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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.

Valerie also lost a 3v3 with Melia and her Level 40 team in Blacksteeple Castle, and she definitely wasn't holding back, since the stakes were having food on the table. Also, there are other instances of the game using levels to convey strength other than it telling you: "you gotta lose": the Charizar Venam steals from Tesla is level 75 when the level cap is 60, Nancy's team at Blacksteeple Castle, when the level cap is 40, is level 65. There's also the Gooink quest, and that you're told over and over again that the trainers of East Gearen City are notoriously weak. Still there are some inconsistencies, for example, where did Angie find the time to train her team from level 50 to level 85 while she was an ice pop? And wasn't she supposed to be about as strong as VIvian to begin with? So, I'd say that levels are about 95% game logic and 5% power scaling.

Paralyze/Burn and sweep with fairies (all hail Mega Mawile), the only annoyances with that strat is that there's no 100% precision burn move, if you paralyze you still need a few tries to get Spacea to not attack a couple times, and the Heal Bell. I really miss the Renegade exclusive Z-move Chthonic Malady in these boss fights (especially since the Paragon exclusive Elysian Shield which kinda sucks, even more so against indirect damage strats), that really trivialized Tiempa in my Renegade run!

When you fight Venam, Valerie, Amber, Adam, Melia (a Normal gym leader with Azumarill, Aegislash, Mimikyu, Togekiss, and Hydreigon, btw), Ryland, and Saki for the badge you fight their serious team, there's nothing left for interpretation there, Adam even goes as far as rigging the random field selection, and the only confirmed instance of a trial team is Crawly's, but his serious team isn't much stronger, and to even get there you have to beat Rorim B., which I can guess was serious (he has the same mons when he gets mind controlled by Odessa's Manaphy), but he's just not too much of a battler. Since Texan just wanted to kick MC and Aelita out of Sheridan Village, I doubt he went out of his way to give them a fair chance by using a trial team, if he could have stomped them he would have, especially since it wasn't even a battle for the badge, so, whatever league rules there are for it (apparently not many, see Melia's case) simply would not apply. Texan is simply a more complex character than a lazy asshole in search of money and fame.

In a save file, I've started as Alain and then switched to Aevia as soon as I've seen her secondary outfit on the Wiki, and all the story events that feature MC's additional souls have starred Aevia, but I did that before the School of Nightmares, it might not change if you've already committed there, idk.

I'm talking about the Ana quest, where V, the antagonist, turns out to be an interceptor that didn't make a contract with Variya, at least if we have to take V's words at face value. This means there are who knows how many interceptors that aren't connected to Variya, the only two we definitely know are are Crescent and MC, so, we can conclude that one big reason why Variya makes interceptors is to protect herself against other interceptors. And I'm not talking about saving Vivian (her sacrifice is necessary, after all), but saving the world where you did save her. While you do have free will, you will use it to decide to save Amber, to be nice to people, to do side quests, to be angry at Madam X saying you didn't do your job and eventually discover that you can save that world by doing absolutely nothing, to save the rift pokémon, etc. You might have free will on paper, but it only accounts to something if you have enough knowledge to not be lead like a puppet anyway, and that's what Variya counts on. Then you press the world reset button over and over again until you eventually go Renegade, maybe just to know what would happen at that point, and maybe Renegade won't work either, actually it has no chance of creating a good end by itself because fighting for oblivion is fighting for no future, but at that point you have the knowledge of both routes. In gaming terms, I think you have to play a route, then new game plus into the other route, and new game plus again to get to the true ending. The thing is, from Melia's backwards dialogue, we know that MC "new game plussed" countless time, plus MC has also the power to exchange information with countless other versions of themselves deep inside the Zeight, so it might already be set up for you without you having to manually go trough two new game plusses, so, the ignorant MC that Variya made into an interceptor wouldn't be Paragon MC, but a past version of it.

We know from V that a contract with Variya isn't the only way of becoming an interceptor, so, we can assume that Variya simply needs interceptors on her side of the board, that's why she gave Crescent free will just to punish her for not using it the way she wanted, And notice that MC's soul got shoved in its new body before the soul conglomerate became an interceptor, it agreed before getting free will, then MC's memory of what happened got cleared, making an interceptor that can't tell left from right and will do Variya's game without knowing it, which is the Paragon run until you awaken that dude, and you are in the Paragon run by default: you have to actively oppose your gamer's instinct AND be a psychopath by not doing side quests, not saving Amber, not get Espurr and Growlithe, not replaying the Vivian didn't sacrifice timeline to save that world, etc. to even have the option of doing a Renegade run. Nobody would do that before playing Paragon first.

I think that that's a given, since there has been a Team Xen way before the colonization of Aevium. I think we won't get far until we get the connection between present Xen and past Xen, the problem is that we don't have any idea of past Xen's motives, all we know is that it was lead by a dude and that it's responsible for the disaster that caused everyone to migrate to Aevium in the first place. This is wild, very, extremely wild speculation, but Madam X's body suit really looks like MC's interceptor form, we know from Madam X's very mouth that her mother sacrificed herself to save her, Madam X is implied to be and interceptor by the chess pieces, and we know that MC can appear both as male and female depending on which soul is perceived by an observer, it is possible that future MC could master that trait and choose which soul to get the appearance from instead of being randomly(?) picked by each individual observer, so, it might be possible that both past Xen and present Xen are lead by renegade MC. Of course, that doesn't even begin to explain the mass-produced Madam X body suits. But Nim later said that overlapping has no such side effect and that that Melanie is just a figment of Melia's imagination. Imagine if overlapping did have that side effect, then MC would have not just another MC, but two Axel, two Aevia (etc.) in its subconscious since they got overlapped as well, and we would have likely seen that during the battle with Crescent in the Zeight.

Before the day out to befriend Crescent, I've got a duplicate of the .Karma quest line telling me to re-enter the Zeight that's stuck at stage 6/6, I've tried that at several points and nothing happened. I have no idea if this is a bug or if I'm missing something.

Thanks for making me notice that Meowstic does in fact have Prankster. What I've done is deleveling it all the way to 12 so that it could learn Light Screen again, I won the double battle with the usual strategy, and for Manaphy I've let Cinderace die, sent Zebstrika to take care of the first health bar, then Mewstick to set up the Light Screen, and Wood Hammer sweep Trevenant and Abomasnow. It went down at the second try.

I'm playing at normal difficulty, with this as my main team: - Cinderace - Mawile - Meowstic - Aevian Leavanny - Zebstrika - Pangoro And my main benchers: - Talonflame - Runerigus - Trevenant I'm at the point at the end of route 6 where Odessa swaps you back and you have fight first a double battle and then Manaphy. The way I usually deal with boss fights, but of course that doesn't work here because Take Heart is busted, and it doesn't help that in the battle before Cinderace, with its grand total of 178 speed, still gets outsped by Scolipede, so I can't just mindlessly Pyro Ball the double battle: if I want to save Zebstrika for Manaphy, I need to lead Cinderace and Mawile, Pyro ball the Scisor, leet Mawile die, send Meowstic to Fake Out the Scolipede so that I can Pyro Ball, and sweep the Oricorio and Ludicolo with a 2vs1 Pyro Ball and Psychic. I tried with speccing the rest of my team to beat Manaphy: Zebstrika, Trevenant, and an Abomasnow I leveled just for this fight, but it's not good enough, I got it down to the last health bar, but no more.