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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 16
Leaving the Edward Packard bus and going to the grill gives us the only new path that comes from not waiting at the bus stop at the beginning.
The restaurant is filled with people who eat quietly, and the place features a variety of colors.
I go to the bathroom, which is of course filthy and narrow. "In the end, the bus wasn't such a bad option".
I sneak into the kitchen, and all the cooks are "obese" like the waiter. "In the back, the bodies that hang from hooks are not from a cow, or any other animal you know". Is this going to be a cannibalism plot?
A tall stranger from the bus sits down at the same table because it's the only one available. He offers to leave if he bothers me.
The plate he offers me seems to be ordinary food, though it doesn't mention what it tastes like. It's tempting, but probably suspicious. CHOICE #17 is to either accept his offer or leave the grill without eating.
Staying with him gives us a conversation with yet another title reference.
"I didn't introduce myself. Forgive me for my bad manners. My name is Jonás".
"Nice to meet you, Jonás. I'm Tamara."
"Tamara, what a pretty name. Should I order a plate for you, Tami? Does it bother you?"
"Don't call me Tami!"
CHOICE #18 is for real concerning the food. Do I eat without telling Jonás what I saw, or whisper to him about it?
Choosing to eat the suspicious food causes Jonás to start to ignore our conversation and continue eating and ordering more meat. Tamara does the same.
"You lost count of how many plates you ate. It's been a while since you unbuttened your pants. You adjust your t-shirt and you feel different. Heavier and voluminous. You suspect that, even if you wanted to, you couldn't walk-but you're too busy to try it.
When you see Jonás again (his hand extending to slice a new cut every time the waiter changes the tray), he isn't the same either. You don't recognize those chubby fingers, the soft palm, the plump wrist. He doesn't interest you.
The only thing that matters is your plate and the cuts that you fill yourself with again and again. Everything is delicious, and each new batch (tanda) surprises you with flavors that you didn't imagine and couldn't describe. If you had your way, the rest of the world could disappear. It already disappeared.
You continue eating, chewing only enough to prevent choking. Your only desire is to finish what they served you as soon as possible so they can bring you more and more. Why would you want to get up? END".
Instead of being trapped in limbo, Tamara is trapped in an addictive and fattening meal for eternity. No word in this ending as to what the food is. At least you only get this ending if you ignore the obvious clues that something's wrong with the grill.
Results So Far
5 Good Endings
6 Deaths
6 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 17
I tell Jonás "Excuse me, Jonás, but I can't eat this, and I recommend that you don't do it either", and we both leave. None of the other customers at the Sin of Gluttony Grill notice us.
We see two strange figures at the bus talking to the driver. They're both impersonating us!
CHOICE #19 is to either accuse the impostors and get on the bus, or escape with Jonás.
To prove I'm not dreaming, I pinch my left arm. We disguise ourselves with abandoned clothing from a truck with an open window. (It's not like anyone at the Sin of Gluttony Grill is going to want them back. . .)
I put on a blue wool cap and dark glasses. Jonás wears a gray scarf around his neck and beard, and Tamara thinks he looks like a B movie ninja.
CHOICE #20 comes when I realize the impostors are probably on the top deck of the bus, and we're on the bottom. Do I climb and try to investigate, or stay on the bottom floor and remain stealthy?
We discover "ourselves" sleeping in a double seat, and we go 4 rows behind them to find out what's going on.
"As soon a s Jonás moves away, you hear the same faltering breathing as before. Now in front of the coffee machine, Jonás turns to observe the doubles. The breathing becomes more intense and audible. Jonás lets his glass fall and his coffee spills on his clothes. You spy through the hole between the seats.
The two usurpers, yours and Jonás's, look at each other. Their lips and noses touch, their mouths move in a crazy way, quickly and without stopping, as if they were communicating in a purely tactile language.
Jonás approaches through the hall, but his double stops behind him and seizes him by the shoulder. With the same shove, he turns on his heels. He is sniffing him. There's no doubt. When his eyes are half-closed, he opens them again. Something is happening to his face: the neck inflates, the bones deform, the skin stretches and becomes discolored; a little below the tracksuit? (buzo) illuminates with a violet color. It becomes lighter and contracts.
