Alan Wake - The Storyteller

The Master of Many Worlds is stuck in a loop again... a cozy, life-sim shaped one...

This mod is a complete custom Storyteller inspired by Alan Wake from the Remedy Entertainment titles of the same name. It's made to offer a tougher gameplay experience than the base game storycards offer, with 20 new story cards (13 of which are negative), a hand size of 2, inability to skip grabbing storycards, and a few other general changes.

The custom card texture is also persistent as far as I can tell, so it will remain even when you're not using Alan as your storyteller. The Lake cards will also still spawn in the usual hand, but at a lower weight so as to not interrupt gameplay as much (but to still let you see them if you want, I guess). Another persistent change is that storycards should now drop at 1am, instead of 5am, with no requirement that your Paras are sleeping beforehand.

I finally figured out how to more consistently add extra story cards, so I'll very likely add more storycards in the future. Feel free to leave suggestions for those or tweaks to existing ones if you have them, my sense of game balance has never been great!

Storyteller Portrait art used with permission from the lovely Tarphi- check 'em out on Tumblr (@tarphi) or on Twitter (@tarphidraws)!

All added storycards are

Some things remain... +5 EXP to a random skill worked on today.

You're stuck in a loop! +4 Sadness status.

Did I eat the words? Get sick.

You're not making sense, man! +4 Angry status.

I write and I write... Sleep decays faster.

This story will eat us alive! Set Hunger to 3.

Where am I? Set Sleep to 3.

Diving deeper to escape. +10 EXP to most learned skill today.

These are my words! Give 1 vacation day.

A stepping stone to travel deeper... +5 EXP in most learned skill today and +'Want: Be Inside for 2 Hours'.

All the words are gone! Set Repair skill to level 1.

It's called 'Return', because we- +5 EXP to Visual Art skill.

How do you run from an idea? Set Fun to 0.

We will break through the surface, and into the light. +10 Personality Experience.

I was awake... A. Wake? Sleep decays slower.

I eat the words! Hunger decays faster.

It's stealing from me, stealing my identity- -2500 Paradigms.

Make you choke on these words! Set item nearest this Para on fire.

I'm so tired, just let me sleep! Set Sleep to 1.

I don't know how to write-! Set Visual Art skill to 1.