Pls, can someone give Marruk a big warm hug? He hurts so much, I don't care about Tucker, he acts like a baby (I ain't starting a war here, just stating an observation and I know that he is partially justified), but poor poor Marruk must be hurting so so much worse ;-;
Well, electric stovetops still need time to heat up too, don't they? Electric showers doesn't mean immediate heat dissipation because the heat still has to travel through the water, which takes time. Water is a poor thermal conductor, after all.
Well, it does have the romance tag, so I'd assume they'll have it eventually. I think the creator just wants to take things slow to really develop the characters and story before you get the option to romance them. Anyway, I'm 100% going for Marruk when the first romance type update comes out lmao
I've been thinking about this for a while now, what would Rhoun, Marrowyn, and Marruck look like as humans? I'm not the only one thinking this, right..?
oh, I don't really post much and neither am consistent, I just draw whatever I'm currently obsessing with so I don't think you'll like it, but if you're still interested it's mck160604 on insta ^^'
I wish al least some of the overpopulated furry games could have the option to switch between furry and non-furry. And, damn, your art looks pretty good! Maybe you can propose a collaboration to the dev.
Maybe they read furry vns because they can't find other possibilities.
I read furry vns because I'm forced because I can't find other vns, and I think I'm not the only one. Actually I start to feel tired of furry content that I previously managed to enjoy.
Finally got around to reading and catching up on this and loved it. The three dogs are amazing and varied enough to be unique and their own character. I can't stand the MC but the side good boys make up for it and can't wait for more!
I really like this so far! Excited for more and to see how the characters develop further... Especially Marruk. You already know I picked his path, haha. Hope you have a nice day if you're reading this!
if you're talking about the latest update then I don't think so since he states no new content only Rhoun sprite update. 2.2 has been out for a while now almost 2 months, 2.2 Rhoun update isn't a content update.
I really love the story and how it's unfolding. The writing is great. It's surprisingly interesting to follow their interactions. I love the 3 dogs personalities(2 of them more...). Though I cringe sometimes at how dumb the mc is... not the best representative of a new sentient alien species...
The story is amazing and really different from what you normally expect, the art is good and to a great standard. I may sound a little strange but how are the numbers and letters different but the periodic table aren't different?
The periodic table is ordered by atomic number, meaning it's ordered by the amount of protons in the nucleus of the atom. I'd imagine every element no matter where it is in the universe will follow this same or a similar kind of order for elements.
Love everything about the VN so far but had one minor pet peeve in my opinion, When Marruk calls the main character (who I've named Isaac) the doctor's new 'toy', that seemed particularly mean spirited and cruel. I get that he's supposed to be suspicious and untrusting of Isaac at first, the VN does a great job at explaining and justifying why he needs to put the safety of the station and his own species before anything else. I also get that he's being portrayed, in very effective and well-written manner, to be under an immense amount of stress and frustration, especially with him feeling like no one is taking his professional opinion into account. Yet, him referring to Isaac as a 'toy' just seems uncharacteristically cruel and spiteful, and (please correct me if I'm wrong) he never really apologizes or even acknowledges it in the VN so far. To be clear, I am not trying to nitpick or crap on this VN in any regard, I love it so far and have found everything from its art style to its setting, to its character development completely capturing and enjoyable. I also don't want to dissuade any potential new readers from trying this VN, I would in fact encourage them experience what this VN has, as of now, to offer and to come to their own conclusion regarding what I previously mentioned. Anyway, sorry for the wall of text, just wanted to voice a minor irk, one that is in no way going to keep me from supporting this project wholeheartedly and see how everyone else in this community felt.
Compared what other abusive monsters like Cooper, Vulgor and many other did for repective protagonists (and people still simp for them by the way) Marruk calling MC a toy couple of times was such a non-issue to me I forgot it was even a thing by now.
Fair enough, but I just felt that it was a bit out of character of Marruk, and I hope there is at least some dialogue in the future VN acknowledging and even apologizing for it. But again, love the VN and won't stop supporting it regardless of whether or not this is included.
I do believe that Marruk is meant to be kind of the mean/bullyish character in the game. The way he treats the main character as well as Rhoun kinda shows it a bit. Its like anyone that isn't higher ranking than him is seen as trash.
I just re-read everything up to the room-mate choice. The writing does seem more concise, it was, previously a bit overly wordy, so well done. This is still my favourite new VN. Nice work.
Tucker is Roughly 5'9 and there is an unfinished height chart floating around. I need to finalize it but Rhoun is about 6'7 Marruk is about 6'11-7 and Marrowyn is about 8 foot. Hope that helps!
I actually have 2 theories about this VN reguarding the MC and how they got there, the first one is obviously time travel of some kind since it may still be the same galaxy but in a distant future where humanity no longer exists or has advanced far enough to leave the system (but can't confirm without more information or signs of previous civilivation). The second theory is the possiblilty of wormholes/parallel dimensions since wormholes have been theorised to be natural space-time warping phenomenon possible of sending an object/"person" to another universe, and with parallel dimensions there is a theory that if they do exist it would be extremley similar to our own in terms life, so maybe the MC was brought here by mistake of an experiement reguarding that.
