If the MC gets The Answering Tiger’s gift, man how overpowered the MC will be, creating illusions that are true. It reminds of that 11 dot Chimerstry discipline from V:TM.
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Um so something might have bugged out in my playthrough but it kept saying bug! Do the NA raid even though i had already done that. I just finsished doing raid with the cult of fenris against the coal power plant when it came up. Also i suddenly ended up in a theatre with eater and then died. Coud not do anything about it
I honestly don’t think saying ‘G-d’ in speech, rather than Hashem, is something that Jewish people do. They may write ‘G-d’ (perhaps unnecessarily, since the English word isn’t a proper name for God), but if they’re concerned about profaning God’s name they probably wouldn’t say ‘swear to G-d’ or ‘g-ddamn’. This is a minor complaint, since there are many other great details in the story.
No, I didn’t mean to imply that Jews say the word “God” differently from anyone else, just that it’s a stylistic affectation indicative of Melodie’s Jewishness, the way that the word “check” is written as “cheque” when Elton says it even though it’s pronounced the same in British English as in American. As for the profanity - well, Melodie is sincere, but not orthodox or particularly observant, and I think the way her dialogue is written is perfectly expressive of the complexity of her spiritual identity.
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Up until now, I only ever able to save Sullivan’s daughter, Vanessa (the woman in the gown that you saw being thrown to the wall in Sullivan’s house) once, and then she reappear if you took the “not working together with Cult” path with Giselle and co.
Is that her only appearance?
I didn’t know it was possible to save her. How did you manage it?
When you were about to pick the options of whether to stop Podge before he attacks Sullivan or helps him, pick the former.
And when you were then given the options of talk him down, let him attack while you look for incriminating evidences, or attack him, pick the “let him attack while you look for incriminating evidences”
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Thank you
Damn, that’s so interesting! And I never even noticed it. I love what the author has done with the writing in this game. That scene where the Stormcat’s narration keeps switching between first and third person as she comes closer to, and then weaves away from, Elton’s painting was remarkable. I also love how she attempts to rewrite reality, and mostly fails, except maybe in this case:
It seemed to me while reading this paragraph that she somehow managed to heal that poor injured cat and restored its vitality and health. Am I being unnecessarily optimistic?
Wait, I thought all the characters - including our PC - were saying G-d, not just Melodie! I need to pay more attention dammit.
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A stylistic affectation that doesn’t reflect how anyone would speak, or Jewish belief about revering God’s name, can’t help but be jarring. ‘Cheque/check’ isn’t the same thing since I really think removing a letter changes the sound, and also because even writing ‘G-d’ isn’t standard Jewish practise. It’s excessively and conscientiously Orthodox, as the relevant commandment only refers to the true divine name in Hebrew. Though possibly the only thing to be said about Judaism is that every belief and practise is subject to nit-picking debate like this.
Still, true-life religious practises frequently are a mess of custom, half-understanding and hypocrisy - the rabbi in the Coens’ ‘A Serious Man’ grunting ‘Jesus Christ, these scrolls are heavy!’ springs to mind. Confusion and contradiction over the Litany, its practical application and its relation to other belief systems is an ongoing problem for the werewolves, reflective of RL modern spiritual chaos. Which makes sense of at least the idea behind Lucinda and Melodie’s speech.
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Melodie always rejects me in chapter 5 even though I’m heavily with her conviction. Am I locked out of her path or can I still romance her later?
I vaguely recall hearing there’s at least one other chance? How many relationship dots do you have with her when you ask?
I think it was two? I’m honestly not sure how to increase her standing while Nin and others increase so easily.
I do guess that small towns cops in a corrupt political, social, and economic tend to be more corrupt and act less disciplined.
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Melodie likes respecting the Litany, acting decisively against the Cult, helping the Three Families and I think she might even like it if you dress preppy. It’s still a little tricky, though.
I think part of the reason I like Nin so much is she likes my preferred playstyle.
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Hmm I feel like I covered all of those and her dots always stuck at one or two. You need three I assume?
I haven’t gone past Chapter 5 in demo and chapter 1 in release. Im waiting on the next DLC instead.
I might like it more than I anticipate and do more than one run. There are books I haven’t even got thru yet, that have been out for more than a few years too. Those that I favor easily keep going back to about once to twice a year. Depending on what’s happening, one is Zombie Haven, obvious reasons. It’s not finished. I can play exactly the same way but as a teen or adult and get different results with the same exact concept builds.
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Yeah, three dots seems to be the magic number.
This is not what happens. The Black Spiral Dancers aren’t interested in destroying humanity, they want to destroy Gaia, and their only interest in humanity at all is as part of existence, and, potentially, how they can manipulate them to help them destroy Gaia.
The point of
Breaker-of-Wings blasting the space program wasn’t to kill humanity, it’s to prevent any echo of Gaia escaping Earth - they’re ALSO pissed with humanity sending radio signals to outer space, even though that affects humanity’s survival not one whit. But it DOES risk throwing a bit of Gaia out there, where they can’t reach it
(ironically, if the radio signals DO throw a bit of Gaia out there, the BSDs’ plan is completely fucked, because they have no way to hunt it down, because SOMEONE blew up the space program. Congratulations on playing yourselves, clowns)
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‘Destroying Gaia’ by killing radio signals is an esoteric and abstract villain plot which completely lacks the emotional impact of destroying humanity/the world, or preventing the Garou/human ingenuity from preserving same, or the pettiest real tragedy covered in stronger passages of the story. That was my point; I’m a human living on Earth, I’m principally worried about humanity and the Earth.