Hi Zomuro, everyone:

Deathless Daji - updated
Farseer Fan - has issues with Odyssey, not sure
Jianghu Jin - mostly working but some weirdness due to 1.6 changes
Kaiyi Karmic - never did get updated, unlikely to

Cheers!

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Hey, quick question. I notice that Daji has been updated to 1.6. Will the other storytellers be getting updated as well? Thanks, love the mod.

WHERE KAIYI THE KARMIC ON 1.5?!

1.5 Farseer Fan: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=3448319470

Kaiyi, I am coming for you ...

1.5 Jianghu Jin: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=3403972335

1.5 Deathless Daji: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370165682

Zomuro, please let me know if and when you reincorporate these, you're welcome to use any of my changes (I added some Anomaly-related settings, etc.) and I will remove mine if you so request.

How is update going?

when the new version comes out as part of the xenotype mod, it'll probably have some additional adjustments + new storyteller art

to basically answer why i'm not planning to update this:

this mod was split from the original xenotype mod it was meant to be part of

additionally, irrc there are changes to how storytellers get incidents that came w/ 1.5- changes that more or less borked both Farseer Fan and Kaiyi the Karmic

... i still can't believe Jianghu Jin, of all the storytellers, wasn't that affected, but i digress

point being, i'm planning to incorporate these storytellers into an upcoming xenotype mod

Miss this

Also hoping for an update.

i do hope this gets updated. it has the best mechanics for storytellers (my opinion) never a dull moment never overbearing just *chef's kiss* perfect

Hey is this mod getting updated for 1.5? Was trying to use Daji and corpses weren't getting reanimated. It's a great mod and it'd be so cool to pair Daji with anomaly.

@baddna777
that wasn't the first time this happened

"is there somewhere that these pictures are posted, because they're very good, make me feel many things, and I would love to show them to some friends who don't play rimworld"
Lmao Yooo....

Ooh very interesting, neat twists on new storytellers! I'll have to give this mod a try :)

Thank you kindly!

This mod looks very interesting,but it says its standalone. So is there a full version with other content? I cant find it if there is.

@Hyena-Princess
if you know where to look in your workshop files (/Steam/steamapps/workshop/...) you should be able to find the storyteller portraits

i'm going to regret this aren't i

@Sera, tolaburke
yes

Two things:
1.) these all seem great! Like amazing storytellers great work!
2.) is there somewhere that these pictures are posted, because they're very good, make me feel many things, and I would love to show them to some friends who don't play rimworld

@tolqburke I'm going to go out on a limb here and say considering what they are plus the fact that they are loosely on the idea of ancient Asian deities I wouldn't be surprised if all three of them are plastered 90% of the time.

Is Deathless Daji also Drunk?

@noster
Simple term both male and female

what does hermaphroditic mean?

@Horny Cat
Here's the mod you're looking for.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1076950211

I broke myself, please fix.

hey

hey

mod updated

tell me what broke




i live in fear of your power

@Zomuro
Cool i will keep playing around with them a little bit. Mostly I've been sticking with jin and I should probably test out the others if I'm going to help out with that but it seems like the more I stick with one the more it stuff i find. So I'll let you know if I find anything else.

@Sera
oh yeah, I know about the tree, working on that

i'll make sure to ensure the tile's passable

Found another massive issue. Every time Jin changes the tarrian it counts as the anima tree getting destroyed. So now you have an unavoidable massive mood hit. and if your linked to it you lose the boons.

So uh found a huge issue. Jin can turn your tile mountainous. meaning no one can get in or out of your impossible to travel tile. feels like no matter the setting anything marked as impassable on the map should be impossible for her to make.

a little update for everyone- what on earth is zom doing?

i'm moving heaven and earth to rework and update stuff- pretty significant update touching just about every storyteller

and some tutorial stuff

@zamuro I'm glad I was able to help out. If at the very least I always like to give another perspective. Just in case there is something that might be valuable.

I would definitely approve if you use biotech genetics to make them. (I personally have way too many buggy problems with HAR) Also if it helps I think alphagenetics has a female only Gene that'll make anyone spawn with female body types and there is also a gene mod that adds a hermaphrodite gene. They might help out a bit in your creation.

If there's anything else you want me to look at I don't mind.

