On "Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward"

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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

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Now that I finished the Green route, FINALLY going the red route. Dio has an awesome hat (and I won't say who his design, that hat, blonde hair, & blue eyes remind me of), and has been a character I've been hoping to like. So far he has been a jerk though. So let's see what spending more time with him brings!

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Into the CDs ⇒ Red Door ⇒ Laboratory ⇒ Laboratory After Escape ⇒ AB Game Round 2 ⇒ AB Game Round 2 Ally ⇒ Warehouse A ■Lock No.3■ Five minutes of life!

Into The CDs:
→Sigma can try to pick the Green Door, but is not allowed & annoys everyone.

Red Door
→Clover is not paranoid about the lever.
→Clover keeps making bad 999-type puns/jokes!
→Dio would smack Clover.
→The door that opens leads to a Laboratory, and not the Pantry.

Laboratory:
→There is a DNA laboratory in the facility.
→Find a scalpel.
→Dio knows how to dissect a frog.
→Dio knows how a DNA extractor works.
→Dio knows about bases & DNA sequences.
→Find Axelavir.
→Find a journal written in a strange language.
→Find an IG Replicator.
→Dio, Sigma, or Clover do not know what an IG Replicator does/how it works.
→Dio can do slight-of-hand.
→Dio steals the Axelivar from Sigma.
→Dio threatens to break the vial unless Sigma & Clover vote Ally & keep quiet about finding Axelavir.
→Sigma agrees because of Quark, despite if Dio votes Betray Sigma will die.

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Laboratory After Escape:
→Dio holds the keycard like a gambler.
→Sigma, Dio, & Clover do not mention finding Axelavir to Alice, Phi, or K.
→Luna, Tenmyouji, & Quark are in the Infirmary.
→K goes to search the new rooms.
→Alice goes to search the Laboratory, Clover goes with her.
→Dio also leaves.
→Phi plans to go with Sigma to check on Quark.
→But Phi stops him and asks to see the journal from the Laboratory.
→Phi says the journal is in Latin.
→Phi can read some Latin.
→The journal is not all research, some of it is personal entries.
→Phi can read Page 216.
→Radical-6 reduces the processing speed of the brain to 1:√(1/6) or 1:0.408 which is why it is called 'Radical-6' as 'radical' can be another name for the the 'root' operation, as well as a term that means 'severe'.
→24.5 seconds feel like 10 seconds to someone infected.
→Those infected with Radical-6 develop & act on an extreme desire to commit suicide (probably due to the processing speed & being mentally unable to deal with the disparity in perception/time).
→The writer of the entry suspects it could take 10 or 20 years before an anti-virus or treatment is found for Radical-6.
→People that survived the outbreak are being quarantined into underground shelters by the government.
→The writer suspects it may only be a handful of survivors.
→While the town the writer is in has so many corpses piled-up along the roads outside of it.
→Animals do not seem to be effected by the virus.
→Phi wonders if the Nonary Game group is one of those bunches taken underground.
→She wonders if they have maybe been asleep for years, or even decades (given there is a Radical-6 treatment now).
→Sigma states that they can't be because they were kidnapped before the virus was even known about.
→Also doesn't think there is a way to be put asleep for so long [If I hadn't gotten the Treatment Center, I'd also say 'And not have them age or change any'. CAS was mentioned in 999, but only experimental (999 is a year earlier than VLR)].
→Phi is not sure.
→Phi goes off to do something else instead of going to the Infirmary.
→Sigma checks on Quark.
→Sigma decides that he has no other choice but to vote Ally, even if it kills him. He doesn't want Quark to die too, and Quark will if he doesn't get the Axelavir (either from the virus, or by killing himself due to the virus).
→Tenmyouji chooses to stay with Quark, so his vote will default to Ally.
→Dio has already sealed himself into the Ambidex Room.
→Luna explains Tenmyouji's choice.
→Alice says that she plans to vote Ally because if she does vote Betray [to Tenmyouji's default Ally] K will then have 9BP (and be able to open the 9 Door).
→Phi, Luna, Clover, Sigma, & Alice state that K should stay outside while just Alice votes.
→K refuses, but won't say why (his model makes a creepy face I haven't seen before though :/ Like a 'tee hee'-ing robot).
→K runs into the Ambidex Room--Alice hurries in too.
→Sigma, Clover, Luna, & Phi are worried what K will do to Alice, but there is nothing they can do.

AB Game Round 2:
→Clover tries to convince Sigma to choose Betray despite Dio having the Axelavir.
→Sigma says he has no choice but to choose Ally as it's the only
option that might help Quark.
→Clover tries to rush to the voting machine to vote Betray for them.
→Sigma grabs her & throws her to the ground (I thought she had special SOIS training?! CQC? ...999!Snake knew CQC XD).
→Clover says she doesn't want Sigma to die.

