Re: [RJ168737] Go!! Narukami School's Occult Research Department 行け!! 鳴神学園オカルト研究部
Thanks, you're awesome! If possible, please don't forget to translate the random questions that purple hair loli asks. I've done maybe 100+ reloads but haven't gotten them right yet.
It's not a quiz; Hikari is just striking up a conversation with her. The choices given are conversation topics. Basically the Sumire you've gotten back isn't quite the same Sumire you started with (slightly different memories), so she feels somewhat distant (to the point of pulling put an 'airsoft' gun and pointing it at Hikari, when pressed).
Does anyone know how to talk with Sumire? There is this dialogue when you choose topics and you get good and bad choices. Which one are good? Why sometimes they turn bad for no reason?
The only indicator for her conversations is that they change every time, but she never likes the lewd topics, and eventually she won't like anything you say.
At the same time, she'll cap out on the conversations by massively spamming it no matter what you say anyway.
(Been busy, Xcom 2 calls)
I discovered that if you say no to the yes no question that sometimes appears a few times and only get the positive responses for a few sessions eventually it seems like she likes everything you say and won't run away if you say yes after that. Nothing really seems to come of it from what I can tell, though. At least not that I have found.
There are effectively four conversational choices, one small talk (elipses / ...), one girls' talk (single bar note / ♫), another about something technical (lightbulb /

), and the last one being a lewd topic (heart / ♥).
Sumire is a shy girl, so she doesn't really like to talk about lewd things (at least initially). Lewd topics will generally fail disastrously earlier on.
Sumire is a math whiz and a nerd, so she likes talking about technical stuff (dimensional portals/philosophical topics/etc.), but those have a moderate chance of failing, possibly because Hikari can't keep up with those or gets something wrong.
Girls' talk will usually succeed, and even if they fail the consequences are minimal (Sumire just doesn't 'get' it).
Small talk almost always succeed, but can fail sometimes. Oddly, the consequences seem more severe than Girls' talk.
After two or three conversational topics Hikari will be given a choice whether to hug Sumire or not. Sumire will always run away earlier on. Later on she becomes receptive (and if you choose to not hug her, she will click her tongue). Sometimes you're not given a choice, with the hug being automatic and a success.
There appears to be some sort of hidden affection meter tracking your progress.
So, the general strategy is to pick girls' talk all the time early on. Don't hug her yet (and never hug after the second topic). Once she lets you hug her(which can be as early as on the second conversation if you succeeded all three times with the first) pick girls' talk for the first two and lewd topics for the last one. Thereafter it's safe to pick lewd topics exclusively, I think (maybe it's keyed to whether you've viewed her H-scenes instead).
So, how do you know which topic is which if you can't read moonrunes? Well, the topics get shuffled around, so you're SOL if you don't have a machine translator. Still, here's a list (copy-paste and zoom-in if you need a bigger size to compare the moonrunes with):
Small talk: 芥子 (Mustard), ユイ (Yui), 宿題 (Homework), 昨日 (What happened yesterday), 社交 (Social activity), ムチ (Whips), 石碑 (Stone marker), 読書 (Reading), 多世界 (Many-worlds)
Girls' talk: 菓子 (Sweets), 服装 (Clothes), 昼食 (Lunch), 才能 (Talent), 社会(Society), 催眠 (Hypnotism), アイス (Ice-cream), 化粧 (Makeup), 映画 (Movies)
Technical topics: 量子 (Quantum mechanics), 銃器 (Guns), 夏休み (Summer holidays), 頭脳 (Brain), 射撃 (Shooting), 呪詛 (Curses), ロボット (Robots), 次元 (Dimensions), 運命論 (Fatalism)
Lewd topics: 精子 (Sperm), 自慰 (Masturbation), 売春 (Prostitution), 官能 (Sensual stuff), 射精 (Money shots), マリー (Mary), 愛撫 (Fondling), 性交 (Sex), 放置P (Neglect play)
Yeah, some of the categories don't really make much sense.