Immediately, the impostor becomes identical to his prisoner: the same t-shirt, the same glasses, the same scarf covering up his face. He surrounds Jonás's head with his hands, pressing. It seems he's about to make his head burst. He makes a sudden pull and breaks his neck. Jonás falls lifeless like a doll. It deflates like an empty bag. You let out a shriek.
Your scream is cut short (cortarse en seco). Your double creeps between the seats. Her hair is already wearing a blue cap with the same consistency and wool texture. With a jump, she extends her hands and surrounds your head with her hands. END".
I have no idea what "buzo" means here. It's clearly supposed to refer to a body part in this context, but all the definitions seem to be clothes like "tracksuit" and "overalls".
Yet another ending where Tamara is killed by an impersonator on a bus.
Results So Far
5 Good Endings
7 Deaths
6 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 18
Let's hide on the bottom deck from the impostors instead of being killed and replaced by them in CHOICE #20.
The bus moves away from the Sin of Gluttony Grill and each motion makes me rub shoulders with Jonás. My fingernails are long and dirty, and I can't wait to get to Santa Lucía to fix them.
Tamara is disappointed that Jonás doesn't seem to want to talk to her.
"Halfway between enthusiasm and discomfort, you turn your head to confront Jonás, ready for anything. You begin to notice the details that the mirror wouldn't let you distinguish. For starters, his eyes are injected with blood, and his blue veins seem like they're about to burst out of his temple. His skin now has a greenish tone, and his half-open mouth has a fetid odor and a bloody foam coming out of it.
A scream is strangled in your throat when he balances himself over your neck and he nails his teeth until you run out of air. Your elbows and chest, that a few seconds ago anticipated the heat of a man, now are covered with the humid and thick embrace of blood. END".
So no matter what you do, you're doomed if you go on the Edward Packard bus with Jonás in CHOICE #19, as both CHOICE #20 options are Death. This book can be as sadistic with non-indicative CHOICEs as La Isla de los Dodos.
Results So Far
5 Good Endings
8 Deaths
6 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 19
I'll run away with Jonás in CHOICE #19 instead of getting back on the Edward Packard bus.
So we hold hands and run through the field in the opposite direction of the Sin of Gluttony Grill. Jonás gives Tamara a "long kiss, with the taste of wet dirt and sweat. Even so, you feel like you're in a movie: you couldn't imagine a better kiss". In the distance, we see skinny dogs. (Could these be the vicious dogs on the cover?)
And yes, it's true love for Tamara. They have many things in common. "Neither of you filled a sticker album? (albúm de figuritas) in your lives, both prefer white chocolate, and you secretly hate the films of Campanella".
It took some searching to figure out who Campanella is. He's most likely the director Juán José Campanella, who worked on films like El Secreto de sus Ojos. I have actually seen that one in a Spanish class, but I don't have strong feelings on it either way because my ear hadn't been as attuned to Spanish at the time. (Goofy Mexican telenovelas helped with that later on).
"You are fascinated with each other. You always believed in the existence of twin souls, united astrally by the same aura color, but right now the universe is proving you right. In the days that follow you cover up the holes in the walls and the roof. You discover new fruits. You learn to recognize edible insects, and perfect the art of trapping wild birds. The ruined house rapidly turns into a home. You live an idyll of love, apart from the world, its dangers, and its distractions.
Of course, children come soon. When you have the 4th, you begin to take precautions. You get pregnant 2 more times.
Life is hard: you have to walk a lot every day to get food and fresh water for everyone. The home needs constant repairs. Your children cry, get hungry, hurt themselves, and don't know what they're doing. You have to stay alert to protect them from wild beasts and their attacks. Flooding (anegaciones), snakes, freezing, the burning sun, the wind that sickens and threatens to carry someone away.
But it's worth it. Jonás and you hug each other every day, and you're proud of what you built. The children are playing "war" in the mud. You've never been so happy. END".
