Human Interest [v0.1] By NACRElixir

v0.1: The first week

• The first public version. Your first week in Kessmarck, from the train that brings you in to your first rent day.

Story

• The arrival: your uncle’s factory, a city where humans are tolerated at best, and a room with Mana and Thea.
• The first morning: the Finance and Property Bureau sets three terms for your inheritance.
• The factory and the alley: your first walk to the Works takes you past something you weren’t meant to see.
• The streets: a dog-kin robber who wants her toll, one way or another.
• At home: some evenings Thea’s door is left ajar.
• Rent day: Monday morning, she knocks.

Systems

• Character creation: backgrounds, traits, skills and a 27-point stat pool, with an optional Ironman mode.
• Survival: Energy, Food, Sleep and Health.
• Two jobs (one with a promotion), weekly rent, and a tab with your landlady that has its limits.
• The inheritance: pay off the estate, clear the rubble, repair the walls and roof.
• Foraging, alchemy, fishing and cooking. Pickpocketing and break-ins, with heat that rises and cools.
• Turn-based fights, d20 checks you roll yourself, experience, skill points and perks.
• A city map with walking, trams and bicycles. A journal, notes, a weekly planner and a card for everyone you meet.

A note from the developer

• The story, the world and the characters are mine. English isn’t my first language, so I use AI as an editor and proofreader.
• Some minor flavor text (places, shops, odd jobs) is AI-drafted and will be rewritten as development goes on.
• The art assets, including the portraits coming in 0.2, are AI-assisted placeholders that will be replaced once the game has enough support.