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	* The Man-At-Arms was changed to a rookie commander who had gotten his position through nepotism and [[Indrick Boreale\|unsurprisingly fucked up his first battle thanks to his inexperience]]. Since then he developed a case of survivor's guilt, returned to the battlefield to put his comrades' restless spirits (literally - their angry ghosts haunted him every night) to rest and demoted himself into a mere sergeant so he could learn how to be a commander the proper way.		* The Man-At-Arms was changed to a rookie commander who had gotten his position through nepotism and [[Indrick Boreale\|unsurprisingly fucked up his first battle thanks to his inexperience]]. Since then he developed a case of survivor's guilt, returned to the battlefield to put his comrades' restless spirits (literally - their angry ghosts haunted him every night) to rest and demoted himself into a mere sergeant so he could learn how to be a commander the proper way.
	* The Leper was revealed to have contracted his condition by [[Salamanders\|showing compassion towards his subjects]] against the wishes of [[High Lords of Terra\|his treacherous advisors]], comforting supplicating beggars of which one of them had the disease. As his condition got worse, he [[Awesome\|outsmarted the advisors who wanted to assassinate him and install a puppet king]], [[Not As Planned\|rooting them out and killing them]] before willingly going into exile. The fact that his story is tragically heroic and he didn't screw up in any way (he knew the risks of taking care and helping the afflicted) is also symbolised by his drawing at the shrine. While everyone lean over, back to the light, ashamed in darkness, [[Noblebright\|he stands tall and proud, looking directly at it]].		* The Leper was revealed to have contracted his condition by [[Salamanders\|showing compassion towards his subjects]] against the wishes of [[High Lords of Terra\|his treacherous advisors]], comforting supplicating beggars of which one of them had the disease. As his condition got worse, he [[Awesome\|outsmarted the advisors who wanted to assassinate him and install a puppet king]], [[Not As Planned\|rooting them out and killing them]] before willingly going into exile. The fact that his story is tragically heroic and he didn't screw up in any way (he knew the risks of taking care and helping the afflicted) is also symbolised by his drawing at the shrine. While everyone lean over, back to the light, ashamed in darkness, [[Noblebright\|he stands tall and proud, looking directly at it]].
	* The Hellion actually ''did'' fight in a raid against a column of knights, alongside her clansmen; rather than freezing up and hiding as her brethren were butchered, she instead ran from the battlefield when it became clear the raid was a lost cause. She returned home to be confronted by the grieving widows of those slain in the raid, who drove her out of the camp as a dishonoured exile.		* The Hellion actually ''did'' fight in a raid against a column of knights, alongside her clansmen; rather than freezing up and hiding as her brethren were butchered, she instead ran from the battlefield when it became clear the raid was a lost cause as the clansmen were doing some heinously awful DPS. She returned home to be confronted by the grieving widows of those slain in the raid, who drove her out of the camp as a dishonoured exile.
	* The Grave Robber was trapped in an abusive relationship with her husband, being subject to his drunken rages and lusts. She ended up poisoning him to death after snapping from the abuse, only to find that his drunken habits and wasteful ways had run the family's fortunes into the ground. Faced with crippling debts, she resolved to rob his tomb and retrieve the valuable jewellery within only to be caught mid-deed by some night watchmen, whom she murdered to get away cleanly. Despite being able to pay her debts, she left the jewels behind to embark on a life of grave-robbing, enjoying the thrills of the profession over her former noble life.		* The Grave Robber was trapped in an abusive relationship with her husband, being subject to his drunken rages and lusts. She ended up poisoning him to death after snapping from the abuse, only to find that his drunken habits and wasteful ways had run the family's fortunes into the ground. Faced with crippling debts, she resolved to rob his tomb and retrieve the valuable jewellery within only to be caught mid-deed by some night watchmen, whom she murdered to get away cleanly. Despite being able to pay her debts, she left the jewels behind to embark on a life of grave-robbing, enjoying the thrills of the profession over her former noble life.
	* The Plague Doctor sought to resurrect a professor she disliked through a combination of her own toxicological knowledge and necromancy, largely to show him up. It went horrendously wrong; the method used to resurrect him left the professor in a state of constant, horrific pain, to the point where even moving left him shrieking in agony. The good Doctor, after desperately trying and failing to save him, mercy-killed him and subsequently left (or was expelled from) the university, though given she was in her final year she might have quietly finished up before leaving.		* The Plague Doctor sought to resurrect a professor she disliked through a combination of her own toxicological knowledge and necromancy, largely to show him up. It went horrendously wrong; the method used to resurrect him left the professor in a state of constant, horrific pain, to the point where even moving left him shrieking in agony. The good Doctor, after desperately trying and failing to save him, mercy-killed him and subsequently left (or was expelled from) the university, though given she was in her final year she might have quietly finished up before leaving.

