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Would discussing abnormalities and how they worked in LobCorp count as spoilers?
All Aboard The Magic Hellbus! Let's Play Limbus Company
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So given that Dante feels the pain of whoever died, by how they died, this was either the least painful revival Dante ever had to do, with Yi Sang apparently not feeling any pain from it, or gave Dante a Glimpse of the Horrors too. It's hard to say for sure!
So, three things going on in the previous update.
The first one is that the Peccatulum used to have actual risk levels to them, to go along with the Abnormality-lite classification (They were all listed as Zayin just so you know). The change was...relatively recent. The reason for doing so will be shown when we reach the relevant in-universe explanation.
The second is that some of Doomsday Clocks sprites are missing. Specifically the ones after it transitions into phase 3 and 4. It's supposed to open up even more so the fiery and purple glowing effects are properly contained instead of overlaying it. Not sure why, probably a missed comma in the code somewhere.
The third is that the Doomsday Clay Dolls do actually have logs for them! Though it's the same for both the regular and the burning versions:
Observation Report (Lacking Data)
Recording the information gained from an encounter with the entity.
<Company Rules> Article 11, Paragraph 2 states I am to categorize it as an Abnormality.
<Company Rules> Article 11, Paragraph 2, Addendum 3 states I am to categorize it as a subordinate entity of the stone plate Abnormality.
It wore a mask that resembled a crude diver's helmet. It appeared to be made of a stone with high hardness, its exterior well polished.
Correction: rather than polished, it appears to have been "made that way". I was unable to detect any signs of artificial processing.
Its body resembled muscle fibers. The lack of skin or other protective surface makes it appear highly fragile, but a large number of these entities are expected to be more difficult to deal with.
Concluding the report.
I will report findings from a direct confrontation next time.
Observation Report (Level 1)
I encountered the entity in battle.
<Company Rules> Article 11, Paragraph 3 states I am to designate its risk level as TETH.
I will describe its behavior during combat.
The entities appear to use their thin yet elastic body for quick attacks.
They often charged into Sinners and grabbed their target tight. They were difficult to remove, and a few lives were lost due to their persistence.
As stated in the previous report, the entity appears to be closely related to the stone plate Abnormality. When the entities were killed and 'offered' to the stone plate Abnormality, a change in the plate's shape could be observed.
In addition, the masks of these entities gradually changed accordingly.
Faust is curious. I should make it my next task to study the extent of this transformation.
Concluding the report.
→ Um, hello, aren't you forgetting to mention the part where they hug us and belch fire? One of them burnt all my hair.
→ Hey Faust! Can't we sell these heads to an antique shop? Don't they look pretty pricey?
Observation Report (Level 2)
I observed the full extent of its changes.
Its mask had two forms it could assume.
While not as impressive as the four states the stone plate Abnormality could take, there was an undeniable connection between them.
It seems to be able to generate fire from within the mask. An autopsy after battle revealed no combustible materials stored inside, suggesting that the fire was not created via physical means.
No further discoveries were made.
...A shame, Faust was hoping to learn more things.
→ You made me stand guard for hours while you dissected their bodies, try to be happy with what you got.
By the way Zerban, if you need help with anything for this LP I'm willing to put my own Day 1 account to work, even if it's to catch anything you might have missed. But if you don't want me to then I'll stop.
The first one is that the Peccatulum used to have actual risk levels to them, to go along with the Abnormality-lite classification (They were all listed as Zayin just so you know). The change was...relatively recent. The reason for doing so will be shown when we reach the relevant in-universe explanation.
The second is that some of Doomsday Clocks sprites are missing. Specifically the ones after it transitions into phase 3 and 4. It's supposed to open up even more so the fiery and purple glowing effects are properly contained instead of overlaying it. Not sure why, probably a missed comma in the code somewhere.
The third is that the Doomsday Clay Dolls do actually have logs for them! Though it's the same for both the regular and the burning versions:
Observation Report (Lacking Data)
Recording the information gained from an encounter with the entity.
<Company Rules> Article 11, Paragraph 2 states I am to categorize it as an Abnormality.
<Company Rules> Article 11, Paragraph 2, Addendum 3 states I am to categorize it as a subordinate entity of the stone plate Abnormality.
It wore a mask that resembled a crude diver's helmet. It appeared to be made of a stone with high hardness, its exterior well polished.
Correction: rather than polished, it appears to have been "made that way". I was unable to detect any signs of artificial processing.
Its body resembled muscle fibers. The lack of skin or other protective surface makes it appear highly fragile, but a large number of these entities are expected to be more difficult to deal with.
Concluding the report.
I will report findings from a direct confrontation next time.
Observation Report (Level 1)
I encountered the entity in battle.
<Company Rules> Article 11, Paragraph 3 states I am to designate its risk level as TETH.
I will describe its behavior during combat.
The entities appear to use their thin yet elastic body for quick attacks.
They often charged into Sinners and grabbed their target tight. They were difficult to remove, and a few lives were lost due to their persistence.
As stated in the previous report, the entity appears to be closely related to the stone plate Abnormality. When the entities were killed and 'offered' to the stone plate Abnormality, a change in the plate's shape could be observed.
In addition, the masks of these entities gradually changed accordingly.
Faust is curious. I should make it my next task to study the extent of this transformation.
Concluding the report.
→ Um, hello, aren't you forgetting to mention the part where they hug us and belch fire? One of them burnt all my hair.
→ Hey Faust! Can't we sell these heads to an antique shop? Don't they look pretty pricey?
Observation Report (Level 2)
I observed the full extent of its changes.
Its mask had two forms it could assume.
While not as impressive as the four states the stone plate Abnormality could take, there was an undeniable connection between them.
It seems to be able to generate fire from within the mask. An autopsy after battle revealed no combustible materials stored inside, suggesting that the fire was not created via physical means.
No further discoveries were made.
...A shame, Faust was hoping to learn more things.
→ You made me stand guard for hours while you dissected their bodies, try to be happy with what you got.
By the way Zerban, if you need help with anything for this LP I'm willing to put my own Day 1 account to work, even if it's to catch anything you might have missed. But if you don't want me to then I'll stop.
Also worth noting is that a newbie account wouldnt have a s3 to work with right now but zerban appears to have a gigachad day 1ish account so...
Also my headcanon for why Lcb Ish is fast as fuck is that staying on land is like Rock Lee taking of the weights and shes just goes "is this what its like to walk on solid ground?" and starts baseball sliding all over the place like shes doing a speedrun.
Also my headcanon for why Lcb Ish is fast as fuck is that staying on land is like Rock Lee taking of the weights and shes just goes "is this what its like to walk on solid ground?" and starts baseball sliding all over the place like shes doing a speedrun.
