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Subject:On "Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward"
Time:01:02 am
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I'm going to try to post what I learn in each room/route. I want to do it as I do each playthough so my experience of it won't be tainted by memory of other rooms. I'll probably do this in point form, and continue it in the Comments. One person on Twitter mentioned keeping track of everything in Excel XD My memory may be incorrect in some places--I've not been writing things down.

☆★☆★This will be full of spoilers★☆★☆


I've only 'finished' one playthrough, and I didn't even get to finish it because the last bit requires something from another route.

Jumpstart ⇒ Elevator ⇒ Elevator After Escape ⇒ Into the CDs ⇒ Yellow Door ⇒ Infirmary ⇒ Infirmary After Escape ⇒ AB Game Round 1 ⇒ AB Game Round 1 Ally ⇒ Into the CDs ⇒ Blue Door ⇒ Pressure Exchange Chamber ⇒ Pressure Exchange Chamber After Escape ⇒ AB Game Round 2 ⇒ AB Game Round 2 Ally ⇒ Crew Quarters ■LOCK No. 02■ Is there proof it wasn't murder?

→Sigma was kidnapped on December 25TH, 2028.
→He saw Zero in their gasmask before getting knocked-out.
→Meet Phi.
→Phi somehow had Sigma's name come to mind.

→Meet Zero III.
→Learn that each room Safe has a false back & can accept 2 passwords.
→The Ambidex Machine can accept memory cards & do more than voting.
→Phi can jump really high, with acrobatic reflexes.
→"I am no man."

Elevator After Escape:
→Meet Tenmyouji, Dio, Quark, Luna, Alice, K, & Clover.
→Clover is still unconscious even after escaping the elevator.
→K has amnesia, and seems to be welded into a suit of armour. Sounds like a robot. His bracelet is hooked through the suit though, to attach unseen skin/wrist.
→Zero III gives them nicknames [Siggy, Phido, Alas, Cleaver (as if
referring to the 999 Axe Ending), B.O., Quirk, Tenmyoldie, Moony, and Potassium).
→'K' comes to his mind though he doesn't know his name. Zero III asks his name too.
→Clover is freaked-out over 'Zero' & 'Nonary Game'--Seems to know something about it. "It should be over".
→Alice met Clover a year ago.
→Phi works-out the anagram "WELCOME TO MY KINGDOM!" silly fast.
→Learn that Zero is one of the 9, and Zero III is merely an Artificial
Intelligence created to "facilitate the facility".
→Learn most of the rules, but not what 'penalties' are.
→Learn about Chromatic Doors.
→Learn about the Number 9 Door.
→Learn about key cards.
→Learn about pressing both buttons on the bracelet.
→"You can take your Lame-ary Game and shove it up your ass!" leads to learning not playing means death.
→Learn what is inside the bracelet. Needles that can inject Soporil β (an anesthetic from 999) & turbocurarine (a poison that shuts-down the respiratory system). ...Means of a painless death...
→Bracelet Colours:
Sigma & Phi = Red Pair
Clover & K = Green Pair
Dio & Quark = Blue Pair
Alice = Red Solo
Tenmyouji = Green Solo
Luna = Blue Solo
→Everyone had 3 Bracelet Points.

Into The CDs:
→Phi again shows how fast she can work-out things by explaining what path options there are.

Yellow Door:
→Sigma & Phi partner with Tenmyouji.
→Clover & K partner with Luna.
→Dio & Quark partner with Alice

→Deduce there must have been people working here (the facility) until recently going by its size & how clean it is.
→Learn the ADAM is a scanner.
→The screen can accept/play memory cards.
→Find a scalpel.
→Find, but leave the injection gun. It contains saline solution.
→Find Soporil β & turbocurarine just sitting on a cabinet, for anyone to pocket, and/or use with the injection gun.
→Find newspaper article on Radical-6 (a virus that according to the article has reached a pandemic level).

