DD#209 Treasures Along the Way
Hi, everyone; welcome to another week's developer's diary.
This week's story content brings us back to Killian's mansion in Hottle. You can now find a way to this retired adventurer's vault room and take whatever treasures he keeps inside.
Here are some of them you can find:
"Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Friends You Made Along the Way." But with a dark twist.
You can guess what's inside.
However, those two chests may not be the reason why you are here. If you have progressed far enough in the Dark Elf King's storyline, you may get a quest from the Black Frog King to retrieve a treasure that has been long stolen from a group of adventurers. With some investigation, you can easily piece together that Killian is one of those adventurers, and the Black Frog King's treasure is right in his vault. However, he will warn you that treasure is evil and can invoke violence even from the most peaceful heart. From here, you may find this item's true nature and decide accordingly. Maybe you will let out a sigh when you see the icon of this treasure. It's another twist that may make you feel life is a joke.
The Black Frog King also tells you to punish the thief as you see fit. So, there are a lot of options. You can kill him, harvest his soul, enslave him, or do whatever nasty thing you can think of. (If you use an identify wipe collar on him, he will turn into a unique human pet.) But, as long as you leave him alive, he will turn hostile from now on.
Anyway, once you have returned the Black Frog King's treasure. The Black Frog King shall reward you with something special. As we know, he has a lot of magic weapons hoarded in his lair. Thus, I am going to do this a bit differently. You can choose what kind of weapon you want with a prefix of your choice.
Afterward, he will also be more than happy to assist you if you are on a quest given to you by the Dark Elf King. Everything is intwisted here. However, as this game has great freedom in how you do almost everything, you can decide how to finish all those quests in any order. I have put in all the details to ensure all cases can run smoothly. That also includes the fact that if you lost your mission items, you can get them back in the Lost & Found stores. By the way, a new Lost & Found store just opened in Fjordr; it comes with a unique background story related to an ongoing war.
As such, a quest about those treasures along the way is concluded. Here, we shall have some music.
Oh, wait a second, we didn't have music skills before. Why don't we get it now?
So, music is now another life skill in the game. Your story teammates now have some levels of music skills by default. You can also get music skills by practicing, reading skill books, or equipping certain items with a new prefix.
As always, skill books come with their own twisted stories in this supernatural world.
This one is inspired by a Warhammer 40K horror story about Slaanesh, while the Empire's totalitarian oppression of their own people makes the chaos god feel like a lesser evil.
You can use music skills in various situations. For example, you can now use your raw music skill level to pass the piano puzzle in the House Near a Paddy Field.
You can also use your music skills to charm snakes to stop them from attacking.
Oh, right, snakes. With the Year of Snake just a week away, it's time to get more snake-related content.
At least some art assets are ready:
Have you heard the lore about how Serpent People once ruled this planet before humans did?
Maybe they will even interact with another lost prehuman civilization, too.
That's it for this week. The music will continue so that Azathoth does not wake up and end his dream, known as this reality.
The Full Update Log of This week:
20250118
English
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[Quest]New Quest: The Treasure Along the Way (Still in early stages.)
[Item]New Quest Item: The Black Frog King's Treasure
[Item]New Quest Item: Killian's Vault Key
[Wiki]Added a new page for The Treasure Along the Way.
[An Adventurer's House]After listening to his adventure story, you can ask Killian further about the artifact.
[An Adventurer's House]If you have Killian's Vault Key, you can now use it to open the vault door.
简体中文
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【任务】新任务：冒险旅途中的宝物 （还在早期开发阶段）
【物品】新任务物品：黑蛙王的宝物
【物品】新任务物品：基里安宝库的钥匙
【维基】加入了【冒险旅途中的宝物】的页面。
【一位冒险家的房子】在听完了他的冒险故事后，你可以进一步询问基里安关于那件【可憎之物】的事情。
【一位冒险家的房子】如果你持有基里安宝库的钥匙，你现在可以用它打开这间房子的宝库。
20250119
English
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[An Adventurer's House]You can now attack Killian to get his key and knock him unconscious.
[An Adventurer's House]You can kill Killian, collect his corpse, collect his soul, or do other things you can do to a human enemy after you knock him out.
[An Adventurer's House]If you have attacked Killian before and left him alive, he will attack you once you enter his room again.
[An Adventurer's House]If you unlock the vault door and Killian is still alive, you will find the vault door is locked again once you return to his house.
