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

HAHAHA :rofl: Sorry, Qenna, but this is hilarious. Mut follower should get the opportunity to do this at least once

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I wanted to be mad at Qenna for the execution thing so bad but then he pulled the ā€œlook at me sunshineā€ and of course I got all weak in the knees :sob:.

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Thank you so much! :heart: Yes, I wanted to introduce a good variety of interesting characters with their own backstories to play with, Iā€™m glad itā€™s a success so far :smiley:

Try the choices I mentioned above, thatā€™s pretty much what would happen lol

Did I mention that Qenna lies all the time? Qenna lies all the time! lol but yeah they quickly changed their tune when they saw that your distress was genuine :heart:

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Qennaā€¦ :thinking: fine, keep your secrets for now, my noble will figure you out eventually.

Bonus Typos

ā€œOh, you just made my headache worse, ${lass},ā€ ${Q_he} days quietly.

says

ā€¦

Qenna takes a sudden movement and you jerk back. $!{Q_his} arms come down on both side of you, caging you in, and you feel fucking paralyzed from fear because suddenly you know what it is.

makes, sides

Thanks for the typos! Iā€™m putting a hidden achievement there right now, if you read that part again next week after the new update, that will give you a small hint :smiley:

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I dreamed that Qenna could use his magic only when drunk and that his magic is the only thing keeping him from not getting sick and decay. When I read your comment, I was sure that I read this explanation, then I realised that it was a dream about me reading this explanation in the story.

Also, I wanted to say that I enjoy every characterā€™s meeting with Narmer, and itā€™s so cute to flirt with him.

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I thought Qenna was pretending to be more drunk that they actually are, I donā€™t know why I came to that conclusion. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Thatā€™s because you are right! Qenna is never really drunk, but they need the booze for something. If you tried to heal them out of it, thenā€¦ that would have some unexpected consequences, letā€™s just say.

lmao my dear, I am touched that you dream about this

I can assure you, Narmer also enjoys meeting every character and flirting with them :wink: (unless you are an 18 year-old, then Narmer is a bit more disturbed)

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I long suspected Qenna is not nearly as drunk as they pretend to be, but now Iā€™m really curious what they need the boose for. I originally assumed it was just to get people to underestimate them, but now youā€™ve got me thinking thereā€™s more to it. :thinking:

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A really bad case of headache :person_shrugging:

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Hmmmmm. Hmm. Hmmmmmmmhehmph. :triumph::thinking::face_exhaling::expressionless:

Interesting. Man, moments like these make me wish I knew more Egyptian lore and mythology then what I do. Iā€™m way more knowledgeable of Greek, Norse, and Japanese mythos.

cups Qennaā€™s face What are you! Who are you!? :neutral_face: What has my noble gotten into with you?

Side note. No complaints with the Priest route. Except that even if I didnā€™t know the outcome, I would never ignore that many red flags at an event full of so many people. Iā€™m a better safe then sorry type of person. My priest, Hasani, wanted to immediately go grab security when half of his ppl are replaced and weird unknown boxes are present. :rofl:

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All excellent questions.

Thatā€™s why Iā€™m giving you so many options to stop (: Iā€™m trying to do it so that every option will give you a slightly different outcome, and Iā€™m also trying to make every outcome equally interesting (hopefully I succeed). Although maybe I should warn youā€¦ for the ceremony, there are no happy endings.

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https://www.megacarter.com/about-2

This webcomic (Godslave,) and a lot of Carterā€™s background studying is included in the accompanying blog (or used to, I havenā€™t been in a while,) has a lot.

Donā€™t read about the lettuce salad, if itā€™s still up.

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I sadly already know the lettuce salad part of the mythos. :rofl::face_exhaling:

Oh, I fully expect that. Lol

Also, I love how being the priest reveals that Narmer isnā€™t as alone as weā€™re lead to believe in other routes. Lol

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That was a surprise. We knew about one spirit in the thief route, two in the noble (my favourite so far) and now five or six in the priest route. I wonder what the guard route will know, all or none?

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NEW UPDATE
This turned out to be a lot bigger work than I expected lol. But itā€™s done! The whole priest origin is playable :partying_face: I also ended up adding a scene that I wanted to do in chapter 2, but I decided it fit a lot better for the priest instead. That scene takes place in the dungeons, and itā€™sā€¦ a bit intense.

On that note, I updated the trigger warnings in the beginning of the game, please READ IT. (also, if you want anything added, feel free to send a message)

Whatā€™s new:

  • 18k words added to the priest origin, so that makes the whole game 169k words total
  • the entire priest origin is playable, plus you can play the first scene of chapter 2
  • I added a Codex to the Stats page! I tried to make it brief and on-point
  • added 2 achievements to the priest route. One of them is a very interesting but hidden one. It needs very specific choices to activate, try to find it :wink:
  • updated the trigger warnings
  • added more people to the Relationships tab in the Stats page
  • I fixed some bugs on the priest route
  • lots of grammar/typo fixes (thanks @a_ghost )

The next step in development will be adding the skeleton of the captain of the guard origin. Iā€™m honestly super excited to start writing it!! It will come out next Friday, with some greyed out choices first.

So, hopefully you like the new content, and send me feedback like usual :heart: Especially if you find some weird stuff, f.ex the text says that Tia died when she actually didnā€™t, and stuff like that.

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First round, investigated and reported suspicious box contents immediately. Nothing to report wrong with that route. Read well and it seems our priest/ess has a little divine intervention of their own. :+1:

Second round, I stopped the ritual right before the last option to stop. Found dungeon routeā€¦

Right away saw thisā€¦

Summary

ā€œWe are in a dungeon, lass,ā€ Qenna looks back at Tabiry. ā€œItā€™s quite evident what he is getting into, I think.ā€

Well, yeah, you have to give him that. You arenā€™t expecting sunshine and rainbowns.

Rainbowns. Awe yes. Lol. = Rainbows.

Priest Hasani: Wellā€¦you have fun with that. claps noble on shoulder
Yunre: Huh? What?
Me: Donā€™t worry about it. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Yunre: :angry:

Codex looks good. I always appreciate one that explains unfamiliar terms. Itā€™s interesting to read on the words we might be unfamiliar with.

Also read up on some Egyptian mythical creatures ā€¦tell me, Qenna. Are you hungry for this tasty dish made of pig heartsā€¦or this hot and radiant dish made with sunflower oil? :face_with_monocle:

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I seem to have encountered some bugs in the origin of pastorsļ¼ŸIā€™m not sure,itā€™s stop in Tiaā€™s small body bursts into flames.?Or just the demo is over?
Its prompt is *priestbackgr line 1648: It is illegal to fall in to an *else statement; you must *goto or finish before the end of the indented block.
ļ¼ˆI really want to post pictures, but Iā€™m still a forum novicešŸ˜…ļ¼‰

A bit changeļ¼ši just forget to say hiļ¼i love ur gameļ¼

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The demo finishes after the first scene of chapter 2, one page after you choose your characterā€™s age! That there is an error, although Iā€™m not sure why you are getting itā€¦ I tried it again in my own browser and everything seemed fine :thinking: Could it be that you are using an old save? Can you please try restarting the game, and go over from the start with the same choices to see if it happens again?

Thanks for the catch lol.

You donā€™t have to go into Egyptian myths to figure it out :smiley: Although Iā€™m not sure if this specific thing didnā€™t exist in their myths. Maybe it did.

Oh myā€¦ thatā€™s indeed the problem.Thanks for replyā¤

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