One Knight Stand - King Arthur x Among Us Apocalyptic Road Trip (WIP 900k, Patreon 1M+)(UPDATE 10/25/24 + 84k - Duel of AoE Spells)

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Alright I wasn’t sure what to expect but whatever I should have expected it has been surpassed. It’s a lot of work but I will say it has payed off for you, and while I realize it will take some time for the next chapter thanks to amount of words alone for the first chapter, I actually can’t wait lol.

For sake of enjoying the story I actually went through this story twice, it was that good as I was trying to understand the amount and quality variations that could happen with small change of decision based on how the MC acts. It didn’t disappoint either.

Magic : 2 Physical : 49 Intelligence : 10 Charisma : 22

Bold : 126 Sweet : 80 Sassy : 45 Optimist : 91

Health(at Climax) : 60 Health(Final) : 101 Wound : unknown Serious Injuries : 1

Caution : 8 Will : 5 Apathy : 0 Purity : -998 Cloudcuckoolanderness : 6 Denial : 1 Coward : 0 Silent : 8 Mute : false Pottymouth : 4 Intimidation : 1

Arthurian Lore : 3 Serenades : 1 Interpretive Dances : 1 Crimes : 0 Known Crimes : 0 Reject the Call : 0 Ward Status : 6 Lore Dump : 0 Lore Dodge : 0

Tech : 30 Medical : 20 Internet : 0 Criminal : 0 Botany : 0

Club : polo Job : police detective Hobby : gadget Talent : endurance Using Pseudonym? : false Pet : None Dibs : None

Childhood : abuse Secret : killer Crazy Theory : None Crazy Theory Level : 0 Two-Faced : True True Serious : True True Optimist : True

Vice : wrath Addiction : smoking Fear : heights Fear Level (at Climax) : 20 Corruption : 4 Mindcontrol : false

Random Appearance: false Attractiveness Level : 2 Striking : 2 Body Type: 2 Height: tall Best Feature: eyes

Tattoos : 0 Striking Tattoos : false Scars : 2 Striking Scars : false Piercings : 0 Striking Piercings : false

Striking Clothes : true Heavy Clothes : true Long Clothes : true Flashy Mask : false Haircolor Striking : true Eyecolor Striking : false

Merlin Affinity : 65 Merlin Flirt : 42 Merlin Bond : 1 Merlin Gender : female

Adrian Affinity : 72 Adrian Flirt : 0 Adrian Past Bond : 0 Adrian Current Bond : 2

Weapons : Glock-19 | Excalibur | hunting knives |

Inventory : picture of foster family | autograph | pearls of protection | tech repair kit

Achievements :

Magic : 2 Physical : 35 Intelligence : 22 Charisma : 30

Bold : 172 Sweet : 50 Sassy : 21 Optimist : 53

Health(at Climax) : 49 Health(Final) : 91 Wound : healed Serious Injuries : 2

Caution : 6 Will : 4 Apathy : 0 Purity : -1000 Cloudcuckoolanderness : 5 Denial : 4 Coward : 0 Silent : 7 Mute : false Pottymouth : 2 Intimidation : 3

Arthurian Lore : 3 Serenades : 0 Interpretive Dances : 1 Crimes : 1 Known Crimes : 1 Reject the Call : 0 Ward Status : 7 Lore Dump : 0 Lore Dodge : 0

Tech : 30 Medical : 20 Internet : 0 Criminal : 0 Botany : 0

Club : polo Job : police detective Hobby : gadget Talent : endurance Using Pseudonym? : false Pet : dog Dibs : None

Childhood : accident Secret : killer Crazy Theory : None Crazy Theory Level : 0 Two-Faced : True True Serious : True True Optimist : True

Vice : wrath Addiction : smoking Fear : heights Fear Level (at Climax) : 14 Corruption : 7 Mindcontrol : true

Random Appearance: false Attractiveness Level : 1 Striking : 3 Body Type: 2 Height: tall Best Feature: figure

Tattoos : 0 Striking Tattoos : false Scars : 3 Striking Scars : false Piercings : 0 Striking Piercings : false

Striking Clothes : true Heavy Clothes : true Long Clothes : true Flashy Mask : false Haircolor Striking : false Eyecolor Striking : true

Merlin Affinity : 62 Merlin Flirt : 43 Merlin Bond : 1 Merlin Gender : female

Adrian Affinity : 60 Adrian Flirt : 0 Adrian Past Bond : 3 Adrian Current Bond : 2

Weapons : Glock-19 | hunting knives |

Inventory : wardrobe | picture of family | pet memento | pearls of protection | tech repair kit

Achievements :

I wish luck as really want to read more, even if I have never played or really seen among us :rofl:

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New poll at the bottom of the poll post!

