December 4th, 2025

Made some honestly meteoric progress with DQ9 today. Finished the Stornwell arc and then also the Coffinwell arc. Stornwell is maybe better than I remember but Coffinwell is honestly a lot worse than I remember. Idk if I'd call it bad but it's got some pacing problems (the reveal that the plague is actually a curse happens way too fast imo) and the dungeon is literally just one big floor arranged like a grid that has no real puzzle or challenge to it and the actual plot itself is weaker than I remember it being. Hopefully the rest of the game is as good as I remember it story-wise.

Valor today went well, though I wound up not participating much just due to how the session was laid out. This will also probably wind up being the last Valor session, not because the game itself is ending but because the GM wants to pivot away from the system and this is narratively the best time to do so. I suggested Princess the Hopeful (a fanmade NWoD game) and there's a good chance we wind up pivoting to that system but I'm not sure how we would make that "work" narratively. Everyone suddenly being a magical girl is maybe too much of a leap, though there's always the option of just starting a new story with new versions of our characters adapted to it.

Quick edit: ok it would be a new game with new characters, but with the ability to make new versions of our existing Valor characters, which I'm 100% gonna do regardless of what system we end up using.