Talk:Rafael's playthrough - Simon's route/@comment-27713488-20160203113643/@comment-27405625-20160203125217

The problem I was running into at that point was that I was stuck in the palace and running low on things to do. You are right though, I could have easily read a book in the archive, which would have taken two days and advanced me to the cutscene on day 28.

I saved reading books for those long boring periods between heals and fights, when I needed to kill time for something else to open up. By that point I was thinking more along the lines of "what can I do to raise any visible or hidden score with the least amount of effort". Succubi lore wasn't that great of a score, but I could do it by standing in one place instead of having to move between rooms. By the end of this guide, I had done everything and was actually trying to find ways to kill time productively rather than cut it down. My decisions approaching there are mostly laziness driven. I somewhat overshot my actual goals going in to Simon's Path.