Thank you, everybody who has been a part of the first month of Rule of Rose Mysteries!
Whether you posted comments (yay!) or just lurked, I appreciate your coming to my site and I hope that you found content here that increased your enjoyment of the Rule of Rose game.
What will the next month bring?
For one thing, I expect to post a document-based time-line for the time-period after Jennifer arrived at the orphanage (thus completing the time-line process begun with Document-based Time-line: Before Jennifer Arrived at the Orphanage).
This is part of my plan to assemble and organize collections of clues in such a way that others may quickly become masters of the mysteries of Rule of Rose in their own right: able to form well-informed opinions directly from the clues rather than having to rely on someone else’s opinion as an “authority”.
And of course, I will continue to post my own theories on how one might assemble the clues to solve the mysteries. Please post your agreements, disagreements, frustrations, counter-theories, and questions.
Or, continue to enjoy lurking in the shadows.
I get a lot of enjoyment thinking about these mysteries.
I hope you will too.
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Thanks! I’ll try!
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wondr if it’s like having a baby.
A really creepy baby…
Congratulations PokerNemesis! This is a little gift for you and for the fans of Rule of Rose. A link of a site with fan arts and fanfics. Some of theme are really something. Check the art of Diana. Made me amazed!
http://rule-of-rose.deviantart.com/
http://lamp-ag.deviantart.com/art/Red-Rose-31928216 (Diana)
Thanks for the gift, Yuzo-kun! I like both artworks.
Yes, the Diana portrait IS terrific… professional quality.
I’ll definitely check out that site further.
Here are a couple more works I found by Eva Soulu, the artist who did the Diana portrait.
Jennifer and Brown:
http://lamp.otaku.ru/en/galleries/soulu/fanart/eva_fanart_RoR_Jenny-Brown.jpg.view
Heather (from Silent Hill 3):
http://lamp.otaku.ru/en/galleries/soulu/fanart/eva_fanart_Heather.jpg.view
Those are cool.
Anyway, glad to offer another perspective on this whole mystery, PN!
Thank you for the links, Poker. I have a question: what is “the 8 mysterious objects” thing you talked about on gamefaqs frorums? I missed that topic.
Yuzo-kun asks:
—I have a question: what is “the 8 mysterious objects” thing you talked about on gamefaqs forums? I missed that topic.—
It refers to the objects arranged in front of the “Stray Dog Kidnaps Kidz” drawing. To find them you must go left, and through a gate, immediately after using the boarding pass to enter the orphanage grounds during the first (“The Little Princess”) chapter.
I’ll post something about that tomorrow for you.
I just recently discovered something new relating to those objects that I haven’t ever posted about before (and I doubt anybody else ever has either).
Hey there PokerNemesis! xD I just wanted to come out of lurk-mode and thank you for taking the time to write down your thoughts in this blog. :3 I no longer play RoR, but I was intrigued by all the mystery and storybooks, so I googled it, and found this site. I’m very glad I did. c:
I can’t contribute much, but I’ll be reading and waiting anxiously for your next post! n wn
Thanks, Vanilla Cup. Welcome!
This blog is incredible. YOU are incredible. Have you considered becoming a private detective? I’m a writer myself, and coming up with a web of interconnecting lines of causality is tough…but dissecting someone else’s work and putting everything in a straight line (or as straight as it will go) is extremely difficult. Congrats on this achievement.
Welcome Silas Crane!
Thanks for the very kind words of praise.
Actually, I think that I am trying to think more like a writer than a private detective.
A detective tries to determine what actually happened, and deals with a world where coincidences exist and many observations might be irrelevant. But Rule of Rose is a work of art, and coincidence doesn’t play a role in an artful story the way that it might in real life. Nothing shows up in a work of art by chance, everything is by design.
So, assuming that everything in Rule of Rose is by design, I always ask myself: why would the author(s) have designed this or that to be the way it is?
My goal is not to determine what really happened, because nothing really happened, right? So I try to determine the back-story that the author(s) had in mind.
Unfortunately, the author(s) will probably never reveal to us the back-story.
So, ultimately, I am trying to create stories (which I call theories or hypotheses) that connect the dots of the game in what seems to me to be the most elegant way.
Sometimes it is frustrating for me because I feel I have a great story in mind, but it doesn’t connect the dots well, so I must discard it.
The rule of the game (that I have set for myself) is to restrain my creativity by not rejecting any dots (unless I feel that the authors have indicated that I should!).
So, although I truly don’t think about ever becoming a private detective, I will confess that I would like to be a published fiction writer one day and I hope that I have what it takes!
I often find myself thinking the way you are talking about. It ruins a lot of stories for me…movies, video games, novels. I always try to write stories that have a clear ending where all the little threads I’ve been tossing out are woven into a neat little thing (I hesitate to say “tapestry”) in the conclusion. I shy away from formulaic writing, but I think clarity is next to godliness. That said, sometimes it takes a mind-eff of a story (like Rule of Rose) to surprise you and make your writer’s brain work again. This blog…it’s great exercise!
Hey, all writers hope they have what it takes. (Somehow, I think you won’t struggle too much with character motivation and cause/effect!) There’s only one magic formula for getting better: read a lot and write a lot. If you have fiction you want someone to review, I would be happy to give it a read. I’ve been looking for more story-swapping friends.
So what got you into this whole mess? What made you want to start this blog and how long are you going to keep at it?