Part 6

CherryDoom posted:

I loved the part where you suggest movie themes, and I also like how Eike wants to make everything about himself.

"How about a guy...who has to go back in time....TO SOLVE HIS OWN MURDER!!"

edit: I decided I did like Eike's self-centeredness.

You must, if that's all of chapter six you remember.

Jerk.

Anyway! It's time to move on to Chapter Five. What makes chapter five notable? It contains a plot branch that changes the ending!

NB: End of this post, I'm doing a branch. Hurray! A reason to vote! A way to rack up a few posts, and maybe get off the first page and the hundreds of images on it! Not that I'll be helping with this post, mind you. Chapter five? Kinda talky.




Shadow of Destiny is much more of a story than most adventure games are... and it has far fewer puzzles that involve using starch on a snake to get a pole. Still, might be a good idea to check in with the fortune teller, get the time limit for the chapter.




Two hours! That's a lot of room to screw around with. Dinner sounds fantastic! Time to cash in that free meal.





Eike does a little light reading while he waits for his food. Incidentally, every single young woman in the city is sitting back there. Depressing, isn't it?





Hah! I know someone with Homunculus as a name! What a coincidence that is.





I wonder if there's a connection!

I also wonder what the Philosopher's stone would be doing lying on the floor in a cafe.




Turning lead to gold just wasn't paying the bills.





Mercury poisoning springs to mind, actually.



For the longest time, I thought it was the girl who poisoned the food. It bothered me endlessly... how did the murderer coerce her? Why was she involved? It's only NOW that I see the sleeve color.



"Remember, management isn't responsible in cases of food poisoning!"





This is some compelling evidence for the, "Homunculus is the Big S" theory Eike had earlier.




It's rude to point out the shortcomings of others, Eike. Stop being a jerk.





One of the vaugest clues I've ever heard. She's an ancestress? Your true love? The murderer? Homunculus before she drank the elixer of life and become immortal? The third of the five Jew bankers who rule the world?

If you're going to be this cryptic, man, you needn't even bother.





Eike is really bad at catching people.










See? That's cryptic, but it's still a good clue how to proceed! Much better than gesturing vaguely at someone who died four hundred and fifty years ago and saying, "She's relevant somehow."

Still, she's the only real lead we have right now, so... to the past!






Looks like we arrived after the explosion, 1584.




Hmm, they're doing the whole, "People in the past look the same," thing. That little girl looks exactly like the little girl in the prese--

Wait. She ALSO looks exactly the same as she did in 1580. Shouldn't she have... aged? At least a little?




MY GOD! It all makes so much sense!

Everyone in this town? They're immortal vampires! They're trying to kill me because, as a time-traveler, I'm the only person who can reveal their evil! Margarete didn't have a present day version--she must be a victim. I'll have to save her from their evil clutches before they kill us both!

That or the designers got a little lazy with reusing models.




Four hundred years ago, dogs still controlled the city.



YOU should have aged, too.



Are you?




Way to charm him, big spender.



Eike takes the gift of affection and feeds it to a dog.



Look who's inside! Maybe he'll be cryptic again.




I guess that counts.

That's Homunculus teleporting away, by the way. Much less awesome looking in the PC version.




A key on the floor lets Eike into the laboratory... it's empty, though.



It also lets him travel back to 1582. I have NO idea how that thing works. I suspect Homunculus is controlling it remotely.

There, (more) in the past, the key Eike found lets him go down into the laboratory of the mysterious Dr. Wagner.




With TIME TRAVEL! Also a key.




Whoah! Maybe he DID die from mercury poisoning. All that time over the alembec isn't doing his complexion any favors, certainly.



Neat-o!






Dr. Wagner's is extremely rude until you casually mention you have access to the holy grail of his science.




Knowing Eike's record, he'll probably just fork it over. He's a sucker for giving away valuble things.








Well, enough of him.







I would be too, if it wern't for the fact it's been five hours and, "looking for her," so far has consisted of quiting smoking.





Neglectful alchemist father... dead mother... son energized by death of mother to study alchemy with great intensity... they might have a case against Full Metal Alchemist here.





How can Eike not be getting the vibes she's sending off?





Oh, right. Forgot he's socially inept.




The whole family is distressingly perceptive.






Asked to talk about the future, Eike beings yattering on about the hair of people he's met. He's such a girl.



Genetics does not work that way.

Not pictured: Margarete talking about how Hugo changed after their mother's death, and now he's studying alchemy intensely.

Also not pictured: Hugo spying from an alley. He was only visible for half a second or so, have mercy.





Good eyes. I thought you didn't remeber what she looked like? Oh, well.




She's a slowly walking woman in a big, encumbering dress, and you're sprinting after her. How could you lose her!?






SOMEONE isn't getting company in bed tonight!

Seriously, Eike, don't talk about other girls you're obsessively chasing after in front of Margerete. It lacks class.





Snipped for brevity: Standard speach about preserving the past. Because fucking with the past is baaaaaad.

Remember how at the end of the Back to the Future movies it was clear that the mad scientist had given up on preserving the past and instead was traveling through time in a flying locomotive with his hot wife and family, having crazy adventures? More time travelers need to do that.




Then stop taking peasant girls out on dates and telling them about the future!





"Cars? Pfft, they just move with the power of satan instead of using horses. Magic talking boxes? Orchestras in boxes? Booooring. I'm sure you'd much rather go back to sewing dresses with brown string."




I'm sure this doesn't mean anything.



Obviously the relationship is moving faster than Eike's comfortable with.



Oh, right, so it's alright to change the future to prevent an assassin, or to reorganize the city for yor own conveniance? Your morals are seriously situational, Eike.







Alright, goons! Should I tell her she's my ancestor? This determines which set of endings are available in chapter eight. One answer gives endings A, B, and C, and the other one gives D and E.

It's not like I have any evidence she's an ancestor... Eike supposedly has amnesia (Christ.) so he can't verify it. But the less chance of a creepy incestual relation, the better, right?

Let's get as many votes as possible... try to push this thread to page two, for the sake of everone's internet connection.