#Maybe it's because I'm writing in ink so I spend less time deleting things and rewriting them

[solradguy]

I can't wait to get to the part in my Begin fic where I have to explain how the Gear cell suppressor works because I put too much effort into trying to figure it out and I'm just gonna let it rip. I'll fill a whole page with fake science magic bullshit if that's what it comes out to. Anyone that many words into Interlude by that point will know that I'm in too deep and to cut out such pointless vital information would be disrespectful both to them and to the specter of Sol Badguy that possesses me when I barf 1000+ words at a time into this thing every few days

[tanetime]

What ideas do you have for Wyneer’s skill tree so far?

I answered this ask with a long and thoughtful answer and then accidentally hit ctrl + z out of habit and it deleted the entire thing so basically I am going to beat someone to death with a wrench.

I have a Lot of Thoughts about this (though less thoughts than last time since I've written this twice) but you can have the copy-paste of the current state of Wyneer's skill tree document thing.

These are heavily subject to change.

I have more detailed thoughts but I'm putting them behind a readmore, since I just in general had a lot of thoughts about skilltrees.

What are skilltrees even for

I didn't want Wyneer's perks to just sell you the solution to his problems. But basic Wyneer with no masks has no perks, only drawbacks, so it was tricky coming up with a direction for him.

The only perk like this I was willing to give him was the sanity restoration skilltree. Reasons being:

You have to waste points on it.

It makes using some of his better masks harder.

""raising sanity"" is basically why he got into making and wearing masks to begin with.

That being said I did update Wyneer's mod today to make his sanity problems less crushing so these might not even end up necessary.

Someone asked me to make one of his perks "gem masks cost less feathers to craft" but by then I'd already made one of the perks the ability to dye feathers different colours. I think that helps solve the issue while not making the perk useless outside of making masks. Like I think it's fun. idk.

Who are the skilltrees even for

I really like the idea of Woodie's skilltree branches allowing him to specialise his wereforms! I wanted to do that too for Wyneer!

Except Woodie has 3 forms and Wyneer has 10-15 so. Not really viable.

Again, I didn't want to make the perk "this fixes the mask's downside." I wanted to either make using them a little easier or give them something that I thought would make using them a little more fun to think about, based on my experience so far with playing Wyneer.

It's cool because it allows me to give old abilities to the masks that were removed for being too strong back to them. Crimson is an example of this.

The exception is Laborious since I genuinely didn't know what to do with him and neither did anyone else, and everyone was like "he likes beefalo and is a cowboy right, give him beefalo perks" which SUCKS because I THOUGHT OF THE SAME THING which means it is LAY'S DESTINY TO BE A COWBOY.

The other exception is Blake because his ability fucking sucks.

I seriously couldn't think of anything else.

But that leads me to:

What do you mean the upgraded masks are affinity locked

yeah no blake is my favourite son and i'm biased so they probably won't stay that way

To anyone not in the loop, Ink Blank and Moon's Pallor are void cloth/brightshade husk upgrades to Blake/Jet Black's mask that allow Wyneer to get set bonuses. But then I think Klei removed set bonuses already in the new beta?? I kind of literally just remembered. Did they do that? I guess they are just late-game masks then. Fuck me ig.

Conceptually i like the idea of Blake getting his cool upgrade and getting to be a real armour piece instead of a fake cringe fail hat by locking his affinity to one of Them, but THAT MEANS I HAVE TO PICK ONE OF THEM AND I WANT BOTH OF THEM.

So it will probably end up "Ink Black Mask/Moon's Pallor Mask are stronger" or something boring like that. But maybe I will have self-control and make them exclusive.

Also Amber and Viridian were locked behind Mask Maker Mastery I but then I realised you had a limited number of skilltree points and changed it. That is why that skill is empty.

Oh look the Costume Carryall is there too

I keep saying I'm going to add that and I never do.

April Fools update 2024 maybe.

I hope that covers everything I am too nervous to spend any more time writing this in case it deletes itself again.