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In the second evening, when I lied to the warrior about which side I came from, my ‘honest’ stats increases…weird!!!
Edit:
Is the traitor random? It seems anyone can be a traitor.
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The traitor has been (mostly) random for me. It’s almost always Twane, occasionally Chelica (even when I’ve played physician to get on her good side), and once, when I deliberately mucked up the whole investigation just for giggles, Vaspet.
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The identity of the traitor is random
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Stupid people…they always get in the way of my investigation.
- ‘hey you.what the fuck are you doing here?’
- ‘umm… investigating like I am suppose to? I am an investigator who was assigned by your chief.’
- ‘i don’t care. Fuck off swindler. I don’t want to see your face again.’
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UIt’s because the investigation wasn’t supposed to be known. It was said, or implied, as much at the start of it.
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Is that so? Lol…I guess I missed that part or most likely forgot about that.
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I hope in the next book we can arrange for Urmish to have an accident… which may have a permanent effect…
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Is it just me or the stat checks are too difficult. I always fail at stat checks. It was not like that at the beginning. But the more farther I am in the story, the harder it gets. I am always starving, blacking out because of wounds…it feels like I am being punished for playing this game.
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What are your stats/skills currently? I’ve found certain combinations are definitely a lot more difficult in completing the game, although I’ve played more run throughs than I’m gonna admit right now. The starving one is a bit cranky though… the achievement for reaching Mytele without risk of starvation is actually one of the four I haven’t managed yet (along with whatever the hidden one is, the one about Stormraider clues, and never kill).
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Is anyone else having the problem of saying you’ll betray the condors, but never getting the option to tell Tamur?
Also, when does the option to go poly show up
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Im currently going down this route and I’ve had choices being able to betray them
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There are actually 6 clues about storm raiders… chapter 1 to chapter 6( I think one at each chapter)…you just need to gather new information about them. New information means you get a clue. Probably…
No kill is… don’t attack anyone…so you don’t accidentally kill someone… even trying to save people is a big no…if there is an enemy present.
Btw…I haven’t got them…I got the killer achievement though.
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I’m having that same issue with the Condors and Tamur. It has showed up twice though that I could tell them, and I’m not sure of the trigger but I suspect it is based on honesty level. The last time it showed up, I was playing heavily to see how high I could keep that bar.
But I’m doing a second try on that option to confirm. Correction. I forgot I’d taken screenshots to report a bug. Honesty was only at 55%, but relationship with Tamur was 73. So it may be the relationship score that triggers it.
On the poly, alternately romance them both and keep your relationship with both above 60. You’ll know you’re on the right path in the Pyramid (sorry, I’m horrid with chapter numbers) if on the first night if they both curl up to sleep next to you. Then toward the end of the Pyramid chapter, there’s an option to romance, and they confront you to choose. Melaxu is considerably less enthusiastic than Tamur in agreeing, but it is one of my favorite scenes in the whole thing, probably because I find Tamur adorable.
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The problem with the no kill one is I get distracted later on and forget I was trying for that Achievement and whoops. 
The irony is that I’ve played this through in different formats about a dozen times now, and my “worst” issues have been trying to play Warrior, so you’d think the mercy one would have been in the bag.
I’m doing a Diplomat/Scholar play this round and hoping I can clear all three. The mystery one will have to stay a mystery for now, I suspect.
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@Moochava So I did the poly romance and it doesn’t feel right. Melaxu clearly doesn’t want to be in it, she’s literally disgusted by it and the idea of it. In her words “Had I known the depths of human depravity, I would have remained in my Grove.” She’s forcing herself to be in it so she can be with you because it’s obviously you she loves. She doesn’t like Tamur, forget ever loving him annoyed and moves away if he touches her. When Tamur says frequent sex will help she gets pissed and wants out of it and leaves because the idea of him doing anything with her clearly bothers her alot. She doesn’t even want to join you in the bath because Tamur is there.
The poly doesn’t fit her character at all like it does with Tamur. Is it going to be addressed next book like her wanting to leave it or something because she’s clearly uncomfortable and disgusted whenever Tamur tries touching her. I find it hard to believe her ever getting comfortable or okay with it. In fact its more of a harem than a poly romance.
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Yeah same it doesn’t fit her character. I looked at the dialogue through the code cause I wasn’t interested in poly and it made me uncomfortable how uncomfortable she was. I already didn’t like Tamur and the way he kept trying to touch her when she obviously doesn’t want him anywhere near her pissed me off.
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Actually, there is a step forward in the poly later… and it’s Melaxu who initiates it. I’m never sure what would be a spoiler but… there’s a scene before the big battle where they’re all in the townhouse. You have the option to go to Melaxu, go to Tamur, or a third option unrelated to the relationships. If you choose Melaxu, and then opt for the romance option, she’ll actually propose that you both go find Tamur. I don’t know if it always shows up though, or if they have to be reasonably friends before the first poly scene. If I remember correctly, Tamur doesn’t press the poly issue if you choose him. I play on Android, so I’m having to run from foggy memory and too many play throughs. I believe one of the “end game” options also implies they are finally comfortable with each other.
I took the reactions in the other scene as Melaxu and Tamur both being awkward because their cultural backgrounds are polar opposites, and Tamur tends to use humor in brash teenage boy ways in several of his scenes. If I recall correctly, he’s younger than the MC, who is frequently referred to by other characters in a way that implies the MC is pretty young. Tamur’s history implies an equal inexperience to Melaxu with romance.
I’ll say that my interpretation is probably colored by the fact that I don’t like Melaxu all that much. I can’t exactly put my finger on why she’s not as appealing, because normally I like games with widely differing ROs so that it changes the flavor if you opt for a different one. I just can’t find a real comfort zone with her as a sole RO.
One thing I did wish the game had was some indicator of how they get along (like Stronghold has for the three subplots of disagreement between the various ROs). I found it hard to keep track of how much the MC had reconciled them to each other. And then the first poly scene could reflect that. Edit: Although I know it is probably coded off the MC’s relationship to them both, it just doesn’t feel like that’s “enough”.
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I am glad not being th3 only one thinking that in fact I loved tam before but now I will never romance a piece of man like him so creepy groping a creature that is zero into it and offer her unwanted sex.
I just stopped that playthrough and i wouldn’t never choose poliamory option as is not poliamory is forcing a poor girl to be in middle of a corrupt toxic relationship with a man she despise. Poliamory is all about trust and consent. Here there is forced creppy and a poor philosopher.
Edit I don’t know if magically the situation improves and she is into it but no way in hell I continue a path seeing the poor girl suffering
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Yeah, I’m looking at the code and she does that so she can set boundaries and protocols. Clearly doesn’t want him touching her. Based on the rest of the dialogue for the book.
Not really she only talks to him so she can set boundaries and protocols. She still isn’t comfortable with it (and I’ll be surprised if she does end up being) and doesn’t let him touch her I’m guessing
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Yeah I looked at it all she does it talk about boundaries like @Regularcheese said. Which by everything else she says is not to touch her. I hope in the next book she tries to leave the romance honestly.
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