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It is also completely free!
I hope you enjoy it! ☆彡

Synopsis
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there was a traveller...

Our protagonist, a mysterious traveller, wanders the far-off land of Desservir searching for patrons to buy their wares.
Upon hearing about a large annual market in the village of Castella, the traveller decides to set up a stall and try their luck.
Life, however, is not so easy.
After being double-crossed by a goblin and left in the middle of the cold, wet moors to die, the traveller almost gives up hope.
That is, until they stumble upon a mysterious church in the middle of nowhere, and meet the two nuns who attend to it.
What are these two nuns doing on their own, and why is there such a melancholy atmosphere in the air?
The traveller has only one windswept night to uncover these mysteries and learn the truth.

Characters
The traveller


The protagonist. An enigmatic figure who refuses to remove their cloak, under any circumstance.
Their name, age, and gender is unknown.
They make a living as a travelling salesperson, but the actual items they sell are rather suspect.

Madeleine


One of the nuns who works at the church.
Madeleine is a cheerful person who pushes herself hard, rarely allowing herself to take breaks.
She happily gives everything she has to help those less fortunate than herself.
If she wants to help somebody, she will help them, come Hell or high water. They don't have a choice.
She acts quite prim and proper, but has a somewhat sadistic sense of humour and likes to tease people - namely, Daffodil.

Daffodil


The other nun who works at the church.
Daffodil is huffy and has quite the temper. She often insults people and is very mistrustful.
She loves Madeleine to a fault, and can be over-protective. She thinks Madeleine is too trusting, and devotes herself to protecting her.
Despite being a nun, she's very scornful of religion in general, and refuses to believe in anything she can't see with her own eyes.

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Credits
Writing/coding: ebi-hime
Art: melowbee
Music: yuzuki
Insert songs: Hungry Lucy

Notes
This VN has choices and multiple branches.
The script is around 40k.
Since it's a yurijam VN, it focuses on yuri (GxG) relationships.
You can listen to the OST on yuzuki's YT here!
If you spot any typos/bugs etc please let me know!

I thought the story would be centered around the nuns, or maybe even the traveller, but I guess I was wrong! I must say it was somewhat confusing navigating towards Lycoris' story, and the fact that you can't use the traditional save/load method of getting the "correct" choice for visual novels doesn't exactly help. But when I finally got onto Lycoris' "route", I was pleasantly surprised. I somewhat agree with Daffodil's sentiments about Lycoris' life choices, and Wisteria's choices honestly weren't better either. But there is a sense of realism to what happened, and I'm glad everything did work out in the end, even if it took five hundred years. You did a wonderful job of building up the characters and their story, and the background music suits the mood perfectly. The ending brought a tear to my eye. The only thing is, I wish I could read more about the nuns. I liked each of their backstories, but if only Madeleine would indulge the traveller when she asked about her relationship with Daffodil...(I guess the nuns' story is sort of just a story within "the" story of Lycoris and Wisteria, so there really isn't much of a point to get into details, but I would've liked to read about them anyway).

I feel bad for Madeleine, since she plainly has the 'worst' backstory of all the characters, but she's not actually all that central haha XD;
If only Lycoris and Wisteria were more direct about their feelings, this wouldn't have happened...!
I didn't think I needed Maddie to indulge the traveller when they ask the question, since I thought it was so obvious anyway...
There was actually a bit more direct confirmation in the story that yes, they are lesbians, but I thought it seemed a bit... fanservice-y and tasteless, since it was kind of comedic and not really in-keeping with the tone of the story, so I cut it.
Well, there is still a bit of it left in there, but I toned it down a bit.

Madeleine's route
- any choice except 'leave'
- any choice
- any choice
- stay with Madeleine (if you get the option)
- tell me a bedtime story
- it sounds like an inspirational story

Daff's route
- any choice except 'leave'
- you should be more careful Madeleine
- it's good
- I won't do anything
- tell the truth

Secret route
(you must have reached the 'good' ending for Daff and Madeleine to unlock this)
- examine the tree
- you should be more careful Madeleine
- it's good
- either choice
- I don't know who you are
- either choice

And after you reach the 'true ending', you'll find the game locks itself and you can't replay it anymore.
If you want to try playing it again, you need to do two things.
First, you need to go into your game’s files and delete your persistent data. Next, you need to go into this folder:
\Roaming\RenPy\Once on a windswept night-1475875736
And delete the persistent data in here, too. Then, it should reset the game and you can play again!

And not romanceable - so sad.

I presume what was happening with 'Lycoris' in the afterlife was something like she remembered the name of the most important thing to her (her true love) but eventually forgot even the context and then assumed it was her name? Can't re-run to check my theory due to game lockdown.

spirit Lycoris

Lycoris' character design is actually taken from a really old idea I had a while ago, for a different story - but I liked the design and wanted to do something with it.
That might be why she looks a little strange compared to the rest of the cast, since I designed them more recently.