Keeper of Life and Death (WIP, updated 1/16/25 post 1460)

I tend to agree. I’ve enjoyed things thus far, but I’m more than ready for a turning point.

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I’ve found a weird loop happening If I pick the choice “I want to be good, but it’s so much pressure” :thinking:

From picking that choice I’m asked if I fear being my father or loving someone like him then I’m asked to pick what I think of him and if I want to get to know him or not and all those choices just send me back to the I’m good, not so good or I’m bad list again and it just keeps looping if I pick the not so good choice again. :sweat:

Found another loop: when I’m given the choice of whether or not to tell my love about the dream world or not if I pick "I start another fight. “Keeper business, nothing you’d understand.” it just loops back around to the list of choices again.

Also, I’ve tested to see if the other two choices from the good? list do the same thing and they don’t but they also don’t have the choice of what I think of my father either. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Weird text: I send a blast of #{element} at her.

Oh no… :scream: I won’t lie I’ve purposely messed up when trying to save my MC’s parent(s) before because I wanted my MC to suffer :sweat_smile: but having them die by my MC’s own hands through the sun power just really hit me in the feels… :sob:

My MC’s love wants me to talk to my therapist about symptoms of magic overuse syndrome but I don’t have a new therapist yet and when Gisela says something about losing control I have the choice to pick “I don’t know…My therapist really wouldn’t like this.” but I chose not to get one so that shouldn’t be a thing for me to even pick.

Also when I do get the choice of whether or not I want one some of the text is wrong as my MC’s parents are dead but the text still says my parents have been prompting me to see a therapist and again the game is acting like they are still alive after I wake up from the dream.

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I have to say I’m obsessed with book 3! I tend to love playing MCs that are woobie/angsty/falling apart, so this has been delicioussssssss. I’m super excited for the update!!!

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i like watching keeper mc spiral out of control and destroy themselves!!! start with 80 and 70 friendships with everyone and ro and watch as keeper mc crashes and burns! also fyi, my keeper mc killed lucas by accident when he unleashed the power of the sun, but after the timeskip my keeper mc gets a scene with lucas where he gets comforted and reassured!!! granted my keeper mc has extremely low sanity so he might’ve just hallucinated it or it was extreme delusion…

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I think it’s gettiing a little old at this point. I want revenge not to keep falling apart. A want to fight at this point.

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Yay for the update, also! There is a part when talking about Lysander and trying to be “good”, ((backround is having two adopted parents with good relationship)) where if you pick “im trying to be good” and the option to pretty much disregard him, it will loop you right back to the choice of picking how good you try to be.

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I was just thinking about this. You’re the one who complained about being stoic but being to forced the route of going low point and angst right?

Even though I am not going the path of stoicism and indifference in my playthrough, I agree with you on that. But I just played again and I thought there’s an explanation why.

The Magic Overuse Syndrome explains it. Even though the MC might not care, so long as they’re being forced to do the missions and forced to use magic, they will experience that, and the effect of magic overuse Syndrome is also in mental health.

So I think your mc can hit low point and in the mc’s mind is that they’re being in used or just wanting to be away from all this chaos and have a break.

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keeper mc was also a completely normal person before all this even happened. they’re not a soldier, they’re not anything that requires them to be trained in how to handle or withstand this. before all this keeper mc was just a norma person with an absent mother, a loving father, friends in high school, they were literally just a normal person with normals fears and normal dreams. honestly surprised there isn’t a pathway where keeper mc is a recluse, struggling to understand and cope, and literally has no friends, and just breaks, like total mental breakage, cuz honesty, it’s completely valid.

edit 1: i also never looked beyond the books and wip, and author might’ve said something on their tumblr that just completely discredited my entire opinion, so :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah same especially as one of my MCs is 100% human like if he wasn’t a keeper no one would even consider letting him stay in the supernatural world let alone fighting for them and having political power.

Also, can we talk about the big wtf!? when it comes to Marcela like anyone even ourselves are like poor her for having to go through this she’s just a teenager this shouldn’t be her life.

But meanwhile, we’re going through way worse stuff for what feels like daily however no one thinks the same thing about us and when we do break instead of having time to rest we get beaten up and told to suck up buttercup. :scream:

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I really love how my MC nervous breakdown :drooling_face:
Well, maybe I saw a lot of stories about how people are heroes and fight until the end, that’s why I’m fascinated by the protagonist’s inability to cope with such immense pressure.
I’ve always felt that the moment you want to be a leader or a hero, some part of you must be no longer “human”. This happens especially when it happens to someone who doesn’t want to be a hero, this part of the episode brings a drama rarely seen.
Thank you for your job!

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Pretty sure you’re thinking of someone else. My issue isn’t that I want to stoically push through it all, just that all the angst has been going on for a while now and that the resulting relationship drama and lashing out at the ROs isn’t my particular cup of tea.

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M night shyamalan wishes he could do a twist like chapter 8

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Yeah, most likely. I just couldn’t bother to find them, since they’re probably hundreds of comments buried deep in the forum. They also had issue about their MC being played stoically from year 1, but being forced to experience break down in year 3 now.

How can yu get your parent to be a part of frostbite?

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you need the adopted parents background

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OMG this is still the best game I’ve ever played!!! Thanks so much for the update this is absolutely golden!!!

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Wait, you can do that?? I always pick the 2 paremts option and I never got that outcome.

Yes, you did, if you chose to be raised by two parents they are your adoptive parents- Your biological father is part of Frostbite.

If you choose to be raised by your father than your mother was a nymph, and if you are raised by a single mother your absentee father is a rich business guy.

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But like when will it be revealed? Fo you have to have high amount of cunning or is there any other pre-requisites?

Second half of day and night

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