SoS: The Mortal Coil (WIP)

[Dae-kalina]

@bobsmyuncle
That’s a perfect summary of Sabriel’s reaction!

@lokidemon007

Can a Gabriel with high affinity use Grace to cook?

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:

1. Voids the purpose of having the shell which is to avoid detection.
2. Could damage you or the shell in ways that haven’t 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 you’re enjoying the story so far! It’s a slow, long ride, but still moving along!

@Dizzie

Can you imagine how pissed Sabriel would be if Gabriel tried to use their grace to cook and had to call her up because it turns out that they severely overestimated how much power it would take to make ‘grilled cheese’ and now all the windows are busted out of their house and there are scorch marks on the walls. Oh, and the shell isn’t doing too good either.

Pissing Sabriel off isn’t a grand idea any day of the week, that’s for sure. There’s a reason her Angel Blade is a pair of hand-axes.
(And I love that call-back to Sabriel’s Grace scent! I’m always thrilled when people recall details about my characters )

@Sailendranath_Murmu

Gabe was sent to earth before… that means they had a lot of time to cook for human…so even if you are useless at cooking, anyone can be a perfect cook if they are using kitchen for that long…no offense, but even I(I never went to kitchen in my whole life) can come up with something perfect or almost perfect if I spend even few months trying to burn the whole kitchen.
So, the point is… Gabe should at least be a decent cook if not one of the best house cook…their struggle with kitchen should not be possible.

1. Gabriel has been to earth before but angels don’t require food and the majority of their missions did not involve sticking around long enough that they would cook food.
2. An archangel cooking food for a human? That’s not something considered part of their duties and while you are free to hc that they’ve dabbled, as far as canon is concerned Gabriel’s cooking experience is summed up by

@silent15

“roast the meat on a stick over the fire”

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 they’ve never done it extensively.

@Sailendranath_Murmu

Ok…but do you really need skill to cook some basic food like… Rice, Boiled egg, Boiled vegetables…curry…or the food prepared by machine like oven, freezer etc.

I’ve 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 shouldn’t be microwaved (or, say, put a metal utensil in it), leave the oven on too long… 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.

@kckolbe

@kckolbe

I turned all the filters off, and thus far, I can’t say I’ve seen anything that would require them, though I was impressed by their existence.

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 I’d rather go overboard on them and not need them then not have them when the time comes for publishing.

1. This is a very good point and I know I’ve asked about that before. I will likely redo it before the official beta, but at this current point I’d 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. I’m currently tossing around the idea of combining options to give more choices at each juncture, as I don’t particularly want to remove much of the dialogue if avoidable.
2. 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!
3. Understandable, though at this point I’m not sure if I’ll do much about it. I’ve got a couple ideas, but I’m not sure if I want to slow the already somewhat glacial pace to give more opportunity to know Ramiel prior to forming an initial opinion… 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 ‘I’ve known this guy for five minutes and now I have to decide if I can’t stand him or am half-in-love with him’ issue?

@Jule
I’m 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.

@Adam_Juarez

I want the sexual things to be in detail i don’t mind it at all, but I’m confused on which one to press

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 won’t have to be made. Glad to see Laniwynn is appealing to you; she is a very interesting character to write.