Saturnine [Submitted] [646K words]

Played this today and good lord the hate humans route is absolutely hilarious :joy: i kicked a dude in the balls and spat at a woman twice then proceeded to bang her god knows why

Amazing writing, great characters

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Out of context that last bit is disturbing and makes me consider avoiding trying that route. Which I wasn’t interested before, that line makes it more cringe.

Thank you for the detailed answer! :smiley:

Then you archived your goal. :laughing:

lines for outcomes where Crystal was spared intentionally

I know. I played this option too. :sweat_smile: I decided against it.
A tweak of conditions would be great - a “I faked an attack / spared Crystal”-route. I think only a few additional lines are missing. The consequences are not so different from the “failed”-route.

That line was addressed to both Damon and Hadaly

Maybe change “Whatever happens, know that I’m with you.” to “Whatever happens, know that I’m with you two.” Makes it clearer?
(I’m exited about the additional Damon content.)

fairly specific conditions to be met

I’m feeling like I’m on a good way, but I probably missed something. :wink:
No pressure. I wasn’t expecting any fitting branch. I just wanted to give an insight of my thoughts.

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Any fix ?

Epilogue Update. The adventure is over, for better or worse. There is nothing to do but face the consequences of your choices and experience one of the nine endings featured in this one, final, closing chapter of Saturnine.

Though this is the last chapter, it’s not quite the final update. I still need to export the game to HTML and add some extra content before opening an official beta. If you still want to play the DashingDon version, now is a good time to start, since it won’t get any further updates and will have to be taken down sooner or later.

Thanks to everyone who played, commented on, or even looked at this game during its lengthy production. I hope you had a nice Winter Solstice, I wish you Merry Christmas and I hope to hear from some of you during beta-testing.

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Extra content, you say? What final bits are you adding?

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I just noticed this, but the “is it too late to call west” option doesn’t gray out after it’s selected.

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Oh btw, Idk if this is because it’s unfinished, but giving yourself to hammon doesn’t go to his epilogue, it just goes to the ending screen(…Even though the epilogue itself is written?)

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For one, I must make a checkpoint system that exists in the actual code, as opposed to just in DashingDon. I would have done that earlier, but the IDE I’m using hasn’t been updated to include that functionality, and it wasn’t a relevant issue until now.

As for actual story content, I intend to squeeze an additional scene between the fourth and the fifth chapters, mostly to foreshadow some events that I felt were set up poorly. I already have 5000 words of it written down, I’ll just need to write another 5000 by the end of the week.

The epilogue for that route is indeed written, I just forgot to update the rhea_2 scene so that it directs to the relevant bit. It’s trivial to fix, so I guess that will be my “final update” to the DashingDon build.

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what is needed to successfully hack the database?

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Good dice roll

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Do I need a new save? When I accept to contain the dusk the next chapter goes straight to end without the epilogue, but if someone else is chosen it shows the epilogue

What’s the last choice you’ve made? Or the last line before the ending? I suspect it’s a similar error to the one I just fix, but I’m having trouble locating this one.

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when i choose to join dusk it goes straight to the end, no epilogue

edit: anything involving me being a vessel does the same
edit2: same with hadaly

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inconsistency about heart and head here if you pass the Database check and have good rel with Lisa, same if you fail the check though if you pass it and have less than 45 rel the inconsistency isn’t there

Another bug I ran into, when Lisa was made a vessel but rejected dusk the scene played out and everyone (except kirril) went home happy and no fight was had, but then it looped back into the fight scene with lisa

“Damon… Hadaly… thank you for having my back.”

is this it? is it finished?

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Spacing issue here

From my last save point, I mostly skipped through chapter 11. I spotted some changes that I enjoy. Well done.

→ ““And that’s the Bayesian Path, everyone.” Lisa claps politely. "”
" too much at the end (still in chapter 11)

I got no chapter 12. I think the last few lines of chapter 11 changed a bit:

Last Text before end screen

It’s difficult to believe how well it all went. How you’ve saved everyone while losing no one. It’s such a convenient ending, such a ray of sunshine in such dark times. But even such incredible things happen sometimes, provided you have centuries of experience in doing the impossible.

“Well, I suddenly feel a lot better about myself,” Damon says once everyone else is gone. “It’s been a fun ride, boss. Despite everything.”

As well as friends by your side.

A small epilogue would have been nice… I manly want to know what happens to Saturn Nine and the book. And I spared a lot of people. Does this have any consequences?

Also seems like I’ve reached the only ending where the book doesn’t explode (and met the fairly specific conditions yay! :slight_smile: ). Would be nice if the ending was celebrated a bit more. Could imagine a reader who has the book explode the first time through trying to prevent it the second time.

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