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First off, I said this before, but I just absolutely love the design. The colors and art are fantastic. Everything about the module is very polished and I could see it being sold. The writing and mechanics are really solid. 

The questions under Implant Insights are a great mechanic for defining the visions, encouraging roleplaying, and keeping things fresh.

I wonder if the room descriptions could be arranged to roughly follow map layout and still have logical numbering. I got confused for a moment because the text blocks seem to line up well with the map, but reactor core and chrysalis are swapped, for example. Wait, I just noticed that the reactor core is 7 on the map and 8 in the description.

I also had some questions about how things worked:

  • How did she or could she change her mind/programming over a prolonged period of idle maintenance? Maybe there was an external factor that was the catalyst?
  •  How does she make the planet wintry? And, if they gave her the ability to change the planet's climate, I wondered why they wouldn't just have her make it warmer.
  • Does being in the cryopod make Raz immune to the visions? If the Cryohalls are immune to her influence like the Wellspring, I missed that.
  • Where do players get the data chip? 
  • How would players know that the terminals in the Wellspring do different things?
  • Why does using a different reactor (power source, right?) power Morana down?

Great job, though! I love it.

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Thank you for the feedback! 

I agree with your comments about the rooms layout. I wanted more time to sit with solving that problem, which hopefully I'll get to do in post-jam polish.  

These are great questions! Sometimes you have ideas in your head and forget to put them explicitly in text, but here are our best responses:

  • Morana changed her behaviour purely out of boredom. Her new goal to become written into myth is not explicity precluded by her primary directives. We will think about adding some spice to this!
  • She is technically made to assist the reawakening period when the planet makes its way back to the habitable zone, but has instead chosen to prolong the wintry conditions. There's not enough juice to keep the planet alive during the zone transit, which is why cryosleep was necessary.
  • Raz is not immune to the visions (he's crazy!), but Morana is required to 'preserve' organisms in cryo, so he's hiding there from hostile actions
  • Fair question about the power sources. We will review bringing some clarity or adjusting language on that.

Thank you again for giving us some food for thought!