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Pictured: Omi caught in the motion-detecting lights outside my house as I hammer away at my screenshot keybind in the dead of night
This is such a funny post, and the surreal part of doing this LP, because Limbus Company's storytelling is only going to go up from here. Part of the struggle -and reward- when constructing an update is in slowing down and fully appreciating everything in the earlier Cantos that was there from the very beginning, because IV-VI are just that good.
Yeah I was planning to get into the case of ID Uptie levels at the points where they originally went up automatically.
I'm going to second that motion. You guys are especially going to enjoy how Canto II plays out.
In that case how much do you want us to talk about mechanics then? I'm fine with shuting up about it if you want but Limbus is my hyperfixation and knowing that would probably be for the best so I don't desend into a yap fest.
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I love that there is absolutely like, a swarm of people who have Project Moon as the hyperfixation here, who are just doing their absolute best to keep their mouth stapled shut.
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It's so goddamn hard.
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I intend to talk about mechanical things only when opportunities naturally present themselves, as there's already a lot to talk about in every update and the goal is to make each update flow naturally for the sake of those following along for the first time rather than overwhelming readers with six things at once. Generally I will use the downtime after a Canto is done to go over anything relevant to said Canto but not relevant enough to be worth bringing up in the middle of things (IDs and EGOs for example), and after that you can consider anything in the Canto fair game.
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God, i'm really looking forward to canto II, because the wildest fucking thing about canto II is that its after canto I.
Canto I: The Outcast (Part 3) - Suddenly, One Day
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Narration: I see an overcast sky. Cries and screems twist and ring out at a distance. And in that sky, gunfire and artillery create a cacophany.
Heathcliff: "So why the hell are we in a bloody battlefield?! Is this a trap or something?"
Faust: "No. We're on the right track. The essence of the technology we're looking for is not far from here."
Ishmael: "You mean the Golden Bough?"
Faust: "Correct. Do you recognise when this was?"
Outis: "Anyone with functioning eyes should know at a glance."
Sure enough, anyone who's played Library of Ruina can probably tell what this is just by comparing the hellish tableux unfolding before us with some of the flashback CGs seen there.
Except Outis forgot about Dante. Who doesn't know what this is. Because of the amnesia.
Ishmael: "Was that the best excuse you have..."
Flawless, beyond reproach, we love an insincere rat-woman.
Given the chance to clear her throat and recover from showing her ass like that, Outis yet again displays that her military mannerisms are no mere bluster. Based on the number and designs of the flags she spies, she determines that they're at least 70 days into the Smoke War. What is the Smoke War? It's a terrible inter-Wing war that was waged 10 years ago between, among other factions, the old G Corp and the old (as in pre Lobotomy Corporation) L Corp. The titular Smoke was in fact Old L Corp's energy source, the conflict waged - as so many ultimately are - over the precious resource. The circumstances surrounding the war and its aftermath are foundational to both Lobotmy Corp (the game) and Library of Ruina, so I will leave anything further at that in case any interested readers would like to play those games themselves.
???: "The outpost next to ours turned into a nursing home - they can't even walk without sticks!"
Heathcliff: "Who the hell are you and why do you act like you know us-"
The man snaps to attention with a salute the moment he sees Gregor.
Gregor: "... you."
Tomah (Reminisced Soldier): "You wouldn't recognise me, sir. I'm Tomah from Biomimetics Maintenance! I thought you were part of the front unit; I didn't expect to find you here at the back. Are you on your way to the front? I could help you get there since the augmentation on my legs allows me to jump-"
Rodion: "Bweh, that sounds gross."
This nets Rodion a suspicious look from Tomah. After all, if they're here in this place, in this time, they're loyal soldiers of G Corp... right? Gregor scrambles to cover for her, stumbling over his words in his haste to distract Tomah.
Gregor: "H-hey, Tomah! So you're an assistant manager - or regular staff?"
Tomah: "Sir, yes, sir! I'm an assistant private, sir!"
Gregor: "Err, you see, s-she's a new hire who had her procedure not too long ago, so... Still getting over the confusion, y'know. I'll give her a good talking to."
Tomah: "Ah, I get it... Our corporation must be getting desperate, sending unprepared employees into battle."
Gregor: "Yeah, we're- sorry for the trouble. I've got to take her somewhere real quick..."
Gregor yanks Rodion out of the conversation and hurries over to Faust.
Gregor: "Just what's going on, Faust? These are..."
Gregor: "... my memories."
Faust does not deny it. She claims the group have entered the "fathoms of [Gregor's] ego", "an open path in [his] psyche".
So much for a simple retrieval job.
The defeat of Doomsday Calendar yields another EGO gift, this one offering a whopping 1 Burn to the entire enemy team... for the first turn of the next 5 battles? Jesus that's pitiful, you fucking suck Doomsday Calendar. Abyss fiction abnormality tbh, there was a reason I forgot his ass.
EDIT: Upon reviewing the footage, this is just an incredibly poorly worded tooltip. This EGO Gift inflicts 1x5 Burn on the first turn of the encounter, meaning '5 times' is referring to the 5 Count it inflicts. Still not exactly good, but hey it beats a hole in the head if you have Burn IDs.
Behold, the true depths of the dungeon, and Gregor's fathoms of EGO. The dungeon 'floor' may still be divided into 'rooms' but we are travelling now as much through time as we are through space, hitting certain strategic points in the Smoke War with times listed in military 24-hour time. The stripe of Golden Bough iconography at the top emphasises the unreality of the space we're now lost inside, making quite plain just what is causing this dive into Gregor's heart. But why would it conjure up the Smoke War for him? Why would it resonate with him, where no other Sinner could hear its whispers? Questions for another time. The group moves forward, towards the event node seen on the southern path.
Shortly down the path, however, the world shifts and ripples nauseatingly.
Yuri: "Guh... I think I'm gonna throw up."
Faust: "It would appear the psychogenic pressure is rising."
Faust: "But you should be... fine..."
Narration (Gregor): Maybe I'm still in one, even now.
Narration (Gregor): The blue covering every wall, and the dangling dot of red.
Narration (Gregor): All I had to do was stretch out my arm and cut the hanging apple.
Narration (Gregor): The people in blue coats seemed to think I failed to understand that.
Narration (Gregor): Unfortunately for them, that wasn't the part I struggled to understand.
Narration (Gregor): I don't remember what drove me to do it. Maybe I was exhausted mentally. Or maybe I thought to resign myself to it.
Narration (Gregor): In either case, what I do remember is my desire to break free from the nightmare.
And then there is a woman's voice, echoing from memory.
