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A mission's attributes now change the run: Warband swaps skeletons for orcs, Nightfall puts the arena under a moon, and the long and short roads change how many rooms there are. They are meant as trade-offs, not as danger. Pass 36 wore all four.
Runs now start at a mission table in the hub: tokens dealt by an hourglass, carried by hand to a cradle, and a portal that sleeps until one wakes it. Holding a token properly took five passes, because the gauntlet's fingers had never been posed by anything they held.
The camera now rides in a cradle on the backpack, and taking it out turned into four passes about which hand, and which collider, the game thought I was reaching for. The fix was to make the pack grabbable only by its carry bar.
An action RPG for PC VR, built on what Experiment 1 has proven. No code yet: what it is meant to be, the three decisions so far, and the first slice.
The roadmap after the break opened with chests. Astra had already delivered them: four tiers (Plain, Fine, Rare, Storied) with a lid on a hinge. The rules were mine. A chest's tier is a floor: it pays that tier or better…
All four weapon affixes now read in the headset: Biting and Crushing got sounds of their own, Mending a flash you can actually see, Staggering a real stun - and the crit floor I had only predicted wore as about right.
Since August, the one thing in combat that paid for effort was the committed hit. Swing fast enough and wide enough at the moment of contact, and the blow did 1.5× damage with its own spark and sound. When I last wrote a…
Two bolts in tonight's session logged this: I was standing in a corridor about six meters long. The bolt did not travel five hundred meters. It traveled nothing at all — it was born inside the floor and died there on it…