Talk:It Lives In The Woods/@comment-28971091-20180402001343/@comment-3452092-20180402012440

It's not an odds thing. It's an invisible number threshold. If they are below that threshold they die. If they are above it, they don't. Unfortunately we don't know what they number is. I do know if you follow the walkthrough and get as many positive points as you can using it, you will not lose anyone (at least not from that. There is still the question of picking someone). I know because I wrote large chunks of it and the parts I didn't write, I verified by my own game play and I didn't lose anyone. I did pay diamonds for Dan, but other people have verified that you can still save him without diamonds.

If you don't want to use the guide, your best bet is playing each chapter multiple times to see what gets the best results. That's what I did (and then recorded my results in the guide if they weren't already listed). If you want to pay diamonds for somethings, stuff early in the book tend to be worth more than things later in the book. . . nothing that costs 30 diamonds is worth much nerve wise (great worth story wise, but not nerve wise). I have a partially finished blog post on that subject: Nerve Yield for Diamond Choices in "It Lives In the Woods".