My strongest theory on this topic is that Tyr, seemingly the head research physicist or something, accidently created a wormhole while testing a new gravity generator, which the protagonist got pulled into.
It's mentioned that a bunch of high priority maintenance orders went out to prepare the power system for a big surge which would be indicative of the huge amount of energy needed to kick start that kind of gravity generator.
Additionally, some descriptions of the events following that test include:
erratic pulses of gravity which threw people and objects around, due to a malfunction in the gravity generator;
widespread power failures, probably due to the massive power drawn by the experimental gravity generator or the chaos caused by the gravity changes;
and even large hull breaches, likely caused by those erratic gravity pulses putting undue stress on it.
All of these would line up with a gravity generator experiment gone wrong.
As for the motivation as to why Tyr would conduct such an experiment, I guess it would be to try and replicate or improve the one-of-a-kind gravity generator that powers most of the station.
In terms of the timeline and how it matches up with the events in the story, I would guess the emergency lights came on when the hull ruptured.
However, considering the creative liberties that can be taken with wormholes as holes in spacetime and their theorised implications with mirror universes, confirming the use of wormholes doesn't rule out any time travel or universe hopping.
I have a theory for this story. They said they are in a different solar system but they didn't say anything about the galaxy. Maybe they are not in the Milky way galaxy anything more
Not much of a theory. You could even argue theyre not of our universe or timeline.
I reckon for better or worse the MC is stuck/chooses to stay there and never going back.
Going by the pacing we should meet the captain. We will then meet even more important people. Drama usually kicks off around that time. I can only guess what will happen.
Apparently I cannot host a fan game on Itch due to its rules. Plus I just realized (at that time) that Kael does not want fan games. Especially ones that use his art, credit or no. (I've heard that from another fan game developer). I kind of respect that, so I've decided to put my project on haiatus. Maybe do it in a slideshow. Maybe be cheeky and release it all in 1 update and then close it down since I've gotten so far. Or just host the file on a sharable google drive link. Either way, project has been paused. About 3 weeks ago RL got busy. I'm taking on more and more responsibilities with the family run business (it's not my idea. But I had my chance to earn money by myself and that didnt go too well). The good news is that the late months and early year is our peak season. I'll have breathing room then. Otherwise I just want to spend the 3-4 hours I have every day relaxing. Sometimes I do unwind by writing, but it won't be for the fan game. It'll be what interests me. Here's my furaffinity just in case you dont want to miss anything: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/teachmehowtodebkeh
Hi, i was wondering if it's normal that on day 8 of Marrowyn, after the play has left for the day with Doc and Marruk, for an error to occur? When I do ignore it brings me to day 9 after you've gotten to the lab with doc.
That looks like a save compatibility issue as your file doesn't have route information in it? Ignoring it isn't a fix as you'll spill through the script and continue to miss route content.
I would make a fresh save file from Day 8 with the Day Select option. That should set the route correctly and then you can skip back to where the error happened.
So far really enjoying the story and characters. I do have some questions? Or perhaps not questions but theories? I haven't played Day 10 yet so perhaps these get answered a bit? who knows. but they are spoilers so!
Spoiler warning!
They made a learning AI for the guardians to translate English into Coraynn in their heads, the AI is collecting the words and linking them through context WITH the addition of having the dictionary from MC's phone. SO surely they can use the same AI and its database and put it on a monitor to translate coraynn's written language into english for the MC to use. Right? So either they haven't thought of that or they really don't want MC to have access to anything even though i imagine they could restrict it heavily anyway.
Also the thing about the days being named the same, Marrow's theory would make sense however why would "marks" be used in place of hours if the MC's translating power was changing the day names to make the most sense, since "marks" didn't make sense at all to MC.
I did a scan and found what its reading to be a virus on my windows computer, their is a file called Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml and this is what is making that warning, I do not know how to get around this sorry.
It was nice seeing more Rhoun content in this update, and getting new side characters added to that. Also, the soundtrack for this game fits very well with the Sci-fi aspect and space themes! I'm loving the new Music Hall feature so far.
You’ve got something really nice going on here! This VN has lots of great aspects – the art, the setting, the music, the characters – and they combine to produce something that’s really quite interesting. I look forward to seeing where you go with this!
I’ve already had a bit of fun thinking about what might have happened to the protagonist to shift him from A to B. I have a couple of different theories about that already, but of course it’s still early days. As things progress, I’ll be interested to see if I’m thinking along the right lines at all, or if I’m wildly off-base!
Anyway, while I could praise a bunch of specific aspects of this VN so far, I hope you don’t mind if I geek out on something really niche ...
I really like the carain written language! It looks really well-crafted. Maybe I’m overthinking this, but I get the impression some work’s gone into its construction.
You see, not only do the individual glyphs look convincing, but so do complete portions of text. I got to thinking about this during Marrowyn’s talks. To my eyes, it really does feel like there’s some sort of meaningful information in those slides of his, but that I just don’t know how to interpret it. In other words, exactly what would happen if it was an Earthly language I didn’t know! I don’t *think* you’re using a simple cypher from English, or from other obvious languages, although it’s possible I’ve missed something obvious. After all, there’s not massive amounts of text to look at so far! And separating out letter and number glyphs could be tricky (e.g. are the glyphs on doors numbers, or letters, or both?). Still, if these pieces of text have been crafted from scratch, then they’re super convincing. Good work! I hope we’ll get to see some more!
