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I like how the Abrupt Ending idea encourages both a small scope (which is good for a short event game) and potential clever weirdness story-wise. I don't exactly see why games made with that concept in mind would have to be bad, honestly.

I'm voting for this option, but I'd suggest also cutting out the "Shitty" bit, in favour of letting the dev themselves decide how to handle the challenge of an abrupt ending. It'd be way more fun seeing how people turn that into something actually good, rather than going the obvious route and just pre-emptively declaring it crap.

I wobble back to my feet, trying to figure out if all parts of my body are still in the places they should be.

"Is everyone... all right? Well,... I guess he isn't..." I mumble as I look at the scorched corpse of the Arcanist. But my friends are more important right now.

"Hey, it's okay, Janny... At least, thanks to you, we were... able to find and stop a bad guy. That's... gotta count for something, right,... Kupo?"

Exhausted, I plop back onto my butt. And immediately regret it, since the ground is hard and my everything is burned. But we're all still alive, and that's what matters.

(@Avee: Don't forget you can use one consumable item per turn as a "free action," so you can still do something else in addition to drinking the Remedy. Good call on buying that, by the way.)


This meanie will obviously exploit any weaknesses we show without hesitation. So I try my best to pretend I didn't see what just happened to Vivian, and not let him know how much it scared me.

Instead, I say to him in response to his failed attack and failed speech pattern: "Here's another issue with trying to have thralls instead of friends: They might not want to play along after all. Ironic, right, Kupo-po?"

Since we have no idea just how many more undead this Arcanist can throw at us, I need to stop him from focusing on his powers. So as I'm talking, I reach back to pull out another torch, as if getting ready to attack with it. But then, trying to use my size to my advantage, I instead dart forward under his legs... and jump!

Swaying back and forth from repeatedly having had the stuffing beaten out of me, I try to focus and analyse the situation in my head. Janna is here and might still be alive, but she's obviously being mind-controlled in some way. And then there's this Arcanist who seems really smug and full of himself.

Nivi seems to already be on her way to fix me up, but Vivi and Artie are still looking a bit hurt. We need more time, and more information about what's going on. So I have to get the Nu Mou to keep talking. He immediately strikes me as the kind of person who will gloat and brag for hours about how much smarter and more powerful he is than anyone else, if given the chance. So what better way to trick him into telling us what we want to know than by doing something unexpected and pretending to be utterly oblivious?

I take a few steps towards Janna and the Arcanist, but taking care not to get too close yet, with a smile on my face and my arms outstretched, as if to indicate a hugging motion.

"Jannie! Oh, I'm so glad we've found you, Kupo-po! And you've found a boyfriend! You even have your own home together. I'm so happy for you, Kupo!
Excuse me, Sir, I should have introduced myself. I'm Anno, one of Janna's many friends. You're so lucky to have found such a nice girlfriend, I can tell you. And she really is great at babysitting people, too, Ku-Kupo! How did you two meet? You have to tell me all about it, Kupo."