Let's play Fatal Hearts - Because there aren't vampires enough these days

Maybe he's saying the big metal door is some kind of elevator? I dunno... I really can't remember what it was.

Elevator would make sense, yeah. That's probably it, since bad grammar hasn't been a factor in the game so far.

English is a nasty little language, and the more thought you put into it, the more chances it gets to bite you (try to think when do you use 'at/on/in' as in 'my seat is on/in the third row'. You knew the answer a second ago, but now you started thinking about it and your brain went sideways). I just play it by the ear and hope I don't make any glaring mistakes. 'Whose' totally sounds like relating to a person, but it might be technically correct, since about 95% of English speakers abuse the grammar and thus, what my intuition is telling me might be completely false. Fun, isn't it?

Also, I assume he means the house has some lower passage, like a basement, since there's no room for a vault in the kitchen (although I don't see why it can't be somewhere else on the floor). But it's a hazardous pastime, presuming to know the intentions of a Mastermind like The Tim.
So that was the romance, huh. A kiss cg and that's it. Not exactly a tale for the ages, is it?

It's not much of a romance game, yes. But hey, at least we had romance! I got nothing in my Café 0 Let's Play.

"Whose" is the possessive form of "who" (person) or "which" (inanimate object). Presumably it's used for both because "which's/whiches" is kind of a mouthful.

EDIT: After doing a bit more research: it seems that pedants would call using "whose" as the possessive of "which" technically incorrect, and insist on using "for which" instead. I am not a pedant, and I don't think "for which" would make sense or flow properly in the sentence you mentioned. So as a native English speaker, I see no problem with it.

That does explain who it didn't stick out at me. I just get confused coming from a native language that thinks grammatic order is devilwork.

Uuh, mister "I know everything" seems to know everything.



Tim: Solid - it'll take forever to break through that.
Tim: It needs some sort of code in runes to unlock.
Tim: Randy, Burt, see if you can pry it open - quietly. Probably won't work, but we may as well try.

No way this could go wrong.

Tim: Everybody else, search the house. Look for runes. Maybe they've written down the combination somewhere.

Pfff, this won't work, people just write combination in games. Wait.

Christina: We could just try combinations and see if we get lucky.

Genious, Chris. This won't take our precious time to investigate at all.

Tim: The wrong combination could set something off. We look first.



LOOK! THERE'S SEBASTIEN ON THAT PAINTING!!!

It looks like something out of a museum. Everything is lush and polished and antique.
You can almost envision the cultists standing around sipping wine and plotting murder.

Well, I can't. I really can't fit camouflage-soldier-dressed people in this mansion.



Here comes the Scooby-Doo group divisions again.

Tim: Eric, Christina, you're with me.

Of course I'm with you, darling~



TU-TUM. TU-TUM. TU-TUM.
What is going to happen now???
Seriously, I don't remember this part at all.

Next, you find a wine-stained camo uniform. Clearly.

Upstairs we see a long hallway lined with doors.

I don't see it. Actually, we're not even upstairs.

Eric steps forward to open the first...



Quite neat, if you ask me. You just need to exchange those bottles for anime characters figures.



A WILD SEBASTIEN APPEARS!
Wait... IS SOMETHING REALLY HAPPENING? OMG, THAT'S NEWS!!!

The snow-white monster waves his hand - he doesn't even touch him! - and Eric is thrown across the hallway, his head slamming into the wall with a terrible crunch.

Snow-white monster, haha!



Also, this "terrible crunch" thing seems bad. Did... DID HE DIE? WHAT?
ERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!

Tim snarls and leaps, but the vampire moves faster, catching Tim by the throat and shaking him, then casting his limp body to the ground.

DON'T. YOU. DARE. HURT. TIMMY!!!
If Tim dies...

And I stare in shock at my approaching doom...

Oh-oh.



DON'T BE ALL SENTIMENTAL WITH ME NOW! YOU PRETENDED YOU LOVE ME THEN YOU KILLED ME ON THAT OTHER LIFE OF MINE. NOW YOU KILLED TIM!!!

Bastian: It's really you...
Bastian: The summoning spell must have drawn you here, at last... I've waited so long to see you again...
Bastian: Come to me.

Wow, that quick? We didn't even touched each other yet.

