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Saturday, July 22, 2023
Book 3: Convergence - Crash and Burn
Hey there, heroes!

With your help, the Magesterium has managed to bring down Jaania's airship in the wilds of Hawkscry. Now, you and your allies must move to secure the crash site...

But what will you find? What remains of the airship?

Fight your way through the wilds of Hawkscry with your Magesterium allies in tow to find out!

Head over to Outpost Yeden to play this week's quest: Crash and Burn!

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Also this week, we have a number of bugfixes and adjustments.

Inventory changes and fixes:

• Builds and Outfits can now have custom names up to 16 characters each.
  • Build and Outfit names are saved locally, as Builds and Outfits themselves are.
  
  
• Hovering over a Build or Outfit will display its name.
  
• You can rename Builds and Outfits when saving them.
  
• Equipping an item no longer resets search results or selected Build/Outfit.
  
• Fixed an issue where the text "Item Details" could turn into "Item Detail" when filtering by equipment type.
  
• Fixed an issue where having less than a full page of items would leave items highlighted even after unequipped.
  
• Fixed an issue where the selected item highlight would remain when selecting a Build/Outfit.
  
• Fixed an issue where changing equipment filters, or selecting a Build/Outfit, or otherwise searching would not properly reset the item details.
  
• Fixed an issue where selecting a Build/Outfit, then using equipment filters or searching would not deselect the Build/Outfit.

Typos/Adjustments:

• Fixed a typo in the description of the Jimmy the Eye pet.
  
• The Minivolt pet is now labeled as Energy element, instead of Metal.
  
• The Marshmallow Pip pet is now labeled as Fire element, instead of Light.
  
• Fixed a pronoun issue and mispelled "perpetrator" in the Book 3 Swordhaven intro.
  
• Fixed a typo where Cloak of Deidro had "nature" res instead of "Nature".
  
• Fixed a typo where the Gorillaphant Ivory Ring had "nature" res instead of "Nature".
  
• Fixed a typo where the Pretty Pretty Princess Ring had "nature" res instead of "Nature".
  
• Fixed a typo in the Hanging Vines house item description.
  
• Tentatively fixed an issue in Book 1 Warlic's tent where certain quest names were missing letters.

And then anything else I may have forgotten!

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And that's all for this week!

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I think Sepulchre sure regrets showing off his DOOM vacuuming skills now... was so worried for Yix there for a moment. Also feel bad for (former) King Alteon, the guy now knows what happened to Valen. Wonder how that will work out in the next few coming weeks?

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When I said I hoped Yix could get a body, this wasn't quite what I had in mind! Good thing Amadeus was there to purify him. For a bit I feared our favourite Gnome-tato was lost to us.

The fight itself was certainly more work than I'm used to putting into story bosses, but Riftwalker and a change of gear made short work of it. I think my one gripe is that the guest's turns couldn't be skipped. Alteon dealing damage during the Consuming Doom phases and Amadeus healing it between those phases wasn't really ideal.

It was interesting seeing Alteon's reaction to Sepulchure. I was half-expecting outrage or anger, but pity also makes sense. I imagine he feels somewhat responsible for him, similar to Warlic and Alexander. Maybe if we're lucky we'll get some insight into their shared history, and maybe even see where exactly Gravelynn fits into it... Probably just wishful thinking though.

AND let's not forget about Jaania finally seeing that Doom device! I wonder how this'll change her next steps.

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I'm curious as to what exactly the Magesters are cooking up to take down Akanthus down a peg because it doesn't sound anywhere near ready to do what needs to be done yet.


On the Rose side of things, it's refreshing to see Jaania finally start questioning Akanthus' actions at least regarding the Doom Core, if only a little, based on what Warlic and crew warned about. However, its clear that moment where Akanthus defended Jaania from the ambush from the wind elves is still primarily clouding her judgement regarding her general. One can only hope that closer they get to the core, and possibly with more time to examine the Doom device, that she'll at least begin to see through him completely, and turn on him even if she has no intentions on dropping her own personal plan with the core.


Ah, but for the real meat and "potatoes" of this quest. It's somewhat unsettling that just a puddle of the essence of doom from the power source seemed to be innately drawn to Yix to corrupt him and him alone. Like it was drawn to a living entity to corrupt as opposed to well any other non-sentient potato there. The worrying aspect here is that if just a small puddle of essence from the Doom Bomb can twist the form and consciousness of a being like Yix then we every reason to suspect that it being detonated in the Mana Core won't just destroy it but in all likelihood pollute it into a construct of Doom just like what happened with Myalos, the Vizalain, and so many others. The consequences for what that could mean for life on Lore will be catastrophic of course.


Fears aside, Alteon now knows that Valen is alive although I find it odd and somewhat touching he referred to him as Valenn instead of Sepulchure. His reaction seems to indicate that he still views Valen as the friend he wasn't able to help rather than the villian that was basically gonna throw the world into darkness. Although, this does make me ponder as to the specifics that led to those events in spite of all we know that led to Valen becoming Sepulchure, Alteon becoming king, and of course how Lynaria fits into that equation when it comes to DF's own timeline anyway.

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If you ask me, having to fully heal a boss to prevent it getting a full heal with +300 Bonus and 300% Boost is an utterly ludicrous mechanic to throw at players in the main story when said boss is already getting other buffs on cycle alongside a 50% damage reduction effect. I'm seeing a repeat of the Cryohem situation here and I hope this boss gets significant revisions in the future, or else I can expect a fair number of less experienced players being ruthlessly gatekept out from Book 3's long awaited finale just on this sudden "proto inn challenge".

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Doom corrupted Yix

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one Doom puddle could do this much problem i fear what could the Doom device do if it's unleashed at full power (because we all know it will happen). I'm so interested by it: What is it exactly? Where did Akanthus got it? In which way he plan to use it? Isn't any Doom/darkness creature attracted to it, wants to get it back or wants to detonate it? It's really concerning when you think about how basically a nuke bomb is guarded only by 2 people (because come on the rest of the soldiers can't be trusted to handle it). Yes Akanthus and Jaania is powerful but Jaania only realized now that this device exist and i doubt she fully knows it's deadly power and right now Akanthus guards it.

Wait if the Shadowscythe has devices like this why wouldn't they just teleport them to Lore and detonate them? (Sounds like a nice story for a Friday the 13th war actually) It would kill everything on Lore but they only care about absolute darkness so it would make their invasion much more successful.

Anyway i can see why this release was delayedd a bit, i really enjoyed it.

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At the end of the day in its core DF is still a kid's game (There, proofread that. My pride as a (former) captioner was getting a little itchy)

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really doubt kids have much patience for strategy