Cherish Spirit of Autumn Shaders: https://godotshaders.com/shader/stars-shader/ https://godotshaders.com/shader/2d-nebula-shader/ https://godotshaders.com/shader/energy-beams/ https://godotshaders.com/shader/2d-wind-sway/ https://godotshaders.com/shader/2d-mirror-effect/ Task List: Weapon swing reveals trails of light arcs DaggerTrail.tscn could be animated with a clip (do this in godot?) Rotate Autumn's torso to hit the ground with the dagger Show correct key map text on HUD launch Fix Bee recoil animation causes disappearance Bee sting sound (foley with tongue to roof of mouth) Pile of silver coins Design Autumn Wake Eyes more horizontal and partially closed with a larger sheen covering ~30% of the eye Redo top of Autumn's closing eyes with clip and pen tool eyebrows Grabbing animation Aside panning the bee hive's vertical Autumn looks up by rotating her neck and moving her irises up Animate drinking honey Drinking sound effect Upgrades to valence and fire block to deal physical damage to attackers (costs more CS) Upgrade to photic block for instant blocks (costs more CS) Resarc Townsfolk that are drunk with shitfaced expressions Aside and journal about the secrecy of Autumn's "witchcraft" powers which she calls sorcery for a book she read Camera movement while she talks Aside with shopkeeper giving first quest to get honey with dialogue. Typical demanding, arrogant guy like the beginning of Futurama Drunkard's Camp Bandit enemy Dismemberment of limbs and decapitation HUD Map Hire voice actresses and actor(s) after game is complete Possibilities: Colored CS for picking up Firedagger in the bee hive or beyond it After collecting the honeycomb, teleport through a white swirl fading to a black void with blinktear trails as the ground Collect the colored CS which fades into view Holding blink makes a lengthening light trail that shows where you will blink? Separate part of the ends of hair locks to show over right shoulder when raising Autumn's arm? Dripping blood on bosses? ====Synopsis==== Play Autumn Wake in a 2D anime girl rpg platformer fighting demons like Ender Lilies, Lost Epic, Elysion, and Kirby. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070110/ELYSION/ Metaphors: Autumn is the new me defeating the old kingdom of Joseph, the antagonist Lord. Somehow turn a metaphor for sexual reproduction through the Lord, crater, etc? Sequel: Journey somewhere to the north in search of __, and Autumn Wake dies at the end. Main character's wife, Sierra, joins her as an escort and is killed by demons about 2/3 of the way through. Some monster that is incapable of releasing Cherish Spirit like a black hole consumes her CS arts and she must relearn them. Dragons in the sequel. Demon worshipping cult is the enemy in the sequel. An ongoing war in the sequel like the Battle of the Five Armies in The Hobbit? Some sort of extermination like the Holocaust where an ongoing plague is used as justification for the eradication of dissent and minorities. ====Music Inspiration==== As I Am - Dream Theatre : the intro slow guitar Bleach 304 Bleach 306 ====Autumn==== Character: Cute anime girl like Dark Magician Girl, Akame, Tohru, Rukia's Zanpakto in E232. Clothes: A white, spruced up version of Akame's skirt with frays on the whole thing like Carock. Attack types: Block (with sword) Slash Thrust Aerial Weapons: Dagger: dual upgrade (short, quick hits) Scimitar Zweihander (lengthy, slow hits) Experience is gained from chests (5xp,10xp,50xp based on type), quests, enemies, and used to level up to equip new items and upgrade stats with 3 points. 2 points cannot be allocated to the same skill. It is not possible to max skills Reallocating is possible after completing the main story Max level is 25 and on main story completion, enemies can be set to scale with level. Starting level is 0, max skill level is 20. 3 initial skill levels are provided. Vitality - +25% health Strength - +20% physical damage Speed - +2% movement speed, +5% casting speed and item consumption speed, +10% weapon swap speed Intelligence - +20% CS power, most speech options like Fallout Faith (CS mana reserve and regeneration rate) - +50% CS reserve, regen scales Stats will affect speech options like in Fallout: Faith requirement to receive some gift or Attack to be worthy of purchasing some item needed for the revolution. Some require multiple stats. Melee Strength fighters can still invest in Faith for things like healing, blinking, etc. Upgrades found or bought in the world: CS weapon imbuement (all magics) 3x Elemental Cherish Spirit skirt upgrade (choose among particles, combustion, valence, or photic CS) as an increasing amount of Particles2D adorning