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Very nice and cute little game, perfect for killing half an hour before bedtime. I'll be watching this with interest. :3

Oh, and some small usability requests:

• List stat requirements for rituals in the Monster Manual, so it's easier to check what stat to level up.
• List the monster's tags when planning a ritual so it's easier to check what they bring to the table
• Add a small clock/hourglass icon on conversation options which will advance time.
• Add X button to screens that can be exited using ESC, as that appears to be the only action which can't be done via the mouse

The other consistent method is to carry a counterfeit on you when visiting Lin Lin. She will find it and mock you for it, but then recommend you to the tatoo parlor, which can upgrade it for 500 credits without fail.

Also, I didn't know that you could do it yourself, so thanks for that info! :3

For the first puzzle, you need to realise that you set your location between "at school" and "at home" by switching on and off your network. They try to explain it, but don't do it very well. Once you get that part, the rest of the puzzle should be easier to figure out (you don't actually need to hack anything in the pop-cultural sense of the word, only answer the question "How do I open a link without getting it displayed immediately?").

That said, I got completely stuck on the second puzzle. I feel like I'm supposed to use some kind of cache viewer to browse the bogus cache file, but I've yet to find one which accepts it as an actual cache file, and the hints seem to assume I'm already able to view its contents. I don't really feel like spending time trying to figure out how each challenge has to be set up to be solvable, so I gave up.