CYOA Tales of Lona: 'Under the hood' thread

[m3rchant]

First off, welcome back! I hope you like the new place!

Second, I have another rather long suggestion to post on the main thread, but seeing as how it seems people tend to stop posting their own suggestions after I've made a big one, I'm wondering if I should just keep it to myself 'till the end of the week. What say you on the subject?

[coyoteredmoon]

Post away friend
You'll find a big one Omni just made XD

[coyoteredmoon]

Update ahoy!

[m3rchant]

Three things:

1) Was drinking coffee when I read the new update. I nearly spewed it all over my keyboard and screen as I realized I was reading my own words, word for word, coming out of Mana's mouth.
2) Are you and I the only ones left using this thread to communicate about the game anymore?
3) It's a little long, so it gets a spoiler.

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

As soon as I have some free time on my hands, I plan on posting a thread about a game I've been thinking about making. I am by no stretch of the imagination an artist, so if I make this I will need someone or a couple someones who are. I know you don't like the idea of taking money from people over the internet and I have my own policy where I always pay people for their work, but since we both know I like your art, I just thought I'd give you first dibs on if you want the job or not.

[Omnimek]

In answer to 2 I still read it but I often try to stuff everything I say into my posts as I think that gets the most eyeballs. In regards to that question you had the other week about when is the right time to go with the big ideas. I usually try to wait 24 hours to mull over what I want to say and see if anyone else is going in the same direction. I'll take this chance to ask a question about the CYOA. How would traveling outside of Stensgate work? Does it have a cost? I still have my mind on hunting ingredients for the impact potion for the father/son pony and cat show.

[coyoteredmoon]

First of all, yes I used a large portion of your post to fill in what Mana was saying. I saw the post and immediately said 'well put, thats an excellent way of going about this one.' So yep, good job on that one

As for the 'job' I do this tread as purely a spare time thing, and it has been known to encroach on the time of other things, so I'm going to have to say no to your offer :/ Sorry, friendo; but thanks for the offer!

For travel, Just say you wanna go somewhere else! As long as we have some agreement in the comments, I'll move Mana. It's why I made the map at the beginning of this version of the CYOA for options on travel, there's the fast and safe method of paying for someone to transport you; or Mana can go on foot, which may have an incident occur on the way to your destination ('oh no robbers' or 'what do you mean this fairy is a little piece of shit thats been leading me around for the exclusive purpose of getting me lost?'). I should probably write out some thing in the rules section about that

[m3rchant]

Kinda figured you'd decline, but just thought I'd ask.

Also, I have a feeling (or rather human psychology dictates) that even if you put that in the rules section, not many are gonna opt for that unless there's either a clear benefit or the town starts running out of things to do: It's the whole "don't abandon the mine 'till the gold's run out" mentality. The good news is that there are ways to coax people out of it, but the bad news is that none of them come with a 100% success rate guarantee. I can go into detail on how a few might be applied within our current story if you'd like...

[coyoteredmoon]

update! Just me and Omnimek this week o_o

[m3rchant]

I was in mid sentence this Friday when my computer just up and died. I am now using a borrowed one from a friend and hoping he either never becomes curious about what this website is or when he does, he's as understanding about this as he is most other things.

That being said, I'll be damned! I thought people would want to stay where they were comfortable, but I guess that's two years of psych for absolutely nothing!

[coyoteredmoon]

Update!

[Omnimek]

I know Brawn uses weapons well and Brains is key to magic is there a way to weaponize Beauty? What I mean is. Are there methods for Charm to overpower others and win fights?

Edit1: What I mean to say is like can a charisma hero/villain be 'the guy' in the way that a wiz or warrior or sneaky type could?

[VintageBass]

I know Brawn uses weapons well and Brains is key to magic is there a way to weaponize Beauty? What I mean is. Are there methods for Charm to overpower others and win fights?

Edit1: What I mean to say is like can a charisma hero/villain be 'the guy' in the way that a wiz or warrior or sneaky type could?

By the sound of it, pretty much. I imagine that for a brute male warrior, it might be difficult to get him out of his mindset, but push the right buttons and he'll be in Mana's paws.

[coyoteredmoon]

I know Brawn uses weapons well and Brains is key to magic is there a way to weaponize Beauty? What I mean is. Are there methods for Charm to overpower others and win fights?

Edit1: What I mean to say is like can a charisma hero/villain be 'the guy' in the way that a wiz or warrior or sneaky type could?

By the sound of it, pretty much. I imagine that for a brute male warrior, it might be difficult to get him out of his mindset, but push the right buttons and he'll be in Mana's paws.

Thats pretty much whats been happening already, to a certain extent. Many confrontations I had planned to give you people have been flat out avoided via that charisma stat (coupled with the incredible lucky rolls this character is getting). As far as I'm concerned Charm has already been weaponized here.

[Omnimek]

Yes, yes it has. It was when I was reviewing the journey so far, looking over the drake rookery arc to catalog the instances of magic that I wondered if Mana could be like those adventurers, remembering those spectacles and the bloody cloak from dark deals, but she does do in many ways what would be improbable otherwise. I will put more thought into how to prep Mana for when that good luck streak has run out.

[bestusernameEVER]

We are going to turn sex-appeal into a weapon of mass destruction.

[coyoteredmoon]

Heya guys, sorry to call it in this week: but work's got me doing some studying up on some new equipment.

SOoooooo Pinup week! you guys know the rules!

Sorry again! Hopefully next week will return to regular programing.

[bestusernameEVER]

Hm. Someone should upload coyote's stuff on e621. So we can check what we already made him draw

Don't look at me. I don't want you to know my account name...

[coyoteredmoon]

Smut ahoy!

[coyoteredmoon]

update.
Starting to run into the 'work is attempting to murder me' is starting to act up again. Just a warning in case I dont have a chance to update at any point in time.

And because I've been having questions about it, let me do a clarification
So the reason that there are weeks where I do the pinups but not the cyoa posts is the time blocks I need to do them. The pinups and the small pictures that I post on my FA/tumblr at most take me 20 minutes and I have no issue with saving those and coming back to them. The writing is the problem area. I'm not a particularly good writer, so it takes me a long while to organize these posts; and worse than that is how easily i get distracted so generally I make these in a void of stimuli XD . The cyoa posts take me a long while to organize in my head as well, which makes the process even slower
So the long and short of it is drawings are quick, cyoa text is slow.
Hope that clears some confusion for those that were asking.

Also, as for why most of my posts are green: are they? :'D

[coyoteredmoon]

Update!