#ddwcaph previews

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MC's Dad

Whoops, the preview about MC's Dad took me a while longer, because I just added 16 new trinkets to the game!

"How can I get the new trinkets?" you may ask. Well, check out the new backstory details about MC's Dad below:

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Note: These scenes are all in the prologue, when MC is writing their short story. Variables and flavor text are set to my testing defaults, with MC having [Draconic Ancestry].

Now that you know MC's Dad is an anthropologist, surely he must have some souvenirs from his trips, right? Well, that's where the new exclusive trinkets come in!

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The last souvenir trinket has an extra-powerful bonus effect, so that's why I'm locking it for NewGame+.

Anyway, the above scene previously showed a different choice, so I moved that to the scene after MC wakes up in their new home:

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And yup, MC's Dad is the reason why MC likes collecting trinkets!

I've updated the prologue with new information about MC's Dad a couple times already, but this is probably going to be the last one. The prologue has always been unclear about how much the twins remember about their dad, but this should help clear that up.

As for the new trinkets... you might remember from the earliest versions of the story that the locket actually gave different bonuses according to the gem you selected. I removed it since I didn't want to tie MC's favorite color to the bonuses, but this was the perfect choice to bring that back.

I love designing RPG items, if you can't tell. 😛 I had loads of treasure items and trinket ideas with their own special effects when I was younger! 😄 But yes, the new souvenir trinkets will be a lot more powerful than the trinkets you can currently find, and I tried to make sure the new effects are thematic, with a certain playstyle in mind.

This is a bit long already, so I'll show the new trinket effects in a later preview!

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💎 New Souvenir Trinkets

As promised, here are the effects of the new souvenir trinkets! Here's the last preview if you missed what the new trinkets are for.

Porcelain Figurine: +20% Resistance to All Stat Penalties

Ankh Keychain: +33% Healing Received, Cleanses negative effects of 🖤 [Healing Sickness] from triggering 🛡️ [Plot Armor]

Shield Knot Emblem: +20% Damage Resistance, +20% Chance to reduce damage taken to 1

Golden Apple Magnet: +10% to ALL Relationship Gains and Losses

Postcard Collection: 25% of setting-specific bonuses apply to all non-homeworld settings

Antique Toy Biplane: +1000% Exploration EXP

Kaiun Omamori: 33% Chance to succeed failed stat checks; reduce chance by 1% when it activates (until 5% chance)

Vintage Handkerchief: 💯 [Perfect Health] Bonus also grants +10% All Stats

Dream Catcher: Cleanses 🌞/🦉[Sleepyhead] Status Effect, Doubles effects and extends duration of 🔋 [Well-Rested] bonuses

Wooden Ceremonial Dagger: Gain Bonus EXP when taking damage and failing stat checks, Temporarily gain +2% EXP Bonus for each negative status effect

T-Rex Tooth Replica: +50% Intimidation

Resin Bookmarks: Increase EXP Gain from Codex Discoveries by 5% for each Codex Discovery

Yin-Yang Signet: +10% to All Stats and balances all attributes

Gebo Rune Talisman: +30% Main Attribute, -10% All Other Stats

Spiral Conch Shell: Grants 👀 [Enhanced Senses], Converts Grace Penalty from 💦 [Soaked] Status Effect to Grace Bonus (Only available if your Ancestry/Heritage Trait doesn't grant Enhanced Senses)

Alexandrite Bracelet: +25% Maximum Locket Power (NewGame+ only)

As always, these are subject to change, especially because I have no idea how powerful most of these will be. But since they are supposed to be extra-powerful, I've made it so that the [Goblin Ancestry] bonus doesn't affect the souvenir trinkets.

So what souvenir will you be picking for your MC?

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Okay, so here's the second update preview! This is the bike ride scene in Chapter 3 that I accidentally made unselectable. 😅

Unfortunately I have to take a screenshot of the code instead of the in-game text, but you can probably see why I have to do it this way. I took out most of the stats code so it's hopefully easier to understand, but here's a quick guide:

Anything that's bluish-purple is mostly variable text, the "house" variable corresponds to your background trait (Middle Class = 1, Country Child = 2, and Impoverished = 3), and "wordy" is the variable that changes MC's precocious/naive vocabulary.

If this is too much, don't worry, the next preview about MC's Dad will have in-game text instead!

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Alright, since the majority wants to see more miscellaneous update posts, here's an updated description of Mary in Chapter 4 to start us off!

Her waist-length wavy hair is dyed in a bright blue and turquoise ombré, perfectly framing her hourglass figure that you really only see in Uncle Robert's magazines... and her height of roughly two preschool-Waynes tall—a full nine inches taller than Kuya/Ate Paddy's six feet. As Wayne likes to say, she's not tall, she's a venti, hehe.

So yup, I finally decided how tall Mary is. I promise there's a reason for why there's such a big height difference between them. 😅

I've got a bunch more choice/scene previews in the hopper, so I'll start a new tag so you'll be able to view them all easily later.