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

This was hilarious, thank you so much!

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Always relieving to hear it’s not funny just to myself d=====( ̄▽ ̄*)b

Thank YOU for reading, I enjoy views and attention :chart_increasing::tada::chart_increasing:

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@Kezthier

QuickSkip: 2 // StatusQuo: 57 // Polite: 75 // Social: 62

CL: 10 // Rel: 73
RL: 4 // Rel: 72
JL: 1 // Rel: 52

accepthand: false // whydididothis: false // spared: 1 // chug1: false // letter1: 1 // letter1sent: 0 // mydaisies: 0 // bookown: false // maskown: false // pov2wishful: 3 // cinterest: 2

dreamin: 0 // dearmed: true // choicech: 1 // changeres: true // pov3ver: 10 // rinterest: 1

sacrificial: 1 // jnick: yep // closeness1: 3

:glowing_star:N/A

AKFBFJSNCBDJSBCHEJS NO WORDS I JUST LOVE THIS WIP SO MUCH WTF AND THE CHARACTERS AND STORY IS SO WELL FLESHED OUT I CAN’T :sob::sob::sob::folded_hands::folded_hands::folded_hands::heart::heart::heart::heart:

I can’t wait to see how things go. THE AMOUNT OF LORE IN THIS GAME IS AGGRESSIVE SQUEEZING AND PATTING

I am so glad I came across this. It’s a masterpiece chef’s kiss :kiss_mark:

KWDNCUSISBDHS WAITING FOR THE NEXT UPDATE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK :fire::fire::fire:

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Having a lot of fun learning about the world and setting! Just wanted to let you know that there’s a bug in chapter 2 when you arrive at the festival with just Caine - specifically, it looks like the conditionals for if Calla came along got mixed up when waiting at the fountain after sending the letter. Very interesting premise, and I always love having the opportunity to play a reluctant character. Definitely looking forward to seeing any future updates :]

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Minor update to the demo!
*if ((savesbroken = true) and (readerannoyed = true))
I’m so sorry to have killed your saves once more…
*else
yippee (a stat I added might not have registered & triggered for u then)

I’ve been locked in, but the progress is still slow even when I have time. I’m not a powerhouse, I’m the opposite of a mitochondria :broken_heart:

The more variables, the longer it takes to test lol. I spent more time testing than writing, it’s crazy…


-I tidied up my writing so it shrunk again, but your overall playthrough is a lil’ longer (spring cleaning era fr). It’d be 59.9k but I always round down

  • Killed more bugs/errors. They never end, just like my agony.
  • Edited prior chapters–most notably added variations to the festival if you don’t get along w/ Caine or choose a certain choice
  • Rebalanced the festival variables so you can do more things in 1 playthrough (idk lemme know if it’s too much or too little +if ur doing it with Calla or not)
  • Attempted to make it less clicky by doing away with most of the ellipses page breaks (I kinda miss 'em)
  • I added a cool, useless graphic in a stats page :D! (was gonna use it instead of the ellipses page breaks but eh, too extra)

Word count: ~213k (~59k per playthrough)


Priv demo relevant:

  • Rewrote/added to the choice ā€œYou want to stay in the army?ā€

Word count: ~237k (~64k per playthrough)
The unique additions of the deleted scene: +~4.3k


Thank you for the stats! And thanks for the aggressive squeezing and patting :pleading_face::pleading_face::pleading_face:
The enthusiasm is infectious, it made me smile c: I’m glad you liked what you’ve read, the interest from you guys mean the world to me–keeps me writing even through all that doom scrolling and 1 sec attention span ahaha

I hope the rest of ch4 will be worth the wait!! Because Man Am I Wrestling With It.

It’s like battling a hydra, I just keep makin more bugs every time I add/change something :pensive_face: (if it’s not broke, don’t fix it :skull:) Thanks for the help!

Glad you had fun reading! I started this IF because I wanted to play a character not having a good time lol (though there’s a lot of those out there, I wanted a diff flavor)

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I don’t know if you are aware in your bug squashing quest, but you can’t open the game on cogdemos right now.