I do like the glyphs themselves, too. What I particularly appreciate is that there’s a set of ‘base’ glyphs, and then a few variations on some of these glyphs. The variations seem to be systematic, too. In other words, getting technical for a moment, the carain language appears to have diacritics! For example, some glyphs have modified versions with a little circle on them – I really want to call that a ‘blob’ for some reason. And, not only that, but the position of the blob is important. A couple of glyphs have a variant with a blob near the top of the glyph, and one with a blob near the bottom. I’d be tempted to interpret that as some sort of accent, say the difference between é and è. Or maybe it’s something completely different, like a Japanese handakuten. But it’s systematic, and it looks convincing. That’s some nice construction!
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Anyway, since I’m writing, and as the other characters seem to have gotten some love in the comments recently, I just wanted to give a shout-out to Marrowyn. He’s such a nice guy! And yes, my opinion of him remains unchanged after what’s happened in chapter 2 so far! :)
Of course! This might take a few words, but I’ll try to keep things as brief as I can. Beware of spoilers below!
Even though it’s early days, I think we can make a good guess what caused the player’s appearance on the station: Professor Senno’s experiment! We know very little about it, but a few small details have popped up in conversation so far. One really useful one comes from a small slip made by Marrowyn: we know the experiment has something to do with quantum physics!
I think this is important. Quantum physics is an area where all sorts of strange, magical-sounding things can happen. I’ve worked in the area, so you have it from the horse’s mouth! In quantum physics, it’s possible to do amazing things like teleportation, manipulating objects at a distance, and messing around with time (to some degree). Depending on your interpretation – we still don’t really understand the mechanics behind the quantum world – we may also be able to shunt objects around between different dimensions. Quantum effects may also be intricately linked to consciousness, and thought. Again, that depends on your interpretation. If all this sounds complicated, bear with me!
We know that Senno’s experiment didn’t work as planned. His data doesn’t make sense to him, and it sounds like his team is unsure what, if anything, happened while the experiment took place.
Here’s my thinking. Senno’s experiment either did something completely unexpected, or else worked far, *far* better than he had hoped. The quantum-mechanical forces unleashed reached out and grabbed hold of the player, dragging them back to the carain station. Remember how the first place we see in the station is a lab full of scientists? I’m guessing that lab is pretty close to the room housing the experiment! (Why wouldn’t the player materialise right inside the experiment? Well, with quantum mechanics, there tends to be a bit of fuzziness with things like position. You can never be completely sure where objects will end up, only roughly where they’ll be. Thanks, Dr. Heisenberg!)
So why was it the player that got transported, rather than anyone or anything else? It could be an accident, but the game’s already hinted at something more. Remember, at the beginning of the game, that the player was clutching the campus map, trying to find out where to go? That map features the college mascot, a humanoid bulldog. The mascot features again, in the little alcove the player was hiding in when the transportation happened. If you play the opening of the game again, you’ll see the mascot appears on a little poster on the wall, right in the player’s line of sight. I think it’s fair to say that the player could have been thinking about the mascot at the instant of transportation.
Here’s a suggestion. The energy of Senno’s experiment reached out a long, long way. It groped around to try and find the closest thing related to its origin point that it could: the mind of a carain. There are no carain on Earth, but the experiment found the image of the mascot in the player’s mind. The experiment grasped onto that, and dragged it back to the station, pulling the player along with it. This might sound weird but, if you buy the consciousness interpretations of quantum mechanics, it could just be possible! We’re going outside the realm of human physics here! The player-character might be coming to this theory on their own, too, at least subconsciously. Remember that dream about the mascot?
Anyway, that’s what I think happened: the player was dragged to the station by the energies of Senno's experiment. I could stop there, but I did mention *theories*, and I’ve only discussed one here. That’s because I’ve skipped over one little detail. Where actually *is* the player? Where is the Arias system?
I’ve already said a bunch of things, so I’ll just summarise this. Although if anyone really wants to hear more, let me know – I’ll whip up a Marrowyn lecture, haha. I have three ideas.
1. The Arias system is somewhere else in the Universe. This could work, but the problem here is with the carain themselves. They are incredibly close to earthly species of dog, and the chances of a species evolving independently like that is astronomical. In galactic terms, that means that you’d need to travel a long, *long* way before you’d expect to find a species like the carain. By long, I mean many, many times the size of the portion of the Universe we can currently see. Say something like a trillion light years. Physics gets pretty weird over long distances like that, and that might mess up Senno’s experiment. I’m not sure I buy this one.
2. The Arias system is in another dimension. This is neater, and solves a lot of problems. You don’t need to worry about probabilities, here, because pretty much *anything* can happen in another dimension, if you go looking for it. That being said, it’s still a little strange that the carain evolved independently, in a separate dimension. Humans bred dogs for very specific purposes, producing the different breeds. I don’t think those breeds would be produced by a self-aware species evolving naturally; the selection processes would be really different. So how did the breeds appear? Were there humans in this other dimension, that bred dogs and then died out, letting the dogs evolve dully into carain? This solution could work well, but it still has a lot of unanswered questions.
