Zero Context 18: incinerate your gays

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Content warning: this episode discusses scenes involving characters melting and being burned alive, and a brief mention of suicide

Awakening from an explosive nightmare, Axe and Nathalie are thrust into not one, not two, but three deadly decision games. First, they must choose whether to save themselves and doom the others to an acid grave. Then, they play a round of cosmic Russian roulette, potentially killing our favorite boy Sigma to save Phi from a familiar death by fire. In the timeline where they miraculously make it through, they are then suddenly poisoned and must decide if it’s possible to trust the antidote sent by supervillain girlboss Akane. Could she be behind Zero’s mask yet again?

This episode covers the fragments
- [Q Team] -> First Come, First Save
- [D Team] -> Fire

Next time on Zero Context
- Choose [D Team] -> Play the [team looking at a yellow button] fragment -> Play both outcomes -> Play the unlocked fragment
- Choose [C Team] -> Play the [team looking at a yellow button] fragment -> Play both outcomes -> Play the unlocked fragment
- [BONUS FRAGMENT] Chose [C Team] -> Play the [team in a rec room] fragment -> Play all outcomes

Things Discussed
- Voice actor corner: Q (JP: Aki Toyosaki; EN: Jonquil Goode)
- A callout post from Gab’s defense attorney
- Oh no this game has themes
- Inaction as a game mechanic
- The Sleeping Beauty Paradox
- Q getting arrested
- Diana x Phi
- Getting owned for not reading the puzzle instructions
- Sigma turning a woman that hates him into a robot servant
- The artbook prequel I forgot to link last time
- Snail lore
- Not trusting the process
- Diana’s Joker face
- Uchikoshi’s pony parade

Intro: “Ustulate Pathos -Record-” by Shinji Hosoe
Outro: “Morphogenetic Sorrow” by Shinji Hosoe

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