her skirt and increasing CS reserves. In lore, it's an evolved way of using excess CS to ward off enemies. ====Items==== Silver acquired from quests, chests, piles. Silver cannot be acquired from enemies like XP until late game (except when killing optional human enemies in towns). The silver mine can be used to gather large amounts in the early game. With silver, buy: Weapons in Aralord and Kreed Scimitar - $500 Zweihander - $500 Longbow - $500 - with imbuement, arrows cost less CS than Firedagger but cannot burn One use items Honey - $5, +60 hp Chickenhammered Soup Bloodfruit - $25, +200 hp Red Pekoe Tea - $5, +50 CS Bloodfruit Pekoe Tea - $25, +100 hp && +100 CS Amplify (drug) - $50, +500 CS && +2% CS/s for 10 seconds Amplify Stockpile - $1000 Enter main or optional areas like crossing a bridge or paying a bribe Renting an inn room - $5-$50 depending on locale Buying a customizable house and decor/perks for the house - $2000 Restores health and CS Sleeping is the cheapest way to remove status effects like burn, paralysis Reallocate skill points in a house using an Amplify Stockpile which is free after game completion House items moveable after selecting them: Paintings - $50 each Queen Bed - $100 Pets - $200 each Written pieces Autumn's journal Newspapers with current events and comical stories in the Aral Kingdom. Notes from dead travelers explaining serious parts of the story Bible clippings found in churches Short books with detailed stories ====Cherish Spirit Arts==== CS stuns enemies longer than melee and will provide damage over time effects. Custom key binding is done in inventory like the Skyrim and Oblivion mods. Particle Cherish Spirit: dark CS like those hands from Courage's Eustace's brother's box. It is the oldest, slowest, and overall weakest but allows for autonomous entities like demons. It's dark because it increases atoms' absorption of light. Particle Shield Cohesion - Regenerative healing Nightpalms - Level 5,CS drain 40 - like spirit blast but slower Combustion Cherish Spirit: second slowest Firedagger Flamethrower_ - Oasis Village quest boss, continuous stream of fire emission Valence Cherish Spirit: second fastest, known to transfer energies between particles like metals or fabric to skin Lightning Dragon - Spira Mountain summit Ion Shield - Levitate - Electric angel wings levitate Autumn for ~two seconds. Teslate_ - _ Ionize - Spirends, A big heal taking 2-3 seconds to cast. Inducted Cyclone - Tribulary Lake, AOE around Autumn like cyclone of a CS petals Photic Cherish Spirit: fastest, weakest, known to transmit tiny particles through the small hole of the eye's pupils Blink - Queen Bee Hive, standard dodge Slowmo - Learned in Aralord during escape. It's learned on my own but nobody believes me. Scrying - It's like a telescope. It's learned in Kreed while being scried by a sorceress. Spirit Blast - Mountain Valley, large stream of light as tall as Autumn shoots across screen Imbuing: Imbue weapons with Cherish Spirit to make weapon attacks use both CS and the Intelligence stat Status effects: Valence: paralysis spell reduces speed, lingering status also reduces speed Combustion: set ablaze spell, lingering burn status reduces max hp Photic: blinding effect blurs vision Particle: poison damages over time, status reduces max health ====Quests==== Waypoints show on the map. Only the Aral Kingdom is revealed. The Deserted Lands, Synaria, and Demon Tunnels reveal themselves like Minecraft but are clouded like Civilization V. Prologue: Growing Up 1. Listen to the fourth grade teacher. 2. Complete the bible study assignment with your peers. Dispute authority of some "facts". 3. Return home to orphanage. Contemplate faith as you sleep. 4. Listen to tenth grade teacher talk of the rise and fall of historical kingdoms and rise and fall of careers. 5. Complete the assignment with your peers: allocate attributes. 6. Return home to orphanage. The orphanage Overseer is secretly corrupted by Phadra and using physical and mental violence against the children. Make an oath of altruism as you lie to sleep. Autumn sees a glint of sparkling Cherish Spirit and lie in awe as she drifts to sleep. 7. Christmas, and with birthday around the corner, receive a beautiful dress from a school classmate and roommate Sierra Forager 1. Depart the inn to go to food stand. Shopkeep tells you to collect honey abundant in the Aral Plains. Find honey in a giant bees nest on the ground of the plains and surrounded by flowers and a lone fallen tree. Autumn is told to search a giant honey bee nest rumored to have sprouted recently. Bees usually aren't protective of their honey and leave it scattered about. 