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I wish the game would give you some kind of blurb describing what has transpired in the timeline you're jumping into, when you swap around a lot it's easy to forget what happened in which one. Maybe that's the point, but I wish they'd at least tell you who's in your team and what everyone's BP is at the jumping point >_>

The IG Replicator works wonders, and Sigma manages to get out of any troublesome questions about how he knew of its existence. Though I feel like we should have made lots of copies of the cure, or at least leave one spare as backup. Sigma himself gets symptoms in another timeline and it couldn't hurt. Alas. I had another thought too- was Luna the one who mentioned Alexavir in the first place, or did it come from the machine or some textbook? I'll have to go back and check on that. The other bomb is here, and a memory card.

Quark and Alice recover nicely. Too nicely, in fact. Alice hops out of bed just in time to kill Sigma. Now I know I said I learned my lesson when K betrayed us, but I really thought I was safe this time! She was unconscious! I don't feel bad about being tricked here, but this is a reminder that I should always betray when I'm on 1 BP. For her part, Alice doesn't appear to give a single damn (after I reset and betray her too), and I quickly sour on her. Though she brings up a good point- everybody this round picked betray. Dio, K, and Clover are all very fond of picking that option at any time, and Phi won't risk her life if she's at 1. Another note: Clover went into the far right room this time- is the old woman's corpse just not here somehow in this timeline, or was it stashed somewhere else? Or is Clover aware of it, hm.

As mad as I am with Alice in the moment, she completely breaks through my defences with an emotional setpiece in the garden, confessing her fear and selfishness. It's a very human, relatable impulse and a refreshingly honest admission on her part, maybe it's the music but I find this to be a really great scene. Then Alice goes into her backstory- Myrmidon, Left, Free the Soul, Ace, a scientist father whose field is cloning (oh great, as if robots weren't enough to make me jump onto conspiracy theories, now we have clones!), and her relationship with Clover. Lots of new names to remember, and I believe her story. But we're stuck on this route again as we need a string of numbers to unlock the code from the memory card. *shrug* Another day, another lock.

I go to the other lock that I figured the answer to- Alice's suicide due to Rad-6. We convince Clover of the truth and again manage to put off questions of how Sigma knew this very specific knowledge, and eventually enter the Director's Office with Tenmyouji and an uncharacteristically conscious Quark. It is here, in the middle of an escape segment, where we finally get to look at Tenmyouji's picture of the old wo-

...what.

What? AKANE?! What the fuck? He's not Junpei, is he? He insists that it's not about love, so is he Santa? They do have the same hariline. Thinking back, he did chuckle at the idea of getting Clover to trust him... and he was aware of All-Ice... No, I don't want to get ahead of myself, he could be Akane's father or one of the scientists from the original experiment or something like that, but this is a pretty major info drop to leave in an optional part of an escape room! As time goes on this game is revealing itself to be more and more a direct sequel to 999. Which is pretty obvious I guess, given the Nonary Game itself.

Some time after beating the room, Sigma heads back and encounters a hologram purportedly of Zero! He has things to tell us, mainly about termites. Obviously. Zero explains that he thinks humans are constructing something that only others on a higher dimension can appreciate, and mentions that Sigma may have seen glimpses of said dimension. Are we, the player, these higher beings made to understand the tapestry being weaved? He also mentions saving billions of lives, so we may well end up going back in time and undoing the pandemic somehow. Or not! Then he gives us a very specific code that will probably help me break through a lock later on.

Now this time at the AB room I pick betray without hesitating. I don't trust Tenmyouji not to run out with Quark at the first opportunity, and sure enough he betrays us right back. But it's all for nought, as Clover reaches 11 points and ditches us as K did before. Game over. Why did K not betray Clover right back?? He must really not want to risk killing Luna, but he's usually so keen to betray. Ah well, I don't go back and pick ally as I figure there's no point.

More questions, more conspiracies, more death, more game overs. Another successful day in Sigma's shoes!