#thank god for the isat script project

[pinkalliums]

13 and 14 for the isat ask game?

13. Favorite line?

ohhh i definitely have to go with a line during siffrins act 3 meltdown after doing the friendquests once..

this is very much influenced by vixen's reading of this line in the jello playthrough its just. so. good

14. Favorite pun?

hmmm probably the first floor pun in the kitchen with the flyer

pun so good its in sasasaap AND isat

[borfungus]

HI I really like your tangible form designs for the Expressions and the Universe! The Universe especially I thought was really cool with the multiple arms reaching from the void, they really do look godly, like from Hindu mythology! If you have more to share about your designs I'd love to know :)

I tried to keep this short. I failed! MAJOR isat (and also, Slay the Princess) spoilers ahead!!

The Universe-

I have a couple paintings I've done so far featuring 'The Universe' as several disembodied blue hands coming from the void (here and here cw for blood on the first one!)

I took the phrase 'The Universe leads, we can only follow' rather literally! The Universe is an outstretched hand, The Universe is a tight grip, The Universe pushes and shoves and leads and holds.

The phrase "A wish in one hand, dirt in the other" also came to mind! Basically, wishing can only do so much, and you need to apply practical action to reach your goals. There's somewhat of a double meaning if you apply this idiom to Wish Craft. Intention is important, yes (for example, all of Dormont wishing for Vaugarde to be saved), but Siffrin's wish had the power to set off the events of the game because he knew the correct ritual/actions. Also, Siffrin's wish gave them the ability to get what they wanted (to stay with their family), but their lack of action (telling them about the loops) kept them stuck. His Wish was just not enough. And so, this paragraph about an old idiom basically to explain that I picture the Universe holding the Wishes in it's hand, taking the leaves wished on, throwing the shooting stars, and taking the wishes to where they need to go for the wish to be fulfilled.

And it's TOTALLYYY not because I finished Slay The Princess a few weeks ago and saw parallels between The Shifting Mound and the Universe....and I also just liked her design with the arms...thats TOTALLY not the reason (it's at least, not the ONLY reason! Everything above is also true!)

I have to be completely honest now, I totally didn't even think of the Hindu god connection. I will have to do more reading/research on that because I don't want to inadvertently draw something too similar to that (I am so white! I don't know anything about it! It's not really my place to!) without being properly informed!! Thank you for bringing that up lol!

The Expressions - ok this is a lot

This one is based on some Odile dialogue!! (thank you ISAT Script Project thank you thank you) That post was the first time I had drawn The Expressions as a tangible being, but I had the idea clunkin around in my head for a while after I finished the first Universe painting. We know like so little about The Expressions, so I'm going off of these Odile lines;

{ID: Odile: Well... in Ka Bue, you'd burn the body and take the ashes to a Gemmaker to transform them into a diamond, but that won't be easily feasible, will it...}

Gems seem to be pretty important in Ka Bue culture, and I'm making the logical leap that different gems have different meanings. Diamonds seem to be related to rememberance, grief, death, end of life, etc. You're made into a diamond when you die, and this is important enough that there is an entire profession surround it. SO basically- Gems = Important

guess who's about to make another logical leap! ! ME

{ID: Odile: GEMS ALIVE, Isabeau}

We giggle and goof and laugh about crab and stars and crabbing and blinding but I don't see! a lot of people talk about the Ka Bue explitive gems! Each of the 3 country's choice swear ties back to their religion. Crab being a reference to carsinisation/carsinization (Everything becomes a crab, and it seems to be against the Change belief for everyone to be the same) , The Universe religion is all about Space and Stars and the Space between us etc etc, and we've already established gems are important in Ka Bue culture! This is potentially a fun Ka Bue version of "Sakes alive!", which is sort of like "For God's sake" / "Goodness sake". It's funny but, what if, we take it a little too seriously hmmm? What if, in Ka Bue, they really do consider, Gems to be Alive? Isn't it quite interesting how they are then turned into diamonds at death? Is it the belief that people's Spirits continue to live on in diamonds?