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If your getting the opps message you need to use a fresh link cause visiting the site i was able to use that link. There was a recent update to cogdemos that messed with old links.

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Oddly enough, it seems fine on my end. Do you have an error message or a screenshot you could show?

I’m not even familiar with this bug haha thank you
Is this a thing I can/should prevent or it’s a server side sorta error?

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I dont know much but from what ive seen posted by others its a cogdemos site update that messed with demos. But when i checked earlier using your most recent update link it worked for me.

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I get this.

I can reach it from the home page and scrolling until I find it.

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Did you remove the app from your device then use the new link for the most recent update?

That should solve your issue.

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I believe you’re supposed to put /mygame at the end of the URL. I had this bug with other games and that fixed it.

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QuickSkip: 2 // StatusQuo: 68 // Polite: 35 // Social: 34

CL: 9 // Rel: 83
RL: 0 // Rel: 44
JL: 0 // Rel: 45

accepthand: true // whydididothis: false // spared: 1 // chug1: false // letter1: 0 // letter1sent: 0 // mydaisies: 0 // bookown: true // maskown: false // bitter1: 2 // pov2wishful: 3 // cinterest: 2

dreamin: 1 // dearmed: true // choicech: 1 // changeres: true // pov3ver: 13 // rinterest: 0

sacrificial: 3 // jnick: no // closeness1: 0

:glowing_star:n/a

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Ohhh I see what the problem is. I just gotta change the places I used the old link. Thanks for the help everyone! Should be updated everywhere now.

Maybe I should’ve used CoGDemos’ alternate ā€œgoā€ link, but I like having a desc. if you hover lol


@AnneWest TY! Seeing everyone’s collated stats, I may rebalance how I attributed Rei’s like stat in the future. I did it atypically because I suspect content with them would be quite different from the others–but in practice for when I write, hm. Much to think abt

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Thanks. Here are my stats.

QuickSkip: 2 // StatusQuo: 69 // Polite: 79 // Social: 75

CL: 14 // Rel: 93
RL: 2 // Rel: 61
JL: 2 // Rel: 58

accepthand: true // whydididothis: false // spared: 2 // chug1: false // letter1: 1 // letter1sent: 0 // mydaisies: 3 // bookown: false // maskown: false // bitter1: 2 // pov2wishful: 3 // cinterest: 2

dreamin: 0 // dearmed: true // choicech: 3 // changeres: true // pov3ver: 13 // rinterest: 0

sacrificial: 3 // jnick: yep // closeness1: 3

:glowing_star:n/a

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Enjoying the demo once more but came across something thats thrown me off cause i dont recall it being like this in the past. After rei kills celens creator and rulers and encounters therra are they suppost to be constantly shifting gender pronouns?

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If you thought Rei was the one changing pronouns, it’s actually Therra :))

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Lol nah i wasnt talking about rei’s pronouns

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Minor update to the demo!
I patched a minor bug for the fes w/ Calla path if u do everything/nothing & back out of shopping without having bought anything. Hopefully that didn’t create new problems, the coding got confusing lol

But I liked writing for what happens if u do that instead of forcing u to buy something. Have some unresolved issues, Summoner. It’s good for ur character arc. (or just don’t)

This won’t be in the itchio builds until the next catastrophic bug so uhh just indulge in capitalism. It’s an annoying process to zip multiple builds, my apologies.

On the flipside, I edited a bit more janky text and typos. Tossed that into the patch. One step closer to having a reading session without sighing to myself every few seconds :D!


Thank you very much c:
Everyone really likes brushing snow off Caine’s head haha. What’s the appeal vs the other options?

Yep, Therra is just quirky​:trade_mark: like that. They do whatever They want for fun :tada: (Rei would say to not ascribe logic to these beings, but they’re biased so)

This makes me think it might be fun coding a *rand variable for Therra, I might do that for some parts one day.

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Not sure if I just went blank for a sec and skipped a page but I couldn’t focus on Willow’s death scene, cause I just kept wondering Where/How/Why were we doing here?

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