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I guess this is weird timing given the Situation on this site right now, but I bought this a little while ago and finally got around to playing the first vignette! Or. Reading it? Preading. 

I really liked how sweet Clover & Hazel were to each other despite the central conflict being a hard to explain disagreement of perspective between the two of them. It always felt like there was no hostility or desire to be mean, just a desire to understand and to be understood despite this invisible sense of "but we can't understand" that they have to learn to navigate. That all said though, my favorite interaction was probably the conversation Hazel eventually has with Gumdrop; I think it does a good job of resolving a little of their problems without it being too "easy", it feels like they understand each other a little bit better and maybe also themselves. My second favorite was Eve's gummy speech affect whenever they got upset or excited while talking to Cat & Gumdrop. 

I'd agree that, for some folks who aren't quite as versed in Floraverse, maybe a sort of "index" or "trivia blog" crash course on the main menu might be helpful? I know what a flora satyr is, but they are a bit different from a standard myth satyr. But ultimately, I think it's also fine without it, since it's more about the storytelling and less about "did you know this kind of fox can do this weird magic sometimes"? The context does some good legwork for the concepts that aren't universally known, like the quip about a bigger apartment sized closer to a "bastian"- even if you don't know what that is, you can guess as a reader that a bastian is probably pretty tall if the Clovergon is about that big or even a little bigger. 

Oh and like, the kobold on dragon sex was hot too. 

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omg i saw this and wanted to reply but lost track of it

i'm glad you appreciated them trying with each other!  i keep wanting to write "they work stuff out but it's not free" and it's so hard to do that convincingly but i do think it worked out here

also i love eve thank you for mentioning eve.  the whole way she talks is so funny to me i love writing her

idk, i think a "read all this lore first" thing would mostly be daunting?  you even explained how it's mostly inferrable by context (and clover does refer to the characters as satyrs, so they're clearly what satyrs are).  that said, i do have a dumb idea for addressing this a little, but i do also actively like that there are things that aren't just spelled out — i think it helps the world feel bigger when not everything is For The Story, when sometimes the story intersects things that you only catch a glimpse of in passing

i agree, good job clover, get that k (kobold)