So right now, only Detective, Security Guard, and Criminal MC come with the option of having a gun. Since magic and technology are fundamentally incompatible, any gun that’s been enchanted so that it’ll actually work on a demon/fae/mage/etc will have a chance of backfiring spectacularly on the user instead. Would other MCs still be interested in ‘acquiring’ a gun? I may be trying to determine if it’s worth writing up the sidequest where you can rob a gun shop or not.

Otherwise, thanks for all the comments and stats!

All the other Harbingers are running around screaming because Merlin’s out on a coffee break. Cloudcuckoolander MC and Percy are sitting in the background playing checkers. MC periodically asks the Magic 8-Ball if they should intervene but it keeps telling them “Ask again later”.

‘Corruption’ on the stats menu is basically measuring how deeply the demons have sunken their hooks into the MC. Considering MC’s apartment literally became a gate to hell, they’re always going to be at least slightly compromised. Corruption is also the main stat that determines if MC passes the possession check or not (the main one, but not the only one… there are other mitigating factors).

So Corruption goes up (or very rarely down) based on choices that allow the demons to exert greater influence over the MC. People have been theorizing good stuff for what may fall under that. Just please note, it’s not always that the MC did something bad or wrong… ie the Security Guard MC is pretty much guaranteed to fail the possession check at some point and they didn’t do anything wrong besides end up being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That bit of flavor test should be triggered by the hair_striking variable. And it should be the gray, blond, red, default dyed, and custom dyed (flagged as striking) that would be triggering that. So yeah, definitely not short black hair. :sweat_smile: Does your MC’s hair have highlights in it? I think that might trigger it as well (I should probably tweak that a bit). If you’ve got plain black hair without any streaks or anything then I have no clue what’s going on.

I also checked the bottle point where you end up exiting the conversation with Adrian and entering the trailer and I don’t see anything that should be turning off the mute flag there. (But there’s so many ways to exit that scene… if you left early, if you waited until the last moment, if you left on friendly terms, if you ragequit Adrian, if you’re going to investigate the trailer first (and that’s split between you doing it solo and going with Adrian) that I might be missing something somewhere.

Also about the Serial Killer secret… yeah, some phobias will block that origin (blood, death) since they’ve got a HUGE conflict of interest there. If your MC stabbed their victim and then keeled over in shock, they’d probably be too busy being incarcerated at the moment to take part in the current quest.

Thanks for the compliment! It’s just Chapter 1, so… *insert flaming Elmo gif here*

I’m actually going to start updating the chapters in chunks from this point onwards (Chapter 1 is literally broken up into seven different files), so it shouldn’t take as long as it might otherwise. Also, no problem about not playing Among Us (I never actually played it myself although I’ve played a bunch of other games in the same genre), it’s just a short keyword way of signalling this is going to be a type of “there’s a murderous saboteur among us!” type situation.

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Oh yeah! I think I did have like Cool toned highlights!!

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Regarding this, I noticed that I was able to pull out the 13 page dissertation with Adrian and mostly acted mute but I didn’t have the “hasn’t said a word yet” in the status screen which caused the MC to talk at certain points. From trying again I noticed that the “hasn’t said a word yet” is removed if you pick fairy godmother during career choice but will still let you pull out the dissertation later if you don’t talk until then. That may be the issue?

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Yeah, I definitely need to tweak that so it’s only firing off if you’ve streaked your MC’s hair with neon blue or something, not more natural colors.

Oh yeah, the Fairy Princess option! That turns off the mute flag because it mentions that you’re prone to randomly bursting into song like a Disney character there. I’ll have to clue that in the choice itself to warn people that your MC is singing there.

Otherwise, the silent options are always available even to talkative MCs because sometimes you just don’t feel like speaking at the moment.

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If the other mcs do win the poll. It’ll probably be better to introduce the gun a bit later than the guard mc. I don’t see why a fast food worker needs a gun a lol unless they are the killer secret.

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Merlin reminds me so much of gojo satrou, which kinda explains why my mc instantly fell for him lol.

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I just noticed something- What’s the Crimes and Known Crimes?

Also is the " I should have brought a sword" in reference to Excalibur? Just making sure because I had it but that choice was still blocked off.

Or is That in reference to the person who does fencing?(I know that option isn’t written yet)

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Was looking through some of the code for any interesting scenes I didn’t catch first time around and found this (presumably) bug with the clothes_stat in Merlin’s introduction where they comment on your clothes in the apartment with the low-neck t-shirt.

