Sorry 2 everyone who was here like a year ago for pivoting to farm sim posting but to be fair that was this blogs original intended purposes. Witch Princess has been my icon this whole time
truly my main complaint with most farm/dating sims is i want butch women... or like even just masc like at all at this point... valen FoM ily but I dont think she's butch u guys she's just cool older lady with short hair archetype... so many twinks and not a single masculine woman in sight ○|￣|＿
OKAY just did a big print shop update with some pieces that folks have been requesting! If there was ever a good time to support my work now would be it- INPRNTs having a pretty big sale right now!
Any and all boosts/shares/etc is hugely appreciated! Thanks <33333
There’s a good number of outfits available in Zephyr Town by fulfilling requests from townsfolk or purchasing them from Karina at the Ailes D'ange Boutique! This post will cover everything that you can acquire and use as your Everyday Outfit in-game.
Apron Dress
Bazaar Attire
Blue Bazaar Attire acquired from Felix's request: "Where'd It Go?" The item is in the Bazaar.
Casual Shirt
Casual Sweater
Down Jacket
Duffle Coat
Brown Dufflecoat acquired from Sharene's request: "A Member of the Family." Complete by raising your pet's friendship levels.
Festival Attire
Glossy Jacket
Gothic Suspenders
Black Gothic Suspenders acquired from June's request: "Finding Calm." She needs any 3-Star quality tea.
Knit Vest
Mini Chiffon Skirt
Overalls
Blue overalls acquired from Wilbur's request: "Reward for Kevin." Requires 10 5-star Bee's.
Pantsuit
Black Pantsuit is acquired from Sherene's request: "Fresh Fashions." Requires a Brooch.
Peacoat
Brown Peacoat acquired from Jules' request: "Curiouser and Curiouser." Needs one of these special crop: Star Potato, Heart Watermelon, Heart Spinach, Heart Cherry, Heart Lemon, Flower Blueberry, Lumpy Orange, Chicken Mango, Calabash Radish, Ball Eggplant.
Suit and Tie
Black Suit and Tie acquired from Harold's request "Misplaced Pen." Found in the mountains.
Sweater and Tights
Trendy Hoodie
Zephyr Town Attire
Brown Zephyr Town Attire acquired from Stuart's request "Costruction Logjam." Requires 5 stone and lumber.
It's time that we want to talk about the Aldarian text that shows up throughout the game! Have you seen it around? Did you know that it's translatable?! Spoilers in this one: the "gossip" mechanic, the Saturday Market V.2 vendors
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Let's compile our examples! We'll start with the places you can find text around Mistria. We have the sign over the forge, the Sweetwater Farm sign, the town event sign, and the text in the grocery store.
These examples are of varying resolution and it's a very small sampling to work off of. Let's pull up a few more! Here's the labels for the museum collections:
Alright, best for last - the greatest source of Aldarian text with easy one-to-one translatablility is the gossip portraits that you get when you talk to Elsie! Here's a sampling:
We know for sure what these translate to (character names), we have lots of examples, and we can then carry over what we learn from these to the signs before!
The first two things that I noticed were 1. the number of characters is less than it takes in English (first thought was that the text might be phonetic - not entirely correct!) 2. the same symbol is used to end "March" and "Fish" so there might be places where different sounds (ch and sh) are considered 'close enough' and use the same symbol. Keeping those in mind and looking through similarities, it wasn't too hard to start right in.
I'm not going to run you through the whole process, but as someone who hasn't done this sort of thing before, it wasn't terribly difficult to figure out what was going on (with enough trial and error and after eventually collecting enough gossip portraits examples); the text is focused on consonants. There is only a single vowel character, and it is exclusively used at the beginning of names. Doubling up of English characters is ignored for Aldarian - ie, Errol only has one R symbol in his name in Aldarian text. A few symbols are shared between sounds: CH and SH use the same symbol, and T and TH also share a character.
Here is the written example of the Aldarian alphabet (please excuse my handwriting!):
Notes: There aren't any examples of a hard G sound (like in Granola, as opposed to the soft G of Orange) so I cannot say if that would use an existing symbol or a new one. The Y symbol has a specifying (yuh) here because the symbol isn't used any time a Y appears - It is silent in Darcy because the Y sounds like "ee", while a the symbol appears in Terithia as the end to represent the sharp "yuh" that the "ia" sounds out. Also, we just don't have some sounds yet. No X names in the game!
