afreaknamedpete
Blasphemer
- Location
- Above the Sequences
- Pronouns
- HE/HIM/THEY
I do hope that nobody takes things too personally— in the end this is fiction. If bad things happen in this quest it's no-one's fault (well, it's all my fault), and bad things will happen since this is ultimately a quest about clashing ideals.
The Pitohui fight was always going to end with the Orbital Laser, the entire purpose of the cash shop was to foreshadow the Pitohui fight and that item was added literally as a purchasable Chekov's gun explicitly for this fight. You'll note that some Persona abilities literally counter the orbital laser, it just so happens none of them are in the roster or were simply not chosen (for ex, Rainbow Body and Kalunga Line would hard counter the orbital laser).
A vote to actually use the DG on yourself was a surprise to me, but I did leave it open because it is always something you can do. It's also more of an issue because of earlier choices— if you encouraged LLENN to use the DG or decided to follow M's plan there wouldn't be much of a fuss for Hiyori to use the DG on herself. Lugh would probably even encourage it, whereas Sinon very much does not want you to use the DG as shown here.
My priority is to make sure that one way or another the outcome will be interesting and move character arcs along. Explicitly pulling the trigger won't lobotomize Hiyori or anything but it will move things along the Real/Ideal axis that I'm using as the thematic lynchpin of this entire quest.
Rossa is intended to be a mystery, so interactions with her, what she even is, and what she is capable of are intentionally left vague. This also applies to ETTEILLA/PHILEMON but by this point what these two entities want should be obvious. They are both written to be shady and not explicitly trustworthy but the intent of ETTEILLA/PHILEMON is to be clear representative extremes of the Ideal/Real axis.
Losing the roll will not kill Sinon and Gwen. Gwen is not in a NG, and neither is Sinon (she only used her NG during the BoB). They will just logout.
Based on current HP values the only people who will survive the Orbital Laser are Kuro and, ironically, M. You can imagine his response.
Hence losing the roll will inevitably lead to a hard failure state. But there will be an intervention if the roll is failed, and one of your game over tokens will be used up to give you another chance.
The Pitohui fight was always going to end with the Orbital Laser, the entire purpose of the cash shop was to foreshadow the Pitohui fight and that item was added literally as a purchasable Chekov's gun explicitly for this fight. You'll note that some Persona abilities literally counter the orbital laser, it just so happens none of them are in the roster or were simply not chosen (for ex, Rainbow Body and Kalunga Line would hard counter the orbital laser).
A vote to actually use the DG on yourself was a surprise to me, but I did leave it open because it is always something you can do. It's also more of an issue because of earlier choices— if you encouraged LLENN to use the DG or decided to follow M's plan there wouldn't be much of a fuss for Hiyori to use the DG on herself. Lugh would probably even encourage it, whereas Sinon very much does not want you to use the DG as shown here.
My priority is to make sure that one way or another the outcome will be interesting and move character arcs along. Explicitly pulling the trigger won't lobotomize Hiyori or anything but it will move things along the Real/Ideal axis that I'm using as the thematic lynchpin of this entire quest.
Rossa is intended to be a mystery, so interactions with her, what she even is, and what she is capable of are intentionally left vague. This also applies to ETTEILLA/PHILEMON but by this point what these two entities want should be obvious. They are both written to be shady and not explicitly trustworthy but the intent of ETTEILLA/PHILEMON is to be clear representative extremes of the Ideal/Real axis.
If we fail, we probably WILL trigger a hard failure state because Sinon and Gwen will die.
Note to self: always include a 'flashy' or 'big ticket' Persona in future rosters for every fight going forward. Die on that hill.
Losing the roll will not kill Sinon and Gwen. Gwen is not in a NG, and neither is Sinon (she only used her NG during the BoB). They will just logout.
Based on current HP values the only people who will survive the Orbital Laser are Kuro and, ironically, M. You can imagine his response.
Hence losing the roll will inevitably lead to a hard failure state. But there will be an intervention if the roll is failed, and one of your game over tokens will be used up to give you another chance.