2. Defeat Demon Queen Honey Bee. She has four red eyes, four spiked wings, and is large. She has yellow Cherish Spirit that blossoms around her when she attacks. She flies in from the top as you try to leave the top of the hive with the last two honey. She can move very fast in an arc around the player. 3. Return to your food stand. You were hired as a food preparer after leaving the orphanage not long after the Phadra outbreak. Defeat respawning bees along the way. Reward: 50xp, 5 silver, Blink College Bound 1. Talk to the villagers to learn how to attend Warrior's College in Aralord. They teach you about the enemy in Kreed. 2. Spar with the Crusair High Priest Captain Aazen for Warrior's College. Accepted as a early admission. 3. Attack a Kreed scout patrol in the plains in tandem with a brigade of recruits headed by Crusair Captain. 4. Save the dying, suffering [animal] from a body of toxic [water,lava,quicksand] using a latent blink ability. Despite showing altruism, become a captive of the pious. Captain Aazen takes you back to Resarc to be burned at the stake. Absconding 1. Escape starting village stake burning. 3 friends, Sierra, Ivina, and Kitree throw water on you and untie you as they are passing through Resarc, sleeping in an inn after traveling from Aralord. Sierra has enamored glances toward Autumn. You split up to elude enemies and head to Hyren to talk more. 2. Travel through plains to neighboring village Hyren. Meet up with Sierra, Ivina, and Kitree outside the overrun town. A lot of dialogue takes place in which the character reveals she is a secretive atheist who has known about her powers for only a few months but hidden them. 3. Clear village of demons. With 3 friends, apprehended by the Crusair High Priest Captain Aazen again in Aral Plains. Reward: Prisoner 1. Scrounge supplies around Aralord jail while awaiting crucifixion. 2. Defeat a prisoner and begin escape. 3. Defeat the jail warden. Captured by Captain in Chief. Reward: Absconding Aralord 1. Escape crucifixion by _. Ceremony of high priests including those from Crusair. Speeches from Lord Joseph and Captain in Chief. Lord's son present and made to bear witness for education. 2. Flee Aralord to the Dendrillic Hills. 3. Escort friend Sierra to the rebel town of Kreed while the other two lead away the enemies. The three friends will receive training and function as shopkeeps after the next mission. Think about leaving Aral Kingdom and then decide to stay and try to learn more about Cherish Spirit. Meet up with other two at the hot springs and and enjoy the hot springs for a few hours with Sierra and company. Reward: Cherish Spirit's Creed 1. Talk to the rebel leader Chrystys about Cherish Spirit. Demonstrate Autumn's blink. 2. Clear an enemy encampment outside Kreed with Chrystys. Autumn is needed now to prevent buildup for a strike. 3. Converse with the Shopkeeper _. 4. Look in the Kreed Library for CS info. Librarians here. A sorceress will scry you on a book. She can't scry Princess Amber because no sorceress can scry that far. Scry in the Distance 1. Travel to Crusair. As Autumn leaves Kreed, the three friends approach her to tell her they can sell items and have been employed. Some citizens of Crusair are friendly but all guards are not. Witness the crucifixion of an atheist. 2. Rescue sorceress who used scrying to talk to you from Crusair. Queen Violet went missing here 90 days ago after Royal Guard Captain Aazen captured her and defends village. Queen Violet is held beneath the cathedral but the Captain in Chief escapes with her after you set the other sorceress, a royal captain, free. 3. Defeat Captain Aazen. Reward: Scry Grind for at least 2-3 levels to comfortably start the next quest. Deserted Land 1. Return to Kreed with the sorceress and news of the defeat of the soldiers of Crusair and secret support of several lower priests. 2. Learn more about Cherish Spirit by traveling to Spira Mountain across The Deserted Lands and their forbidden desert. Princess Amber scries along the way. Scry back to Sierra along the way. Learning to Cherish 1. Speak with the Princess Amber. Learn that only sorceresses and demons are born with CS, though dragons of old were also born with CS. Princess agrees to aid the Kreed rebels if Queen Violet is rescued. 2. Spar with Princess Amber to train. Learn _. 3. Read some notes left behind by Queen Violet about the demon conflict spilling from Synaria. Queen Violet's wife died from old age at the age of 1100. Lightning Efflux 1. Travel to the top of Spira Mountain to learn Lightning Dragon. Autumn must go alone so as not to interfere with her absorption. 2. Defeat Feathered Demon which has learned Lightning Dragon. The dragon is another recently evolved. 