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@FlyingSucculent,@Alepous,@Tickettbror,@Ysolde

Brainiac will be on vacation and ClaCle has posted (in the Absence thread) that she’ll be offline for a while.

We can keep the story moving, which at this point is giving you IC knowledge that there is a missing hero from the land (game). The NPCs seem to think Sparkle is that missing hero, but since the player isn’t immediately available to deny that, you can all just assume that—like the rest of you—Sparkle has never been to this "land" before.

I'm equally happy to continue or to wait for other players' return. :) It might be a bit awkward with two players absent? Maybe we can just slow the pace down until they're back, so they won't need to catch up on that much after.

I'm currently suffering from some kind of bug, I think it might be Covid but I haven't tested, so my creativity is a bit reduced... I'm happy to keep going while we wait once my head clears up a bit though!!

Oof, that's unpleasant; I hope you feel better soon, Tickettbror!

I hope you feel better soon!

I don't mind waiting or playing, although it's better for all of us to be "present" IMO.

@Tickettbror I wish a quick recovery!

Agreed.

I have a question about Casanova's communication. Is she using gestures or emotes? My first interpretation was that she displays a dialogue box with emotes as in post, but I want to confirm. :D

My initial idea was gestures so I think it's best to stick with that, I hadn't thought of a dialogue box before. XD

In case you’re not familiar with Secret of Mana, here are the five weakest monsters.


The ones I circled are my inspiration for Blabbit and Munchroom. (And a Sickamore Bee was mentioned. The actual game’s Buzz Bees are scary if your level is less than 5.)


I googled Toucan’t and was pleasantly surprised by the result:

I’m at the mall with my wife and daughters. While they’re in the fitting room, I’m discovering graphic tees that I won’t buy, but I do like them enough to take pictures:

Sorry I've been a bit quiet! I'll compose a response in a bit, just need to process the happenings first.
Oh, I like the third T-shirt; I've always been fond of two-in-one kinds of images. Although from a practical standpoint, it's a little weird that it's vertical. People will need to be either much shorter or much taller than the wearer to see the actual pictures. :0

Edit: and I also wanted to say that I enjoyed seeing your work process in the AMA thread! :D

Glad you liked it, though I’m happier with my Tiny Super character.

Cute! I especially love the oranges you used for the hair. :D

I used the Arcade 29 palette. I like having a limit. It’s easy to decide which bright red, orange and yellow to use where there is only one of each!

Posted two possible destinations. Yes, Bob Questgiver was actually the planned name of a villager. Since Pira said "quest-giver," Doug could only imagine she meant the man of that name. (And profession.)

I’ll post later (possibly allowing time for responses), but a party-split would be fine.


(I’m imagining this would be Split-Screen at the arcade, so HGS should support that. In other words, feel free to allow your character to "kinda have a feeling" about how the other heroines are doing whenever you split.

It’s kinda like how you could always peek at other people’s screens in off-line shooters and racing games, which I used to be good at in Mario Kart.)

I usually try to avoid doing split-ups, but it felt appropriate here. Plus I don't really know what Pira would do in a pub with a bunch of friendly villagers, so I'll leave diplomacy to Kurumi and Casanova. XD Although if need be, I'm just as happy with us sticking together and finding the Hero Guy later.

Hero Sword Guy will probably look like THIS when you find him.


I basically split the party three ways, since Brainiac is on vacation and ClaCle might need quite some time. Regardless, I’ll keep the P1 spot for her and bot Sparkle in the background.

I might have just jinxed things.

Still I imagine that Princess Diamond basically has some sort of Murphy’s Law aura in her own world so that death is basically nearly always around the corner but, somehow she always survives it or as far as she remembers. Basically she doesn’t have to remember all the times she’s died…

Hmm… you might have.

@Ysolde, I take it you’re familiar with Dragon’s Lair, particularly the significance of yellow flashes? How about Space Ace? The Panic Button is mostly based on the Energize Button from Space Ace.