Food for thought about the Masks and the toys.

[Shrinkshooter]

After reviewing some videos, just some stuff to think about.

* The masks don't show up until after Zero becomes aware of the dinosaur toys. Both of these toys are blue and yellow, analogous to "sterling silver" and "gold," the mask colors.

* In one dialogue option, the girl says that it's "more than just a toy," and the text is colored purple when she says it. Behemoth glows red when Leviathan is nearby, a possible nod to "life" being "red" when "death" is close.

* The girl is a shadow in one of Zero's hallucidreams, and when struck by shadow-Zero against the wall, she becomes Leviathan. Reminder that the boy progresses from playing catch with shadow girl to playing with Leviathan, which we know Zero got from back when he was doing spec ops during the war after he killed the scientist and left the shack.

* When Zero picks up the Leviathan toy, the entire screen glows bright red.

* Shortly before the girl is kidnapped she gives both toys to Zero.

I'm probably forgetting some other stuff. As a possible contradiction, some people think the men who showed up to meet her father were the two masked people Zero sees; the girl claims when they came to meet her father she hid under the stairs with Behemoth.

[Shazbot!]

Let me ruin it for you, then.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1802220344
who do you think this is?
btw they didn't poison Zero's tea
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1802220039
or did they?

[Curiousfellow]

The coolant leak happens on the first night, though, and it was said to be resolved in 12 hours. Unless Zero saved up the coolant water so he could drink it in the days after that, it wouldn't have poisoned him when the masked men showed up.

[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

said to be resolved in 12 hours.

duuude

[Curiousfellow]

What?

It's possible that Zero drank coolant on day 1, but since the masked men only show up in Zero's apartment on day 5, Zero would've had to preserve the coolant water until day 5 for that to be the poison.

[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

What?
It's possible that Zero drank coolant on day 1, but since the masked men only show up in Zero's apartment on day 5, Zero would've had to preserve the coolant water until day 5 for that to be the poison.

hint: said is not necessarily resolved, not in 3rd district at least.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1802428990
if this doesn't sound vague af for you, then i don't know
Also, given that Juncture is basically megacorporation, and and masks are juncture "authorities", whatever they said about poisoning tea kinda makes sense.

[Curiousfellow]

The coolant leak only affects the third district though. If juncture were to act the part of a shady corporation and not fix the coolant leak, they wouldn't need to announce that there was one in the first place. It makes very little sense for them to first warn people about the coolant and then proceed to do nothing about it.

I don't see any indication that the masked men are at all associated with juncture.

[Shazbot!]

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

they wouldn't need to announce that there was one in the first place. It makes very little sense for them to first warn people about the coolant and then proceed to do nothing about it.

that's called damage control

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

I don't see any indication that the masked men are at all associated with juncture.

Well, given that the owner of club Neon is called Sterling Silver, and megacorporations kinda used to own everything and anything, i don't see why not. that could be a bit far fetched though