dudeguyman

Any Fairy/Fire for my mono-Fairy runs. It's the only way to stop the Ferrothorns in my nightmares!

I think it's the 11th or something. Anyway, when Melia talks to MC remotely via the Zeight, Aelita and Venam are off-screen and one of them checks on MC claiming to have heard a familiar voice. Melia is confused on how Aelita/Venam might have possibly heard a telepathic message to MC, and, later on, she pulls the same trick with both of them on screen but neither of them hears anything. This reeks of Karma.

Continuation of: Long story short, I've completed Hidden Library 3 and obtained the Banettite, and I have yet to start the Alice story segment in Oblitus Town, yet Karen doesn't want to show up stranded in the Zorrialyn Coast.

Karrina isn't there, and I can confirm I have the Banettite in the bag.

I think Karen was with the twins, but I can't say for sure I'm not mixing it up with another save. Still, I have Hidden Library 3 marked as completed, and I've been doing quests as soon as possible this save.

I've just checked, and she isn't in the inn. I've even finished the labyrinth at some point and interacted with the door, but, of course, my character hasn't learned the spell yet.

The thing is, I've been checking after every single event, and Karen was never there. I have a bunch of backup saves, so going back to pre-Oblitus isn't a problem. Loaded that save, and, yup, she's not there.

Karen is supposed to show up stranded in the Zorrialyn Coast at some point, but she just isn't there. I did Hidden Library 1 to 3, I'm deep into .Karma Files (I finished the Alice event), and she's still not showing up. Is there some weird condition?

I'm getting conflicting messages on this. On one end I'm drawn to think that Karma is extremely powerful: It created a Paradox Gear in the ruined timeline It straight-up transformed Talon into a monster in the Renegade timeline There's the mystery of what's behind the Team Lorem Ipsum quest in the Paragon timeline, whatever it is it's extremely powerful, and Karma was definitely involved (was it Venam or Aelita? Either way, one of them "heard a familiar voice" before the raid started, but she was out of screen when that happened, so, the presence of Karma's eye cannot be confirmed) It REWRITES the Nightmare Remix battle into the regular Evil Gardevoir battle. (But Nightmare Remix is a NG+ bonus, this might be non-canon) On the other, I think that Karma is rather weak or limited: Karma hasn't been shown to be able to make anyone do whatever at any moment, but it needs slowly corrupt people over time, Talon even managed to tank several days of Karma's influence until he snapped and went after MC Karma might be able to only influence a limited amount of people at any given time, otherwise why would it corrupt one person at a time instead of trying to overwhelm Renegade MC with numbers? That numbers also is more than one: Karma influences both Alexandra and MC at the same time in the train to GDC But, all the arguments for Karma being weak might just be Karma trying to play 5D chess. There's also another detail: even if Karma might be be able to bring back people from the dead, Renegade MC doesn't kill people normally, but uses End of Night which erases its target across the entirety of space and time. Which is stronger, Karma or End of Night?

There's a point where un unmistakably have the choice to enter the Renegade route, after which there's no going back. You could wait until then and start doing side quests right after that, but it will probably have consequences later on:

I had no way of winning in my main run, but just did in my Fairy monotype run. I can't wait to see those changes in first person! How did I win? Sash Dedenne to Nuzzle the Yveltal, send out Sylven, pray that Yveltal is paralyzed so that Sylveon can set up the Light Screen, and it's Moon Force/Play Rough sweep with Sylveon, Florges, and Granbull from there.

You can actually get Eevee in chapter 5: you have access to just enough lost souls to upgrade Maman's Garden twice and get the event Eevee. You just need to do it before, you know.

I do get Madam X's reasoning there: if she secures the archetype, she won, the protagonist only matters in quality of Melia's strongest bodyguard, and up to that point you never scored a clean win against Team Xen: Melia's kidnapping: D.N.F. by Melia's supposed death. Carotos Mountain: the Sheridan Village didn't explode, only thanks to the intervention of Crescent and Keta himself, but Keta still died. I'm gonna call that a draw. Wispy Tower: MC barely won thanks to Narcissa holding off Giratina. MC's and Aelita's kidnapping: utter loss for the protagonist. Confinement at Blacksteeple Castle: MC and crew did win, but at what cost? If we assume she only knows about the situation from the reports, and that the admins want to look good in said reports, I wouldn't fault Madam X for noticing that something's off with the protagonist only by them doing the impossible (beating Yveltal).

That's the joke. Didn't the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP only work inside the Ligsomnia Engine? At least it means you can get a Dawn Wing Necrozma, in your dreams.

Dawn Wings Necrozma. I don't think there's any rule against having different builds of the same mon in the box in monotype runs.