breathes in... and out

if it works, then go for it
there are a couple things that i ain't happy with tho

-the exec part straight up won't work.
instead of storing the appeals in a list, add a new parameter name to the Chibi constructor and store the object in a dict with the name as its key. that way you can replace this ugly exec with chibis[ch1_choice[0]].charPointTotal += 5

-goofy ahh sorting code
poemwinner[chapter] = max(chibis, key=lambda c: chibis[c].charPointTotal ) works way better (with the dict thing i talked about just before)
plus the code won't work if there are more than 3 appeals

plus the code won't work if there are more than 3 appeals

the code you wrote....
just clarrifying

This is a much needed change, and I'll contribute however I can because the vanilla code is just painful to look at
Maybe you could salvage something from this incomplete mess
https://github.com/dokimods/poemgame

i've already sent this to weiss alsongside the new poem response system
here, if you wanna have a look pseurae

new_poemgame.zip