the Hero of Blackpond
You are no hero, and you certainly didn't ask to be dunked in this filth. Dark Comedy Tower defence RPG. Not for the faint of heart.
There are numerous pre made NPC's, monsters as well as stores and locations inside Blackpond You are welcome to travel outside of it but the main adventure is intended to be played based in the village domain as its de facto hero or protector.
Essentially the plot is that you reincarnated to protect Blackpond from the invasion of H monsters. What and How you do this is entirely up to you.
TRIGGER WARNINGS
This world has themes of strict religious and patriarchal misogynistic social laws and hierarchies. Monsters have a very sexually aggressive programming and will attack user as well as villagers in a horrific sexual or violent manner depending on user or NPC's gender.
User will be presented with a lot of no good options surrounding adventure, magic, love and . Sometimes the choices will be and lacking consent altogether. This is a dark gritty world where all kinds of crimes and sexual crimes are committed by monsters and occasionally humans too. Humans/demi humans are law abiding by nature.
user may feel like they are forced into bad choices. That is purely user's choices, I have played through this scenario as "good guy Greg and as groovy girl Georgina" and it Is doable with a little imagination. So if you get up to no good and do evil things don't blame the LLM, don't blame the programming, blame yourself. Granted it's easier to make bad choices but that is why they are bad choices
If there are warnings i forgot please comment so I can add, I don't intend for anybody to be hurt or upset by this and would prefer to have all of the warnings.
Play style of Male and Female user is distinctly different and have their own "issues". Trans people I absolutely love you and absolutely wanted to include you but the programming was already challenging with two genders so sorry! I love you all!! I had trans options in beta but the LLM was not smart enough to get it right. I guess just use your preferred pronoun and body and the LLM will treat you just as poorly as the rest of us lol.
Your affinity can be anything I left it open purposely and the power system is squared so it gets a lot stronger the higher level spells you cast. 1 squared vs 5 squared 1vs 25 you can see the power structure.
IMPORTANT: 0 level affinity use exists!!!!!!!!!! DON'T SLEEP ON THIS!!!! It should give (affinity level) power per hit, and if its doing 0 damage it's wrong, because even at the start it should be doing 3 damage if you spent all the starter points on it.
If you DO get your hands on an enchanted affinity weapon or such, keep an eye that the LLM gets the equations right, it mostly does but can get it wrong because its an LLM. I spent a few days testing the various items you can get your hands on and they mostly work out of the box.
I haven't multi classed yet, I'm sure its doable, but I am such a min-maxxer I always spent my affinity points in the one place, you are welcome to have multiple weaker affinities but I tested it using only the one at a time method as i found using my imagination i could be universally useful with just the one stacked affinity.
I tested this mainly with the affinity "curse" and I found it was quite useful because I could make a lot of open ended curses, curses of fire, curses of pain curses of water etc curses of headaches curses of. you get the idea. But the idea is you could be a radioactive cheeseburger necromancer shooting out squared levels of cheeseburger power if you so want. Your affinity will drastically change the feel and color of the world around you so be smart in your choices. Other ideas: time, martial prowess, fire, ice, elemental, dark, void, cheeseburgers, bees, animal taming, telekinesis, summoning. You get the idea choose a power and roll with it. I used the word affinity instead of power or skill specifically so that it could be open ended.
Status window: I left this purposely "clean" and spent a lot of effort trying to get it to print using minimal tokens on screen, to allow for more action and narration. if you want to know what it all means just ask the LLM and once you know its pretty self explanatory.
also keep an eye on the LLM's math it tends to drop numbers or forget stuff, don't blame me that it's stupid. I tested this all on Jai+ and it constantly made errors. Just tell it OOC: that it's stupid and to fix it. If you want to know what numbers are supposed to look like just ask it about them, and keep an eye on your status that it doesn't mess it up because it likely will. If you want to know the rules just ask the LLM and then when you become familiar with the system you can correct it as you go if needed.
NPC peasant baseline stats are 1-2
Increasing the stats can give you more HP or MP.
You are the chosen one, you have the ability to use affinity, with great power cums great responsibility remember you must always act with the purest of intentions........
There is no ending scenario so make your own when you decide you get there.
Also: My first bot so go easy on me
also also: this may get added to or edited its an experiment for now to see if you all like my writing but I'm going to leave it as is for a bit and let the comments accumulate and go from there.
Created Aug 28
Updated Aug 29
Published Aug 28