1d4chan>SaltyMan: /* The Story */

2023-05-25T16:22:54Z

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	===The Story===		===The Story===

			So far it's a jar of [[Skub]]. The following part is likely speculative, so read with a pinch of salt. (a grain would be too harsh)

	Turns out killing the Heart of Darkness (last game's final boss) may not have been the the best of ideas. The entire world has gone mad, cultists burning and [[Cannibalism\|eating each other]], plague infested "Hamlets" with sick fuckery that would scare Nurgle away, and everyone outside isolated camps and inns are mad and/or dying. The economy does not exist; you barter with relics and looted supplies with no sale option. Refugees beg you for help every step, and if you don't help, the fire of hope will diminish. You rest at inns between regions and take a breather, eat, drink, and play cards.		Turns out killing the Heart of Darkness (last game's final boss) may not have been the the best of ideas. The entire world has gone mad, cultists burning and [[Cannibalism\|eating each other]], plague infested "Hamlets" with sick fuckery that would scare Nurgle away, and everyone outside isolated camps and inns are mad and/or dying. The economy does not exist; you barter with relics and looted supplies with no sale option. Refugees beg you for help every step, and if you don't help, the fire of hope will diminish. You rest at inns between regions and take a breather, eat, drink, and play cards.

	Survivors of the first game, the four-man/woman party drives towards the mountain which is literally CLEAVED in two, carrying a mythical fire of hope tied to the stagecoach. The mountain itself has eldritch abominations the size of cities peeking out of the ice. ~~So far~~, ~~two chapters have come out~~ in ~~full;~~ your ~~goal in each one is to travel from inn to inn through~~ the ~~monster-infested wastes until~~ you ~~can reach~~ the ~~Mountain~~, ~~where you~~ then ~~have to~~ fight the ~~chapter's boss -- an organ of some kind themed around an emotion~~, ~~such as~~ a ~~fuckhuge brain covered in shackles (Denial) or~~ a ~~bigass pair~~ of ~~lungs~~ that ~~acts like a goddamn dragon (Resentment/Anger)~~, ~~or glaring eyes of Envy~~.		Survivors of the first game, the four-man/woman party drives towards the mountain which is literally CLEAVED in two, carrying a mythical fire of hope tied to the stagecoach. The mountain itself has eldritch abominations the size of cities peeking out of the ice.

			Inside the mountain, where you can only enter if you killed a "boss" creature in your journey, the party faces iconic Eldritch mutaions resembling organs describing by the following order: Denial(Brain denying the party abilities), Resentment(Raging lungs with breath attacks), Obsession(Focusing eldritch eyes), Ambition(Gnarled hands), Cowardice(a gutless, spineless godling sitting on a throne of oblivion, you fight the disembodied guts, eyes, then the creature)

			The entire fight and the scene vaguely details that victory will mean that our heroes will move on from their past traumas, forgive themselves and move on. While not necessarily bad, the story is a direct contrast to the first game, not just the gamestyle:

			Instead of unstoppable Eldritch abominations that make humanity a mote of dust in the universe, the sequel is ''entirely'' human-centric. It is heavily implied that the cosmic order was shattered precisely because the professor's lingering failures in his mind, and psychological self-healing and facing one's own deepest fears and overcoming it actually destroys the final boss, who salutes you and disappears, and the heroes use their skills for good and move on with their lives.

