[ChicletPrime]

Now, before we do anything else, I'm going to ask for your trust and gently push you into doing something: go back to the very beginning of the game, chapter 1. Watch the starting cutscene again.

friend, you do not have to softshoe telling me to go back and watch a chapter again. any chapter at all. i am starting to think i need to go over some key fucking points before i continue on.

i am taking a break to update my webpage with the newest pictures. its amazing how much has happened in the last day.

Okay, noting the trio of Xavier, Jeremiah and Philo for some nebulous later date. I only just met J. though so as far as I'm concerned, him and Thomas live together and will show up in Chapter 11 for a double date with us.

That one card I picked up for Xavier where he talks about dissipating into starlight - I guess their immortality is the sort that they're fine right up until they aren't. You can live forever until you die. And J. did specifically point out that they're not on Philos anymore, so I suppose that's relevant for how much life they can actually have.

Did they suck their planet dry, trying to sustain themselves?

This is kind of out of left field because I haven't really touched on this yet, but some of me does wonder about time and time re-setting. I need to watch the literal intro again, there was definite mention of looping and now I'm wondering just how that plays into all of this (or if I remembered it wrong, from the long-before-times of two weeks ago when I first saw it).

Your comment about evol(s) playing better or worse with the body of their owners -- eh? Are.. are evols a symbiotic thing then? Not a mutation, but a graft? Is THAT what Ever is doing - splicing cores into humans that can't handle them? That would illuminate the comment about "that thing is with her", if what's in my heart is another being fused to me in some manner. Which, hey, Zayne! Maybe him and his evol are locked in a dominance battle for control and Zayne isn't always winning.

I remember clocking the merman skeleton in Raymond's swanky mansion. If there was some mention of expanded lifespan beyond the norm at play in that scene, it went right over my head for sure.  Raymond was just an old guy with too much money and terrible taste, and he probably deserved whatever crawled out of the painting and ate him.

I think Xav's affinity is around 35, Rafael JUST dinged 30 today, Zayne is around 46 or 47.  I notice when Rafe dinged, the DATE option in the 5* stars I have for him came on, so that's a thing now! I admit, I am still hesitant to go through those stories until I get through the main story, call me weird, I don't mind.  I still have more audio and video files to get through in that tab, so will be doing more of those tonight if that helps.

phew. i had no idea this game was this well constructed. i am going to miss it when it devolves to just grinding levels :P aw, who am i kidding. i love digital acquisition, its all the joy of having stuff without needing to invent in a storage locker.