What's next after the Alchemy Update reaches main?
Once the Alchemy Update is out we get to finally reach the home stretch of intended canonish features: The NPC Update.
The NPC Update will be chopped up into parts, the main parts of which are intended to be:
The existing Jack/WV system will be completely redone, and allow the entire Midnight Crew (and more) to show up with their own objectives and effects on the plot.
Clubs Deuce (and any carapace) can have and use the fucking ring.
White Queen’s Ring and White King’s Staff will be modeled objects. Getting the White King’s Staff lets the player/npc start the Reckoning early.
If the White King doesn’t have the staff, the Reckoning can not happen at it’s normal countdown. (which means I’ll need to meteor the session if it gets to long.)
A system where killing someone wearing a ring nets you that ring yourself. The players need to have BOTH rings to make a Universe.
Hopefully this will all crash together occasionally with the rings/staffs changing hands fucking constantly.
Recruit a consort, build a robot version of yourself, have the local hope player imagine up a companion, shit like. that
Final type of quest reward, which will mean quests can give you power/money, fraymotifs, items, or companions.
We can expect Pages/Lords to be ALL about the companion rewards.
Man, I wonder if a Lord would end up with as many companions as there are planets at the end of a dead session?
Shove a second object in your sprite (either from your current inventory, you dead friend’s pool, or any npcs you have access to).
Sprite Tiering (if your dream self is in a sprite and you god tier, you get sprite powers and shit).
Man, what would a SBURB game even be without a big stupid boss fight at the end that isn’t even part of the main plot?
Rework purple frog fights to use new BIG BAD System.
Have various BIG BADS that can be triggered in a session, better hope your players are up for a challenge.