Really interesting so far - I don't think I've quite cracked how I've managed to trigger different bits of gossip, but I'm only on my third or fourth loop!
Just popping in to give an error report: I told the Monk that the Honey Worker was kind (in the first year), and received this response:
Edit: same result from "the Honey Worker hates the Farmer".
Overall, I think I've done enough kludging verbs and nouns together (adventure game-style) that it's safe to say I'm stuck for the moment. I enjoyed the worldbuilding and the process, but I think a couple more hints could be dropped, or a little more signposting done, as past the more "obvious" unlocks I'm not quite sure how to progress - I've never been able to figure out how to leverage the revelation that certain characters are married but one is rumoured to be fooling around with someone else, for example. I did figure out that you can trigger *more* verbs to appear under certain circumstances, but one in particular (regarding what the Honey told me about the Wyrmhandler) I can only ever get to trigger on my second year and tell exclusively to the Monk, which does unlock unique dialogue but doesn't seem to affect anything/give me knowledge in a way I could carry forward.
Another, smaller thing: with the amount of loops a player is likely to do, the forced pauses to load text after the monk section (when you're staying with the Monk and Novice) goes from atmospheric to annoying quickly without a way to skip it or speed it up.
Looking forward to revisiting this, perhaps after a post-jam update!
Thank you SO much for engaging so deeply and leaving such thoughtful comments!! We're well aware that solving the game is pretty unreasonable in its current state, but we have plans to fix that, and your feedback here is extremely valuable in both guiding & motivating those efforts :D
I did try to make it so the slow text reveal only happens the first time, and that was even one of the few things I actually tested, so it's frustrating that it didn't work right for you!! Thank you for the report, I'll try to get that and some of these other specific errors fixed right now.
Well, I've fixed the other two bugs, but I couldn't replicate the slow Monk text issue in (Mac) Vivaldi. It should just all appear at once, with the music, the second time and third through. I don't want to ask you to click through all that again just to test it, but if anyone else reading this runs into a problem with this please let me know!
