I hate playing games in hard mode. For me, I'm in it for the story and characters, so I like to be able to focus on that and not on who had however many hit points left.

[and her expression softens. this young girl looks like she's really young, too young to have to deal with this bullshit]

They are supposed to be fun. Fun without a catch.

That's a really good idea, to create a fun game instead of, uh. That. There should be someone selling paint in Willful Machine somewhere. As for the wood...maybe they'd have some of that, too? So that would be a start.