wanderers, that shards of something got embedded into your heart (which, go us for surviving damage to the left ventrical long enough for somebody with a high tech bandage to show up) and now you're just on followup care, and Zayne is unimpressed by your life choices.

Now, after The Bomb Event Centered On Your House, Grandma may or may not have been involved in unethical medical research, Zayne may or may not have been involved at the time but possibly was pulled into it to BE your medical advisor (timelines and relative ages of everybody involved are hazy) -- holy shit, it just occured to me, did Zayne specifically get his doctorate in a cardiac field BECAUSE of you??? - and maybe They™ grabbed you off the streets at the time of the original injury and decided you were a perfect candidate for said unethical research?

Not much is clear at this point, its all super hazy, but there's just enough going on in the main story and in some of the side pieces I've got access to to wonder if I should be grilling Zayne with a truth serum in his sleep.

(05-01-2025, 10:45 PM)ChicletPrime Wrote: And what grandma will say to him about taking care of us.

Oh, yes! I hadn't forgotten that part but in my rush to expound, I didn't mention it.

That whole sequence was really, really good! Something to the tune of "...helping her will also help yourself" which, I guess it makes sense to you two, but c'mon Grandma, expand on the topic for the edification of the flies on the wall watching this in flashback. I should go read/watch that again, once I figure out which chapter it's hiding in.

Zayne is having problems with his mutation, which nobody else seems to be struggling with. I am VERY looking forward to hearing more about what's going on there.

So hang on - we have NO memories before age 14? AT ALL?? How did I miss that? I knew we had gaps, but not a complete wipe.

If you happen to know the actual symptoms of Protocore Syndome off the top of your head, please advise the class (if not, I'll just look it up or find the Zayne pieces that talk about it at the beginning).  I REALLY should have grabbed my notebook and taken down the major information along the way, but man, I got in a rush really fast.

and YES, very Souls-like in the scattered clues, even with a Main Story to follow. Gotta inspect the card backgrounds? really? that's fantastic! I am so in.

• Wanderers - probably not actually evil, possibly just stranded in our reality trying to rebuild their own, like beavers making dams. only more like the "Annhilation" movie.
  
• Onychinus - rogue Hunters (?) and like-ilk, farming Wanderers for their energy for unknown purposes probably not meant for the general well being of the populace
  
• Ever (EVER?) - some sort of mysterious shady biomedicalwhatsit group, pulling strings and taking names in hermetically sealed offices somewhere. may or may not have Zayne on the payroll.