Tamara finds true happiness with Jonás by running away from the Edward Packard bus and living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Sometimes the Good Endings are as abrupt as the Deaths.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
8 Deaths
6 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 20
Let's reject Tamara's soulmate Jonás's offer to sit with me at the Sin of Gluttony Grill! This will be our 21st ending out of 28. I guess the writers really want you to get on the Edward Packard bus at the beginning, since over 5/7 of the endings are based on that path in CHOICE #1.
The dinner guests (comensales) seem to look at something other than their magical food for a change. "Something reminds you of the manner that a group of animals behave when they smell an invader".
On the way out, I accidentally step on a cat's tail. It screams and further urges me to leave.
Now it's not raining outside, but a freezing wind is slowing me down. The bus is exactly where it was before, and no replacement is in sight. Something grabs my ankle and pulls me into the mud, towards the restaurant.
"You wake up with an intense pain in different parts of your body. Your right muscle burns, your cheek is in a formless pulp, your arms pull as if they were about to rip out. It hurts to open your eyes. When you become conscious, the pain becomes more and more intolerable. It takes a while for you to realize you're crying and calling for Poli.
Little by little, your body's perception sharpens. You're hanging by your arms, with your wrists tied on top. Between tears, you look around, you're clearly in the grill's kitchen. The smoke and tears don't let you discern much; you hardly make out the shining of the embers, the cooks coming and going, stoking up the fires, and preparing the meat.
You're naked and covered with mud and blood. You're tied to a hook held up by chains. You look below, searching for the pain in your muscle. You have a hole at the height of a buttock, as if a slice had been cut out. You vomit and the puke runs throughout your body. You want to scream for help, but the pain makes it too difficult.
One of the cooks comes, with a knife in his hands. You can only cry. He stops halfway, observes and smells you oddly. He passes the point of his pinky (meñique) through the belly and tastes. He smiles. When he lifts his knife, ready to cut, you disappear forever. END".
So one prediction was correct, at least for this timeline. The Sin of Gluttony Grill specializes in cannibalism. But you'd think the ending where you stay at the grill forever would have some remark about that. And wouldn't it be a rather inefficient way to supply meat? There can only be so many random unsuspecting strangers who come to this place. . .
The only way to survive the Sin of Gluttony Grill is to accept Jonás's offer to sit with you, then reject the food and leave without going back on the Edward Packard bus. That's almost as arbitrary as the Cave of Despair in 22 Minutos: Tibicenas, except there are no inventory items for the authors to forget that you have.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
9 Deaths
6 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 21
Time to go back to CHOICE #1 and wait at the terminal for 6 hours instead of riding the Edward Packard bus.
"You go away from Platform 187, trying to remember some episode in which listening to your intuition may have saved you from catastrophe. Nothing occurs to you, except that time you were going down the stairs of the subway station, when you believed you've forgotten your wallet and went home to look for it. Later, after you turned over the entire living room, you found it in the bottom of your purse and died of laughter".
That was a pointless story! A woman whose hair is 3 different colors approaches and tells me I still have the chance to get on the Edward Packard bus because it hasn't left the platform yet. But Tamara thinks she may be up to something. CHOICE #21 is to tell her the truth about my fears about the bus, or to make up a sob story.
After picking the former, the narration says "You were never good at lying".
"I have a bad premonition, ma'am, and I want a different bus".
She is incredulous at first, but then seems to understand. "Ah, I understand. You have premonitions. I knew it when I first saw you. You're one of us".
"You don't know why, but the word 'us' in her mouth gives you a chill in your spine. If she had said 'mine', she would sound like a Zen lady, but there's something in that plural that. . ."
The 3 color hair lady says "Look, in reality this isn't allowed, but I'm going to make an exception" and gives me some wrinkled tickets.
I sit on a plastic seat and try to look through my papers. Poli warned me that Retiro is a dangerous place. But there's a folded piece of paper among the tickets I received. Tamara hopes it's merely an Herbalife advertisement. Of course, it's not.