3. Learn Lightning Dragon by absorbing a lightning strike. Autumn accidentally absorbs so much Cherish Spirit from lightning that she blinks all the way to Kreed through a timespace rip in an ability called blinktear. Princess scries and asks her to check Synaria. Princess Amber remarks her blinking ability is rather unique and requires adept Cherish Spirit channeling afforded to only the most well trained sorceresses. Princess Amber marvels at her travel distance and remains to defend against the newfound demon attacks. Perennial Trading 1. Travel to Pirennia to boat to Synaria. 2. Disrupt the already weakened shipping industry by defeating the Phadra corrupted naval captain and his seamen. 3. Steal a boat by killing its crew. There are three to choose. An excerpt and cutscene show the boating. Reeling the Gods 1. Travel across Synarian archipelago to the island town of Synareel to rescue Queen Violet from the Synarians, primitive polytheistic demon worshipers with dark skin. Witness a sacrifice to the Succubus of Synareel. 2. Defeat the Succubus of Synareel inside a lamp in the sand and granting Cherish Spirit wishes to two Synarian slaves. 3. Escape the onslaught of blinded, worshiping slaves including the two rescued slaves who are now the enemy. Discover Queen Violet was sent to Cytoseer Cavern after she scries you in a cove on the island. Might of the Core 1. Travel to Cytoseer Cavern through Mount Mitano. 2. Defeat Demon Queen Scarlet. Demon Queen Scarlet reveals she lied to lure powerful sorceresses there and does not know the whereabouts of the Sorceress Queen Violet. After defeat, Demon Queen is believed dead but secretly flees to Demon Castle through a tunnel. 3. Close the red timespace blinktear that's left behind by Demon Queen Scarlet and defeat the demons that just came through. Queen Violet is believed to be lost through that blinktear. Kreed Defense 1. Blinktear to defend against a demon onslaught in Kreed. Princess Amber is leading demons and reveals betrayal. 2. Defeat Princess Amber. Fail to defeat her. Revealed to be sister. Queen Violet is revealed to be held by the Lord. Princess Amber intended to kill Autumn herself while she climbed Spira Mountain but did not realize Autumn's great power would manifest with a blinktear. A meteor falls in the distance and creates Newborn Crater as Autumn is transported to Spira Mountain. No Spared Corruption 1. Defeat defecting sorceresses corrupted by demons. 2. Return to Kreed with remaining sorceresses who trail behind the rightful princess, Autumn. 3. Liberate Kreed of demons and free the jailed humans. 4. Defeat Captain _. 3 friends are believed kidnapped to Aralord. Countering the Capital 1. Head to Aralord through Resarc to prevent a pincer counter. Defeat Resarc resistance, Lord's Youth, headed by the Overseer who was promoted in style of Hitler Youth. Queen Violet scries from Castle Aralord and discovers her missing daughter, Autumn. 2. Join the rebels in their final assault on Aralord. Rebel leader Chrystys is killed by Captain in Chief outside the main gate. 3. Defeat Captain in Chief outside the gate of Aralord. 4. Reach the throne room of Castle Aralord. 5. Defeat Princess Amber who has been torturing Sorceress Queen Violet recently. Fail. Captured by Lord Joseph. Be tortured with asphyxiation by Princess Amber, plead for them to heed the calls of Jesus, Lord Joseph reveals new distance from faith and partnership with Demon Queen Scarlet, and Sorceress Queen Violet is killed amidst this. Somehow escape torture after Demon Queen Scarlet alludes to adding her to Joseph's harem. 6. Defeat Princess Amber. Lord Joseph and small battalion flee to the Demon Tunnels which are sealed. Tunneling Deeper 1. As the new queen of sorceresses, travel to the Demon Tunnels through Newborn Crater. 2. Defeat Lord Joseph's last battalion. 3. Defeat Aralord Lord Joseph and 3 friends, newly betrayed (harem) who have also been betrayed by the Demon Queen Scarlet via tunnel collapse after sending them from the Demon Castle to recover Lord Joseph. 3 friends reveal they took down the defenses of Kreed in the night to allow the defeat of the rebel army. 3 friends reveal their newfound love for Lord Joseph and Phadra which was cultivated in Kreed while Autumn is gone. Sierra begins to feel sympathy for Autumn in the midst of the battle, but after a monologue, Lord Joseph strikes her down and she is believed dead until the final battle with the Lord is nearly over. Sierra pulls a dagger from her midriff and hurls it into Lord Joseph's knee. Autumn finishes Lord Joseph off. A World Beneath 1. Traverse the Demon Castle with the wounded Sierra. 