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me and my friend have been trying to solve the last riddle (the caesar cipher one) for like an hour and still couldn't figure it out :< At this point I'm just curious what could it possibly be, could you give us a hint?

as for the game itself, the setting is kiiinda cliche, but visuals and prose are executed well, there were a few very well written expressions, and overall the aristocratic tone and vocabulary is well-portrayed. What made us much less immersed though, is just how unlikeable the majority of the cast is. I understand that they're all rich entitled people and whatever, but it's just so blunt to the point of comedy - every time they're given the slightest chance of becoming not 100% negative characters with no depth, they are denied it, and *even the narrator themself* comments on how abhorrent they are! It feels as if the writer intended the characters to be purely comically evil punching bags and enjoys ridiculing them, which IMO makes the writing considerably less interesting. Thankfully, there's also a saving grace - Grace, who I found to be a fairly intriguing character, though we personally couldn't experience the conclusion of the story just yet

Though even considering this criticism, the work is obviously incredibly commendable, especially for a 7-day project! Hopefully our criticism didn't come off too strong, it's just that when the style of the prose (and art!!!) is quite good, these aspects are more noticeable by contrast

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heyo, one of the writers here! thx for your feedback! i think we struggled quite a bit with tone shift as originally i was meant to write everything but of course the project was v ambitious (and i have a small baby oop) so another team member v kindly jumped on a bunch of the dialogues but you can definitely feel the shift in style between us. and the shift in style between my 3AM writing lol. i did intentionally lean in to the cliches, like tried to go for that agatha christie sorta vibe as i've never tried the genre before and with the time limit i wanted to ham it up a bit. 

omg im so sorry about that riddle, we are going to update the hints to be much more sensible as i wrote it when my brain was running on fumes. so the starting word for the password is 'lenore' and then the hint for the cipher is mean to lead you to the number of letters in crandock (8), so we are wanting you to shift lenore alphabetically by 8. i don't think literally anyone has gotten to it without needing it explained yet, my b.