Infirmary After Escape:
→Sigma is a college student who recently had his girlfriend dump him. His computer crapped-out while writing a paper due for a teacher that does not observe Christmas. He went to the school to type it there & drank 5 energy drinks. He got in his car and it wouldn't start, then a strange sound & his car flooded with knock-out gas. He saw Zero behind the car gawking at him through his rear view mirror.
→Learn the Secondary Rules.
→Quark calls Tenmyouji "Grandpa", and tells him the Lounge has his favourite drink.
→Overhear Alice & Clover mentioning needing to get help from "Headquarters", and Clover mentions Zero again.
→Zero III has control over all electronic locks in the facility.
→Learn how to gain or lose Bracelet Points.
→Learn mostly about how voting works.
→Learn about Ambidex Rooms.
→Phi & Sigma find the corpse of an old woman in the 'elevator' K & Clover were in.
→Tenmyouji acts very weird and acts distrustful & quietly angry.
→Phi suggests taking the corpse to the Infirmary to inspect the wound.
→Learn Luna has a medical license (but is neither a nurse or doctor, and not quite a coroner).
→Learn the ADAM can do diagnosis & autopsys.
→The woman was killed by exsanguination from a stab wound to the heart. Probably from a thin (3mm) knife.
→K is suspected as Clover was still unconscious, and they were the only previous ones in that room.
→K makes a point that since Zero III never reacted to the body, that it must be something planned by Zero (Zero Sr. as they say).

AB Game Round 1:
→Phi 'suggests' choosing Betray.
→Does Rock, Paper, Scissors to pick who chooses (I think you might automatically-win).

AB Game Round 1 Ally:
→Phi is annoyed that Ally was picked.
→Tenmyouji picks Betray.
→Dio (& Quark) pick Betray to Alice's Ally.
→Clover & K pick Betray to Luna's Ally.
→Zero III then finally explains that getting 0 Bracelet Points also
means the death penalty.
→Zero III suggests that Phi, Sigma, Alice, or...even Luna may die next Round. Maybe everyone actually.
→Clover & K act like Luna was stupid for choosing Ally.
→Alice is pissed at Dio.
→Bracelet Colours:
Sigma & Clover = Magenta Pair
Alice & Quark = Yellow Pair
Phi & Luna = Cyan Pair
→Bracelet Points:
Sigma, Phi, Luna, & Alice = 1BP
Dio, Quark, Tenmyouji, Clover, & K = 6BP
→Zero III says that this will probably be the last the group sees of him.
(Infirmary ⇒ Lounge ⇒ Crew Quarters)
→Quark is Tenmyouji's grandson, and they were kidnapped together.
→Tenmyouji won't say where or when they were taken.
→Quark acts confused & stares blankly.
→Tenmyouji is scared and suggests seeing Luna, but Quark seems to perk-up so Sigma & Grandpa try to believe him.
→A lunar eclipse is supposed to happen on December 31ST, 2028 by K showing an Astronomy magazine they found in the Lounge.
→...Dio is perhaps jokingly aroused by Saturn's rings...
→Dio won't say when he was taken.
→The date is guessed to still be Christmas Day.
→K mentions finding a book on Schrodinger's Cat.
→The Radical-6 newspaper article is shown around.
→Everyone seems to not know anything about it (and if it was a real pandemic, wouldn't they know?).
→There is a guess that everyone there is quarantined/infected.
→Dio suggests it's fake, and Phi, Sigma, K, & Luna agree. [The article should be front page news, but the back is plain black (Sigma says that full page advertisements aren't printed on the back of the front page)]
→Sigma confronts Clover & Alice about their conversation he overhead earlier.
→Clover & Alice are 'co-workers'.
→Clover decides she can trust Sigma.
→She admits she was in the last Nonary Game.
→And the first Nonary Game.
→She gives a vague description of what happened in the one from 999 [9 people kidnapped--well 7 since 2 were in on it...make that 9 if you count the other 2 that were kidnapped too (thus clearing the idea that Snake was 'in on' the plot. Of course the writer even said he wasn't, but if it makes things more believable then he guessed you could say he was. I PERSONALLY think he wasn't as why the Hell would he need to be drugged when put in the coffin? Spare clothes could be brought too, and just claim Zero had them made. I think he remembered Kanny!Akane dying because up until solving the sudoku that's what happened. Also just like he didn't recognise Santa's voice due to age, he didn't recognise Akane's--and why would he guess she wasn't really dead? He kept quiet on the past Nonary Game because he really did believe the threats to Clover. Also why would he make a guess at who Zero was, when he could just keep quiet & let the others do so?--He wrongly guessed Santa.).]
→BUT the last Nonary Game did what then Zero meant to, so why play another one?
→But the gasmask & cloak/coat worn was the same...
→Alice & Clover were kidnapped on December 22ND (were they asleep that long?!).
→Tenmyouji rushes in looking for Luna.
→Quark has collapsed.
→Luna scans him, and it's Radical-6.
→Tenmyouji is more sure it can't be than denial would explain.
→Alice mentions hearing about a 'bio-weapon'.
→Axelavir is the anti-viral serum for Radical-6.
→Quark wakes-up, grabs a scalpel, and tries to stab himself in the heart (SO DISTURBING. He yells about needing to escape. His soul needing to escape his body; that he needs to die. Quark is about 9 years-old D:).
→Sigma manages to grab him, and hold him down. Together the group gets the scalpel from him.
→The Soporil β is used to knock Quark out.
→Luna seems to know something about how Radical-6 operates.
→Phi was kidnapped on December 25TH, 2028.
→Luna was also kidnapped on December 25TH, 2028.