As if in a dream, I feel my feet moving, stepping blindly over Tim, drawn into the vampire's arms...

HOW DO YOU DARE STEPPING ON TIM? Who do you think you are, Chris???

Bastian: Liebchen... Beloved...



What should we do?

He hurt Tim. It's obvious what we must do. We have a stake in this.

I'm not 100% sure we won't die, but attack him anyway!

Embrace poor lost soul!
Damn, he looks way too young to have a moustache and beard...

One one hand, Tim.
On the other hand, luscious, luscious white hair.
Why is life so full of difficult decisions?!
Okay fine let's attack him, if we get our ass kicked hard enough maybe we'll get a CG. ... Priorities!

Attaaaaack!

Is...is Tim still alive? :'(

I don't really remember. Hope he is D=

OKAY, LET'S ATTACK THIS MOTHERFUCKER!



Is she repeating the same thing he said in her dream?

It is the only way to get close enough...



WHAT? CHRISTINA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THIS ISN'T WHAT I TOLD YOU TO DO!!!

I don't know if Eric and Tim are dead or alive. They can't help me now.
I concentrate on the strength of the wolf within...



HOLY FUCK, YES!!!
Best ending ever. Just look at it's title!!!
Awesome.
That's why I like you, Chris. Besides being dumb.



There are 14 endings? I thought it was 12.
But yeah, here it is. We got our ending.
As lot of people said already, they're sudden and are never a "happily ever after" ending. This is Tim's path good ending, and you can see she don't even stay with him in the end. And Eric dies. D=
I can't believe it took me 41 pages to do this. I didn't remember this game to be that long, for real.

I'm doing one more, I'll try to make it quicker by skipping everything we've already seen here. And this time I'll make the votes different.
I'll list here all the possible endings except this one, with no context or anything. Just vote for the title that you like the most:

• Drowning
• Bloodbath
• Held in Trust
• Foretold
• Runaways
• Sacrifice
• Pyrrhus
• Hopeful Future
• Pyre
• Fresh Start
• New Order
• Childhood
• Crossfire

Let the votes begin!

Oh wow... Christina became a badass! I'm just gonna go ahead and headcanon that she and Tim are dating now. ;)

I vote for Pyrrus because it sounds delightfully scarring.

HOLY SHIT, CHRIS. That was some serious action violence you got up to there.

You're fifte... it... HOLY SHIT. Well, all in all it's a happy ending. She didn't end up violated by the beard or anything.

Held In Trust sounds nice. But then I have been running old RP posts through a 'gangster rap speak' filter all evening for a laugh so anything that doesn't involve someone claiming New Downtown Walez is ghettofab sounds nice.

I.. wow. Didn't expect it to almost end with a Kano-style heart-rip fatality.

I almost voted for an ending that sounded nice and then my brain went 'no, clethra, you want an ending that sounds AWESOME'. Let's do bloodbath!

Childhood.

Pyrrhus.

Held in Trust.

Or whichever ending is Lucy's.

I second what IchigoNeko said

Well, we did promise to do the Lucy end after this. It'll be fun, we can actually like it in that route. She has two ending, I think, although one is more like a non standard Game Over.

Let me count it.

Pyrrhus 2
Held in Trust 2
Bloodbath 1
Childhood 1
Any Lucy's ending (Runaways or Fresh Start) 3

Votes are not closed yet, but I'll close it soon enough.

Let me put in another vote for Lucy's route. Maybe we don't have to deport her then.

Okay, let's go for Lucy's ending...
I'll choose different stuff this time.

So, all that Chris in Lucy's house blah blah blah, and I want mommy to take us home.



Mom's still best mom in the world.

I wave goodbye to Lucy and hope her parents get home soon.



WHERE'S MOMMY?

The world looks different at night. So quiet and still.
The night sky is full of stars, so far overhead...
But there's no way to judge the distance to the stars. Sometimes, the night sky looks closer than the day.
Like a heavy black lid hanging over us.

Wow, Chris, you're poetic today.

Christina: Mom, did you just hear a wolf?
Mom: It's only a dog, honey. You girls always let your imaginations run away with you.

That doesn't sound like a dog at all, mom. Maybe you should check your hearing.




It starts!
Then, Lucy's pool time!!! AND THIS TIME I WANT TO BE A WRITER!!!