???: "You finally did it. I knew you could. The surgery was successful, after all."
???: "You just have to keep it up. Chop up the apples in front of you. Simple, isn't it?"
???: "Oh, right. Happy fifteenth birthday!"
Gregor: "... Okay."
Narration (Gregor): A nightmare I escaped through renunciation and resignation.
Narration (Gregor): Some were hard, some crumbly, some were soft, some sappy.
Narration (Gregor): At some point, I realised something: I thought I woke up from the dream.
It's left unclear if any of the group, even Gregor, were able to truly perceive that flashback as we did. We stumble instead into a battle with more G Corp soldiers - not withered shadows of their former selves as we've been facing before, but twisted, infested nightmares conjured by Gregor's vivid memories of the war.
Are they maggots? Tendrils of the Ebony Queen's Stem? Some stranger, more alien infestation corrupting their bodies to match how Gregor sees them? It's impossible to say. We kill our way through to Defensive Line 23-7 at 1300 Hours.
Gregor: "Still in a battlefield..."
Yuri: "... it's the same place as before. Though, something about it is different."
Tomah: "The Nest next to ours turned into a nursing home - they can't even walk without sticks!"
Rodion: "Hold on, isn't he the same guy we just..."
Tomah: "He doesn't suffer side effects like the rest of us, and he can regenerate his arm, too! He was operated on by none other than Hermann, our most skilled director."
Gregor: "..."
Tomah: "A hero shouldn't be on the rearguard. I'll give you a ride!"
Rodion: "Wh-what the hell? Get away from me!"
Rodion recoils in disgust as four insect wings erupt from Tomah's back, clicking and twitching.
Tomah: "Why are you running? You should raise G Corp's banner and take the lead on the frontlines!"
Gregor: "I..."
Gregor: "I never wanted any of this... Not the procedure, nor the war..."
Jesus Christ how horrifying
Rodion: "Yeek... we gotta fight them again? My stomach is gonna turn..."
Outis: "What is that display of weakness? Do you wish to be punished for insurbordination?"
Dante: <... I think we should run here?>
Outis: "An excellent plan, Manager. You know when to strike and when to withdraw."
Heathcliff: "The hell is her deal?"
I can always count on Outis to be hysterical, it helps distract me from the Unending Horrors.
Ishmael asks, more pertinently, why the G Corp soldiers are so grotesque. She knows that everyone under the corp got modified, but it couldn't have been this bad. Faust dispassionately explains that what they see now is far from objective reality, a path opened by Gregor's feelings far more than his memories.
Yuri: "... This is how he felt in his heart about his own allies."
Yuri: "Did all the employees in your Wing... receive the augmentation procedure?"
Gregor: "... Most did."
Yuri: "Was it done with their consent? That's so..."
Gregor: "Did the people in L Corp consent to offering themselves up to Abnormalities?"
Yuri: "That's... I heard that was written on the contract. We were never properly informed, though... They said such routine procedures should be skipped for efficient management..."
Yuri: "That we should face the fear."
Yuri: "In the end... anyone who joined the corporation agreed to it, knowingly or not."
Gregor: "... Can guess how it went for us, then."
With that, the cutscene leads us into the event node we were aiming for.
A G Corp soldier, faintly calling for help. We choose to follow the source of the voice, perhaps hoping to help him.
Ryoshu aces the check, and the man thanks her with his last breath.
Narration: The soldier's life was delivered a coup de grace by the knife. The human rhythm that rose through the blade soon ceased, and the soldier was eased into eternal rest.
Another EGO Gift, this one improving the party's survivability. I know for sure that I never got half these EGO gifts my first time through, so chalk that up as another way this LP is enriching my own experience with the game I guess.
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ZerbanDaGreat
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Further into the battlefield, a minor delay draws Gregor's attention.
Outis: "I don't see it serving any practical purpose now. You're only weighing yourself down."
Yuri: "I mean, it's... Aya's memento."
Outis: "You indulge in the most pointless activity in the world, and you aren't even from N Corp."
Ishmael: "..."
Yuri: "Sorry?"
Ishmael: "The knot. It'll come loose again if you tie it that way. There's a sailor's knot I learned on the boat. I'll teach you how to do it back on the bus."
Yuri: "Oh... thank you."
Heathcliff: "What now. Since when were you so friendly?"
Yeah no kidding Heathcliff, especially compared to how belligerant Ishmael was to Yuri when first they met. Ishmael escapes explaining herself, however, thanks to Rodion having an even wilder interjection.
Yuri: "M-me?"
Faust: "That's..."
Rodion: "I know, I know. We need to get the okay from Vergilius or his superiors and all that. But a little suggestion doesn't hurt."
Faust: "Hm... I wonder."
Rodion: "Plus, pink hair makes a perfect mascot to represent us. C'mon, won't you give it some thought? Please?"
Yuri smiles for the first time.
But Gregor, sadly, is in no position to appreciate the sight.
Gregor: "Hm, that's not the kind of face I'd make. Though... gotta give it to 'em for making the hair on my arm look as grotesque as it is real. Whose job was this?"
Narration (Gregor): I've grown fond of humour. Being consumed by the nightmare for so long must've made me crave liveliness.
Disgrunted Citizen (Reminisced Person): "Those scum from G Corp should all be sent to the gallows."
Narration (Gregor): Someone murmurs, spitting on the floor. I could tell what they were speaking towards without even looking. Knowing that...
Gregor: "Hrk..."
Narration (Gregor): I felt nauseous.
Kind Citizen: "Sir, are you alright?"
Gregor: "I was... just in the subway?"
Heathcliff: "The hell are you blathering about?
Rodion: "Greg, we're still on the battlefield."
Gregor fumbles around in his pockets for his cigarettes, needing to calm his nerves, but he comes to the same realisation as Dante.
It's about time to see Tomah again.
Rodion: "Look Tomah I'm starting to get sick of your pickup line, so I'll say it once: We're not out of our minds, and the aging bomb ain't gonna hit us."
Tomah: "... No."
Tomah: "I need help."
Tomah: "I don't want to die-"
The Sinners break and run without a moment's hesitation.
The hands are everywhere, crushing soldiers like vermin all across the Smoke War battlefront, dwarfing even the skyline. The group keeps running and running as fighting is no option, but they only succeed in delaying the inevitable. The others heckle Faust for a solution despite her mutterings of the many variables to account for in the fathoms of ego, eventually extracting an answer of some kind - their goal is not nearby, or else Dante would have reacted by now.
But there's a third option. An alternative to fighting and running which Gregor is the first to realise.
Gregor: "... I think I see now. If this world is a product of my mind..."
He looks up at the sky.