	The iconic stress and affliction system has been replaced with a new relationship system: Party member relationships are very well nuanced, actions and pastimes at taverns changing the relationships from love to hate, and anything in between. Said relationships give bonuses or maluses in combat, such as a lover rushing to defend his/her lover with a riposte. This ties into the new game's greater emphasis on the individual characters themselves, forging a more tightly knit narratives between established characters compared to the first game, where you can have duplicates of each class and the focus is on managing a large, varied roster of anti-heroes.		The iconic stress and affliction system has been replaced with a new relationship system: Party member relationships are very well nuanced, actions and pastimes at taverns changing the relationships from love to hate, and anything in between. Said relationships give bonuses or maluses in combat, such as a lover rushing to defend his/her lover with a riposte. This ties into the new game's greater emphasis on the individual characters themselves, forging a more tightly knit narratives between established characters compared to the first game, where you can have duplicates of each class and the focus is on managing a large, varied roster of anti-heroes.

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	* In his youth, the Ancestor enjoyed the debauchery and general ''120 Days Of Sodom'' (don't look it up if you don't know it already) behavior of the nobility of the estate. One day an attractive woman appeared and fluidly navigated the assembled nobles...so the Ancestor tried to kill her. She revealed herself as a vampire but he succeeded at killing her. He then promptly did what any sane, rational being would do and hung her upside-down to drain out all her cursed blood, mixed it with a prized vintage of wine, and threw a party. After enjoying his new "Really Bloody Mary" invention, the attending nobles and servants all became vampires and tore their own bodies to pieces while the Ancestor, who had only drunk a single drop of blood, gained a vision of the Eldritch horrors that lay beneath his mansion and began his obsession with them. As the mosquitos were lured by the blood, the wine, and the bloody wine, the Ancestor sealed the '''Courtyard''' away where it has since sunk back into the swamp and contained the now mosquito/vampire hybrid court (oh and speaking of which, the vampires of this setting turn into mosquitos rather than bats in a fashion that would be fit for [[Nurgle]]. Just so you know).		* In his youth, the Ancestor enjoyed the debauchery and general ''120 Days Of Sodom'' (don't look it up if you don't know it already) behavior of the nobility of the estate. One day an attractive woman appeared and fluidly navigated the assembled nobles...so the Ancestor tried to kill her. She revealed herself as a vampire but he succeeded at killing her. He then promptly did what any sane, rational being would do and hung her upside-down to drain out all her cursed blood, mixed it with a prized vintage of wine, and threw a party. After enjoying his new "Really Bloody Mary" invention, the attending nobles and servants all became vampires and tore their own bodies to pieces while the Ancestor, who had only drunk a single drop of blood, gained a vision of the Eldritch horrors that lay beneath his mansion and began his obsession with them. As the mosquitos were lured by the blood, the wine, and the bloody wine, the Ancestor sealed the '''Courtyard''' away where it has since sunk back into the swamp and contained the now mosquito/vampire hybrid court (oh and speaking of which, the vampires of this setting turn into mosquitos rather than bats in a fashion that would be fit for [[Nurgle]]. Just so you know).
	** Unlike the other areas of the game, this place poses a persistent threat - once the Courtyard is opened up, the Estate's other regions will slowly become infested with the fucking bugs, ultimately requiring you to send heroes to eliminate one of the original members of the court to send them skittering back into the swamps. Ignoring them results in vampirism spreading, called the Crimson Curse, which has very little effect on heroes other than making them constantly need blood to avoid stacking debuffs and irrational behavior plus eventually death if unsated. Well, that and a zealot called the Fanatic who your Ancestor was aware of and is obsessed with purging the Curse by attacking any party with at least one cursed individual.		