So do I, Chris. So do I.

Ah, y'know, most terror/romantic/psychological stuff. But I doubt Chris write any of this.



Poetry? There's something I can't possibly write.
I tried. I swear I tried.



PFFF Chris must be horrible at it too. Or maybe it's porn poetry.



Believe me, Lucy, when it comes to terrible poetry, it's better to keep it away from people.
Unless Chris writes good poetry. She was so poetic about the starts and stuff, after all.

She's fifteen, it seems a bit of a young age to get the really good stuff in. Then again I remember we had a poet we studied in connection with the Expressionism genre who wrote his first, best-selling and only poetry aged 20, so that might be why 15 seems a bit off the mark to me.

But but but... IF YOU DON'T SHOW IT TO PEOPLE, HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO PRACTICE?

Then Lucy asks us again what do we want in a relationship. This time, I DON'T KNOW!!!



Pink-haired girls, at least?



It is, kinda.



But you can imagine having a pink-haired girlfriend, right?

I never realized before, but that barbed wire on the dialogue box looks sort of dangerous when the girls are heading towards it wearing only swimsuits....

... Why would he laugh at your panties? You're going to marry a 11 years old boy?



Good. You're to young for it anyway.
Chris asks Lucy what SHE wants in a man. But this time Lucy answers differently.



Oh.



The people. Not the men. The people can be female too.
Lucy, you're almost confessing your love for Chris here. The game has barely started!!!



AWWN, LUCY, YOU'RE SO RIGHT!

... 'Cause maybe you had a plan?



What the fuck, Chris?
Then, Chris find that strange book and yadda yadda. This time, I ask Lucy about it.



Christina: It looked old, and it was all locked up, like a diary, with metal dials you had to turn to open it.

Except it didn't look like a diary at all.

Christina: You father took it with him when he left.
Christina: Do you know what that was about?



Woah, why do you look so nervous? Wasn't I supposed to ask about it?



I think Lucy's parents buy antiques to put in the vampire's house or something.

He prefers his antiques as birchwood. At least that's what I gathered from that nonsense earlier.

That must give lots of money.

Lucy: Then Dad would take the money and buy other antiques to keep for himself.

Or the vampire.

Lucy: He's got some great stuff - goblets, golden eggs, a jeweled dagger...

Can't even imagine what they used this dagger for.

Christina: Can I see?
Lucy: Dad keeps most of his treasures locked in a safe. If you ask when he's around, I'm sure he'll show some off for you.

We got to see her daddy's safe last playthrough? I don't remember.



Good! Show it, then.

Lucy: There's a set of carved elephants, like a parade, from a big one down to a little one.

They say elephants means luck. My aunt has a set like this too.

Lucy: I used to play with it when I was little. It's on Dad's dresser. Come on!

Good, stop infodumping about it and show it already.
But she doesn't show shit. Instead she finds the credit card and take us to the mall. I let her buy the necklace again, then I choose to watch the Sorority Slasher 2 movie with her.



You bet it will.



She's much more excited about it than the last time. Lucy's a horror movies girl!

That she loves horror films does seem a bit tragic considering what happened to her life last playthrough. By a bit I a lot.

PFFF a predictable horror movie. I dislike those.

Lucy grabs my hand every time the killer comes out of nowhere.

AWWWN THEY'RE IN HOLDING HAND TERMS ALREADY!

But in the end, good triumphs over evil.

Good wins? What kind of horror movie is this?
Then we meet Randy and Timmy~ and they ask what's my name. Since I still love Tim, I'll just tell him my name this time.



So good to see you again, Evil Mastermind~! But we're not romancing you this time.
Then in the next day Aunt Madge calls again to say a girl was murdered and we go search for Lucy again.
Then Chris find the dead body. And this time, WE'RE ENTERING JEREMY'S CAR.



Yay, we're in the killer's car!



Aaaawkwaaaard...

"So, killed any good teens lately?"

1) Since when has 'no problem' replaced 'you're welcome'? Is he trying to be hip?
2) He's so going to put his hand on her thighs any moment now.
3) Wasn't it nighttime when she found the dead body? How are they driving into the sunset?
4) He's going to know where she lives now. How very safe.

God, if I found a dead body, the last thing I'd do is jump into some stranger car. How is that ever a good idea?