I’m curious to know if the stats will be rebalanced at some point, since right now we’re only at chapter two and you can have very high stats in combat and flying I think.
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I’m not sure yet to be honest. I never wanted stats to play a major role in the story, nothing that would make players feel like they need to min-max, but I do want them to have some meaningful impact. A rework could happen in the future, but it’s not in the plans for now.
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Hey everyone! Quick poll about magic. I’ve been planning a few things, so It would be good to know how many of you are pursuing this path.
Are you having your MC consistently practice magic with Cassiel?
- Yes
- No
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On a side note, I really wish ChoiceScript had something like those Telltale Games stats screens that show the percentage of players who picked each choice, or at least a way to mimic that. It would be so fun to read through them!
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I absolutely did. I saw what that magic can do with the fire breath, you’re telling me I can channel that into other stuff?
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Consistently, no. I have studied magic with him once or twice, but that was about it.
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Its magic bro, doesn’t matter that I’m some kinda Dragon-Human hybrid. I’m always all-in on magic baby
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I miss those games
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Hello again people! The next update should be out around the end of this month, maybe a bit earlier if I’m lucky. I just finished what was probably the hardest scene I’ve ever written, I’d been stuck on it for a whole week with no progress lol. Now that I finally finished it, I wanted to give you all a little heads-up, the rest of the update shouldn’t take too long! Just three more scenes to go before I can finally move on to the battle.
Edit: Also the poll honestly surprised me, I was expecting most people to skip learning magic altogether! I’m glad I decided to ask here, it really got me motivated to add new variations and more opportunities to use magic in the future.
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Is this WIP Still getting updates?
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Yep, you can rest assured that this WIP will never be abandoned lol.
Work has been taking a lot out of me, so I can’t write nearly as fast as before, but I’ll keep updating it as quickly as I can.
There’s just one more scene left before this update is done. I’ll try to get it done this weekend.
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Hello everyone! Update 8.5 is finally done! I’m really sorry for the long wait, I’ve been writing as fast as I can.
As I mentioned before, this update finishes the previous one which, despite being large, was still very incomplete. This update adds around 28k words of new content, along with several small fixes and tweaks to earlier scenes.
So, what’s new in this update?
- Gift-giving scenes for everyone (3 variations each)
- A scene where you can try to recruit Captain Glade
- A follow-up to roaring at the Thalassari on the sea
- Two variations of a Ruby scene if you are romancing her (depending on whether she was injured by the hydra)
- A new scene with Walls if you’re romancing him
- Preparing siege engines + further magic training with Cassiel
- The very first hint of romance with Cassiel (very brief)
- A small new scene with Arael about scouting the area
- The first real development of the Arael + Lyra poly route
The gifts took a lot of work, too many variations and too many characters lol. I don’t think I’ll be doing something like that again anytime soon.
I also wanted to expand and rework a few scenes, but I just didn’t have enough time. Might comeback to it sometime in the future though.
Important note on the poly route:
Some of you may remember that I wasn’t planning to include poly relationships at first. I wasn’t sure I could write them in a believable way. But since so many people asked for it, I decided to give it a try with Arael and Lyra.
That said, this route is still very experimental, so keep that in mind while reading. I’d really like some feedback on it if possible, I was stuck on that scene for an entire week until I finally ended up with something I was happy with.
For now, Arael + Lyra is basically a kind of “secret” route. You can only unlock the new scene if you give Lyra the right gift and have reasonably high arrogance. Azgor won’t be happy about it, but unless you really mess up, it won’t have any lasting consequences. For now.
Anyway, I haven’t had time to fully test everything yet, I’ll try to do that tomorrow. Thanks again for the patience everyone! And please tell me if any of the scenes doesn’t show up!
Edit:
Also, I forgot to mention, but I made a Tumblr page a while back. I’ve added the link to the main post, but I figured I’d mention it here too in case anyone wants to check it out.
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WOOOOOOO!!!
Can’t wait to give the update a try
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I didn’t get the gift giving scenes, I played from the beginning until the end of the demo and then I tried skipping to the new update.
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Oh, that’s strange. After you buy everyone a gift in Laphis, Lyra should be the first to receive hers as you’re leaving the city, and everyone else gets theirs during their camp scenes. I’ll take a look and see if I can spot anything off in the code. Thanks for letting me know!
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I just checked just in case I missed something and I indeed missed Lyra’s reaction just after leaving the city but I still can’t see the rest of them.
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Yeah, I think I found the issue, my whole logic with the loops was wrong, and it’s even blocking the poly scene from triggering. I’ll edit the message here once I get it all working properly. I’d recommend everyone wait a bit if you haven’t read it yet. Sorry about that!
Edit: Okay, I think everything is fixed now, well, almost everything. We’ll get there…
The gift scenes are appearing now, but they don’t have any choice prompt, they’ll just pop up in the middle of the text if all the conditions are met, so it’s pretty easy to miss if you aren’t paying attention. Everything seems to be showing up correctly on my end now, except for Cassiel’s gift scene… who, as I just realized, might have accidentally deleted while reorganizing the code a few weeks ago. So I’ll have to rewrite that one from scratch. Yay…
Anyway, I’ll try to get it done tomorrow, lol. Sorry about that, everyone. Everything else should be working fine, though.
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I thought this update was incredibly good, unfortunately it ended before the climax of the battle ;-;
I’m really curious to see How the siege will unfold and the possible post-battle interactions.
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What is the right gift for Lyra? I don’t have time right now to go back and forth to test it out.
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Earings
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The earrings only work if you’re romantically involved with her, otherwise she refuses the gift (apparently earrings are like wedding rings for elves, something like that? That’s what I understood, at least.)
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