Into The CDs:
→They carry Quark to the Blue, Red, & Green Chromatic Doors.
→Alice won't go with Dio, so that leaves 2 Chromatic Door options (I can't remember if you have a jerk choice like with 999's Door 3).

Blue Door:
→Sigma & Clover partner with Tenmyouji.
→Alice & K partner with Quark.
→Phi & Luna partner with Dio.

Pressure Exchange Chamber:
Figures I'd find the save file corrupting PEC room on my first playthough D:
→Learn that the facility required all that entered to wear protective
suits & undergo decompression decontamination first. Due to viral spread concerns.
→The door to the outside is welded shut (and again Clover gets locked on the other side of glass).
→Learn that Tenmyouji knows quite a bit about LASERS.
→Find a memory card.

Pressure Exchange Chamber After Escape:
→More graffiti (I couldn't read it fast enough!)
→Find the White Chromatic Doors.
→Dio activates the Ambidex Doors as soon as he gets to the Warehouse A.
→Phi, Luna, & Dio found a vial of Axelavir in the Laboratory.
→Quark is injected, and his vitals go to seemingly normal--he is still asleep.
→Phi was kidnapped on December 25TH.
→The PEC memory card is played.
→The memory card contains an audio file of a man calling a group stationed on Mars.
→He mentions the (future) December 31ST lunar eclipse. And it being red. Asks how Mar's moons Deimos & Phobos are.
→After no response back for an uncomfortable time, it's learnt that the video feed he is seeing of the Mars group is a hacked loop.
→A woman finally replies saying that 6 of the group are dead.
→That she killed them, and is about to kill 6 billion more.
→There was a mock mission to Mars set-up (9 people in a facility set-up just as it would be if they were in space. Including radio silence.).
→Tenmyouji admits he was somewhat involved in the project.
→The mission had an infection of Radical-6, and it escaped.

AB Game Round 2:
→Sigma gets Tenmyouji to promise to choose Ally.
→Quark being asleep will automatically choose Ally.
→Once inside Clover acts really skankily OOC and tries to seduce Sigma (what would Snake say?!) into choosing Betray (she'd get 9BP).
→Luna trusts Phi to vote for her while she stays in the Infirmary with Quark.

