script.rpy

@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ label act1_part1:
     null "Are you fucking serious?!"
     hide null boast with dissolve
     nvl clear
-    advnarrator "With a pissed off look, NULL disappears from my view."
+    advnarrator "With a pissed off look, Null disappears from my view."
     scene black with dissolve
     advnarrator "I start to feel something wet and writhing wrapping itself around my arms."
     advnarrator "No...{w} Not this...{w} Anything but this."
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ label act1_part1:
     scene black with dissolve
     advnarrator "I've been cut off.{w} I lost control..."
     null "Hmhmmm..."
-    advnarrator "NULL inspects herself all around, adjusting to our body."
+    advnarrator "Null inspects herself all around, adjusting to our body."
     advnarrator "She wiggles our fingers and closes our hands."
     advnarrator "And then, satisfied, she opens the fridge, pouncing on it like a predator."
     advnarrator "The contents of the fridge bounce around noisily, though there isn't much inside anymore beyond drinks and frozen goods."
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ label act1_part1:
     hide irida stiff
     hide null boast
     with dissolve
-    advnarrator "Roughly, without a hint of hesitation, NULL takes a bag and tears at it with our nails."
+    advnarrator "Roughly, without a hint of hesitation, Null takes a bag and tears at it with our nails."
     advnarrator "Inside, protected only by a thin plastic that will soon be torn apart, are a few cuts of uncooked steak."
     advnarrator "Despite not being in control I feel all that she does as if it happened to me, although faintly."
     advnarrator "The plastic keeps getting caught on our fingertips, but she seems not to mind the feeling, not letting it stop her from tearing."
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ label act1_part1:
     advnarrator "I sit on the outside, unable to stop her from hurting me, forced to watch and, at most, powerlessly beg."
     advnarrator "And the worst has yet to come."
     null "Ahaha, here it is..."
-    advnarrator "Having perforated a decent hole onto the plastic, NULL finally pulls one of the cuts of meat out of the bag."
+    advnarrator "Having perforated a decent hole onto the plastic, Null finally pulls one of the cuts of meat out of the bag."
     null "Aahh, I've wanted some good food for so long..."
     show irida stiff shock at right with dissolve
     irida "Please, if you r-{w} really want to take over..."
@@ -320,19 +320,19 @@ label act1_part1:
     show irida stiff megashock
     irida "Please, waitー{nw}"
     hide irida with dissolve
-    advnarrator "Not paying any mind to what I say, NULL sinks our teeth into the uncooked meat."
+    advnarrator "Not paying any mind to what I say, Null sinks our teeth into the uncooked meat."
     advnarrator "Like I said, I feel it all as if I was still in the pilot's seat."
     advnarrator "It's disgusting..."
     advnarrator "It's too soft, I feel it resisting under my teeth, forcing them back."
-    advnarrator "But NULL pulls with force, making the resisting pullback from the uncooked chunk even fiercer."
-    advnarrator "I can feel bits tearing apart while others remain, strung thin from NULL's bite."
+    advnarrator "But Null pulls with force, making the resisting pullback from the uncooked chunk even fiercer."
+    advnarrator "I can feel bits tearing apart while others remain, strung thin from Null's bite."
     advnarrator "Fibers catch on my teeth, not completely unlike the plastic getting stuck on our fingers."
     advnarrator "Her bite is fierce, so it's only natural some would get caught in between."
     advnarrator "I feel our teeth sinking down to the point our gums touch the meat..."
     advnarrator "And I see her pulling, stretching the meat thin."
     advnarrator "I hate meat...{w} I hate anything alive..."
     advnarrator "How disgusting, to think I'm made of things like this."
-    advnarrator "NULL always reminds me of that fact, and it makes me want to die."
+    advnarrator "Null always reminds me of that fact, and it makes me want to die."
     null "Rhhggh..."
     advnarrator "She snarls, pulling a large chunk apart, barely chewing before forcing it down our throats with a swallow."
     advnarrator "When she pulls like that, it feels like our teeth are mere moments from being torn off our mouths."
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ label act1_part1:
     extend " At first I'm only disoriented, but the impact of my knees hitting the floor leaves me aware again."
     nvlnarrator "I glance down.{w} I glance down because my stomach feels heavy, and the room feels like it's shaking.{w} There's a burning, not quite in my throat, but threatening to reach it, inching closer by the
     second, making it feel hard to breathe."
-    nvlnarrator "I sweat, even more than I already was, pulling as much air as I can with each loud breath I take.{w} I'd love to cuss out NULL right now, more than anything I'd love to tell her off, but I can't
+    nvlnarrator "I sweat, even more than I already was, pulling as much air as I can with each loud breath I take.{w} I'd love to cuss out Null right now, more than anything I'd love to tell her off, but I can't
     focus on anything but this increasing choking feeling."
     play sound gag2
     nvlnarrator "Unnatural guttural hurls leave my mouth.{w} My body becomes desperate to purge the poison it'd just been fed, no matter the cost.{w} I barely get any time to breathe between the violent hurling,
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ label act1_part1:
     advnarrator "Spite takes over,"
     # door opening sfx lol
     extend " and I swing the door open without thinking."
-    advnarrator "I look back at NULL."
+    advnarrator "I look back at Null."
     show null boast smug with dissolve
     advnarrator "The look she returns to me seems smugly self-satisfied..."
     advnarrator "..."
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ label act2:
     nvl hide Dissolve(0.2)
 
