OL2: Step 1 End Script Preview

Noooo, after so many years of development these precious childhood days are almost at an end 😭

[Also, the text transcript for the Q&A yesterday did get finished!]

Pure Text:

“Golden Grove was getting colder.”

“That was true day after day with no sign of it becoming a lie anytime soon.” 

“Nights and early mornings were the worst of it. Mornings like when fifth graders had to get to school.”

if mc had no ride:

“That was why Qiu and Tamarack offered to let you hop on their wheels [again ]when they saw you at the start of a new day.” #if wheels happened

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“Riding meant [you’d/someone could] get into a heated building again sooner, and pumping one or two legs as hard as [you three/they] could protected [yourselves/Tamarack and Qiu] from turning into popsicles stuck on the side of the street.” #if mc using ride

“’Cause pretty soon it wasn’t just gonna feel like you were freezing, stuff would actually freeze. Snow had begun popping up on the ten-day forecast.”

“[Mom] checked for that repeatedly, by watching the TV, and browsing online, and even reading the local newspaper. [She still didn’t trust the weathermen’s chance percentages/Despite searching for it, she never trusted the weathermen’s chance percentages].” #if wheels/walks or not

“But it had to be close. You didn’t have to go to forecast school to sense a coming change, all you needed to do was take a step outside.”

“This chill didn’t knock on your nose until the tip turned red, or search for a gap in your clothes where it could come on in.”

“No, the air had crystalized into something piercing. People might try, but no amount of layers could stop you from being overtaken by it in the open.”

“If you didn’t have at least four walls and a roof protecting you, with a half-way decent furnace to boot, then you had to accept the fact that you would be cold.”

“Cutting winds and stiffening frosts had moved in, and they were not friendly neighbors.”

Menu:

-“The promise of snow was exciting, but all you had then was the unfun parts of iciness!”:

-“The promise of snow was something you dreaded. That’d make things worse still.”:

-“Snow itself wasn’t amazing or terrible, but it at least made sense. The current iciness was for nothing.”:

-“You weren’t sure what to think of the coming snow. It would be brand new to you.”:

-“Snow sounded wonderful, you hadn’t seen it in person before. But being freezing without that was just pointless!”:

-“Snow was something you’d never experienced, and you had hoped you’d keep it that way.”:

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