3. The Arias system *is* the Solar System, but far in the future. I don’t think this is the right answer, because I have to make a *lot* of concessions to make this work. It’s a cludge, and fails Occam’s Razor terribly! But it’s fun to think about. This also solves the problem of the origin of the carain. They *are* dogs, and evolved to become carain after the human race died out, or left for somewhere else, or transcended into beings of pure energy, etc.. There are a few interesting similarities between Arias and Sol, too. Comparing the systems is a bit messy, but I can make something work. Here’s a suggestion:
Arias = Sol: Humans mined the star for gas, which is why Arias is a little smaller than Sol (i.e. it’s an orange dwarf, rather than a yellow dwarf).
Tiruum = Mercury: This comparison is pretty much one-to-one.
Iyeo = Venus: Humans terraformed the planet, and shifted Luna there (check Marrowyn’s picture!). That might have been to help with colonisation.
Urium = Earth: It’s arid and inhospitable because of thousands of years of extreme climate-change and/or the aftermath of a global, catastrophic war.
Dyss = Mars: It’s arid, and also more inhospitable than the ruins of ‘Earth’, which makes sense.
Morrendi = Jupiter: Humans mined this completely of its gas, so all we’re seeing is the core. That would explain why it’s small and uninteresting, as Marrowyn describes it. The moon Ryke is actually Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is also covered with water-ice, and which would be a good candidate for somewhere to live.
Novail = Saturn: This was mined, but less extensively than Jupiter. It’s much smaller now.
Reklain = Neptune: This isn’t that well known, but Neptune *does* have rings! I’m saying Neptune rather than Uranus, because Marrowyn’s picture shows roughly the right number of moons.
What happened to Uranus? Either humans mined it so much that they depleted it completely, or else its core became another moon of Neptune. Uranus’s core is pretty tiny! (Bonus, bonkers theory: humans used it as an interstellar ship / mass for building a temporary wormhole!)
What about Pluto? It’s still there, but the carain don’t consider it to be a planet. And the asteroid belt? Either Marrowyn just skipped over it, since he was just talking about planets, or else humans mined it heavily, so it’s much less of a feature now.
As I say, this displacement-in-time theory is unlikely to be the right approach, but I had fun thinking about it! I suspect the alternate-dimension theory is the one that makes the most sense.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Sorry to be so wordy, but there are some tricky details in these theories! Uh, and if anyone hasn’t been put off by this little essay and wants more details, or would like to ask some questions, do say!
I have a slightly different different hypothesis. Quantum mechanics does appear to (based on my limited reading of the VN) play a role. One of Prof Tyr's disciplines is stated to be in particle physics. Specifically, I speculate; condensed matter physics.
The slight difference in interpretation of the story is that all matter in the universe at the subatomic level seem to adhere to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (which you correctly stated). Hence it is not unreasonable to speculate that Prof Tyr's experiment might have something to do with manipulating the wavefunction of universe. Specifically the part about the "phasing" effect the MC experienced right being pulled into the reality of the story.
String and later M-theory propose a total of 11 dimensions (10 spatial, 1 temporal). It seems highly unlikely that the story takes place in any of those "spaces". Given that the laws of physics (at least as it is portrayed in the story thus far) largely resemble our own. Also, if the Airas system was originally the Sol system but in the far flung future. It still would not explain the lack of archaeological evidence that humans ever existed in our present morphology.
P.S. Physicist Roger Penrose and Anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff jointly posited a quantum origin for human consciousness in their Orchestrated constructive reduction (Orch) Theory. However, other researchers do not believe the human brain conducive enough for quantum processes to take place let alone affect reality.
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Really, really good stuff so far. I'm totally hooked! Can't wait for more, keep it up =)
spoiler?
Pls, can someone give Marruk a big warm hug? He hurts so much, I don't care about Tucker, he acts like a baby (I ain't starting a war here, just stating an observation and I know that he is partially justified), but poor poor Marruk must be hurting so so much worse ;-;
I want to cry
I love Marruk's new design!!! 😭💛 definitely an improvement 👏🏾
How long does it usually take before updates are made public?
about 12-16 days, so it should be coming sround soon
Yooooooo I'm subbing right now build 5 let's goooo
I wasnt even paying attention and thought he was taking a break >.<
Cant wait for the update soon!
If i dont get some kissing scenes soon im gonna implode
Ayy it's one year anniversary for this vn.
congratulations I hope this vn continue the awesome work 😁👍
This is not a mighty guy reference🤣One year of roads yet traveled! Thanks for all the content you have given us 🥰!
Rly good VN with believable character's and a interesting setting. I also love the Artworks.
I think I will support you a bit for now (づ￣ 3￣)づ
i love how in the story they are like WoW look how primitive they are they use more then one color
Wait... why do they have to wait for the water (in the shower) to heat up? Surely an Eletric Shower would be more efficient up there?