After transcribing and translating the names, we can go back to the signs. (I am going to use an asterisk * to symbolize the starting vowel when typing). The town sign says *VNT (event), the forge sign says FRG (forge), Hayden's farm is labelled SWTWTR FRM (Sweetwater Farm). We can see that the museum signs say ARKLG, FSH, FLR, and *NSKT (archaeology, fish, flora, and insect). And then, finally, the grocery signs, which... are very small. Here are my transcriptions of all the character names that get portraits and the signs:
There is still room for interpretation of how some of the names are said, but I will note that this seems to confirm that Louis' name is pronounced "Loo-ee" rather than "Loo-iss" as there is no S symbol, Just LW (a previous point of contention between me and Galena). You'll also notice I struggled with some of the grocery signs! The text on those signs is at a very low resolution, so some characters took me a while to puzzle out (the spiral T symbol was especially hard to parse) and some still elude me. Some of the signs don't match their contents, so context only gets me so far... If you can make any sense of them, please let me know!!
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I hope that this was interesting! I tried to make sure that between the portraits and the signs there was at least one example of each character and the different ways they're used (i.e. both uses of the ch/sh character), so hopefully you can double check my alphabet using the pictures I've provided. I had a lot of fun translating the examples of text that we have, and I've been wondering if knowing this writing system might be helpful for the second one found elsewhere in the game... We'll talk about that one here soon!
Well, it’s getting trans-late, so I’m signing off. I wonder if you can guess witch topic we'll cover next...?
why are all your fashion posts and art so white millennial coded lol
IM NOT WHITE
(the actual answer is probably bc most of my fashion posting is from when I was really into miraculous ladybug a year ago/a few years ago & it was in fact preppy as hell. also that even now im just not thaaaaat into drawing the current wave of modern-y2k im sorry everyone i was traumatized by being sentient in 2005 i could never be a gen z fashion baddie)
(also like. what the hell is this ask lol. no manners, rude ass website jfc)
Have you ever played Rune Factory 4? I saw your post about Fields of Mistrias character focus. I felt that way when I first played Rune Factory, and I'm curious how they compare
Haha I actually haven't, I played Rune Factory 1 way back in the day and couldn't really get into it for whatever reason (tbh i think i was just mad i couldnt be a girl lol). HOWEVER enough people have commented on that post and mentioned it to me that im considering it now lol. I do still have my 3ds, & i guess theres a switch version i believe.....
you know how Juniper has that odd, slightly antagonistic but genuine friendship with that one female character who's kind of a foil to her? that's right... i'm talking about Juniper and Celine
Juniper likes to take potshots at Celine's fashion sense, but she actually really respects her curiosity and flora-based knowledge
so much so that she goes to Celine for help while helping the Farmer proceed through the mines
(and in the process Celine drops the juicy detail that they've apparently been hanging out so much that she knows Juniper's snack preferences)
i'm intrigued by this relationship because Celine has only just started living on her own and expresses some doubts about what she wants to do in the future. i think she probably sees Juniper as exactly the kind of person she wants to be like: an independent and confident woman. it helps that they have interests they can bond over
while Juniper initally sees her as just another country bumpkin, she's clearly impressed by Celine's smarts, and i think possibly charmed by her earnestness? either way, she clearly values Celine's friendship a lot more than she's willing to admit to herself (even if she still thinks her fashion sense could use some work)
I am in fact feeling pretty pleased with myself for having hoarded enough resources to do the saturday market upgrade, carpenter upgrade and new green house in an in-game 3 day period
I think when the game gets For Real released I'm gonna have to start over bc why I am in year 5 of fields of mistria and as of tomorrow's upda5e only just starting to dateactually yknow what I take that back that's actually very normal for me
After reaching 8 hearts and choosing the romantic path, date inspiration items can be acquired & used to unlock various date types! Dates take place on weekends, and each new date gives you a collectible photo card. 💖
Grow what you want, when you want.🌱 Complete the "Upgrade the Carpenter's Shop" quest to build your very own greenhouse and grow out-of-season crops year-round! 🌾
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