Happy readings to you, Scribes!
Welcome to Major Chapter XIV: Storyboard - introducing Vellum's new bingo-inspired boss battle mode, fresh rewards, and spell/page rebalancing! Check out our snazzy trailer for Storyboard - and its 13 new bosses - below!
What's more - Vellum will be 50% off starting Saturday, June 6th!
We've had over a year of updates since hitting 1.0 (and we've got more ink the well, don't worry)! You can review the abridged Vellum timeline below - or see the full journey in game, Interlude Patches and all!
Storyboard is our newest game mode, with raid-style boss encounters, our classic roguelike powers, and the ability to retry bosses (which frees us up to let the Torn be a little more fearsome).
To win, you'll pick your battles from a bingo board of bosses in order to unlock a final confrontation. Completing a line will reward you an extra, targeted Page of Power. Careful though, some of the bosses will have their own Torn Pages of Power that will add a new mechanic for all subsequent boss fights.
Beat 7 board bosses, target and collect Pages, and craft your build to ensure you're ready for the biggest challenge. Finally, you'll face off with one of our two new Showdown Bosses - tremendously powerful foes that even the Torn Lords themselves would take seriously.
You will find Storyboard in the Raid Antechamber, available after completing the Rivals tome. Hard Mode will be available once you've successfully completed a Storyboard run, but Ink Level 30 is still recommended before taking on the harder versions.
No new feature in Vellum is complete without new styling for your Reading Nook and your Scribe. There's a new Torn-themed Stylus, Raiment, and Book to be unlocked, as well as 23 new Nook items from Storyboard. Beware, you'll have to defeat our two new final bosses on Hard mode to earn their treasure.
The Inscriptions: Refundable and Artisan Fee, have been adjusted to still be impactful, but make infinite spender builds harder to achieve without Pages of Power. Refundable has also been standardized to be based off mana spent so its effectiveness is roughly similar between spells. We've added and tuned some Pages of Power to replace the power loss here, so you still have the same power potential as before.
Overrule was having a hard time being an effective tool in Raids, where the long cast time that slowed Scribes down could result in lethal consequences too frequently. We're reducing its cast time from 2.5s to 2s while keeping its full damage amount, resulting in both a damage increase and survivability boost!
We've also resolved several bugs that were popping up, including the Enkindle and Punctuate multiplayer issue where their VFX wouldn't disappear properly (you can safely remove your sunglasses, now).
Quick Reminder: Vellum will be 50% off starting Saturday, June 6th!
Storyboard has been an idea in the works for a while (we were laying some tech foundations back with Raid Night Study Hall). We're so excited for you to try out this latest chapter of Vellum! Raids Bosses are one of our favorite styles of content to create, and we're really happy we've found a way to make similar boss encounters (and a place to put more of them in the future).
We're blown away by the support for our announcement of Roads & Riches; the Vellum community is massively helpful in building awareness of our new project - we can't thank you enough for your enthusiasm!
In case you missed it a the top of the post, Vellum will continue to receive regular updates! We've been hard at work on Roads & Riches for a while now, and we've still been able to keep up a ~monthly update cadence for Vellum. We'll continue that momentum forward as we keep working on both Vellum and Roads & Riches. (Plus it's just genuinely fun making content for you all!)
Thank you for playing games with us; we can't wait to hear how your Storyboard adventures go!
- The Vellum Team
Storyboard: Complete a Bingo Board Boss Rush
13 New Bosses
2 Difficulties - Normal and Hard
Fight 7 Board Bosses and then 1 Final Boss
Unlocked after mending Rivals
New Cosmetic rewards
Overrule now does its damage over 2 seconds, down from 2.5
Recursive: Upgraded Page Quality - now generates 17.5% mana when damaging, up from 10%.
Yellow Inscription: Artisan Fee - Now has a 15% chance to generate a Yellow Mana when casting an ability that flourishes. (Was 10% mana on flourish hit)
Inscription: Refundable - Now generate 20% of a Mana crystal per Mana Spent (was 15% of mana on damage done)
New Yellow Page: Flow State - Generates 20% of a Mana crystal when Flourishing.
Page of Power: Fine Control - Now reduces Ult Cooldown by 2s when spending Yellow Mana or Flourishing with Generator with Prepared Status (every 4th generator or 3rd with "Copious Crits"). Was -1s from an Flourish (mainly Flourishes from the Yellow Ult)
Bristle Mana generation has been bumped up from .5 to .6 from the projectile and .75 to .85 for the melee.
Improved Lore Page decal performance
Fixed Yonder lore page collection info
New Library Activity (available after completing The Grey Area raid)
Vignette: Thesis, A Ship Rewritten has had some planks replaced