(im not an expert ofc, this is just for the fun and giggles)
Well, electric stovetops still need time to heat up too, don't they? Electric showers doesn't mean immediate heat dissipation because the heat still has to travel through the water, which takes time. Water is a poor thermal conductor, after all.
question! is this a romance visual novel? or will it just have nsfw in it later on?
Hehe spooky number :3
I've been thinking about this for a while now, what would Rhoun, Marrowyn, and Marruck look like as humans? I'm not the only one thinking this, right..?
hello, i have a lot of free time (and an art block, literally just made this account to post this -__-)
Pardon if I may ask do you have other socials I love your art and I would gladly want to support you if you may allow it
oh, I don't really post much and neither am consistent, I just draw whatever I'm currently obsessing with so I don't think you'll like it, but if you're still interested it's mck160604 on insta ^^'
YES YES YES
I wish al least some of the overpopulated furry games could have the option to switch between furry and non-furry. And, damn, your art looks pretty good! Maybe you can propose a collaboration to the dev.
Bruh they are "overpopulated furry games" for a reason
Also, that would be a LOT of extra work. Better to just choose one of the two and go with it (from a author standpoint)
Buuut i guess if people really wanted they could always make a mod
It was just a wish that came to me when I saw mck16060420 designs. =)
And I wanna what reason of the overpopulation are you talking about. I don't now what reason it is. No bad feelings, I just don't understand it.
i just meant like, the people who read furry vns, most probably come because they characters are furrys. you get me? :v
Maybe they read furry vns because they can't find other possibilities.
I read furry vns because I'm forced because I can't find other vns, and I think I'm not the only one. Actually I start to feel tired of furry content that I previously managed to enjoy.
Cant wait for new update!
I really love this vn! Definitely will be waiting for the next update :3
Rhoun is da best
Finally got around to reading and catching up on this and loved it. The three dogs are amazing and varied enough to be unique and their own character. I can't stand the MC but the side good boys make up for it and can't wait for more!
I really like this so far! Excited for more and to see how the characters develop further... Especially Marruk. You already know I picked his path, haha. Hope you have a nice day if you're reading this!
Quick question, is there any new content in terms of Rhoun's route?
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By new content I mean, after Rhoun frantically comes and gets you from the doctor's office, is there more content after that point? Just curious.
if you're talking about the latest update then I don't think so since he states no new content only Rhoun sprite update. 2.2 has been out for a while now almost 2 months, 2.2 Rhoun update isn't a content update.
Thanks for the clarification
I really love the story and how it's unfolding. The writing is great. It's surprisingly interesting to follow their interactions. I love the 3 dogs personalities(2 of them more...). Though I cringe sometimes at how dumb the mc is... not the best representative of a new sentient alien species...
The story is amazing and really different from what you normally expect, the art is good and to a great standard. I may sound a little strange but how are the numbers and letters different but the periodic table aren't different?
Totally agree, the story is great!
The periodic table is ordered by atomic number, meaning it's ordered by the amount of protons in the nucleus of the atom. I'd imagine every element no matter where it is in the universe will follow this same or a similar kind of order for elements.
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Love everything about the VN so far but had one minor pet peeve in my opinion, When Marruk calls the main character (who I've named Isaac) the doctor's new 'toy', that seemed particularly mean spirited and cruel. I get that he's supposed to be suspicious and untrusting of Isaac at first, the VN does a great job at explaining and justifying why he needs to put the safety of the station and his own species before anything else. I also get that he's being portrayed, in very effective and well-written manner, to be under an immense amount of stress and frustration, especially with him feeling like no one is taking his professional opinion into account. Yet, him referring to Isaac as a 'toy' just seems uncharacteristically cruel and spiteful, and (please correct me if I'm wrong) he never really apologizes or even acknowledges it in the VN so far. To be clear, I am not trying to nitpick or crap on this VN in any regard, I love it so far and have found everything from its art style to its setting, to its character development completely capturing and enjoyable. I also don't want to dissuade any potential new readers from trying this VN, I would in fact encourage them experience what this VN has, as of now, to offer and to come to their own conclusion regarding what I previously mentioned. Anyway, sorry for the wall of text, just wanted to voice a minor irk, one that is in no way going to keep me from supporting this project wholeheartedly and see how everyone else in this community felt.
Compared what other abusive monsters like Cooper, Vulgor and many other did for repective protagonists (and people still simp for them by the way) Marruk calling MC a toy couple of times was such a non-issue to me I forgot it was even a thing by now.
Fair enough, but I just felt that it was a bit out of character of Marruk, and I hope there is at least some dialogue in the future VN acknowledging and even apologizing for it. But again, love the VN and won't stop supporting it regardless of whether or not this is included.
I do believe that Marruk is meant to be kind of the mean/bullyish character in the game. The way he treats the main character as well as Rhoun kinda shows it a bit. Its like anyone that isn't higher ranking than him is seen as trash.
I just re-read everything up to the room-mate choice. The writing does seem more concise, it was, previously a bit overly wordy, so well done. This is still my favourite new VN. Nice work.
Ah thanks! That was the whole idea of the cuts so!