[An Adventurer's House]You can now open one of the chests in the vault. ("Maybe the real treasure is the friends you made along the way." with a darker twist.)
[An Adventurer's House]You can now find a recipe of Bone Spear on one of the book shelves.
简体中文
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【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以直接攻击基里安来获得他的钥匙并且把他打晕。
【一位冒险家的房子】在你打晕基里安之后，你可以杀掉他，收集他的尸体，收割他的灵魂，或者干别的你可以对所有人类敌人干的事情。
【一位冒险家的房子】如果你此前攻击过基里安，在你再度进入他的房间的时候，他会主动攻击你。
【一位冒险家的房子】如果你此前打开了宝库的门，但是基里安还活着，那么在你下次进入这间房子的时候，宝库的门会处于关闭的状态。
【一位冒险家的房子】宝库中的其中一个箱子现在可以打开。（【也许真正的财宝，是我们冒险旅途中所结识的朋友。】但是，有某个黑暗的反转。）
【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以在其中一个书架上找到骨矛的制造配方。
20250120
English
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[An Adventurer's House]You can now enslave Killian with an Identity Wipe Collar after you knock him out. (It will turn him into a unique human pet.)
[The Treasure Along the Way]You can now find The Black Frog King's Treasure in Killian's vault. (This part is not linear. Thus, it's possible that you can get even before you start this quest.)
[The Treasure Along the Way]Mission Complete. (In the end, you will receive a weapon of your choice with a prefix of your choice.)
[Weapon]Added a new basic weaponto generate code for bows.
[Wiki]Updated the quest page of "The Treasure Along the Way."
简体中文
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【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以在打晕基里安后用一个身份清除项圈奴役基里安。（会把他变成一个独特的人类宠物。）
【冒险旅途中的宝物】你现在可以在基里安的宝库里找到黑蛙王的宝物。（这部分不是线性的。你有可能可以在这个任务开始前就获得这件东西。）
【冒险旅途中的宝物】任务完成。（最后你可以选择一种武器，带有一个你选择的词缀）
【武器】加入了弓的基础武器生成代码。
【维基】更新了【冒险旅途中的宝物】的任务页面
20250120B
English
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Fixed a crash that may happen in the Cultist's Hideout in Fjordr. It's caused by the incorrect type check against the return value of the "getRandomActorInGroup" function. (Thanks to 吉尔伽美什's bug report.)
简体中文
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修复了福尔德村邪教徒的藏身处的某个游戏崩溃。原因是对于"getRandomActorInGroup"返回值的类行没有正确判断。（感谢吉尔伽美什的Bug报告。）
20250121
English
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[An Adventurer's House]You can now open the 3rd chest in Killian's vault.
[The Treasure Along the Way]The quest is now fully independent from the storyline of the Dark Elf King. You can now start the quest by asking the Black Frog King if there is anything you can help him with.
[Putting the Band Back Together]Reordered some dialogue lines on the Black Frog King to make either way of starting "The Treasure Along the Way" sound more natural.
[An Adventurer's House]Killian now has an item drop list.
简体中文
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【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以打开基里安宝库里的第三个箱子。
【冒险旅途中的宝物】这个任务现在完全和黑暗精灵王的剧情独立。你现在可以直接通过询问黑蛙王关于他是否需要你的帮助来开始这个任务。
【似是故人来】调整了一些黑蛙王对话的顺序，让两种触发【冒险旅途中的宝物】时的对话听上去都更自然。
【一位冒险家的房子】基里安现在有了一个物品掉落列表。
20250122
English
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[Lost&Found]If you opened the 2nd chest in Killian's vault and somehow lost the Black Frog King's treasure before finishing "The Treasure Along the Way" quest, you can now find the Black Frog King's treasure in the Lost&Found.
[Lost&Found]If you have killed Killian and lost his vault key, you can now find Killian's vault key in the Lost&Found. (If he is not dead and you lose his key, you just need to go back to his house and knock him out again to get the key.)
[Life Skill]New Life Skill: Music
[Life Skill]Initialized music skills for your story teammates.
[Pet]Water Nymphs now have +15 music skills as a racial trait.
[Fjordr Shelter]Added a Lost&Found store here with its unique background story about why it exists.
