RPGM Maids & Masters [v0.18] [The Mithril Hourglass]

[robtbo]

I'm on my 2nd playthrough and I just broke Lalita's hold trap lever. Thank you for the belly-laugh!

Also... Alice vs Gravedigger Maid in Stebbing Arena... ouch. I mean... on the one hand... having to dig into your inventory to survive and win is something that RPGM game combat rarely require unless specifically hinted at and enhances gameplay, if not being an explicit prerequisite... on the other hand... Alice not having any Theurgy that inflicts Charm... or at minimum Confusion? That inflicts Confusion on me

Single-player game cheaters: Modding the game to have fun while harming no one.
Game devs: And I took that personally.

The reason I brought cheaters up was acknowledging the existence of this demographic in the community, and thinking about how to get them to play my game gave me ideas for recording and restoring gameplay conditions to allow for replaying a well-planned, tweaked, executed and GREAT fucking fight that MC and party will eventually level up past the point where it would be a challenge. I even mentioned adding exclusive content that only cheaters could get. The only criticisms of cheaters was irresponsibly releasing potentially game-breaking mods and mod players or cheaters reporting bugs to devs as if they were bugs present in an official release.
There's always going to be independent Dev appreciation for anyone who sees playing their games as a worthwhile use of their time. Unless they just hate the idea of making compelling games.... but hey, some people DO just wanna hate their own life... lol

 

[hreserves]

I'm on my 2nd playthrough and I just broke Lalita's hold trap lever. Thank you for the belly-laugh!

You're welcome. =P

Also... Alice vs Gravedigger Maid in Stebbing Arena... ouch. I mean... on the one hand... having to dig into your inventory to survive and win is something that RPGM game combat rarely require unless specifically hinted at and enhances gameplay, if not being an explicit prerequisite... on the other hand... Alice not having any Theurgy that inflicts Charm... or at minimum Confusion? That inflicts Confusion on me

Yeah, some of those match-ups are brutal, but the point is that they're the exact same for everybody. Alice is actually one I skipped for my personal playthrough (since you don't need to do everyone in order to get the trophy; it's just bonus EXP if you do).
Besides, Alice is about making bad things go away, not making bad things happen. If Alice inflicted Charm on someone, they'd be sad/angry/confused when it wore off, and that'd make Alice sad.

 

[CdrWolfe]

Hello,


I have 2 questions.
1. How can you hire Iris? My guess is that it should be done before meeting Archibald, since I can't access his manor anymore

2. What's the story about the ravenswood manor? I found the safe room, the control center, placed the red orb. I saw a post about a second red orb. I see some doors that won't open, and can't access the East wing. The shadow is way too fast. I can't always concede, making this level very hard to play. I'm not sure what to do to progress in this task.

 

[hreserves]

1. How can you hire Iris? My guess is that it should be done before meeting Archibald, since I can't access his manor anymore

Others asked about that as well, the posts should be on the previous page or two.
tl;dr, you can recruit her before the end of the segment, but it's more difficult. Otherwise, give up stuff until Archibald isn't an outright enemy (or do a bunch of stuff over the course of the whole game) and you can recruit her at any time.

2. What's the story about the ravenswood manor? I found the safe room, the control center, placed the red orb. I saw a post about a second red orb. I see some doors that won't open, and can't access the East wing. The shadow is way too fast. I can't always concede, making this level very hard to play. I'm not sure what to do to progress in this task.

There are two red orbs, both are near the first safe room you reach (the music will change and Willow will be standing in the room so you know it's a safe room). I think I made it so only one is strictly necessary, but then you need to find two blue orbs in the east wing, take them back to the control room, find the purple orb, slot that in, and then reaching the Master bedroom ends the segment.

If you don't already have it on, turning Always Sprint on in the options will make it so you move at the same speed as the shadow (otherwise you'd have to hold down the Sprint key).
Switching your party around so you're using Maids with high Agility and giving them equipment to increase it further will also make it easier to Concede and get away.

 

[Dragon1982]

So I went through all the tips I read from this thread, not just hreserves, and this is what I figured out.

1: You'll need to complete the main quest for recruiting Lalinita before attempting trophy 19
2: You interact with the 4 blue souls 4 times each (I did it with both options twice, probably doesn't matter) and the fourth time they say a little extra, which concludes your interactions with each soul.
3: You interact with the main 2 souls, doing each lewd interaction once, then clicking the cancel option on the side.
4: You chase the wandering chest last until the trophy pops up. All these things without leaving the mind maze until complete.
Honestly, the tip hreserves gave was a dead giveaway all along, I just was looking at it wrong for a while.

 

[POPShow]

I am currently looking for the fourth druid in the dense wild but not finding anything, any hints on where in the dense wilds it is because I swear I interacted with every wall, and every plant
Edit: Never mind finally found it

 

[edy12234]

I'm stuck on the part of crossing the southern mountains I see two rocks that I don't know how to get to the other side

 

[hreserves]

I'm stuck on the part of crossing the southern mountains I see two rocks that I don't know how to get to the other side

You might have to be more specific than that, because there's three points where that can happen.

Generally speaking, you go into the caves nearby and go around those rocks, moving generally left-ward and leaving the caves at another point.
And remember to push the boulders off the path when you go back up to the main path; that's how you unlock fast travel for the region.