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AB Game Round 2 Ally:
→Sigma accepts his death.
→Sigma (& Clover) pick Ally and Dio picks Betray.
→K & Alice pick Betray to Tenmyouji's Ally.
→Phi & Luna pick Ally to Quark's Ally.
→Bracelet Colours:
Not really shown, just a flash and the colours were still the same (I expect it will be shown after Warehouse A ■Lock No.3■ Five minutes of life! though).
→Bracelet Points:
Sigma = -1BP
K & Dio = 9BP
Alice, Tenmyouji, & Clover = 4BP
Luna & Phi = 3BP
→Sigma feels the Soporil β inject & start to take effect (making the top screen all wonky).
→Sigma collapses.
→Dio runs to the 9 Door.
→Sigma manages to get himself to his feet and get to Dio.
→Sigma demands Dio give him the Axelavir as he kept his promise to vote Ally.
→Dio refuses.
→Sigma goes to attack him.
→Dio relents & gives to vial to Sigma, who hands it to Clover.

Warehouse A ■Lock No.3■ Five Minutes Of Life!:
→Sigma collapses again.
→Sigma blots out the rest of the world while he fights to think of something to save himself from Death in 5 minutes (about 4 had passed, and 9 minutes after the Soporil β the turbocurarine is injected).
→Fade to "To Be Continued" (no mention of neostigmine though I have the Clover Ending).

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Well that was that. Going to go through Crew Quarters ■Lock No.2■ Is there proof it wasn't murder? now then see what Red Betray is.

Fuck you, Dio.

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OH! Going through Laboratory After Escape opens up Crew Quarters ■Lock No.2■ Is there proof it wasn't murder?! Huzzah!

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Waiting on the vets' to call me back about Nicki so deciding to do this & start the Magenta route now instead of later.

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AB Game Round 2 Betray:
→Clover wonders how Sigma could choose Betray after all he said.
→But says he made the right decision.
→Clover has told Alice about what Dio has done (probably when sheshowed her the Laboratory).
→But that Sigma can trust Alice.
→Sigma (& Clover) pick Betray and Dio picks Betray.
→K (& Alice) pick Betray to Temyouji's Ally.
→Luna & Phi pick Ally to Quark's Ally.
→Dio flies-off at Sigma for choosing Betray.
→Sigma says he cares about Quark, despite it.
→He demands that Dio give him the Axelavir vial.
→He goes to attack Dio.
→Phi stops him.
→Sigma tells them about what Dio did.
→Everyone is pissed-off.
→Dio smashes the Axelavir vial.
→K then runs to the 9 Door and opens it.
→K states that he is doing the most rational thing to help Quark; escaping & contacting help.
→Luna asks why he didn't wait until next Round so Quark could have 9BP and thus K could take him too.
→K says he worries that Quark would get partnered with Dio.
→Clover asks where Alice is.
→K says she is still in the Ambidex Room.
→Says she is collapsed.
→And "...sleeping" (while making that creepy tee-hee face).

Quark Game Over:
→K leaves.
→The 9 Door closes.
→An announcement states that the Nonary Game is over.
→Sigma, Phi, Luna, Dio, Clover, Tenmyouji, Quark, & Alice (if she is still alive) are now trapped in the facility indefinitely.
→Fade to "Game Over".

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In other news; I want to bang Phi. I've not spent much time with her though. I realised that it is because she is so similar to Nami from "Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life". Nami is who I always marry, and a character I've consistently had a crush on. Phi voice even sounds like I always expected Nami to sound.

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K's creepy tee-hee face:

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"It's full of chicken!"



"C'mon... It's poultry guys!"

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This is Dio, by the way:




I think he is a jerk now, but I still love his ridiculous hat~

I wonder what route leads to his End? Maybe he will redeem himself :/

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I thought it was just a joke so I didn't include this, since he's mentioned cats before and not started it (like with Dio & K on the Schrödinger's Cat book, the Treatment Center lion painting, and the lion on the Director's Office computer), but in the Laboratory Sigma starts making bad cat puns/replacing words with cat related terms when they find/are discussing the lion tray. He also does this while in the Crew Quarters with the Schrödinger's Cat book (every time he examines it or Alice asks him about it). And 2 of the Gold Files received in the Crew Quarters explain it. They also offer a probably joke story (since I doubt a world with Morphogenic Field experiments has widely known about magic).

Sigma really liked cats when he was little. There was an abandoned mansion in his town that housed stray cats that people would feed and such. Sigma used to visit every day, and eventually learned he could understand what the cats were saying. A 'magical black cat' told him that it was a gift for being so kind, but that if he told anyone about it he would become cursed. Sigma blabbed, so the cat made it so Sigma could only talk in cat puns. A 'magical white cat' decided that was too harsh so made it so Sigma would only make cat puns while talking about cats.

Sigma explains it is just a verbal or psychological tic he has had since childhood.