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I'd also like to request a better dark style. The new one does not color read and unread notifications differently, making it much harder to spot where in your notifications your unreads end and reads begin.
Those images were originally obtainable by entering your password into this now extremely dead website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040605000453/http://www.konamijpn.com:80/products/boktai/english/index.html
Thankfully, it's at least possible to prove the site once existed. Hooray for...
You’d rather not get chased around by the bat-person again. You can out-fly her, but that initial tackle still showed her as stronger than you’d want to fight, and that’s without her using a weapon. Not to mention how the other two are probably about as strong. No, it’s better to stay subtle for...
...But your business can wait. Regardless of what you ultimately do to these people, the villagers are receiving them in a friendly manner, and you don’t want to annoy your hosts. At least, not until you’ve mastered the language. And just because these jerks with the flying boat killed Fido and...
You’re woken by the morning bustle of life in the village around you. People are already hard at work with subsistence farming. Probably with gathering flowers too, but you can’t see through walls to confirm it. You slide off the roof, casually landing on your feet, and look for someone to talk...
You land on the island with the pink flowers late in the afternoon. You don’t have long before sunset, and while you don’t know of anything on the island that’s a serious threat to you, you’d prefer not to risk having to go bodiless for the night if something does go horribly wrong. It’s not...
-3600 Mana: <Winged 0 → 15>, <Flight 0 → 15>, <Dragonflight 0 → 15>
-(19802+19802+19005=58609) XP: <Winged 3 → 20>, <Flight 3 → 20>, <Dragonflight 5 → 20>
“Morning,” you announce, stumbling out from the hibernation lab into the foyer.
There's no response, but there is a scent trail leading...
“Rent,” you announce. “If you want to stay in my lab, pay for the privilege.”
“Mine!” The Fluffy Fox repeats. “I'm not giving it up! You can't stay here too or the dragon might notice.”
“I am the dragon!” You roar.
The fox sniffs. “No you aren't. You don't smell like it.”
This is going...
Sauce?
But more seriously, monsters have an inherent trust dilemma because they are all made out of delicious food. Trust is a risk that could leave you backstabbed in a moment of weakness.
This is not helped by how the supermajority of all monsters are non-sapient. There's an instinctive...
-(1400+5190+128=6718) XP <Beast 1 → 5>, <Mage Initiate 1 → 10>, <Illusionist 0 → 1>
-150 MP Transmigrated to Floofball
You’re covered in fur today. There’s no point investigating this island’s civilization when they’re going to attack you on sight, and between the length of the flight back...
The lab has one story above ground, with a footprint of a few hundred square meters. The terrain around it is flat and sufficiently covered in plant life that you're going to need a plan slightly more complex than 'bury it in dirt' to not leave it obvious that there's something buried there. You...
Current prototype on utility magic: level in the trait determines how many points of effect you can use with it. More effect points used means higher cost to maintain it. A continuous visual illusion of self as one of the people would probably only be something like 5 effect points, for a...
The remainder of the plan was not implemented for a few reasons.
1) Uncertainty regarding final implementation, as covered in the story post. The plan would have left you stuck on Lab Island again in the immediate term, and I wasn't certain whether that was the desired end state, since I...
Come morning, you’re tempted to just take what you want. You’re well-rested now. You want to get revenge and learn the language of the vandals. You’re a freaking dragon. Why not just capture one of them and force them to teach you?
Because that’s dumb, that’s why. You don’t know enough about...
Just putting in my two cents as QM here: I'm writing this quest with a non-blank-slate protagonist, who interprets votes through his own whims and interpretation of the world around him. I read the comments as much as I do the final vote to get an understanding of the players' goals and desires...
A trait starts out at 100% cost. New traits have a +100% cost penalty, putting them at 200%, lacking other modifiers, and therefore unable to be learned through just XP/Mana. <Adaptability 50> would lower that enough to hit the threshold of 150% base cost, aka 50% more expensive than base price...
Non-basic Slimes just got more points of it, so their total bonus is about the same as before
Bug closed; could not reproduce.
Trait Overload is a soft cap on number of traits known, not a hard cap. I removed the level cap on Adaptability, and other traits exist to discount cost like...
Rules change notes:
<Adaptability> nerfed. Slimes buffed to get more of it. Some trait text messed around with to handle some minor changes to XP cost system. It's now harder to learn new traits. See the XP/Mana Cost Modifiers threadmark for details. These changes mostly deal with making it...
At this point, your only remaining idea to show the villagers that you’re friendly is to help them out by killing some monsters. It probably won’t help, and they’ll probably think you’re just doing it for yourself, but it’s not like you have anything better to do. Apart from these people, this...