Gregor: "We shouldn't run away from that hand."
Heathcliff: "Did you finally get the crackers or what?"
Faust: "Gregor, are you sure?"
Gregor: "My own free will never played much of a role in my life. It only makes sense that resisting is meaningless in this reflection of my mind. In that case... letting the inevitable happen might be the answer."
Heathcliff and Ishmael remain dubious, but Gregor is sure.
He recognises the polish on the hand's nails. And the woman they belong to will never stop chasing them.
Gregor: "Faust... you said this is a path in my heart, right? Then I can tell you this for sure: it's about to hit a dead end."
Gregor: "Be it the nightmare or the road... I never once strayed from that woman's control."
The giant hand casts a shadow over the group, plunging them into utter darkness as it descends.
Every Sinner besides Dante and Faust doubles over with nausea as the hand lifts them up into the sky, until all of a sudden... they're right back where they started.
Man. Talk about just being straight-up fucking upsetting. Gregor showed up to work today expecting to just Lock In and do a job, no matter how dangerous or dirty, and go home with a gold star on his report card. Yet from moment one the world has been grinding his nose in a past he wanted to leave behind, mundanely in how Vergilius forced him to the front to battle the G Corp Veterans (and doesn't that seem all the more pointed now, having seen what we've seen) and now Fucking Supernaturally in the form of the world of memory and emotion conjured by the Golden Bough. Even the choice of Abnormalities can only have deeper meaning for Gregor, the Queen's Ebony Stem serving a dual role of representing the woman who made Gregor what he is, and the motif of a rotten apple reflected in the flashback to how he first learned to awaken his arm. Doomsday Calendar isn't quite so on the nose but I think we can take a reasonable stab at its symbolism as reflecting Gregor's clear fatalism; in the end, his great Dive To The Heart didn't resolve so much as just stop. Gregor saw Hermann's hands descending into the world of his heart and gave up, because he knew that she always wins in the end. Doomsday Calendar foretells an inescapable doom that can only be delayed, never overcome, and Gregor believes deep down that he's living on borrowed time, trying not to let it set in as long as he has to.
And then, as if to add insult to injury, the next event node is about a swarm of cockroaches blocking the path. Simply leaving them be penalises the SP of all Sinners - the 'correct' choice is to brutally crush the lot of them, triggering a battle with more Reminisced G Corp Soldiers. Gregor even loses a hefty 20SP in his distress.
But the group gains another EGO Gift in the process, effectively doubling Gregor's natural regeneration when under 50% and spreading a little of it to the party.
Beyond, Faust takes note of the next containment unit and remarks that it seems different from the others - most likely the residence of the Abnormality in which the Golden Bough has 'taken root'. Gregor is understandably exhausted yet relieved that they managed to come this far after all.
Yuri: "... when we go back to the bus, can I teach Charon how to use a map?"
Gregor: "... Yeah, sounds good. I'm sure she'll like it."
Sinclair: "I doubt that..."
Yuri smiles again.
Beyond the threshold, we face off with the third and final Abnormality still held in this branch office - Golden Apple.
After all the hullabaloo with Ebony Queen's Stem and Doomsday Calendar, Golden Apple is a remarkably simple beast. It has only one body part and four skill slots per turn, one of which it constantly wastes on guarding. It starts with 3 stacks of Golden Sheen, healing 10hp per stack per turn - 30hp per turn is a tall ask for a group of on-level Sinners on top of breaking through shield hp and winning clashes, but therin lies the rub. Its most dangerous attack, Golden Fruit, may roll a 5+5 (at a rather pitiful -2 Offence Level for a total of 6) but if that attack loses a clash it subsequently takes 20 fixed damage and loses a stack of Golden Sheen.
It also has a lot less Body HP than it does core HP, as you can see above - and when the Body is broken, visually cracking the Abnormality's golden facade, an event triggers.
Narration: "I'll go check it out!" Yuri said to the others.
Narration: The Sinner with a bug's arm seems nervous about this. Does he want to go with her, perhaps?
We see the first of many instances of certain IDs, or in this case certain Sinners, having event-specific modifiers to skill checks.
Gregor passes.
Narration: Gregor managed to escape, but it seems Yuri couldn't. The fruit's flesh melted to form a new body.
But it doesn't matter.
Narration: Don't feel too guilty about it. One lost life is better than two.
Narration: She was gone without a trace.
Dante can turn the clock for anyone else in their number, any number of times. But here, they're powerless.
Narration: As if he expected to find Yuri unscathed by slicing the apple open.
The Golden Apple reveals its true form, a putrid verminous mass of maggot-flesh spilling viscerally from the shattered shell of a rotten apple.
It boasts a suite of far more dangerous attacks than its first form, combining a potent mix of self-healing, Fragile, Bleed and Bleed Count. Boasting 4+8 and 4+(4x2) attacks, an on-level party of Sinners will be having a rough time overcoming its skill ceilings, but its head serves as its Achilles Heel. Sloth and Blunt fatal, its mere 50hp can be chewed through with relative ease. With the Head broken the body falls still, Immobilised - a rare and depreciated status effect carried over from Ruina - for a turn.
As Faust kindly demonstrates for us here.
Broken body parts are visually reflected on the enemy sprites, in this case the broken Head being rendered as tearing off Golden Apple's entire jaw. Grisly.
Immobilise is distinct from Staggered in that Golden Apple is not currently taking double physical damage, but is still unable to perform any attacks or skills. This is the Sinners' chance to unleash an all-out attack on the body, shattering or at least grievously damaging the Body in order to finish the job on the next turn. Once the Body is broken it cannot regenerate, and with 2 Attack Power Down the Golden Apple is unable to even break a 10 with its rolls.
Fuck.
You.
The Golden Apple falls, but does not revert to its egg form. Not yet.
Narration: Beyond that, I see a wave of radiant golden light.
Dante: <Is that... the Golden Bough?>
Dante approaches the apple, and it begins to tremble.
Dante reflexively asks Yuri if she's okay. Knowing full well that they saw it swallow her whole.
Yuri: "... When we go back to the bus, can I- Charon how to...?"
Her voice, echoing ethereal from within the apple, skips and 'rewinds' like an audio file.
Outis: "I don't see it serving any practical purpose now. You're only weighing yourself down."
Yuri: "I mean, it's... Aya's memento."
Outis: "You indulge in the most pointless activity in the world, and you aren't even from N Corp."
Ishmael: "..."
Yuri: "Sorry?"
Ishmael: "The knot. It'll come loose again if you tie it that way. There's a sailor's knot I learned on the boat. I'll teach you how to do it back on the bus."
Yuri: "Oh... thank you."
