[FE8] Fire Emblem: Celestaris Book 0 v1.0.4 (Complete) Book II v1.0.3 (WIP), Book I v1.2.4 (Complete)

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SEEMS I’M A BLOODY LIAR (again). Because I’m lazy and easily confused, some On The Road events will also double up as supports. I might try to make it so that some supports are still more conventional where you glue two units together until they’re best friends, but at least a few will be raised from these events. welp.
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pls ignore the glitchiness i swear that garbled mess is a ‘C’. …I still need to figure out why the support letters hate me, but I’ll probably figure it out eventually. As for the background garblies I dunno, events with backgrounds hurt my brain.

…Hmmm… Maybe a weird solution would be if there were multiple chances for supports, probably makes no sense, but what I mean is like, there are five events between Aoi and Fenris, you miss the first one that pops up in Chapter 7, that would have raised it to C support, BUT there’s another one in say, Chapter 10, you get that event and it still raises it to C support, however, if you got the first one, that second one would instead raise it to B Support. This also means that if you picked them all up as they happen, the fourth and fifth would do nothing in terms of gameplay, but more fun character interaction.

Oh, and before I forget-- if someone sees a character they like (even just from their portrait or something) feel free to mention it. I don’t mind swapping recruitment placements around since… well, in terms of Book 0, I probably shouldn’t say this, but most are filler, although, not in the way that they’re pointless, just more in that they didn’t appear before this ‘adaptation’, they’re sorta retroactively being slotted in where I feel they don’t totally mess story up, I will of course try to flesh them out where I can, although… since a lot of things are already set that might not be until I can revise some stuff further later on, for now I’m still focused a bit more on directly adapting, filling in character slots, and filling out the story a bit more, if that uh… makes sense.

…Unfortunately though, this ‘recruitment order’ thing won’t really apply if they first appear in Book I and II, since a number of those characters make their appearance later than Book 0. You know, timeline shenanigans!

You’ll likely also notice some world building stuff in the ‘On The Road’ events that don’t especially make sense in a Fire Emblem and… essentially go unused here, such as a lot of mentions of elemental things, but they’re from before this became a Fire Emblem hack and was intended as an ARPG (Like Kingdom Hearts) and will be kept in for my laziness as extra world building and if that still ends up happening at some point.

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Ahem, if I may have your attention for a moment am i annoying yet

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…I also love nap time. That is all.

Chapter 6 is done unless I’m forgetting something big and obvious, and will maybe be able to finish up on Chapter 7 in the next 2 or 3 days, I think, who knew progress could be smooth if I stopped being an idiot with zero attention span! Chapter 8 ‘should’ also be simple enough, so that’ll probably be the next demo release, dunno! I love it when a plan comes together. Or something.

Have a good day, lovelies! Please do enjoy yourselves with whatever you decide to do! And if you’re not… uh… I dearly hope your day improves! Ciao!

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Heeeey, it’s that time of the updatening again. Yaaaaay…
There are… a lot of ‘newbies’ in this update, huh? Well like 40% of them are just NPCs or used for those extra little ‘On The Road’ events. This is what happens when you’re an insane git and don’t want to use generic villagers! Though that also inflates the number of (probably) placeholders to sprite characters for. Well done, stupid!

As per usual, top post holds the update so I don’t forget about it.

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Book 0 v0.10.0.20240331

  • Aoi buffed a little. +2 RES.
  • Eira buffed a bit to make her more tanky and damage-ey. +2 HP, +2 STR, +1 DEF.
  • Lorelai gets +1 SPD.
  • More chapters with more characters!
  • Bonus Exp!.. working basically the same as Pyrathi Warlords-- at the end of a battle preps map all undeployed units gain 50 EXP.
  • Pegasus Knights buffed up a bit so they’re at least on par with Drake Riders.
  • Shamshir is now Wo Dao and has more CRIT so it’s a little more than just ‘worse Killing Edge’.
  • Eira’s ‘point of interests’ now have a little notifier on maps.

While we’re here, let’s just have a little bit of a fun screenshot, shall we? Who needs context!
zdg
Considering this horned zombie lady has no battle sprite she might possibly be a Dracozombie, maybe. Have fun~?

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Well, uhm… y’know, small update, just to add in a few more personal skills that I could figure out.

I sorta started to cheat a bit. Some characters (will?) have skills with some effects that I have zero idea of how to add, like the ‘Discipline’ effect for Kresnik’s skill, so I just added these as an extra skill. Please just pretend it’s one skill.

There might be a few fixes, but I forget already.

Book 0 v0.10.1.20240404

  • More personal skills! The majority of playables have their skills now.

Edit: Blimey I’m dumb. I forgot to mention previously that there’s now a little effect on maps for Eira’s ‘point of interest’ things, so if you were having troubles with finding those previously, this should make it a little more smooth. Also edited the previous post with that in the changelog. Well done stupid!

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I read 104 messages in one day, now to see what all the excitment is about… All this from a random youtub video.

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My, well, thanks for taking so much time to read everything, seems like it’d take a while to do all of that! Do enjoy if you do play it.

Nit sure what the talk of “balancing issues” about played the first chapter of the first book…because I got greedy.

Maybe im missing something idk?

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Not a clue. The only one I have to test anything with for these in general is just me, so I can’t really say for sure.

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Hello! Updates and stuff I suppose. Playable up to Chapter 12 now, and with it the ‘Duskmere’ arc is basically done. Probably going to be a while until I do the next bits since I need to figure out where it’s going and how, and… all that stuff.

EveryoneBook0
wow lots.

