cool game! Art work is fantastic & it's a really innovative take on the theme!
in terms of gameplay, it's really just reading and clicking in a "choose your own adventure" style. While I think having different endings adds replay value, all you're doing is talking to the different people in town to recruit them. Maybe actually having some strategic combat at the end with the characters you recruited would make it a little more fun because then the player would feel like "oh maybe I could still win against this beast", even if they really can't. But overall, great job!