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It's Turbin' Time (Library of Ruina Modded/Arknights)

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A lot of people are making a lot of sense when asking to see what's happening with Bishop Quintus and Arabella. They really, really are. But still, I can't help myself:

[X] Interlude: The Library

I want to see how Roland and Angela are doing in this verse. Did they get back to writing their book about the City after Turbulence Office broke it and interrupted them? How many chapters did Roland dedicate to HamHamPangPang's menu?! What about Malkuth?!?!

Like, seriously, these Quests (a whopping four of them so far) don't often get the chance to see what's been happening with the Ruina protags. Mostly that's because they're usually not relevant to the situation/POV, but that doesn't mean I don't want to see what they're up to dammit!
 
[X] Interlude: The First Apostle
[X] Interlude: The Bloodfiend and the Bishop

vote for both of them! the ruina interludes are cool, and there is a lot to be seen there... but I'm personally more interested in whats going on in Terra.
 
thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: Hana Association
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Check in the State of the City. Everyone taken by the Library should have been back for a while, including Mirinae and Olivier. With Carmen hanging out on Terra, maybe the rate of Distortions has lowered?

Sieg mentioned the state of Fixer economy earlier, so maybe this will get a closer look at that?

thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: The Library
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Check in on Angela and her best popcorn machine friend. They just received Poor Screenwriter's Note, so they will probably try to trace the steps. Also try to learn where the books of Turbulence Office went.

Library appearance on Terra?

thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: Drowning
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thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: The First Apostle
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Abram and Adam. Worried that they're showing up, because it means that something is happening with them. They are not just gonna stay still and wait for us to pick them up, they are going to do something on their own.

Not sure what Abram would do other than mope, but Adam...
Well, we really don't need another Carmen.

thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: The Bloodfiend and the Bishop
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Arabella and Quintus. The most relevant to our current situation. The fact that Wympe isn't mentioned is somewhat concerning.

thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: Genesis 11
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This is... the part the describes the Tower of Babel. And also the lineage of a man called Abram.

I assume it tells more about Lech when he was working with Babel and what he was doing back then. Maybe how some of the events of the past affects the present.

thenew said:
[ ] Interlude: Mirrored Knight Makes Her Shining Return?!
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Linnete is back in Kazimierz.
For some reason because I thought she hated it?

[X] Interlude: The Bloodfiend and the Bishop
I want to know the others, but I think this is more urgent.
Want any advantage we can get when dealing with Seaborn.
 
Every time I hear about Abram he sound like the most wet dog person. But even calling him that sounds like I'm giving him too much credit. He sounds like that cousin everyone keep comparing people to.

"He's pass out drunk on the toilet, he's vomiting everywhere, he keep crying during Christmas dinner, a 12 years old called him name and made him cried last week."

But yeah, The Library do have Poor Screenwriter's Note now and they should probably have seen Turbulence Office's books disappear in a none burning sense. If the Library decided to look into this and take action, it might become our concern. Or not, iirc the Librarian can't go out in the end, so they would need to lured us back and I have a feeling they wouldn't want to.

On a much more important note, since someone mentioned HamHamPangPang, do you think they also have chain here? Who knows, maybe the true reason why they're here is because Roland can't go to HamHamPangPang in the City.
 
[X] Interlude: The First Apostle

How the heck is no one choosing this? It's freaking Discount God with a capital G. Even if it's not Whitenight himself, we should still worry about it first!

Again. It's Capital G God (Discount). If there's anyone from Lob Corp that would fit the "I am here to end all life." job description, this guy would be the top-ranked number 1.
 
questioningmeme said:
[X] Interlude: The First Apostle

How the heck is no one choosing this? It's freaking Discount God with a capital G. Even if it's not Whitenight himself, we should still worry about it first!

Again. It's Capital G God (Discount). If there's anyone from Lob Corp that would fit the "I am here to end all life." job description, this guy would be the top-ranked number 1.
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Discount God is unlikely to tell me his opinions on the Angela/Roland ship and whether it necessarily goes against the Angelica/Roland ship. Not unless he grew to have hobbies, which I doubt. Therefore his opinions are worthless to us.

He can just wait in the Light like a good boy with all the other A-Shards.
 
The AngelaXRoland ship is great because it can work in multiple ways depending on how you want. It could be angst, it could be wholesome, or it could just be plain friendship. Angelica is dead, and no amount of Purple Tear's shenanigan will changed that any time soon (probably).

Yet, regardless of how you tackle the relationship, Angelica will be a focus (her being a 2ndary focus or even 3rd focus in the friendship route). Roland throughout the game is someone who gaze is firmly fixed on the past, lamenting on "what could've been," and only recently did he gain the strength to look forwards towards the uncertain future. Yet changes isn't immediate and like cement it need times to fully settle in (there probably exist better metaphor). Angela is someone who went through hardship (putting it lightly) by her creator who she loved due to memories not wholly her own (probably a wrong reading). With Roland, she was able to form a genuine positive relationship with by actions and words she was able to freely act upon without fear of a reset. Undeniably, Roland hold a special place in her heart.

Argalia view on this ship, looking at it with my smooth brain, would probably view it was Roland replacing Angelica. His dear little sister, being replaced by a man who managed to filled her silence world with sounds he could not, it was probably why despite his hatred for Roland, he acknowledged him as brother-in-law still.

Do not take this seriously, I made this post as a joke.

I'm kinda torn between The Library and The Bloodfiend and the Bishop. If the Library decided to do something that could involved us, it be good to know, yet having knowledge on what is currently going on in Sal Viento would be great as well.