** Unlike the other areas of the game, this place poses a persistent threat - once the Courtyard is opened up, the Estate's other regions will slowly become infested with the fucking bugs, ultimately requiring you to send heroes to eliminate one of the original members of the court to send them skittering back into the swamps. Ignoring them results in vampirism spreading, called the Crimson Curse, which has very little effect on heroes other than making them constantly need blood to avoid stacking debuffs and irrational behavior plus eventually death if unsated. Well, that and a zealot called the Fanatic who your Ancestor was aware of and is obsessed with purging the Curse by attacking any party with at least one cursed individual.
	** Oh, and that vampire-lady your Ancestor killed? ''She's not dead'', and is rather emphatically pissed off at you and your heroes over the Ancestor mugging her before she could mug him. She's now the Countess, and she commands the Crimson Court alongside the Baron and Viscount. The ~~goods~~ news is that killing her will allow your Sanitarium to cook up a cure to the Crimson Curse like any other disease; the bad news is that she's a tough bitch in her own right, and you need to chop your way through the other horrors of the court to get at her.		** Oh, and that vampire-lady your Ancestor killed? ''She's not dead'', and is rather emphatically pissed off at you and your heroes over the Ancestor mugging her before she could mug him. She's now the Countess, and she commands the Crimson Court alongside the Baron and Viscount. The good news is that killing her will allow your Sanitarium to cook up a cure to the Crimson Curse like any other disease; the bad news is that she's a tough bitch in her own right, and you need to chop your way through the other horrors of the court to get at her. Seriously, it's a dungeon marathon that takes days of game time even if you have the perfect walkthrough.
	* As a child a small homeless girl had a crush on the Ancestor while he played in the town, which was nice when he was a kid but as a young man he found her irritating. So when he needed money to fund his newfound Eldritch fascination he cut a deal with the fishmen (not fish''er''men, Kuo-Toa style humanoid fish) who lived on the coast. He lured the girl to the pier and shackled her to an idol, both of which were the Ancestor's end of the deal in exchange for gems to fund his ambition. The girl was transformed into the likeness of the fishmen while destroying the human portion of her mind, and acts as their queen, mother, and slave. She occupies the '''Cove'''.		* As a child a small homeless girl had a crush on the Ancestor while he played in the town, which was nice when he was a kid but as a young man he found her irritating. So when he needed money to fund his newfound Eldritch fascination he cut a deal with the fishmen (not fish''er''men, Kuo-Toa style humanoid fish) who lived on the coast. He lured the girl to the pier and shackled her to an idol, both of which were the Ancestor's end of the deal in exchange for gems to fund his ambition. The girl was transformed into the likeness of the fishmen while destroying the human portion of her mind, and acts as their queen, mother, and slave. She occupies the '''Cove'''.
	* Starting his journey into madness began with the purchase of rare books, which drew the attention of a young woman skilled in the arts of herbalism and magic (read: a witch). While he enjoyed her company early on, she was just as obsessed with the creatures beneath the manor as he was and her path of study was in experimentation with edibles. Her body was twisted by the concoctions and he no longer found her physically attractive, banishing her to the '''Weald''' to dwell with the beasts. She's now a cannibal, by the way (although there's some implication she'd always been one), and has been preying on your villagers.		* Starting his journey into madness began with the purchase of rare books, which drew the attention of a young woman skilled in the arts of herbalism and magic (read: a witch). While he enjoyed her company early on, she was just as obsessed with the creatures beneath the manor as he was and her path of study was in experimentation with edibles. Her body was twisted by the concoctions and he no longer found her physically attractive, banishing her to the '''Weald''' to dwell with the beasts. She's now a cannibal, by the way (although there's some implication she'd always been one), and has been preying on your villagers.

