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It's not just you - Game has been failing to load in for a few days now. I've submitted a bug report. Same issue for FM but SMCA and TPI seem to be working.

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The achievements on this game have ruined me.

Like, I won the game once... wym I can't pull off a hungry zippy looky mosty ghosty run?

So in previous versions Stamina would be a real issue to manage - because if it got too low you both lose the ability to accumulate orgone and the narrator will have you too exhausted to engage successfully in activities.

But I've noticed for a while now that it decreases in increments of 1 if at all, and basically isn't a factor any more - the player doesn't really need to sleep.

Is this being addressed in a later update or is there just some kind of bug affecting it?

You have to search (s) to find them. They always hide "indoors" although this can include the edge of the obelisk. You can increase your search radius by using food or equipment to boost your Insight.

Maybe a skip button, even if it's limited, and a "randomise" button for when you're OK with all three and don't want to pick.

So, maybe this wasn't actually an intended feature (or maybe it was?), but I've since noticed that if you hit Esc when prompted to choose a twist, it exits the window and goes ahead without you having to pick . 

The twists update is interesting and overall I like it.

I would say they do come thick and fast. Maybe it's the way I'm writing but I'll often get 3-5 twist prompts in a single scene - sometimes big, sometimes small.  Often if the options aren't great, you can choose one that involves a character not present or just ignore it, as the narrator won't work too hard to shoehorn it in. But sometimes I just like where the scene is already going! I don't want every single person I meet to have hidden magical abilities and a mysterious connection back to Lilith. 

It would be nice to have a way to tone down the frequency of twists, or the option to skip a certain number of them in a given day, or something.

(also, I've noticed that if the narrator does get things completely wrong or you hate all the available twists, you can load your autosave to undo the most recent prompt.)

Since about 13 May I keep getting an error message: "API call failed with status 400: Bad request - the API call was invalid."

Same with SMCA and PB. FM works with the same key. So it doesn't seem to be at my end?

Yeah, now that I've completed a bounty correctly I think I see the problem. The task was to get a character to abandon their research and the way I ended up approaching it was to use a dreamscape to influence their decision. When I went back to the location, they were gone. So the narrator kind of acknowledged I succeeded but because it happened "off-camera" while the NPC wasn't in focus, I guess it didn't satisfy the bounty requirements.

Which is unfortunate because the fact that interacting through a dream that way kinda-sorta worked is actually really impressive.

Is something supposed to happen once you complete a bounty? I succeeded with Diana but nothing happened. It still shows as my active bounty and I didn't get anything, and any time I prod the narrator it will acknowledge she stopped her research but urge me to wait.

I did sneak past the guard and persuade Diana with a combination of talk and dream manipulation, no "encounters" per se, so I don't know if that could be the reason. 

Also, does the money stat do anything other than make it impossible to pay your landlord? Is it actually possible to gain it? Is there any need to?

So I actually found this pretty compelling.

Like, I was really glued to my first run. Sure, the narrator is what it is and gets things wrong frequently, but it's still possible to roll with a lot of it, or write in a correction as part of the next prompt.

The challenges can be frustrating if you get locked into a loop and don't know what to do. Sometimes it's OK to "fail" them. I think I broke the game slightly by telling the narrator I wasn't enjoying the scene with Mara and asking it to roll everything back to when I last rested - which it tried to do. The in-game time didn't change, but it seemed to retcon Mara out of existence.

 I ended up telling the story of someone desperately failing forward from one disaster to another. (Which makes more sense now that I understand how limbo works). Got abducted by Veronica. Tried to erase a meeting from the landlady's memory and made her forget me completely (interesting, because the narrator acknowledged that wasn't my intention but did it anyway). Interviewed for a job, didn't get it. Failed missions for Lilith (not the bounties - she kept giving me side jobs involving book theft), romanced Sara. Went to spend a last few hours with Sara when it wasn't possible to meet quota and she somehow came up with a way to save my soul?

There was more after that but I ended the run because they were happy and I kind of didn't have a reason to keep collecting.  Also Lilith kept popping up but didn't really seem to remember the player between appearances.

Bottom line, somehow the smut robot ended up helping me tell a story that actually resonated with me emotionally. Not sure what to think about that, but thank you.