Lux: City of Lies - Book 4 of The Evertree Saga by Thom Baylay

Thank you so much for joining the series and sharing your support :smiley:
I actually get this question quite a lot. My answer right now is that I don’t have immediate plans to bring the family member to Lux, but I am definitely considering options for involving both them and your choice of home city in the story in the future. It’s a lot of different coding though. I don’t make things easy for myself :stuck_out_tongue:

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Look, I’ve been replaying this series every year since 2022, and I never get tired of it. It’s a tradition at this point. The worldbuilding is massive and incredible, and the characters are so well-written—they feel alive. Don’t even get me started on the romance. I’ve tried all the routes across the three books, and they were all amazing. It’s definitely some of the best romance writing I’ve seen in Interactive Fiction.

Especially with O. Man, he could string me along endlessly, and I’d willingly follow him. That’s how much I love him. I actually consider him my ultimate CoG/HG/HC husband, lol.

This series is a masterpiece, and I can’t wait for the next book—or my fifth playthrough starting from Evertree Inn (whichever comes first).

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How to become scout, can’t get the option in other job like slayer,peacemaker, priest etc.

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Just to make you aware, Dashingdon hosting will be closing soon so I would recommend moving this to cogdemos or uploading a compiled html file:

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Just a quick update to say I’ve reuploaded the demo :slight_smile:
I probably won’t do this for published games (including Kitsune which will be released soon!) but while I’m working on finishing this book, please enjoy the demo!

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I… I had to create an account here to just say that I can’t wait for book 4 to be released, I held off on playing city of secrets because I hate cliffhangers but man, 4 years is a long time :smiley:

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FYI, the link to the demo in OP is giving me a game not found error. Not sure if it’s a me issue or the link is wrong.

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Just add /mygame to the end of the URL, like so CoGDemos

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Hi Thom and everyone else, I just made an account to say that I’ve been waiting for Lux: city of Lies for a long time and I just read the good news. I am waiting with anticipation.

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that guy represents me, im also eager to replay all the saga when city of lies comes out, this is in my ā€œmust play before die listā€ along with fernweh saga nexts releases and sword of rhivenia full remake. ””Long live choice of games!!

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Does anyone know what happened to the demo?

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You just need to add /mygame to the end of the link and it’ll work. Like this: CoGDemos

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Are there by any chance the MC could purchase a horse while keeping his pony? Because I ain’t too sure it was that fitting enough for the roles for an MC who follows a path that requires to be quick in many situations.

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Hello everyone,

This is just a little update. I’m aware I’ve maybe startled a few readers by disappearing this year, but I wanted to reassure that I’ve never stopped wanting to continue this Saga.

Alas this year I discovered a full time job, maintaining good mental health and writing a mammoth story was not possible and unfortunately the story had to be parked. Expectation from readers, even when so positive and encouraging, is a big pressure so I also made the decision to take a break from socials/kofi/forum updates.

The good news though, is that as of January I’m going back to part time work so that I can return to writing Lux regularly.

Everyone’s support and patience remains a motivation, but mostly I just love telling stories so I’m excited to have found a way back to it!

It’s a big project for one person to accomplish but know that if I don’t update regularly, it’s because I’m furiously writing to finish the Luxican adventures!

Thank you all, Thom

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Glad to hear from you, Thom :slight_smile:

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Take your time, mate.

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I cant imagine all of the work that goes into this. Happily awaiting the next book!

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