Thank you again! I was definitely too ambitious in some ways, but I had time to really work on it since I am self-employed right now and wanted to see if this was a good medium for my storytelling. I feel so bad that it's slow! I am trying to figure out how to fix it, and in general I need to go back and look into more best practices with Ren'Py, as a lot of this was searching for an answer when I hit a problem more than knowing what I was doing so I am sure there's plenty of places for me to optimize in the future.