78.8.180.90: Mice ain't grimdark enough for this shit

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Mice ain't grimdark enough for this shit

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	* As a child a small homeless girl had a crush on the Ancestor while he played in the town, which was nice when he was a kid but as a young man he found her irritating. So when he needed money to fund his newfound Eldritch fascination he cut a deal with the fishmen (not fish''er''men, Kuo-Toa style humanoid fish) who lived on the coast. He lured the girl to the pier and shackled her to an idol, both of which were the Ancestor's end of the deal in exchange for gems to fund his ambition. The girl was transformed into the likeness of the fishmen while destroying the human portion of her mind, and acts as their queen, mother, and slave. She occupies the '''Cove'''.		* As a child a small homeless girl had a crush on the Ancestor while he played in the town, which was nice when he was a kid but as a young man he found her irritating. So when he needed money to fund his newfound Eldritch fascination he cut a deal with the fishmen (not fish''er''men, Kuo-Toa style humanoid fish) who lived on the coast. He lured the girl to the pier and shackled her to an idol, both of which were the Ancestor's end of the deal in exchange for gems to fund his ambition. The girl was transformed into the likeness of the fishmen while destroying the human portion of her mind, and acts as their queen, mother, and slave. She occupies the '''Cove'''.
	* Starting his journey into madness began with the purchase of rare books, which drew the attention of a young woman skilled in the arts of herbalism and magic (read: a witch). While he enjoyed her company early on, she was just as obsessed with the creatures beneath the manor as he was and her path of study was in experimentation with edibles. Her body was twisted by the concoctions and he no longer found her physically attractive, banishing her to the '''Weald''' to dwell with the beasts. She's now a cannibal, by the way (although there's some implication she'd always been one), and has been preying on your villagers.		* Starting his journey into madness began with the purchase of rare books, which drew the attention of a young woman skilled in the arts of herbalism and magic (read: a witch). While he enjoyed her company early on, she was just as obsessed with the creatures beneath the manor as he was and her path of study was in experimentation with edibles. Her body was twisted by the concoctions and he no longer found her physically attractive, banishing her to the '''Weald''' to dwell with the beasts. She's now a cannibal, by the way (although there's some implication she'd always been one), and has been preying on your villagers.
	* As he became more skilled in magic he obsessed over prolonging his life. After making a dead ~~mouse~~'s leg twitch, he invited experts in life and death from foreign nations to share knowledge with him, using his newly-acquired expertise of alchemy to make them trust him. After learning everything he could he killed each one in their beds and raised their corpses from the dead with their knowledge intact. Said undead Necromancers proceeded to raise more corpses, and so on creating a growing empire of the undead with no end, which now occupy the '''Ruins''' of the estate itself. The Ancestor considered this a massive success, then disregarded the fact that there's a growing army of the undead literally right outside his door.		* As he became more skilled in magic he obsessed over prolonging his life. After making a dead rat's leg twitch, he invited experts in life and death from foreign nations to share knowledge with him, using his newly-acquired expertise of alchemy to make them trust him. After learning everything he could he killed each one in their beds and raised their corpses from the dead with their knowledge intact. Said undead Necromancers proceeded to raise more corpses, and so on creating a growing empire of the undead with no end, which now occupy the '''Ruins''' of the estate itself. The Ancestor considered this a massive success, then disregarded the fact that there's a growing army of the undead literally right outside his door.
	* As his skill in magic improved, the Ancestor moved on from animating bones with a human mind to summoning creatures from beyond into flesh using blood rituals. He found that pigs were useful for rituals due to their flesh being similar to that of humans, and managed to summon a gigantic "Great Thing" into one pig, causing it to grow to gigantic size. The thing required a massive amount of meat to survive, which the Ancestor is heavily implied to have solved by feeding Hamlet-dwellers to it. Now the Great Thing and the lesser summonsed demons, all in the form of semi-anthropomorphic pigs, now occupy the '''Warrens''' and prey on the Hamlet alongside various carrion-feeding vermin and ghouls.		* As his skill in magic improved, the Ancestor moved on from animating bones with a human mind to summoning creatures from beyond into flesh using blood rituals. He found that pigs were useful for rituals due to their flesh being similar to that of humans, and managed to summon a gigantic "Great Thing" into one pig, causing it to grow to gigantic size. The thing required a massive amount of meat to survive, which the Ancestor is heavily implied to have solved by feeding Hamlet-dwellers to it. Now the Great Thing and the lesser summonsed demons, all in the form of semi-anthropomorphic pigs, now occupy the '''Warrens''' and prey on the Hamlet alongside various carrion-feeding vermin and ghouls.
	* Eventually an old man arrived in the town telling prophesies to the locals about what would happen and riling them up against your family. The Ancestor threw him in the stockades, attempted to drown him, and literally covered the prophet's back in daggers but each time the old man returned and warned the peasants about the end of the world. Having given up, the Ancestor simply showed the prophet the Great Thing and explained what he planned to do. As a result, the poor bastard tore out his own eyes and fled to the Ruins, where a cult has gathered under his leadership and now works against your attempts to reverse your Ancestor's doings.		* Eventually an old man arrived in the town telling prophesies to the locals about what would happen and riling them up against your family. The Ancestor threw him in the stockades, attempted to drown him, and literally covered the prophet's back in daggers but each time the old man returned and warned the peasants about the end of the world. Having given up, the Ancestor simply showed the prophet the Great Thing and explained what he planned to do. As a result, the poor bastard tore out his own eyes and fled to the Ruins, where a cult has gathered under his leadership and now works against your attempts to reverse your Ancestor's doings.