The stat asked for in the scene seems to be different from the one you get if you pick the clothes, ‘Low Neck Shirt & Jeans’ rather than the ‘Low-neck T-shirt & Jeans’ the stat asks for. This bug doesn’t happen with the earlier scene where you first meet Adrian and he comments on your outfit, worked correctly there. Not sure if this happens with any of the other clothing options, and not sure what it says about me that this is the one I noticed.

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Does anyone know how to get the Run Run Run Runaway achievement? I keep falling off my horse. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

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Really? Actually that makes sense to release in parts. You give out signs of life as well making sure the coding is correct. I just wonder how my Male MC is handling it…

Looks at my male MC stuffed in a sack being stared down while being pulled by Merlin like a possibly good snack while a certain stalker stares at Merlin with thoughts of murder and jealousy while pulling the other side of the sack

Eh looks fine :smile:

Beyond that I get the feeling that this whole chapter is partly to scare us as well as make it a big personality test for our supposed reincarnated role as Knight or witch or something completely bunkers… but that could be me

P.S

So glad Among us like experience is not required lol

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Magic : 14 Physical : 25 Intelligence : 36 Charisma : 25

Bold : 116 Sweet : 115 Sassy : -8 Optimist : 85

Health(at Climax) : 71 Health(Final) : 100 Wound : healed Serious Injuries : 1

Caution : 27 Will : 5 Apathy : 0 Purity : 1 Cloudcuckoolanderness : 2 Denial : -3 Coward : 0 Silent : 10 Mute : false Pottymouth : 7 Intimidation : 38

Arthurian Lore : 2 Serenades : 0 Interpretive Dances : 0 Crimes : 0 Known Crimes : 0 Reject the Call : 0 Ward Status : 6 Lore Dump : 0 Lore Dodge : 0

Tech : 60 Medical : 20 Internet : 10 Criminal : 0 Botany : 0

Club : polo Job : computer programmer Hobby : gadget Talent : endurance Using Pseudonym? : false Pet : dog Dibs : Lancelot

Childhood : accident Secret : inhuman Crazy Theory : None Crazy Theory Level : 0 Two-Faced : True True Optimist : True

Vice : wrath Addiction : drugs Fear : dark Fear Level (at Climax) : 26 Corruption : 2 Mindcontrol : false

Random Appearance: false Attractiveness Level : 2 Striking : 0 Body Type: 2 Height: tall Best Feature: eyes

Tattoos : 0 Striking Tattoos : false Scars : 0 Striking Scars : false Piercings : 0 Striking Piercings : false

Striking Clothes : false Heavy Clothes : false Long Clothes : false Flashy Mask : false Haircolor Striking : false Eyecolor Striking : false

Merlin Affinity : 60 Merlin Flirt : 40 Merlin Bond : 1 Merlin Gender : female

Adrian Affinity : 86 Adrian Flirt : 0 Adrian Past Bond : 0 Adrian Current Bond : 2

Weapons :

Inventory : wardrobe | picture of family | pet memento | laptop | bible | pearls of protection | tech repair kit

Achievements : Nepenthes | One Small Step…

My stats for the character I plan to use in the full game. Giver or take some minor differences.

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Are we locked into Polo as a hobby?

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Technically yes? The author just hasn’t added the other hobbies yet.

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I’m just glad some words and terms are links so I can understand those unfamiliar words. I didn’t even know what my mc was doing for a hobby lol.

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Here were my final stats, this was incredibly trippy and I’m very curious to know what comes next, who my MC’s past life and so on.

Magic : 14 Physical : 17 Intelligence : 15 Charisma : 55

Bold : 70 Sweet : 104 Sassy : 18 Optimist : 60

Health(at Climax) : 63 Health(Final) : 100 Wound : healed Serious Injuries : 2

Caution : 17 Will : 0 Apathy : 0 Purity : 1 Cloudcuckoolanderness : 4 Denial : 0 Coward : 0 Silent : 19 Mute : false Pottymouth : 2 Intimidation : 8

Arthurian Lore : 2 Serenades : 1 Interpretive Dances : 0 Crimes : 0 Known Crimes : 0 Reject the Call : 0 Ward Status : 7 Lore Dump : 0 Lore Dodge : 0

Tech : 0 Medical : 10 Internet : 20 Criminal : 0 Botany : 30

Club : polo Job : restaurant worker Hobby : garden Talent : magnetism Using Pseudonym? : false Pet : cat Dibs : Gawain

