@OtherGrimm lol nice =))
Shouldnât the speech more about besmirching the virtue and purity of the queen , the symbol of all Camelotâs/British women, than mere killing the queen. It tends to have more impact on chivalrous men and even common peasants 
@Mirabella If Arthur trusts Guen, sheâll be able to keep him from becoming too dark (if she wants). Heâll just need a pep talk now and then. So your Guen may have to decide that she believes in his worldview enough to keep reminding him of it. Yay character development! And (also @Ponku) I agree that Hrothulf having a wannabe noble crest, and Guen having the option of taking it (whether heâs alive or dead), is a very cool idea. Itâs now on the list of revisions to make if/when thereâs time. As far as passiveness during the assassination attempt goes, I hope itâs still possible to play through that scene in a fairly passive way. Guen could have all kinds of reasons for not reacting. As for Mordredâs conceptionâŚ
@MarvelousMatty Iâve heard way weirder things than that! Not gonna spoil it, except to say it wonât be like Mists of Avalon (other than in the sense that Morgana doesnât intend for it to happen and freaks out afterward). @Pepper Shhhh!!! The tentacles are supposed to be a surprise! Youâll ruin it for everyone! 
@poison_mara I LOVE the idea of Guen giving a speech to the army. I had already added some more interaction with the army after the battle (not uploaded yet, sorry), but a speech could take all kinds of forms and reflect many different personalities and intentions (as @OtherGrimm and @Pepper point out). That is definitely going on the list of stuff to add if I can.
Iâve really enjoyed playing this game so far; this is very recognizable as the King Arthur story, yet the viewpoint and the presentation are fresh and interesting enough that it isnât at all tiresome. But that leads me to an important question: exactly how much change in the overall narrative can Guinevereâs actions cause? That is, will it be possible for, say, Guinevere to actually have a kid with Arthur (maybe some kind of light magic mojo if sheâs infertile or sterile), or for Mordred to actually turn out to be a good guy (or at least deeply conflicted and maybe kind of forced into his role as a villain for whatever reason)? I ask because in my experience, games about King Arthur tend to have the problem where the playerâs actions donât actually change how the story unfolds in the long run. You end up feeling like a bit character whoâs just watching the main characters do their thing and occasionally having your little side story. Why should I give a crap, the player may end up asking themself, about any of these quests or people when all of them are just going to end up biting the big one a couple years down the line and the game wonât let me do anything about it? The ending is basically just âeveryone dies, the ones that donât die now die later in mostly pointless ways, and everything good all the characters did is completely undone within a generation or two.â Thatâs a bitter pill for a player to swallow and be told heâs going to shut up, take it and like it. I remember I played a tabletop game, King Arthur Pendragon, with some guys I knew, and one of the players, after trying a bunch of different stuff to affect some kind of actual change in the narrative and getting smacked down by the GM each time, finally just stood up, packed up his stuff, and went home, saying the GM clearly didnât need or want the players to actually do anything but watch him play with himself. I left the next session.
@Leingod Glad you enjoyed the game! I agree 100% that thereâs no point in a game where the playerâs actions donât ultimately make any difference. So the short answer is yes, Guenevereâs choices will make all the difference in the world, and Camelot does not automatically fall at the end of the game (though it can). Guen can have a child, though it wonât be easy (light magic mojo definitely required), and her child can be secure as heir by the end of the game. She can also just take over the kingdom from Arthur and run it herself, or the two of them can end up reigning happily ever after, or she can live happily ever after with Morgana or Lancelot, or she and Mordred can begin an evil empire. Some events from Arthurian tradition are fixed â Guen will be accused of being unfaithful no matter what; Mordred will try to take over no matter what â so the story will still be recognizably Arthurian (I hope), but I want to treat those fixed events as challenges to be dealt with through choices, rather than endpoints.
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My question could i have a baby with Mordred instead? And tell Hippie that is his son? That could be so cool. Or have hippie baby and kill then after with Mordred there is no way poison queen accepted another hippie in throne
There wonât be enough time for Guen and Mordred to have a baby within the game, but if they end up together, youâre welcome to headcanon that it happens later â thereâs no reason to rule it out. Guen can absolutely supplant her own child with Mordred, though sheâll have to go to so much effort to conceive the child that killing it later would seem bizarre.
So you wonât be including Cydfan, Anir, Duran, Gwydre, Llacheu, Loholt, and Tom?
Hmm, 8 kids, including Mordred, they should have called Arthur the father of Camelot.