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	* The Plague Doctor sought to resurrect a professor she disliked through a combination of her own toxicological knowledge and necromancy, largely to show him up. It went horrendously wrong; the method used to resurrect him left the professor in a state of constant, horrific pain, to the point where even moving left him shrieking in agony. The good Doctor, after desperately trying and failing to save him, mercy-killed him and subsequently left (or was expelled from) the university, though given she was in her final year she might have quietly finished up before leaving.		* The Plague Doctor sought to resurrect a professor she disliked through a combination of her own toxicological knowledge and necromancy, largely to show him up. It went horrendously wrong; the method used to resurrect him left the professor in a state of constant, horrific pain, to the point where even moving left him shrieking in agony. The good Doctor, after desperately trying and failing to save him, mercy-killed him and subsequently left (or was expelled from) the university, though given she was in her final year she might have quietly finished up before leaving.
	* The Jester started out as a wandering musician whose songs lacked the passion needed to really succeed. After engaging in a musical duel to the death with a sinister violinist, his songs dramatically improved and started him down the path to playing in a tyrant's royal court, as in his comic. After years of abuse from the court, the Jester decided to play the song he learned from the violinist out of frustration; surprise surprise, it was an eldritch song that drove the Jester temporarily nuts and let him massacre the whole court before he could sever himself from its power.		* The Jester started out as a wandering musician whose songs lacked the passion needed to really succeed. After engaging in a musical duel to the death with a sinister violinist, his songs dramatically improved and started him down the path to playing in a tyrant's royal court, as in his comic. After years of abuse from the court, the Jester decided to play the song he learned from the violinist out of frustration; surprise surprise, it was an eldritch song that drove the Jester temporarily nuts and let him massacre the whole court before he could sever himself from its power.
			* The Occultist wanted to gain as much power as possible from the deep mysteries of the world. He found that such power comes at a price, like the lives of all his friends as his astral projection fought a Shambler to steal it's his power. He was forced to burn out compassion and morality from his mind to properly get into the mindset, and decided to destroy the evil for the good of all. And so that others are spared the depths of the eldritch nightmare he walked straight into out of arrogance.
			* The Vestal was a highly sheltered orphan being raised as a nun who failed to tend to the temple's flame out of hormonal desire to look at a couple who were having sex in the courtyard. For this, she was locked away and horrifically tortured for weeks. She found enlightenment in the torture, broke free, realized that the Church of the Light are a bunch of corrupt bastards, got divine powers, killed the temple's elders and [[Grimdark\|found that she was literally hours too late to save the other orphans, who were mortally wounded and locked in a room to die]].

