The Summoner | Updated April 12th, 2025 (213k words) | Kofi Demo 238k words

[Kezthier]

The Day of Ardor story is now up on HBreaker Hub!

I was really wrestling with twine in between not having as much time to write it as I had liked lol. I gave myself a tight deadline Read here for some notes about the writing if you’d like, it’s a public kofi post c:

I hope you guys like the story, I quite liked writing some scenes in it even if I wished they had more baking time. I’d like to write more petting Rei’s wing, idk that was enjoyable.

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@Valixon

I think they might be talking about when going to the town in that one sequence but not certain since i havent taken that path yet.

Unfortunately(?) no alcoholism in that path ahah–but I did originally intend a bar/tavern scene with Jackal! There was gonna be drama because they could be against you when u confess something unwise, but scrapped

@ElliWoelfin

Want to give appreciation to how well it seems the game tracks and acknowledges how my MC is. I’ve not had anything be out of character and not for lack of referencing their thoughts. It really feels very impressive, that consistently so much is acknowledged, reflected upon, different callbacks to specific moments or emotions, acknowledging changes in thought and giving explicit opportunities to reflect/change, etc. It feels very nice, having so much of the narration consistently being in character without just having to pick options for every little thing. It’s not something I see much at all, usually everything is fairly vague or only being from directly prior choices (like a page immediately after a choice following the chosen emotion/thought, but then back to neutral after they get the referential paragraph out of the way), so it stands out a lot to me.

Also glad I refound the story. It’s one that’s been in the back of my mind off and on but when going through the full list of stories on the “new” site I’ve rediscovered a lot I’ve been missing, this being one of them. Remember the initial release fairly vividly.

Thank you for the stats!
And I’m so glad you think so! Since I recognize I currently lack some skills in particular writing aspects, I wanted to at least do this so TS had more to it than a surface level experience lol. It’s great to hear this detail was noticed because I had most of it buried in code you couldn’t see if I didn’t make it into a choice option (which worried me about the perceived interactive part in IF). I actually had converted some into choices since the updated demo, but I will def keep this in mind because I love that you enjoyed the effort that went into the “flavor text”.

Thanks for taking the time to write this, it means a lot that you were invested in the story before the update and still c:

@Arcane_warrior

Is it called a bar or tavern not even sure when you get to the town and some random patron flirts with your summon honestly I just cringed so bad at the hole thing it made me want to just fall on my own sword.

Lmaooo yeah that was cringe. So cringe I originally couldn’t help letting the MC call the whole thing “cringe” directly, but obvi it’s medieval so I eventually changed it lol. But it’s a street market sorta thing so no bar/tavern there

@Augusts

i was really surprised on how good the summoner is, usually i dont like games where personality are the only stats since most of the times they are just there unused, giving you the ilusion of choice (at this point i would rather read it as a novel than play it as a game) a sad display of wasted potential, or they are used on extremes forcing you to be the most asshole person that existed or the most asskisser, but not in this game.

here i felt i was really making my own choices and they were acknowledged/remembered, not just being handed whatever the author thought would be appropriate to x percentage of stats, another good surprise was relationship dynamics, loved the povs and the ro´s, for a game with only 217k word it felt much more longer and filled with content, it felt more complete than most wips i played, great work i really liked it.

Ahh I’m glad that you liked it despite it not being what you usually go for! It’s awesome to hear because I did wonder if I managed to incorporate the personality stats well or not C:

I approach this more like writing an interactive novel than a game–I want every choice/path to feel like it was meant to be/I wrote it for “you” or your character at any rate lol. (Most importantly that it’s a natural progression of the storyline for all the characters involved). It’s great that it felt like a full experience already, thank you for checking it out & posting!

@bluestelo

I found a bug in the CoG demo. During the festival, all choices of book in the bookshop lead to an error, unable to proceed.

Thanks for catching this! Apparently I missed uploading a .txt file, will do that rn and see if that fixes it