One Knight Stand - King Arthur x Among Us Apocalyptic Road Trip (WIP 1.1M+ words)(UPDATE 8/4/25 200k+ - The Free Time Hub)

What You Did

Interacted with Merlin: 0
Interacted with Adrian: 2
Interacted with Percy: 0
Trained Skills: 0
Worked on Phobia: 1
Stress Relief: 0
Internet Research: 0
Chores: 1
Pearls Sent: 0
Re-evaluation: 1

Magic: 9 Physical: 40 Mental: 32 Charisma: 34

Bold : 232 Sweet : 200 Sassy : 203 Optimist : 175

Silent : 14 Fear Level : -4 Phobia Level: 3

By the way, I’ve noticed that this game sometimes uses achievements to check whether something has happened or not, and you might want to stop doing that as demos don’t store achievements in saves meaning if somebody saves mid-playthrough, closes the window, and continues later they’ll lose the achievements and anything checking for them will think that the thing didn’t happen. Also, on the full release achievements will be stored between playthroughs, meaning that the game will act as if something that happened on a completely different playthrough happened during the current run.

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Thank you for putting the fix in so quickly! I’m on my vacation right now, so I dove right in again haha. Now my MC was able to talk to Adrian a bit more now that he doesn’t hate him. Adrian’s words during MC’s love confession are very telling..I’m just going to blur it since it’s a very new update.

It’s obvious that he knows his own past life in Camelot. I mean it’s pretty obvious before, but I feel now it’s nailing it down. He doubts that MC will still love him after they regain their memory. Which can only mean that either 1) his past life is a huge pain in the ****, so eh, Modred? or someone else? Someone who has done great harm, or someone who hasn’t but is deeply regretful for their action and wrongfully blames themselves. I can not pinpoint anyone.. as sadly, my Arthurian lore is still limited. Or 2) he also knows MC’s past life, and somehow their pasts have interwined, in a not very good way. Considering that MC has multiple potential past lives, I am much more inclined to believe in the former. However, with the crazy branching that the author has taken so far, I will not be surprised if Adrian’s past lives can have different dynamics with MC’s past lives depending on MC’s choice. And then, of course, just watch me actually be all wrong and Adrian just has a real bad insecurity issue and thinks MC is destined to have a special someone in a past life, and then the moment they remember, they will walk away.

I tried code-diving as always, but I am honestly getting a bit lost now. You have a crazy number of variables and branching. I do worry about how big this project will take…and how long it will, but all in all, it’s a fun read as always! I don’t know how you manage this lol…

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@Unregistered does our Origin (Serial Killer, Changeling, etc) have a large impact on who we ended up being the reincarnation of? Like, I can’t imagine Mordred would become a Fae, or is it determined only by the choices we make in the Camelot flashbacks/dreams?

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Why not? :thinking: What makes him less likely to fae-in than most of the rest of the cast, in your opinion?

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Interacted with Merlin: 0
Interacted with Adrian: 2
Interacted with Percy: 0
Trained Skills: 0
Worked on Phobia: 0
Stress Relief: 0
Internet Research: 0
Chores: 1
Pearls Sent: 1
Re-evaluation: 0

Magic: 13 Physical: 25 Mental: 30 Charisma: 28

Bold : 157 Sweet : 170 Sassy : 56 Optimist : 79

Silent : 10 Fear Level : 7 Phobia Level: 4

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What You Did

Interacted with Merlin: 2
Interacted with Adrian: 0
Interacted with Percy: 0
Trained Skills: 0
Worked on Phobia: 0
Stress Relief: 0
Internet Research: 0
Chores: 0
Pearls Sent: 0
Re-evaluation: 0

Magic: 20 Physical: 17 Mental: 46 Charisma: 5

Bold : 97 Sweet : 54 Sassy : 127 Optimist : 61

Silent : 12 Fear Level : -3 Phobia Level: 4

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Cop Serial Killer gardener with a fear of spiders

What You Did

Interacted with Merlin: 0
Interacted with Adrian: 1
Interacted with Percy: 1
Trained Skills: 0
Worked on Phobia: 0
Stress Relief: 1
Internet Research: 0
Chores: 1
Pearls Sent: 0
Re-evaluation: 0

Magic: 5 Physical: 36 Mental: 35 Charisma: 20

Bold : 98 Sweet : 3 Sassy : 17 Optimist : -2

Silent : 51 Fear Level : 9 Phobia Level: 4

News Reporter Fae social media influencer with a fear of death

What You Did

Interacted with Merlin: 0
Interacted with Adrian: 1
Interacted with Percy: 0
Trained Skills: 1
Worked on Phobia: 1
Stress Relief: 0
Internet Research: 0
Chores: 0
Pearls Sent: 0
Re-evaluation: 0

Magic: 23 Physical: 22 Mental: 16 Charisma: 42

Bold : 172 Sweet : 125 Sassy : 170 Optimist : 110

Silent : 11 Fear Level : -1 Phobia Level: 3

What’s the highest magic you can get? Also, because you can mention how Merlin did the sign language sign for o… why can’t the mute protagonist do sign language? Also how do you be Percy’s soulmate. I did it last time I played but I can’t remember.