	===Regions===		===Regions===

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	Every character will also have an interactive backstory you can view as flashback events at special nodes during your runs, expanding and/or [[Retcon\|revising]] the backstories of each character, sometimes through creative minigames using the battle system. These events also unlock new skills for each character so it's in your interest to view them. To give a few examples:		Every character will also have an interactive backstory you can view as flashback events at special nodes during your runs, expanding and/or [[Retcon\|revising]] the backstories of each character, sometimes through creative minigames using the battle system. These events also unlock new skills for each character so it's in your interest to view them. To give a few examples:
	* The Man-At-Arms was changed to a rookie commander who had gotten his position through nepotism and [[Indrick Boreale\|unsurprisingly fucked up his first battle thanks to his inexperience]]. Since then he developed a case of survivor's guilt, returned to the battlefield to put his comrades' restless spirits (literally - their angry ghosts haunted him every night) to rest and demoted himself into a mere sergeant so he could learn how to be a commander the proper way.		* The Man-At-Arms was changed to a rookie commander who had gotten his position through nepotism and [[Indrick Boreale\|unsurprisingly fucked up his first battle thanks to his inexperience]]. Since then he developed a case of survivor's guilt, returned to the battlefield to put his comrades' restless spirits (literally - their angry ghosts haunted him every night) to rest and demoted himself into a mere sergeant so he could learn how to be a commander the proper way.
	* The Leper was revealed to have contracted his condition by [[Salamanders\|showing compassion towards his subjects]] against the wishes of [[High Lords of Terra\|his treacherous advisors]], comforting supplicating beggars of which one of them had the disease. As his condition got worse, he [[Awesome\|outsmarted the advisors who wanted to assassinate him and install a puppet king]], [[Not As Planned\|rooting them out and killing them]] before willingly going into exile.		* The Leper was revealed to have contracted his condition by [[Salamanders\|showing compassion towards his subjects]] against the wishes of [[High Lords of Terra\|his treacherous advisors]], comforting supplicating beggars of which one of them had the disease. As his condition got worse, he [[Awesome\|outsmarted the advisors who wanted to assassinate him and install a puppet king]], [[Not As Planned\|rooting them out and killing them]] before willingly going into exile. The fact that his story is tragically heroic and he didn't screw up in any way (he knew the risks of taking care and helping the afflicted) is also symbolised by his drawing at the shrine. While everyone lean over, back to the light, ashamed in darkness, [[Noblebright\|he stands tall and proud, looking directly at it]].
	* The Hellion actually ''did'' fight in a raid against a column of knights, alongside her clansmen; rather than freezing up and hiding as her brethren were butchered, she instead ran from the battlefield when it became clear the raid was a lost cause. She returned home to be confronted by the grieving widows of those slain in the raid, who drove her out of the camp as a dishonoured exile.		* The Hellion actually ''did'' fight in a raid against a column of knights, alongside her clansmen; rather than freezing up and hiding as her brethren were butchered, she instead ran from the battlefield when it became clear the raid was a lost cause. She returned home to be confronted by the grieving widows of those slain in the raid, who drove her out of the camp as a dishonoured exile.
	* The Grave Robber was trapped in an abusive relationship with her husband, being subject to his drunken rages and lusts. She ended up poisoning him to death after snapping from the abuse, only to find that his drunken habits and wasteful ways had run the family's fortunes into the ground. Faced with crippling debts, she resolved to rob his tomb and retrieve the valuable jewellery within only to be caught mid-deed by some night watchmen, whom she murdered to get away cleanly. Despite being able to pay her debts, she left the jewels behind to embark on a life of grave-robbing, enjoying the thrills of the profession over her former noble life.		* The Grave Robber was trapped in an abusive relationship with her husband, being subject to his drunken rages and lusts. She ended up poisoning him to death after snapping from the abuse, only to find that his drunken habits and wasteful ways had run the family's fortunes into the ground. Faced with crippling debts, she resolved to rob his tomb and retrieve the valuable jewellery within only to be caught mid-deed by some night watchmen, whom she murdered to get away cleanly. Despite being able to pay her debts, she left the jewels behind to embark on a life of grave-robbing, enjoying the thrills of the profession over her former noble life.

1d4chan>Gilten: /* Sequel */

2023-02-21T12:53:39Z

Sequel

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	Preliminary tests show the game is a direct inversion of the first one, the setting a mixture between the traveling vampire hunters' caravan from "Vampire hunter D", archaic 1990 Amiga-500 game "The Lost Patrol" and roguelikes like ADOM set in a Daemon World or last days of Cadia or Warhammer Fantasy world. Think [[End Times]] with no faction stable enough to draw breath as you dash to save yourselves in a mad plan across a planet turned into a warzone. So basically the entire game is flipped upside down: say goodbye to the single-stable town system with well-defined, selectable, niche dungeons with one, solid, 50+ hour playthrough with no game overs; hello to randomly generated travels with no towns, randomly forked roads leading to random encounters with random party builds and less than half an hour of fighting and re-starting the whole game a la Roguelite. Even the narrator changed its tone: the first game had the resigned inevitability of the Ancestor that the world's heart would crack open and consume all life. The sequel has the same voice actor being an angry, determined, and yet hopeful Professor of a non-descript university who pushes you out of your room and encourages you to try and stop the madness no matter how many heroes you lose, how many fights you go through, and how many pains you suffer, claiming hope will always blaze forth in a dark night.		Preliminary tests show the game is a direct inversion of the first one, the setting a mixture between the traveling vampire hunters' caravan from "Vampire hunter D", archaic 1990 Amiga-500 game "The Lost Patrol" and roguelikes like ADOM set in a Daemon World or last days of Cadia or Warhammer Fantasy world. Think [[End Times]] with no faction stable enough to draw breath as you dash to save yourselves in a mad plan across a planet turned into a warzone. So basically the entire game is flipped upside down: say goodbye to the single-stable town system with well-defined, selectable, niche dungeons with one, solid, 50+ hour playthrough with no game overs; hello to randomly generated travels with no towns, randomly forked roads leading to random encounters with random party builds and less than half an hour of fighting and re-starting the whole game a la Roguelite. Even the narrator changed its tone: the first game had the resigned inevitability of the Ancestor that the world's heart would crack open and consume all life. The sequel has the same voice actor being an angry, determined, and yet hopeful Professor of a non-descript university who pushes you out of your room and encourages you to try and stop the madness no matter how many heroes you lose, how many fights you go through, and how many pains you suffer, claiming hope will always blaze forth in a dark night.