Will the Rhoun art update come out public?
Is there information on the heights for the MC and the three characters? Or will that information come out later?
Tucker is Roughly 5'9 and there is an unfinished height chart floating around. I need to finalize it but Rhoun is about 6'7 Marruk is about 6'11-7 and Marrowyn is about 8 foot. Hope that helps!
I actually have 2 theories about this VN reguarding the MC and how they got there, the first one is obviously time travel of some kind since it may still be the same galaxy but in a distant future where humanity no longer exists or has advanced far enough to leave the system (but can't confirm without more information or signs of previous civilivation). The second theory is the possiblilty of wormholes/parallel dimensions since wormholes have been theorised to be natural space-time warping phenomenon possible of sending an object/"person" to another universe, and with parallel dimensions there is a theory that if they do exist it would be extremley similar to our own in terms life, so maybe the MC was brought here by mistake of an experiement reguarding that.
My strongest theory on this topic is that Tyr, seemingly the head research physicist or something, accidently created a wormhole while testing a new gravity generator, which the protagonist got pulled into.
It's mentioned that a bunch of high priority maintenance orders went out to prepare the power system for a big surge which would be indicative of the huge amount of energy needed to kick start that kind of gravity generator.
Additionally, some descriptions of the events following that test include:
All of these would line up with a gravity generator experiment gone wrong.
As for the motivation as to why Tyr would conduct such an experiment, I guess it would be to try and replicate or improve the one-of-a-kind gravity generator that powers most of the station.
In terms of the timeline and how it matches up with the events in the story, I would guess the emergency lights came on when the hull ruptured.
However, considering the creative liberties that can be taken with wormholes as holes in spacetime and their theorised implications with mirror universes, confirming the use of wormholes doesn't rule out any time travel or universe hopping.
I really like this comic and the whole idea around it. heres to hoping it doesn't fall off like the others then just doesn't get developed ;-;
Its a little slow right now because I'm finishing college x.x
I hope to get back to it soon!
I have a theory for this story. They said they are in a different solar system but they didn't say anything about the galaxy. Maybe they are not in the Milky way galaxy anything more
Not much of a theory. You could even argue theyre not of our universe or timeline.
I reckon for better or worse the MC is stuck/chooses to stay there and never going back.
Going by the pacing we should meet the captain. We will then meet even more important people. Drama usually kicks off around that time. I can only guess what will happen.
commenting on old post as not to bump anything new but I was wondering what happened to far beyond the update! :(
Apparently I cannot host a fan game on Itch due to its rules. Plus I just realized (at that time) that Kael does not want fan games. Especially ones that use his art, credit or no. (I've heard that from another fan game developer). I kind of respect that, so I've decided to put my project on haiatus. Maybe do it in a slideshow. Maybe be cheeky and release it all in 1 update and then close it down since I've gotten so far. Or just host the file on a sharable google drive link. Either way, project has been paused. About 3 weeks ago RL got busy. I'm taking on more and more responsibilities with the family run business (it's not my idea. But I had my chance to earn money by myself and that didnt go too well). The good news is that the late months and early year is our peak season. I'll have breathing room then. Otherwise I just want to spend the 3-4 hours I have every day relaxing. Sometimes I do unwind by writing, but it won't be for the fan game. It'll be what interests me. Here's my furaffinity just in case you dont want to miss anything: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/teachmehowtodebkeh
That looks like a save compatibility issue as your file doesn't have route information in it? Ignoring it isn't a fix as you'll spill through the script and continue to miss route content.
I would make a fresh save file from Day 8 with the Day Select option. That should set the route correctly and then you can skip back to where the error happened.
Will do, thanks a lot!
So far really enjoying the story and characters. I do have some questions? Or perhaps not questions but theories? I haven't played Day 10 yet so perhaps these get answered a bit? who knows. but they are spoilers so!
Spoiler warning!
They made a learning AI for the guardians to translate English into Coraynn in their heads, the AI is collecting the words and linking them through context WITH the addition of having the dictionary from MC's phone. SO surely they can use the same AI and its database and put it on a monitor to translate coraynn's written language into english for the MC to use. Right? So either they haven't thought of that or they really don't want MC to have access to anything even though i imagine they could restrict it heavily anyway.
Also the thing about the days being named the same, Marrow's theory would make sense however why would "marks" be used in place of hours if the MC's translating power was changing the day names to make the most sense, since "marks" didn't make sense at all to MC.
for some reason when i download it , my notice tell it have virus , can you explain ?
I'm getting the same error when downloading. First time this has happened.
I did a scan and found what its reading to be a virus on my windows computer, their is a file called Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml and this is what is making that warning, I do not know how to get around this sorry.
That's been happening with FVNs lately & it's seemingly always a false positive.
CryptidDog can you explain that please ?
Will this game have NSFW content? I'm just curious. I really enjoy the story so far and am excited for what's to come
Eventually yep! I'll make a post about it when it is though
it kinda says in the description
It was nice seeing more Rhoun content in this update, and getting new side characters added to that. Also, the soundtrack for this game fits very well with the Sci-fi aspect and space themes! I'm loving the new Music Hall feature so far.
