My character is currently visiting a holy place of a faction that is friendly towards me. So the character is welcome there. ... There's a faction leader here offering to teach a skill, at the cost of reputation points. It's so tempting... but I'm pretty sure that learning the skill would drop the reputation such that the character is no longer welcome. If it works the way I think it does, it would be a subtle and sneaky death-trap.

"Here friend, let me teach you the secrets of our ways...
But now that you know, we cannot let you leave here alive!   GUARDS!  ATTACK!"

I found myself on the 4th character in a bit of a slum too ... the first ones went down pretty fast. The slinger for some reason got attacked by the town cat after picking up something two fighting npc's dropped. The farmers started coming at me with their vine-pitchforks , had no choice but to defend myself ...

After some time i was left with 68 bullets, dead merchants, dead elder, dead herbalist, dead blacksmith, dead everyone, five truckloads of loot, enough water for ten levels. My character was level 5 but for some reason i was cursed and all the factionsin the world despised me now (so im guessing its gonna be hard to both sell the stuff from the now dead town , turn in the quests to the dead questgivers (they were still in the book)
and on top of that i bet no one anywhere will sell me bullets and i dont know how to make 'em

strangely enough the one guy still standing who didnt attack me ?

"the warden" :p

this was an insta-like ... classic is the only way to go !

I parked the char until i know more about it, all subsequent ones died at lvl one too, somewhere a few tiles on the world map away from joppa, dessicated and killed by some strange horse or dog ...

i hope the devs keep at it, expanding the world , npcs , systems, factions and mechanics and are still at it 15 years from now

this is so fresh :)

(and yea a version that runs on a pi would be nice but probably some hassle to compile i dunno if unity can , i dont even know if its still unity i didnt know about this game until recently actually, been 15 years in development and its "what the devs want"(to play) io "what players want

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