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Wow, they really gave Romeo eyes the color of a clear blue sky, huh?

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Heliosail is Finally Here

Words cannot possibly capture how I am feeling today. I am joyous, overwhelmed, proud, humbled, and terrified all at once. This game is, in many ways, a very personal reflection of my heart and soul. I could have released it years ago, when it was "playable" for the first time, but I held back. I knew that it had not yet bloomed into the rose that I could see within it. 

This game has changed me in a profound way over the years I've devoted to it. When I started this process, I was in my mid twenties, severely depressed, being entirely supported by my father, and completely unable to see a future for myself. Since that time, I have moved halfway across the country, put my depression in full remission, come out as nonbinary, changed my name, written a novel, and now fully support myself. I am unrecognizable from my younger self. I used to be unable to make new friends, and now I have a whole group of people I met and bonded with over TTRPGs. I used to have screaming, crying meltdowns over my math homework well into high school. Now, I understand mathematics, statistics and probabilities with ease, and know that I am AuDHD. I used to be constantly anxious that if I ever did the wrong thing, no matter how slight, I would be rejected by the people in my life. Now, I can sit down at a work meeting and accept discipline without crying (Sometimes.) I used to not have the energy to do more than two things in a week. Now, I am running out of days in my calendar for everything I want to do. 

I cannot credit all of this change to one project, of course, but this game really has been a guiding force through this chapter of my life. I've been in a sort of dance with it, where I began to create answers to my anxieties, and in turn, Heliosail gave me resolve and hope. I was worried about climate change, so I imagined a future where we go back and fix our mistakes. I felt like I didn't fit in, so I created a fantasy where I could run away on a ship and be queer with all my friends. I was anxious about surviving in this capitalist world, so I imagined a society that tries to take care of everyone in it.

I fell into a comfortable pattern, where I could experience the joy of puzzle-solving that is the design process, and literally build the world that I wanted for myself.

And so, the truth is that, while I am excited and proud beyond words to finally let the world see my work, I am kind of mourning too. There will be more Heliosail to work on; I am already planning more content for the game, and will continue to try to spread it to those who will enjoy it most. But that is not the same. To achieve my dream for this work, I will need to develop a whole new set of skills. I feel rather like Sisyphus, having just reached the top of the hill only to realize that somehow I'm at the bottom once again. No matter how daunting I find the road ahead, though, I believe that Heilosail is worth it. Maybe it makes me sound conceited and self-important, but the truth is that I feel a drive and responsibility to make this project a success, as if it is for something greater than myself. It's like I'm pushing this boulder, not up a hill forever, but towards someone who badly needs it. I don't know who they are, but I am driven to reach them as if both our lives depend on it. 

More Content Coming Soon

More files will be coming in the near future, added to the download for Heliosail everywhere you can find it. I will be adding a "Home-Printer Friendly" version of the handbook very soon, which will be black and white with no images, and will be reformatted to use the fewest number of pages possible. I will also be releasing a free adventure to provide you all with some content for your games. Adventures I publish after this will be paid supplements, but I will continue to publish "Monster Mondays" and other free content on Patreon. 

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hurdy gurdying or gurdly hurdying? 🤨

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i'm not totally happy with this one but i looked at it for too long and got tired of it so i'm posting it as is lol

romeo made me sad so i wanted to draw him

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sorry i said gay when you and your buddy had a massive falling out and tried to kill each other. it just kinda looked like that.

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Bipedal so fucking stupid. You look at a cat or a dog lying down and you're like "hell yeah that looks exactly right. that looks so comfortable." Human lies down and looks like Peter Griffin Death Pose.

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And now I know. ...Carlo.

     LIES OF P: OVERTURE (2025)

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Regarding the Nameless Puppet. I see a lot of people make the assumption that it's Carlo's corpse, but I actually disagree. The design is certainly evocative of a decaying corpse, but if you take a closer look there's nothing actually organic about the body. The parts where the psuedoskin is sloughing off reveal machinery beneath, such as the left arm. The legs are mechanical. The P-Organ in it's chest, laying open and exposed. It's face is completely devoid of features, in a way that would not result from decay. In the phase 2 transition cutscence, when Pinocchio cuts off the top of it's head? Again, it's all machinery. No brain or related viscera, nothing organic. No, in fact, even the skin resembles other puppet skin that's been worn down. I noticed this in the fight with the final boss of Overture. When he transforms and the "skin" on his face is "burned," it quite resembles the look and texture of that on the Nameless Puppet's body. Additionally, it's in the name (heh), right? The Nameless Puppet.

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Hhhhh the way Lies of P has me going so crazy I might actually crawl out from under my rock and start posting again.

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I’ll post the Carmeo cuddling here too because I need it

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LIES OF P: OVERTURE 2025・dev. Neowiz

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P + Tap Dance

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It feels like... they're trying to guide us somewhere.

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Has anyone else noticed that they do this?

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where's Crucifixion Kaiba on this easter