Thank you for playing and leaving such nice comments! I think I can chalk everything up to time management, since I hadn't used Renpy or made a VN before, certain tasks I didn't think would take long took a long time, and others... also took a long time :) I think I'll be able to avoid the error message next time (at least it wasn't fatal!) and I really need to leave some more time to re-evaluate some of the color choices. I really learned a lot! In hindsight, I'd probably like to have fewer backgrounds in favor of more branching dialogue options (kind of like yours! hehe)