Interesting! I love text adventures. Mostly, I love typing weird stuff in and seeing what happens! My favorite that I ran into this time was when I told her to "cry." Nicely done, there. Unfortunately, you didn't let me insult the old woman, which was a bit of a disappointment. Also, I tried to use my scalpel in various interesting ways, but none of them quite panned out for me. Still, a fun little experiment, and I learned that Marid apparently can't cook.

Oh, and the reaction to my trying to destroy the pendant was good, too. (I'm not a good person when I play these games.)

I also tried to hum everywhere. I was surprised it knew what I meant, so I just kept trying it. I enjoyed what happened in the public house because of it. Also, I was disappointed I couldn't dance. I first tried with Reden, but that didn't work...

Anyway, one thing that might be a slight (very slight) bug. I tried to type "talk to mutant" instead of "talk to bartender" and it returned a message saying "You can't use multiple objects with that verb." I thought that was a bit weird.

Fun stuff, CKY! Thanks!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll have to look into adding "insult" as a verb...

The "talk to mutant" bug is because of me accidentally making "mutant" also refer to the patrons of the public house in plural (because the patrons are of various races). Good catch.

Did you realize you can TALK TO or T people? You might have missed out on some fairly substantial dialogues with the old woman and the bartender. I'll have to make these more obvious in the full game.

Sorry, I was inexact.

When I say that I tried to insult the old woman, I meant that I chose the dialog option that calls her an old hag and asks what she knows of art. I may have tried to use the verb insult at some point, but I don't remember. I did talk to both her and the bartender (well, I talked at the bartender, I guess. He didn't have much to say). I had actually missed that there were other patrons in the public house, but going back there real quick here, they didn't seem to have much to say, either.

On the one hand, I like the atmosphere this portrays. On the other, I don't feel like there's really much choice involved, which makes this more an interactive fiction than a game. I couldn't even brush my teeth before bed.

Uh-oh.

Greek mythology is a thing here, or just the one figure?
This too is a reference to Earth religions. Intentional?

No kidding. Incidentally, I recently learned that dovecotes were once built as a source of fertilizer.

Solphos employs similar imagery and motifs to classical European alchemy and medicine. Think of it like Kamigawa borrowing the torii gate and Shinto imagery, or Theros's association of the snake with Pharika. Note that the Mercury referenced is not Hermes, but an anthropomorphic personification of the element of mercury, which becomes clearer if you >X IMAGE OF MERCURY.

I'm sorry you feel that way. This is the Prologue, so I put the gameplay on rails to a large degree -- the idea is to teach the player to be comfortable with the text adventure format, and not overwhelm with a large array of options right out of the gate. Nevertheless, you are right in that story takes precedence over choice in The Weight of a Soul -- this is a "game" in the sense of Firewatch or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

I'll add a response to >BRUSH (MY) TEETH.

What, "dance" is a verb you recognize, but "laugh" isn't? At least you could say the same as with dancing, that I'm not in the mood...

Well, I was pleasantly surprised when "examine night" returned something. Couldn't figure out how to break HIPAA laws, though.

Oh, come on! I talk to myself all the time! I'm not crazy just for that!

When I type "stand" while in the dormitory block, it takes me to the west end of Via Terminalus.