I'll look into the wording tomorrow! I'm not going to do an accept/decline for a hug, that seems silly to me to code in when the text can just be updated.

I'm thinking something along the lines of Charity is clearly busy with all of you giving her so much food that she jokes she'd hug you if she had any time but you'll probably appreciate this gift more instead type thing. In my head, she's throwing those gifts at you while quickly accepting food from the next person/user. She has no help! She's running things herself!!! I think something like that fits her THANK YOU FOR HELPING I LOVE ALL OF YOU personality more than, like some said, taking away that bit of excitable personality or complicating the page with another set of buttons you have to click when donating things. This allows me to adjust the text of outside of Fireside, having her mention she appreciates food donations year around but most just rush during the harvest season blah blah.

I'm fine with updating text from things that have been running for like a decade without being looked at again/updated. Charity's been accepting stuff for Fireside for so many years and I know I haven't looked at that text since setting up the code for those gifts she can give you. I've never been a read all the words for everything in a game/etc person, but some are! There are a lot of areas around the site that just haven't been updated to allude to new features, new NPCs, new lore for that npc, etc. Honestly, as we update more things for the project kumos stuff, the text for so many things will be updated and likely explain features more instead of LOL GUESS HOW THIS WORKS, PAL. Which gives a chance for more NPC personalities to shine.

I think changing the wording to reflect this will be more logical than her spending half her time hugging people. Those few seconds per hug must add up when there's a long queue of people waiting to give her donations.

If anything, the text is rather bland right now.

"Oh, you want to donate? We'll take any of these items!" (who is we - this is also the default text outside of fireside) "Thank you so much! Why, I could just hug you right now. In fact, I think I will!" (excitement sure, but not much else? I stand by my giving a bit more depth with rushing but still warm feeling - she wants to help everyone but also it's the busiest season for her; this would be making exclusive text for fireside and different text for outside of fireside) "Oh, but that’s not enough! Here, why don't you take this ITEM? Happy Fireside!" (can def flesh this out a bit more too along the lines of appreciation for the donation take this item while supplies last lol)

I get that a small number of people are uncomfortable about the touchy-ness of her current dialogue, and I'm not changing it purely to make a small group happy. I think it's a good opportunity to flesh out the around-the-year vs fireside text (honestly it'd be fun to do a bit of text for each holiday like Alexander changes his book for seasons). If it makes some people happy at the same time, it's a win win.

I just want to remind everyone to address the suggestion at hand and the topic around Charity's dialogue in general, and don't turn the discussion onto those posting!

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