The Moirae's Mirror - January

Hello all! This month's mirror is of the 'in-depth preview' variety, and I'm going to talk about some of the choices and decisions I made at the beginning of Chapter Eight! 

Without further ado:

Here we are again with the ever reliable 'CSIDE Screenshot' variety of showing you things, heh. As you can see, the PC's status with regards to dreams is coming back in here in a small way. I would like, eventually, for this decision to be one that has pros and cons either way. Dreams, especially the prophetic kinds, can be useful sources of information, but they can also be disjointed, difficult to interpret, and wear on a person psychologically (particularly if they're more nightmarish than anything). 

For now, though, this is just some flavour text, and a taste of what might be to come.

There's also two options for who is first in your room here. Most people will get Alekto, and that's for a very specific purpose we'll see later. But if you are on Alekto's route, then Hekate appears instead, as it makes a lot of sense for the resident physician to be checking up on you!

The PC was out of commission for two weeks and a bit after the incident last chapter. I wanted to pick a span of time that was fairly long, because what happened to them was momentous in a way that hasn't been fully revealed just yet. But it also needed to be short enough that there was still a little time before the climactic plot event, which will be set off in Chapter Nine. 

The fact that after waking up from unconsciousness the PC actually feels good is not me misunderstanding how unconsciousness works; it's a side effect of what's going on with them right now—the consequences of the end of Chapter Seven. This is the first hint to the fact that what lies in store for them could be a good thing as well as a bad or uncomfortable one. As always, there will be choices about how to react to what's occurred. 

This skips some other dialogue, but I thought it was worth mentioning since I did promise to explain Alekto's presence earlier haha. So, if you haven't already gotten an apology from her for her suspicion of you at the beginning of the story (and you're also not on her route), this is where she gives it to you. The gosub_scene presents you with a variety of responses that can determine to some extent the tenor of your relationship going forward. You can forgive her, be a little uncertain yet, or outright refuse to forgive her, with a few different flavours of each.

For the most part, Alekto is professional enough that this won't affect how she behaves when the PC is around, but it certainly will in some instances. In fact, if you've already gotten the apology, how you responded changes her behaviour in this very conversation scene. 

And that's the Mirror for this time. I hope it was an interesting peek into what's happening under FoA's hood, and I'll see y'all back in this slot next month. :)