Hi, everyone. Rejoice! We have reached another Christmas, and it is also the Winter Solstice in China.
Tens of thousands of Steam games are on sale, and I certainly participated in it as well.
Meanwhile, the game shall automatically detect your local system time and start the Christmas Events accordingly. You will find Christmas trees appearing in various locations, new furniture you can purchase from merchants to decorate your pocket dimension, and another every year's limited Christmas Hat to be added to your collection.
However, behind this "normal" facet where everyone enjoys this winter holiday season, a war is still going on, a Colder War. After all, the Winter Solstice also refers to the coming of winter in China. Thus, let's embrace the chill and dive deeper into this week's content in our ever-evolving supernatural world.
The Red Dragon's special force has infiltrated Jiru Island for a while. As you make contact with them, Commissar Bao offers you
a job related to a suspicious device, but also with a handsome reward.
Will you accept this offer and do as he told you?
Or
Will you report him to the Sheriff and expose his plans with the evidence you collect before it's too late?
Alternatively, if you cannot find any evidence, you could use your outstanding persuasion skills to convince the police to arrest him anyway.
In a classical "Trust me, bro!" style.
It's another story with different outcomes based on your choices and approaches. (If you decide to ally with the Red Dragon, an immediate outcome is that the local mayor will start to complain that his computer has become very laggy.) Even in a world with various supernatural threats that can bring an apocalypse in the next few minutes, different nations and secret organizations are still working on their own agendas to shape the world according to their desires.
On another frontline, far from those Nise islands, deep in another cold place on this planet, in a Siberian church, another story continues across that ruined Russian village of meat cubes.
A twist and unexpected "ally" awaits you.
Can you trust him to be who he claims to be?
Of course, to add more flavor to this colder war, the updates do not only include new stories but also more supplements in our updates.
We all know those covert operations can be highly risky.
Thus, new suicide pills have been added, like in old spy movies. However, as we are in a supernatural world with magic, you may easily find more creative ways to use them. For example, as you may already know, in most games, killing and reviving a character can usually remove many nasty debuffs they had. Just don't try it in real life; there is no evidence that if you kill yourself, you can actually reappear in a fantasy world filled with anime girls declaring you as the chosen one.
Another exciting update this week is the emergence of sneak life skills. Unlike many other life skills, this is mostly a passive one. Your enemies will now need to pass another dice roll against your group's average sneak skill levels to be able to detect you. Combine it with smoke bombs and those assassination takedown skills; you may find a way to your victory without direct confrontations.
A new item prefix that allows those items to provide you with a sneak skill bonus and a new skill book that allows you to read and gain sneak skill experience have been added as well.
Like many other skill books, it tells a little story all by itself. This one is just a description of how people pretend to play the Assassin's Creed and end up actually playing the Berserker's Creed. :D
That's for this week. As usual, some unmentioned small updates are down below in the full update log. Happy Christmas as we continue to manipulate this world from the shadow in this Colder War.
The Full Update Log of this Week:
20241214
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[Item]New Item: Desiccant
[Shopping]Random general goods vendors now sell Desiccant.
[Shopping]Merchants in the Wonderland Travel Agency's random procedurally generated areas now sell Desiccant.
[Shopping]Bob's Grocery in Queensmouth now sells Desiccant. (In both timelines.)
[Item]After taking advantage of the target's "wet" state, Dr. Klein's Quick Concrete now removes it.
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【物品】新物品：干燥剂
【购物】随机的杂货商人现在贩卖干燥剂。
【购物】奇幻之地旅行社的随机过程生成地区的商人现在贩卖干燥剂。
【购物】王后镇鲍勃的杂货店现在贩卖干燥剂。（在两条时间线上都是。）
【物品】克莱因博士的速效混凝土现在会在利用了目标身上的【潮湿】状态后移除该状态。
20241215
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[Red Shadows over Jiru]The story continues. Commissar Bao will now give you a quest. (Only one straightforward path to finish this quest right now. I will add alternative paths soon.)
[Red Shadows over Jiru]Depending on your main story progress, if you follow Commissar Bao's instruction to finish this part of the quest, he may give you some clues about Zhang Yin.
[Wiki]More details about the "Red Shadows over Jiru" have been added to the quest's page.
[Fishing]When you select a character to go fishing, you can now cancel it.
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【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】剧情继续。包政委现在会给你一个任务。（当前只有一条最直接的路线完成这部分。我会很快加入其它的完成路线。）
【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】基于你的主线剧情进展。如果你完全遵照包政委的要求完成这部分的任务，他可能告诉你一些关于张银的线索。
【维基】在维基的相关任务页面上加入了【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】的更多细节。
【钓鱼】在选择一个角色进行钓鱼的时候，你现在可以直接取消。
20241216
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[Red Shadows over Jiru]Added an alternative path: once you learned Commissar Bao's plan, you can report this to Sheriff Sherry. The sheriff will ask you for evidence, and you can provide it to her. The story will progress in another direction.
