Weeping Gods (WIP, 10/JAN/2025) (371K)

Good eyes :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Damn. I did not expect the conversation to play out the way it did between Narmer and his wife. Or that he even had one at all!? I played a blasĆ© character who didnā€™t care, but me irl was so gagged! He really let my naĆÆve angel spill her awkward heart out to him, liked it, and then didnā€™t tell her he was married. Man is such a red flag even before he chokes out his wife and threatens to gut her.

Seriously though, it caught me so off guard. Iā€™m not condoning the actions, but I really hope we see him get really scary towards the enemies in our favor so I can simp without my conscience smacking me around like Narmer was.

Though the way that my noble reacted to it was very in characterā€“stumped, shocked, horrified, a little overwhelmedā€“but still willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and pity him, even though irl that shit would be so not okay! Still, theyā€™re a very whimsical character. I just think you did such a good job there.

Also, the wife making the cutting remark about him being disgusting because of our age when we caught them (sheā€™s 20-24, but I head canon 20 to make it even worse lol) and when Ahmose called our attraction to the king ā€œso grossā€ too I laughed.

Ahmose was such a fun character! It was nice to see our noble get some time to shine by figuring out the investigation too. And the guy just staring at the wall made me snort.

Great update and thank you for sharing it.

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Jesus, Narmer, be careful or youā€™ll cut yourself on all that edgeā€¦ oh, too late. Lots of fun and interesting moments in this chapter, but the wife beating certainly puts a damper on things. Will wait to see how it develops, but as it stands this hits a bit too close to home for my captain considering Hesetā€™s backgroundā€¦

Typos/etc

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their noses are


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surfaces


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Not sure of the meaning here. Straight away? Straight up (honestly)?


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to


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or?


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spot. Also, Petmes is great lol. So he may actually be 10k years old :thinking: Who else do we know that looks younger than they are? Hey Qenna, whereā€™s your glowing amulet?


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cause


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untampered


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and?


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what


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have



Thebes?


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capitalization


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hasnā€™t


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Ahmose pronoun error. Also, lol Ahmose is relatable playing floating corpse in the pool. And incredible visual of her pushing a giant, stoic captain into the water :rofl:


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presence be known


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drips


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For consistencyā€™s sake, most of the time you write it as ā€œPetmesā€™sā€


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was


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your?


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repeated donā€™t



Itā€™s never stated the captain gets dressed so I was fully picturing him still nude in the following scene :joy:


And lastly, some continuity weirdness with Narmerā€™s hand.

For a captain with romance points:
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Itā€™s never stated anyone put poultice on his hand.

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The degree of healing described made it sound like the wound would not reopen, unless heā€™s drawing new blood with his nails?

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Yeah, Iā€™m reconsidering my N (and potential A) romances now just as much as Iā€™m leery of Q romance. Real world experience makes me not want anything to do with alcoholics or rageaholics (and a ragey parent often makes for ragey offspring as wellā€¦)

Which really kind of sucks because thatā€™s three out of four available (for me, given Iā€™m not into women) romances. Why canā€™t my sad, shy noble have her dead husband back? Or Ebo? Iā€™d take a chance on Ebo, he seems sweet.

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Not sure if you use tumblr, but this was mentioned as a possibility. Not necessarily a romance, though.

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Not on Tumblr, so I appreciate the heads-up!

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New update chapter 1 vizer son when picking to go to yhe library when back at the palace after being binded by the priest i think this is the moment when the pharoh bumps into you and drops the wine

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Restart every time you open the game and you wonā€™t get that

Interesting because i tend not to use the same function but itā€™s still happening :thinking: but Iā€™ll find out a try thanks

Delete the cookies for the cogdemos website from your browser but donā€™t forget to save your game beforehand. Use the local save and export it to your device, then delete the cookies, then import back the saves.

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ah an updateā€¦ sadly the guy didnā€™t give me the cricket gun

The adventure only just started, so yes, there will be a lot more coming :smiley:

Thatā€™s good to hear! Iā€™m planning to add more options later in Chapter 4 to fine-tune about how you feel about that scene and Narmer once the MC has time to calm down and analyze their own feelings :heart: The coding part is still a question mark haha so Iā€™m not sure yet how Iā€™m gonna do it, if I should make restrictions about it or notā€¦ I donā€™t want to ask the readers the same questions again, so maybe Iā€™ll make it in a way that if you chose to be scared/shocked, then youā€™ll get to choose more negative feelings, and if you chose simply uncomfortable/pity, then you get more neutral options. Iā€™m not sure yet, but Iā€™ll do my best to try to make it feel in-character for every option without feeling like youā€™re just repeating the same choices again.

Petmes and Qenna work in mysterious ways lmao

No, thatā€™s just my mistake. It shouldnā€™t be bleeding anymore if Petmes heals it, I just need to put a temp variable there, which I forgot :sweat_smile:

Thank you again for the grammar fixes and the spotting of these inconsistencies! I spent most of this week editing out the mistakes and I thoughtā€¦ surely I caught most of themā€¦ Well, oops :joy: (Iā€™m sure there is more that none of us have noticed). Iā€™ll fix them in the next update :heart:

Ebo might be added as a half-romance later. I canā€™t promise anything just yet, but Iā€™m strongly considering it.

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Iā€™m loving it, just a noticing continuity errors when playing with my one eyed guard, forgetting that he has one eye and an eye socket

Also when Z arrives at the tavern to meet my guard at the start it assumes that my guard locked the jewels up when he gave them back to the screeching banshee of a noble woman.


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The eye thing is probably going to stay that way because itā€™s the captainā€™s force of habit of referring to their eye as ā€œeyesā€ and not ā€œone eye and a hole/patch/glass eyeā€. The text also hasnā€™t specified yet if they have a glass eye or not, which I was thinking to add later during the eye color choice. When itā€™s very obvious that the text is supposed to be talking about only one eye though, thatā€™s a mistake and I should fix that. Zaia looking for injuries in the captainā€™s surviving eye is a good catch, thank you!

Can you please include some screenshots of this part? Or just copy-paste the text, thatā€™s fine too. I was searching the text just now but I couldnā€™t find the error without context because that part has a massive amount of variations :sweat_smile:

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Loved the update! I enjoy this story so much!

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Itā€™s this part, I gave the necklace back to the noble woman but my guard says itā€™s in the evidence storage

Thank you :heart:

Ah, I see. What did you do with the thief? I mean, did you catch her and let her go, or did you lock her up, did you not catch her but swore to find her later etc?

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My guard is terrible at lying, I let the kid go and took the necklace. I gave it back to the noblewoman and told her that the thief got away

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Thanks, Iā€™ll look into it! At this point, Iā€™d say I probably forgot to write out that possibility completely lol. Iā€™ll come back to it tomorrow :+1:

If only people paid a sliver of their time to read the thread. But no. That way, I can feel helpful by parroting someone elseā€™s words.

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