Distant Memoraĵo
Sep. 21st, 2022 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiroseThis is the sequel to The Expression Amrilato, getting my notes down here for posterity.
So, I've already hit the bad ending and am on my second go with a different response on my first option, which seems to have gotten my story on the right general track.
In the first bad ending, Rin made Ruka upset, wandered around, got yelled at by Kanako (who had been summoned by Ruka because Rin hadn't come home) and the game ended.
I'm currently in my second playthrough which has given me a little more about this world, which I want to have for my Yuletide request. So far I have learned the following things:
* Rin is a teenager and socially awkward at that. She also had a bad tendency to grab people which is... not great. She really is goofing up her relationship with Ruka in this story.
* Kanako seems to be rude, but that's partially understandable because Rin is an idiot.
* Rei likes yaoi (m/m). I know this because some of the terms she uses. She arrived in the Juliamo world/universe/dimension as a middle schooler.
* The world's Japanese is still occasionally heard in the district. There are also carvings and the occasional plaque that are in the world's Japanese because the carvings came before the shift.
* Cellphones are a thing!
* My Esperanto (sorry, Juliamo) is not as good as I thought (though better than Rin's) and I can't understand what Kanoko is saying half the time either. Kanoko is a native speaker, I am not. (To compare, I could understand about 80% of the Esperanto in the first game with a few sprinkled words here and there that I didn't know but could understand from context or Rin figuring them out.) This is too bad. I'm just going to have to play through with a dictionary at hand, I guess.
* Ruka saw the exit to her world at the same time Rin saw hers. At this point, I don't know if this means Ruka and Rin came from the same universe or if it was just a big coincidence. (Rin does not know either.)
* Like the first game, there are places that are the same in both universes.
* Ruka is not actually Ruka's first name; she chose it at some point after coming to the Juliamo world/universe.
So, to combine the two games' lore for my request:
* The Juliamo world/dimension does not really have a sunset for some reason. The sky is pink all the time. Their clock/time is the same, though; they have a 24 hour clock.
* At some point in that world's existence, people from different dimensions started appearing. I have to recheck the lore in the first game, but I think these appearances happened all over the world.
* The visitors did not speak (or did not quite speak) the same language as the residents of the world and some alphabets were different. (There are moments in both games where Rin tries to read the local Japanese but it has characters - well, different kanji, hiragana, and katakana - than what she's used to.)
* Some of those visitors were Esperantists (Esperanto speakers) who taught the language to the residents.
* This language came to be known as "Juliamo" (July and love).
* There were special districts set up where everybody spoke Juliamo to make it easier for both residents and new arrivals. Outside these, residents speak the native language of their country/area.
* New arrivals (vizitantoj) get special discounts and other help to get settled into their new home. There's some testing done to make sure people are not falsely claiming to be new arrivals.
* Not everybody likes vizitantoj.
* It's uncommon, but the local Japanese language (properly japanlingvo, but they call it japano in-game) is occasionally spoken in the special district.
* Cellphone networks are different, but exist. (Rin does not get a signal in the first game with her phone nor can she charge it, but several characters have cellphones in the 2nd.)
* Sometimes "gates" appear that offer a way back to someone's home dimension/world. These are preceded by seeing the sky of their own world. There are some visitors who long for these gates to appear. When they appear, only the person can go through them. (It is unknown if two people from the same world seeing the same gate can go through that gate.)
So, I've already hit the bad ending and am on my second go with a different response on my first option, which seems to have gotten my story on the right general track.
In the first bad ending, Rin made Ruka upset, wandered around, got yelled at by Kanako (who had been summoned by Ruka because Rin hadn't come home) and the game ended.
I'm currently in my second playthrough which has given me a little more about this world, which I want to have for my Yuletide request. So far I have learned the following things:
* Rin is a teenager and socially awkward at that. She also had a bad tendency to grab people which is... not great. She really is goofing up her relationship with Ruka in this story.
* Kanako seems to be rude, but that's partially understandable because Rin is an idiot.
* Rei likes yaoi (m/m). I know this because some of the terms she uses. She arrived in the Juliamo world/universe/dimension as a middle schooler.
* The world's Japanese is still occasionally heard in the district. There are also carvings and the occasional plaque that are in the world's Japanese because the carvings came before the shift.
* Cellphones are a thing!
* My Esperanto (sorry, Juliamo) is not as good as I thought (though better than Rin's) and I can't understand what Kanoko is saying half the time either. Kanoko is a native speaker, I am not. (To compare, I could understand about 80% of the Esperanto in the first game with a few sprinkled words here and there that I didn't know but could understand from context or Rin figuring them out.) This is too bad. I'm just going to have to play through with a dictionary at hand, I guess.
* Ruka saw the exit to her world at the same time Rin saw hers. At this point, I don't know if this means Ruka and Rin came from the same universe or if it was just a big coincidence. (Rin does not know either.)
* Like the first game, there are places that are the same in both universes.
* Ruka is not actually Ruka's first name; she chose it at some point after coming to the Juliamo world/universe.
So, to combine the two games' lore for my request:
* The Juliamo world/dimension does not really have a sunset for some reason. The sky is pink all the time. Their clock/time is the same, though; they have a 24 hour clock.
* At some point in that world's existence, people from different dimensions started appearing. I have to recheck the lore in the first game, but I think these appearances happened all over the world.
* The visitors did not speak (or did not quite speak) the same language as the residents of the world and some alphabets were different. (There are moments in both games where Rin tries to read the local Japanese but it has characters - well, different kanji, hiragana, and katakana - than what she's used to.)
* Some of those visitors were Esperantists (Esperanto speakers) who taught the language to the residents.
* This language came to be known as "Juliamo" (July and love).
* There were special districts set up where everybody spoke Juliamo to make it easier for both residents and new arrivals. Outside these, residents speak the native language of their country/area.
* New arrivals (vizitantoj) get special discounts and other help to get settled into their new home. There's some testing done to make sure people are not falsely claiming to be new arrivals.
* Not everybody likes vizitantoj.
* It's uncommon, but the local Japanese language (properly japanlingvo, but they call it japano in-game) is occasionally spoken in the special district.
* Cellphone networks are different, but exist. (Rin does not get a signal in the first game with her phone nor can she charge it, but several characters have cellphones in the 2nd.)
* Sometimes "gates" appear that offer a way back to someone's home dimension/world. These are preceded by seeing the sky of their own world. There are some visitors who long for these gates to appear. When they appear, only the person can go through them. (It is unknown if two people from the same world seeing the same gate can go through that gate.)