2. Defeat Demon Queen Scarlet. She reveals succubus qualities and eats her own demon spawn child Adam reproduced with Aralord Lord. This feeding enhances her power. She reveals she would only keep a child from a stronger mate (or some other way to discredit her fondness for Lord Joseph)? 3. Defeat Demon Queen Scarlet's succubus second form like a Claymore evolution. Scarlet blinds Autumn with Photic CS and seal her into a white void, but Autumn uses Valence CS to detect Scarlet's presence through it. 4. Close the last red timespace blinktear. Queen Me 1. Assume the throne of Aralord to become Queen and incorporate the Deserted Lands under a new flag of Aralord. Sign the new laws of freedom of religion and press. 2. Spread the message of peace to the people of Aralord and Spira Mountain. Convince, kill or imprison dissidents (citizens will damage to 1 health then be killable) 3. Marry Sierra after acquiring a diamond to forge a ring in the Aralord Blacksmith. Wedding is held on Spira Mountain with supporters from various towns. Nightmare 1. Sleeping gives the option to fight a survival mode? Side Quests: Kreed rebel leader Chrystys: Investigate Darasurn Village Ruins for CS knowledge in its lost library. Kreed bounty board: Slay giant Tribulary Lake inhabitant that can send splashes of water using Particle CS. Learn about history of Monster Lake. Kreed bounty board: Slay Chief _ of Pirennia in Castle Flyril. Kreed librarian: Help write an encyclopedia by finding _. Kreed librarian: Help write a novel by escorting to _. Oasis Village farmer: Slay invading demons headed by _. Oasis Village farmer: Gather Desert Bloodfruit for the Harvest Festival. Spira Mountain: Slay Mountain Valley boss sealed away by an avalanche. Synaria Island _ minor chief: Slay Ocean Cavern boss inhabitant(s) enslaving Synarians of island _. Synareel house slave: Grant freedom to a slave and slay a demon masquerading as a kitten. Crusair church pastor: Retrieve a sacred cross from the lake which has secret CS properties. Reward: CS art Incorporate: Plot: More imagery of my ADHD in the story Dramatic Irony Scenes that show the enemies talking amongst themselves in Castle Aralord, Spira Mountain, etc. Queen Violet interaction(scrying?, notes left behind) Captain in Chief interaction More scrying reception Scrying on a whim to improve relationship with people. Relationships with citizens for 10% and 20% reduced prices, extra quests, better quips, _. Use an integer. Son of Aralord references Thief and assassin quests? Examples of increasing poverty throughout the story More random events A rat appearing and eating a bee Demons eating people An immigrant from Synaria being killed on the shoreline A Phadra addict being slaughtered Elements from sequel, its land, and enemies into the lore Dialogue: Autumn Wake Advances of husbandry love the main character rejects from a librarian in Kreed and priest in Lake Village. Advances of love from Sierra which Autumn entertains on the way to Hyren, en route to Kreed, in Kreed, and through a scry on the way to The Spirends. Eventually Autumn learns the reason behind her secret preference for human women and sorceresses. Autumn thinks about courting and marriage throughout the game and decides to marry after finishing her fight. Dialogue during combat like Bleach More complaints against Aralord Lord from the people, especially in Kreed Sadistic drugs Economic depression Hefty taxes that go unspent and hoarded, specifically noted in Kreed Abandonment of irreligious Sedition Hateful, xenophobic Christianity against CS and other religions The Deserted Lands More support for Aralord Lord Strong piousness Strong army More transition to becoming the Queen in villages and towns like Lakewood priest support, _ Alcohol, Phadra, Amplify references Phadra was newly discovered, harvested by the Demon Queen, and given to Lord. Demons regularly use Phadra which makes them evil. Christianity, atheism, and witchcraft references Christian flag Bible verses Endorse natural drugs like alcohol and Phadra Endorse prostitution Endorse slavery in Synaria Features: CS Melee attack like Firepalm ====Map==== Aral Nation Flag is a Christian cross and __ Starting Village Resarc The main character discovers Cherish Spirit by accident, and is ousted as a witch by the Christians. About to be burned at the stake by her village, the three women from another village save her. They run back to a neighboring village to find it under attack by demons. Plains Yuka plants as obstacles. Flowers in the background. Animate to blow in the wind. Flower field somewhere. Enemies: Honey Bee lv1,5hp,1xp Pack Rat lv1,10hp,2xp