From what I know, at the party, on dancing streams, and at the arcade in town (with the DDR game)
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I'll be honest. I don't do very well with horror, especially of the eldritch and cosmic varieties. It's one of those things for me. So I might get my own visit from Glitch tonight. But also - I took a chance on this story, and it was worth the risk. The horror wasn't too strong or intrusive, it built up naturally, and it was, well, good. The story flows incredibly well, and I'm frankly inspired by what you've done here. Nothing was out of place. And, well. I might not make it to the end of this ride, for my own sake - but I'm very eager to see where it goes.
I think all the Blackrunners are in some way. Mylo has this 'super-genius' talent, and he doesn't understand the purpose of hierarchies, which is a common trait you can see in autistic kids. Blackrunners have their mutations, the things that mark them as different as children... until they grow up. Like how an autistic person might learn to mask it when they get older. And apparently they usually excel in one of the Four over the others.
Nitro admittedly doesn't quite fit into the theory for me but also him having ESP - having psychometry - certainly is something different.
The player has the ability to unlock 'inclinations', by trying out different things and finding themselves in different situations. All NPCs have their own inclinations, which will affect their decision-making and how the game makes them act (e.g., I have only ever had Forward NPCs accept a proposition if you approach them in the showers).
The new update has also just released and has a few different things you can choose as turn-ons and turn-offs (I haven't explored them yet myself), so that's something to be looking at.
Oh, I know that you can't customise NPC genders, but the world generation will usually draw from the male/female/nonbinary selections and the player character's sexuality, there, so I'm basing that particular comment on a slight assumption. And most of these characters will be met via normal gameplay, but it's better to have a list of all the characters and not need half of 'em, than to want to find characters you might be missing but only have an incomplete list to go off of.
It's still an incomplete list, so there's probably still characters missing, and I'm mostly just making it for the heck of it, so slightly incorrect stuff is fine by me lol. When I say 'meet' I usually mean 'they have a storyline they are mainly associated with', as usually you can find several of the student characters just out and about during the day (that's how I found out about the Well-Meaning Athlete, for example). The QB Organiser is also on the cheer team for me, but since she has a storyline there, and that's the title she has, then that's how you would technically 'meet' her.
For newer players, this is a work-in-progress of all characters that are unique and customisable and how to meet them. This does not confirm that they possess any special route or narrative to pursue. Non-customisable characters, such as the professors, are not included. (Note: customisable characters are only marked as customisable if you have that setting on in the options, but it's not required to find them in the world).
University Students
- The BFF (prologue)
- The Roommate (prologue)
- The Roommate's Partner (met randomly one morning)
- The Chipper Student Advisor (the tour guide from the bus tour)
- The Resident Advisor (so far only encountered randomly)
- The Classroom Admirer (met by attending class)
- The Classroom Harasser (met by attending class)
- The Rich Kid (unconfirmed)
I've seen stuff about the Dorm RA in the comments, but never met them myself.
Sports Teams (Work In Progress)
- E-Girl/E-Guy (E-Sports team, gender variation unconfirmed)
- 360 No-Scoper (E-Sports team, team captain)
- E-Sports Coach
- Cheer Coach
- Football Coach
- Swim Coach
- Star Quarterback
- Head Cheerleader/Cheer Captain (title unconfirmed
- Ambitious/Star Swimmer (title unconfirmed)
- The Well-Meaning Athlete (Football team)
University Staff
- The Summit Market Manager
- The Mail Centre Worker
- The Campus Clinic Doctor
- The Campus Clinic Nurse
Riverside
- The QuickieBurger Franchise Owner (met by getting a job at QB)
- The QuickieBurger Organiser (student at the university, don't think I've seen them around though)
- The QuickieBurger Coworker (same as above, not sure if I got their title right)
- The Arcade Denizen (met after learning about special side bets)
- The Parasocial Fan (met via a random town event after getting streaming popularity or at the River Rat)
- The Tattoo Artist (met only by going to the tattoo shop, afaik)
- The Piercing Specialist (as above)
So far, the ones I've met are:
University Students
- The BFF (prologue)
- The Roommate (prologue)
- The Roommate's Partner (met randomly one morning)
- The Chipper Student Advisor (the tour guide from the bus tour. So far only encountered randomly)
- The Classroom Admirer (met by attending class)
- The Classroom Harasser (met by attending class)
- Dorm RA (unconfirmed)
- The Rich Kid (unconfirmed)
I've seen stuff about the Dorm RA in the comments, but never met them myself.