Especially since if Iâm reading this right weâre talking four mothers here for his brood.
Wow that will be such hate on the hippie king. Maybe just raise the hippyâs child somewhere out of sight, with your minions pretending to be his relatives and the hippy king actually killed his family, then have the grown baby be the executioner/ assassin of the hippy king (only telling the hippy king that it was his son when he is totally helpless)
Well my Guen, seeing it as a political marriage, wouldnât be one to criticize Arthur for his fun as long as heâs discrete about it, but I think after the third illegitimate son shows up my Guen would be a little exasperated.
@stsword The Welsh legends give Arthur an illegitimate son Cydfan, as well as sons named Anir, Gwydre, Llacheu and Duran, whose mother is never named (thus I assume it was Gwenhwyfar, a.k.a Guinevere). Of them, Anir was killed by Arthur (the story has not survived, so we donât know why he did it). Gwydre was killed by the enchanted boar Twrch Trwyth, along with a bunch of Arthurâs other men. Llacheu was apparently a major figure in those early stories from what we can glean and fights alongside Cai (who was a serious badass in the Welsh legends) in at least one of them, but none of the other stories survive; all we know is he died too. Duran died at Camlann and thatâs all we ever hear about him (that we know of). Mordred⌠did not exist at this time.
Geoffrey of Monmouth axed the large majority of Arthurâs family, but he did give him a son named Loholt, who was killed by Kay after he slew the giant Logrin. Depending on the story, itâs either a treacherous murder so that Kay can take credit for it, or itâs in the dark and he mistakes Loholt, who is sleeping atop the giantâs corpse as part of a ritual to keep it from coming back to life (and apparently snoring loud enough to wake the dead), for the giant itself and cuts his head off before he realizes the truth. Again, no mother is actually named, so I assume itâs Guinevere. Mordred exists, but is just his nephew, not his bastard. That started with the Vulgate Cycle. Tom aâLincoln is from a 16th-century story of the same name written by an English author named Richard Johnson. If you actually give him all of these sons in a single story, well, at the very least heâs going to have a LOT of explaining to do when they start showing up asking for child support. I just donât see the Arthur weâre presented with in this story as doing a lot of sleeping around, though. Maybe it could work if the way Guinevere acts toward him can potentially drive him into the arms of other women, though.
My guen would use dark magic to kill any bastard or concubine, not for jealousy, for politics, if hippie dies without illegitimate heir a bastard would rule. That broken any possibility od take power easily.
sorry to keep asking but I was wondering if there is going be an updated soon
@stsword and @Leingod The Welsh stuff is fantastic, but (sadly) far removed from whatâs become the âmainstreamâ versions. Iâm mostly focusing on the better-known elements and trying to give them my own twist. That said, a game that stuck closely to the Welsh legends would be a lot of fun, and probably educational for a lot of people.
@Pepper That sounds somewhat comparable to Mordredâs situation. Though Guen raising a child secretly to overthrow Arthur would be really interesting, Iâm afraid thatâs beyond the scope of what I can do in this story. Guen can, of course, participate in Mordred doing almost exactly the same thing, though Mordred will, of course, not be Guenâs own child.
@poison_mara So your Guen is going to kill Mordred, then?
@PurpleMonkey121 Same answer as always: if all goes well, part 2 will be finished by the end of the year. Scene 7 is taking longer than Iâd hoped, but so does everything.
NOOO I NEVER KILL HIM EXCEPT HE CHEAT MY GUEN. I was talking about nasty hippie bastards or guen baby. Not a dark baby as Mordred I wont have q baby due political necessities then kill him before being crowned
You mean your GUEN can share, power must be absolute. Children, puppets and fools may exist
Upps i write wonât when it has to be a will 
I could share power with my love due love its more important than power. YES, POISON QUEEN IS A ROMANTIC SOUL .
And Mordred is the guy she has been waiting in her visions and dreems since kid.
@Leingod The Welsh version sounds awesome, even better than the traditional. Iâd love to see that as a game. All the names would have to be made more pronounceable, though. I mean, the only vowel in âTwrch Trwythâ is a âyâ in the second word. What does that even sound like?!
Edit: Iâm assuming that âyâ acts like a vowel there, since there is no other vowel. Would âTwrchâ be pronounced âtwerchâ or âtwerkâ? Has the enchanted boar been enchanted with magical twerking abilities?
Edit2: Iâm sorry for my excessive silliness. I just couldnât resist.
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finished⌠scene⌠seven⌠part 2 is officially halfway writtenâŚ
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