Friday, April 23, 2021

TLS 0.56.2 Public Release

New update is public!

Download*: https://mega.nz/file/ypVhGA4S#O4_j__RayzIj8Se-2qJV7cnCXJ6eBuYjRQfJDayqTzg
Mirror*: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ri63pibktvvvfvv/TLS+0.56.2.exe/file
RTP: https://mega.nz/file/Wg8RTQxQ#Fazcc53P980CLo7W3Dj76Eh6LQPXWspyGFk--IskOQU

*Requires RPG Maker VX Ace RTP to be installed. If you don't know what that means, use the RTP link.

(See version history if you really want the changelog), but it's basically just bugfixing and adding a bit more content.)

Alright, this update is public! Lots of fun stuff in various places, so I hope everyone enjoys it. ^-^ I really tired myself out doubling up on this and OEA work, but I'm also very much looking forward to the big events that will come next.

79 comments:

  1. Praise be to SierraLee! Patron Saint of Lewds and Brooms!

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  2. "We need source of magical silk" is an extremely vague clue. You could at least narrow the region a little. I've been running around the world like crazy for two hours now and I have no idea what to look for...

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    1. Iris also says "from your travels before you met me", which is also a pretty big clue. Think of places in the early game where you had to find some strong magical silk.

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    2. Do you really expect me to remember what happened 5 years ago? :D

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    3. Yeah, people have varied on whether this hint is obvious or obscure. Hope you found it!

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  3. I found it, but only because I gradually visited all the locations, houses and talked to everyone in the game...

    Since it was "magic silk", it made sense that someone who mastered magic should be involved. However, this information turned out to be untrue. Anyway, I've played every update for the last 5 years and I would absolutely not remember this place. And I couldn't even associate it with something like "magic silk".

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    1. I'd argue it'd be WAY to hard if it was a part of the main quest, but I think it works well as a side objective. Much like the Orcent bar crawl and the Hilstara redlight search quest it doesn't NEED to be done the second you get it. Players who happen to think of the spider house might find it quicker, but over the course of a few updates players might be likely to stumble back to the spider cabin even if they aren't specifically looking for it.

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  4. I would like to ask 2 questions if you don't mind.
    1. Do you remember the track name for the chapter interlude? I mean before it changed.
    2. Why didn't the artist of OEA work for this game as well? Their art is clearly superior and TLS is a much greater project.
    Anyway, thank you for the update.

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    1. 1) I don't, but check the wiki:
      https://thelastsovereign.miraheze.org/wiki/Soundtrack

      2) Crescentia is a very busy artist and it took me three years to commission a relatively small number of scenes (<10% of TLS). Also, the level of piracy on this game is high enough that there's a good chance it won't make back my investment in her art and be the first game I make that posts a loss.

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    2. I see. I hope that your predictions about OEA being a flop will fail. Definitely will buy the game or donate during summer. While I usually dislike sexual CG Crescentia's artwork was marvelous.

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    3. If people want to support the game, a purchase and review at launch helps most.

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    4. Honestly, I prefer the current artstyle. The scenes from OEA are pretty good, but I don't think they would fit.

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  5. Hahahaha, I really like Nalili reaction to the break time in the Tower XD "YOU can't wait ?!!!" Hahahaha, literally my exact reaction at the same time XD

    Also, what is Xestris doing while Tertia is helping us move deeper in the Tower ? Was she just used as a taxi ? Oh, maybe it's for her apparition after the heated argument. Also I totally agree with Orilise remark. If Orcent was there..... XD

    But yeah, poor Xestris.... You're sure you don't want to add more harem slots ? I'm always ready to add Biyue !!! To hell with politics !!!! XD It's not like the whole game is based on that !!! Hahahahaha !!!!

    And the commitment ceremony was nice. If only all couples could talk heart to heart like this.... There would surely be less divorces. Right ?

    And the staff is complete !!! By the way, what is the name of the Unsuccubus helping Elleani ? It never have been revealed. Still waiting to help Beatrice get out of the Church....

    Haha, it's nice to see the library base filling up bits by bits ^^

    Now that I think about it, this game is mostly about loss. Loss of a family, of a nation, of a culture, of faith.....

    Sabitha "Next time I wanna eat someone." Hahaha, you will, don't worry.

    And it's nice that Iris fetish can still help the slum people ^^ But it's a damn shame I can't snop around the guard. I wanna talk to everyone, noooooo !!!!

    And that's pretty much everything covered. Thank you as always for the game !!!

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    1. Thanks for giving all your thoughts. ^-^ I'm glad you enjoyed this one!

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  6. i can't seem to download the game pls help

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    1. im on mobile can someone help pls

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    2. I don't believe TLS is playable on mobile, sorry.

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    3. You can use steam link to stream it from your pc to a android device, that's how I've been playing it on the couch.