     show null boast pout at left with dissolve
-    advnarrator "NULL's been floating alongside me the whole way."
+    advnarrator "Null's been floating alongside me the whole way."
     advnarrator "Though at some point, she'd started looking dissatisfied."
     irida "...{w} What's bothering you?"
     show null boast thinking at bouncetransition
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ label act2:
     show null boast smug at bouncetransition
     null "You should be proud!"
     advnarrator "I step forward slowly."
-    advnarrator "I try to play it cool, but really, my eyes dart around the room awkwardly when I try not to look at NULL."
+    advnarrator "I try to play it cool, but really, my eyes dart around the room awkwardly when I try not to look at Null."
     advnarrator "It's hard not to look at her.{w} In a room filled with people, I'd probably still find myself laser focused on her."
     incidental "May I help you with something?"
     show null boast creep at bouncetransition
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ label finale:
     scene black with Fade(1.0, 0.5, 0)
     irida "Just stop already."
     pause 1.0
-    show title with Fade(0, 0.2, 4.0)
+    show title with Fade(0, 0.2, 3.0)
     pause 2.0
     scene black with Fade(4.5, 3.0, 0)
 
@@ -1139,47 +1139,7 @@ label epilogue:
     show null boast smug at right with dissolve
     null "Scared you'll run into someone else killable, I take it?"
     null "But really, I do get it..."
-    show null boast smugopen at bouncetransition
+    show null boast smugopen at right with bouncetransition
     null "Anyone with a mind as frail as yours would be better off avoiding anything that could upset them, right?"
     null "Even just a little..."
     null "Poor, fragile Irida would just crumble remembering the time she killed someone in her mind!"
-    irida "..."
-    hide null boast with Fade(1.5, 1.0, 0)
-    advnarrator "Today's a friday, so on the way home I stop by a corner stand and get myself a little treat."
-    advnarrator "Lately I've found that doing little things like these for myself are the way to keep myself going..."
-    advnarrator "That, and stopping to breathe whenever I can."
-    show null boast smug at left with dissolve
-    null "Because your life is just oh, so hard, right?"
-    null "Poor Irida with her stable job, enough money to feed herself every day, and can't forget her cozy apartment..."
-    show null boast thinking at bouncetransition
-    null "If you're telling me even this cushy little life is too much for you..."
-    show null boast creep at bouncetransition
-    null "Then maybe you're just better off dead!"
-    irida "..."
-    hide null boast with Fade(1.5, 1.0, 0)
-    advnarrator "She just keeps on going..."
-    null "Don't tell me you're still scared of being out in the dark?"
-    null "What are you, fucking twelve?{w} Ehehe..."
-    advnarrator "At this point, it's just amusing."
-    null "You still cross the street when you see people coming your way, huh?"
-    null "All those years and you're still the same anxious mess..."
-    advnarrator "When you try, I just can't help but smile."
-    advnarrator "Because I know you too well."
-    scene cg_meeting_empty with Fade(0.0, 0.3, 1.5)
-    advnarrator "And by now you must be aware too."
-    show null boast smug with dissolve
-    null "Welcome home, Irida..."
-    null "How was your day?"
-    null "... Frustrating?"
-    irida "Yeah.{w} You could say that."
-    scene black with Fade(1.5, 0.5, 0)
-    advnarrator "I really never thought I'd be able to say this, but..."
-    null "Then... w, what are you waiting for?"
-    scene cg_meeting_end with Fade(0.0, 0.3, 2.5)
-    null "Come destroy me...{w} like usual..."
-    advnarrator "Even though it was always you making things worse..."
-    scene black with Fade(1.5, 1.0, 0)
-    advnarrator "Even though you were always everything I hated about myself..."
-    advnarrator "Somehow, in the end, I'm so thankful I made you."
-    pause 1.0
-    call static(1.9)