Hi, everyone. Welcome to this week's developer's diary.

The next Friday will be the 21st Anniversary. Even though the DLC may not be released just yet, its store page will likely be available. It's currently just pending Valve's review.

The reason to make it a free DLC instead of a part of the game is that it's going to be huge compared to the main game. It's currently about 5GB and growing as it's developed with Unreal, while the main game is based on a heavily modified ancient RMXP, which will never get that big. Thus, the DLC will be totally optional; people who don't want to play that part of the story will not need to download it at all.

Now, let's go back to this week's main game updates.

As mentioned last week, this week's focus is on the Inquisition Activities in Fjordr.

Nobody expected the inquisition would actually inquisit people. And that's what you are going to do.

After making contact with Dana, you can now receive your second quest from Erysea.

She will ask you to identify some soldiers with bad behavior problems so that she can just send them to do some suicide missions to achieve the goal of purging the ranks of the military.

How to make people talk?

Use whatever method you see fit. :D

Now, what kind of behavior is considered misbehavior?

Well, that's kind of arbitrary, just like the quest name "Mission: Improbable" implied. This is a totally messed-up, light-hearted mission.

Actually, you don't even need to bother to "inquisition" people. You can just write off some random unfortunate soldiers you meet. But that may damage your relationship with the Federation army and the Inquisitor, as each soldier will be reviewed and given a misfit score. If you get the right soldier to send them to die, you will get more rewards. Otherwise, people will doubt your credibility, which is bad.

Once you finish this part, it will become a repeatable mission. You can keep going on an "inquisition" on people more and send more people to die if you wish. It also provides a reliable method for farming Inquisition Seals.

But that's not all of them yet.

Next, you will get a more serious quest, that is to retrieve the nanobot sample from the hospital's underground research facility. It has been a containment breach for months in real life, as that part has already been done many weeks ago. Now, the stories just link up.

However, this time, to reward you for your help in the inquisition, you will get an Inquisition Authorization to prove you are an agent of the Inquisition. Those lowly soldiers and guards will no longer bother you and even obey your orders if you show them that. It also has some other usages. Feel free to play around and discover.

Now that we're back in the hospital, we also have some new content here.

There is only one nanobot sample before the entire lab collapses. It's really precious. You may not want to give it to the Inquisitor. You may want to keep it to yourself or maybe sell it to someone else. The good news is, you are not the only one who has this idea. Things just get a bit more interesting here. You may find someone tries to make a fake sample, commit treason, and sell the real sample to a foreign power.

Oh, yes, maybe it's the moon. We never know. Comrade Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria :D

But, in the game, this by itself is another tiny story about a man's hatred that grows so uncontainable that all he wanted was to leave this facility behind and start his new life elsewhere. A rebel against things he considered unfair to him.

Anyway, you know how to take advantage of the situation.

You can make fake samples and try to fool the inquisition before they can figure out what's going on.

By retrieving the sample, it is the conclusion of the third part of the quest.

It's still not the end game of this week's update yet!

It's time to let the Colonel return!

Players from the SAPC++ era may recognize him.

Raerson was a newbie police officer turned top agent of the Federation who successfully carried out various operations involving the supernatural.

Just name a few, some of these operations are:

1, Solving a zombie outbreak in a mining town more than 12 years ago.

(The ARPG Zombie Mini Game in SAPC++)

Hey, check the timestep of the video. It was uploaded to YouTube 12 years ago. Everything I told you is true. :D

2, Defeat a revived Nobunaga Oda in Japan.

3. Murdered some player characters who decided to become enemies of the Federation in some other timelines.

Yes, those are great old times. We are so back!

Now he has been promoted to Colonel and is in charge of this operation to liberate Jiru Island from those machines.

However, during his conversation with his retinue, you can also find more information about other characters, such as Tanya.

As a veteran who experienced so much in this supernatural war, you will also find his personality much darker than it was a decade ago.

Heroes? There is no such thing in this world.

He is also a member of the secret organization that controls the Federation from the shadows (You can find more about this organization in the Dark Elf King's storyline.) Unlike others, he does not even try to hide this fact.

Because, who knows, maybe we are all going to suddenly die tomorrow just because some unspeakable eldritch beings that may not even notice the entire planet Earth suddenly wake up. Such is the realization of how little humanity really is in this cosmos. And you don't want to take all your memory, all your secrets to your grave.

He comes with a powerful weapon. (Not his very unique Background Music known as "The Black Knight.")

He will give you a device that can reprogram those machines and hopefully turn the tide of the war.

And there is the end of this week's story.

At the end of the current storyline, you can turn those machine skeletons into your pets!

Instead of using binding skills, you will need to pass a programming check, as the skill granted by the weapon falls into the "quick hack" category.

It's time for your software engineer teammates to shine. :D

I hope you enjoy the adventure of this week.

The next week, my main focus will be on the 21st anniversary, and hopefully, Valve will finish their store page review soon.