@Skullpunk
bet

@Sera
frankly, our conversation has convinced me I should buff the totems and array, and adjust the upkeep for the array- enough to cover a large enough portion to be worthwhile. i'm probably going to also look into introducing a new setting for the range.

the Yaoma are probably going to be biotech. HAR is pretty damn useful, but from both a lore and design perspective i prefer it as a xenotype.

honestly this was a pretty timely comment, guess I'm touching up all the storytellers after all

ngl, you had me at Hermaphrodite.
also fun fact, the word Hermaphrodite comes from Greek mythology as the name of the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite, and who had both male and female features.

As it stands seems like the only counter is to retreat into my pocket dimension fully making a micro base outside that is only good for defense. But lets be honest that's just cheating. because she can't touch in there (for good reason to.)

But other then this I am likeing the story tellers and can't wait for the race. Are they going to be biotech or HAR?

2/2

Yes I know about the array. I remember looking at the best one thinking "wow. for a rare find that covers not a lot even when powered up."

I assumed she would Someone doesn't get jiggly with the terrain without collateral damage. it just feels like there is so little you can do. You could spam down dinky totems that have the range so small even my pawn are willing to walk across it to eat at the table or find a better one with good enough range but wait power it with jade and if you can't keep enough of this extremely rare material or she gets you right before it's reloaded your base gets gets violated like I do the laws of the geneva convention. Preventing it seems less skill more RNG. And at least to me an RNG f* you is only fun if I can get better to fully counter it easy later.

1/2

@TheGreenDigi
i had a chance to chat with Hotseat's author; it should work properly

the reason i included the ability to "remember" aspects of their mechanics is because both rely on saved values. imagine having to redo the long process of getting back all your karma to buy incidents with for kaiyi- ugh!

@Sera
there are specific buildings you have to build to guarantee protection against Jin's terraforming incident: the stabilizer totem and array. both will protect a range around them and make for decent art pieces; additionally, arrays have a much larger range, and are reusable.

glad to see you found the setting for both terrain and indoor damage... but also, let the buyer beware! Jin will mess up your base without remorse by changing the map around it.

that said, i probably should have made that all more clear. whoops!

@Elgate
kaiyi rework and general update in progress; hopefully that should make him more worthwhile to play with

Huh, looking at the settings of the mod, for both Kaiyi and Jin, they both have settings to have them remember aspects of their mechanics between swapping storytellers. Does that mean that these storytellers were set up to naturally work properly with Hotseat? (obviously if you have those options enabled for the two).

ok I don't know what is going on but "Jin respects indoors" Not really. I don't know if it's my shield generator the walls/doors I have (vanilla expanded vault) or the roof (raise the roof) or what but even if it says "indoors" she will still remove my flooring (and i built over water so by by chunk of base) and I have to devmode it back down. Maybe make it so if it's in the range of a shield generator nothing changes. otherwise useing her seems to be a 50/50 chance if you have to rebuild.

and I did find the setting after this. But my point is by default that should not be on. default should be 0% chance to change inside rooms.

@KhalunQalli If it helps till then their is a hermaphrodite gene mod. I use it and it allows you to get and make others pregnant.

"hermaphroditic xenohumans" *looks at my insert character pawn* Uh feel like I need to put this in for a solidarity thing.

also side note why is jin making me think of R.kelly's bump and grind.

#Jin Supremacy!

I feel like the karmic isn't really a choice... I almost always have high karma because any random events that happen produce karma. And whenever I can make deals, I don't have many choices on what to spend it on. Like, currently I only have 1 positive choice being Traveler group (which are absolutely useless) out of 10 and I have 25 karma sitting there. All the other options are diseases.

@KhalunQalli

loring is hard work

I hope you'll publish the race mod sometime soon. From the tidbits included here and the storyteller's backstories it sounds interesting.

@Ben_Carter
Oh, frack, Kaiyi AGAIN.

The long story short is that Kaiyi will *check* if he can fire an incident that you selected before firing it. If he can't fire it, it'll give you that message.

Kaiyi in general is a really complex storyteller, so yeah- there's probably some bugs even I haven't noticed after all my testing.

I'm leaning towards removing that check: frankly, you paid for the incident, you should get it.

@Tri-Enclave President CEO
That wasn't a typo :)

On a more serious note, glad to know you're enjoying these four storytellers! They are a labor of love and suffering.

Of all the things I could point out, I want to point out a typo in Deathless Daji's description (least on this mod page). "Throwing in whatever catches *his* fancy." As for something that's actually important, this is one of the more unique storytellers I've had the pleasure to use, in fact these four are the only modded storytellers I've used in quite some time.

What is "your fate resisted manipulation" doing for Kaiyi the Karmic? I'm just seeing that again and again.