简体中文
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【失物贩卖】如果你打开过基里安宝库里的第二个宝箱，但是，在完成【冒险旅途中的宝物】前丢失了黑蛙王的宝物，你可以在失物贩卖中找到黑蛙王的宝物。
【失物贩卖】如果你已经杀死了基里安并且丢失了他宝库的钥匙。你现在可以在失物贩卖中找到基里安宝库的钥匙。（如果他没死，但是你丢失了他的钥匙，你只要回到他家里再把他打晕一次就可以获得钥匙。）
【生活技能】新生活技能：音乐
【生活技能】初始化了你的剧情队友的音乐技能。
【宠物】水之妖女现在自带+15的音乐等级，作为一项种族天赋。
【福尔德避难所】在这里加入了一个失物贩卖商店，并且加入了一个关于其存在的独特故事。
20250123
English
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[Life Skill]Added a new skill book for music skills: Book of a Unique Pianist Vol. 1
[Shopping]Bookstores now sell the Book of a Unique Pianist Vol. 1
[Loot]Enemies that drop books may now drop the Book of a Unique Pianist Vol. 1
[The House near a Paddy Field]You can now use anyone in your group's music skills to pass the piano puzzle instead of solving it normally.
[Prefix]New Prefix: Musician's (+Music skills)
[Wiki]Updated the prefix page.
[Wiki]Updated the life skill page.
简体中文
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【生活技能】加入了音乐技能的技能书：独一无二的钢琴家之书（第一卷）
【购物】书店现在可能贩卖【独一无二的钢琴家之书（第一卷）】
【掉落物】会掉落书本的敌人现在可能掉落【独一无二的钢琴家之书（第一卷）】
【水田近家】你现在可以用任何一名队友的音乐技能来通过钢琴谜题而不必要像以前一样实际上解开这个谜题。
【词缀】新词缀：音乐家的（+音乐技能）
【维基】更新了维基的词缀页面。
【维基】更新了维基的生活技能页面。
20250124
English
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[Snake]Before snakes attack you, you now have an option to charm them with music.
[Snake]Different snakes can now attack you together.
[Assets]Added the art assets for Serpent People.
简体中文
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【蛇】在蛇攻击你之前，你现在有选项可以用音乐舞蛇来阻止攻击。
【蛇】不同的蛇现在可以一起攻击你。
【资源】加入了蛇人的美术资源。
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This week's story content brings us back to Killian's mansion in Hottle. You can now find a way to this retired adventurer's vault room and take whatever treasures he keeps inside.
Here are some of them you can find:
"Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Friends You Made Along the Way." But with a dark twist.
You can guess what's inside.
However, those two chests may not be the reason why you are here. If you have progressed far enough in the Dark Elf King's storyline, you may get a quest from the Black Frog King to retrieve a treasure that has been long stolen from a group of adventurers. With some investigation, you can easily piece together that Killian is one of those adventurers, and the Black Frog King's treasure is right in his vault. However, he will warn you that treasure is evil and can invoke violence even from the most peaceful heart. From here, you may find this item's true nature and decide accordingly. Maybe you will let out a sigh when you see the icon of this treasure. It's another twist that may make you feel life is a joke.
The Black Frog King also tells you to punish the thief as you see fit. So, there are a lot of options. You can kill him, harvest his soul, enslave him, or do whatever nasty thing you can think of. (If you use an identify wipe collar on him, he will turn into a unique human pet.) But, as long as you leave him alive, he will turn hostile from now on.
Anyway, once you have returned the Black Frog King's treasure. The Black Frog King shall reward you with something special. As we know, he has a lot of magic weapons hoarded in his lair. Thus, I am going to do this a bit differently. You can choose what kind of weapon you want with a prefix of your choice.
Afterward, he will also be more than happy to assist you if you are on a quest given to you by the Dark Elf King. Everything is intwisted here. However, as this game has great freedom in how you do almost everything, you can decide how to finish all those quests in any order. I have put in all the details to ensure all cases can run smoothly. That also includes the fact that if you lost your mission items, you can get them back in the Lost & Found stores. By the way, a new Lost & Found store just opened in Fjordr; it comes with a unique background story related to an ongoing war.
As such, a quest about those treasures along the way is concluded. Here, we shall have some music.
Oh, wait a second, we didn't have music skills before. Why don't we get it now?
So, music is now another life skill in the game. Your story teammates now have some levels of music skills by default. You can also get music skills by practicing, reading skill books, or equipping certain items with a new prefix.
As always, skill books come with their own twisted stories in this supernatural world.
