05-07-2025, 07:09 PM
- didn't catch that the voice was similar to Caleb (mostly because i have one recorded phone conversation with the guy and a handful of quests back in Chapter 5 or something). You're right, that doesn't seem like a relevant thing to the story, because unless it IS Caleb, its a red herring and it can't possibly be Caleb since he's all tied up in whatever shenanigans are happening in Deepspace Aeronautics, not in an unethical research lab (other than as the lab subject).
- is the big fish Sylus? please don't tell me, i want to be surprised.
- the jewelry box is certainly big enough to contain a small protocore, they certainly aren't huge. i highly doubt its jewelry. i don't know, it just seems a little too on the nose to be a protocore and why would Rafe even want one? unlike Xavier, he doesn't seem to be interested in fixing my heart issues, he has no problem hunting any other type of protocore considering how easily he put down the dreadwaterwyrm, and if he wants a fancy aether core, he could just rip mine out my chest if he needs it that badly.
- Zayne's friend William in the anecdote of Mount Eternal died of some sort of vicious crystal attack out of nowhere that took him over in seconds. Zayne could freeze the corruption for a heartbeat but couldn't stop it (so his ice is at least minimally effective) and got his Linde award for the first "abdominal aortic repair" (there's a set of words that don't go together!) on a heart corrupted by crystal (i forget the specific wording). Unclear if it was my heart or somebody else with a similar case. If Protocore Syndrome is a way of saying crystals are growing inside you, that's pretty interesting thing. Aether core, crystals in the heart, regular protocores which do appear crystalline...
- and YES, loved that Rafe was all "I caught it, certainly. But I bet you can't keep it." Hopefully we don't let the guy down.
- apropros of nothing, when i was watching the beginning cutscene again, i paid attention while Tara was talking to me and the recruiter/captain guy says ".. but we only care about results - the end justifies the means" which.. interesting. and since you're paying attention to Tara at the time, its very missable.
Thanks for cutting and pasting the ending text, because holy crap, that was a lot. Let's have some pictures!
-- if Ever (see creepy shot of the Milky Way Galaxy looking like an eye definitely, aka Ever logo) is working towards unshackling humanity from time (aka immortality), they definitely achieve it in the far future since Xavier is born to a long life. Beyond that, I'm not sure yet what the deal is, why Wanderers and Protocores are involved unless the solution to a long life is to have a crystalline heart only most people (in the past) can't handle it yet. Extract Protocores from Wanderers, infect people in a lab to study the results, most of humanity just gets corrupted but eventually goes on long enough be stable long enough in the general populace that they stay human long enough to corrupt more (ie, Dawnbreaker's world) and then eventually we break the Earth, install a new crystal core in the actual world to give IT a perfect new life and then... profit(???). See: Zayne's dream of having to kill all those people to spare them the suffering of corruption.
- is the big fish Sylus? please don't tell me, i want to be surprised.
- the jewelry box is certainly big enough to contain a small protocore, they certainly aren't huge. i highly doubt its jewelry. i don't know, it just seems a little too on the nose to be a protocore and why would Rafe even want one? unlike Xavier, he doesn't seem to be interested in fixing my heart issues, he has no problem hunting any other type of protocore considering how easily he put down the dreadwaterwyrm, and if he wants a fancy aether core, he could just rip mine out my chest if he needs it that badly.
- Zayne's friend William in the anecdote of Mount Eternal died of some sort of vicious crystal attack out of nowhere that took him over in seconds. Zayne could freeze the corruption for a heartbeat but couldn't stop it (so his ice is at least minimally effective) and got his Linde award for the first "abdominal aortic repair" (there's a set of words that don't go together!) on a heart corrupted by crystal (i forget the specific wording). Unclear if it was my heart or somebody else with a similar case. If Protocore Syndrome is a way of saying crystals are growing inside you, that's pretty interesting thing. Aether core, crystals in the heart, regular protocores which do appear crystalline...
- and YES, loved that Rafe was all "I caught it, certainly. But I bet you can't keep it." Hopefully we don't let the guy down.
- apropros of nothing, when i was watching the beginning cutscene again, i paid attention while Tara was talking to me and the recruiter/captain guy says ".. but we only care about results - the end justifies the means" which.. interesting. and since you're paying attention to Tara at the time, its very missable.
Thanks for cutting and pasting the ending text, because holy crap, that was a lot. Let's have some pictures!
-- if Ever (see creepy shot of the Milky Way Galaxy looking like an eye definitely, aka Ever logo) is working towards unshackling humanity from time (aka immortality), they definitely achieve it in the far future since Xavier is born to a long life. Beyond that, I'm not sure yet what the deal is, why Wanderers and Protocores are involved unless the solution to a long life is to have a crystalline heart only most people (in the past) can't handle it yet. Extract Protocores from Wanderers, infect people in a lab to study the results, most of humanity just gets corrupted but eventually goes on long enough be stable long enough in the general populace that they stay human long enough to corrupt more (ie, Dawnbreaker's world) and then eventually we break the Earth, install a new crystal core in the actual world to give IT a perfect new life and then... profit(???). See: Zayne's dream of having to kill all those people to spare them the suffering of corruption.
