LogFAQs > #969744207

Security is an interesting room, though I don't manage to get the extra files. The word mixing results in "I was you will be me." (with the removed words forming 'She knows everything'), an ominous sentence indeed. A connection between Zero and Sigma? More on that later. Sigma's mind pretty much breaks down for a few minutes after this, then we piece together more info on Luna's death. I name Clover as the killer, and Phi agrees. Dio is ridiculously shady but she has the motive and opportunity.

Unfortunately when we head up a floor we find Clover and Tenmyouji's corpses handcuffed to a pipe. Clover seems to have written '016' in blood (or 910 I suppose) on her leg. Quark's bracelet is here, and a flashback to Zero's earlier explanation makes me sure Quark is alive- the rabbit notably specifies that the bracelet comes off when the heart stops, not when the subject dies. Dio and K are also killed, leaving Quark as the prime suspect. Phi had the chance but I don't buy it. I made a note that Sigma mentions Radical-6 at some point, and I don't recall if that conversation came up in this timeline or if his memories are bleeding through.

We wind up in the Director's Office and I am unable to answer the password, putting a pause on this timeline for now. This isn't actually locked off so I may well have the info I need for this, but clearly my brain isn't there yet. There are lions and suns all over this facility, and I don't feel like getting a pen and paper out and wading through every possible anagram of that misspelled graffiti. Instead, I'm about to dive off a conspiracy cliff.

Sigma reflects on his earlier breakdown by referring to his 'mental processing speed' slowing down, before catching himself. I take this as a pretty giant indicator that he is a gaulem (or some kind of robot), and I think it's time to go down this hole. The earlier references to him having a great memory add to this, the little animation that closes out a scene could be more than window dressing, and his game over scenes ending in him waking up in nothingness are more supporting evidence. Honestly I should have nailed this sooner. But there's a lot that of questions that this opens up.

I have suspected Quark and/or K of being robots since the term was first mentioned, and I now believe both are. There's also Phi, who has lasting memories, more knowledge than she lets on, and maybe those super anime jumps are really due to robot legs. If half the cast is a robot, we may well wind up with everyone being one, as weird as that may seem. And if that's the case, we might not be dealing with timelines or dimensions at all. Maybe at the end of a 'game' everyone's consciousness get transferred to another body in another building, or put in rest mode until the bodies are fixed up and the game begins again. Maybe this has been going on for years.

But I don't know, that seems pretty outlandish. None of the others have shown signs of being automatons- we know Clover is human, and there's not yet a hint of human consciousnesses being transferred into robots. But then the three most likely robot candidates all have different experiences: K claims he has no memories, which I now believe is not down to amnesia but rather due to him being a newborn robot, possibly without skin tissue which is why he's in the suit. Sigma on the other hand has lots of memories, and him and K seem to believe they are human. Quark, if he is a gaulem, is probably aware of it, given the things he says when he's diagnosed with Rad-6. Tenmyouji is almost definitely aware of this too, and is quite possibly Quark's creator or something like that.

Then there's the matter of Zero, and going by G-OLM's earlier explanations Zero could be taking many forms. At any point Zero could decide to take control of one of its 'limbs' and carry out a murder or something like that without the host being aware. I'm thinking particularly of Sigma having a flashback alone in the warehouse, and what his body could be doing during that time. Maybe this is simply an AI gone rogue, using robots (Sigma, K etc) to get revenge on those it deems responsible for... something (Tenmyouji seems the most obvious target here given Quark and his likely wife). My mind goes back to ADAM, the machine that got its own little closeup and explanation from Luna which triggered alarm bells in my head at the time.

But enough empty conjecture. I think the game is definitely pointing me towards Sigma being a gaulem, and I'm pretty sure about Quark, but beyond that I have little basis for anything. As much as I'd like to brute force this lion password, I don't have it in me and it's time to head down another timeline. I'm avoiding all betrays for as long as I can, so we're back up to the first choice and taking the only remaining route.

Phi and Sig go into the infirmary with Tenmyouji, and one of the first things I notice is the defibrilator which kickstarts a heart again after it's stopped. Oh yeah, Quark 100% got resuscitated with this in that other timeline. Later on Quark goes slow like Sigma did earlier, furthering my theory here. We find the dead woman again, so it seems something happens in the rightmost path that stops the culprit from moving the container. But IIRC Alice was the other person with us at that point, and it really seems unlikely to be her seeing as she gets killed for figuring it out >_> Again I'm thinking as if these are discrete timelines, and we know they're not, so it might not mean anything.

Any more ramblings and hungry lions will have to wait another day.