The Swallow's Descent

From the rpgmaker.net archive. 

A game I made together with a wonderful game jam group in 2016.
Someone made a let's play! We also have an Adventure Gamers mention :)

When a diplomat is murdered during peace talks at a remote monastery, an undercover agent must solve the mystery to prevent war.

Original game page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220829071557/https://rpgmaker.net/games/9160/

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Murder! At the St. Hyssmark Monastery!
Bacon Jam 2016 - "It's like one of those BBC mystery shows except it takes place in Final Fantasy"

Text and character heavy, a classic whodunnit, alternates between find-the-clue exploration and accuse-the-perp excoriation, one to two hours depending on your reading speed and attention to detail

Present day, 1206: William Byske, an agent of the magical special ops unit Arcane Reconnaissance Corps (ARC) is tasked to guard the ambassador on a diplomatic mission. Ambassador Belgrave is pompous, incompetent, and generally a dick, but, even so... when he's killed at the St. Hyssmark Monastery from a blow to the head and with a mysterious wire-tail swallow jammed in his throat, it falls to William to solve the case and prevent all-out war.

The Swallow's Descent is the entry from mjshi, KatanaHiroshi (now Vaccaria), and psy_wombats (plus InfectionFiles) for the McBaconjam 2016 event, completed in a month. The game features:

- A classic whodunnit to be solved (or just enjoyed)
- A cast of mostly unfriendly characters for William to deal with
- A collection of expressive character portraits by the talented mjshi
- A detailed monastery to stumble over
- A lot of objects to search. Everything is searchable!
- A fully choreographed text/cutscene experience
- A not at all original soundtrack from Presence of Music and Eric Matyas (http://www.soundimage.org)