SomaSam
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Ahh yes, Secret of Kells and the Song of the Sea.
Both of those were fantastic movies with amazing artistic styles. If you have not seen them, I’d strongly recommend it, especially if you are into celtic folklore.
Song of the Sea is the main reason I know of Selkies and other various parts of celtic myth. Hoping we get to interact more with the selkie in your game. Make friends with some of the fey folk; rather than get bound to oaths, enrage them, or kill all the ones we meet.
Otherwise, I am quite enjoying your story so far. Its a great read, choices are good, and the setting is unique and well explored so far.
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Well, color me officially hooked. I just love this story and the fact that it’s based off an old Celtic tale. 
I’m dying to know what the mermaid wants the mc for and to see more of the princess. (Also Black Dog, who could be the funniest dog since Scooby.)
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Jacic
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Hopefully will have a bit of an update up within the next couple of days (It’s not up quite yet). Sorry about the inactivity, progress has been a bit slow due to RL.
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Jacic
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Hi all, Thanks for your patience with me in getting an update together. So it’s now sitting at a bit over 130,000 words and still isn’t finished. (So much for the short book ) . It has started branching in places, some paths loop around, others go out in different directions so I’m planning for it to be impossible to access all the content in a single play through once finished.
The story has moved forward but because of the branching, some paths have moved a fair bit and some only a little. (For example the one where you try to choose marriage as a reward has moved forward the most I think from memory). I’m sorry if anyone’s save points have been broken, I’ve done a fair bit of editing including adding in some extra variables in places so it might be buggy with the existing saves.
I’ve done a fair bit of editing to the existing text, getting rid of bugs, exposed code, grammar issues and rewriting a few bits. The stats probably need tweaking in places but I often finalise that at the end. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback! Hopefully I’ve got it all worked in where I could in this update.
Was wondering how people feel about the first encounter with the three animals. Those of you who have played though it have probably found out that:
(Spoiler) There is a good and an acceptable way to resolve the conflict and only one real way to fail which brings you to a premature ending (with a few minor changes to how you do those but they’re the main three options). How are you feeling about that? I could have more options to choose badly and fail but you kind of need the animals as a core part of your story line later on maybe a little railroading here is ok? If not let me know what you think and how you would change it .
I really appreciate any feedback good or bad on Sea Maiden. Thank you to everyone who has been helping me out with it and making it a better book!
https://dashingdon.com/play/jacic/the-sea-maiden/mygame/
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Jacic
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Poll time. For those who have already read Sea Maiden (and the spoiler test above). Can I ask about what you think about the first interaction with the three animals?
- I wouldn’t mind if it stays as it is.
- It needs different options. (Although it may mean more chances to fail and end the story early).
- I’d do something different (Please let me know in the comments).
I’m so glad it’s back. I was lamenting this thread’s inactivity just the other day so to see it actually back and with an update is amazing (:
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Jacic
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Aww thanks @ImAcrophobic!
Hopefully I’ll have more updates without so big a period of inactivity next time. Just got very busy with RL stuff and although it probably doesn’t seem like a big update given the amount of time since the last one, I had to do quite a bit of editing to the existing stuff so it took me a while.
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Jesus
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Keep it up! I already thought it was going to close due to inactivity
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I can’t get past the pet bit when there fighting over the food
Jacic
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That’s weird, I ran through it last night. Maybe something has glitched. Can you post the error text or the story text before it cut out? Or let me know what choices you made and I’ll see if I can find the problem.
Jacic
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Thanks for that!
That’s one of my new variables that looks to be causing a problem. Let me run it though on my computer as it looks like it should be ok from the coding I have here.
The only other thing I can think of is if you’ve played this in the past and not deleted the cookies, I’ve had problems with the browser not refreshing dashingdons files properly and causing these errors. A cookie delete or opening the file in private window should fix it. Let me see if I’m getting the same error though and I’ll let you know
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Okay thank u I actually played it the other day
Jacic
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I just ran though it. Seems to be working on my end. Maybe do a cache clear or open the link in a private window. I think that should fix it. (Pretty sure I’ve gone to the same choice as you are getting stuck on). Sorry about that, not sure how to fix it otherwise, seems to be a browser issue that pops up sometimes with choicescript files hosted without being compiled. If it doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll have more of a hunt to see if there’s something I’ve missed.
RenaB
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Yay! I’m so happy to see this back in action and with an update! I absolutely adore this story!
I’ve just played through the first bit again, and I loved the new content (especially getting to talk with Idelisa some more (not sure if I should keep her name in spoilers).
I’ll play through it again later to check out the other paths- but I absolutely love this story and am so thrilled to see it updated!
One minor error though (after choosing to tell the truth of the mermaid and the fight, but minus the fact that Idelisa is a selkie.)
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The section about me telling him the story is repeating, it already talked about how I told him the story just above that, as can be viewed by him saying “wonderful” above. (The box wasn’t big enough to take a screenshot of the repeat info above).[/spoiler]
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Jacic
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Thanks @RenaB! I suspect I’ve messed up a goto command in that sequence. I’ll have a look.
Mxm124
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Love to see this back. Always enjoy games based on a certain mythology and this does the Celtic Irish mythology justice. I would love to see the Loch Ness monster in this. Now time to play.
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It’s working know dose it stop at where you get change for the feast
