#rbu

Hear hear, 40k content update! It has been a minute (again) and I accidentally wrote up a chapters' worth of content update without even releasing the new chapter. That's up next. But for now, what's new in this content update?

A whole bleepin 40k words worth of RBU makeover:

NEW FEATURE: quality of life indicators throughout the game

-NEW FEATURES: unlock notebook entries throughout the game to unravel your companions' backstories to read through on the stat screen! So far, this includes ~5k worth of additional story entries you can read through for [b]Ha[/b] and [b]Ash[/b]

-complete grammar fixes/rewrites in part 1

-fixed missing scene in chapter 9

-finished remaining WIP scenes in chapter 9, containing two separate and unique lab explorations

-edited and improved chapter 3

-finished WIP scenes for HA throughout the entire game

-finished WIP scenes for Amethyst throughout the entire game

-rebalanced relationship and insanity gain throughout the entire game

There has been some fixes here and there as well - with a romance scene for Ha which was seemingly and accidentally locked before, woops. But it's here now!

This chapter also added additional endings to chapter 9, making it so the start of 10 will be even more personal to your story.

I already started working on the next update while we're at it as well, so let me go and list whatever is to be expected in the future:

stat balance throughout the game

add relationship and stat changes in chapter 9

quality of life indicator throughout the game: character personality. Show whenever a character makes their own choices depending on their acquired personality trait.

chapter 10

chapter 10 will also include the first part of all your companions' endings based on their personality stat!

BE WARNED. ALL chapters have been updated! Most likely, your save file will be messed up, crying, struggling or not workinng at all. It is advised to start over again if you want to benefit from all the new updates!

Oh- and please please PLEASE submit any bugs and whatnots to the form over here if you can help it! It would keep the forum page and tumblr asks a bit more clean and free, and would make things much easier for myself to keep track of! Besides, I AM expectinng a dozen bugs after this update. Thank you!

https://forms.gle/r7WzvGMxKF4LLHTb8

“You’re sweet to stay with me,” Bonnie Weseman sniffed, “but don’t let me hold you back on your big day. Go on, go, be with your friends. Wouldn’t be the first time, hey? Dropping you off at school like this?”

“No big deal, Mom,” Brandon shrugged.

She sniffed again. “I’ll be crying for months over this one, kid. Seriously, honey, don’t wait for me. Is that Kate over there?” Her son’s subtle nod made Bonnie’s knowing grin grow. “Go say hi to her for me. Go, go! You can tell her that your mother misses hearing the two of you bicker over those games of yours. What do you think? Would that work, or too sappy?”

He didn’t have the heart to tell her those days were probably long over, but his mother’s teary eyes were brimming with new hope for him and his future. He stalled. “I, uhh—”

“Just use me, sweet pea, I’m the perfect excuse. Say whatever you want, even if it’s just an opener, like, ‘Hey, my Mom says hi.’ I promise I won’t watch, sheesh! I told Sadie I’d meet her at the sorority house after dropping you off.”

“Sure, Mom. Say hi to Sadie for me. Tell her to visit the house more now that your favourite son has moved out.”

“Nick still has his blonde hair, wise guy.”

“I’m a good excuse too, Mom.”

“Okay, okay. I get it. On your way, favourite son of mine.”

“Hey! Long time no see, weary traveller.”

Kate Rose was distracted taking in all the changes approaching her that she forgot to answer. His voice was a lot lower than she remembered, it sounded almost fake. Was that real stubble? And chest hair? He made a face that brought her back. “Brandon. Sorry—hi.”

“Everyone’s dying these days.”

“What?”

“Your hair?”

“Oh, phfft, yeah. You like it? Jo’s handiwork. It’s a big change but that’s what university’s all about, right?”

“So they say. Definitely heard that one a few times today already.”

Jo Payne swooped in then. “I’m gonna miss you, roomie! Just kidding. Did you know she snores?”

Kate made a face but before she could protest Lee Sato called her out too: “It’s true! She slept most of the way here, I can attest.”

All Kate wanted was to keep her problems quiet. If Kate sleeping was the excuse the couple wanted to disguise all their heavy road trip conversation with, fine, but—snoring? Brandon laughed predictively with Jo and Lee which gave Kate little room to say anything else but:

“Umm—okay, well, obviously these two are in kahoots and therefore can’t be trusted. Let’s focus instead on getting all this crap inside, yeah? Hooray, move day.”

“I can’t believe you,” Kate pouted to Jo. “I don’t even snore.”

“Shut up, it’s cute.”

Behind them, Ben Parker Green waddled over carrying a big basket of records as Lee whistled to win back their lovesick friend’s attention. “Yoohoo? Brandon? Any chance you’d like to help sometime today?”

“Right, yeah, I will—I’ll help. Sorry. What’s next? Ben’s guitar?” He really didn’t have a clue.

Perhaps... I really loved the game 😳💕

Anyways, here's the king of tic-tac-toe, Lily with Lady Lisa, and Hazel with her totally-not-suspicious phone!

Jeleva, Nephalia’s Scourge (Mill and Wheel Edition) 

Sorry it’s been a while guys, it’s been a busy few weeks. It has given me time to come with a couple of new commander decks though, which I hope to post soon. The first of which this Grixis colored deck which focuses on getting rid of your opponents libraries as fast as possible with mill and wheel abilities. And who better than Jeleva to pilot the deck, with a pseudo-mill ability of her own, that only gets better the more she dies. 

Why’s my Graveyard bigger than my Library?

This deck is going to have mostly mill effects, the more cards it forces them to mill, the better. I like cards like Nemesis of Reason, Breaking // Entering, Mind Grind and MIndcrank as well as Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker that can really hurt the old library after a while. Mesmeric Orb and Dreamborn Muse are both really effective ways of milling too, but will catch your library too. Make sure to have a few ways to prevent your library from disappearing along with the rest of them, such as Psychic Spiral, Elixir of Immortality and Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre.  

Reload? Again? 

We have mill, but its great if we can have other ways for them to run through their library even quicker, by forcing them to draw and discard lots of cards. Wheel effects such as Reforge the Soul, Windfall, Whispering Madness and Jace’s Archivist are some good ways of forcing your opponents to run through a good portion of their deck at once and sometimes be forced to bin some really useful cards. Forced Fruition is also hilarious because it only forces your opponents to draw seven cards when they cast spells. Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur is expensive but can make sure they never get to hold onto their hands for more than a turn. Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver is also a brilliant addition because of her ability to exile cards from your opponent’s hands graveyards and even the top of their library.

Wait, I’m getting scratched for this too? 

Drawing and Discarding can be potentially painful for your opponents too, with cards like Underworld Dreams, Sangromancer and Fate Unraveler, besides the obvious Megrim, Liliana’s Caress and Waste Not, your opponents will dread the next time they have to draw a card, which is usually one of the nicest things about magic. 

...And it’s Gone. 

One of my favorite things about milling is the face your opponents pull when their graveyard goes bang. I find there are too many reanimator players about these days and cards like Hedonist’s Trove, Tormod’s Crypt, Agent of Erebos and Relic of Progenitus can drive such players mad. Not to mention Sadistic Sacrament, Nightmare Incursion, Jester’s Cap and Praetor’s Grasp, that can make sure those typical reanimation targets never enter the graveyard in the first place.  

...And Finally.