Heathcliff: "What now. Since when were you so friendly?"
Yeah no kidding Heathcliff, especially compared to how belligerant Ishmael was to Yuri when first they met. Ishmael escapes explaining herself, however, thanks to Rodion having an even wilder interjection.
Yuri: "M-me?"
Faust: "That's..."
Rodion: "I know, I know. We need to get the okay from Vergilius or his superiors and all that. But a little suggestion doesn't hurt."
Faust: "Hm... I wonder."
Rodion: "Plus, pink hair makes a perfect mascot to represent us. C'mon, won't you give it some thought? Please?"
Yuri smiles for the first time.
But Gregor, sadly, is in no position to appreciate the sight.
Gregor: "Hm, that's not the kind of face I'd make. Though... gotta give it to 'em for making the hair on my arm look as grotesque as it is real. Whose job was this?"
Narration (Gregor): I've grown fond of humour. Being consumed by the nightmare for so long must've made me crave liveliness.
Disgrunted Citizen (Reminisced Person): "Those scum from G Corp should all be sent to the gallows."
Narration (Gregor): Someone murmurs, spitting on the floor. I could tell what they were speaking towards without even looking. Knowing that...
Gregor: "Hrk..."
Narration (Gregor): I felt nauseous.
Kind Citizen: "Sir, are you alright?"
Gregor: "I was... just in the subway?"
Heathcliff: "The hell are you blathering about?
Rodion: "Greg, we're still on the battlefield."
Gregor fumbles around in his pockets for his cigarettes, needing to calm his nerves, but he comes to the same realisation as Dante.
It's about time to see Tomah again.
Rodion: "Look Tomah I'm starting to get sick of your pickup line, so I'll say it once: We're not out of our minds, and the aging bomb ain't gonna hit us."
Tomah: "... No."
Tomah: "I need help."
Tomah: "I don't want to die-"
The Sinners break and run without a moment's hesitation.
The hands are everywhere, crushing soldiers like vermin all across the Smoke War battlefront, dwarfing even the skyline. The group keeps running and running as fighting is no option, but they only succeed in delaying the inevitable. The others heckle Faust for a solution despite her mutterings of the many variables to account for in the fathoms of ego, eventually extracting an answer of some kind - their goal is not nearby, or else Dante would have reacted by now.
But there's a third option. An alternative to fighting and running which Gregor is the first to realise.
Gregor: "... I think I see now. If this world is a product of my mind..."
He looks up at the sky.
Gregor: "We shouldn't run away from that hand."
Heathcliff: "Did you finally get the crackers or what?"
Faust: "Gregor, are you sure?"
Gregor: "My own free will never played much of a role in my life. It only makes sense that resisting is meaningless in this reflection of my mind. In that case... letting the inevitable happen might be the answer."
Heathcliff and Ishmael remain dubious, but Gregor is sure.
He recognises the polish on the hand's nails. And the woman they belong to will never stop chasing them.
Gregor: "Faust... you said this is a path in my heart, right? Then I can tell you this for sure: it's about to hit a dead end."
Gregor: "Be it the nightmare or the road... I never once strayed from that woman's control."
The giant hand casts a shadow over the group, plunging them into utter darkness as it descends.
Every Sinner besides Dante and Faust doubles over with nausea as the hand lifts them up into the sky, until all of a sudden... they're right back where they started.
Man. Talk about just being straight-up fucking upsetting. Gregor showed up to work today expecting to just Lock In and do a job, no matter how dangerous or dirty, and go home with a gold star on his report card. Yet from moment one the world has been grinding his nose in a past he wanted to leave behind, mundanely in how Vergilius forced him to the front to battle the G Corp Veterans (and doesn't that seem all the more pointed now, having seen what we've seen) and now Fucking Supernaturally in the form of the world of memory and emotion conjured by the Golden Bough. Even the choice of Abnormalities can only have deeper meaning for Gregor, the Queen's Ebony Stem serving a dual role of representing the woman who made Gregor what he is, and the motif of a rotten apple reflected in the flashback to how he first learned to awaken his arm. Doomsday Calendar isn't quite so on the nose but I think we can take a reasonable stab at its symbolism as reflecting Gregor's clear fatalism; in the end, his great Dive To The Heart didn't resolve so much as just stop. Gregor saw Hermann's hands descending into the world of his heart and gave up, because he knew that she always wins in the end. Doomsday Calendar foretells an inescapable doom that can only be delayed, never overcome, and Gregor believes deep down that he's living on borrowed time, trying not to let it set in as long as he has to.
And then, as if to add insult to injury, the next event node is about a swarm of cockroaches blocking the path. Simply leaving them be penalises the SP of all Sinners - the 'correct' choice is to brutally crush the lot of them, triggering a battle with more Reminisced G Corp Soldiers. Gregor even loses a hefty 20SP in his distress.
But the group gains another EGO Gift in the process, effectively doubling Gregor's natural regeneration when under 50% and spreading a little of it to the party.
Beyond, Faust takes note of the next containment unit and remarks that it seems different from the others - most likely the residence of the Abnormality in which the Golden Bough has 'taken root'. Gregor is understandably exhausted yet relieved that they managed to come this far after all.
Yuri: "... when we go back to the bus, can I teach Charon how to use a map?"
Gregor: "... Yeah, sounds good. I'm sure she'll like it."
Sinclair: "I doubt that..."
Yuri smiles again.
Beyond the threshold, we face off with the third and final Abnormality still held in this branch office - Golden Apple.
After all the hullabaloo with Ebony Queen's Stem and Doomsday Calendar, Golden Apple is a remarkably simple beast. It has only one body part and four skill slots per turn, one of which it constantly wastes on guarding. It starts with 3 stacks of Golden Sheen, healing 10hp per stack per turn - 30hp per turn is a tall ask for a group of on-level Sinners on top of breaking through shield hp and winning clashes, but therin lies the rub. Its most dangerous attack, Golden Fruit, may roll a 5+5 (at a rather pitiful -2 Offence Level for a total of 6) but if that attack loses a clash it subsequently takes 20 fixed damage and loses a stack of Golden Sheen.
It also has a lot less Body HP than it does core HP, as you can see above - and when the Body is broken, visually cracking the Abnormality's golden facade, an event triggers.
Narration: "I'll go check it out!" Yuri said to the others.
Narration: The Sinner with a bug's arm seems nervous about this. Does he want to go with her, perhaps?
We see the first of many instances of certain IDs, or in this case certain Sinners, having event-specific modifiers to skill checks.
Gregor passes.
Narration: Gregor managed to escape, but it seems Yuri couldn't. The fruit's flesh melted to form a new body.