I can't find the specific dialogue about there being thousands of Expressions, but Odile explains that there are Expressions for everything, and you can choose which ones you want to pray for at a time. Odile has a few she mentions she prays to - "The Expression of Search, the Expression of Writing, the Expression of Creator Craft, and lately, the Expressions of Battle and Victory" I belieeeeve the gems Odile wears on her glasses are the Ka Bue way to Pray to the Expressions. It seems like gems are the connection between humans and divinity in Ka Bue, I'm going to make the assumption these are NOT diamonds, I'm not sure Odile would wear the remains of someone as,,, an accessory. That doesn't seem like her

So different types of Gems, are potentially, connected to different Expressions? What if each Expression is represented by a specific Gemstone? (In real life, there are only like 300 types of gemstones, but, but, but MAYBE!! The CUT!!! Is also PART OF IT! ok)

So each Expression is represented by a different Cut and Color of Gemstone. I'm going to connect these Point Cut Quartz? to the Expression of Creator Craft. It's the same shape!! As the gem decal!! on her book!

So ALL OF THAT TO SAY OMFG, that is why I made em different Gemstone types and cuts. Each individual gem is an Expression.

(also, i tried to tie it to Expressionism as an art movement, but I think I didn't do such a good job at that.)

THAT WAS SO LONG!!! I got carried away! hope that answers that LOL

[boos-gh0st]

Earlier I was calling my friend Ti and wanted to tell them that it was Siffrin and Loop’s birthday, but for those who are unaware, they’re only on act three! Thank god I caught myself.

“Oh btw today is Siffrin and L- in’s- birthday”

“Oh, cool!”

(which worked out because thankfully they’re aware I have a horrendous stutter. And it seemed as though I just stuttered really badly at the end of their name. Yay.)

Thank god for stutters, a sentence I never thought I’d say in my life.

Happy birthday to the silliest timeloop troopers in all of (Your head feels like it's splitting in two)

Thank you to @isat-script-project (sorry for tag) for doing your honestly impressive thing because you have saved me on multiple occasions of trying to find what exactly a line was or atleast the gist of it. You are doing so awesome and I hope you know that, good luck!!

I initially wrote timeloop survivors but loop didn’t survive did they…they’re a trooper…they both are

Anyway I thought it was a little funny…but it’s also 4:36 sooo. Good night isat-heads, and happy birthday to Siffrin and Loop

Is it mal du pays birthday? Do they have a birthday? Are they a Siffrin?

I’m saying it anyway

Happy (possible) birthday Mal Du Pays

[felikatze]

hey i love your ISAT script site!! i'm wondering if you have the dialogue around the wish ritual anywhere? (the folding leaf and such - iirc there were two different books/essays in the game about it). and also wondering if you have like, a datamined text file anywhere? or is it all hand-transcribed?? thanks!!!

that was actually pretty highly requested dialogue (i know i've copy pasted it on isatcord TWICE lmao) so this ask gave me the impetus to whip it up!

here's a WIP page with it, for you!

(there's something really funny in reading fanfiction and knowing the writer cross-referenced my script, ngl.)

AS FOR THE FILES....

The game is actually entirely unencrypted, because insertdisc5 has mercy upon us. If you own the game on steam, you can open them up yourself, no problem, which is what i've been doing.

They're under Windows/Programs/steamapps/common/In Stars and Time/www/data

What you find here is precisely 217 map files, which contain the dialogue for all locations in the game. All dialogue NOT tied to a location (items, events that happen in multiple places, all dialogue in battles) are in Common Events, which is one huge fucker.

If you open them up, you will find a lot of intelligible code.

This is what it looks like in Visual Studio Code, which is the program I write my website in. I copy-paste all dialogue by hand, but thank god i do NOT need to transcribe anything. (I think Codacheetah did that for the og Loopchats document, which, dear god Coda, what are you doing).

Since actually knowing what goes where is super difficult with this, I also use RPGmaker MV (which i have obtained very legally) to make the text easier to parse!

my program is set to german so this is some denglish. But already you can see the when and where of it, for some examples:

Self Var EventCheck is a variable that checks how often a specific event happens. These are subdivided by number on specific dialogue options within a single even tpage.

You also see other variables, like ACT <<CanBeSeen>> which just classifies which act this is in, so the line "(None of these catch your eye.)" only applies from act 2 onwards (which is redundant, since you can only access this bookshelf starting in act 2, but hey).

The upside of RPGmaker is that I can also just go to the room I need and then see which map its on, so I don't need to search through all 217 of those map files.

(When I started this project, I looked at and labelled all map files without using rpgmaker. This is stupid. Do not do this.)

At the very bottom in that little bar, you can see that it says "085: SecretLibrary". 085 is the number of the map file, so the Secret Library Dialogue is in "Map085.json"

(I also list the file source of dialogue on the script site whenever I remember to, so that's what "Source: Map085" refers to.)

If you only want to search what a specific line is, or look up when a word is used, then just searching through the json files is more than enough.

I hope this was helpful!! Enjoy