Even though I'm not a big fan of futuristic RPGs, I'll give this a shot... though could you explain these two to me?
Typically closets aren't completely sealed off, as in there's a crack under the door that any sort of airborne toxin could enter through. Also, depending on the strength of the explosion and the distance the school is from it, wouldn't a weak construct such as a school be all but completely demolished?
And about Dr. Clark, unless humans can quickly develop an immunity and natural cure for itself from these toxins, wouldn't being close to the explosion increase his chances of death (also applying to the main character)? And in the same statement, you claim he survived but he may have died?
EDIT: Well, I ran into a few problems early on. First thing's first, the font is messed up. I'm fairly certain it isn't just my computer since I've got working copies of the RM2000 8 and RMG2000 8 fonts along with MsGothi and MsMincho. Second, you can walk on top of all tables? I'm not sure if this was intentional, but if not you should look into this. Also, when you speak with one of the Lab Workers, it says "PLEASE BACK OFF NOW I AM ABOUT TO TEST SOMETHING'S FLAMMABILITY!!!" which is followed by an error claiming that an "Event script referenced a battle animation that does not exist."
Okay, answer to your questions:
The toxin wave, isn't exactly an "explosion". If you've seen the FMV sequence during the experiment, at the end there is a gold coloured ring that comes out of the sapphire, that is the toxin wave. And not that it's an airbourne toxin, the toxin only was active when the gold ring came out of the sapphire. It was a "1 time only thing" anything that is exposed really well (hiding in closets will
help) It's not as powerful as the one in the movie "The Happening" if you know what I mean, like if there is a hole in door thats as big as this smiley face:
they would die in the Happening, but not in my game. The toxin wave only effects those who are fully exposed to it. WARNING THIS MAY SPOIL MINOR PARTS OF THE GAME: People who are outside walking on streets during the toxin wave, died, due to being exposed to the toxin the most. People indoors however, are only
mutated. Since they arn't as exposed as the people outdoors. Having a crack under a door won't affect you. If the crack is big enough. It may make you very ill. Basically it goes Minimum - Illness Medium -
Mutation. Maximum - Death. Basically it's not as strong.
When Zen heard the explosion, what I meant by that was, Spoiler:
He was sitting in the middle of class that day, and he heard the toxin wave coming. (the toxin wave travels slowly at like 40 miles per hour) The school is at least a quarter mile away from the laboratory, so he looked out a window and noticed a yellow beam slowly approaching his school. Other children in his class could not see this wave through the other windows, since it was only in view in his. He then looked for a metal cabinet, yanked out all the books and hid inside of it, when the rest of his classroom were mutated during the toxin wave. .
About Dr. Clark's death, he wasn't killed by the toxins since he was close to the experiment when the wave occurred, he was most likely killed during the self destruct sequence, since he had to hold the self destruct lever down until the self destruct sequence was at 20 seconds remaining, which means it was very unlikely to escape the lab in time before it exploded.
Dr. Clark actually does survive, later in the game you see him transform into a giant mutant because he was bitten by another mutated creature.
The font was set to Georgia, with the font changer. It's the only font that I found that worked the best. I didn't want to have to send other people the RPG Maker fonts, so I just set it to something that everyone should already have on their computer. It's still readable, right?
The battle animation error: I used a tutorial so I don't have to include the RTP, but I need to place ALL the files that I'm using in the game. It looks like I did not include the fire battle animation.
And, its 2021 lol, they have pills that make you immune to toxic chemicals, and since the toxin wave already passed, and Arc was close to it, the pill is useless and the laboratory dude gave it to him for safety.
Also, the walking on tables thing, yeah, I did that intentionally. I just thought "Wouldn't it be cool if you could walk on laboratory tables?" I dunno, it's just a retarded thing I added in, later in the game there is no table walking. xD
Hope this helps!
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