Could they just said to mc to repeat everything they say to understand the translation for ai? Seems logical to me
You’ve got something really nice going on here! This VN has lots of great aspects – the art, the setting, the music, the characters – and they combine to produce something that’s really quite interesting. I look forward to seeing where you go with this!
I’ve already had a bit of fun thinking about what might have happened to the protagonist to shift him from A to B. I have a couple of different theories about that already, but of course it’s still early days. As things progress, I’ll be interested to see if I’m thinking along the right lines at all, or if I’m wildly off-base!
Anyway, while I could praise a bunch of specific aspects of this VN so far, I hope you don’t mind if I geek out on something really niche ...
I really like the carain written language! It looks really well-crafted. Maybe I’m overthinking this, but I get the impression some work’s gone into its construction.
You see, not only do the individual glyphs look convincing, but so do complete portions of text. I got to thinking about this during Marrowyn’s talks. To my eyes, it really does feel like there’s some sort of meaningful information in those slides of his, but that I just don’t know how to interpret it. In other words, exactly what would happen if it was an Earthly language I didn’t know! I don’t *think* you’re using a simple cypher from English, or from other obvious languages, although it’s possible I’ve missed something obvious. After all, there’s not massive amounts of text to look at so far! And separating out letter and number glyphs could be tricky (e.g. are the glyphs on doors numbers, or letters, or both?). Still, if these pieces of text have been crafted from scratch, then they’re super convincing. Good work! I hope we’ll get to see some more!
I do like the glyphs themselves, too. What I particularly appreciate is that there’s a set of ‘base’ glyphs, and then a few variations on some of these glyphs. The variations seem to be systematic, too. In other words, getting technical for a moment, the carain language appears to have diacritics! For example, some glyphs have modified versions with a little circle on them – I really want to call that a ‘blob’ for some reason. And, not only that, but the position of the blob is important. A couple of glyphs have a variant with a blob near the top of the glyph, and one with a blob near the bottom. I’d be tempted to interpret that as some sort of accent, say the difference between é and è. Or maybe it’s something completely different, like a Japanese handakuten. But it’s systematic, and it looks convincing. That’s some nice construction!
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Anyway, since I’m writing, and as the other characters seem to have gotten some love in the comments recently, I just wanted to give a shout-out to Marrowyn. He’s such a nice guy! And yes, my opinion of him remains unchanged after what’s happened in chapter 2 so far! :)
Of course! This might take a few words, but I’ll try to keep things as brief as I can. Beware of spoilers below!
Even though it’s early days, I think we can make a good guess what caused the player’s appearance on the station: Professor Senno’s experiment! We know very little about it, but a few small details have popped up in conversation so far. One really useful one comes from a small slip made by Marrowyn: we know the experiment has something to do with quantum physics!
I think this is important. Quantum physics is an area where all sorts of strange, magical-sounding things can happen. I’ve worked in the area, so you have it from the horse’s mouth! In quantum physics, it’s possible to do amazing things like teleportation, manipulating objects at a distance, and messing around with time (to some degree). Depending on your interpretation – we still don’t really understand the mechanics behind the quantum world – we may also be able to shunt objects around between different dimensions. Quantum effects may also be intricately linked to consciousness, and thought. Again, that depends on your interpretation. If all this sounds complicated, bear with me!
We know that Senno’s experiment didn’t work as planned. His data doesn’t make sense to him, and it sounds like his team is unsure what, if anything, happened while the experiment took place.
Here’s my thinking. Senno’s experiment either did something completely unexpected, or else worked far, *far* better than he had hoped. The quantum-mechanical forces unleashed reached out and grabbed hold of the player, dragging them back to the carain station. Remember how the first place we see in the station is a lab full of scientists? I’m guessing that lab is pretty close to the room housing the experiment! (Why wouldn’t the player materialise right inside the experiment? Well, with quantum mechanics, there tends to be a bit of fuzziness with things like position. You can never be completely sure where objects will end up, only roughly where they’ll be. Thanks, Dr. Heisenberg!)
So why was it the player that got transported, rather than anyone or anything else? It could be an accident, but the game’s already hinted at something more. Remember, at the beginning of the game, that the player was clutching the campus map, trying to find out where to go? That map features the college mascot, a humanoid bulldog. The mascot features again, in the little alcove the player was hiding in when the transportation happened. If you play the opening of the game again, you’ll see the mascot appears on a little poster on the wall, right in the player’s line of sight. I think it’s fair to say that the player could have been thinking about the mascot at the instant of transportation.
Here’s a suggestion. The energy of Senno’s experiment reached out a long, long way. It groped around to try and find the closest thing related to its origin point that it could: the mind of a carain. There are no carain on Earth, but the experiment found the image of the mascot in the player’s mind. The experiment grasped onto that, and dragged it back to the station, pulling the player along with it. This might sound weird but, if you buy the consciousness interpretations of quantum mechanics, it could just be possible! We’re going outside the realm of human physics here! The player-character might be coming to this theory on their own, too, at least subconsciously. Remember that dream about the mascot?
