#info: mc

[thegrayascendancy-if]

I literally cannot wait for the D/G/A team to find out about the Mc's amnesia that's going to be such a delicious reveal! I wonder if they're even going to believe the Mc, and what it would take for them to believe it's real. omg I'm just so excited, great job with the update!

You can already reveal it, in fact! When you negotiate with D/G/A for their help in "fleeing" the "furious" Gray Regent, the option is there on the "I had a change of heart and no longer wish to work for Y" path. It's a decision with long-term implications, and already impacts certain conversations, in different ways with different characters.

There will be more opportunities for the MC to disclose it down the line, and more situations for the characters to have (if applicable) lightbulb moments of "oh, so you weren't lying, I guess......"

[viperdove-if]

oohhh do we pick who we eat next to? or does being an heir have the privilege to sit to the right side of dear father. Im thinking the table would be a long rectangular shape and at the center is our dear father.

It is a long rectangular table and as the dove, MC eats on one end while the patriarch eats on the other end (MC's mother does not join the family for dinners, unfortunately).

[thegrayascendancy-if]

Can we interact more with Alys and other mages that work for Y and the people in Riante and change their opinions of us? Since they distrust is currently

Alys is coming in hot, and some others will star later down the line. That is for one-off interactions though. Changing the mind of the masses (or making them see the MC differently) will come as a consequence of some big decisions in the second half of the game.

[thegrayascendancy-if]

Regarding the first fight scene:

Choosing magic seems to prevent getting injured during the fight, no matter the choices you make otherwise.

Is this intentional?

I went back and chose daggers instead, because I liked Y's reaction to injured MC.

Spoiler-free wrt the update, so I'll take this question now. Yes, it is intentional for the magic path because of where all the parties are physically in that scene: Arthur breaks them apart instead of, as it happens on the weapon path, putting himself in the middle and effectively blocking the MC's line of sight 😬

You can eventually drift toward magic usage even if you started off ignoring it, so you can sort of have it both ways 😅

[thegrayascendancy-if]

might be too spoilery but did y know mc prior to amnesia?

if anyone of the current or future cast knew the MC prior to their amnesia—or if no one at all did—is a big spoiler :)

[thegrayascendancy-if]

Congratulations on the update!! Gale’s eyes glow when he uses magic, right? Does that also apply to other mages like ourselves? Thank you!

Thank you!

Yes, that applies to all mages, including the MC. Theirs is blue, which I personally imagine to be cobalt blue, but the exact shade won't matter so you can adjust to your preference.

[thegrayascendancy-if]

hi there.

i scrolled waaay down to the first post on your blog and was reading my way back up, when i found this poll "Are you playing as a mage or a non-mage?". i know its quite old, but i hope i can still share my thoughts/answer. i would have chosen the non-mage option. my thoughts during the choice ingame was: well, the mage hunters may be resistant/immune against magic, but a good pair of daggers still hurt them the same...

i wouldnt call my MC a non-mage. i think a more fitting class name for her would be spellblade or more fitting a arcane trickster (from D&D). in my head she would still mainly use her twin daggers, but would at the same time use their force/telekinesis magic to cause inconveniences for her enemies: an enemy is standing on a rug? use her magic to pull the rug away, then attack them while they are on the ground see an enemy close to a tree? slap them with a branch via magic and use the distraction to attack. need to distract a guard during an infiltration or steal somehting (a coin purse perhaps)? use telekinesis to solve your problem [why does this sound like an ad for telekinesis??]

i guess i also have a question: in all IF´s ive played, which also had the option to choose between weapons or magic, during fight scene you were only able to choose between using your weapons (and 0 magic) OR using your magic (and 0 weapons). do you maybe plan to add an option during a fight, where MC will mainly fight with their weapon/magic, but still uses a bit of magic/a weapon?

thank you for your answer.

I think I mentioned it before (but it will be difficult to find among all the posts) that it will be possible to come up with a blend of telekinesis and a weapon for a fighting style. You should be able to arrive at it from either end and eventually use both in varying proportions.

That said, accounting for different styles does not come to me easily yet, so to compensate for it while I'm working out that creative muscle, I have streamlined what is available as starting options. Eventually, either once a big chunk of the game is complete, or maybe even earlier, I will start going back and expanding the options during fights to sneak in magic/weapons. It's something that I myself really want to do!

[thegrayascendancy-if]

I think it's rather fascinating that muscle memory (swimming, biking, playing a musical instrument, etc) is mostly unaffected by various kinds of memory loss. In the game terms, it serves to level the weapon and magic MCs, since magic is primarily a mental effort, and MC was not a weaponmaster prior to [redacted]. So whether they are rising back to their pre-[redacted] level, mastering an entirely new skill set, or cooking up a wicked mish-mash of both, they have quite a ways to go before realizing their potential.