The chieftess is something else
@bobsmyuncle
Thatās a perfect summary of Sabrielās reaction!
In theory, you could. However it would take far more energy than using normal human methods and as @squarelyblue brought up the shell is a power suppressor. While you can technically access your power, the human shell is not made to handle Grace and using it:
- Voids the purpose of having the shell which is to avoid detection.
- Could damage you or the shell in ways that havenāt been explored at length. Thought as the prologue shows, using a large amount of Grace in your shell causes you to permanently fuse with it.
@joe_g7
Glad youāre enjoying the story so far! Itās a slow, long ride, but still moving along!
Pissing Sabriel off isnāt a grand idea any day of the week, thatās for sure. Thereās a reason her Angel Blade is a pair of hand-axes.
(And I love that call-back to Sabrielās Grace scent! Iām always thrilled when people recall details about my characters )
- Gabriel has been to earth before but angels donāt require food and the majority of their missions did not involve sticking around long enough that they would cook food.
- An archangel cooking food for a human? Thatās not something considered part of their duties and while you are free to hc that theyāve dabbled, as far as canon is concerned Gabrielās cooking experience is summed up by
They did not, in canon, cook for Da Vinci which as the lovely @stsword pointed out was the last time they were on earth. They could have picked up some idea of how to make food, but theyāve never done it extensively.
Iāve known people who will burn the rice, reduce the vegetables to something unrecognizable and so overcooked it has little nutrients left in it, microwave in things that shouldnāt be microwaved (or, say, put a metal utensil in it), leave the oven on too longā¦ Some people are not meant for making food. At all. And for the sake of comedy and allowing me to use that as a team-building exercise (aka where you can increase relationship points with characters) it is going to stay that way.
Part of the filters is a very helpful recommendation from @RETowers about how to make sure that the content is keeping in mind the different audiences and the publishing requirements. It might be over-kill, but Iād rather go overboard on them and not need them then not have them when the time comes for publishing.
- This is a very good point and I know Iāve asked about that before. I will likely redo it before the official beta, but at this current point Iād prefer to focus on adding new content rather than revising old content. The point of it is to allow me a chance to start playing around with character stats and approaches more but I definitely think I could make the choices more diegetic. Iām currently tossing around the idea of combining options to give more choices at each juncture, as I donāt particularly want to remove much of the dialogue if avoidable.
- I will definitely try to break that up! Having huge walls of text is definitely something I know I need to work on, and I really appreciate you bringing it to my attention!
- Understandable, though at this point Iām not sure if Iāll do much about it. Iāve got a couple ideas, but Iām not sure if I want to slow the already somewhat glacial pace to give more opportunity to know Ramiel prior to forming an initial opinionā¦ It might just be one of those allowances like deciding how your character feels about a sibling/childhood friend in the first few minutes of a game. Would changing the phrasing help at all, or is it strictly a āIāve known this guy for five minutes and now I have to decide if I canāt stand him or am half-in-love with himā issue?
@Jule
Iām afraid your humor was not something that translated well at all, though I am pleased you are enjoying the game so far! I want to take a second to clarify that Daniel is NOT the anti-christ. Also, I might recommend checking out this thread for some helpful reminders about how feedback and comments can be perceived across the internet.. Hope you continue to enjoy the game.
Detail may be a bit of a misnomer here; there is a difference in descriptions, but not as great as it could be. Explicit shorts are strictly the realm of tumblr to try and ensure that come the publishing process major changes to the game itself wonāt have to be made. Glad to see Laniwynn is appealing to you; she is a very interesting character to write.
I think it was partially that Iād just finished the huge interview with Sabriel and was āapprovedā to be Danielās guardian, so I was expecting to face decisions about that. Instead, Iām being introduced to a new character, so right off the bat Iām a bit confused. Then, with this character I know nothing about, in a situation I donāt really understand, I have to say how I feel about it. Itās just that I donāt feel I have any clue how I feel about anything in that moment.
I think my current solution may be to add a few more lines of his to the prologueāheās not actually a new character in that scene, as heās introduced with Michael and Israfel, but the other two get more screen time following the prologue. Hopefully thatāll help!
I think this got twenty times more complicated with that reveal. Oh wow. Okay. More theories on the board now especially for Daniel
The first time I read through the game, I actually didnāt realize it was the same character you were playing in the Ramiel scene. It was such an abrupt switch I thought you were showing a different characterās point of view at first. Maybe something indicating itās a flashback would help. Though I might have just missed it.
@squarelyblue Of all the things to complicate events, this is not one of the ārevealsā I pictured doing soā¦
@lokidemon007
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Smeet
Technically thereās this bit
Interlude One: Fae Trouble
āFaye are wily creatures, never to be trusted. Their society lacks the entire concept of friendship; if you are of use, you may be an ally. If you are not, at best you are beneath their notice, a state one should devoutly wish to occupy. At worst, they will rend the flesh from your skin and dance on your charred bones.ā
āExcerpt from On the Subject of Changelings and the Faye, by Darragh Goodfellow
Interludes = flashbacks in this game, though that may not be as apparent as I thought it was. Iām loathe to call it a flashback, as that feels rather heavy-handed. At no point in this game do you play another character, though circumstances pending I may offer linear (at least to your viewpoint; the actual content will vary based on choices youāve made with your mc), but those will be in third-person, not second person.
Itās intended to be a somewhat abrupt switch, with the interlude framing it as the flashback it is, as angels donāt perceive time in a linear fashion and memories have to be, more or less, manually stored and retrieved with a trigger.
Do you recall reading the interlude bit at all? Or did you read it and it still wasnāt clear what was going on?
I mustāve missed the interlude bit. But now that I see it, it makes sense. I figured it out pretty quickly too.
Itās a great game by the way. Iāve replayed it a few times
Moved to Adult Content on account considering the mature content. Let me know if thereās any issues.
@Gower The mature content is entirely skippable, though? I was under the impression that so long as the content was skippable and no worse than already published COG games, such as Heart of the House, a move to the Adult Content section was unnecessary.
I just know that @Dae-kalina has been careful to keep SoS from crossing the line into being a thread which belongs in the Adult Content category, so I wonder if perhaps the move isā¦ premature? Is that the word Iām looking for here? Regardless, Iām sure you take my meaning.
Iāve asked @RETowers to clarify the policy. My understanding was that games that contain adult content belong in #adult-content, but Iām happy to stand corrected.
Alright this is just a quick update to remind everyone that any potential NSFW discussion should go here, which is the thread for this WiPās discussion in the Adult Content category. Please do not bring up anything NSFW or potentially NSFW in this threadādo it in that one!
Thanks!
Iām glad everything has been sorted out. Looking forward to more updates.
ITāS BACK! Hooray! Canāt wait to read more!
Looking forward to seeing what happens next!
Just read the demo and I have to say the writing is one the best I have seen. Couldnāt wait for the next update!
I know this is probably a bit selfish to ask, but could you let the player decide what gender Lucifer identifies as? I mean I at least think it would be pretty cool to romance a female Lucifer.
Would it be at all possible? Pretty please?
Itās completely unnecessary and Lucifer isnāt a romance option so it doesnāt matter.