[Wiki]More details about the "Red Shadows over Jiru" have been added to the quest's page.
[Fjordr Administration Office]Added more dialog options on the sheriff.
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【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】加入了另一条路线：在你知道了包政委的计划之后，你可以向当地的警长报告这件事。警长会要你提供证据，而你可以提供这个证据。剧情会朝着另外一个方向发展。
【维基】在维基的相关任务页面上加入了【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】的更多细节。
【福尔德行政办公室】给警长加入了更多的对话选项。
20241217
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[Red Shadows over Jiru]Add a new alternative path: You can now pass a hard persuasion check to convince Sheriff Sherry to arrest Bao without any evidence.
[Red Shadows over Jiru]Your relationship with local townfolks adjusts the difficulty of this persuasion check.
[Red Shadows over Jiru]Add a new alternative path: You can tell Bao that you have lost the USB device to progress the story anyway. (No rewards. It does not require you to actually lose the USB device.)
[Red Shadows over Jiru]You need to confirm this option again to make sure you really want to tell him this. Just in case you need to check.
[Wiki]More details about the "Red Shadows over Jiru" have been added to the quest's page.
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【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】新的另一种路线：你现在可以通过一个说服鉴定在没有证据的情况下让雪莉警长去抓捕包政委。
【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】你和福尔德当地居民的关系度会影响这个说服鉴定的难度。
【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】新的另一种路线：你可以直接告诉包政委，你弄丢了U盘来推进剧情。（没有任何报酬。你不一定需要真的遗失了U盘。）
【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】会有一个选项让你再次确认你确实要这么告诉他。以防你点错了这个选项。
【维基】在维基的相关任务页面上加入了【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】的更多细节。
20241218
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[Item]New Item: Cyanide
[Shopping]Various shady merchants now sell Cyanide.
[Shopping]Dr. Jackel's nurse now sells Cyanide.
[Red Shadows over Jiru]If you have done what Commissar Bao told you to do, you may later hear the mayor complain that his computer has become quite laggy recently.
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【物品】新物品：氰化物
【购物】各种可疑的商人现在会贩卖氰化物。
【购物】豺狼医生的护士现在会贩卖氰化物。
【吉鲁岛上的赤色阴影】如果你按照包政委的指示完成了任务。那么，之后，你可能听到镇长抱怨他的电脑经常卡顿。
20241219
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[Siberia]Added some dialogs for Rasputin before the story progresses further.
[Life Skill]New Life Skill: Sneak.
[Life Skill]Some of your story teammates start with various levels of sneak skills.
[Life Skill]Enemies now need to pass a secret dice roll against your group's average sneak skill level to detect you. If they fail to detect you, everyone in your group gains some sneak skill experience.
[Life Skill]By default, every 1 level of your group's average sneak skill level makes enemies 1% harder to detect you.
[Life Skill]By default, you always have at least a 5% chance of not being detected in each check.
[Life Skill]When enemies detect you, you may also have a small chance to gain some sneak experience.
[Wiki]Updated everything above to the wiki.
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【西伯利亚】在故事进一步发展之前，给拉斯普京加入了一些新的台词。
【生活技能】新生活技能：潜行 （该技能的实际功能还在施工中。）
【生活技能】你的一些剧情队友默认自带一定等级的潜行技能。
【生活技能】敌人现在需要通过一个暗骰检定来对抗你队伍的平均潜行等级。如果它们未能通过该检定，则无法发现你，此时，你的全体队员会获得一些潜行经验值。
【生活技能】默认情况下，你团队平均潜行技能等级每增加1级，敌人发现你的难度就增加1%。
【生活技能】默认情况下，每次敌人尝试发现你，你都有至少5%的可能性不会被发现。
【生活技能】在被敌人发现的时候，你也有小概率获得一些潜行经验。
【维基】将上面提到的内容全部更新到了维基上。
20241220
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[Prefix]New Generic Prefix: Sneaky (It may appear on any weapons/equipment that can have prefixes.)
[Shopping]Some shady merchants may now sell Sneaky Boots.
[Item]New Sneak Life Skill Book: Book of a Hide & Seek Master Vol. 1
[Shopping]You can purchase the Book of a Hide & Seek Master Vol. 1 from the Bookstore in Liu.
[Loot]Enemies that drop books now also have a chance to drop the Book of a Hide & Seek Master Vol. 1.
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【词缀】新词缀：潜行的 （可能出现在任何可以带有词缀的武器或装备上。）
【购物】一些可疑的商人现在会贩卖带有潜行词缀的鞋子。
【物品】新的生活技能书：捉迷藏大师之书（第一卷）
【购物】疁城的书店可能贩卖捉迷藏大师之书（第一卷）
【掉落物】会掉落书籍的敌人现在也可能掉落捉迷藏大师之书（第一卷）
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