#reverse 1999 a series of dusks

[hx3henry]

God this is still to this day the most satisfying run I had

[sleeplesssmoll]

The consequence for betraying the Foundation is death.

The Foundation has a special way of preventing betrayal. The Arcane Skill "Scorching Heart" seems to be cast on all Field Agents. It can be activated remotely and works by burning the traitor's heart, thus killing them.

Sonetto is also a field agent. I don't know if other departments also have this spell cast on them.

Speculation time!

If Vertin chooses to defect, the puppy would die if she tried to follow. That being said, Vertin might have this spell on her too despite being an independent department. I'm assuming she has a lot more wiggle room since she is indispensable in their Storm research.

In the beginning, I thought it made sense that Vertin tries to accomplish her goals from within the Foundation since they can provide her resources (much like Semmelweis). She can find leads about the Storm, find clues about her mother, and rescue more arcanists with the Foundation backing her up (like funding, granting her access to other countries, giving her new tech, etc). I didn't see her abandoning the Foundation and living her life peacefully in the Suitcase because she has goal to achieve.

But what if Vertin actually can't leave? They might kill her instead of letting her fall into Manus's hands. Or, they could pull an Arcana. They could find an excuse to punish the people closest to her in retaliation. Vertin might be ready to face the consequences, but she won't let them do that to her people. She cares about her friends too much to let them take the fall for her.

Which is exactly what happened during the Break-Away event. Her friends were Reversed and she was the only survivor.

[haysaca]

I like to think that the House of Records implies that Semmelweis and Lorelei just became roommates after the Melody ending. With Semmelweis doing most of their actual work while Lorelei is just, there, sitting on the sofa all day.. and Semmel just lets her??

[stari-hun]

I’m coming back to my thought process on Kakania and how she can’t have full sympathy after what she caused in Vienna. After starting A Series of Dusks a bit, Semmelweis is actually the perfect outside perspective because she’s someone who IS in Kakania’s intended field. She’s someone who’s mentally ill but generally coping, and accepting who she is inside and letting that be apart of herself is to her benefit. But at the same time, through Semmelweis, we’re seeing a complete outsiders perspective of Kakania. Semmelweis doesn’t NEED to listen to her talk about the things going on in Vienna in order to piece together the mystery of the Storm, she’s there to look for other people, and Kakania is in the way of that by not only rambling. But Kakania KNOCKED HER OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE! She’s extremely premature to act, in part BECAUSE of how young and under qualified she is, and she doesn’t listen to others well as evidenced by her story trailer with her father. Semmelweis FINISHED her sentence about how she wasn’t hostile or needed anything from Kakania and it was a misunderstanding, but Kakania still tried to knock her out without any further investigation. When that didn’t work she proceeded to blast her with light to knock her out entirely, only thinking to drag her back to her clinic after a second look in her mirror proved Semmelweiss wasn’t there to be hostile. Mind you, directly following up with demands to know about her mental state as an explanation for what she saw in the mirror. Being demanding of people with struggles not only to divulge personally information is one demon, but on top of that Kakania lorded ethics above her as well. In both the simple and true meaning of ethics, Kakania has no right to demand to know whether someone is ill or not. In fact it’s unethical and even more rude to ask someone who she has no professional relationship to about their status’, she also lacks the credibility to be asking such a thing because she isn’t a doctor.

