Zero Context 13: Rebuild of Sigma 1.11 ~ You Can (Not) Cum

Content warning: suicide plays a central role in Virtue’s Last Reward and is discussed briefly in episode.

After a long sleep in the cryogenic pods, Axe and Nathalie are thrust back into Virtue’s Last Reward, the final end just out of reach. They fumble with dice in a neglected archive, spilling milk all over their hands, but manage to make it back to the garden with both arms attached. Alas, Luna crushes their robot dreams, revealing them to just be normal podcasters before everything explodes.

Next time on Zero Context
- Start at the [Yellow] door -> Vote [Ally] -> Choose the [Red] door -> Vote [Betray] for a game over -> Return and vote [Ally]
- Start at the [Magenta] door -> Vote [Ally] -> Choose the [Green] door -> Vote [Ally] -> Enter the computer password -> Vote [Betray] for a game over -> Return and vote [Ally]

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Zero (JP: Akio Ōtsuka; EN: Jamieson Price)
- Special thanks to Vivian Lamb for her VLR flowchart
- The Neverending Nonary Games
- America’s favorite death game
- Rock, paper, time travel
- Being tortured by having to rotate a 3D die in my mind
- Melting under the weight of false continuity
- Losing Morphogenetic Jeopardy
- We live in a videogame operator society
- Missing two important things…
- End of Evangelion (sigh)
- The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck, for some reason
- Things in my death game that just make sense
- Tenmyouji’s flying Kamen Rider kick: [file missing]
- Instagram Boomerang on my bomb poison watch
- Two cyber arms full of cum

Intro: “Virtue’s Last Reward ～Piano～” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Demise” by Shinji Hosoe

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