Speaking of Adrian, I have a crack theory kind of inspired by Assassin’s Creed. Now I typed up multiple paragraphs to support this theory but it started to come off like the ramblings of a madwoman so I’m just going to keep this short. (Edit: So that was a lie…)
Adrian belongs to a group similar to the Assassins/Templars! That explains how suspiciously knowledgeable he is about this whole thing, especially if this group dates back to King Arthur’s time or predates it even.
He could have used this mysterious groups resources to track down a Harbinger (MC) and gather info and keep tabs on us. I highly doubt two Harbingers just randomly happened upon each other; this dude was trying to find us and then befriend us for whatever task his group set him upon.
AND even if your pc is wary of him he STILL knows more than he should about us! Where we live can be explained by him just following us, but our favorite drink and brand? That too could be explained if we bring a bottle or carton with us everywhere, but the fact that he doesn’t at all seem surprised about a serial killer mc’s little side hobby and more about how many knives we have collected?? Either that or he’s been in our apartment and found some of our knives, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM!!
I just really doubt that this dude is your run of the mill creeper and so this rambling theory has spewed forth from my brain at…12:50 pm…Well a shortened version of it anyway, it was a lot longer before I edited it! But it could make soooo much sense!
No matter which side this group is on, it’s entirely reasonable to want to get your hands on a Harbinger or two! If two of the Harbinger’s rock up to the apocalypse with trust built up over a few years, well think of the possibilities…
Also I’m really sorry for calling you a creep Adrian, spirits know my one of my MC’s is one to complain about someone being a creep I’m on to you fake amnesia MC who’s most likely some sort of eldritch abomination-
But yeah, I think Adrian is a part of some sort of cult, the end~~
This is so interesting… hmmm… Adrian is certainly sus in so many different aspects. I have also played around with a couple theories in my mind. Adrian’s interlude is especially telling (telling what I have absolutely no idea, but telling). He obviously expected the apocalypse and the demons, and he has prepared for it for a long time.
In my cloudcuckoolander play through, Merlin comments that my MC can certainly be an innocent fool, while Adrian would not fit that criteria at all.
As someone else mentioned in this forum as well, Adrian apparently (spoiler from code-diving, don’t unblur it you don’t want to get tips from code-diving) ”poisoned” the drink they give you after the club meeting. Poison flag was set to true in the code if you accepted. Although I know author try to actively prevent code-divers from finding out the plot, so I feel that poison is not as harmful as its name suggests
Adrian’s words in the interlude suggest that he is deeply regretful for something. This time there will be more than just ash were the approximate words in his interlude. What has been turned to ash? Or been destroyed? As far as I know there’s only two situations pertinent: the fall of Camelot and the previous failed lesser circle. If we trust Merlin, then Merlin has confirmed all members of that circle (except themself) have died. Then it has to be the fall of Camelot. Given Adrian’s seemingly extensive knowledge about everything, it could be reasonable to hypothesize that Adrian already knew his past reincarnation as well as MC’s. And the reason for Adrian’s protectiveness toward MC lies in the relationship between their past lives. And follow the this line of logic, his regret of course stem from the fall of Camelot. He does have a particular fanboy way toward Arthur, suggesting he might be one of the close allies at the time.
Another theory that has been brewing in my mind is that Adrian has been a time traveler or something, or someone being reborn again and again after each failure/death. He did mentioned after lifetime and lifetime, the only thing left is regret. In that case “what have been turned to ash” maybe is the whole world. Hmmmmm…… or maybe that is a sign he remembered all his past reincarnations, and there are mutiple of them? Honestly I don’t know. I usually read choice of games without a brain attached, because I just want to relax. And now my CPU has burned out…
I love them. I really dislike the tendency in interactive fiction to make the MC the most boring character in the story. I understand that it makes it easier for people to self-insert, but, the thing is, I don’t do that. This means I’m often left wishing a side character had been the MC, instead of the Joe Random I’m forced to play as.
So it’s a real breath of fresh air to play as an MC who feels as fully-fleshed out and complicated as the rest of the cast. In this game, everybody’s hiding something, and the MC’s no different.
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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, 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?
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
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”
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.
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…
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.
reads Lorelei’s description Oh, hello. 
I guess I’m going to have to do eugh physical effort.
Is this gonna be a knights v ninjas thing? Regardless, 20 points awarded for the Knights of Our Lives pun.
Hopefully, if horsing around becomes a frequent thing we’ll be able to get one of those.
