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Average wordcount per playthrough: ??
(I couldn’t get an average wordcount per playthrough because randomtest kept crashing on me. Anyway.)
Play it here: https://dashingdon.com/play/wynnak/into-the-shadows-/mygame/
New to this update:
Chapter Three is partially complete. The title is redacted because of what happens in the second half of the chapter, and it’s ~spoilery~
Depending on your choices, you’ll get to (officially) meet at least two new characters. Fun!
Additionally, people with a very poor relationship with K Delacroix no longer get the option to ride with them to the funeral at the end of Chapter 2. Sorry, I mulled it over and just couldn’t see them willing to do it.
The option to simp for K Delacroix in early part of Chapter 2 has also, ahem, been dialled down. A new conversation with them was also introduced.
Additional notes:
I’m really sorry for the delay in the update! Motivation was a fickle thing, and time was also limited. I’d already started writing the second half of Chapter 3, but as I’m not a linear writer, they’re still in disconnected bits and pieces so I decided to put out the first half for now.
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Now that I've enabled this I can see how old a post is and also when anything added via reblog was posted. I'm now able to see, for example, people inadvertantly circulating news that's years old but responding to it like it's new. I can see if a post with 10k notes is a day old or a decade old. It's very, very useful. Please do it.
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You never thought you'd go to college, due to your circumstances. But you especially didn't dream you'd be forced to attend the prestigious Vales Grove University after being attacked by wraiths in their library. What started as a visit to a long time friend, ended with your hands burned, your innocence questioned, and the startling realization magic is real. To apologize for what's happened to you, or more accurately, to keep an eye on you, the Headmaster himself offers you enrollment with all fees waived. With no real choice in the matter, you become a student, and try to ignore the suspicion everyone throws your way. Besides, you have worse things to deal with. Like how you've started to attract ghosts and other dead things, or the fact that there is a very living thing inside your head, waiting for you to lower guard and take control. And most pressing of all, managing your obligation to a family that hasn't been such a thing in years. Tread carefully, if the ghosts don't devour you, the university certainly might.
Customize the MC; gender, appearance, personality, etc!
Romance six questionable love interests, or not!
A morality system which changes how your story will go. Do you belong to the day, the night, or somewhere in between?
A complicated family, which you've been shackled to your whole life. Will you ever be able to escape them? Do you even want to?
Survive college, your job, and attempt to not have a quarter life crisis.
Avoid getting devoured by all the things that go bump in the night.
Retain your free will.
Rook Bellerose [M]: A "best friend" you've known for almost a decade now. He's never let you get close even after all this time. He's the king of jokes and immaturity, but after the events which led to your enrollment at Vales Grove, something's changed. Maybe it's the guilt, or maybe it's the mask finally slipping.
Beck Castro [M]: Rook's detested roommate, although you aren't sure why. He's the kind of guy who likes to hear himself talk, and he's pretty good at it. He can captivate a room or get himself out of any situation. For whatever reason, he's taken a keen interest in you, and has offered his help for whatever you might need.
Rhea Windsor [F]: The Headmaster's daughter. Everyone who talks about her often complains that she's the traditional prim and proper young woman one would expect from a Headmaster's daughter. However, the more you talk to her, the more you realize she's the exact opposite with a dorky personality and a streak of clumsiness.
Zoe Ripley [NB]: A loner who hides in the library to avoid people. They saw what went down the day you get forced to attend Vales Grove. Despite their prickly attitude, you get the sense they aren't a bad person, and despite how they act, they've never refused to help you. If anything, you seem to be the one person on campus who doesn't get on their nerves, professors included.
Lars Angel [M]: The most exhausted person you've ever seen, and that's saying something. He's a grad student, and one you keep running in to. He can't stand you, and you can only guess at why. With a sharp tongue and a bitter disposition, he tries his best to avoid you. Too bad you both keep running into each other. It looks like fate has other plans.
???: The thing which haunts you. You have no idea how the two of you got connected, but you can feel it in your blood, organs, neurons, synapses. You know it's evil, you know it wants to consume you, but tell me? Has anything ever cradled your soul so gently before?
CW: Gore, violence, parental neglect, alcoholism, mtc
I love my mom.
I am risking nothing
I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY
Will not risk.
sorry followers :(
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pick a flavor of osamu 🧋!!
this doesn’t have a fake answer and i know earnest polls get reblogged less. but uh…… what if i ask nicely.
Life can be unpredictable and cruel. It has a knack for finding ways to bring you down, even when you're at your happiest. It can take your highest high and pull you down to your lowest low. It torments you, biding its time, waiting for the perfect moment to strike - the moment when you're most comfortable, most secure. And just like that, it rips everything away from you, leaving you with nothing.
For example, imagine your wedding night - the happiest day of your life - only to have it all ripped away from you. You were bitten and turned into the undead, your new existence a far cry from the life you had envisioned.
Customize your character’s gender, presentation, and motivations
Romance five characters, with a poly option
Be a vampire, with class vampire lore
Befriend or antagonize multiple characters
Embrace your new vampire life
Or don’t. Not my business
Casimir [F] - Your partner, who you got engaged to. A soft soul with a love for books and learning and a love for the simple life.
Sterling [M] - The vampire who turned you into this.. thing. You don’t know what their motives are, or what their planning, but its something bad.
Marlowe [NB] - A young vampire hunter looking to rid the world of your kind to protect humanity. They’re a bright fellow, who is very optimistic.
Hemlock [M] - An old man who’s spent his life studying vampires and their society, and raising you. He doesn’t particularly like them, but he’s still given you a home, even after you turned.
Harriet [GF] - A vampire who's more on the chill side of life. They spend his time sipping coffee and relaxing at the theater, and have a deep love for opera. She might look like a bookworm, but she's never opened one in her life.
Roree [M] - A scientist in his past life. He lived a life of logic and reason, when it abruptly came to an end by the hands of a vampire. He now lives his days a thrall, forced to serve a Lord who treats him like garbage.