Childhood : abandon Secret : inhuman Crazy Theory : None Crazy Theory Level : 0 Two-Faced : False

Vice : sloth Addiction : internet Fear : dark Fear Level (at Climax) : 22 Corruption : 2 Mindcontrol : false

Random Appearance: false Attractiveness Level : 2 Striking : 2 Body Type: 1 Height: tall Best Feature: eyes

Tattoos : 0 Striking Tattoos : false Scars : 0 Striking Scars : false Piercings : 0 Striking Piercings : false

Striking Clothes : false Heavy Clothes : false Long Clothes : false Flashy Mask : false Haircolor Striking : true Eyecolor Striking : true

Merlin Affinity : 62 Merlin Flirt : 41 Merlin Bond : 1 Merlin Gender : female

Adrian Affinity : 93 Adrian Flirt : 1 Adrian Past Bond : 0 Adrian Current Bond : 2

Weapons : broom |

Inventory : Audrey III & herb garden | wardrobe | picture of foster home | pet memento | laptop | pearls of protection |

Achievements : BBQ Deferred | One Small Step…

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Ah, I thought it was something akin to a “Corruption of the Soul” or something and demons were able to take advantage. Especially since the criminal serial killer I tried this with ended up with -999 purity (Not sure if it’s a bug or not)

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I can’t wait until fencing is added. I have (very little) some actual experience with fencing class. Also, please allow me to short out the entire building that club meets in with a fencing foil, author. For…nostalgia reasons. Reasons that got both me and my dad kicked out.

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@VelvetDivine
Adrian almost breaks the fourth wall, if we mention the book club :wink:

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Thanks to everyone still posting stats and bug reports! (Or just generally commenting).

The detective and security guard actually have the handgun by default and they can use it as early as the very beginning of the chapter when the MC’s apartment is acting all haunted. It also comes up again if the MC makes it all the way back to their apartment after polo practice (you can try and use it against the monster under the bed) and when the time comes for packing. The criminal MC only reveals that they’ve got an illegal machine gun after they’ve returned to the apartment after polo practice.

If the “more guns!” option wins the polls then the other MCs won’t have access to a gun until after they’ve completed the ‘rob the gun store’ sidequest either in chapter 2 or chapter 3. (And the detective and security guard will always be better with their guns since they’ve been extensively trained, meanwhile the criminal will still be the only one with access to the XM556 Microgun)

Presumably all the other MCs now want guns to help fight off whatever is coming after them at this point.

And they can look exactly like real life Gojo if that’s your thing! (Not to mention that the MC can say they want to summon Gojo to exorcise their apartment earlier).

Crimes and Known Crimes are basically exactly what they say on the tin. You can sorta guess where this is going considering there’s now a poll asking if people want their MCs to rob a gun store.

The “I should have brought a sword” option is grayed out if you actually had access to a sword (Excalibur or the fencing sword) since if you had one, you’d know at this point that a (normal) sword is useless against the monster.

Welcome to the board! It means that you’re awesome, because I never would’ve caught that bug in a million years. The randomize your appearance option uses ‘Low-neck T-shirt & Jeans’ while the normal customization option uses ‘Low Neck Shirt & Jeans’, so the flavor test always worked when I tested it, but in actuality it wouldn’t be working half the time for half the players. I’ll have to go through the code and make sure that option always uses the same spelling. Thanks again for the bug report!

Like the stat check for escaping the monster under the bed, that’s a multi-layered check with several success & several failure points. It’ll depend upon which horse you chose, what you did with the horse treats, what you did while tacking up, what talent you picked while playing polo, if you want to pass this check primarily with the physical stat or the luck one etc.

Just another p̴e̷r̶f̶e̷c̷t̷l̵y̴ ̵n̷o̷r̸m̵a̶l̸ ̴d̵a̶y̶ ̵ in the life of the Harbinger MC. This story is always going to be dark (it’s the apocalypse after all), but since the MC doesn’t have their powers back yet, it’s definitely got more of a horror flavor going early on.

That’d be another good way to describe it. And that negative purity is working as intended, there are some things you can do to irretrievably tank your purity as that’s measuring your saintliness, goodytwoshoe-ness, and generally how you’re living up to the ideal of the knight in shining armor etc.

It’s not a major stat, it just gives some bonuses such as helping protect against corruption, so don’t feel like you need to chase after purity points if you’re playing a darker MC.

Sounds like my level of experience with fencing (although I never shorted out the electricity). But don’t worry, the fencing club meeting has the same capability of ending in a clusterfuck just like the polo meeting.

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