#First Installment:

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What to Expect from Dangerous Games — A Throne Beneath the Grave, First Installment:

Experience two forms of death

Choose your past life’s profession: were you an Imperial Physician, Grand Diplomat, or Warlord?

See the world through the eyes of the body you’ll inhabit after death

Partially customize your MC (more options unlock in Chapter 1)

And most importantly… die twice

Changes Made / Things Added to Tainted Souls:

Added *if statements for when the MC chooses not to pull Cailyn off the cliff

Reworked hair customization—players can now choose their preferred hair color

Introduced a stats chart to track Revenge, Good Life, and Uncertain paths; these will help shape future consequences based on your choices

What to Expect from Tainted Souls: Second Installment

Attend your ex-betrothed’s Welcoming Ceremony

Activate a hidden stat—or not (still debating whether to include it in the main stats screen)

Lose control of your abilities due to emotional remnants from your new body—and attack the original host’s murderers

Meet and briefly interact with two or three out of five romance options

Dig your own grave with your selected punishment

Learn more about the upcoming Armistice Competition.

Have breakfast with the imperial family

Remind Ragriel that you are the only child of the $!{surname2} household

As always, if you notice any inconsistencies with pronouns or spot any coding errors, please send them my way! I’ve run both randomtest and quicktest on these demos, along with my own read-through, edits, and tweaks. And you all know my ask box is always open—even if I take a loooong time to respond.

Also, I miscalculated earlier—Tainted Souls is now sitting at 85k words, and Dangerous Games is at 8k. I know some of you are probably itching to code dive, but I kindly ask for your patience. I still need to set aside a day to properly clean up the stats and startup pages. Until then—no code diving, sorry 🙇‍♀️.

If you’re enjoying what I’ve shared so far and want to support this lazy, introverted potato, you can treat me to a virtual chocolate! Totally optional, but always appreciated. Ko-Fi

So please enjoy—I hope you have as much fun with this update as I had writing it!

You can find the demos here:

Dangerous Games — A Throne Beneath The Grave Demo

Tainted Souls: Fables & Myth — The Bonded Awakening Demo

Oh! Before I forget—your saves will definitely be in shambles thanks to the new variables I added to the startup file.