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Believe it or not, I have returned.

MetalmindStats posted...

Lotus proposes the necessity of sacrificing someone lest we need to sacrifice multiple people, which I will make a decision about next time.

I questioned whether this was truly necessary, without taking the time to rigorously calculate all possibilities; turns out it was, and Ace volunteered with confidence that the rest of us would return for him at some point. At this point, Lotus had pretty thoroughly rubbed me the wrong way, so I opted to go through door 7 with Clover and Seven instead.

Immediately, the two almost came to blows, and Seven revealed himself as a creep loud and clear over the rest of the operating room sequence. It feels like these puzzles keep getting more and more straightforward, with the operating room exemplifying that most of all. However, I did wind up foolishly bashing my head on a chemical-based locker combination for a bit before figuring out the obvious answer. On the other hand, though, the choices seem to be getting less and less straightforward...!

It started with needing to remind Seven of this ice-9 substance from before to follow up on a story he had just told about crystals produced in a factory, where I made what was immediately and obviously the wrong choice. For the first time, I felt an urge to go back and make the clear and obvious correct choice, cheating be damned, so that's what I did. Subsequently deciding to give Clover the clover bookmark from early on was easy enough, but that was only possible thanks to a not-so-easy choice I made early on. That led to her going on about further pseudoscience that's surely plot-relevant in a way I haven't figured out yet.

The full seven of us subsequently reuniting in the hospital room, now with two more keys, was seemingly preordained. The best thing we could think to do was splitting into three groups and searching with our new assets, which led to two admittedly clear choices; the latter in regards to June's reluctance to go down an elevator, where one option felt like a joke option (which didn't make logical sense regardless). All three groups returned to the hospital room after brief searches; two found the numbered doors 1 and 6, while the last found definitive evidence of Snake's fate.

Turns out Snake was (of course) murdered, and Zero being on board was a tough decision to make, but turned out to be right. From there, two different theories flew around: that Zero was the killer and that Zero was among us. I deduced that the two were, in fact, compatible, because the set-up of the bracelet detonators and the Nonary Games in general allowed them to work on their own. Unfortunately, however, I was unable to come up with a motive for Zero being among us, which led right back to trusting everyone else as the default. Onwards we proceeded, as the clock hit 3 AM, and discovered the 2 door, leaving me with a decision to make about which of the three new doors to go through myself after everyone else had made up their minds.

As I understand it, 999 has quite a few different possible endings, and I've seen and heard that one of them is the true ending. I'm going to guess that I needed to make certain choices differently to give me whatever information I missed regarding this pseudoscience of substances 'communicating' and changing their properties in order to determine Zero's motive for being among us. Further, I suspect that capitalizing on that to figure out which of us is actually Zero at that time was necessary for the true ending.

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