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Questionable Questing

Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
I mean, are you telling me that our investigator character is willing to /just/ interrogate the biased AI girls? That they don't understand the words right in front of their face constantly throughout the game?
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
...I need to write something to tie together all of my Hate Anthology thoughts. Having them bouncing around up there is knocking my mood all around the spectrum.
Nolrai2
Nolrai2
So..Hate Story is good?
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Yes, it's full of all the strong feelings it's supposed to be full of, and that works. I'm just bad with handling strong feelings.
Nolrai2
Nolrai2
Wow, just played through Annalog and got all the endings.
Strong stuff.
I like that she wasn't raped. It would have been the obvious thing to do.

but instead the meaningless sex with someone she was literally incapable of have a conversation with was the best part of her life. Sheesh.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Mm.
I kinda wanna see a fic that moves the perspective from being the investigator to watching over a version of the investigator as they react to everything.
Oh, also portraying them as just curious and investigator-y enough to demonstrate that the actions that lead to the harem end aren't that implausible in-character,

And when I say 'I kinda wanna see' I mean 'I might write it myself, eventually'.
Nolrai2
Nolrai2
You are aware that the harem end is only possible through meta gaming/time travel.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
I deny the assertation that the Harem Ending is only possible through meta gaming/time travel. All of the Pale Bride's diaries are q-EUXui, with q, u, and i being numbers. The system for using that code to reach an entry is in front of you all game. If the investigator has an inquiring mind, they'll probably try it out.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Even if not, say they end up on the road to the *Mute route, but answer that yes, they pity *Hyun-ae, *Mute is missing something, etc, partly out of empathy, and partly out of suspicion.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
After all, some people expressed severe discomfort and doubt about how the Pale Bride was silenced, but the investigator never saw how. Presuming they noticed the pattern in the log codes, they might wonder what happens after My Last Stand, since she /clearly/ isn't silenced there, so they check to see if there's a -EUX25, starting in block seven.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
There is, they vomit on their keyboard, they show *Mute, their doubts regarding *Mute's side of things confirmed. The investigator being the player, it's not impossible that someone would stumble onto it while playing the first time, with no spoilers. The problem is that the Harem End (and Route) were written under Love's assumption that they were impossible to get legitimately.
Nolrai2
Nolrai2
That is actually a pretty strong argument. I mean if this was real I would hope the investigator would spend more time messing around then I did.
Nolrai2
Nolrai2
Only found one good and one terrible fanfiction unfortunately.
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