Skaal's Skills and Gameplay

 So, I am posting this video so you guys can know what I’ve been up to. It has been Skaal’s implementation all week-long. As you can see, she makes a contract with certain entities, which allows her to use different abilities.

I wanted to show more than one of the entities, but the video is already 5 min long… So I will leave it at that (Tell me in the comments if you want another video with the other ones) and explain on what this particular contract does:

The contract on the video is Auronluter, the entity of time, or god of time if you will.

1st Round> As you can see, Diana uses Break and Fix and Skaal activates her Contract. The changes on her are basically more AGI, immunity to paralyze and a little yellow “time animation” that keeps playing. Now she will be able to use “Time Manipulation”.

2nd Round> Skaal uses “Reversion of Auronluter”. As you can see, Dianas MP, and AP go back to how they were BEFORE she used Break and Fix. This Skill does not necessarily heals, it works like an “undo” ability, it only revert HP,MP and TP back to how they were in the round before. This CAN be used on enemies that heal themselves.

3rd Round> As you can see, Diana is unable to use Break and Fix again because of the cool down. Skaal then comes in hand with her “Cooldown of Auronluter” (I will probably change the name : P), which removes 20 rounds of cool down when used.

4th Round> And there it is, Diana can use Break and Fix again!

5th Round> The battle is more or less done at this point, so I can show you the “Haste”. Haste is basically a skill (No MP or TP cost) that makes the target have two actions in a round. You can see in the next round Falco attacking AND using Potion Bomb.

6th Round> There is Skaal most powerful Skill from Auronluter, The “Broken Hourglass of Auronluter”. It basically creates a field that slows(almost stops)the time in that region… Except for Skaal. This Skill will let you do whatever you want for four rounds… It’s good for using potions, taking a break or whatever. Aside from status effect, you are not supposed to get damage or healed while the time is slow(I will have to take a look at that), but when the time “catches up”, you get all the damage at once, so yeah, you should continue attacking.

Extra: As you can see, the music changes. It took A DAMN amount of time to do that and I will probably change it… I just let it there to show you that it’s working.

“But Stalker! Skaal don’t have any skills that do damage in this contract! Even with this skill, how can we attack the enemies?”

7th and the rest Rounds> WELL! I am proud to announce that, using Haste on a party member (or an enemy) under the effects of the “field”, makes the two nullify themselves, that way you will be able to use a party member normally! Awesome, isn’t it?

And then, as you can see, after Diana attacks them both, they only take the damage AFTER the spell dissipates. That’s it for one of the Contracts.

“Isn’t this skill a little broken?”

You are absolutely right.

Here is how the Contracts will work:

A contract has a skill that substitutes the normal attack (Haste), passive abilities and resistances, two skills with different effects (Undo and Cool down) and the last and strongest/broken skill that can only be using a gem/stone that symbolizes the entity(Auronluter will be a Turquoise shard or Turquoise  something).

I am still testing if she should have all the contracts to begin with and just learn the skills, or if she should learn it all. In terms of plot she can, given the right amount of preparation, tap into all of them at will, but since combat is more fast and stressful, then she COULD have to learn with Job Points. The skills will have to be learned separately, obviously.

“Right, right, and the update?”

No update this month guys, sorry.

The H-scenes and artwork are all sent to my artist. I could have started the implementation, since as you know, the writing is done, but EVERYTIME I try to do it without the facesets being done, it generates re-work.

So for now, I am going to focus on skills and new sprites.

“What to expect?”

FOUR new playable character (not counting Skaal) with their own battlers and artworks!

“Uh… Really? Four aside from Skaal?”

Yeah, not that they will be strong enough to have a custom class (It’s something like Umar, remember?) BUT they will be playable. They are the Pirates that Jack sought out to help Diana.

Anyway, Update next month for certain. I will try to have EVERYTHING ready in seven days, so I will start the implementation on day 25. If I can do that, it will guarantee the next build 100% in September.

As always, thanks for your support and have a good week!

Random things that happened in Brazil:

1.  A candidate for the presidency called a parliamentarian “Capitão do mato”, that literally translates as “jungle captain”. The Jungle Captain was normally a black person(ex-slave) that worked for his “owner” and hunted down fellow slaves that ran away. He used this to insult the guy because he is black and advocates AGAINST black social protests (let’s say things like black matter lives… he is the guy who would go there and say that all lives matter) or laws that benefit black people in the name of “equality”. Man, I hate that guy… (I felt a little bad for laughing about it… but unfortunately, the comparison was right on spot)

2.  A guy was arrested and he said to the cops that he lived alone with his dog. The dog’s name was Phimosis.

3.  A candidate for the presidency accused another candidate to have a plan for the communistic unification (I shit you not) of South America countries into the URSAL (Unification of the Republics Socialistic Latino American)

Stalker: “Did you hear that father? Well, I guess he has my vote now!”

Stalker’s dad: “Bah, shut up about socialism.”