But it doesn't matter.
Narration: Don't feel too guilty about it. One lost life is better than two.
Narration: She was gone without a trace.
Dante can turn the clock for anyone else in their number, any number of times. But here, they're powerless.
Narration: As if he expected to find Yuri unscathed by slicing the apple open.
The Golden Apple reveals its true form, a putrid verminous mass of maggot-flesh spilling viscerally from the shattered shell of a rotten apple.
It boasts a suite of far more dangerous attacks than its first form, combining a potent mix of self-healing, Fragile, Bleed and Bleed Count. Boasting 4+8 and 4+(4x2) attacks, an on-level party of Sinners will be having a rough time overcoming its skill ceilings, but its head serves as its Achilles Heel. Sloth and Blunt fatal, its mere 50hp can be chewed through with relative ease. With the Head broken the body falls still, Immobilised - a rare and depreciated status effect carried over from Ruina - for a turn.
As Faust kindly demonstrates for us here.
Broken body parts are visually reflected on the enemy sprites, in this case the broken Head being rendered as tearing off Golden Apple's entire jaw. Grisly.
Immobilise is distinct from Staggered in that Golden Apple is not currently taking double physical damage, but is still unable to perform any attacks or skills. This is the Sinners' chance to unleash an all-out attack on the body, shattering or at least grievously damaging the Body in order to finish the job on the next turn. Once the Body is broken it cannot regenerate, and with 2 Attack Power Down the Golden Apple is unable to even break a 10 with its rolls.
Fuck.
You.
The Golden Apple falls, but does not revert to its egg form. Not yet.
Narration: Beyond that, I see a wave of radiant golden light.
Dante: <Is that... the Golden Bough?>
Dante approaches the apple, and it begins to tremble.
Dante reflexively asks Yuri if she's okay. Knowing full well that they saw it swallow her whole.
Yuri: "... When we go back to the bus, can I- Charon how to...?"
Her voice, echoing ethereal from within the apple, skips and 'rewinds' like an audio file.
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ZerbanDaGreat
Daemon Noble of D E M O G R A P H I C S
- Pronouns
- They/them
Narration: Yuri's head stood motionless, facing Gregor. Her face was upright.
Narration: However, the Yuri we knew and accompanied was always hunched over. She slouched at all times, as though it were her sole-surviving obligation to carry the wills of her late colleagues.
Narration: Given that, I can warn him with confidence.
Dante: <That isn't Yuri, Gregor.>
Gregor agrees. He accepts it calmly. He stretches out his bug arm, sending it flying towards 'Yuri'.
And it stops dead, Gregor letting out a sickened gasp of shock.
Dante: <Cut her down, Gregor>
Narration: I don't know if this is the right thing to do as the manager.
'Yuri': "None of us wanted to die."
Narration: But I had to shout at Gregor now to stop him from being ruined.
Dante: <Cut it now!>
Gregor screams in anguish.
Gregor: "This... This is..."
Narration (Gregor): The verminous arm stopped right before reaching the civilian's throat. I pulled against it with all my might, but it wouldn't budge.
Kind Citizen: "P-please spare me... I'll give you all my money."
Security Guard: "Let the woman go! Otherwise, I will stop you by force!"
Gregor: "My arm... Cut off the arm! Now!"
Security Guard: "This is your final warning. Release her now, or..."
Gregor: "Just do it!"
Gregor's arm is severed, and the civilian slumps down the wall in relief. But the peace doesn't last. His arm regenerates from the twitching stump, and though he begs the security guard not to come any closer...
Gregor: "You really shouldn't... I didn't fight in the war because I wanted to..."
'Yuri': "What else am I uspposed to do? Is it so wrong that I survived?"
Gregor: "Just live on, please... it's not like we got ourselves into this mess voluntarily."
A new voice speaks up.
???: "Having come to this end, only to be stopped just before your labour bears fruit. How regrettable. Well, we'll take it. Opportunities left unclaimed will only become null and void."
There is a single slash, and Yuri's head falls. It was not Gregor's doing.
Her mouth opens, and light shines within.
Gregor: "You..."
???: "A bit small, isn't it?"
Hermann: "I'm Hermann. We'll be seeing each other often. The reason being... We - need those Boughs; and you - are capable of finding them. You - won't die; but we - will kill you."
Hermann nudges Yuri's head with her boot.
Hermann: "It won't be now, though."
Hermann isn't the only familiar face in this group of new arrivals. Yi Sang calls out to the man in the red glasses.
Yi Sang: "Gubo... My dear compatriot. Is this the path you chose?"
And Hong Lu, for the first time in a very long time, speaks up. Greeting his brother.
Hermann: "I didn't invest in you just to see you in such a mess."
Gregor: "I never asked for this... Not once..."
Hermann: "You should at least finish unwrapping what I gave you. That little arm isn't all there is to it."
Jia Huan: "Alright now. That's enough greetings."
Jia Huan claps twice, and everything goes dark.
Narration: Like waking from a long nightmare...
Narration: The early dawn greets you.
Vergilius: "After allowing the Golden Bough to be taken before your very eyes, you had the gall to walk in with your faces up. Have I overestimated you?"
Dante: <...>
Vergilius: "Why don't you give me an excuse, Ms. Faust."
Faust: "As it turns out, immortality wasn't the solution to everything."
Vergilius: "... Hm. Anything to say for yourself, Dante?"
Surprisingly, Dante actually does. Whether confident that Faust will be diplomatic with the translation or simply beyond caring after the fucking harrowing descent into the L Corp branch, they ask why Vergilius didn't bother warning them about the second group going after the Golden Bough. Even massaged into 'asking about the other faction', Vergilius isn't fooled for a second.
Vergilius: "Don't tell me. Are you holding me responsible? Tell me then, Dante. Why would we bother sending twelve whole combatants to a place with no threats? And hiring Fixers to guide them, too."
Dante: <That's...>
Gregor: "Enough of that, Manager Bud."
Vergilius: "How fascinating. Built a sense of camaraderie between you already."
Vergilius: "Well, I do suppose it's not too bad to cover up for each other since you're all in the same bus..."
Vergilius: "Just know that sticking up for one another doesn't make up for your incompetence."
Faust steps in, delicately diverting the conversation from Vergilius haranguing Dante to his heart's content and towards the After Team's progress. Outis, however, is far more direct.
Outis: "This is getting excessive."
Outis: "Are you sure it wasn't your expectations that were too high for our first mission? I will have you know that our manager's performance was nothing short of outstanding."
Vergilius: "..."
And against all odds, manages to truly make Vergilius back down.
