yay for art

has anyone ever talked about how the bachelor actually does have more mission statements that update throughout the game like the other two healers, they're just hidden in the pathologic 1 script file and never trigger? because i found those.

it's interesting to me, because i first heard about pathologic through the hbomberguy video, and a big point he makes at the beginning is how clever it is that the bachelor's day 1 mission about examining simon kain never changes throughout the game, even though you almost immediately find out that this isn't going to happen. hbomberguy framed it as cleverly underscoring how daniil originally came for the town for his own goals and now he's trapped there, stuck doing something totally different, and i always thought that was the case too... but apparently not!

here are all of the mission logs i found, with estimated days for the ones that don't appear in the game, based on the mission logs of the other healers and the events that are mentioned:

i also made a nekoweb page with all of the game's mission logs for easier reading, that also has the 2005 version of the text and the russian version, as well as the script id numbers so people can check for themselves: https://thanatica.nekoweb.org/mission_logs.html (update: mirror hosted on github here)

they're pretty interesting, and definitely give an insight into how unstable daniil's headspace is throughout his route. like, him essentially saying he'd rather kill himself than admit defeat as early as day 2 (he explicitly uses "suicide" instead of "die" in the other translations). and the sudden switch to 2nd person POV in the day 11 mission log makes him come off as pretty dissociative at that point, especially since the other two healers speak in 1st person throughout their logs. and just the general paranoia in everything he says.

Would you punt him like a football? 🥺🦊