Well, clearly, I am still of the dense variety, because I cannot figure out how to load New Game+
I saved the game when prompted, the save site is listed as 'In Memorium.' When I load that game, I get a choice of Leave now? Yes / No. If I choose Yes, I am returned to the party (inside the snowman, I might add). I talk to Penelope, and then I'm given a choice of Continue partying? / Wait for time to pass?
If I choose Continue Partying, nothing happens, I'm still at the party and I can talk to the characters. I can't access the menu, so I go back to Penelope. This time, when she gives me a choice of Continue Partying? / Wait for time to pass?, I choose Wait for time to pass. This brings me to the main menu, so I choose Continue, and load the saved game 'In Memorium.' Once again, I'm given the option Leave now? Yes / No, so I chose No. I get the stats screen, I now get to a Save screen with New Game+ seemingly being one of the options, but, since I'm in the Save screen (not the load screen), I can't access New Game+. So I exit out, go back to the Load screen, select that game 'In Memorium' and I'm right back where I started with the Leave now? Yes / No option.
This is very frustrating. It's not that I want to play a New Game+ all the way through, I was just curious as to how it works. So.... since I really couldn't make the ending work for me, I decided to make up my own. Keep in mind, some of the 'humor' here is not mine, but what I perceive to be Indy's.
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Scene: Party
Genevieve inside complaining about being cold
Nyx and Audrey regaling each other with stories of adventure
Busho and Lilith getting to know each other a little more personally
Cutscene to Penelope and Caius
Sage: You should be so proud and happy, Caius. You have saved the world from certain destruction.
Caius: I am, I guess. (Thinks-I guess this wouldn't be a good time to ask her about her age.) Yeah, sure, I'm happy. Happy, happy, happy, that's me.
Sage: And yet you don't feel the job is complete?
Caius: How do you know that?
Sage: Well, I am a sage after all.
Caius: Marlyn. I wanted to save Marlyn. I wish one of us could have found her, brought her back, you know. Despite everything, I cared for her.
Sage: You cared for her or you cared for her adulation for you?
Caius: Both, I guess.
Caius saunters off
Cutscene to Lilith and Busho
Lilith: I must return to my forest. It's where I belong.
Busho: I could belong anywhere, so long as I could find some solitude, and I had you by my side. (Busho remembers Lilith kissing him on his cheek by the sword in the stone.) Busho blushes.
Lilith: I could kiss you again, you know. Maybe not on your cheek this time?
Busho: How did you know that's what I was remembering?
Lilith: We elves are far superior to you humans in reading emotions.
Busho: Yeah, well, we humans are far superior to you elves in acting upon emotions. Shall we leave?
Lilith: Lead the way.
Cutscene to Caius and Genevieve
Caius: What will you do now, Genevieve?
Genevieve: Oh, I'll probably go back to Master Z's. I'm not good at doing much else.
Caius: Not good? Genevieve, you helped to save the world!
Genevieve: I didn't really do much, and I think my being slow and clumsy held you back.
Caius: Slow and clumsy? Do you think we could have managed without you? That zombie spell saved us more times than I can count.
Genevieve: Really? You really think I did a good job? (Genevieve swells with pride.)
let GenSwell = GenSwell + 1
<if Karim's bounty collected>
Caius: And what about spotting Karim's wife on the rooftop? We would have never gotten all that gold without you.
Genevieve: Aww, gee, Caius... (Genevieve swells with pride again.)
var GenSwell = GenSwell + 1
<end if>
Caius: Not to mention that witchcraft spell. We couldn't have made it through that volcano without you.
Genevieve: You really thought that helped? (Genevieve swells with pride even more)
let GenSwell = GenSwell + 1
<if Genevieve learned Fairy Dash>
Caius: And Busho told me you were his party's main healer after we split.
Genevieve: It wasn't so much. Just a spell. But I AM good with spells. (Genevieve swells with ever so much more pride.)
let GenSwell = GenSwell + 1
<end if>
<if GenSwell >= 3>
Genevieve: Oops! Guess I swelled too much. (Genevieve blushes and does an immediate clothing adjustment.)
Caius: Hey, don't adjust on my account!
<end if>
Caius: Come to think of it, we wouldn't be here without you, Genevieve.
Genevieve: I didn't even want to be here. I wanted to be at the beach.
Caius: I'll buy you a bikini if you'll let me take you to the beach, Geneve.
Genevieve: (Blushes, thinks-He called me Geneve, but I like it coming from him.) I'd like to go to the beach with you Cairo, but as your girlfriend, not as your slave. You are NOT my master!
Caius: My girlfriend, Genevieve. Let's go.
Caius and Genevieve exit the cabin.
Cutscene Caius and Genevieve outside the cabin.
Caius: Hey, where'd Penelope go?
Genevieve: I don't know. Wasn't she standing right there?
<zoom to gray haired, wrinkled, elderly female NPC using a staff as her cane-but with a distinct twinkle in her eye>
Caius: Yeah, well, there's no one there now but some old boomer. Come on, Geneve, we're off to the beach!
Genevieve: Woohoo!
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Well, that's how my mind played it out, anyway!
