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Laeon val Observis -> Friday, October 31st Design Notes: Book 2 Reimagined: Dark Pursuit (10/31/2025 23:04:00)

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Friday, October 31, 2025
Book 2 Reimagined: Dark Pursuit
Hey there, heroes!

This week, we're returning to the Book 2 Reimagined project! The quest North has been reimagined and renamed to Dark Pursuit!

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With a solid lead on Konnan, Isiri is now able to narrow down the Professor's location... far to the north, deep in the Deadlands. Now, with your Atealan allies at your side, will Konnan's trail lead you to the Professor? Or a trap?

Head over to Atrea and speak to Yolande to play this week's reimagined release: Dark Pursuit!



Also this week, we have a new cosmetic weapon available for purchase!

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The Forgotten Skull Sword seems to be a relic of an unusual time... Maybe at one point it had even more skulls on it? You can find it for 300 Dragon Coins from the DC Cosmetics shop in the Book of Lore!



Also, Evolved PumpkinLord has had a small update...
  • Creeping Roots and Draining Roots have had their old animations re-added, and now hit twice.
  • Wicked Night Blade now also gives you +50 Bonus for 5 turns.
  • EPL skills now have tooltips!
And this is all in preparation for a new Evolved PumpkinLord rework! When it's fully ready, the old PumpkinLord class will be retired, replaced by the current Evolved PumpkinLord class. And the reworked version will become Evolved PumpkinLord!

The new Evolved PumpkinLord will let you gather a class specific resource, Candy, with every hit, up to a maximum of 5. Once you have 5, you can choose to consume all of your candy to empower your next skill, improving its effects and/or damage. You can't gather candy on empowered skill turns, however, so you'll need to plan things out carefully. The Creeping Roots/Draining Roots mechanic will also be adjusted, with the effect from Draining Roots gaining extra duration the longer Creeping Roots is active. There are also other mechanics, like Endless Night immediately granting you a full bucket of candy! Currently, we have a version that is being tested and fine tuned, so hopefully, we'll be able to have it available soon!

But wait, there's more! "Verlyrus," you might be asking, "Mogloween is almost over! How will we access the new Evolved PumpkinLord?"

Well, besides the Armor Closet, we'll be introducing a new house item available year-round for gold, that will let you equip PumpkinLord and Evolved PumpkinLord! We're also working on figuring out a way to train the class outside of Mogloween, too (also accessible from the house item). Of course, if you have EPL fully trained already, you won't need to re-train it again.

Coming soon!

Finally, last and this years' Mogloween masks have been added to the Masks shop in Cysero's Superstore!



And that's all for this week!





Vaalirus -> RE: Friday, October 31st Design Notes: Book 2 Reimagined: Dark Pursuit (11/1/2025 0:56:04)

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Love that the Atealan characters are coming with us to meet the Professor and Konnan as it always felt like we should have gotten their input as to the Professor's connection to Wargoth. I suspect what Alz'Ein plans to ask the Professor is about what they can do to locate Veyla and since that's going to be at Xan's Fortress I can only assume she's going to see what happens to her friend very soon.




TFS -> RE: Friday, October 31st Design Notes: Book 2 Reimagined: Dark Pursuit (11/1/2025 16:46:25)

I like how the Atealans are now present for the visit with the Professor, and I definitely like how the extremely on-the-nose 'repentance' tattoo was removed from Konnan. I feel like the protagonist could be more of an active character, though - maybe he should be telling the Atealans about the Fire War during the walkaround or in a cutscene (and it could double as a refresher for the player)? Or maybe telling them about the Deadlands and why they're so screwed up?

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Creeping Roots and Draining Roots have had their old animations re-added, and now hit twice.

So glad these were re-added, I missed the wall of thorns! I feel like the attach point is kind of broken on more zoomed-out battle screens, though?

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But wait, there's more! "Verlyrus," you might be asking, "Mogloween is almost over! How will we access the new Evolved PumpkinLord?"

Well, besides the Armor Closet, we'll be introducing a new house item available year-round for gold, that will let you equip PumpkinLord and Evolved PumpkinLord! We're also working on figuring out a way to train the class outside of Mogloween, too (also accessible from the house item). Of course, if you have EPL fully trained already, you won't need to re-train it again.

Why not put it in Amityvale and tie it in with the Book 1 revamps? Like there's not only already a Halloween town with a pumpkin patch farming quest, it's part of the main progression and it's even coming up soon in the Book 1 revamps - this seems like it'd all line up perfectly.

EDIT: Actually wait this lines up so well you'd think it was intentional
-The flavor text of the Amityvale Pumpkin Patch quest already says that the resource drop you get from it is used to animate pumpkins
-The Evolved version of the class is (presumably) meant to be later in the game, there's also a Book 3 version of Amityvale that's also part of the main progression, and the lack of new classes is already an issue with Book 3
-The rare war that introduced Artix and the Necromantress is pumpkin-themed and takes place in Amityvale
The pieces just fall into place perfectly




ProbablyCallum -> RE: Friday, October 31st Design Notes: Book 2 Reimagined: Dark Pursuit (11/1/2025 17:56:36)

May be a bit late but with old og pumpkinlord being deleted from the game i really hope the piercing thorn punch move it has that epl replaced with the two hit scythe move gets moved to the rework if it can. The thorn punch is just really cool and epl is already starving for anims between two roots moves, the two shield moves with identical anims and the two candy moves where the model just moves its hands a bit. Plord shield and Epl shield also have different anims with epl's shield coming from the ground and being bigger so hopefully that could be incorporated into the regular vs empowered gimmick too. It doesnt seem like eternal night has an empowered version but i hope the original less deformed pumpkins from plord's eternal night anim get preserved in some way too.




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