Giant Rat lv2,20hp,4xp Boss: Demon Rat Malkiss lv3,100hp,20xp - talks, commands rats Neighboring Village Hyren Enemies: Demons Items: Capital Aralord Workers are like happy sharecroppers. Economic depression has inevitably resulted from lack of regulation and lax royalty. Royal Guard brings the four girls to the Lord who also declares them to be heretical witches for summoning demons with a magical girl, and he sentences them to public crucifixion with a murderer also set to be executed in two days, six days after she was set to be burned at the stake. Lord notices Autumn has absconded and has her sought. After escaping crucifixion, Autumn can move about Aralord to interact with shopkeeps, purchase property, etc, but she must avoid the Castle, soldiers, and patrols. Warrior's College Jail Dendrillic Hills Enemies: Bat-like lv.3,10xp Boss: Items: Double Jump allowing access to other areas of hills and start village rooftops. Neurvina Forest A clearing is in the forest, and there is a serpent boss there. Enemies: Venus fly trap Boss: Bloodfruit Serpent Kreed Rebel town in the middle of Aral. Mostly atheist with a Christian minority. The flag is a stylized upside down cross which has the benefit of not being imitated amongst the religious. Topics of science are being studied here to create better weaponry against Aralord's army. Drugs like Amplify are used by the resistance while Phadra and alcohol are shunned. Aral's Lord is preparing to exterminate the city like Darasurn was destroyed in the formation of the Aral Kingdom. The only library in Aral is here. Easterly River Bridge collapses in the river. The next, second bridge also collapses. Next bridge wavers but does not collapse. Crusair Very religious. Cathedral is the biggest building. Crucifixion on lakefront is taking place on arrival. Crucified bodies adorn the outskirts of the village. Drugs have faced stiff resistance in this village but Phadra has been incorporated into on Sunday and holy days. A baptism in the lake. Headed by Captain AAazen. Village is poor. Oasis Village _ Hidden in the dunes. Unknown to Aral Kingdom. Harvest festival celebration with baptisms in the name of the Holy Spirit, their name for Cherish Spirit they worship. A poem singer traditionally sings before the food. Pirennia Rich port town. Being so close to Synaria, drugs have consumed the people and their chieftain. They are still devout Christians, but this town mostly drinks alcohol and only the inner sect use Phadra. Synaria Island 1 Synaria Island 2 Synareel Capital of Synaria, a polytheistic dark skinned nation worshipping demons. One of their gods is said to reside in the volcano in which sacrifices are thrown. It is made of huts. The only nation still employing slavery in which slaves are born into such tradition. Because of the religion, slavery is accepted even among slaves. Like sharecroppers and poor workers in Aral Kingdom, slave produced surpluses are hoarded by the elite circles of Synaria. Slavery and squalor is abundant and the population is plagued by Phadra. Unwanted slaves are abandoned on the beaches to be swallowed by monsters. Newborn Crater Name given by main character in glee. Darasurn Village Ruins Abandoned after war ravaging. Strong beasts have taken up refuge here. Abandoned Silver Mine Abandoned after most mining complete and remaining ground was too fragile to break as people fell in and died. Adventurers never go there treasure hunting because so many have never returned. All of the silver currency of Aral was generated from this mine. Aralord Castle holds a reserve of this supply of silver which it uses to finance the economy of Aral. ====Lore==== Areas: Travel between areas by ascending to higher up platforms simulating hills or building floors, or dip down into lower platforms simulating valleys and tunnels, or continue straight left or right. Story: Rips in medieval timespace getting worse causing demons to invade to feed their bloodlust in competition with the bloodlust of the current Lord waging war on neighboring kingdoms and villages which have their own problems like famine, disease, and malcontents. Demons come through the rips by traveling from a faraway planet at sub light speed. Main character joins an insurrectionist group after suffering _ in her village but fleeing in the chaos of the demon invasion. Eventually it is revealed the Lord opened the demon rift by misusing the power of a holy sorceress queen. Several lower demons already inhabited the land called Aral but were mostly concentrated in Synaria. Organized groups of demons poured through the rift. The Lord wished to harness the power of the demons using the queen, but it did