AB Game Round 2 Ally:
→Clover is annoyed Sigma chose Ally.
→Tenmyouji kept his Ally promise.
→Sigma doesn't tell Tenmyouji that he was right with his suggestion that Clover might try to seduce him.
→Alice & K kept their promise to pick Ally to Quark's Ally.
→Phi (voting for Luna too) picked Betray to Dio's Betray.
→Bracelet Colours:
Sigma = Blue Solo
K = Red Solo
Dio = Green Solo
Phi = Magenta Pair
Clover = Cyan Pair
Tenmyouji = Yellow Pair
Alice's, Luna's, & Quark's are unknown.
→Bracelet Points:
Sigma, Luna, & Alice = 3BP
Clover, K, & Quark = 8BP
Phi = 1BP
Dio = 6BP
→Alice apparently takes off after voting--K says she said she felt tired, so probably went to go lay down.
→Tenmyouji has asked Luna to leave the Infirmary.
→Quark is still asleep.
→Tenmyouji keeps a photograh in his pocket.
→Zero did not take the photograph when they took everyone else's possessions.
→Tenmyouji won't tell Sigma anything on said photograph.
→Sigma tries to press Tenmyouji for more details on the Mars mission.
→Tenmyouji makes a statement asking if Sigma really wants to know? Or would he rather not taint his life memories, and view of the world.
→Phi then comes rushing in, looking upset, and tells them they need to come right away to the Crew Quarters & see Alice.

Crew Quarters ■Lock No. 02■ Is there proof it wasn't murder?:
→Alice has been stabbed in the chest with a scalpel.
→She's dead, and her Bracelet lays open beside her [I can't remember what it the display is, or if it is even shown up-close (999's 'bad shit is going down' ominous music plays)].
→Clover freaks-out and accuses everyone of murder.
→The group tries to work-out if it is (no-one suggests what happened to Quark).
→Clover threatens to kill everyone in 10 seconds unless they can prove that it isn't.
→Everyone sputters & tries to calm her down, but her countdown ends.
→Fade to "To Be Continued..."
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AB Game Round 3 Ally:
→Sigma picks Ally and Tenmyouji (& Quark) pick Betray (which really
pissed my off, they still would have had the BP needed if they choose
Ally. Maybe Tenmyouji didn't trust Sigma even though Sigma has done
nothing but keep his promises on that route. He even forgave Tenmyouji
and wanted to partner with him on the 2ND Round).
→Phi picks Betray and Dio picks Betray (Alice was partnered with Phi,
but she is dead & Dio has her Bracelet).
→Clover & Luna pick Betray and K picks Ally.
→Bracelet Colours:
Not really shown.
→Bracelet Points:
Sigma & Phi = 1BP
Clover, Tenmyouji, & Quark = 11BP
Dio & K = 6BP
Luna = 4BP
Alice (who is dead) = 3BP
→Sigma confronts Tenmyouji & Quark.
→Tenmyouji defends Quark.
→He says he only "promised" to not open the 9 Door once they got at least 9BP.
→Clover opens the 9 Door.
→Tenmyouji says he & Quark don't have to open the 9 Door because
Clover will for them.
→Sigma is so upset.
→Clover says she is going to go call the "others".
→That they need to capture Zero Sr.
→Tenmyouji admits he knows exactly who Zero Sr. is.
→Quark hands Sigma a 2 page letter he wrote for him before the AB Game Round 3.
→It is supposed to tell Sigma what kind of person Quark's grandfather is.
→Tenmyouji found Quark abandoned as a baby in the middle of a rain storm. Tenmyouji was never married or had any children so looking after Quark was hard. Quark was a very tiny child that's why Tenmyouji named him 'Quark'. Quark had 3 accidents/sicknesses that he survived when he was little, and Tenmyouji was scared he would die. Tenmyouji couldn't remember the baby formula recipe, so would always carry the instructions around with him as Quark was a fussy eater & wouldn't drink it if it wasn't exact. Quark grew into a very healthy & clever child. At 6 years-old he started helping Tenmyouji with his work. Tenmyouji's job was to go into abandoned buildings (there were lots of them) & take things to either fix or sell. He didn't even know he was adopted until another boy told him and implanted a fear that Tenmyouji only wanted him for someone to work (that boy had a mom that was his actual biological mother, which was also rare). Quark had that fear until he turned 7 years-old and Tenmyouji took him to the local bar and bought him a root beer float. Root beer was very expensive (more so than alcohol) and for Tenmyouji to buy him something so expensive/frivolous for a kid not even his own dispelled the fear. Once a week a mobile theatre would visit their town to show movies & old news clips. Quark would hurry to go every week, but Tenmyouji would only go occasionally & only to watch movies. Then one day Quark was working alone & had a horrible day, he gave-up & brought his grandfather just junk. They got into a fight and Quark ran-off (feeling like Tenmyouji considered the work more important than him/his bad day). Quark hid in an abandoned building. It started to rain so he stayed where he was (but also out of fear for feeling awful). Tenmyouji never found him all through the night, so Quark headed home to apologise. But he heard a groan and found a collapsed Tenmyouji who had been searching in the rain all night. Quark took him to the doctor and felt so, so guilty (his grandfather had heard him as a baby in the r in, but Quark had heard nothing). He promised to never ask for another root beer float or anything again if Tenmyouji would just be alright. Tenmyouji was very sick & had a very high fever.--But he did pull-through. Quark went to apologise but started crying instead and his grandfather apologised instead. He said that he was so old and was too strict because he wanted Quark to be able to do a good job & look after himself incase something happened. Quark finally admitted his fear of being unwanted. Tenmyouji told him that he had given-up a lot of things, his life, & himself searching for "a really important lady" and that since finding & raising Quark he felt like he had gotten some of that back. Quark vows to stay with him even if Tenmyouji says he can't.
→Fade to credits & "Tenmyouji - END".
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Fuck, that made me bawl. Especially the part about the root beer float. [November 6TH has been a very hard day for me anyway (the anniversary of killing my Lorel off), and I've felt utterly alone & unwanted. So to read the Tenmyouji & Quark story today after the plot before just really set me off.] I'm also jealous a bit of Quark since I am 24 years-old and still don't feel wanted completely like that by my adoptive family. I don't care if Tenmyouji is old Junpei, it still made me cry. But it really buggers my shipping of Clover/Junpei if finding Quark as an old man is all the happiness he finds with searching for Akane. Junpei is my 3RD favourite 999 character (Snake, and detective Seven). He is such a wonderful dork, and I think because of Junpei's silliness I like him better than Sigma. Though I kept typing 'Sigma' as 'Junpei' last night XD


