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6. To what extent does your shield protect your mount?

It'd be cool to ride at a fire breathing dragon, deflecting its fearsome breath, preparing to plunge a spear into its beastly heart. It'd be slightly less cool to then have all the fat boil off your horse.

Can a royal official that trusts you get you access to talk to the king, now that they can trust and be verbally sparred?

Is it possible, theoretically, to talk your way all the way up an organizational chart, befriending every member, so as to convince them all to leave you alone?

How much harder is it now to convince every ruler that peace is good?

Are people less likely to listen to value arguments of people they don't like? Can talking people around through the verbal "fights" make them more receptive to value changes as well?

Thanks for the answers Toady. Thanks also for the amazing update. I figured we wouldn't see more night creatures until the end of the Big Wait, so this is super exciting.

1. Some demons know and intone the names of all things. Do they automatically know the names of all ghosts? Can they identify secret agents any better than average?

2. Is a dead adventurer raised as an intelligent undead after game over playable again? What if someone other than another of your adventurers is the one that raised them? Can they potentially be ghosts, and could you play them as ghosts?

3. What do ghosts do mechanically when it comes to moving from place to place? Are they flying? Do they pass through walls like a late game Larn character? Do the different kinds of ghosts that appear in fort mode now affect the abilities these new ghosts have? Does that mean some can pick up items, and how will their movement effect such a thing?

4. What do summoned beings know if they're intelligent? Are they blank arena mode style vessels? If you summon a mountable animal, can you ride it? If you summon a creature that knows and intones the names of all things can it banish ghosts?

5. With proc gen creatures finally roaming the world at smaller-than-titanic sizes, is there going to be any place in game to see the creature size number? Even picking animal people adventurers is a challenge right now. If I'm a bluejay person coming across a bright green N, which started out as a kea, but is small overall I've already got a pretty difficult time making a threat assessment even before I even know if its size has changed in the transformation.

6. Most importantly, can you pet the large nightmarish beings, and once you get to having feelings about being pet, what are they gonna think about that?

Reading is a big deal given that none of the cultures in the world have mastered a way to teach it to an adventurer after their initial embark.  Since a lot more people read now post-world generation, it'd be a nice use of those coins floating around (and their helpful symbol-conveyed information) to pay someone to read something for your adventurer. If villains are sending notes around, wouldn't it be wonderful if local scribes, scholars, or officials were shown something incriminating? Of course they can't lie about its contents right now, but that's still fun. They'd have all this leverage if they were criminal sorts, and some weird wilderness stranger sharing it with them. Someone that wandered in after robbing the old necromancer tower, perhaps, and just wants to find the right book.

Most of the questions I had have been asked already so here's a random one totally unrelated to the current work.

There's a different tile for creatures that swim under the water, there's a sun direction, there is field of view, so: Is it possible, if only in a long-term development sense, to have reflections off of water and/or silvered mirrors?/color]

I was listening to something in the LudoNarraCon talks before yours and was reminded that photorealism can't handle reflections at all. But even when your graphics are a bit more sophisticated, will it ever be possible to 'l'ook at something reflective and have the game know what tiles should be visible in that thing from your own position? Or, could a reflective mirror assembled somewhere add to your adventurer's field of view tiles?I'm just super curious if your kind of graphics have this advantage over non-text games.

1)Will bandit groups (player or otherwise) be able to raid a shipment of embezzled goods from one site to another if they find out about the embezzlement, instead of either turning the villain in or blackmailing the person involved?

2)Can a group of bandits lie (since lying about identities is in) and say they're from a mercenary group in order to cause strife between two groups? 

3)How likely is it embezzled goods will be encounterable in sites where it's being delivered in play? 

4) Will players be able to show up to somebody's house with a horse strapped full of treasure like the Count of Monte Cristo and try to trade for their house before the big wait? If so will house owners take into account artifacts they don't know about in the cost? Will they take their furniture with them if you don't pay enough for it furnished or would that be too goofy?

5)Will villains stash their non-artifact abstract accounts in their houses in secret if their family doesn't know about how they got them?

6)Will villains that value family be more likely to tell someone they stole a cool artifact in their will? Will they be more likely to tell their family they have money or items without revealing its source if they don't trust them to bring them in on villainy?

7)Will more ostentatious villains dress their family and lackeys up fancier the way mercenary groups can equip others?

8)Will haunted furniture night creatures make it in before the big wait?

9) Will people on the street be talking about how "so and so really hit it off at the slots" even if we don't get gambling in play? Will people otherwise comment on unexpected windfalls, expansions being built on large buildings in town, or other signs of the ups and downs of local historical figure's fortunes?

It was an epic brawl: my legendary warrior against Ufsmat Wastegutter the Massive Controller. A battle worthy of legend all by itself, and it probably will be, but one of the more extreme moments will be lost. One of my NPCs faithfully charged into battle, lost an arm to a hydra bite, and still stabbed it in response. It probably didn't help, but getting an attack in against a legendary monster that goes on someone important's kill list ought to still qualify someone for bragging rights. Especially since it can be told "X attacked Y" followed by "Y attacked X" and the wound itself is tracked. People with wounds from important battles could get more play in taverns, and the player can try to work out whether the guy that got scratched up by a kobold is more or less capable than the one missing an arm from this hydra fight. Generally three-limbed fighters are missing out on some of their esteem and chances for further glory.

Briefly: getting a scar from an important battle ought to qualify as a story that can be told even if it only gets the person esteem because they're a good story teller. Once there's lying and more depth in the story telling mechanic people should also be able to argue over who *really* slew the dragon, and who was just kill stealing.