Living threads

Definition

Living threads are essentially substories that the player will experience based on 3 conditions, by either having unlocked a capacity, or because they reached a specific timing, such as the begining of the 2nd third of the game, for example.

A living thread is focused on one specific colleague, either to stop them from doing something, or help them doing something. There is always some sort of reward at the end of it.

Impacts

Moral

ONLY files related to a living thread will have an impact on the character’s mental health, and only if this impact is toward The Empathic path. This impact is obviously made by sabotaging those specific files.

Financial

Not following the empathic path, or voluntarily leaning toward The empty path will give the player more time to complete “normal” files, and since those files are complete normally, they will reward more money to the player, making it easier for them to reimburse their debt.

Following the empathic path has 2 consequences:

• The player will get less money, since the result will be sabotaged, making it less interesting for Pythia Solutions
• However, the player will have more files to handle (those from the living threads), so that they are still able to pay the bills, in a less comfortable way than in the Empty path.