Soulbound: A Ghost Story (WIP) [Updated July 4, 2025]

“Stuck with Valerie?” STUCK WITH VALERIE? Valerie is a delight and I’ll defend her with my life!

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Hold on a minute we can still puppy eyes the author for a past romance with Charlotte here, like a fling before we died or something. There is hope guys.

Lol Valerie is a sweetheart but man is mourning.
That being said, maybe I will go for Valerie now that Char is off the table. But idk, none of the ROs have that much personality for me atm.

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What do you mean being “stuck” with val?? She’s the :sparkles: best :sparkles: thing in this book!!

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That’s honestly what I thought it would be from the beginning. I didn’t expect anything with her to be in the present since she’s long dead. Just something that we can choose to happen in the past flashbacks.

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Let me kiss her once without her immediately rejecting me and I’ll be satisfied
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Hey guys, I can’t tell if it’s done in jest or not but just in case, this is only a bit that Corvus plays where she’ll proclaim random characters are the secret RO—so there’s nothing confirmed to their identity as of yet. :sweat_smile:

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However, for the uninitiated, if you guys are just dying to figure out who the secret RO might be, Corvus does something special where she’ll hide some kind of clue within the newest updates, and eventually, when all of the clues are put together, they’re supposed to reveal the secret RO’s true identity.

You’ll only able to see the latest clue in the current demo, but if you’d like to view past ones along with what progress people have made piecing things together so far, the Discord server has a dedicated thread for it all!

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Let’s just hope it’s not Callum

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I won’t fall victim of you tricks again!

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Damn!!! I fell for it!!! Lol
I was already trying to go full “it’s okay, it’s alright, it’s gonna be just fine.”
I feel like that one Simpson meme “old man yells at cloud”

No way. Fuck. Well, guess it’s time to put my thinking hat and start looking for clues then.

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This looks fun enough. Let’s be dead and ethereal!

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The choice when facing the two soldiers doesn’t alter any stats, I THINK, though it looks like it should? Is that intended?

Needs correcting. There’s a variety of options: the two simpler ones are removing either the “'s” or the “this”.

Just because you’re a witch it doesn’t mean you have to JINX THINGS, woman! :man_facepalming:

I suggest putting the non-dialogue bit after “him” (or after “need”), as I feel that makes the jerk* refer more to the MC than it does now.
*“you mean the gesture or the person?” Yes.

Mid-play note: I really like how you put together your magic taxonomy system.

The two halves of this sentence aren’t in agreement regarding verbal tenses.

I THINK this is supposed to be “haven’t”, as that would mesh better with the ensuing sentence.

This is… excellent, actually? Like, to the point that I would also read this as a regular novel, which is something rare with IFs. Looking forward to see where it goes from here, when you eventually update.

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For me, I hope it IS Callum who is the secret RO. I need my angsty betrayal love-to-hate toxic romance with this smug bastard. Callum’s just too interesting for me to want to him stay dead permanently.

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I have no idea what you guys are talking about, everything I say is true :slightly_smiling_face:


@JBento
Thanks for catching those typos and glad you enjoyed the game! I’ll try to have those fixed for the next update.

To address this point specifically:

You’re talking about the scene in the prologue? If so, this is intentional. The idea is that it seems like you’re about to do something really cool, just like in earlier parts of the prologue, but your leg gives out before anything can really happen—so whichever skill you were planning to utilize never actually gets used.

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No

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Charlotte can still be the secret RO, have hope my fellow Charlotteans!!!

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Hypothesis: Charlotte either falls for the MC regardless of MC’s actions or Callum believes she does, and that’s why he betrays the MC - not because he actually cared about Charlotte, but because he’s a little shit that saw Charlotte as his and MC took something that was his (the same way he didn’t care about his parents but still went to town on the raiders anyway).

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I think we’re all coping about Charlotte here. I mean, I’m all for it. I love living in delusion.

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Double awkward for MCs that were pining for Callum the whole time, only for him to then accuse the MC of trying to steal his girl lol.

Samurai of Hyuga players who were hoping to romance Hatch only for his crush to fall for the MC know my pain.

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Honestly, I prefer Callum so strongly compared to any of the other ROs that if he’s not the secret RO I probably won’t date anybody. Maybe if it’s Charlotte… Past gang is way more compelling, both romantically and in general, than present-day gang :confused: (I really enjoy the story so far, but everybody talks down to MC so much it’s depressing, I can’t imagine wanting to date someone like that. Younger Callum’s a jerk who’s bad at feelings, but he’s a jerk who’s bad at feelings who doesn’t treat MC like an idiot country bumpkin.)

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We’re all delusional here, but I’ll go down with this ship! Haven’t had so bad for a “RO” like that since Prihine. At least with her we can get together at the very end if you don’t romance anyone else lol

It’s been said that it can’t be both Charlotte and Callum, but listen here I’ll put my tinfoil hat on for this theory: it’s actually BOTH but you get to choose the one who’s “alive” and the one you didn’t chose died (for real) or something like that.

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