"Ambulemus in lumine dei".
LATIN?! No good can come of Latin in a horror book! That's the language "sanity-destroying eldritch tomes" are written in. And all the Satanic chants too. The "We walk in the light of God" part sounds innocuous, but you never know which "deus" this has in mind.
"You're almost certain this is Latin, but for all you know it could be Romanian or Greek". Does Tamara not know that Greek uses a different alphabet?
I go to a bar and pass the time with crosswords and "chapters of a police novel".
The next Latin sentence says "Ab umbra veritas". "From the shadow, truth" sounds dodgy. CHOICE #22 is to ask the concerned waiter about these papers, or try to stay out of this mystery and get another bus quickly.
But the 3 hair color woman shows up herself and pulls me by the arm. "You can't avoid remembering the urban myth that one of your classmates scared you with in elementary school: a minibus taking children in the street to steal their organs. There was always someone who knew a neighbor of a cousin of someone in English class who had appeared on a corner with eyes sewed shut and an envelope asking forgiveness of their parents, or with money for burial".
The woman knows whoever's driving this van. It stops suddenly in a place not to far from Retiro. I remember this place from a train ride. It appears to be a site with hundreds of train containers and cargo ships. Are they smugglers?
They lead me to a giant cargo container, and the redheaded woman knocks on it 3 times. They let us in, and a kind of giant curtain leads to a dark opening. There are several people dressed in white, along with someone wearing threadbare rags in the center. Apparently, "Their Illustrious Majesty" is mummified here, whoever that may be. (The Spanish possessive pronoun "Su" does not specify gender.)
CHOICE #23 is to either go further and meet this cult, or try to escape.
Choosing to meet the cultists makes me "swallow saliva". Yes, the phrase from 22 Minutos: Tibicenas returns!
"Faith does not swear, but is carried in the skin". Then the cultists blindfold me.
"Sister Asia, do you testify (dar fé) for our new sister?" "I testify." "Will you receive the punishment if she leaves or the blessing enters?"
"The first thing is to renounce (despojarse) the shadows, to rip off the false skin of this world. Only the word illuminates and conquers the word, like the torch does to darkness. Only one is the true name and secret of every being. Sister Sifnos, born and triumphant over the old name. We will crunch the old name and make it disappear until nothing remains, hardly a shadow and disguise. The person is not their shadow. Sister Sifnos, the word burns, kills, and purifies. Everyone has their mission. There are threaders (enhebrador), communicators, callers, 34 forms in total, but one naming. Sister, with the name we receive the form. The circle (cenáculo) of the light has decreed: hunter or visionary. Sister, what are you going to be?"
Tamara prefers Sifnos to "that name you hate so much". CHOICE #24 is to pick which cult job I want: visionary or hunter.
When I become a visionary, the cultists chant "Ab umbra veritas" and order me to eat a mummified finger.
"The less they move me, the better. With that, you try to convince yourself while the needles close your eyes for good. The anesthetic power of the chemicals in the mummified meat minimizes the pain, but you can't avoid shaking every time the needle slides among your eyelids: you can clearly (con nítidez) feel the coming and going of the needles.
The visions begin shortly, and you're not the only one who earns the respect in that sorority: Sister Asia enjoys a great honor thanks to that time she confided in you and your intuition.
Your days are now very peaceful, although the mystical consultations are growing more extensive and tiring. Besides, you begin to suspect that the smoke of the plants, herbs, and barks that are being burned in the container to create your visions are giving you lung problems. Incense to know the future, sandalwood to know the past, and patchouli to find solutions for the present.
One afternoon, the smoke irritates your eyes too much and the Sisters are obligated to end the session. Sitting in a corner, paralyzed by your eyes burning, but shaken by the cough, you can't avoid remember the ridiculous urban legend about the 'white traffic' and what happens in that. END".
