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Hi and thank you!! I'm glad it's of interest!

I have the basic big beats of the regular story (like the competition and what every episode is going to look like) and the RO routes planned out. I know all of the big scenes, the turning points, climax etc. the hard-hitting emotional scenes, that helps guide me from beginning to end! I have a basic outline of everything, but it's not super rigid aside from those things. Everything else is about filling the blanks and just giving myself freedom to have fun figuring it out while writing.

And I do, sort of! A lot of what happens is that I get inspiration for a scene that I realize would have more emotional impact or even make more sense much later in the story, so I tuck it away for later. Sometimes I write the whole scene and set it aside because the emotional inspiration and the weight is there now at the present moment, and I don't want to lose it hahaha but for the most part I write very linear. I'm not good at jumping around a lot!

Anyway thanks again!! Thanks for leaving comments on Hair White As Snow too btw!

:3 :3 :3 hi lemy !! so some are based on their lore descriptions and some are based on mechanics.

mafuyu's (the sadness) applies conditions that will raise Doom (100% doom is a failstate) based on status (money, exp, items, etc) at the end of each mystery. i chose it for mafuyu because it represents piling burdens weighing one down. mechanically, i think mafuyu would be good at managing the semantics of minimizing these conditions.

kanade's (the dreaming) is a bit abstract, its entirely the "losing reason raises doom". (but all the lore is written poetically enough to work). kanade only takes care of herself because if she isnt alive she cant save people. reason is one of two health points; stamina is physical and reason is mental. because this is a tough condition, solving mysteries reduces doom by an extra 2%. i like the symbolism of dreams & nightmares for kanade as well.

ena's (herald) has really cool lore descriptions. its an eldritch form resembling instruments that intends to summon everyone for a party (the shattered court) and basically rapture them there. every time you complete a mystery, one Old God Status effects the town and locations to show the passing of time strengthening the god's power. the Herald has no effect but to double this as two town statuses per mystery. this makes it pretty easy to play generally, but a few of the statuses do really suck.