so i got addicted to this holy shit
I could compliment legitimately a dozen things about this -- the stat building, the short-but-effective character writing -- but I'll just say that your grasp of hypno writing is PHENOMENAL. Little snippets like "made the bat look way too close for way too long" or "trap her in a tunnel of light" hit so hard, and so often, that they became the main draw of the game. I wanted to get all the endings, because I could see all the writing. I wanted to gather all the thralls, so I could see how we entranced them.
This game held me longer than literally any other game in the jam, and it's all thanks to the writing. You absolutely fucking nailed it.
(Also, the mechanic of luring thralls to your lair and draining them for less and less until you get one final boost is vv good and resonant and again reinforced by REALLY GOOD WRITING HOLY SHIT)