Tamara is blinded by a cult and has drug-induced visions. Told you bad things would happen if you play with Latin! The font may be different in this post because I had to recover some of it from Microsoft Word when my computer crashed.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
9 Deaths
7 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
"I wonder what that even looks like, a robot body with six or seven CatClaw daggers sticking out of it and nothing else, and zooming around at crazy agility speed."
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 22
Okay, let's see what the life of a mummy cult hunter is like.
The ritual lasts all night, and my new clothes smell like cigarette smoke. My training lasts for 133 days, and I find the family that I always wanted.
Once my apprenticeship ends, I try to recruit new Sisters for the cult in hospitals, the areas near train stations, plazas in the early morning, and skyscrapers. Tamara also picks up a smoking habit.
"Time passes. You don't measure it by the calendar, but the conclaves and ceremonies that set the rhythm for your new life. You know for a fact (constarse) that you're someone else by the image that you see in the mirror.
One afternoon, you're crossing to another level when behind you, you hear some insistent shouts.
'Tami! Hey Tami! Over here! Tami, I can't believe it! What happened to you? I expected the worst. Hey Tami! Tami, do you hear me? It's me, Poli. Tami, look at me! Hey! Is it you?'
You don't understand who's calling, why he's following you, or who he claims to be. Spying on him with your eye reveals that he has nothing to do with your Sisters. You pull down your hood and run, quickly and far away, turning on every corner, until you leave the threat behind and lose it forever. It's the last time you hear your old name. END".
Tamara's completely brainwashed by the mummy cult now, but she does seem to like it. Probably a Bad Non-Death Ending, though. I was a bit disappointed that it didn't turn out to be a literal hunter in the style of The Most Dangerous Game.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
9 Deaths
8 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 23
It's too late to try to flee from the mummy cult in CHOICE #23.
"You breathe deeply and try to calm yourself thinking that it's always a good time to back down. 'They're only three crazy ladies', you repeat to yourself. Two of them enter and the one with the three color hair moves away to let you through. It's the situation you take advantage of to give her a shove and run, between the containers, to return to the street.
You are never going to know if the pack (jauría) of hungry dogs that begins to pursue you one second later was sent by the cultists, or if it was only a lamentable coincidence. Through the corner of your eye you can count 7, but there could be some more.
The one that looks like the leader, a black dog with a sky-blue eye and a brown eye, gives you the first bite in the right ankle. You try to kick it, but due to bad luck you lose your equilibrium and fall to the ground. Hundreds of teeth bite into your flesh and tear you to pieces. Fortunately, a gray dog immediately bites your jugular and drains your blood.
In the morgue, it takes Poli a few minutes to recognize your body. END".
Finally, I get to see the dogs on the cover! There's also an illustration of a panicking Tamara running away from 3 snarling dogs.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
10 Deaths
8 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 24
In CHOICE #22, I won't talk to the waiter about the ominous Latin papers.
"You go to your platform. The bus is already here, and to your relief it looks good: it doesn't seem like it's going to explode or fall to pieces at the first opportunity".
But it's a dead end as far as playthrough progress goes, because it leads to CHOICE #4.
So let's make up a sob story to tell Sister Asia instead.
"Well, what's happening is that I'm waiting for someone who has to bring me something very important. I can't travel if it doesn't happen, and he just left me a message that. . ."
Sister Asia grabs my hands and says "It's fine, dear, you don't have to make so many explanations. You would have begun through here".
She points to someone behind my back, who shoves a package at my stomach. The man leaves as quickly as he came. "Listen to me. Don't look back even at the sides. You don't have much time. The Professor is waiting for you below the clock. Hurry up. Above all else, don't look anyone in the eyes. Don't make yourself noticeable. And don't drop it."
Is this another completely different alternate timeline caused by arbitrary CHOICEs? Is the 3 hair color lady not a mummy cultist here?
CHOICE #25 is to either lock myself in the bathroom, or continue with my "secret and incomprehensible mission".
Tamara can never go to the bathroom in this book without dying, can she? First, there's the hotel with leeches and thirst rooms. Then, the impostor who kills her on the Edward Packard bus. And now we have this scenario.
