Yes, when you don't know she's a time traveller yet, she mails you "goodbye", and then you get a mail from Mayuri telling you that the satellite disappeared.
edited 14th Nov '16 1:48:06 PM by Lyendith
Ah. Just keep reading then. The question of what happened to the IBN is one that takes awhile to answer.
Ah, indeed, there was a choice with the Phonewave… The cue was obvious enough, thankfully. >.>
And now this is going into a weird tengent. SERN's secret army ain't got nothing to... Faris-hating RaiNet otakus…? Faris suddenly getting Reading Steiner just when Okarin needs her to seems awfully convienient… Still, I kinda like the little insight we get into her.
When I think of it, Faris is a bit unusual for a moe character. They aren't usually so… seductive? Hypnotizing? It feels like she could be pretty dangerous as an antagonist. And damn her cat-speak is way too adorable, even when she's "serious". I wonder if she has some feelings for Okarin… although SG isn't really romance-focused, I guess. Speaking of which, Kurisu's Tsundere-meter is slowly going through the roof.
I don't really like the Faris arc very much.It feels kind of out of place and like not much more than padding. She's cute though, I guess.
Well… you could say it's a breather after seeing Mayuri die half a dozen times.
So, continuing… This time Okarin retconned the Phonewave and the lab out of existence. Woops? And just as I wonder how he would time-leap this time… a J-Pop song starts. As if it was the end or something. Wait, what's with the fade-out? And why are the credits rolling?
…So yeah, I reached my first ending. Yaaaay. \o/ You could call it a "subjective good ending", I guess? Mayuri and Faris' dad are both safe, Okarin can start a new happy life, and he makes a genuinely lovely couple with Faris…
But that means Suzuha's sacrifice was for naught and there's no longer anyone who can prevent the Bad Future. I'm also not sure how changing Faris' dad's fate prevented Mayuri and Okarin's meeting… Didn't they meet before it happened?
Anyway… Thank god I saved in a separate slot after realizing I missed the cue. But now I'm curious at the ending I would have had if I hadn't retconned Suzuha's D-Mail… I'll see that later.
edited 17th Nov '16 11:03:01 AM by Lyendith
Well, welcome to the Faris ending. You have to make the call to the phonewave each time Okabe thinks about it or you'll get an ending. Well, actually, I think there's only one more ending like that to get. Not making the call immediately in the arc after that gets you a bonus scene that's kind of interesting but then continues on with the story.
And yes, I noticed the plot hole about Mayuri and Okabe not having met as well.
Suzuha's ending is... interesting, I suppose?
So I'm curious, how have you been responding to those mails from Kurisu? The ending you're most likely to get is a pretty terrible ending while of the other two one is okay, if bland, and the other is the real ending.
What do you mean, "respond"? If you mean reading them, I open all the mails I receive anyway.
When you read the mails you get sent, certain words are underlined in blue. You can click those in order to respond to the mail and the underlined word you pick affects what the response will be. Most of these just unlock things like bonus C Gs or achievements, but Kurisu has a total of six mails that you need to answer correctly to get the true ending.
Since you haven't been responding to any of them, apparently, you're going to get mediocre final ending as opposed to the bad or good one.
edited 17th Nov '16 11:43:27 AM by Arha
Damn… I never noticed that. >.<
That's what I meant when I asked you about it on... the sixth? That was longer ago than I thought.
Alright, after a little detour by the Suzuha ending (which was… pretty interesting indeed), I'm beginning chapter 8. Okarin's harshest battle yet. 
I deliberately didn't send the D-Mail this time, but… it all seems to be going smoothly, somehow? Other than that brief bad end. Actually, Okarin didn't even know where to send the goddamn mail, so, I guess it would have taken this route anyway…
Hey, Okarin, before making Luka cry, you could, you know, ask her what she did with the IBN? Because she obviously knows something about it... Anyway, this arc is funny and a bit cringey at the same time. Kurisu's "help" is pure gold too. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
But goddamnit, Lukako, try…… to speak…… faster…… than…… 5 words…… per minute……
Oh well, next will be the date. Should be fun. Or even more cringey.
Ruka's arc and character are just full of cringe in general.
Lukako ending! Ugh… Uuugh… That was harsh… TT____TT But sweet at the same time… Those two ending pictures… I guess it's interesting to have at least one ending where they actually have to deal with the aftermath of Mayuri's death.
It's weird, though… Did Mayuri die from the Death Note or something? You can avoid a death by car or bullet, but a… whatever that was is pretty hard to prevent. And the Rounders didn't make a move this time, for some reason…
Alright, next time I'll make the other excruciating choice. Ain't that fun. ;__;
edited 21st Nov '16 10:22:00 AM by Lyendith
I think it's just convergence shenanigans. There was nothing around to kill her and I'm not sure Moeka was even after them properly but the timeline still freaked and just made her drop dead.