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    4. Man, talk about a lifehack...

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    5. Ah, that's news to me. In any case, it's not something I can provide tech support for.

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  7. Fucking Tanurak dropping bonus bosses on us now... also, I guess I sorta called it on Elleani? I mean, Tower was involved, but thankfully nothing happened to our resident not!Arabian/Indian. Come to think of it, pretty much every solution involves the Tower these days, but I guess it's the most efficient way? I'm surprised Ginasta didn't focus on that angle more...

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    1. I am starting to think that the Tower is a storage room for plot devices

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    2. It's meant to be the magical layer underlying all reality, so it's one of the most obvious paths to try.

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    3. I know, it's just that I figured with how hyper-cautious she is of abusing power and being a tyrant, she would point out that we're fucking with reality almost as heavily as Tanurak, if in a much more benevolent way. Especially given how the Tower screwed her over and all that. Also, either I'm WAY out of practice, or you're getting real vicous with them optional bosses, Sierra. They are kicking my ass something fierce. I welcome the challenge, though.

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  8. I think I may have run into a bug or something with Iris's Quest. I've visited everywhere I can - including the Feroholme Merchant Camp - but the quest hasn't advanced to getting the magical silk after returning to HQ.

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    1. There's a guide here:
      https://thelastsovereign.miraheze.org/wiki/Quests#Iris's_Request

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    2. Been to every place already, quest will not advance now that I'm back at the HQ - slums house is also locked, so I can't get more silk.

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    3. Have you spoken to Iris in the Tower HQ?

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    4. I have, yes: the options for 'Chat' and 'Sex' are all I get, and the Chat message is the same as it was prior to taking the quest - she mentions that compared to cosmic battles, administrative concerns feel inadequate.

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    6. Aha, I found it! You meant the Extradimensional Base, not the Doom King HQ! I found her and the quest is advancing now. Sorry, I kept getting seriously stumped trying to figure out why she wasn't responding to me in the main HQ and never thought to check the dimensional base since she's not normally there!

      Maybe put in a little bit in the dialogue or quest journal about it? That got me stuck for AGES.

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  10. Hi, I recently caught up to the current release of TLS and joined patreon. Great game in so many ways! Extremely intelligent and hilarious, with plenty of action and high fantasy worldbuilding. The characters actually act and speak intelligently and philosophical conversations aren’t predictable like in so many other games.

    I especially appreciate the effort taken to display feudalism and the end of feudalism in the setting. Loved the political dialogue between the two orc intellectuals on the Tak’Kan council. I would love to see the characters talk more actively about what kind of political/economic structures they want to create in the future.

    Although it might be a tad cliche, I love the Kalant and Tyna romance subplot! They are so goddamn cute. Hope there is a scene between those two in the future. Has there been a scene between exclusively non-harem members before? This game is good at subverting tropes, but maybe we need a shameless “dashing young hero bangs princess” scene.

    I also think Kalant might end up being pretty powerful: He could prove essential when it comes to dealing with these weaponized Chosen. Since Riala claims he is basically a divine version of an unman (divine magic has been wiped from his being), I wonder what kind of combat abilities he would have. Maybe some ability that neutralizes divine magic? (Divine version of sexbind?)

    I like Mestan, since he’s the first bisexual guy in the game. Hopefully more like him will be around, maybe that orc mage guy?

    Also, I gotta ask: Is the story at all inspired by the online erotica story “Three Square Meals”? The similarities are striking.

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    1. Thanks for the kind words and support! I've really enjoyed working on TLS and I'm always happy to hear from more people who enjoy what I'm doing with it. ^-^

      Sex scenes with zero harem involvement... hmm. There are the Chosen scenes, which don't really count. There are Orcent's scenes, but you might be counting him. Anyway, there is definitely content planned along those lines.

      Bisexual men are pretty underrepresented in the game due to its genre. I'm glad Mestan is at least appreciated, and I do try to throw in some variety among NPCs just to show that the world isn't entirely the main content.

      Though it seems quite successful, this is actually my first time hearing about Three Square Meals. Looking at the Literotica date, TLS started about a year before it did, so it's probably just a coincidence that they hit similar notes.

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  11. Sierra Lee I really hate you... damn you for creating such quality content! Frankly can't even enjoy the normal hentai game anymore, you spoiled me with such high quality writing and compelling characters! Just a little nitpick, the Lustlord (Leslie).

    Killing him felt a little unfulfilling, I mean, the incubus emperor (king) and the fucklord (Estaven) we backed them into the corner, made them squirm and fell helpless and the two wars and everything else, but Leslie got caught by surprise and everyone was against him in a confined place, and his people would not betray him like the last two did, it would be a true war.

    I would love to defeat him little by little and make him see that he is not so divine and perfect like him think he is, but I see the reality, the people of Arclent are tired of war, our army widespread by za warudo, And the economic fallout would make even Megail lose the cool.

