Lucas_Gendron: What sub-genre is the “dark metal sound” going to be? The band is a death metal band, and the MC’s choices will effect styles within that genre ..read more

‘Trainwreck’ doesn’t even cover it, tbh. Forlorn’s been repressing everything for a decade and a half. That has a cost ..read more

True, metal has so many different sub-genres and those genres have been influenced by so many different bands! What sub-genre is the “dark metal sound” going to be ..read more

Yup, I thought so too. Technically I think they supposedly carried people to the Erinyes where they were linked at all, but their characterisation is so inconsistent across the texts that anything is possible ..read more

Your feedback is noted, I will accommodate ..read more

I am seriously thinking stopping writing forever. I am a bad writer nobody wants to read stuff from. I have no future in this ..read more

Half of those sound more like the Erinyes than harpies ..read more

Yeah you’re likely right. I probably just end up reading too much mythology and forget that’s the default image of them. (There’s some where they are a type of personification of the storm winds and beautiful, others where they have names and people (especially evil doers) down to tartarus, torture people on behalf of Zeus, guard the underworld etc, but even some of the myths end up making them into ugly, viscious barely sentient creatures. They don’t have a terribly consistent form ..read more

In all my CoG games so far, I’ve had simple 0-100 relationship scores which are broadly approval/how much they like you bars. In Blood Money, I had romance integers called something like npc_romance where 1 was eligible for romance (including casual or light flirting), 2 was a committed romance, and 3 was a broken-off, rejected, or never eligible romance (eg the PC’s orientation didn’t match). (Fun fact: the reason I did it like this was because that’s how the romance variables work in Baldur’s Gate 2 - making mods for it was my first experience in large-scale interactive narrative so I just l ..read more

I_got_bored_so: Calling the Duke Daddy H will never not be funny to me I shall endeavour to allow you to do so even more. AnneWest: I don’t know if I’m dense or just missing something, but why does Professor Karline answer “Why does he (the Duke) hate me so much?” with “We both know that?” (or something to that effect.) I don’t know that! Where would I have found out anything like that? Even as a reader I’ve come across nothing that tells me anything like that! KimiMoonsicle: Oh yeah, I noticed that, too. I was kinda assuming it was just because you were sponsored by his rival, but his ..read more