not work as expected. Once in the land, higher demons could now open their own rifts to bring in their armies. Sorceresses: About 200 sorceresses live together. Live 800-1000 years on average but mature on a human scale. Skin stays fair. Eldest is 1300 years old queen. Youngest is 11 and children are rare with gaps of decades between children because of the limited number of pregnancies each sorceress can have: 2. Gestation takes 2 years. Oldest ever was 4000 years old. Ambrosia of sorceresses is normal human food but they are even greater omnivores than humans as they can even draw Cherish Spirit from simple plants like grass. Origins of the kingdom: Origins of the Lord's rule: Demon lore: Can only convert Cherish Spirit to Particle CS. Cherish Spirit: Also known as energy, Cherish Spirit is a lost art closely guarded by sorceresses in a mountain deep in The Deserted Lands, known to dwellers as Spira Mountain. Users must be born with CS capabilities for absorbing and releasing Cherish Spirit, a particle governing and moving the other forms of CS. In this way, CS does not simply spring from nowhere and has a definite, realistic nature in the story and its history. All organisms have Cherish Spirit, but few have evolved to channel it like sorceresses. Organisms release all their Cherish Spirit upon death and return it to the world. Sorceresses are now looking in the land for their lost queen. All sorceresses are female but they can reproduce with each other using Cherish Spirit. Origins of Aral Kingdom: Origins of the Lord's rule: He is an emissary of God in the Christian faith much like the Pope of the real world. He inherited the throne from his father who is famous for abandoning The Deserted Lands and Synaria due to new witchcraft. The Lord is a fat drunkard who also snorts a new drug, Phadra. The Aral Queen Marie is said to have perished in child birth. Demon lore: Can only convert Cherish Spirit to shadow CS. Text dialog boxes and talking NPC's. Use voice modulator or find a girlfriend. Demons: Demons are primitive users of Cherish Spirit and can only consume CS from other organisms. Lesser demons can only use Particle Cherish Spirit, but demons brought in from the core of the Earth by Scarlet can use Combustion Cherish Spirit. Newly evolved demons which have formed in the last 50 years or so can use Photic CS. Drugs Phadra: It is formed of Cherish Spirit harnessed from the Phadrainus Plant and used for sadism and placation of the population. In small amounts, it acts as a sadist's stimulating dream, but in large amounts, it pacifies the user like alcohol and causes damage to render the user less intelligent and capable. Amplify: Used by humans to quickly boost stamina or improve their intelligence over time. Sorceresses and most demons have evolved beyond the use of Amplify and instead absorb Cherish Spirit. Some lesser demons still use Amplify. Alcohol: World History Heathen Era: < Year 0. -200: Aresteed, capital Aresterin, forms through the cooperation of several independent villages headed by Lord Aral. Middle Era: Year 0. Marked by the formation of Christianity in Aresteed. 100: Sorceresses disappear due to rising negative sentiments toward CS. Violet is young. Valence CS is discovered atop Spira Mountain. Flyril, capital Pirennia, forms through the cooperation of several independent, polytheistic villages. 292: Christianity reaches the throne of Aresteed. 370: Aresteed and Flyril war over Christianity in a sort of Crusades. 380: Darasurn is devastated by Flyril and abandoned. 420: After the wartime execution of the king of Aresteed and coronation of a new king, Aresteed and Flyril sign an armistice and slowly begin to trade. Kingdom Era: Year 545. Marked by the formation of Aral Kingdom. 545: The marriage of the King of Aresteed and Queen of Flyril forms the Aral Kingdom. Synaria forms of those lands which refuse to integrate with Flyril. 1000: Demon Queen Scarlet harvests Phadra from the Cherish Spirit of the Phadrainus plant. 1100: Phadra is introduced to the Aral Kingdom. 1145: Lord Joseph is born. 1170: At 25 years old, young Lord Joseph assumes the throne of his father, Lord Peter. 1180: Autumn is born. 1182: Autumn is lost to her mother but found just outside Resarc. 1190: Lord Joseph begins to use Phadra as the first Lord to do so, skipping a generation. 1199: Kreed's population refuses to cooperate with the rest of the Aral Kingdom and is declared a rebel entity. 