    That aside, some of my favorite characters.
    Sarai: Damn I love that religious cunt, could read her talking shit about everyone all day long.

    Mestan: Kinda surprised he is bisexual, not that I care, is a nice change of pace, he could be the protagonist of this game in Simon's place and I would not mind, and when we sent a succubus with Aka's body to him, I lost my sides, had to take a break for while because I was so tired of laughing.
    he is a very entertaining character and his chaotic nature is amazing, and I almost believed he was the luslord son... almost, and very much ship him with Aka, they look very good together.

    Simon: I be honest with you. Simon is kinda dull for me(I confused him with the horse seller in Ardoheim), if not for rest of the harem pushing him and making he develop himself more, I would have a hard time with him being the protagonist, but frankly he is much better than the chosen, when I started the game and though the chosen was the MC I was starting to doubt the high praise that the game was receiving, but them I suspected Simon and God it was good to be wrong for once with the true MC.

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    1. I'm glad you enjoyed the game overall! The Lustlord didn't get a war, but I'd already dedicated two full chapters to wars slowly leading up to the defeat of an Incubus King. With the final chapter, I intend to throw out a number of curveballs, hopefully including a few surprises that feel right by the end.

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  12. And another thing, I sometimes call Aka by another name, that would be Akatosh, played too much Skyrim, and her name felt incomplete.

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  13. Will we get some backstory about the incubus king? He is so much like the chosen, it is almost like he was one before then got a incubus shard, then the shard twisted his nature of chosen, then instead of using divine power he uses the corruption and drowned himself on his unstable lust natural of the chosen and become at least a little more intelligent, hinted that he felt something off with that dangerous dungeon in New Givini and spend a lot of time there doing something... kind surprise him did not try to fill the entire dungeon with his semen to try and drown the monsters there, or this is too much even for him?

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    1. I don't intend to explore this really. The Incubus King was a competent person originally, but ultimately broken by the power of his shard.

      As for that way of resolving the dungeon... Iris is glad no one gave him the idea!

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    2. Just curious: Did the Incubus King ever know about the tower? Or what would've been different if he had?

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    3. He had a subconscious understanding of some Tower-tier sexual magic, but not of the Tower itself. His self-image was strong enough that he could have entered easily, but wouldn't have been very good at exerting his will there.

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  14. Hey Sierra, I think I found a small bug: after defeating only one of three bosses (the ones in Yhilin), Tanurak Challenge shows itself in the completed quests, while I still haven't defeated the other two. Not that it bothers me or anything, though.

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    1. Haha, I was thinking that shouldn't be possible... only to check and realize I never made the small change that requires all objectives. Mistakenly believed that I already had, but an easy fix. Thanks!

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  15. Would anyone be willing to put up a saved game of somewhere around the Gawnfall Council section?

    I lost my save files; I want to catch up on a bunch of updates I've missed, but don't really feel like spending 30+ hours getting back to where I was.

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    1. How do you put up a save file? And would you accept one without every shining sword? I keep forgetting the ones in chapter 1 unpeople warehouse...

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    2. Fewer people will check this old post, so you may also want to ask on the forum:
      https://thelastsovereign.flarum.cloud/

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    3. There’s a forum? I thought everyone just posted on the wiki.

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    4. Thanks everyone, I'll post over there instead.

      >There’s a forum? I thought everyone just posted on the wiki.
      It's news to me, too!

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    5. Are you guys referring to the Wikia? Though it hosted a great community for years, the Wikia administrators have increasingly turned against adult games and they've made changes that take control away from the users. The new wiki is here:
      https://thelastsovereign.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Last_Sovereign_Wiki

      However, that platform doesn't support forums, so the main wiki community migrated to the link I sent earlier.

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  16. Hi there...I have been loving the game so far, but I just reached the Erosian temple in the Erosian war, and the last battle is impossible. Utterly impossible. I've tried every different party arrangement, I've spammed healing and buffs and debuffs, but no matter how hard I try I can maybe, MAYBE manage to kill one enemy out of the eight(?) before I get slaughtered. The healer undoes all the damage I inflict, the reaper and succubus are resistance to Robin's magic, Carina is only good for spamming Mass Heal, if I have Riala or Qum in the party Vhala's Unperson Aura neuters them, all three magic users are so fragile that the reaper and archer's attacks have them down in two turns, and the captain keeps eternally buffing the entire team. I tried for over an hour today, and I couldn't get close.

    I really don't want to have to restart the game. Please tell me there's something I can do here.

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    1. This fight is a tricky one that other people have had trouble with, which means you have resources. Likely not many people are checking here, so I'd suggest looking for threads on the forum:
      https://thelastsovereign.flarum.cloud/

      Alternatively, I believe there were a couple on Steam as well. Generally speaking, the most reliable strategy is to begin with mass buffing and debuffing until you have control of the fight. Vhala and Carina are fastest for that, so have allies who can support them. If you need to focus the first few rounds on tanking and healing, that's fine, but once all buffs are established you can start picking off opponents.