Dante senses an uncanny tension between Vergilius and Faust, but recognises they've run dry of any will or energy to investigate it further. They sit down heavily, the bus reeking of blood with all the stains and gore on the Sinners' clothes, yet none of them even try opening windows nor go to get changed. Merely sitting in silence, defeated and dejected. Gregor most of all.
Charon: "Bug Guy. What did you put on Mephi's head?"
Gregor: "Something that belonged to the two."
Gregor: "I had a sister, just about Yuri's age."
Gregor: "That's... all there is."
Narration: I considered giving him a pep talk, but that quickly dissipated. Ishmael wore a grieving look, Sinclair was quietly weeping, and Rodya let out a distressed sigh; if they couldn't offer him any encouragement, what good would I do?
Charon: "No, Charon'll be fine."
Vergilius: "... Alright, let's hit the road."
Charon: "Vroom-vroom."
The bus rolls onward, to the Sinners' next destination - and to a new tradition for each Canto.
Pass On said:
The camera slowly pulls out from Gregor as the song goes on, revealing more and more of the art - of the Sinners despondant, coping with the loss in their own ways. Until finally it pulls out to gaze down on the 13 of them, Vergilius and Charon riding removed at the front.
Yuri's gas mask, a memento of a memento, hanging just above the windshield.
Next Stop: Canto I - The Outcast Postscript (ID, EGO and Theme analysis)
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- Pronouns
- She/Her
I love that whenever Project Moon does a "this is a smoke war thing" bit, you can always immediately tell because it's always the same design, with the towers in the background, with the red sky/lighting, and the muddy ground.
...Man.
Good to know reading old content is enriching for me to.
I want to add, that Gregor's arm being liquidly like it appears in the CG's, isn't in fact CG exclusive. Or at least not really.
It does in fact change shapes! Depending on what type of attack he's doing. If he's doing a Slashing attack, he uses the arm we're all used to, if he's doing a Jabbing or Piercing motion he makes it more spear-like, and then in the third attack he turns it into more of a club or Morningstar kinda?
- Location
- madison
yeah, this is a dark one. I honestly think its meant to be a filter, "welcome to project moon, this is how dark and bleak we get. leave now if that's not your bag". Can you imagine if they waited a canto or two before establishing how bleak they can go?
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Kadmus
Dragon's teeth are surprisingly hard to sow
- Location
- Devon
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Man, not even killed in a cutscene, just unceremoniously disposed of in a mid-battle skill check you can't influence the way you'd like to. Brutal. RIP Mascot Yuri, all those death flags you raised in this update were not in vain.
Love how even when she's just sat brooding in the bus at the end of the Canto, Outis still has the Evil Vizier Face Shadow applied.
It's interesting that Ryōshū and Hong Lu appear to be having a good time in the back, though, with them both seeming to be laughing. Unsure if this is supposed to be 'these two are so detached from the rest of the group/reality that they think it's appropriate behaviour' or 'have to laugh or you'll never stop screaming', but I'm guessing the first given their behaviour so far.
And the Abnormality has me really scratching my head, now. Are they derived from people? Is it just repeating stuff from the Golden Bough's mindfuck of Gregor? Is each maggot one of the dead soldiers from G Corp? The way it uses Yuri's head to give Tomah's lines indicates something alright.
Love how even when she's just sat brooding in the bus at the end of the Canto, Outis still has the Evil Vizier Face Shadow applied.
It's interesting that Ryōshū and Hong Lu appear to be having a good time in the back, though, with them both seeming to be laughing. Unsure if this is supposed to be 'these two are so detached from the rest of the group/reality that they think it's appropriate behaviour' or 'have to laugh or you'll never stop screaming', but I'm guessing the first given their behaviour so far.
And the Abnormality has me really scratching my head, now. Are they derived from people? Is it just repeating stuff from the Golden Bough's mindfuck of Gregor? Is each maggot one of the dead soldiers from G Corp? The way it uses Yuri's head to give Tomah's lines indicates something alright.
- Location
- madison
man the answer to your question has heavy spoilers to the first game. Lobotomy corp is probably the most infuriating pmoon game to play, so i only recommend you actually play it if your into super hard management games, that are difficulty balanced around having to save scum. There is also a lets play that most people point to when someone wants to know the story without having to suffer for it.
Dybbukpossesed
Falling Somewhere
- Location
- California
Gotta say at launch this entire thing hit like a hammer. I dove into the next Canto out of sheer "No, fuck you, I'm not ending on this" energy and ended up playing through the entire first half of it in one sitting.
- Location
- Ireland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Bigpost for the last two updates together since I forgor to write one for the previous update and Zerban jumpscared me with this this morning.
What a dick move.
The only one from G Corp ever able to have some semblance of a normal life—he can get away with his arm just seeming like some kind of weird bioaugmentation, able to hide it with his clothing or keep himself under control enough to have it tucked away, but the others didn't get that. They're forever tainted with the stigma of the war, their flesh and blood warped into grotesque insectoid parodies of humanity, and Greg is aware of all of it. He might not have escaped it fully, but he got further away than any other soldier. No wonder he's the one telling Yuri that you have to just go on when you commit a sin because guilt will just tear at your heart until it's bloody shreds otherwise.
Absolutely cannot wait to see more of her.
He needs a break.
The real fuckery of it is that Yuri knows everyone but her is immortal. She had no real reason to jump to try and retrieve the Golden Bough—except for the fact that Rodya and some of the others suggested she join Limbus Company, a corporation aiming to retrieve them. She probably would have hung back if not for the fact that she wanted to impress her prospective new employers.
Man, I'm sad now.
I wonder how well he's following his own advice about guilt.
I love all the little hints at how Yi Sang is just a weird little gremlin of a man absent any context from his backstory or whatnot.
I suspect it's because of the Qliphoth Deterrence that gets mentioned later in the update, which has fascinating implications for what Dante's head might be.
I feel for Rodya here, trying to do a bit that you think would be funny to keep morale up only to realise you've actually managed to hit a genuinely distressing point of discomfort in your attempt to poke fun is the sort of experience that makes me want to slingshot myself headfirst into the nearest wall.
oh boy i wonder what that might mean
OMI LOADING BG3 BACK UP TO ROMANCE KARLACH FOR THE EIGHTH TIME CAUGHT IN 4K
Greg's always quick with a joke, huh. I'm sure that's probably not a defense mechanism or anything.
I really do love the little moments where Greg's mask of affability and easy-going nature just slips for an instant or two and you get to see the bitterness and the sorrow beneath it. You don't talk like that if you don't feel strongly about the thing you're talking about, and it's clear that in the decade-plus between the end of Greg's war and his recruitment into Limbus Company that he's experienced an absolute hell of a time.