This one is inspired by a Warhammer 40K horror story about Slaanesh, while the Empire's totalitarian oppression of their own people makes the chaos god feel like a lesser evil.
You can use music skills in various situations. For example, you can now use your raw music skill level to pass the piano puzzle in the House Near a Paddy Field.
You can also use your music skills to charm snakes to stop them from attacking.
Oh, right, snakes. With the Year of Snake just a week away, it's time to get more snake-related content.
At least some art assets are ready:
Have you heard the lore about how Serpent People once ruled this planet before humans did?
Maybe they will even interact with another lost prehuman civilization, too.
That's it for this week. The music will continue so that Azathoth does not wake up and end his dream, known as this reality.
The Full Update Log of This week:
20250118
English
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[Quest]New Quest: The Treasure Along the Way (Still in early stages.)
[Item]New Quest Item: The Black Frog King's Treasure
[Item]New Quest Item: Killian's Vault Key
[Wiki]Added a new page for The Treasure Along the Way.
[An Adventurer's House]After listening to his adventure story, you can ask Killian further about the artifact.
[An Adventurer's House]If you have Killian's Vault Key, you can now use it to open the vault door.
简体中文
##########Content################
【任务】新任务：冒险旅途中的宝物 （还在早期开发阶段）
【物品】新任务物品：黑蛙王的宝物
【物品】新任务物品：基里安宝库的钥匙
【维基】加入了【冒险旅途中的宝物】的页面。
【一位冒险家的房子】在听完了他的冒险故事后，你可以进一步询问基里安关于那件【可憎之物】的事情。
【一位冒险家的房子】如果你持有基里安宝库的钥匙，你现在可以用它打开这间房子的宝库。
20250119
English
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[An Adventurer's House]You can now attack Killian to get his key and knock him unconscious.
[An Adventurer's House]You can kill Killian, collect his corpse, collect his soul, or do other things you can do to a human enemy after you knock him out.
[An Adventurer's House]If you have attacked Killian before and left him alive, he will attack you once you enter his room again.
[An Adventurer's House]If you unlock the vault door and Killian is still alive, you will find the vault door is locked again once you return to his house.
[An Adventurer's House]You can now open one of the chests in the vault. ("Maybe the real treasure is the friends you made along the way." with a darker twist.)
[An Adventurer's House]You can now find a recipe of Bone Spear on one of the book shelves.
简体中文
##########Content################
【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以直接攻击基里安来获得他的钥匙并且把他打晕。
【一位冒险家的房子】在你打晕基里安之后，你可以杀掉他，收集他的尸体，收割他的灵魂，或者干别的你可以对所有人类敌人干的事情。
【一位冒险家的房子】如果你此前攻击过基里安，在你再度进入他的房间的时候，他会主动攻击你。
【一位冒险家的房子】如果你此前打开了宝库的门，但是基里安还活着，那么在你下次进入这间房子的时候，宝库的门会处于关闭的状态。
【一位冒险家的房子】宝库中的其中一个箱子现在可以打开。（【也许真正的财宝，是我们冒险旅途中所结识的朋友。】但是，有某个黑暗的反转。）
【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以在其中一个书架上找到骨矛的制造配方。
20250120
English
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[An Adventurer's House]You can now enslave Killian with an Identity Wipe Collar after you knock him out. (It will turn him into a unique human pet.)
[The Treasure Along the Way]You can now find The Black Frog King's Treasure in Killian's vault. (This part is not linear. Thus, it's possible that you can get even before you start this quest.)
[The Treasure Along the Way]Mission Complete. (In the end, you will receive a weapon of your choice with a prefix of your choice.)
[Weapon]Added a new basic weaponto generate code for bows.
[Wiki]Updated the quest page of "The Treasure Along the Way."
简体中文
##########Content################
【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以在打晕基里安后用一个身份清除项圈奴役基里安。（会把他变成一个独特的人类宠物。）
【冒险旅途中的宝物】你现在可以在基里安的宝库里找到黑蛙王的宝物。（这部分不是线性的。你有可能可以在这个任务开始前就获得这件东西。）
【冒险旅途中的宝物】任务完成。（最后你可以选择一种武器，带有一个你选择的词缀）
【武器】加入了弓的基础武器生成代码。
【维基】更新了【冒险旅途中的宝物】的任务页面
20250120B
English
##########DEBUG#################
Fixed a crash that may happen in the Cultist's Hideout in Fjordr. It's caused by the incorrect type check against the return value of the "getRandomActorInGroup" function. (Thanks to 吉尔伽美什's bug report.)
