Scripted interaction book: illustrated page and Continue choice

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire · Dialogue / Conversation

Art style Painterly illustration

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Scripted interaction book: illustrated page and Continue choice

About this game

Developer: Obsidian Entertainment · Publisher: Versus Evil · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Dialogue / Conversation

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What to study

Deadfire presents scripted interactions as an illustrated book: prose with a decorated drop cap on the left page, a pen-and-ink scene illustration on the right, and the party portrait strip along the bottom so the reader never loses who is present. The interaction resolves through a single numbered choice (1: Continue), which keeps the book format interactive without breaking its reading rhythm. This is the game's distinctive dialogue-adjacent screen, separate from its NPC conversation boxes, which do not appear in the audited videos. Frame at about 69.1s in the Features Trailer (Steam). No trailer burn-in or caption on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

numbered-options speaker-portraits

Components

Parts on screen.

Document Illustration Choices

Screen inventory

  • open book spread with a decorated drop cap and one line of narrative prose
  • ink illustration of a stone well with a rope on the right page
  • party portrait strip of five companions along the bottom of the left page
  • numbered 1: Continue choice at the bottom left

Top 3 colors

#312716 23%#816f52 22%#a19070 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Obsidian Entertainment / Versus Evil, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire screenshot: Features Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Versus Evil.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-30. verified 2026-10-30: frame inspected visually at full resolution; drop cap prose, well illustration, portrait strip and Continue choice all legible; frame from the official Features Trailer on Steam

Obsidian Community Guidelines for IP Usage (obsidian.net/legal/ip-use, September 2, 2022) expressly covers Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire for fan projects; fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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