The full update log of this week:

20250621

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\[Fjordr]Random soldiers may have random traits.

\[Fjordr]You can use various speech skills to let them tell you about their traits. (Each successful dice-roll will give you information about a unique trait they have.)

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\[Siege of Dana]Fixed missing Chinese localizations. (Thanks to M1kh4iLyN/A's bug report.)

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【福尔德】随机的士兵可能带有各种随机的性格特质。

【福尔德】你可以使用各种口才技能来说服、威胁、欺诈他们来告诉你他们的各种特质。（每次成功抛骰会给你一条你还不知道的特质信息的线索。）

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【达那围城战】修复了缺失的中文文本。（感谢M1kh4iLyN/A的Bug报告。）

20250622

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\[Mission: Improbable]The second part of the quest is done.

\[Quest]New Quest: Penal Unit Candidates (Repeatable)

\[Document]New document: Erysea's Misfit Behavior List

\[Wiki]Updated the quest page. Updated the "Mission: Improbable page." Added a new page for "Penal Unit Candidates"

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【行动代号：不靠谱】第二部分完工。

【任务】新任务：惩戒部队候选人 （可重复）

【文档】新文档：《哀瑞希的不端行为清单》

【维基】更新了任务页面。更新了【行动代号：不靠谱】。为【惩戒部队候选人】追加了新的页面。

20250623

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\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]Added a secret room.

\[Item]New Item: Fake Nanobot Sample

\[Item]New Item: Inquisition Authorization

\[Fjordr Hospital]You can show the guards Inquisition Authorization to let them go away.

\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]You can now show the security captain Inquisition Authorization and order him to lift the lockdown.

\[Qinuyi Underwater Checkpoint]You can now use Inquisition Authorization to pass the checkpoint.

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【福尔德医院地下】加入了一个新的秘密房间。

【物品】新物品：伪造的纳米机器人样本

【物品】新物品：审判庭授权书

【福尔德医院】你可以向守卫展示审判庭授权书让他们离开。

【福尔德医院地下】你现在可以向保安队长出具审判庭授权书并命令他解除封锁。

【奇奴伊海底关卡】你现在可以用审判庭授权书通过吉鲁段的检查点。

20250624

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\[Mission: Improbable]The story continues. Here is the part where you will receive the Inquisition Authorization.

\[Mission: Improbable]You can either use the real nanobot sample or the fake one to finish the mission. However, the next part is still a work in progress.

\[Wiki]Updated the "Mission: Improbable" page.

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【行动代号：不靠谱】剧情继续。在这部分，你会获得审判庭授权书

【行动代号：不靠谱】你可以使用真的纳米机器人样本或者假的来交差。但是，后续还在施工中。

【维基】更新了【行动代号：不靠谱】页面。

20250625

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\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]Added a new document: Technician's Note

\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]Added a Juicer & Blender in the new secret room.

\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]You can now make fake nanobot samples here.

\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]Added some story content for the new secret room.

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\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]Fixed some issues with the new secret room.

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【福尔德医院地下】新文档：技术员的笔记

【福尔德医院地下】在新的秘密房间加入了一个榨汁搅拌机。

【福尔德医院地下】你现在可以在这里制造假的纳米机器人样本。

【福尔德医院地下】为新的秘密房间加入了一些故事内容。

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【福尔德医院地下】修复了新的秘密房间的一些问题。

20250626

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\[Mission: Improbable]The third part is done. Colonel Raerson is back. He comes with his BGM, "The Black Knight."

\[Item]New Item: Hack Tool - Reprogramming

\[Skill]New Skill: Quickhack - Reprogramming. (Still working in progress)

\[Wiki]Updated the skill page. Updated the Mission: Improbable page.

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\[Fjordr Hospital Underground]Fixed some other issues with the new secret room.

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【行动代号：不靠谱】第三部分完成。拉尔松上校回归。并且带来了他的BGM 【黑骑士】

【物品】新物品：黑客工具-重新编程

【技能】新技能：快速黑客-重新编程（仍然在施工中）

【维基】更新了技能页面。更新了【行动代号：不靠谱】页面。

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【福尔德医院地下】修复了新的秘密房间的另外一些问题。

20250627

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\[Skill]Quickhack - Reprogramming is now functional. It's a pet capture skill. But, instead of using binding skill check, it uses programming.

\[Pet]Machine Skeleton can now be reprogrammed into your pet.

\[Pet]The lowest dice roll when capturing a pet is no longer always zero.

\[Wiki]Updated the pet page.

\[Wiki]Updated the skill page.

\[Fjordr Command Center]Added more dialog options on Colonel Raerson.

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【技能】快速黑客-重新编程已经可以使用。这是一个宠物捕捉技能。但是，不是对封印术进行技能鉴定，而是基于编程技能。

【宠物】机械骷髅现在可以重新编程为宠物。

【宠物】捉宠物时的抛骰的最低值现在不总是零。

【维基】更新了宠物页面。

【维基】更新了技能页面。

【福尔德指挥中心】为拉尔松上校加入了更多对话内容。

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