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Choir of Echoes

Establish a new cult and follow the teachings of a new Hour: The Bard.
Learn the lore of the Songs that Be and unlock greater mysteries to reach the House of Ballads (alone, or with a lover).

Requirements:
- Base game
- Dancer DLC

What is this?
This mod will add/replace several assets of the base game, while leaving the game feeling as vanilla as possible. It will make the game somewhat easier and faster, although the most powerful stuff is hard to obtain.
Most stuff is edited instead of added, as to not leave behind any interactions I might have missed. It will give you a new cult, lore, influences, followers, tools, etc.
This was made mainly for emotional catharsis after a lot drama on my social life, hence the depressing card descriptions... specially on followers. I needed to do something creative to unwind, and this is the result. Hope you enjoy my ramblings!

Is there a guide for this?
You will start with a new card: "A Piece of my Past". Take a good look at it and experiment from there.

Features:

Changes to make the game faster:
- "Speak of esoteric matters" will give you 2 different people from the acquaintances deck, instead of one, speeding up the recruitment process.
- Translating a text now takes 20 seconds, instead of 60.
- "Inspired Work at the Ecdysis Club" will give you more funds. Although Dancer is really good as a job at the last level, this puts it on top tier, along with the last level of Glover & Glover.
- Spintrias have been given lots of different uses as well. They will be your most important resource now.

New stuff:
- New cult: The Choir of Echoes (replaces the Society of the Holy Wound)
- New lore: The Songs that Be (replaces Knock Lore)
- New desire: The Bards Way (added, doesn't replace the current ones)
- New HQ: The House of Seasons (replaces Warehouse, and it will be extremely expensive to repair, but has all positive aspects and will allow a special interaction with a new follower)
- 2 new endings: follow the Bard's teachings on your own, or traverse the gates with a companion.
- New influences to match the Songs.
- New tools to match the Songs: Chieftain's Flute, Devil's Violin, Bard's Lute.
- New map to explore: The Orange Way.

Replaces several followers with new ones, all of them can be upgraded to Exalted rank (although some of them will require more Song aspect than others). All of them have special abilities, some unlocked only on the Exalted rank, but others have them at Follower and Disciple rank as well.
- Andre: must be Exalted. Talk to him with something Silver to gather higher Ingredients.
- Cana: improves with rank. Talk to him with Funds to get him to write Histories.
- Erika: does not have an ability on her own. Requires the House of Seasons. Explore it with her to receive Bronze and Joy (WARNING: use "Explore", not "Talk", or you will trigger the "Betray a Follower" action instead).
- Fernando: must be Exalted. Talk to him with something Silver to gather Tools.
- Flavia: improves with rank. Talk to her with Passion and you will Glimmer.
- Gabriel: must be Exalted. Talk to him with a Spintria to elevate its material.
- Laura: improves with rank. Talk to her with Health to receive Joy and some Heart.
- Lu: must be Exalted. Talk to him with something Gold to receive Fragments of Knowledge from him.
- Mar: improves with rank. Talk to her with Health and you will be Revitalized.
- Natalia: must be Exalted. Talk to her with something Gold to receive Fragments of Passion from her.
- Nico: must be Exalted. Talk to him with something Gold to gather impressive Tools.
- Noelia: must be Exalted. Talk to her with something Gold to gather impressive Ingredients.
- Pilar: improves with rank. Talk to her with Passion for a Reminescence and some Light.
- Tommy: must be Exalted. Talk to him with something Silver to gather lower Ingredients.
- Volcano: improves with rank. Talk to him with Reason and you will Learn.

Special thanks to:
The Modding section of the CS Discord server, specially Chelnoque and Gen, who helped me a lot.
phlexington who did the visual changes to the lore and influences cards.
Everyone who was made into a follower in this mod.
You, for playing it!