One of the last posts in Seven Horrors was a gimmick where kitsune posed as the players' loved ones, in an attempt to lure them into the forest.

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So I had one pretend to be Nessa's mom, Lyra. And it wasn't really her, it was a kitsune, but, I just kinda played it as if it was her aaaand I really enjoyed it.

It let me play a different character, it let me show a different side of Nessa (7H Nessa is an angry little goblin girl, so her being all excited that her mom is here is very different), it let me do threads a little more dynamically with two characters to bounce off of.

I liked it so much, I very unsubtly suggested to Al that endgame should involve not-fake ghosts of loved ones at the end of the game as a reward. If this had happened, I would have charged Al 47 dollars for the idea.

But it just kinda made me realize something.

I wanna play a buncha character. I wanna just make a cast of NPCs that all have their own dynamics with each other and have their own stories and their own connections to the story being told and just have them interact with player characters.

Back in Kyriakos, I had Queen and Princess, in Popdrop I had Spiral, I've run a couple Nessa heart games where her cousins show up. Every time I've made up some NPCs and had them pal around with the player characters, I've really liked it and I got another taste of it and it's makin' me wanna do it again.

I dunno if I'm gonna like, make a game just so I can do it again. The thing is, I don't have any ideas for a story, so I would have to come up with one.

i would have paid u 47 dollars for the idea nods

I would've used it to buy 47 dollars worth of reese's sticks and haribo bears.