Semmelweis’ familiarity with hallucinations also gave a glimpse on what it was like to actively be under Kakania’s spell, and it’s clear to see why it was so distressing for Isolde afterwards. Kakania was likely used to using her arcanum as a way to seek insight on people. She can use it to peek into a true nature of a person as well as their intentions in that moment. It’s a useful weapon but the way that she used it with Isolde was the least effective method. If her mirror reflects the true self using her arcanum, Isolde was sent into her own [Room] where she saw herself crumbling under her own maddess: the sight she called horrible and ugly which sent her into a psychotic break. What’s important to note in that scene is the way Kakania’s mirror was fully turned towards Isolde, Kakania’s arcanum is for her to interpret the meaning to. Others can’t tell what the mirror means and will only see a reflection of the true self, that more often than not a person had tried to bury, coming to the surface. Isolde’s true self likely confronted her in the same way Semmelweis’ did. Mirrors in therapy is a method used to this day because they're effective, but their effectiveness is in part because what a person decides to be is also who they are. Isolde saw her true self as someone deep into their sickness, and saw that others might be able to see it on the outside already, and it sent her into even further down. The combination of her arcanum and unprofessionalism is in big part as to why their meeting went so poorly.

She’s hasty and borderline pushy with the way she doesn’t listen to others to the point that Isolde’s faulty narrative is really shown here. Through Marcus and Hofmann’s perspectives we saw Karl as an average and mildly corrupt politician, and through Isolde we saw him as a person who wanted to marry the girl he helped raise (and burn out) in order to use her as a way into the Dittarsdorf’s family power. Semmelweis however sees him as most people in Vienna do, a good man who means well while often overlooking things on accident. One thing Isolde hates the most is pushy people without boundaries, something Kakania is very evidently shown herself to be. But Isolde’s narrative is so bias that the main way we see Kakania is smart and capable; a beacon of justice.

Then to Semmelweis, Kakania is far more accurate to what she is. Kakania is a very young woman who wants to do good in the world, but isn’t patient enough to build herself into someone capable of making change. She’s talkative and hasty, she’s pushy and doesn’t listen well to those around her despite being a therapist. While it gives her tunnel vision at times, she does care about the people she visits. But she’s just too underqualified and inexperienced to do anything significant. She’d be a really pitiful and tragic character like Marcus, someone who was thrust into the Storm and met with several unfortunate incidents which tore her apart from her loved ones, but even the story itself tells us in The Atlas that Kakania IS the issue and she WAS the catalyst. The Manus would’ve succeeded even if they had to work directly, but then Kakania wouldn’t have been apart of it and Isolde would’ve left them to stay with her.

[fishareglorious]

NO. NO. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME BLUEPOCH. NO.

(ignore the absolutely deplorable dogwater angle this happens in) oh my god. my heart hurts.

greta's workplace bestie and her workplace son talking about her..... bluepoch you know you could that breaking into my house and beating me with a lead pipe would hurt less than this

[evilisk]

She's only had like five minutes of actual screentime but I already, desperately, need Bluepoch to make her playable

(Also, the new roguelike mode is so good, what the hell. I can't believe it improved so much. I was so done with the old mode after the first run, but I've already done 10+ runs in this new mode and I'm itching to do more)

[ywraa]

Does anyone know how to get these unobtain item and the ??? scene

I need help

[seijatachiis]

god i love the rogue mode. i'm still getting the hang of it but medicine artefacts are so funny like it's OFF THE SCREEN and i couldn't scroll lmao. I DIDNT EVEN HAVE THAT MANY INCREASE DRAW LIMITS this is all from medicine 😭😭

i believe this was my layout? 🙈

[canislupus-13]

So i was fucking around in a series of dusks and uh... Managed to do over a million damage (about 1.6 million actually) in a single incantation with mercuria. like the stats for that battle looked like this and it was a 3 turn battle.

(this was against razor at difficulty 10 btw)

[ti0mumu]

Making you put the items on a grid so you have to play a mini jigsaw game is a interesting way to balance the roguelike mode in reverse 1999. You can't just hoard as many relics as you can get all willy nilly you gotta make them fit and some of them even have special conditionals for their position. Unique!

That being said this was a moment on literally my first run:

Sooo... Yeah

[acesw]

a short patch timeline on reverse 1999

So I've been going back and forth for almost a year now on comprehending and helping people comprehend the timeline in Reverse: 1999 because oh my god, it's so, so convoluted that it's still taking a long time for me to even write down the information without overexplaining it. And that's just the main story.