AB Game Round 3 Betray:
→Sigma picks Betray and Tenmyouji (& Quark) pick Betray (good, they didn't pull the reverse vote thing from the Green route and make me feel more awful).
→Phi picks Betray and Dio picks Betray (again; Alice was partnered with Phi but is dead and Dio has her Bracelet).
→Clover & Luna pick Betray and K picks Ally.
→Bracelet Colours: Just shown as flashes and have not changed colour.
→Bracelet Points:
Sigma, K, & Dio = 6BP
Clover = 11BP
Tenmyouji & Quark = 8BP
Luna = 4BP
Phi = 1BP
Alice (who is dead) = 3BP

Tenmyouji Game Over 2:
→Sigma confronts Tenmyouji & Quark.
→Tenmyouji says it was him and not Quark.
→Sigma asks why he lied.
→Tenmyouji says he could ask the same thing.
→Sigma says he did it to keep both of them from opening the 9 Door.
→Tenmyouji points-out that Clover is opening the Door right now anyway.
→Clover opens the door.
→She says she needs to call the "others".
→That Alice will have justice.
→Sigma comments that her face looks like "a mask of ice" as the Door closes.
→There is an announcement that the Nonary Game is now over.
→Everyone but Clover (& dead!Alice) are trapped in the facility indefinitely.
→Fade to "Tenmyouji Game Over 2".


I'll do the AB Game Round 2 Betray for the Green route later today probably. Then I'll start the Magenta Door route. I probably won't be around after November the 13TH though.

I started this Lock thinking it'd be short and lead to an Ending. But after the Lock played a whole long route expanded from it and I was like "fuck o_o".
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Time:2013-01-24 12:50 am (UTC)
CORRECTION! The part from the where Sigma goes back into the
Director's Office is called Director's office Bomb
number 1 deactivation code
. This continues until
Tenmyouji End.
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