Fabulist

@Link: Not too sure about the title myself. I wanted a synonym for "storyteller" and "fabulist" caught my eye, but I might change it, I don't know.

@melly: what does lofi means? I'm clueless.

Some news and more features:

I'm currently coding all the stats and operations, victory rewards and level up events.

Level up bonuses for stats range from +0 to +7.
HP and Attack Power cap at 999 while other stats cap at 99. Each character has a unique chart of percentages that determine their bonus roll.
This level up system is similar to Breath of Fire's or Dragon Warrior 3's. That way, players who are unsatisfied with their bonus roll can reload the game, fight again and get a different roll.

Stats:
HP: Self-explanatory.
SP: Characters start at 0 Max SP. You will find up to three SP Orbs worth 10 SP for each character through quests. Using regular attack Moves fill up your SP Orbs, while performing ES and EX Moves consume SP. This SP system is inspired by Fighting games, especially Darkstalkers.

ES moves are beefed-up versions of regular moves with added effects. You can perform them by inputting the sequence in parentheses next to each regular moves sequence. Therefore they follow regular moves. All ES consume 10 SP.

EX moves consume 10, 20 or 30 SP. You have to input the full sequence in order for the move to happen, unlike regular and ES moves where each input delivers a hit. EX moves are typically more powerful and more helpful in specific situations.

All moves, even EX, level up and get more powerful when performed 20 times.

PWR: Power. Governs damage dealt by all Moves.
ABS: Absorb. Reduces damage received by a percentage.
SPD: Speed. Higher SPD makes you act more often.
VIT: Vitality. Reduces the success rate and duration of received status ailments.
FCS: Focus. Affects BP obtained (experience), Gold found and Item drops chances. This stat is rerolled after each fight. For instance, a high FCS neats you more BP but reduces the chances of finding Items.

Also, when your party is defeated in battle, you'll have the choice to start the fight again from scratch. This feature is made available by saving each character's stats in other variables before the battle starts.

Quick news:

Added a new page about Character Data.

Hiciel's first regular Move's poses are drawn. You know what that means: I'll soon be able to complete the basic coding for the LoD style inputs and post a screenshot :)

A little more gameplay info:
Defending will recover 10% of an ally's HP as in LoD. However you'll have to react to your foe's attack and press the Cancel key (X, Esc, or Num 0) at the right moment to receive a defense boost (like in that Mario RPG on the SNES).

Quick news:

I haven't done much coding since last week but Hiciel now has 17 new poses drawn including spell casting, running (used in 2D scroller style towns and some other locations), her second battle move "Pinwheel", laughing, praying, bowing, victory poses and a few standby "looking into the distance" poses for cutscenes.

I think I'll post an animated gif that shows several of these (unless it takes too much of my locker space).

Hiciel's first attack move, including animations and damage calculus, is fully coded and bug-free. It is very satisfying to know that the LoD-like system works fine and is very easy to alter to suit other moves. Coding the remaining battle moves will therefore be very easy.

I am already thinking about what I should include in an upcoming demo.
I want to have at the very least 3 playable characters with 2 or 3 useable moves each and 5 enemies.
Currently only Hiciel's first move is coded.
If it doesn't take too much time to make, I'll include a rudimentary dungeon in fake first-person perspective. I only planned some of the coding and drew a few templates so far.
And I'll probably include a few storyline-related cutscenes and town exploration.