She drops the package while attempting to examine the contents, which turns out to be "ampoules" of some strange chemical. When one breaks, the chemical travels over her whole body. Her fingers become hard and swollen, and she can't move her tongue. A tall man wearing violet leather gloves salvages what remains of the package and leaves.
"You try to reach the bathroom door. It's very hard for you to move. You're freezing inside and your body is slipping away. Halfway through the journey you fall down. You now have no way to get up. With what little strength you have, you creep to the door, twisting and contorting on the floor. You hardly advance. When your eyelids shut for the last time, the exit is still far away. END".
Tamara always had "butterfingers" (manos de manteca) according to Poli, and never expected to die because of that.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
11 Deaths
8 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
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No Me Llames Tami Alternate Endings Part 25
On this episode of Mission Impossible, I won't lock myself in the bathroom in CHOICE #25.
There are many clocks in the terminal, but The Clock isn't immediately obvious. ("Reloj" can also mean "watch", not just the English "clock".) Tamara still checks the time on her cell phone despite being surrounded by clocks, and the narration does make fun of her.
Another burst of "intuition" gives me a lead. Or rather 2. CHOICE #26 is between 2 terminals: The one at "Artesanías Nabuti", or the one I'm currently at.
Is "Artesanías Nabuti" a reference to the CYOA book The Lost Jewels of Nabooti? Given Uncle Montgomery and the Packard bus, I'm certain it is.
A boy at the Nabooti terminal tells me the main clock is 10 meters to the left when I ask him about it. But things don't go well when I try to get there. I trip on an umbrella stand (paragüeros) and the package falls with the sound of broken glass. "Out of the corner of your eye" (por el rabillo del ojo), I see the boy approaching the find out what I just broke. Tamara sees many things through the corner of her eye, because for all the faults she may have, she has excellent peripheral vision.
Then I get an ending as a punishment for following the CYOA reference.
"You wake up in what seems to be an infirmary in an abysmal state. The shelves are full of brown flasks with typed labels, and the spilled gases in the corner betray an alarming lack of maintenance.
You try to remember how you got her, but the confused images you remember about Retiro are mixed with the nightmares that harassed you after you fainted. In the most terrible of those, you were hanging by your arms and a small girl with a dirty face ripped pieces out of your muscles. Instinctively, you bring your hand to your leg, but something stops you.
You have both arms tied by straps to the bed. If you can call those blocks of solid and bruised (amoratado) flesh 'arms'. This resulted from the effects of the toxins contained in the box.
A door slam that sounds in your brain with the intensity of a bell ringing returns you to the cold and poorly lit room. The men who, stopped one beside the other, are now occupying the enclosure, and are the same ones that took you away from the business at the station.
'What am I doing here? Who are you?' you ask with a weak voice. As a response, one of them opens a black and white briefcase similar to those doctors have in movies. Inside, instead of a stethoscope, a blood pressure cuff? (tensiómetro), and a tongue depressor, he takes out pliers, a hammer, and a small saw. He passes them from one hand to the other, playing, as he watches you.
The tall one, with gray hair and thick sideburns, approaches a power outlet and the room begins to be filled with the sound of a drill. Slowly, with half smile that's almost seductive, he approaches you so closely that you can see his small eyes behind his black glasses.
'So you like to play 'Juliana Terrorist'? Let's see if you stand with your professor now. . .END".
The expression I translated as "stand with" is the weird Argentine idiom "bancar los trapos". The only way I could extract any meaning from it was to look at an article on a soccer fan site suggesting that real fans have to stick with their team whether they win or lose.
I doubt even many native Spanish speakers could read No Me Llames Tami without at least some difficulty given how dialect-specific it can be.
I'll throw this in the Bad Non-Death Ending column because they probably want to extract information from me rather than kill me.
Results So Far
6 Good Endings
11 Deaths
9 Bad Non-Death Endings
0 Neutral Endings
0 Inconclusive Endings
"I wonder what that even looks like, a robot body with six or seven CatClaw daggers sticking out of it and nothing else, and zooming around at crazy agility speed."
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