We're diving in! Yu and Mei's mechanic progress.

Hey again everyone! The mechanic is under way. What you see above is a little demonstration of active character swapping. The modifiers under Yu's bar are placeholder visuals, but I will go over what they are while breaking things down.

Some of this will be recap, but here we go:

The victory condition for this is completing Yu's progress bar. Yu's bar has a bunch of "Curses" and it takes about 3 times longer than Mei's bar. These curses are large debuffs given to you when they proc. 

These are the possible Curses:

• Hex: Apply 5 different 2-star modifiers.
• Conjure: Apply 1 random Gold modifier.
• Bewitch: Extreme stat debuff (- value increase, - perfect increase, - crit rate, +damage received)

The values may change a bit, depending on how things feel, but for now that is where they stand. 

Yu's bar will contain 9 curses. Having all these curses stack against you will be very challenging, but luckily there is a way to minimize this. That is with Mei.

Mei's progress bar is treated the same as normal progress bars. At the start, the 3 selected modifiers will go to her, and upon completion you will select 3 more modifiers, and continue just like an endurance. ALL modifiers that you select will be white modifiers. You cannot select silver or gold modifiers in this song. Drinks from the vending machine cannot negate this either.

With that, there is 1 new white modifier that will be available in this song only. You may have noticed it in the gif above, but this modifier is called "Blessing".

Blessing is represented by Mei's face. This modifier will give you a stack of "Blessing".

If you trigger a Curse while having at least 1 Blessing, you will resist the curse entirely at the cost of 1 of those Blessings. Just make sure you have a Blessing BEFORE you trigger a curse on Yu's bar, as it works like a preemptive shield. You can stack multiple blessings at the same time, or stagger them out to stop the curses you choose.

Something else to note is that when Mei is the active character, Yu's bar will continue to drain, but at a very reduced rate from normal. You can complete Mei as many times as you like for buffs/modifiers, but keep an eye on Yu and make sure she doesn't get neglected for too long. On the flip side, however, if Yu is the active character, Mei's will not have any drain at all. You can stay off of Mei for as long as you like.

On a side note, making the charted intro work properly took a little bit due to the fact that it really conflicted with a lot of how the scripts were built, but now that it's all working, here is an example of how Double, and fission will work during the intro. Once the intro section is finished, Double will return to it's alternating format until the song loops.

Now for a closing statement, I appreciate everyone's contribution to the poll, and we have come to a conclusion on how to handle the remaining "extra Hcontent". I will go more into it when we get to next build, so look forward to that ^^.

Alright guys, I think that should do it for this report. I'm hoping to have this mechanic all wrapped up in the next couple days here, then I can get into setting up the tents/overworld. See you all next week!

-Regulus