简体中文
##########Content################
修复了福尔德村邪教徒的藏身处的某个游戏崩溃。原因是对于"getRandomActorInGroup"返回值的类行没有正确判断。（感谢吉尔伽美什的Bug报告。）
20250121
English
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[An Adventurer's House]You can now open the 3rd chest in Killian's vault.
[The Treasure Along the Way]The quest is now fully independent from the storyline of the Dark Elf King. You can now start the quest by asking the Black Frog King if there is anything you can help him with.
[Putting the Band Back Together]Reordered some dialogue lines on the Black Frog King to make either way of starting "The Treasure Along the Way" sound more natural.
[An Adventurer's House]Killian now has an item drop list.
简体中文
##########Content################
【一位冒险家的房子】你现在可以打开基里安宝库里的第三个箱子。
【冒险旅途中的宝物】这个任务现在完全和黑暗精灵王的剧情独立。你现在可以直接通过询问黑蛙王关于他是否需要你的帮助来开始这个任务。
【似是故人来】调整了一些黑蛙王对话的顺序，让两种触发【冒险旅途中的宝物】时的对话听上去都更自然。
【一位冒险家的房子】基里安现在有了一个物品掉落列表。
20250122
English
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[Lost&Found]If you opened the 2nd chest in Killian's vault and somehow lost the Black Frog King's treasure before finishing "The Treasure Along the Way" quest, you can now find the Black Frog King's treasure in the Lost&Found.
[Lost&Found]If you have killed Killian and lost his vault key, you can now find Killian's vault key in the Lost&Found. (If he is not dead and you lose his key, you just need to go back to his house and knock him out again to get the key.)
[Life Skill]New Life Skill: Music
[Life Skill]Initialized music skills for your story teammates.
[Pet]Water Nymphs now have +15 music skills as a racial trait.
[Fjordr Shelter]Added a Lost&Found store here with its unique background story about why it exists.
简体中文
##########Content################
【失物贩卖】如果你打开过基里安宝库里的第二个宝箱，但是，在完成【冒险旅途中的宝物】前丢失了黑蛙王的宝物，你可以在失物贩卖中找到黑蛙王的宝物。
【失物贩卖】如果你已经杀死了基里安并且丢失了他宝库的钥匙。你现在可以在失物贩卖中找到基里安宝库的钥匙。（如果他没死，但是你丢失了他的钥匙，你只要回到他家里再把他打晕一次就可以获得钥匙。）
【生活技能】新生活技能：音乐
【生活技能】初始化了你的剧情队友的音乐技能。
【宠物】水之妖女现在自带+15的音乐等级，作为一项种族天赋。
【福尔德避难所】在这里加入了一个失物贩卖商店，并且加入了一个关于其存在的独特故事。
20250123
English
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[Life Skill]Added a new skill book for music skills: Book of a Unique Pianist Vol. 1
[Shopping]Bookstores now sell the Book of a Unique Pianist Vol. 1
[Loot]Enemies that drop books may now drop the Book of a Unique Pianist Vol. 1
[The House near a Paddy Field]You can now use anyone in your group's music skills to pass the piano puzzle instead of solving it normally.
[Prefix]New Prefix: Musician's (+Music skills)
[Wiki]Updated the prefix page.
[Wiki]Updated the life skill page.
简体中文
##########Content################
【生活技能】加入了音乐技能的技能书：独一无二的钢琴家之书（第一卷）
【购物】书店现在可能贩卖【独一无二的钢琴家之书（第一卷）】
【掉落物】会掉落书本的敌人现在可能掉落【独一无二的钢琴家之书（第一卷）】
【水田近家】你现在可以用任何一名队友的音乐技能来通过钢琴谜题而不必要像以前一样实际上解开这个谜题。
【词缀】新词缀：音乐家的（+音乐技能）
【维基】更新了维基的词缀页面。
【维基】更新了维基的生活技能页面。
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English
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[Snake]Before snakes attack you, you now have an option to charm them with music.
[Snake]Different snakes can now attack you together.
[Assets]Added the art assets for Serpent People.
简体中文
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【蛇】在蛇攻击你之前，你现在有选项可以用音乐舞蛇来阻止攻击。
【蛇】不同的蛇现在可以一起攻击你。
【资源】加入了蛇人的美术资源。
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