Book 0 v0.14.0.20240420

  • Even more chapters!
  • Restore Staves now only cost 1500 and have 1-3 range.
  • Status staves only last for two turns.

bossyboss
Woah creepy.

Have a good day.

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Well, while writing things down I played around to do quick mockups for the character status screen update. The first is just as it is now, the other three are the potential things.
Lead and MS only matter for Book II if I update with this, so they wouldn’t appear for Book 0.
…i still need to fix the luck cap it’s supposed to be 40, yay weird issues!
Dunno which I’ll actually go with or even when it’ll be done, but having a visual is pretty handy.

Have a good day?

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So uh… a quick thingermajig for the recruitment experiment I mentioned… whenever that was.

“Well, that’s this fun little experiment done! So, if you’ve recruited absolutely everyone you’ll get an option to recruit the ‘replacement’, if you select ‘yes’ they’ll join and replace the character mentioned in the recruitment text in your team, if you select ‘no’, they’ll disappear instead, in BOTH cases their items are sent to the convoy-- free stuff! HOWEVER, if any of your units are dead or you missed a recruitment somewhere the newbie will instead slot into there without replacing anyone.”

That’s about it, remember, don’t get eaten. Being eaten is not ideal, that usually doesn’t do good things for one’s day.

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Fire Emblem Cel 0
She doesn’t auto promote otherwise loving the hack

Edit: Nvm just restarded the chapter and she promoted. Just don’t mass promote your trainees I guess

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Unfortunately the game just lets you promote three trainees at once per chapter, still need to try to figure out if it’s possible to increase the count!

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So I’ve decided I’m going to be a wee bit more annoying, I’ve been doing playthrough videos of the chapters as I get to them, mostly as a way for me to rewatch to notice weird unintentional quirks and grammatical or writing errors (That I notice, anyways). Point is, I’m doing them, may as post 'em here as they happen. Don’t feel inclined to watch if you don’t want spoilers, in the case of posting them here it’s just a bit of a way to log progress.

I’ll be spoilering them so that people aren’t accidentally spoiled by the thumbnails!

Chapter 15, Parts 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZQ7gZMXw5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrj-2cdpho

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WELL. Another chapter already, neat!.. It’s technically more of a playable cutscene with spectacle than a proper chapter, but it counts.

I thiiiink… with that it’s also technically the end of another arc? So I’ll probably update the demo later, first I want to write a bit more stuff for Chapter 16, juuuust to see if it really is the end of this ‘rest period’ arc now, or Chapter 16.

Ciao! Don’t get eaten by wild strawberries. They’re probably not sentient, but just in case they are keep an eye on them, tricky little munchies, they are.

Chapter 15x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqLAekC8KhU

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I have a little idea you can use. A cheese item that can heal. You could also make it known how it’s her favorite snack.

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Have actually had that thought! Right now I’ve only got one or two totally free item slots, so who knows!

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After writing more stuff for Chapter 16, it would seem that Chapter 15x is indeed the more fitting cut-off point for the next arc. Neat. That’s another update then.

So… including all of the chapters of all three books of Celestaris so far we now have 33 chapters! (32 if you consider the Prologue a single chapter instead of two) Many chapters.

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(There are a few characters that appear!.. to be fair, about half of them are actually NPCs, cutscenes, On The Road scenes-- all that!)

Book 0 v0.19.0.20240524

  • Chapter 3 should properly end after routing the enemies and not needing to wait a turn, oops.
  • More chapters!
  • Item renames! A few items such as the Goddess Icon and Metis’ Time now have different names.
  • Recruit class now promotes into the ‘male’ Knight class instead of ‘female’ one, due to it being unisex now instead, if you promoted Rozaliya to Knight before this version you may need to restart, depending on if I use the new free class slot later.

Considering the rate I’m going, and the number of comics left to adapt (#80/262!)… we’re still not even half way. Blimey… What to do… split into parts…? Increase the level caps…? Hmmmm…
i wanna slap my past self in the face for thinking ‘Ah yeah, 10 chapters, tops!’

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The next chapter thingy. Swell.

Well, seems like FEE3 is coming up soon, so I’ll probably be doing something for that-- probably Chapter 17, dunno. Would need to remember how the heck to do palettes though to make things look prettier. Maybe even try to eke out as many portraits as I can… Dunno! I still need to get around to watching last year’s FEE3, like 99% of my free time is working on this bloody thing.

No idea what I’ll do for FEE3 this year… I’ll probably just ask someone else to play it again, probably. …probably. Idunno talking is scary for me and I’ve no idea how the heck to make something as cool as a trailer.

Chapter 16, Parts 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShAHUMbN5cA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2BZsu78x4I

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Aaaaand +1 side chapter! Many progresses.

I thiiink I’m going to settle on this being the FEE3 chapter, so no progress in terms of chapters for a while, probably, mostly palettes and… stuff. I didn’t actually think about what happens after palettes, but we’ll see when I get there, still need to remember how to do palette things via buildfiles. One step at a time.

I’m probably going to pass on palettes for placeholder character portraits, because I have no idea what those characters will look like, when I sprite I mostly just make it up as I go along or yoink parts of designs of other cool characters. Delwyn, the Wind Mage I sorta have Fate series’ Merlin in my mind for example. Maybe I’ll try to do more character portraits. we’ll have to see! Much to do. very tiring when you’re trying to do all of the things solo. welp. ded.

i also sorta want to do something pride month related but i’ve no idea what the heck to do there, any ideas?

Chapter 16x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL5wl8K8T_I

Think that’s all for today, don’t forget to drink water, it’s pretty good.

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