I also like the MC being more rounded and complicated, like the other characters. I guess my problem isn’t that they have a secret. I just don’t really like how extreme they are. Obviously secrets will be serious, but they don’t have to be that wild
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I get that. What sort of secrets would you like? Ironically, the changeling secret seems like the least “extreme” one so far, because it doesn’t have anything to do with the MC’s actions.
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Hmm, well there are a lot of options to choose from. I think the best one would be an addiction, but that’s already a different variable. But some options are another crime, other than actual murder. An illness, cheating or blackmailing into a college or a job, or something to do with some kind of relationship (a crazy ex, an estranged parent, etc).
Generally, something that doesn’t make the MC a bad person or some crazy wild thing. Just something more on the realistic side than fairy or murderer
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Wow, here can you see how much opinions differ! I love the options, the more outlandish, out-of-left-field, crazy, eccentric, bizarre the better! I mean, one of the ROs is an enemy that wants to kill you and…wait, there’s also the saboteur. Two of the ROs want to kill you. I feel like an option like estranged parent etc. would be way too weak next to the ROs secrets/lies, and my MC would feel like a side-character. I actually also want my character to have an interesting, worthwhile option. I mean, the world is ending and I’m keeping that lame ass secret that I cheated on a test? Noooo.
This one of the few Ifs where I adore every option because they feel so different, and I can see myself replaying them. Most of the time, if I replay something, I stick to the same option.
Here? Changeling not human not telling anyone? Something that actually could change their opinion on you and change the whole way you interact? The Killer one? Amazing, can’t wait to try that one out! (And freaking everyone out!). And Imposter sounds soo good that I can’t pass that one.
I’m actually impressed with all the compelling options the author came up with. Thanks for this amazing WIP!
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Just a random thought. How old do you guys think the amnesic changeling MC is?
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Considering the changeling MC doesn’t actually remember being a fairy, I feel most likely they are the same age as the other MCs- They were a baby when they were left, just not a human baby.
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how to get the serial killer option?
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Don’t pick blood or death as your fear.
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Hmmm, torn. On the one hand, this looks to have good humour. On the other hand, the glorification of knights, who were nothing but state-sponsored rapist thugs, needs to be stabbed in the face with extreme prejudice. 
reads Lorelei’s description Oh, hello. 
Click me for stuffs (and, potentially, things
99% sure there’s something missing after that “but”. Who am I feeding? Is this whole paragraph even supposed to show up if I HAVEN’T picked the “maybe it’s your pet” option in the previous screen (I didn’t)?
Aww, man, book club isn’t in yet. 
I guess I’m going to have to do eugh physical effort.
Is this supposed to be “black” or “white” or something? “Monochrome” just means “one colour”. All of the options are monochromes.
Just one word.
Is this gonna be a knights v ninjas thing? Regardless, 20 points awarded for the Knights of Our Lives pun.
Unlike the other two mentions, this one isn’t italicised.
Two typos, unless they’re on purpose on account of being a text message:
Typo, maybe:
“inhuman”. No, wait, it’s to anaphor the adjectives?
Aww, man, there’s no option for the big horses like the Clyde, the Shire, or the Belgian Draft. 
Hopefully, if horsing around becomes a frequent thing we’ll be able to get one of those.
Another 20 points for the grue mention.
Got healed after the bed monster event, apparently still have two damaged locations:
Oh, wait, it gets better a couple of screens after.
Confused. At the stairwell, I got an achievement notification for an achievement that doesn’t appear in the feats list saying that I didn’t fall asleep, but apparently I did?:
Ok, if it can be brought up during Merlin’s infodump I’ve missed it: the nightmare that marked us looked like Arthur. Is that significant in some way? Shouldn’t we… inquire, seeing as the goal is to bring back Arthur?
Time to google “blonde sorceresses in Arthurian legend”, I guess? Obviously I can’t trust the thing Merlin sent me, because maybe they’re not Merlin, they’re ‘Merlin’.
The questions when you enter the RV don’t alter your personality bars. Are they supposed to, or do they just set flags concerning how the text goes or something like that?
“sever”
I love how this is both creepy and humourous! 
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While I don’t know much about knights of the real world and the deeds they did, I do know that the fictional characters of the knights of the round table aren’t characterized in that way. Arthur’s men are meant to be honorable, at least based on the standards of the time I could be wrong, but I don’t think that stuff happens in the legends
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Well, of course, because those legends were told by Arthur’s own storytellers. It’s propaganda all the way down! 
(canonically Merlin was such a huge sexual harasser that a woman learnt magic for the SOLE AND ENTIRE purpose of getting rid of him* - imagine what they DON’T tell you)
*like, imagine how terrible someone must be that you learn to reorder the universe and the first thing you do is “not THIS dude, ever again”, and that was why you learnt to reorder the universe in the first place. Not power, not living forever, not wealth, not health, not curiosity, just… “not THIS dude, ever again”
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I mean, fair, it was propaganda. But on the other hand, it’s not exactly like there are modern knights who go around looting and stealing and murdering. We have different people who do that nowadays, with different legends. Those are called cop shows.
