VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[felicemastronzo]

Burke would never involve anybody in the restaurant, that's Quinn's, he only does the tuition scheme.
Camilla does the restaurant but has nothing to do with Burke except being staff of B&R.
So Burke gonna tell he will look into it but he will say it's unlikely but he will do the utmost.... And he will not deliver because it will get tricky with the HOT's in his little scheme (drama!) or Quinn will suggest Maya to have sex with Burke to get it (drama!).

it's really too late for Quinn to propose anything to Maya, that ship passed some time ago. Quinn has too many problems and she also has Sage's eye on her especially with Maya. and Maya by now wouldn't believe Quinn even on the direction to find the bathroom....

As for no NTR... since when is that a reason to refrain from implying things? It's not like you will see a npc saying "you can't rape me, since no NTR!" makes alot sense storywise...

Maya considering the idea is enough to set off the sirens. highly unlikely

 

[PashafromRussia]

it's really too late for Quinn to propose anything to Maya, that ship passed some time ago. Quinn has too many problems and she also has Sage's eye on her especially with Maya. and Maya by now wouldn't believe Quinn even on the direction to find the bathroom....

Burke is not a villain. He's too pathetic and cowardly for this role. The most he can do is cancel free tuition to the girl who rejected him. I see him only as an ordinary customer of Quinn's restaurant with the only difference that he uses the services for free. Pink needs to try to present him correctly so that we can be afraid of him. But so far the only thing we know about him is that he is cheating on his wife and possibly taking bribes. Pink is definitely planning to ruin Maya and Josie's sweet couple. But we can only guess.

 

[JETracktor]

I think that whoever leaked the Cathy photo and the Jade video leaker are the same person. I don't think it's Vinny, that would be too obvious and it isn't in DPC's style to do it.

I also don't think it's Nick or Leon, as both IMO are red herrings.

Weirdly though, there is someone sneaking past outside when MC is first sleeping in his room. The lights flash and you can barely tell the crouched figure.

Jamie losing his phone is weird. So another possibility is whoever took Jamie's phone probably still has access to the folders, so that might be it.

Well, everything below is just my vision of BaDIK so far but I think Cathy's photo was posted by Riona while Quinn and Camila was distracting Tommy and Rusty. They did it cuz Dawe hired Quinn to post a cluck from DIKs laptop so he would have an excuse to walk around with those posters. He took the photo and "DIKs cluck" was perfect excuse if someone asked where he got it from.
Dawe has the perfect motive to hit two birds with one rock - he hates Cathy cuz she made fun of him (inadvertently I guess but still she did) and he hates DIKs for almost all of them fucked Arieth.

Jade's video leak, just like Dawe "blackmail", was possible because Riona stole the phone from Jamie (possible right after the cum-petition). Jamie hooked up with Riona several times and can be seen with her so for her stealing his phone wasn't that hard, just need the good timing and some booze. Who she bring the phone to? To Stephen Burke.

Both Riona and Quinn got that infamous "free tuition" from him and I think those 3 students he fucked is them and Camila (if I remember correctly she got that "free tuition" too). I think he used them several times to run errands for him, including the Jamie's phone and bringing the Dawe and Chad envelopes to alphas.

Till the ep8 I was thinking about who else might know about Chad being gay but Sage cleared that up.
If player chose to tell Sage about Chad being gay she'll say this line

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Which means Jade was suspecting Chad being gay long ago and there is no way Stephen never heard about it from her. So he could pry about it with his squad's help and discover the truth (probably with the same hidden camera Quinn got the pictures of Arieth being fucked in janitor closet in DIKs mansion).

He used Jamie's phone to get access to DIKs shared folder (he knew about it from Quinn and she knew it cuz of Tommy or Vinny) an got photos of Arieth. Later he can get the Jade's video before Rusty changed permissions on laptop and Jamie's phone become useless.

Why he decided incite alphas to attack DIKs isn't fully clear for me yet but some ridiculous thought appeared - he could be a loving father. He's trying to destroy both fraternities so they don't bother his sissy son and to make Chad drop from B&R because of fight (so he stop using Sage). He expected much larger escalate cause of that photos in envelopes but everything flared up not so brightly.

As I said it's just my thoughts. Cathy's cluck is screaming Dawe involved but he is too dumb to make everything by himself so I am sure it's Team Free Tuition job.

 

[vogelbeest]

it's really too late for Quinn to propose anything to Maya, that ship passed some time ago. Quinn has too many problems and she also has Sage's eye on her especially with Maya. and Maya by now wouldn't believe Quinn even on the direction to find the bathroom....

Things change, we know we will get that talk with Burke, we know she is not getting a free tuition really for free...
So unless there's another option for her there needs to be an end to her free tuition story, so either Patrick will need to accept, Josy needs to go or she needs to get that tuition, but something needs to be done to reach an end to it all.
Whatever happens we just can't tell yet, maybe Patrick makes another surprise visit being confronted with Josy and Maya.
Maybe Quinn is forced to accept a deal from Burke to bring in Maya because her drugs imperium is starting to fall down.
Fact is we are being led to Burke for that free tuition from the moment we met Maya.... Just expect the story will keep evolving.
Do not expect Burke to be a nice guy.... just be prepared!

 

[machete1314]

this is a really great game,i really enjoy it.