	===The Story===		===The Story===

	Turns out killing the Heart of Darkness (last game's final boss) may not have been the the best of ideas. The entire world has gone mad, cultists burning and [[Cannibalism\|eating each other]], plague infested "Hamlets" with sick fuckery that would scare Nurgle away, and everyone outside isolated camps and inns are mad and/or dying. The economy does not exist; you barter with relics and looted supplies with no sale option. Refugees beg you for help every step, and if you don't help, the fire of hope will diminish. You rest at inns between regions and take a breather, eat, drink, and play cards.		Turns out killing the Heart of Darkness (last game's final boss) may not have been the the best of ideas. The entire world has gone mad, cultists burning and [[Cannibalism\|eating each other]], plague infested "Hamlets" with sick fuckery that would scare Nurgle away, and everyone outside isolated camps and inns are mad and/or dying. The economy does not exist; you barter with relics and looted supplies with no sale option. Refugees beg you for help every step, and if you don't help, the fire of hope will diminish. You rest at inns between regions and take a breather, eat, drink, and play cards.

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	===The Skub Part===		===The Skub Part===

	Since it was released on early access on the [[Fail\|Epic Game Store, there will be no mods until the Steam release a year from now.]]		Since it was released on early access on the [[Fail\|Epic Game Store, there will be no mods until the Steam release a year from now.]]

1d4chan>SaltyMan: /* Sequel */

2023-02-21T10:00:10Z

Sequel

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	Another trailer: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90qCpMSV7I here].		Another trailer: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90qCpMSV7I here].

	Preliminary tests show the game is a direct inversion of the first one, the setting a mixture between the traveling vampire hunters' caravan from "Vampire hunter D", archaic 1990 Amiga-500 game "The Lost Patrol" and roguelikes like ADOM set in a Daemon World or last days of Cadia or Warhammer Fantasy world. Think [[End Times]] with no faction stable enough to draw breath as you dash to save yourselves in a mad plan across a planet turned into a warzone. So basically the entire game is flipped upside down: say goodbye to the single-stable town system with well-defined, selectable, niche dungeons with one, solid, 50+ hour playthrough with no game overs; hello to randomly generated travels with no towns, randomly forked roads leading to random encounters with random party builds and less than half an hour of fighting and re-starting the whole game a la Roguelite. Even the narrator changed its tone: the first game had the resigned inevitability of the Ancestor that the world's heart would crack open and consume all life. The sequel has the same voice actor being an angry, determined, and hopeful Professor of a non-descript university who pushes you out of your room and encourages you to try and stop the madness no matter how many heroes you lose, how many fights you go through, and how many pains you suffer, claiming hope will always blaze forth in a dark night.		Preliminary tests show the game is a direct inversion of the first one, the setting a mixture between the traveling vampire hunters' caravan from "Vampire hunter D", archaic 1990 Amiga-500 game "The Lost Patrol" and roguelikes like ADOM set in a Daemon World or last days of Cadia or Warhammer Fantasy world. Think [[End Times]] with no faction stable enough to draw breath as you dash to save yourselves in a mad plan across a planet turned into a warzone. So basically the entire game is flipped upside down: say goodbye to the single-stable town system with well-defined, selectable, niche dungeons with one, solid, 50+ hour playthrough with no game overs; hello to randomly generated travels with no towns, randomly forked roads leading to random encounters with random party builds and less than half an hour of fighting and re-starting the whole game a la Roguelite. Even the narrator changed its tone: the first game had the resigned inevitability of the Ancestor that the world's heart would crack open and consume all life. The sequel has the same voice actor being an angry, determined, and yet hopeful Professor of a non-descript university who pushes you out of your room and encourages you to try and stop the madness no matter how many heroes you lose, how many fights you go through, and how many pains you suffer, claiming hope will always blaze forth in a dark night.