Anyway, that’s what I think happened: the player was dragged to the station by the energies of Senno's experiment. I could stop there, but I did mention *theories*, and I’ve only discussed one here. That’s because I’ve skipped over one little detail. Where actually *is* the player? Where is the Arias system?
I’ve already said a bunch of things, so I’ll just summarise this. Although if anyone really wants to hear more, let me know – I’ll whip up a Marrowyn lecture, haha. I have three ideas.
1. The Arias system is somewhere else in the Universe. This could work, but the problem here is with the carain themselves. They are incredibly close to earthly species of dog, and the chances of a species evolving independently like that is astronomical. In galactic terms, that means that you’d need to travel a long, *long* way before you’d expect to find a species like the carain. By long, I mean many, many times the size of the portion of the Universe we can currently see. Say something like a trillion light years. Physics gets pretty weird over long distances like that, and that might mess up Senno’s experiment. I’m not sure I buy this one.
2. The Arias system is in another dimension. This is neater, and solves a lot of problems. You don’t need to worry about probabilities, here, because pretty much *anything* can happen in another dimension, if you go looking for it. That being said, it’s still a little strange that the carain evolved independently, in a separate dimension. Humans bred dogs for very specific purposes, producing the different breeds. I don’t think those breeds would be produced by a self-aware species evolving naturally; the selection processes would be really different. So how did the breeds appear? Were there humans in this other dimension, that bred dogs and then died out, letting the dogs evolve dully into carain? This solution could work well, but it still has a lot of unanswered questions.
3. The Arias system *is* the Solar System, but far in the future. I don’t think this is the right answer, because I have to make a *lot* of concessions to make this work. It’s a cludge, and fails Occam’s Razor terribly! But it’s fun to think about. This also solves the problem of the origin of the carain. They *are* dogs, and evolved to become carain after the human race died out, or left for somewhere else, or transcended into beings of pure energy, etc.. There are a few interesting similarities between Arias and Sol, too. Comparing the systems is a bit messy, but I can make something work. Here’s a suggestion:
Arias = Sol: Humans mined the star for gas, which is why Arias is a little smaller than Sol (i.e. it’s an orange dwarf, rather than a yellow dwarf).
Tiruum = Mercury: This comparison is pretty much one-to-one.
Iyeo = Venus: Humans terraformed the planet, and shifted Luna there (check Marrowyn’s picture!). That might have been to help with colonisation.
Urium = Earth: It’s arid and inhospitable because of thousands of years of extreme climate-change and/or the aftermath of a global, catastrophic war.
Dyss = Mars: It’s arid, and also more inhospitable than the ruins of ‘Earth’, which makes sense.
Morrendi = Jupiter: Humans mined this completely of its gas, so all we’re seeing is the core. That would explain why it’s small and uninteresting, as Marrowyn describes it. The moon Ryke is actually Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is also covered with water-ice, and which would be a good candidate for somewhere to live.
Novail = Saturn: This was mined, but less extensively than Jupiter. It’s much smaller now.
Reklain = Neptune: This isn’t that well known, but Neptune *does* have rings! I’m saying Neptune rather than Uranus, because Marrowyn’s picture shows roughly the right number of moons.
What happened to Uranus? Either humans mined it so much that they depleted it completely, or else its core became another moon of Neptune. Uranus’s core is pretty tiny! (Bonus, bonkers theory: humans used it as an interstellar ship / mass for building a temporary wormhole!)
What about Pluto? It’s still there, but the carain don’t consider it to be a planet. And the asteroid belt? Either Marrowyn just skipped over it, since he was just talking about planets, or else humans mined it heavily, so it’s much less of a feature now.
As I say, this displacement-in-time theory is unlikely to be the right approach, but I had fun thinking about it! I suspect the alternate-dimension theory is the one that makes the most sense.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Sorry to be so wordy, but there are some tricky details in these theories! Uh, and if anyone hasn’t been put off by this little essay and wants more details, or would like to ask some questions, do say!
What a fun read
These theories are so interesting. I just had to take a screenshot or two
I have a slightly different different hypothesis. Quantum mechanics does appear to (based on my limited reading of the VN) play a role. One of Prof Tyr's disciplines is stated to be in particle physics. Specifically, I speculate; condensed matter physics.
The slight difference in interpretation of the story is that all matter in the universe at the subatomic level seem to adhere to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (which you correctly stated). Hence it is not unreasonable to speculate that Prof Tyr's experiment might have something to do with manipulating the wavefunction of universe. Specifically the part about the "phasing" effect the MC experienced right being pulled into the reality of the story.
String and later M-theory propose a total of 11 dimensions (10 spatial, 1 temporal). It seems highly unlikely that the story takes place in any of those "spaces". Given that the laws of physics (at least as it is portrayed in the story thus far) largely resemble our own. Also, if the Airas system was originally the Sol system but in the far flung future. It still would not explain the lack of archaeological evidence that humans ever existed in our present morphology.
P.S. Physicist Roger Penrose and Anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff jointly posited a quantum origin for human consciousness in their Orchestrated constructive reduction (Orch) Theory. However, other researchers do not believe the human brain conducive enough for quantum processes to take place let alone affect reality.