However, I've been able to piece together the timeline events by patch and chapter to make things easier for everyone. (...unless you want me to even include the anecdotes, which is another can of worms I'd like to not open.)

However, since 2.0 forwards will be taking place after 1.9, I won't be including the patch names. But, I will put their placements in the timeline without making specific notes to avoid spoilers.

I'd like to first note that 1.6 (Notes on Shuori) has no definite placement on the timeline. The reason why is that 1.6 is personally considered a timeline anomaly; there are plot holes and information that made it difficult to deduce when it took place. (i.e. Yenisei's origins, Getian's character story, Bessmert's* presence) For now, I will leave this out.

Additionally, a lot of the character stories take place between the past and the future. Thus, the character story that chronologically takes place the earliest by far is Lucy's while the latest would be Ezra's.

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First of all, we start with 1.8 (Farewell, Rayashki) in its entirety. From Windsong's past, to her arrival in Rayashki, to when the second "Storm" took place, and Vila and the kids needed to adjust to this new normal.

Next is Chapter 3 (Nouvelles et Textes pour Rien) and Chapter 5's interchapter. (The Star) Both the story of Vertin's becoming of the Timekeeper, and Greta Hofmann's experience with the Apeiron group are both aligned. Greta even mentions Vertin in her log after returning to the Foundation.

Afterwards we skip to 4 years later, and we're now in 1966. (Post First "Storm") Three events occur here. First, 1.1, (Theft of the Rimet Cup) then 1.3, (Journey to Mor Pankh) and then finally, the Prologue of our story. (This is Tomorrow)

Its then quite straightforward afterwards. We immediately follow up with the first 4 Chapters taking us through 1929 to late 1913. Then afterwards, we have Chapters 5-7 taking place within the first 3 weeks of January 1914, and then we're immediately taken to August 1990 at the end of Chapter 7.

I'd like to also add that within those 3 chapters, both rougelikes (Echoes in the Mountains and Series of Dusks) took place within the same time. Although, Series of Dusks ends before Chapter 7 due to Semmelweis and Lorelei leaving with the Foundation right before the "Storm" hit.

Now, in 1990, we start with 1.2 (Nightmare at Green Lake) followed by patches 2.0-2.2, all of which take place in immediate succession. And then for now, we end with 1.5. (Revival! Of the Uluru Games)

So if I put all of these in one list, it looks like this:

Notes on Shuori (1.6) - Undetermined placement

Farewell, Rayashki (1.8) - 1999+1 (1996) -> 1999+2 (1985)

Nouvelles et Textes pour Rien + The Star (Ch. 3 and Ch. 5 Interchapter) - 1999+4 (1987)

Theft of the Rimet Cup (1.1) - March 1966

Journey to Mor Pankh (1.3) - April-May 1966

This is Tomorrow (Prologue) - Jun. 3 1966 -> Feb. 14 1929

In Our Time (Ch. 1) - Feb. 14 1929

Tender is the Night (Ch. 2) - Feb. 15 1929 -> Aug. 1913

Nouvelles et Textes pour Rien (Ch. 3 - Present Time) - Aug. 25 1913

El Oro de Los Tigres (Ch. 4) - Aug. 26 -> Oct. 10 1913

Prisoner in The Cave (Ch. 5) - Dec. 24 - Jan. 4 1914

The Star (Ch. 5 - Interchapter) - Jan. 4 1914

Echoes in the Mountain (Rougelike 1) - Undetermined time, before Jan. 8 1914

E lucevan le Stelle (Ch. 6) - Jan. 6-12 1914

Series of Dusks (Rougelike 2) - Jan. 8-13 1914

Vereinsamt (Ch. 7) - Jan. 12-13 1914 -> Aug. 1990

Nightmare of Green Lake (1.2) - Sept. - Oct. 1990

Patches 2.0 - 2.2 - Sept. - Nov. 1990

Revival! Of the Uluru Games (1.5) - Jan 1991

The story can only get even more convoluted from here. As of the moment, I've been sort of working on a larger timeline to piece the entire story together, especially since we've yet to finish it before the story ends. New stories and information continuously flows in the meantime.

