
You can send Kim back to the police station for various reasons, and you can also sneak out of your room after bidding him good night in the evening. Like the game notes – if you can sneak away from Kim to conduct your sordid business, he (mostly) will never find out about it and / or adjust his opinion accordingly. Points are only awarded for things Kim actually witnesses. Anything that makes him think you’re completely gone / a terrible freaking person grants -1 cop point (+1 / -1 cop point is probably easier to parse than “+1 Good Cop Point” and “+1 Bad Cop Point”). Anything that can convince him that despite your oddities, you still make an effective detective (and a decent human being) earns +1 cop point.

Related: Disco Elysium’s The Expression Is A Scathing Portrait Of Your MiseryĪt the same time, consider that the city of Revachol is also in the throes of death.

Making this more macabre is that the Pale is also expanding at an unknown rate, and you can witness the effects of the Pale yourself when you’re at the Dolorian church in Martinaise. It has the capacity to tear apart the very fabric of reality, logic and and the physical numbers have said to simply malfunction deep within its depths. It’s decidedly toxic and catastrophic, as it devours the minds and memories of travellers who have prolonged exposure to it, sometimes leaving others with remnants of the consciousness and memories of humanity across decades-perhaps even centuries.

According to various in-game accounts, it does not have a perceivable appearance, smell, or feature. The gist of it is, essentially, to force the game to boot Harry out of its physical confines, and then reappear again as if by magic (it’s, of course, just technical wizardry).Īll this busywork also somehow suggests that the nature of the Pale, the phenomenon that surrounds the vast continents of matter that make up the game’s universe-is of mystical, unknowable origins. It was only after the concerted effort of several fans that the secret to unlocking it can be uncovered. For a while, the ‘Palerunner’ achievement in Disco Elysium is one of the most enigmatic achievements to nail down in the game, with its description only suggesting that you’ll need to “phase-shift for 3 seconds”.
