Zero Context 7: *drool*

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

Axe and Nathalie venture further into Virtue’s Last Reward, getting trapped waiting for the password reset email as murder abounds. The workplace comedy death game continues to expand absurdly outward, treating our hosts to even more thought experiments, cryptic anagrams, and anime sicknesses. Will the nineth lion eat the sun? Could a child be behind it all? Can we ever escape The Chinese Room of our mind? Voting closes in 3…2…1…

Next time on Zero Context
Begin at the second set of Chromatic Doors and go through the [Blue Door] -> Vote [Betray] -> Return to AB game 2 and vote [Ally]

Things Discussed
- How locks work
- Voice actor corner: Luna (JP: Mamiko Noto; EN: Laura Bailey)
- Flow charts and skip functions
- Puzzles are good again
- Sex comedy translation challenges
- Evil child mastermind Quark
- Sigma’s 180° Resident Evil spin
- Rare Earth Metal Grindset
- Do (not) try to solve the mystery
- Power the GOLEM
- The Chinese Room
- SHE KNOWS EVERYTHING
- Knox’s 10 Mystery Commandments
- Clover’s sick ass belt buckle

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

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