Oh i get it; I’m not usually one for playing agrro MCs, but I also find the coping mechanism to be… fun? I have something planned for it further down the road, but the philosophy I’m trying to take while writing it is that grief itself is a tricky thing – especially for teenagers, which the MC technically is. But even in adults, sometimes grief manifests as completely unwarranted anger or outbursts, or in wanton depression. My goal is to made the different shades of this interesting and unique (ie, you can go a hard anger route and get some totally different character interactions for it, or go pure melancholy which has its own case of unique circumstances, and if you stay somewhere in the middle you’ll get access to scenes the other two would be locked out of.)
Spoilers here, but Alice actually enjoys the hell out of a fighty MC. She was a handful in her own day, and understands how to deal with anger more than she understands moping. But if you’ve stay mad enough to get the ‘old hag’ option, you’ve almost certainly aggravated River. You’ll be able to repair your relationship with them eventually, if you want to, but it will be a while.
I’m gonna come up with a way to phrase all of this more subtly for the key features section. XD
As for the Stat section~~ I’m always open to ideas. It doesn’t really bother me if it’s a bit choppy atm, since this is really in Alpha stage, but if that bothers people I’m open to restructuring more completely early on. So hit me.
@Taylor_Enean Yes! River deserves the flirts, they’re a good kid. (and don’t tempt me with those witch puns. ;D)
Puns, me? To hex with it, I wouldn’t dream of putting such a spell on you. Speaking of witch, I do find this whole cauldron of magical words quite enchanting.
Annnnd problems fixed (hopefully) I can’t believe how many I hadn’t caught. One thing I’m learning about doing things this way is just how often we use pronouns in speech. That said, hopefully it reads a little better for poor F!River, now, and thank you so much for pointing that out.
We tend to, when it comes to what we have written ourselves, be blind to the errors, as we ‘know’ what we wrote and does not necessarily actually read it any more. Be it prose or code, it’s how we’re wired, I think.
Hence why proof-reading is an actual occupation, I would venture…
And did Alice made a naughty joke about werewolves and bite ?
I’ll ask really nicely, I promise.
Ok so I don’t know if it’s a mistake or not but : when you choose the cold man on the picture when you wake up you smell daffodil & when you choose the warm man when you wake up you smell snow and ashes. Shouldn’t it be the opposite ? Cold man → Snow and ashes & Warm man → Daffodil ?
Once again I am so in love with the lore of this world, you’ve mixed fantasy with realism so well! Everything feels like this ominous looming threat that everyone else treats as perfectly normal but still has that air of danger and mystery to it, so good.
I love how River’s first impression makes you think they’re going to be this bad boy/girl and then they end up being so sweet and conscious of the MC’s feelings I’m in love already and Alice!! The option to call her grandma and the smile it gave her made me so happy the whole mystery behind MC’s family and that creepy dream? vision? are so interesting I can’t wait to learn more.
Looking forward to the next update, so many things I wanna know about!
Also this is random but I’m curious what it is that decides whether the MC gets ID’ed or not
@parkerlyn@AdmiralLynx89 Oh gosh, thank you both! And I got those pronouns squashed. Gonna wait until the next push to make it live, though, since they’re small.
@spiriter Ahhhhh that’s exactly the feel I’m going for, so thank you!! (both about the lore, and River, lol.)
As for the ID it’s currently a restraint check, though I’ve been considering reworking that section. I wanted to make it something relatively easy to get as it’s going to be a minor character point later on, and it serves to net you points in ~lying~.
What a great update.
Idk what it is, but something about the way you write just projects a movie into my mind as I read it. I’m not talking about imagining the story as I read it, since I always do that. I really mean seeing a movie, because it’s so clear. So clear.
Love this wip and will continue following it.
Whooooooo, so! This month’s update is being posted a little later than I’d hoped, but I ended up spending a good portion of the month redesigning a few things.
Let’s start with the bad news: The other ROs introductions have not been added, yet. The beginning of Val’s intro is the current end of the demo, and I may go ahead and re-upload in the next week or two when I get the time to polish that off (assuming I don’t get to spend another week or two sans electricity like I did last month.)
But for the good news: I added a considerable amount of material (roughly 17k worth, if my previous wordcount really was 20k? I can’t remember.) The original chapters one and two were merged into a single chapter, with some more added to the end, and I’m about 1/3rd of the way through the new chapter two. I also completely overhauled the stat and personality system, cutting out a few redundancies and making things simpler for down the road. Check out the skill page once you get past the character designer and you’ll know what I mean!
Which also brings me to the other thing: I fixed the stat page! It is now much more polished, though by no means complete, with a few supplementary pages for stat explanations and de-bug options.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me about bugs. I always try to squash as many as I can find before I post an alpha, but I’m sure I’m missing a few things. Thank you all so much for reading, and I hope you have a fantastic witching season.
One thing I’m learning about doing things this way is just how often we use pronouns in speech. That said, hopefully it reads a little better for poor F!River, now, and thank you so much for pointing that out.
and Alice!! The option to call her grandma and the smile it gave her made me so happy 
the whole mystery behind MC’s family and that creepy dream? vision? are so interesting I can’t wait to learn more.