[arcanistsanctum]

CN Assets Directory Listing

Posting this to make it easier for others to navigate and identify specific categories of Myssal's Reverse:1999 Assets Repo. Expand to find more listed noteable asset folders from the repository and a tip at the end!

Note: THESE CONTAIN CN CONTENTS

Character Live2D Sprite Sheets .png of the sheets under textures folder of each character folder

Character Chibi/Battle and Suitcase Sprite Sheets .png of the sheets under textures folder of each character folder, includes enemies folders with '_s" are suitcase sprite sheets, while folders with '_z" are character ultimate sprite sheets

Character Story Sprite Sheets .png of the sheets under textures folder of each character folder, includes NPCs

Achievement Assets (BGs, frames, icons)

- Achievement Badge Icons

Battlepass Assets

Mane's Bulletin Rating Icons

Character Garment Backgrounds

Resonate Background Assets

Currency Item Assets

Anecdote CGs

Anecdote Assets

The Three Doors Assets

Arcanist Items

Psychube Icons

Psychube Suits

Psychube Effects

Card Attributes

Arcane Skill Cards

Character Handbook Gallery Icon

Character Initial Illustrations and Garment Splash Arts

Character Initial and Garment Roster Image Cards

- and another one - slightly wider cropped versions - even wider cropped versions

Character Chibi Icons

Character Room Icons

Character Expressions Sheet

Loading Screen Assets

Log In Background

Lobby Change Preview

Player Avatar Icons

Character Birthday Block Icons

Wilderness Island Icons

Wilderness Building Icons

Wilderness Pack Icons

Wilderness Pack Shop Banners

Wilderness Theme Illustrations

Wilderness Critters Cropped Icons

Wilderness Critters Full-Body Icons

Wilderness Assets

Character Items

Character Portrait Item Icons

Character Event Garment Item Icons

Material Icons

- and another one

Series of Dusk Assets

UTTU Cards

Character Signatures

Store Assets

All Story Backgrounds, Main and Event Story CGs

Summon Banner Assets

Cutscene Videos

These folders can be downloaded via download-directory, or simply add 'ss' before github.com of the directory/file (demo video) and click Download. Both methods will zip the file.

Credits to @anonymocha for finding the repository! And of course, shoutout to Myssal for sharing the repo!

And a healthy reminder to only save/use these assets for personal use (like journaling or scrapbooking or for your R1999-related video content creation), and DO NOT claim BLUEPOCH's intellectual property as your own!

[sleeplesssmoll]

Semmelweis's Real Name

Bella.

[haysaca]

since semmelweis carries fat stacks of disks in her books, you ever wonder if in single combat, she just yeets them like a mini gun as she does in a Semmel-Windsong Disk combo?

(for context I'm referring to this build in the Series of Ducks minigame)

(and no these are 2 separate runs, one successful and one 😭)

[stari-hun]

Semmelweis next to Kakania and Isolde: two deeply flawed characters in their own right who's overlapping flaws are covered up by the other's narrative in some way. Then there's Sophia, a character who was purposefully led to make a decision based on a false narrative created by Arcana. Valentina is a character living through their life in transience and acting entirely of their own volition, and to her credit, while she knows she's unethical by mortal standards, she's still one of the more amicable Manus members.

Then there's Semmelweis, who like Valentina, lays out her flaws right in front of the audience. "I am not special". Despite being unique on the fact of being alive, Semmelweis claims to be lacking. She's much less full of energy as many other arcanists, or even some human staff members. Semmelweis is both a character in both groups, and neither community. But it's still something she lays out to the audience from the beginning.

[fishareglorious]

rest in fucking pieces razor squad