Seraph

0.1.1

Pacing and variety

• The story now unfolds in three chapters, by time spent in it: quiet things in the first half hour, heavier events from 30 minutes, everything after 90 minutes.
• Nothing repeats back to back any more. Events, voice lines, verses, signs and warnings are picked with a short memory.
• Signs are translated per player (no more hard-coded WAKE UP / UYAN). There are 25 of them, and some name you, the moon day or your mistakes.
• Larger pools: voices 7 to 11 each, Gabriel 5+4 to 8+6, verses 12+5 to 20+8, system warnings 6 to 9.

Mistakes

• Not everything is a mistake any more. Only three things are forbidden at a time, and which ones is never said. Doing one counts it, then it rests for 10 world days and something else takes its place. Afterwards it may or may not become forbidden again. Reading the book is always a mistake. New candidate: killing a villager.
• Every mistake now has a cost (footsteps, animals staring, a fake player joining, the man on the cross, the madness). The seventh ends the counting: the moon’s eye comes down and you are hunted. Past that there is no more counting, just eight different lines and heavier costs.
• Mistakes shake the game window and flash the screen, harder each time.

New events

• Footsteps that follow you and stop when you turn around.
• Distant sounds: doors, chests and voices from where nobody is.
• Fake player: “<your name> joined the game”.
• Watchers: every animal and villager nearby turns to look at you.
• Recall: it tells you true things about what you have done (kills, sleeps, deaths, minutes, mistakes).
• Fake notifications, dead silence, panic (tunnel vision and heartbeat), the hotbar moving by itself, and a rare fake crash report with your name in it.
• The apple: starting to eat one warns you, “Do not repeat your ancestors’ mistake”. Swallowing it can be a mistake.
• The rabbit hole: after the rabbit you were told to follow dies, another one waits that does not run, die or change. Walk up to it and you fall. On the way back you are told something about what is forbidden, truthfully three times in four.
• The system warning is now a real operating system message box, with a different title, buttons, icon, error code and machine details each time.

Visuals

• The Kaneki, moon and dream eyes were rebuilt: real eyelids, a separate iris and pupil, twitching, blinking, a snap open and a darting gaze.
• Animal photographs are tinted red.
• Title screen: renamed buttons, a red SERAPH banner, new splash texts.

Other

• The mod is now called Seraph.
• Churches are rarer (1 in 300 per area instead of 1 in 70).
• New commands: /horror mod chapter <1-3>, /horror mod rules, and the events footsteps, sound, fake_player, watchers, recall, toast, silence, panic, fidget, crash, apple, guide, descent.