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Jake Peralta: We broke the law, but it was for a good reason.
Also Jake:
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For honorable men they sure leave a lot of dead women in their wake. And dead husbands, dead betrotheds, dead fathers, dead children (particularly sons,) dead cousins, dead servants, dead pets, dead guards…generally belonging to all of those aforementioned dead women…
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Honestly, there’s so many versions of the tales that the thing is all over the place.
In some, Arthur either kills or exiles every newborn born on May 1st, because Merlin tells him one of them will be his undoing (that sending them all to their deaths is the trigger for that undoing never ever occurs to anyone).
In some, Mordred is actually the BEST dude, who, upon sitting his ass on the Siege Perilous, rules so well compared to Arthur that he immediately gets the loyalty and love of half the kingdom.
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Actually, I don’t think there’s a single thing in any of the stories that points to Arthur actually being a good (or very present) ruler at all…
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Look, watery tarts handing out swords is not a proper basis for a system of government.
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Okay, I wasn’t going to post again until I had an update, but enough is enough already. I absolutely don’t want to come back to this post to find it full of people shitting on the original material who obviously never even read it.
This is folklore that spans a millennia and dozens of countries and hundreds of different authors (that’s before you make the cut-off of what gets considered a modern reinterpretation.) Obviously, something created in the medieval or Renaissance period won’t have modern sensibilities.
King Arthur was a fifth century Briton who fought against the invading Angles, Saxons (Ango-saxons → English) and Franks (France → French). Aside from the Welsh stories, the bulk of Arthurian lore was written by the direct descendants of his enemies. Spoilers: His side lost in the end & were completely overrun by those who would eventually become the English.
There are some later stories that try to remove the Saxons & such and replace them with Saracens, but that’s too little, way too late.
The early characters like Arthur, Merlin, Morgan le Fay, Gawain, and such come across better in the earlier stories, as a popular way to prop up the later characters was to have them act obviously superior to the original characters (who were painted as evil, stupid, ineffectual or whatever best achieved the author’s agenda).
And some authors had really blatant agendas.
This is particularly apparent with the (literal in some cases) demonization of the pagan magic users in the more Christianized tales. Hence, suddenly Merlin & Arthur are acting like psychopathic baby kidnappers out of nowhere in the Post Vulgate written by monks. No, they are not acting like that in most of the stories. And they still got off better than someone like Morgan le Fay.
There’s a version where Merlin got sealed away by the Lady of the Lake for being too horny (especially with her). There’s a version where the Lady sealed him in a castle at the bottom of her lake to be her boytoy that she visited every night. There’s a version where Morgan le Fay purposefully learned & stole his magic to kill him just to screw over Arthur. There’s a version where Merlin just frolicked off to a magic tower without any shenanigans with the Lady or Morgan.
None of these are more canonical than the other, although stuff like the Scotorum Historia (written by a Scottish author pissed off at the English burning several Scottish royal records) got left out of the Matter of Britain for obvious reasons. This is the worst account, the one claiming that Arthur was Uther’s bastard who had pagan whoring debacles in Logres while Mordred (now a Pict whose birth land was in Scotland) was the true heir (no sitting on Siege Perilous however!)
And quite frankly, only a few variations actually made it into the popular consciousness of modern times and it’s not the one-off versions where the main characters are acting like hapless nutcases.
The people in these tales were facing an existential threat which they were fated to lose. There were definitely knights (amongst a bunch of other types of warriors) running amok who had to be stopped and there were even knights who were once part of the Round Table who fell from grace and started running amok too.
But at no point was Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and King Arthur the ones who were rampaging across the land. Not even the Scotorum Historia went so far as that. As flawed as they could be, they were the ones protecting it. This is the stuff that’s supposed to be the height of chivalry for a reason.
Even the very last stories that are considered part of the Matter of Britain that pushed King Arthur way back into the background to focus on their shiny new knights had him effectively ruling Camelot for decades.
No Wiki this time. The original sources.
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As an idle curiosity, where do you place this point? Malory’s Morte? Geoffrey “this needs more godliness” of Monmouth and the introduction of Galahad? Somewhere else?
At the time of a considerable number of writings, “a woman who does things” is automatically evil, yeah.
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Anyway, to veer from general mythology into the more specific stuff happening in the game, anyone have any theories about whose incarnations the ROs are?
People have probably done a bunch of speculation on Adrian already (seeing as he’s the one that shows up so far), any conclusion reached (his POV scene is making me lean towards Guinevere, Lancelot, or Mordred)?
Gwyn (and maybe Cass?) is looking like to be a good candidate for Dinadan.
Added question: I didn’t actually try to flirt with anyone, but can you try to romance more than one person in the game?
@Unregistered I went for the polo club; are my stats worth posting, or do you already have all the metrics needed regarding those (stats screen only mentions the Fencing Club)?
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