Sports Teams (Work In Progress)
- E-Girl/E-Guy (E-Sports team, gender variance unconfirmed)
- 360 No-Scoper (E-Sports team, team captain)
- E-Sports Coach (unconfirmed)
University Staff
- The Summit Market Manager
- The Mail Centre Worker
- The Campus Clinic Doctor
- The Campus Clinic Nurse
Riverside
- The QuickieBurger Franchise Owner
- The QuickieBurger Organiser (student at the university, don't think I've seen them around though)
- The QuickieBurger Coworker (same as above, not sure if I got their title right)
- The Tattoo Artist (met only by going to the tattoo shop, afaik)
- The Piercing Specialist (as above)
- The Parasocial Fan (met via a random town event after getting streaming popularity or at the River Rat)
Note: these are all of the special (customisable) characters that I have encountered currently as of my previous and current runs. I'm not that far into my 0.4 savefile yet, so there may be more that were added and I may not have even met all of the ones in 0.3. There's also not content available for all of them, so far as I can tell.
Thank you for the reply! Glad to know I was going along the right lines of thinking re: 1 and 3, and it's good to know regarding 2 that it's mostly me just not trying everything out stubbornly trying to ask my best friend on a date. I do think a couple more events triggering might make the campus feel more alive, but I can see you're already doing plenty of work there (saw the changes to the park and the cafeterias) so I'm eager to see where things go either way.
One last question and a suggestion, then, if that's alright;
- Question: You don't need to share (unless you want to, ofc) because giving it away might take away some of the fun of it, but do all Persistent NPCs have (or will in future) have events to pursue/unlock? The QuickieBurger boss and the mail desk employee and so on? (tbh, with them and the classroom admirer and the ones I've already mentioned, I can't think of any others, but you might have more planned, I don't know).
- Suggestion: This is a bit of a take-it-or-leave-it because it's probably a lot more work and I don't want you to make things too hard for yourself. But something along the lines of the Things To Do tab (which kind of serve the same purpose already) or that shows up by enabling cheats, because walkthroughs are a little bit cheaty, to give hints/suggestions towards the different character storylines, maybe even in the character profiles, i.e., with the Roommate, you could have a 'Wait and see...' hint or something like that.
So I hope it's okay to just ask a couple of quick questions?
1. Does the Friday night party happen every Friday? This is just for clarification, I wanted to figure those out.
2. How many of the persistent characters have events/can you progress your relationship with? I'm trying to figure out if I'm just doing it wrong when trying to date the Best Friend, plus I've only managed to trigger the Roommate's Partner events once (when they hide in the showers), plus certain characters just don't seem to show up again at all (Classroom Harasser). Obviously, the game's still a work in progress but I'm just trying to figure out if it's like, a settings thing.
3. Do the clinic, frat houses, and suites not really have anything to do yet, or is the former for when your 'health' gets low (or birth control/morning after stuff), and the latter just related to hooking up with specific students?
It's essentially you being shy/oblivious about your own feelings. It's a common thing in IFs like this to provide both a 'bold/direct' and 'shy/oblivious' option, which allows you to form a romance with a character in both ways. This helps for people who want to romance a character but don't want to be a flirt, and the player can still be 'pursuing' a particular character's route, but they are permitted to be shy about it, to be the 'pursued' instead, in some cases.
So I played this a while back but I wanted to come back and check if there's been any updates/new info. There hasn't, but I played it again anyway because I do love it.
So spoilers, but
I'm so torn with the Call Scytha/Call Rohan's people choice. Because going with Scytha is one of the few ways that you can get IVI back right now, but also going with Rohan's people gives you the opportunity to build relationships more - I'm guessing that's the whole axis of that choice, tbh. And I know that the chance to get IVI back will come along later in the storyline anyway but with how I play the Operative (frankly just devastated by losing her, and willing to do anything short of murder/grevious bodily harm to get her back... that chance, it feels so important to get it.