Lola

You are an apothecary that heals people with potions. Your shop lies in the outskirts of two major cities and a desert. People from all over the region seek your help. You use 4 types of potions: Body, Willpower, Intellect, and Charisma. Lola is a community grandmother from the eastern city. She is a proud mother and a kindly gardener. She cares for everyone in her town. She makes appointments with you when she needs help. She knows you'll treat her well. [[Appointment 1]]

Lola makes an appointment to get something for her sore joints. She is knitting a sweater for her son and wants to get it done before his birthday. Give her a potion: [[Body Potion ->Results 1a]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 1b]] [[Willpower Potion ->Results 1b]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 1b]]

Lola has seen her neighbor's pet racccoons digging up her flower gardens, and she wants to prevent this from happening. [[Body Potion -> Results 2c]] [[Intellect Potion -> Results 2b]] [[Willpower Potion -> Results 2c]] [[Charisma Potion -> Results 2a]]

Your body potion helps her recover the strength in her hands. She finishes the sweater on time. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 2]]

Your potions does not seem to help her. She does not finish the sweater on time, but she was still glad to see her son. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 2]]

She convinces her neighbors to keep the raccoons away. [[Start Act 2]]

Lola fears that her son will be drafted, but she does not know what to do. She comes to the apothecary seeking anything that could help her. [[Body Potion->Results 3d]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 3c]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 3b]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 3a]]

She designs a new enclosure to keep the raccoons out. [[Start Act 2]]

The raccoons keep getting into her garden and dig up a rose bush. No good pests. [[Start Act 2]]

Lola is able to seek out a friend and talk through her worries. It doesn't solve everything, but it helps. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 4a]]

With her spirit lifted, Lola refocuses her energy into her community and her gardening. She has even brighter roses this year, and her worries are somewhat eased. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 4a]]

Lola becomes suspicious, and paranoid. She thinks often on the dangers of war that could await her son. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 4b]]

Lola cuts her hand on a broken flowerpot that she smashed out of anger. She does not feel any better about her son's potential drafting. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 4b]]

The military is demanding more resources from Lola's farm, but she is already struggling to keep up. She hopes you have something that can help her. [[Body Potion->Results 4b 2]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 4b 3]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 4b 1]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 4b 1]]

Lola is more impatient. The military is demanding resources from her farm, and she is struggling to keep up. [[Body Potion->Results 4b 2]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 4b 3]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 4b 1]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 4b 1]]

Lola recovers some of her strength and is able to complete more work herself, and she meets her first military deadline. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 5a]]

Lola is unable to meet the demands of the military. She is given fewer rations. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 5b]]

Lola is able to develop a new strategy to increase her production without wearing herself out, and she meets her first military deadline. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 5a]]

With fewer rations, Lola is feeling weaker and she is losing hope. The military tells her that she must increase her production or house soldiers in her own home. [[Body Potion->Results 5b 1]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 5b 1]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 5b 1]] [[Charisma->Results 5a 1]]

Even though she met her deadline, Lola must increase her production or house soldiers in her own home. [[Body Potion->Results 5a 2]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 5b 1]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 5a 1]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 5b 1]]

Lola is forced to house soldiers as they build a new barracks on her farmland. [[Start Act 3]]

The willpower potion you gave Lola has allowed her to work longer hours on the farm. She successfully increases her production of resources and is not forced to house any military. [[Start Act 3]]

Several months of brutal warfare have passed. Lola's farm was robbed in the night. She seeks something to help her handle her fears. [[Body Potion->Results 6c]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 6c]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 6a]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 6c]]

She is calm and sets to preparing more safety measures for her house. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 7a]]

Lola's last remaining workers have been drafted. She comes to you in desperation for some way out. [[Body Potion->Results 7b 1]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 7a 2]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 7a 3]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 7a 1]]

Lola's last remaining workers have been drafted. She comes to you in desperation for some way out. [[Body Potion->Results 7b 1]] [[Intellect Potion->Results 7a 3]] [[Willpower Potion->Results 7b 2]] [[Charisma Potion->Results 7a 3]]

Lola bribes the military by selling them a large portion of her farmland. Her friends and workers do not have to leave. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 8a]]

Lola leads her workers out of the city, to the edge of the desert. She has arranged for a caravan of nomads to save her friends. She retreats back to her farm alone, but defiant. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 8a]]

Lola fights one of the officers taking away her workers. She knocks out a few of his teeth, and she gets kicked to the ground. She is left lying alone in the soil of her farm. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 8b]]

She stays silent as every worker on her farm leaves for war. She sits in her garden, staring at barren earth. She thinks of cycle. New life must be coming soon. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 8b]]

A nomad came to warn Lola of a horrific attack planned on her farm by the opposing city. [[Body Potion->Character Ending 2a]] [[Intellect Potion->Character Ending 1b]] [[Willpower Potion->Character Ending 2b]] [[Charisma Potion->Character Ending 1a]]

A nomad came to warn Lola of a horrific attack planned on her farm by the opposing city. [[Body Potion->Character Ending 2d]] [[Intellect Potion->Character Ending 2d]] [[Willpower Potion->Character Ending 2b]] [[Charisma Potion->Character Ending 2c]]

The potions fail her. She grows wearier and more guarded. She leaves her home less and less. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 7b]]

Her friends and workers come back to save her farm from the attack. Half of the farm is destroyed, but the house still stands. Many of her friends were killed in the fight. She sets up new defenses and is aided by the city military for her contributions. She is offered a new home farther inside the city's protection, but she insists she will stay in the house she and her wife built all those years ago. [[Restart->Lola Character Notes]]

The hunter and her friends help her set up a trap for the attackers. They burn alive on the perimeter of her farm. The military hires her as a strategist, and gives her new protection. Any woman who could prepare such a ruthless trap is military material in their eyes. [[Restart->Lola Character Notes]]

The nomadic hunter takes her to safety in the desert. Her home is burned to ash, but she is alive. [[Restart->Lola Character Notes]]

She flees from the attack. Her farm is burned to the ground, but she survives and joins the nomadic communities in the desert with her friends. [[Restart->Lola Character Notes]]

She calmly evacuates to a nearby community. They welcome her to a temporary shelter. Her farm is burned to the ground, but she survives. [[Restart->Lola Character Notes]]

Her farm is burned to the ground, but she survives and comes to you, offering her work gathering ingredients. She has no home. [[Restart->Lola Character Notes]]

The body potion you gave Lola has allowed her to work longer hours on the farm. She successfully increases her production of resources and is not forced to house any military. [[Start Act 3]]

Nothing seems to help. [[Next Appointment->Appointment 8b]]

Two more weeks have passed since your last appointment. The two cities have been arguing over resources in the region for some time, but last week fighting broke out over access to a river, and war has been declared. Lola has an [[appointment->Appointment 3]]

Four weeks have passed since your last appointment with Lola. The war has escalated rapidly. The land between the cities is covered with battles. Raids and attacks have come closer in the cities. Lola has an [[appointment. ->Appointment 6]]