Also, congratulations, you're now past the point I'd consider padding. This time, I recommend that when Okabe thinks of calling the Phonewave that you not do it. It's not an extra ending, he just delays a little and you get a bonus scene before he makes the call.
Oh, since you mentioned the Suzuha ending, does that mean you went back through and got the proper mail prompts for the true ending?
Err, no, I would have to go back to the beginning for that, since I only make separate save slots for important choices…
These parts with Lukako and Faris did feel like slightly superfluous plot detours, but they were still interesting for characterization. 
It's still very ironic that despite the series' novelty, Steins;Gate's route system pretty much works the same way as your normal eroge. …Wait, does that mean the good ending is the harem ending?
I hope the Chaos;Child anime is good.
Especially since Chaos;Head is practically "They Wasted Such A Perfectly Good Plot: The VN."
No, there's no harem ending.
Oh well, just make sure you go back and see the true ending later. You can skip most of the already read stuff and I think the game automatically stops skipping when you get a text anyway. I'll stop bringing it up now.
As for Chaos Child, I hope it's just not as terrible as Chaos Head. God I hated Takumi.
edited 21st Nov '16 2:39:59 PM by Arha
Now to the Moeka arc, and holy crap a lot of stuff happens. I always found Moeka pretty pitiful, but while her backstory was pretty much what I expected, I didn't expect the other thing we learn. And I had a hard time registering the scene even as I was reading it actually. I mean, how do you take a guy with a "Braun Tube Moe" apron seriously? =.=" And then, err, Nae casually goes to kill Moeka… okay? I kinda suspected she was a Creepy Child since the "push Mayuri under a train" incident, but damn…
That said, I really like Okarin as a character. Every time he tries to fix something, something else goes wrong, so you couldn't blame him for snapping by now. Yet he still retains empathy, whatever happens. I also really like how Kurisu increasingly acts like the pragmatic voice who pulls him back to earth when needed. He wouldn't have gone very far without her; or he would have, but in all the wrong directions.
So I cancelled Moeka's D-Mail… let's see what comes next.
edited 22nd Nov '16 3:05:02 PM by Lyendith
Nae isn't usually like that. Remember, that's a crazy 20-30 something woman and possibly one with brain damage as a result of time leaping from so far in the future.
You're in the last non optional arc now. I believe you're going to get the Mayuri ending, which is very boring.
edited 22nd Nov '16 4:13:42 PM by Arha
Alas, I have no Time Leap Machine, so I can't remember something I haven't learned yet. .−.
The game prompted you to make a phone call after she stabbed Moeka, but you didn't have to. That's what I mentioned a few times. So you missed the scene.
edited 22nd Nov '16 4:44:21 PM by Arha
Mayuri ending… it's… okay? The setup to it is great and touching, and it only increased my love for Kurisu. The question of what would happened to her if Okarin cancelled all the D-Mails had always bugged me, and it was addressed beautifully… But then… I don't know, after the timeline change, the ending is kinda anti-climactic. For that matter, it seems strange to me that erasing the D-Mail from SERN's database would change the entire timeline up to that point. They erased the mail itself, but not the fact that it was sent and that SERN discovered it, did they?
Anyway, I'll go back and not send the D-Mail to Moeka this time, I guess…
edited 23rd Nov '16 10:27:25 AM by Lyendith
I lied, I'm going to tell you to go get the true ending again. Yes, Mayuri's ending is really anticlimactic, but that's because it cuts the story short by an hour or two. There's a Kurisu ending and a true ending. Go for the true ending this time by getting all those flags in her text. Save before the last one for the sake of achievements/completion if you want, but do the true ending first. The Kurisu ending isn't worth your time.
As for deleting the mail from the SERN database, I dunno. I guess the idea is that SERN hadn't actually examined that mail yet and only went after the group because of Moeka's discoveries. It still made the bad future and Mayuri's death inevitable, but maybe the latter was delayed for a month or two.
edited 23rd Nov '16 10:59:51 AM by Arha
Okay, I tried to not send the D-Mail this time and I got… exactly the same ending, only with the explanation about Nae (and holy crap, she's scary). What was the point of giving me a choice, then? >.> I don't know how to get the Kurisu ending, so for now I went back to the start, because it seems I'm in a dead-end.
It's actually amazing how much foreshadowing there is in this prologue… I had totally forgotten that Suzuha came in her time machine even in the original timeline, only she didn't "crash". It's quite funny to realize the "woman" telling you everything is alright is actually her, from the voice. So I assume in that timeline, she directly came to kill Kurisu, and Okabe somehow found a way to come to the past and try to prevent it (again, the scream is clearly his voice). What a mess. >.>
Alright, I sped forward to Kurisu's first mail. I'll do the rest tomorrow.
Maybe there's more time between the events than I thought? I know at one point he's thinking he has to call the phonewave and you have to make him actually do it. If you don't, you end up getting the Amane ending.
Oh wait, are you wondering what happened to the IBN in the timeline from before Okabe called to keep her from going back in time?
edited 14th Nov '16 1:35:08 PM by Arha