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Cid

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Overview

Cid is a resistance tech specialist at the Underground Modification Clinic in the Future's Prime Sector. His personal progression is friendship and a one-time Technology reward, with additional affection from main-story and Nova scenes. His dialogue remains that of a trusted ally at higher universal affection stages.

Quick Info

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 67 / Future / Neutral
Location Underground Modification Clinic, Prime Sector
Schedule Every day, all 24 hours
Favorite stats / special relationship skill None configured
Gift action None
Personal reward Human vs Machine: Technology +1
The Underground Modification Clinic is in Prime Sector. It is separate from the Cybernetic Enhancement Clinic in the Fringe Zone. Visit Cid's underground clinic for his portrait, Human vs Machine and the story steps below.

Personal Walkthrough

  1. Visit the Underground Modification Clinic at any hour. His portrait has no introduction-quest prerequisite.
  2. Use Talk to Cid to build affection. Each successful conversation takes 20 minutes and grants 1 base affection, with four uses per day.
  3. At Known, with Communication 78, use Human vs Machine. It takes 30 minutes, grants Technology +1 and 15 direct affection, and completes once.
  4. Continue the main-story and Nova scenes below for their additional Cid affection. These scenes do not require Cid affection unless explicitly stated; his personal reward is not a prerequisite for their story progression.
Human vs Machine has no configured money, energy or calm cost. It disappears after completion. The Communication requirement is high, but it gates this reward rather than your first meeting or ordinary Talk.
Listed affection values are base rewards. Cid has no favorite-stat or special-skill bonus, though the shared relationship calculation, easy-mode adjustment, equipment, buffs and alignment can still affect the final gain.

Main Story Appearances and Rewards

Scene Location Required progress Base Cid affection
Story Beat 20 Underground Modification Clinic Story Beat 19 completed 25
Story Beat 29 Underground Modification Clinic Story Beat 28 completed 10
Story Beat 31 Underground Resistance Hideout Story Beat 30 completed 10
Story Beat 32 Underground Modification Clinic Story Beat 31 completed; hideout battle requirement satisfied as described below 10
Story Beat 34 Operations Center Story Beat 33 completed 5; Caring strategy adds +2
Story Beat 73 Operations Center Story Beat 72 completed 4; Caring adds +3
Story Beat 74 Operations Center Story Beat 73 completed 3; Caring adds +2
These scenes trigger automatically at the listed locations, at any hour, and complete once. Their rewards also affect other participants. The guide uses beat numbers to leave the story's events and outcomes to the game.
For Story Beat 32, when the existing TD story requirement preference is enabled, finish all ten waves of the hideout battle. The gate checks the saved cleared-wave record for that specific battle. Starting wave 10 or winning a different battle does not satisfy it. If that preference is disabled, the additional battle gate is skipped. Cid affection cannot substitute for this requirement.
Story Beat 29 also advances 30 minutes through its completion handler. The clinic's all-day schedule keeps ordinary Talk available regardless of the resulting time.

Nova's Shared Scene

Peer Review occurs at Nova's Quantum Research Lab, 8 AM–10 PM, with Nova at Friend, after her The Answer We Make scene and No Useful Purpose H2H are completed. It grants 12 base Nova affection and 2 base Cid affection.
The choice bonuses in that scene apply to Nova, not Cid: Caring +4, Funny +3, Flirty +5. You do not need Cid at Friend to trigger it. This is a one-time automatic scene in Nova's route.

Useful Clinic Services

The underground clinic has its own location actions in addition to Cid's personal menu:
Service Cost Result
10 Ingred for 5 Mats Five minutes; 10 common ingredients Five common materials
25 Ingred for 1 rare Mats Ten minutes; 25 common ingredients One rare material
25 rare Ingred for 1 epic Mats Fifteen minutes; 25 rare ingredients One epic material
Iron Will Stamina 16; 150 minutes, $200, 30 energy, 10 epic materials; skill not learned Learns Iron Will once
These are location services, not Cid affection actions. Deception adds one extra material to each trade's output: six common materials, two rare materials or two epic materials respectively, for the same cost. The ingredient tiers matter: the epic-material trade consumes rare ingredients, while the other two consume common ingredients. Iron Will consumes epic materials, not ingredients. Cybernetics instruction belongs to a different clinic's location menu.
Enter Operations Center appears at the clinic after Story Beat 31 is completed and costs zero travel time. Use it for Cid's later group appearances; his ordinary portrait and personal reward remain at the underground clinic.

If Progress Stalls

  • For Cid's portrait, use the Prime Sector Underground Modification Clinic, not the Fringe clinic.
  • Missing Human vs Machine means Cid is below Known, effective Communication is below 78, or the reward is already completed.
  • For story scenes, check the previous story beat, the exact trigger location, and the specific hideout battle requirement for Beat 32.
  • For Peer Review, follow Nova's scene and H2H prerequisites; increasing Cid affection does not open it.
  • Talk has four uses per day. There is no extra gift action to extend that allowance.
  • Cid has no registered H2H, romance date, intimate video, apartment visit or worker recruitment. Higher universal affection does not turn his friendship dialogue into a romance route.

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