1200: Queen Violet disappears. Current Year 1201: Autumn begins her journey at 21 years old. Locations Pool: Fort Watchtowers Aral Soldiers' Trap with a camp with a chest of silver Anarchist Camps Can sprout up after key points in main story City Locations Armory Clinic School Barracks Jail Church Food stands Cemetery Sequel Locations Pool: Waterfall Jungle swamp Maelstrom Fjord Meridian __ Main Characters: (NO ENSEMBLE) Autumn Wake 21. Named by Orphanage Overseer for her discovery at the emergence of the season. Eventually it is revealed the character is a princess exiled by her evil, greedy sister at a young age. The sister, consumed by some form of evil particle CS, then convinced the queen to go look for her daughter after many years and the king captured her. Princess Amber Rainier 90 Queen Violet Rainier 1350. Oldest sorceress and the only one present for their disappearance. Rebel Leader Chrystys Vayne 34. Renounced her faith. Fellow orphan. Mother killed in new factory in Kreed in 1195. Father died of sickness. Friend Sierra Vayne 28. Renounced Christianity. Blood sister of Chrystys. Friend Ivina Mastra 27. Renounced Christianity. Younger sister of Kitree. Friend Kitree Mastra 29. Renounced Christianity five years prior after Ivina convinced her. Demon Queen Scarlet 237 years old. Can use photic CS and blink massive distances as she is a young evolved demon called _. Lord Joseph Cantrell 56. Lord of Aral for over 30 years. Phadra addict for 10 years and slowly deteriorating from it: he looks 76. Currently in a secret relationship with Demon Queen Scarlet. Has one alleged 12 year old child, Joseph Cantrell II, with a deceased wife but it is actually from Scarlet. Captain in Chief _ Characterization: Most defining life moment Marriage, university, military prowess, Christian awakening, new job Most shocking life moment Family death, illness, drug overdose, nightmare, dream Family tree relationships Rich, poor, middle class Consistent, inconsistent, lazy Atheist, Christian, polytheistic, agnostic, vague deist Occupation Farmer, food seller, military, Open, secretive Happy, sad, calm, angry, excitable Liked, hated Commanding, submissive Extroversion, introversion Sane, insane Considerate, inconsiderate Likes to travel to _, likes to stay home to _ Likes eating _, likes fasting for _ Likes to play _ Likes to work on _ Likes to read _ Likes to fish, cook, dinner parties Favorite clothes Favorite color Favorite creature Favorite plant Names Pool: Male: Artura Thane Elijah Ezra Bori Jim Crow Female: Freya Eve Katari Eleine Vera Claire Amy Sophie Luzia Isabella Imogene Athena Creatures: Mar Enemies Pool: No health bars but slash marks and dripping blood on the enemy. Carock like Gaseous Specter Amp Dragon Some wolf-like or other creature like a Courage the Cowardly Dog style of art. Big Bayou. Also use Yu-Gi-Oh cards as models. Zmiulan Lieutenant Paladin Knight, rank and file Squire Page Dog of citizen Bosses: Hydra Sea Serpent that plays dead during combat by releasing some glowing CS and lying still Reaperangel Cute kitten that transforms into a demon lady Dialogue and Quips Pool: "Lord have mercy!" "Praise the Lord!" "I can't believe a god would create this hedonistic gain on top of sadomasochistic underlying structures." - sorceress or observer of Phadra addicts "Life feeds on itself. Life will not continue without death. There is no tree without its roots in sacrifice." - Queen Violet "I see the cyclic patterns that govern the Earth also govern me. As I feed on the produce of farmers, these two snakes have attempted to eat each other and will soon become the dust of the farmland. To me, that is god." - Autumn Wake "I practice the meditation of prayer. I optimistically contemplate my desires. even in times of stress." - Autumn "As Lord of Aral I have even made my very own son, Adam, in my own image. I dare to represent the voice of God himself as someday he too shall rule this land." - Lord Joseph "As your friend Miss Violet must have told you in another form, violence makes the world go round. We feed on each other to survive." - Lord Joseph "The so called Lord of Aralord rules with an iron fist of hubris." - Rebel Leader Chrystys "You, the people of Aralord, shall reap what is sewn by serving the Lord; we shall serve back to you what you have paid tribute to us. As the voice of God himself, I promise you will eat the fruits of your labor." - Lord Joseph "Together we've been biding our time to ensure the feeble citizens of this land are as ripe to pick as the leaves of the Red Pekoe." - Princess Amber "Honey, we saved you because... can I call you honey?" - Sierra, to Autumn "No need to admonish her. Let's hear her out." - Sierra, of Autumn "I do not believe a mortal woman such as yourself possesses the strength of sorceresses for utilizing the Cherish Spirit of the Earth. I'd like you to show me your blink." - Princess Amber