The fact that it's probably just those three makes it kind of wild that Yuri has the exact same jacket but in red instead of blue. There's no way they got them custom designed for a low-grade Fixer office, so they really must have gone out to a cheap clothing place and intentionally picked out a different color for Yuri so she would never forget she wasn't really one of them.
What a dick move.
You figure it out later on but c'mon if it's weird and ethereal it's absolutely Yi Sang you know this—
Ebony Queen's Apple: "Well, I was going to wait, but with a setup like that how could I hold back?
LCCA bestie
"doctor gregor, i'm CIA"
Narration: His sparkling old badge seemed to signify a high rank once held.
???: "... Manager Gregor?"
One of the things I do genuinely love about this LP is getting to look back at the stuff from the beginning of the game that I haven't really thought about too much since and getting to see how many little hints and moments are tucked away from the start. Ryoshu up to this point has been characterised almost entirely by her murderous impulses and glee at committing violence, so having her react to the ending of some carnage that resulted in the death she appreciates so much by giving up a cigarette solely to help Gregor feel better speaks a lot to a more caring side than you'd think.
Man, Greg, you're going through it, huh?
The only one from G Corp ever able to have some semblance of a normal life—he can get away with his arm just seeming like some kind of weird bioaugmentation, able to hide it with his clothing or keep himself under control enough to have it tucked away, but the others didn't get that. They're forever tainted with the stigma of the war, their flesh and blood warped into grotesque insectoid parodies of humanity, and Greg is aware of all of it. He might not have escaped it fully, but he got further away than any other soldier. No wonder he's the one telling Yuri that you have to just go on when you commit a sin because guilt will just tear at your heart until it's bloody shreds otherwise.
I like that, for all that he's characterized as a bit of a meathead, Heathcliff is genuinely really insightful. He's the one who calls out the initial group of G Corp Veterans for their plan to ambush the crew when they returned, and he's the one here who basically nails the exact process of the old L Corp employees getting involved in the lottery and how that rapidly degenerated into violence when people tried to save themselves.
Very interesting given the timing of everything and Outis's literary allusion that the Smoke War is analogous to the Trojan War when we're talking about the City. Outis is a veteran, sure, but by implication she's presumably also the woman who ended the Smoke War, likely through some clever and horrifying plan that devastated the losing side so badly that it decisively concluded ten full years of battle.
Absolutely cannot wait to see more of her.
I wonder how young Greg was when he was forced to kill for the first time? It's a depressing thought, especially since he only started slicing the apples/hearts when he finally broke down and just wanted the nightmare to end, only to realise he was trapping himself further and further by going along with Hermann's wishes.Narration (Gregor): "At some point, I realised something: I thought I woke up from the dream."
wow this almost looks like a commentary on capitalism fortunately my limbus company has no politics in it so i know not to think about it
She's done it a few times but it remains cute that Rodya calls Gregor "babe" all the time. I choose to ship it for various reasons, including the fact that she's nearly a full 20 cm taller than he is.
Jeez, I don't even know what I can add to this. I remember it being upsetting but looking back on it it really is just viscerally, deeply unpleasant on every level. Gregor has been put through the fucking wringer and he doesn't even get the catharsis of some kind of reckoning with his past. I like that even the others are unsure if doing it was the right thing to do, but for Gregor there was never any doubt that submission and acceptance of the fact that his life isn't his own is the only way to escape his past.
He needs a break.
Deeply, deeply, viscerally upsetting that success or failure on the check is immaterial, and Yuri dies no matter what.
The real fuckery of it is that Yuri knows everyone but her is immortal. She had no real reason to jump to try and retrieve the Golden Bough—except for the fact that Rodya and some of the others suggested she join Limbus Company, a corporation aiming to retrieve them. She probably would have hung back if not for the fact that she wanted to impress her prospective new employers.
Man, I'm sad now.
real fucking ominous thank you hermann
This hurts a lot, particularly after Greg spent the entirety of the early portion of the Canto being the target of hatred and blame from the former G Corp vets. Back then, he'd deflect with a joke or even argue against the idea that he deserved their ire, but now after everything he's the one stepping up to declare that it's all his fault. He'll take all the blame for everything.Gregor: "Enough of that, Manager Bud."
I wonder how well he's following his own advice about guilt.
Fourthmatchflame
Fangirl of Ryoshu and Scorched Girl
- Location
- A certain Pale Librarians Book.
- Pronouns
- She/Fae
Man indeed, i just realized what that knot is recently too.
Worth mentioning that in the original novel, Hermann was Gregor dad. He killed him at the end of the novel with a thrown apple cracking his shell and leaving him to die, slowly and painfuly, having gotten a job after living of Gregors hard work pre-transformation. His sister was the other major character in the novel, beign the only one that had any compassion for roach Gregor.
Gubo is a writer from Yi Sangs little gang but we'll get to his whole deal later so he can wait like the bad boy he is.
Jia Huan is Hong Lu's novel half brother of a concubine. If Outis is a rat (affectionate) then Jia Huan is a rat (derogatory)
Gubo is a writer from Yi Sangs little gang but we'll get to his whole deal later so he can wait like the bad boy he is.
Jia Huan is Hong Lu's novel half brother of a concubine. If Outis is a rat (affectionate) then Jia Huan is a rat (derogatory)
DimensionalGuy
Lazy Bastard
- Location
- Sweden
Almost! Gregor's father remain unnamed in the novel, and instead we get Hermann from Franz Kafka's own father, Hermann Kafka. The two did not have a good relationship, shown in Franz Kafka's 'Letter to His Father".
Got so used to thinking of book dad as Hermann lol. But yeah Kafka had father problems, so it's kinda strange they made Hermann a woman. We will see later how PM handels gender bending characters and this one feels odd for some reason. Fathers and Mother have a diffrent dynamic to it for a lack of a better way of saying it.
Dream Logic
An offseason swallow
- Location
- In transit
Fun fact. Yuri's line about being told to "Facw the fear" is half of Lobotomy Corporation's motto/tagline. The full thing is "Face the fear. Build the Future". Coincidentally Limbus has "Face the Sin, Save the Ego". They also share an L based name. So it seems possible or even likely they're aiming to be the replacement to L Corp in universe as well as out.
Random aside. Ryoshu is the one who writes the log for False Apple and makes a point of testing whether it can feel pain. Which is actually a large deviation from her implied M.O..
Even she seems to have cared about Yuri's death, probably because [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]
Random aside. Ryoshu is the one who writes the log for False Apple and makes a point of testing whether it can feel pain. Which is actually a large deviation from her implied M.O..
Even she seems to have cared about Yuri's death, probably because [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]