Second to last update. I hope you’re ready for a long, boring cutscene that comes right out of nowhere!
The first thing we want to do, of course, is DATABASE MANAGEMENT! We first need to read the final email from SIDNEY.
I like how dedicated the writers were to telling us shit we already know.
We can then match the print from Le Serpent Rouge to.. Estelle!? Honestly, this makes zero sense, and you’ll see why later - Estelle outright never had this copy of LSR and someone else tells Grace they left it there and not Estelle. Why Estelle’s prints are even on it is a mystery is probably the result of the game being remade from scratch.
Speaking of Estelle, she’s in the lobby by herself now. This is another spot where you can get screwed out of a max score run very easily.
Estelle has two topics of conversation: Egyptian Artifacts and Le Serpent Rouge. Now, here’s the thing. We have no reason to ask about Egypt or Egyptian shit - the only connection to Egypt we’ve seen so far is the vampires at the end of the last update mentioning something about Cairo. If you click this first, you lose two points.
The thing is, this isn’t a bug. There’s slightly different dialogue if you ask about the artifacts first (Estelle will just say she doesn’t know anything) and then Grace will offer her LSR in exchange for these artifacts she shouldn’t know anything about.
So again, I have no idea where the devs were going with Estelle’s prints being on it.
NOW we can safely ask her about the Egyptian artifacts that Grace should know nothing about.
If we had asked her about the artifacts first, this is all we would’ve gotten. It almost feels like a sequence break, but it’s probably a boon for speedrunners doing an any% run.
Shout-outs to that picture on the wall which I’m pretty sure is what Junji Ito thinks a penis looks like.
Yeah, I’m sure he accidentally cut his own neck open and drained out all of his blood. Purely by accident. Could’ve happened to anyone.
I don’t know if this is supposed to be a reference to something, but it doesn’t look like a character from any Sierra game I remember.
Wait what. Did you just say “Atlanteans”? You were talking about fucking Egypt, not Atlantis! Get your story straight! This shit makes Ni no Kuni 2 look coherent! You are actually raising my opinion of Ni no Kuni 2! I didn’t think that was even possible!
So yeah, I have zero idea what any of this has to do with the rest of the game. It feels like they made it, put it in the game, forgot why it was there, and just kinda left it.
I feel like Estelle worships Mormon Jesus.
Grace will use her hooves to shuffle through a couple of stock photos of Egyptian stuff before she lands on this thing.
No, in exchange for you getting your irrelevant ass off the screen so we can move on with the game.
If we try to leave the hotel, Emilio will walk up right next to us.. and then start heading off somewhere.
Oh look, he’s meeting with.. that’s Mesmi, Prince James’s assistant.
This scene is also not going to make a whole lot of sense. I have a theory as to what it was supposed to be, though - which I kind of hit on just as a guess way earlier in the LP.
This entire bit is largely superfluous, and you’ll see why immediately after we get done with it.
I mean, we already know what the vampires want - they want Jesus blood so they can turn into Jesus furries.
So, in case there’s any doubt, Emilio is the one who left the Le Serpent Rouge copy on the museum door. He’s also the one who left all those notes for Grace to find. In fact, he apparently had all of this shit figured out before Gabriel even got here.
This particular line is what makes me think Emilio WAS originally intended to be the Wandering Jew. It’ll make way more sense in a bit.
So.. I’m just gonna go ahead and fast-forward this a bit. You have to follow Emilio all the way back to his room to talk to him.
God dammit I want to dump my theory but the game just keeps dropping these stupid exposition bombs.
Secret Brotherhood. Right. This is the first time they are ever mentioned. There’s no entry in SIDNEY for them - I actually went back to the beginning of this time segment after this and searched “secret brotherhood”, “brotherhood”, and “secret”. Nothing came up for any of them.
Grace, we’ve already figured this shit out!
Hope you’re ready for a long cutscene in which the writers make a desperate last-minute asspull to make this plot work.
I apologize about the subtitles - for whatever reason, the game has severe timing issues with them in this cutscene, and tends to dump large paragraphs at once.
So yes, Jesus in Gabriel Knight 3 is basically Superman, only instead of being an alien he’s a magic wonder baby.
I played a lot of City of Heroes after the private servers were released a few months ago, and this sounds like something the writers for that would’ve used as a backstory.
So, here’s why I think my theory about Emilio being the Wandering Jew was spot-on. We know that Jesus in this universe is basically Golden Age Superman only somehow even more bullshit.
He’s also basically a limitless reality warper, which means that it’s not infeasible that he could actually give someone else immortality. Plus we have the whole thing with Mesmi just kind of assuming that Emilio could predict the future, and Emilio saying he’s not part of the Secret Brotherhood, whatever that is. THEN we have the part where he doesn’t want the vampires knowing he’s here. Why? Because he’s an immortal.
The story even kind of backs this up, creating a character who refuses to betray the Brotherhood to get some cheap Jesus blood.
I think someone just showed Sinay the script for Gabriel Knight 3 and he’s just horrified at how bad it is.
So again, Ali - Jesus’s boyfriend. It would make PERFECT SENSE for him to also be immortal, only the story gets written down wrong and people think he’s the Wandering Jew.
You know, why didn’t Jesus just.. I dunno, warp reality so these guys don’t want the blood?
I also realized there’s an issue here, which I suppose could be explained by Ali. If Jesus is a reality warper and wills himself to die, how does the whole resurrection story in the Bible make sense? Would if the person who came out of the cave was actually his boyfriend.
And also drinking Jesus blood apparently turns you into a mutant. This plot is dumb as fuck.
Now, here’s something I REALLY don’t get. The vampires want Jesus blood to become immortal. Jesus’s descendants aren’t immortal. How would this.. it doesn’t even make any sense. It would’ve made more sense if they’d used some kind of “drinking the baby’s blood will somehow make theirs like, pure Jesus blood and they could use this to take over the EU and then the world” thing.
Next time, we’ll do another Colossal Bullshit Puzzle, and finish this game (with no survivors). I hope you like chess.
Points Breakdown:
Previous Update: 828 points
Read the email about the cult symbols: 5 points (833)
Matched the LSR print to Estelle: 4 points (837)
Talked to Estelle in the correct order: 4 points (841)
Got the photo from Estelle: 5 points (846)
Followed Emilio to the graveyard: 10 points (856)
Listened to Emilio’s bullshit: 5 points (861)
Total: 861/965 points.