Second Thing Second - Rafayel (story spoilers)
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I am now wondering whether you're getting the full stories from your 4 and 5 star cards.
4 star cards usually trigger audio files (tender moments or secret times), whereas 5 star cards go with entire side stories that can get hours long. When you look at a 5 star card, on the bottom next to their title you get "kindled". That button will prompt you to see the cutscene related to that card, but it's not the entire story. You'll only see the cutscene and not all the context before/after that. In order to see that you have to go to the top right of the card page where you see "Date"
It's the same button you have on 4 cards that sends you straight to the audio file, but with 5 star cards it will send you to a different menu where you can play the entire story. It is usually divided in chapters, and you unlock them by ascending the card. Some 5 star cards don't have chapters but you still will play for around 30 minutes before you hit the cutscene that is shown in Kindled.

You can also get the audio files by going from the main page of the game to "Date", then "By Your Side" (where you'll find Tender Moments and Secret Times). These are 4 star cards and audios unlocked by certain affinity levels.
From "Date" you can also get "Falling for You" where you'll get three sections: Bond, Memoria, and Myths.
Bond is triggered by affinity levels, Memoria and Myths are 5 star cards. As we were already saying, Myths go into their past or future lives/timelines.

I hope I haven't accidentally spoilered you the 30k years thing, but I'm fairly sure it's established quite soon in the card. It might be that we're 30k in the past, or we might be 30k in the future, or an alternate universe's past/future, that's for you to deduce once you'll have enough info about the world building (even outside the myth). Pay attention to details about the places that are mentioned, time and place clues, referenced events, people, etc.

Yeah many fans justify that scene by saying that he wanted to fight the Wanderer first, others that [redacted] because [redacted], and others just accepted that he was going to let us drown and hate him for it. Meanwhile if I wasn't already maining him, that would have done it for me. There's something so delicious about the comic relief guy pulling a 180 on characterization and almost letting MC - the person we all know is his LI - die. And okay, I don't think MC would have actually died, and it's most likely that he wouldn't have let her die either in the end (there was a Wanderer about to attack them, after all), but what's canon is that he didn't seem to care if SHE thought she was going to drown because he'd left her there. /chef's kiss

Great great great put a pin on Xavier's collar, we'll definitely be revisiting that later in his storyline.


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RE: Second Thing Second - Rafayel (story spoilers) - by Coldsaturn - 05-02-2025, 11:17 AM

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