hi, i'm isa (ee-sah), im a modder, pathomodding wiki contributor, and a linux user. but currently mostly inactive.
MY STUFF:
VFS Explorer, a simple, intuitive and robust program for viewing, searching, and extracting the contents of VFS archives included in patho1.
Pathologic 2: Bachelor, a faithful recreation of an official bachelor route pitch website that was accidentally revealed to the public by an IPL employee; made back when bachelor route was a part of p2 and not its own game yet
English localisation of the 2002 techdemo for patho1. no machines were translating this one!
other projects on: my tumblr || my personal site || me on pathomodding wiki
Hello, do you still have the Python script you wrote to help translate Pathologic's technical demo? If you could share it again I would be really grateful, the link on your website doesn't work for me
Hi, thanks for the heads up. I've uploaded these two files:
transl.py - Translates between CP-1251 hex and text (you can use it alongside directly editing the .exe file)
techdemo_patcher.py - A little better / more comprehensive tool that generates a small template in a .txt file that you can edit, instead of directly editing the .exe file. Check out --help for more. This should be enough for translating the techdemo without directly editing the .exe file.
To be honest I'm 98% sure that techdemo_patcher.py was fully production-ready, and my notes on it also say it was released at some point, but my memory of that time is a little fuzzy and I'm not completely sure if that's true :( If you encounter any issues, do hit me up anytime (here or in pathomodding discord).
Occassionally still thinking about benedict of 2005demo fame. i wonder what would patho be if they kept this player character in. most interestingly hes not a Direct equivalent of dankovsky because benedict is in fact vividly incompetent in anything medicine
yet hes so tightly involved and important for all the political drama according to the dialogue with maria kaina... and the vibe i was getting from the (rather limited) original dialogue is that they seem to know each other rather well so i wonder if she or any other bigwigs of the town would be aware of his lack of actual medical knowledge (if there are real indicators of whether or not she is aware in the text then i must have forgotten Forgive me). Pathologic 1 AU where you're an actual total charlatan
When the Big Heart said it had been talking to us, we all assumed it was a figure of speech. It's actually completely literal. In my last video essay of 2025, I explore a bunch of unused dialogue where the Big Heart would have spoken to the Haruspex throughout Pathologic 2... and the implication that every line in brackets is its narration. :-)
Pathologic is full of compelling and complex female characters. However, women are underrepresented and often ignored in fan content. The vast majority of posts in the Pathologic tag are about men, and there are 11.6 times as many M/M AO3 fics as F/F ones. Let's do something about it!
During Pathologic Women Week, Sep 21-27, @ninakaina and I invite you only to create and reblog Pathologic content which centers women and lesbians. Tag your works with #pathologicwomenweek, and we'll reblog them onto the @pathologicwomenweek blog.
We've included some creative prompts designed to overlap with pathologic_fest (run by @fellowtragedian). Feel free to follow one set, both, or neither. For more information about the prompts, read on :-)
Sunday, Sep 21: The Shadow Council of Local Nobility. This is how Yulia refers to herself, Eva, Maria, and Lara. Women who use subtle and creative means to influence the Town's future. This day is for content related to any, and any combination of, those four women!
Monday, Sep 22: The Kin. A day for celebrating all women of the Kin. Taya Day. Be careful not to replicate anti-Indigenous tropes here (supplementary info).
Tuesday, Sep 23: Transfemininity. This day is about trans women and envisioning Pathologic's women as trans. Transfem headcanons for "male" characters are welcome, but not simply "fem version of [character]" genderbends! You Have To Mean It. (Due to its oversaturation, Burakovsky in any form is not allowed.)
Wednesday, Sep 24: Minor NPCs. A day for non-Bound women. Townsfolk, Feverish Feeling characters, people mentioned in passing... let's give them time to shine!
Thursday, Sep 25: Children. A day for Pathologic's girls -- the Termites, townsfolk, or even younger versions of characters. Hate to have to say it, but do not sexualize the children.
Friday, Sep 26: Butch/Femme. This day is centered on butch and femme lesbian identities. This may take the form of modern AUs, or explorations of female masculinity and lesbian culture in an early 20th century setting. Doesn't have to be shipping but we absolutely encourage shipping here!
Saturday, Sep 27: The Mistresses. "Women who weave time into threads of power." This day is for the town's Mistresses (in any possible interpretation) and exploration of Mistresshood.
ohhhhhh my god I have the most foul information from the p1 pre-release tech demo.
TLDR: in this demo you are the Bachelor, and there is only one major npc you can talk to, Maria Kaina, but the conversation (this was from 2002) is EXTREMELY from when Pathologic was envisioned as a seven-playable-character novel / rpg, so a lot of the characterization is different, it discusses a person who doesn't exist in the final version, and most importantly you can see:
Occassionally still thinking about benedict of 2005demo fame. i wonder what would patho be if they kept this player character in. most interestingly hes not a Direct equivalent of dankovsky because benedict is in fact vividly incompetent in anything medicine
yet hes so tightly involved and important for all the political drama according to the dialogue with maria kaina... and the vibe i was getting from the (rather limited) original dialogue is that they seem to know each other rather well so i wonder if she or any other bigwigs of the town would be aware of his lack of actual medical knowledge (if there are real indicators of whether or not she is aware in the text then i must have forgotten Forgive me). Pathologic 1 AU where you're an actual total charlatan
Occassionally still thinking about benedict of 2005demo fame. i wonder what would patho be if they kept this player character in. most interestingly hes not a Direct equivalent of dankovsky because benedict is in fact vividly incompetent in anything medicine
