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Fae minigame sneak peek ๐
🕑 Added 2024-09-07 15:48:39 +0000 UTCHere's an excerpt from the first story of the game, as well as the intro page and scene file names โฃ๏ธ
Chapter 1 Excerpt:
Text reads:
The scents of a place determine its character.
I am the thoughts between them.
*page_break
A bright desert morning blooms around me. I learn the season when a bee darts past me towards a pair of five-petaled flowers. It hovers by the white, but the pink smells sweeter. I feel the moment it decides between them, and I remember that scent comes only in spring.
The world shifts, and another year begins.
choice
#Another me begins with it. I shed all I was, and take on a new name.
set itc_focus "renewal"
//choice body here, including mentioning we're in the canyon.
#And I shift with it. I wonder each time how different I've grown from the start of it all.
set itc_focus "theseus"
//choice body here, including mentioning we're in the canyon.
#Another, another, and I keep myself through them all. I've grown so tired over centuries.
set itc_focus "death"
//choice body here, including mentioning we're in the canyon.
The bee alights on the pink petals, and I vanish from its mind.
*page_break
A girl - human, soft, rounded face and bright eyes - steps across the barrier of the canyon. Wind rises to meet her, kicks up the scent of packed and sandy earth. She inhales, and I am there.
She considers her choice. Understands she is beyond the safety of her home, and going farther. Sees the world stretched out before her. I perch unseen atop her shoulders and look along with her.
She smiles, steps forward, and I'm gone.
Game Intro Page:
Text reads:
[i]Welcome. Is this your first time playing?[/i]
choice
#Yes.
[i]In some of these stories you'll choose your gender. In a few, you'll play as female, male, or nonbinary characters canon to the world (some of whom you've met in Leas: City of the Sun). In other chapters - including my favorite one - your gender won't come up at all.[/i] [i]I hope you enjoy them all <3[/i]
goto wrapup
#No.
goto nav_choice
label nav_choice
[i]Would you like to jump to a particular chapter, or play the game in order?[/i]
choice
#Take me to the first chapter, I want to play the game in order.
goto wrapup
#Let me jump to a chapter using the table of contents.
set played_before 1
goto_scene tableOfContents
label wrapup
Scene File names:
Scene/Chapter Titles:
A Tree Made of Glass
Into the Canyon
Misunderstandings
My Favorite
Prologue
Startup
Table of Contents
The Girl at the End of the World
The Horned Fae's Story
The Solstice Fires
The Visitor and the Magician
We Were Never Going to Win
