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This is more of a suggestion than anything else:

Once the story is over, and the last third is done could you maybe send it into some sort of randomized interactive hotel game, where you can just interact with the other NPCs, and somewhat keep the charade going for a little bit? The game/novel is really well done, and I genuinely enjoyed my first playthrough through of the game/novel. It was well-paced, well-written, and I genuinely got invested in the characters. I couldn't complete all the missions though, which was a shame, and having a bunch of extra days, and maybe some random interaction events after the story arcs are over, would just be nice to have, maybe even some off-shoot mini-games with the characters would be nice too. It doesn't have to always be super new stuff either, just stuff to sort of tide-over the player, and make things go slower, after the arc is done, maybe even the illusion that life is going on so you can complete the other tasks at hand.

Just my 2 cents though.

Bot-9357 days ago

Also, I should add, I found a technical error within the story. When Greta Mentions that the labyrinth summoning ability defies "thermodynamics". Thermodynamics is the study of heat and heat transfer, she should say "The laws of physics" because one of the laws of physics states that you can't create or destroy matter.

Minoh Workshop357 days ago

Yes. The law you are referring to is the First Law of Thermodynamics. When Greta mentions "thermodynamics" she is referring to it and to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, relating to the entropy of system where energy can be created spontaneously from nothing.

TrinexxSlayer357 days ago

technically, physics is an umbrella term which covers thermodynamics. they are interchangeable and both correct for this case

Minoh Workshop357 days ago(+1)

They are both correct, but Greta was alluding to something more specific than "laws of physics" in general.

Someone like her, who very openly and wholeheartedly cares about scientific research and the advancement of mankind, would be very specifically fixated on the potential of the hotel to break the laws of thermodynamics. I don't want to spell everything out but the use of "thermodynamics" was very purposeful at that point. Think like an engineer and ask yourself what you'd do if you had access to this space where you can break the laws of thermodynamics, and you just established that both matter and information can be sent to and from it.

TrinexxSlayer357 days ago

yes, i caught up on that. writing is deliberate, the use of a more specific term like thermodynamics is indictative that the accuracy of the phrasing is important, even if physics would do just fine. my intention here was to tell the op that they are not wrong, but they are not right. no one likes being corrected, so i figured to deliberately write a response that doesn't dismiss what they thought as improper.

Bot-9356 days ago

Well then I guess the only thing wrong with the book is it has an ending to it . . .

In all seriousness great job on the writing. The hinterlands addition was great, it was slow at the beginning, but I think having it purposefully slow made the payoff that much more sweet at the end for me, and I love how crazy the story got near the ending of the 2nd third. The plot twists were insane.

All the characters are very well written and I am impressed at how you guys managed to get me invested into the story so easily.

I also like the poems and aesthetics added.

Keep up the great work.

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