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The guide to being Percy’s soulmate is linked in the FAQ section of the 2nd post in the thread :]

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Huh exactly my first character this update. She fared absolutely terribly. 10% health at one point.

And thanks I see where I went wrong. I went slutty cuckoo and not “pure”.

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What is this game truly about?

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King Arthur apocalypse comedy horror with so many choices your eyes will burn

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What You Did

Interacted with Merlin: 1
Interacted with Adrian: 0
Interacted with Percy: 0
Trained Skills: 1
Worked on Phobia: 0
Stress Relief: 0
Internet Research: 0
Chores: 0
Pearls Sent: 0
Re-evaluation: 6

Magic: 37 Physical: 39 Mental: 17 Charisma: 16

Bold : 180 Sweet : -73 Sassy : 8 Optimist : 33

Silent : 18 Fear Level : 1 Phobia Level: 4

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Because Mordred in my mind is always the “Anti-Arthur”, and since Arthur got his Excallibur from the Fae, Mordred would probably not be a Fae. Which is kind of funny since he’s the son of Morgan LE FAY

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Only very recently. In most versions of the mythos, he’s the son of Morgause, who’s a different character until very recently.

(Nimue still badassest Arthurian character. I’d say “prove me wrong”, but you can’t :stuck_out_tongue: )

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Thanks for all the stats + comments! I’m somewhat surprised that Merlin & the chores seem to be the most popular thing to do during Free Time.

It’s already possible to try and do a CAN YOU READ MY MIND, MERLIN?! conversation with them in the game. Merlin admits to nothing in that regard!

*stares at the interpretive dance variable*

Unless you mean something that only mute MCs can do, in which case, not that I can think of.

Can confirm, little sanity left. Also, quite a few of those “Not Yet” sections were actually already written, but I removed them from the code for being too spoilery (since they can’t be naturally triggered at this point in the game)

And you have plenty of stalkers to choose from when it comes to Arthur’s case!

Meanwhile, Merlin… ( ,⩌’︿'⩌,)

Thanks for the heads-up. Most of the *check_achievements’s are to make sure the same achievement doesn’t pop up multiple times (otherwise, the Possessed one would keep cropping up dozens of times in a possessed playthrough). There are a couple of one-offs like the one that checks to see if any of the dead end achievements have ever been triggered in any playthrough for a fourth wall break with the Lying About Amnesia MC. It’s fine if that doesn’t work properly in the Alpha/Beta.

Or all of the above!

No, the vast majority (although not all) of the affinity with the potential Camelot MC’s comes from the Camelot flashback/dream sequences.

According to my calculations, there are currently 57 magic points up for grab in the game, but some of them are mutually compatible. The highest magic stat that’s been reported is 65 which makes me squint. :face_with_raised_eyebrow: The current average is 16, which is more in line with my calculations.

Otherwise, you can certainly headcanon that the MC knows sign language, but it’s not coming up unless it becomes plot relevant.

Yep, Morgan being Mordred’s mother is a modern invention and never happened in ye olde Arthurian lore. Far as I can tell, it seems like it was the 1980s blockbuster movie Excalibur that really popularized it (which makes sense, if you’re cramming the entire plotline into 1 movie, you need to smash a bunch of characters together) which was shortly followed by the New York Times bestseller Mists of Avalon having ‘Morgaine’ as the birth mother and Morgause as the foster mother.

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Was that alpha build content? Did someone somehow mod the mage background back in?

@paigeboy If you wanna be Percy’s soulmate, you cannot be a serial killer.

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I remember reading Mists of Avalon! That was a long time ago…

I was having fun exploring all the Free Time Hub options but when it’s finally time to move on I do think sending PoP to at least ONE group of people is important to me (trying to decide who needs them the most…)

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It’s up to the character. And also how they feel about ranking the important figures in their past life. For example, someone who sees their work as a soul-crushing nightmare may have an easier time deciding who gets the pearls than someone who feels positively or ambivalently about their work.

My character is closest to the neighbors as well as the fencing club mates (well, Zayn and Gil, maybe Jianhua), so on the first round of free time he anonymously sends pearls to them (he also gave one to the little girl). But he does want to help conceal the group using his technical skills and also talk to Adrian about his views on fairies and other nonhumans.

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So you don’t think it might be better to send them to, say, your neighbors (single mom + kid, elderly lady) first in the interests of keeping them safe?

I’m over here biting my nails wondering if waiting too long to send them is going to get some of them killed… :grimacing:

I think it’s a good sign that I’m feeling conflicted, because it means none of the free time activities are easy to ignore!

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What You Did

Interacted with Merlin: 1
Interacted with Adrian: 0
Interacted with Percy: 0
Trained Skills: 0
Worked on Phobia: 0
Stress Relief: 0
Internet Research: 1
Chores: 1
Pearls Sent: 0
Re-evaluation: 0

Magic: 11 Physical: 17 Mental: 36 Charisma: 30

Bold : 108 Sweet : 16 Sassy : 125 Optimist : 18

Silent : 13 Fear Level : 9 Phobia Level: 7

Really enjoying this! I rarely actually laugh out loud when reading anything, but honestly I had tears in my eyes!

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