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[X] Interlude: The Library
[X] Interlude: The Bloodfiend and the Bishop
 
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Gun and Powder said:
The AngelaXRoland ship is great because it can work in multiple ways depending on how you want. It could be angst, it could be wholesome, or it could just be plain friendship. Angelica is dead, and no amount of Purple Tear's shenanigan will changed that any time soon (probably).

Yet, regardless of how you tackle the relationship, Angelica will be a focus (her being a 2ndary focus or even 3rd focus in the friendship route). Roland throughout the game is someone who gaze is firmly fixed on the past, lamenting on "what could've been," and only recently did he gain the strength to look forwards towards the uncertain future. Yet changes isn't immediate and like cement it need times to fully settle in (there probably exist better metaphor). Angela is someone who went through hardship (putting it lightly) by her creator who she loved due to memories not wholly her own (probably a wrong reading). With Roland, she was able to form a genuine positive relationship with by actions and words she was able to freely act upon without fear of a reset. Undeniably, Roland hold a special place in her heart.

Argalia view on this ship, looking at it with my smooth brain, would probably view it was Roland replacing Angelica. His dear little sister, being replaced by a man who managed to filled her silence world with sounds he could not, it was probably why despite his hatred for Roland, he acknowledged him as brother-in-law still.

Do not take this seriously, I made this post as a joke.
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See, this is exactly the sort of shit Discount God would have nothing to do with.

Also, Argalia's view on the ship may be a bit more disfavorable. His Key Page clarified that, after Angelica got turned into a piano by the Pianist, Argalia came to view the death of our bodies as not the end for humans. Because if Angelica was really dead, Argalia would also be dead.

That's right, Argalia was such a siscon he would rather believe death isn't real rather than acknowledge that his sister is dead.

In light of this delusion, Argalia might view the AngelaXRoland as similar to Roland cheating on his definitely-still-alive-sister-that-corpse-proves-nothing with a toaster. Or possibly Clippy.

Gun and Powder said:
I'm kinda torn between The Library and The Bloodfiend and the Bishop. If the Library decided to do something that could involved us, it be good to know, yet having knowledge on what is currently going on in Sal Viento would be great as well.
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Vote Library, NOW.

You can vote both and let the thread decide. Or just vote for Sal Viento.

The Bishop and Bloodfiend has about twice as many votes, so it'll probably win. I'm just unwilling to get off of this specific vote.

Edit: Actually, hold on, a serious thought occurred.

@thenew If an Infected got into the Library, would Angela be able to remake their body such that they aren't Infected anymore?

I know she's remade Roland's body, or at least his limbs, at the start of the game. And she did manage to reconstruct everyone who died in the Library (albeit, that was by releasing the Light). Would Angela be able to leverage that to remove Originium from the Infected?
 
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drearyArchon said:
I know she's remade Roland's body, or at least his limbs, at the start of the game. And she did manage to reconstruct everyone who died in the Library (albeit, that was by releasing the Light). Would Angela be able to leverage that to remove Originium from the Infected?
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I assume she would need to remake the whole body depending on how bad the infection is, but also the person in question would be bound to the Library. I assumed, she was able to do that for everyone because she had MOST of the Light (I think) at that point. Wait... mmmm, Binah's body at the final fight, she doesn't have "Incomplete Arbiter" but "An Arbiter" so did Angela recreate real flesh and blood? Or was that a special case?
 
Gun and Powder said:
I assume she would need to remake the whole body depending on how bad the infection is, but also the person in question would be bound to the Library. I assumed, she was able to do that for everyone because she had MOST of the Light (I think) at that point. Wait... mmmm, Binah's body at the final fight, she doesn't have "Incomplete Arbiter" but "An Arbiter" so did Angela recreate real flesh and blood? Or was that a special case?
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Here's the thing though: The people Angela resurrects aren't inherently bound to her Library. And we know they're not bound, because Roland sure isn't.

In Roland's bad end, he straight up kills Angela and causes the Library and everyone in it to disappear. The only things left were Angela's headless corpse and Roland himself. Roland, who lost all four of his limbs and probably his life several times over the course of his stay at the Library.
 
Killing off the host and rewards shall be yours. This is the rule of the library.
So killing off your wardens and freedom shall be yours, Together with those limbs of yours and the that disgusting mess of a life.
You win Roland, your reception has ended.
To me it feels like this happen
 
kaillll said:
Killing off the host and rewards shall be yours. This is the rule of the library.
So killing off your wardens and freedom shall be yours, Together with those limbs of yours and the that disgusting mess of a life.
You win Roland, your reception has ended.
To me it feels like this happen
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The price of freedom was becoming a hedgehog.

questioningmeme said:
But Roland's status as a human in the bad end should be called into question.

The man probably distorted the moment he killed Angela tbh.
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He DID distort and got it beat out of him. And in his 3rd stage, he lankier and the mask is became apart of his face, so maybe the Distortion in the Bad End was that the mask is just glued to his face now.
 
mrtutit said:
It's not a mask, his face became a gaping void.
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Yea. It's a gaping void, but it probably derived from the Perception Blocking Mask of his. It blur his presence in crowd and make him ignorable. I haven't slept so I can't really articulate my points. In his younger day, around the time of the smoke war, he used the mask to hide his face (so he's "faceless") so the people he wronged have a harder time finding him but it eventually became something that also shield his face from the City. So the gaping void that serve as the Distortion's mask is probably an identifier of a Roland's Distortion. Looking at the Artbook, I've learned that Roland is 33 and not 35+ like I originally thought, and that Argalia is 39.
 
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