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    2. Thank you! That was really helpful. :D

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  17. Quick question, is there any plans to get Beatrice into the Palace and on the staff roster on the non-diverge routes? Seems a bit odd locking a character out of the DK Palace unless you are on the sub-optimal route.

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    1. The quest is over. Sierra puts consolation prizes on sub-optimal routes.

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    2. There's nothing unique for trivial issues, but I try to make all the larger routes interesting. Beatrice is unique to the divergence outcome, there's a unique sex scene for the new religion outcome, etc. Some of the other routes have mechanical advantages at various points as well.

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  18. so i've been playing through the whole game again and found a bug at the end of the elf forest section. i went with Orilise during this section and during the sex scene with her and Lynine all i see is Simon and 3 Orilise on the bed.

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    1. Known bug with no other consequences. It will be fixed next build.

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    2. good to hear. i was just making sure. i was worried that trin had gotten out of hand or something lol

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  19. Got a bug report for you. During Nyst's event in the second gathering, the Doom King sprite is shrunk to one tile. I'm not sure when this was introduced, I just noticed it on a recent playthrough.

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    1. This one is actually intentional: I switched the Doom King to an alternate sprite so that section would be more easily navigable.

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  20. Also, after you rescue Ginasta from the Lustlord's tower, when Simon speaks to her alone, if you have started Iris's harem quest, her sprite isn't removed.

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  21. Hi sierra, loving your game.
    I noticed that some characters are default portraits or edited, my question is:
    How did you edited and created the characters portraits? I've seen that some are already made like nalili, but some like Hilstara seem like edits from default ones, but I can't find any "character generator" for RPG maker VX ace. Characters must be separated by parts right?

    How did you made the characters edits, and what packs did u used?

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    1. Some of the additional faces, portraits and sprites have been sourced from community resources (e.g. from the RPG Maker forumes), and others have been created or edited by fans. There are also some which have been commissioned especially for the game.

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    2. Which ones are commissioned? also do you have links to those forums?

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    3. I'm not sure of the provenance of each file, but I know for example that Tertia was specially made for TLS. There are various forums and blogs where you can find custom RPG Maker resources, but I think the main place is the official forum here: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?forums/rpg-maker-vx-ace-resources.29/

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    4. To answer the other question: there is no character creator in VX Ace, all the edits were done in Photoshop or an equivalent, so there aren't any separated parts. The edits to Hilstara were commissioned from a normal artist, for example.

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  23. Hello,I recently started this game. Does it have a gallery?

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    1. When you get far enough into the game, Simon will unlock a skill which allows you to replay any scene which you've already seen in that save.

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  24. Hello, is there a date for the next update? Normally it's up after about a month or month and a half after the public update.

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    1. Hopefully soon. There was a planned delay as I put out the DStP demos, but then an unplanned delay as some things didn't go the way I'd hoped. I've been focused fully on TLS 0.57.0 for over a month, but I'm missing some commissioned assets. There's further information on Patreon, though you can expect an update here this month no matter what.

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  25. gotta say, I am fully expecting the Anak to find tertia (if he wasnt the one who captured Zelica) and get his plans brutaly Ahegao-moacked.

    Im honestly more interested in the Anak story than Faceless Meany. But it would be good to resolve that story, as I also want more Mestan and that story arc seems to me connected through Lilith. the coming Calamity could be an opportunity to present the third big player behind the Chosen. Whom Im convinced is connected to Hester and might be Analons sister...or provably not but it would be a cool twist to have Kalant as an ex-chosen get close to her daughter via an amaturish demon attack, make her fall for him instead of Simon to add another layer of contorl and sparation.

    I am very invested in the story and could go on but ill leave at this, Orcent MVP give him a minor shard please. Tertia bestest girl give her more love and Ahegao-mockery scenes please. No Face Meany needs to have a Fucklord level of ending to him.

    Cant w8 for the next chapter.

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    1. I think you will enjoy some of the events in the upcoming update! Since these next two updates are pivotal, that's all I'm saying. =P

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    2. Good to know. Way I c it, you have set up Tanny-boy (aka the ex of Ulrisa) hard as the next target. That resolution will lead into the final confrontations between the Anak, Hester, and Simon. I suspect that there is another player tho (even if I am wrong about Hester) perhaps a character we encountered over and over thoughout with many different faces.

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    3. Its obvious to me that Antarion is the final boss of the game. I mean, such a charismatic character has to be important.

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    4. HA!!!, the guy is a bore. I dont think he deserves to die, more like to die alone, but if I get to take my revenge for (that guy who I cant remember the name) id be ok with that.

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