 

[PashafromRussia]

Why he decided incite alphas to attack DIKs isn't fully clear for me yet but some ridiculous thought appeared - he could be a loving father. He's trying to destroy both fraternities so they don't bother his sissy son and to make Chad drop from B&R because of fight (so he stop using Sage). He expected much larger escalate cause of that photos in envelopes but everything flared up not so brightly.

The problem is that Burke has never behaved like a caring father and loving husband. He even used the prep party to get to know the right people. He could really hate Diks, but only because of Rusty. Tybalt has much more reasons for destroying Diks and Jocks.

 

[Deleted member 1796292]

If you are talking about the Interlude release, it is a prelude to Season 3 of the story. But none of it affects any of the characters in any of the previous 2 Seasons... yet. It remains to be seen how much (if any) effect it will have on future releases. Variables are saved, however, which should have some effect.

A new character is introduced who (it is assumed) will impact the life of the MC and those around him. How that impact plays out will depend on us in future choices, as DrPinkCake allows us to make them.

Thank you for the answer, i've seen things a little more clear now, let's see how affect the whole story

 

[JETracktor]

The problem is that Burke has never behaved like a caring father and loving husband. He even used the prep party to get to know the right people. He could really hate Diks, but only because of Rusty. Tybalt has much more reasons for destroying Diks and Jocks.

Remember what Sage told about how her parents behave?

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Stephen may not behave like caring father but it doesn't mean he's not.
I am not saying he's loving husband, I would say opposite. But that parents instinct kicks (sometimes wild) not just with women.

In the last episodes Tybalt has completely become a joke, he doesn't look an antagonist at all. But his father is.
As for Stephen licking butts on prep party - even Jade confirms they don't need money but Stephen always going for it.

 

[Tadpol]

As for no NTR... since when is that a reason to refrain from implying things? It's not like you will see a npc saying "you can't rape me, since no NTR!" makes alot sense storywise...

Because unfortunately we're getting to a point where we know that to avoid trouble, developers won't do anything that comes close (even very very far) to NTR. Even implied.

If at some point in the game Maya finds herself in a situation where she can solve her problem by selling herself to a generous donor, we won't believe it for a second. We will know in advance that it will not happen.

In the game, other than with the MC, there is almost not a single hint of the girls in the restaurant seeing other customers. This makes the theme of prostitution in the game quite strange. There is only Mona with whom the theme was suggested, and
strangely, she is no longer in the story.

 

[Gregk]

I see a bunch of posts about this Interlude plot, but not about how to start playing it.
I have this problem:
I deleted the install of Season 2, just saved the game saves folder.
I tried copying a Season 2 save to Interlude saves folder, with no luck to start playing.
Do I need a full install of Season 2 to transfer a save and play Interlude?
How did you guys did it?

 

[playcoc]

Can anyone please help?
After installing the new version chapter 3,
Whenever I'm trying to continue the game with my previous save (version 8.1) it's giving me an error message. (I'm using the android version).

And all the android version links are dead. what to do?
if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.

 

[bZokko1]

As someone who played the current complete game and got this last short Zoey chapter so close to the rest of it, it also failed to make me care that much about Zoey.


She made some mistakes and now wants to come back to have a heart to heart conversation. She had a strong relation going with MC, but that's it. Before I got to play this last chapter I thought pinkcake would make us care about Zoey in more ways than this, to compensate being gone half the game or more.

One way I thought it would pan out was that Zoey had become wildly successful (front cover of a magazines, local tv, blogs etc. for her skills and/or pure luck), to the point she was famous in LA area and she was being haunted by fame she didn't really ask or want for. Regardless she is now set on the path for immensely successful lifestyle and everyone is getting ready to leach on to.

She remembers MC and time before this and want to go back to rekindle a love or at least deep friendship she was blind for, a love for the “before” Zoey that was and not the famous Zoey she is rapidly becoming. This Zoey has something to bring to the table for multiple personalities and reasons to rekindle love and friendship with.



Right now she is dealt an incredibly weak hand for anyone to care about her, and it wouldn't surprise me Zoey would end the game as the least loved character in the game behind Bianca?, the girl Maya hate with a burning passion, other than Quinn.


However it might be by design, so she easily shut down by all paths except the Other path. Pinkcake needs to limit the scope somehow I guess.

Sage & Jade, Bella & Jill, Maya & Josey causes plenty enough drama by default.

Maybe her character reason of existing, is to make Quinn jealous and force her to confess feelings in the most broccoli way possible.

 

[PBS666]

Can someone help me... ? I have the season 2 export on my Android emulator (Blustacks) and downloaded right now the mac vesion of season 3. Where should I copy the export from Android to be able to play... ?

Shouldn't it go into the save folder ? For Ren'Py games on Mac that's ~/Library/Renpy/(name of game + some number).

 

[vogelbeest]

In the game, other than with the MC, there is almost not a single hint of the girls in the restaurant seeing other customers.

That's exactly what i said, prostitution with more then MC as a single customer is implied in the game, now showing it would possibly mean the NTR tag, implying it will not.

If at some point in the game Maya finds herself in a situation where she can solve her problem by selling herself to a generous donor, we won't believe it for a second. We will know in advance that it will not happen.

You really gonna bet it will not happen when this same dev let us make a choice for one girl to survive while the other died in a burning house? We might not think it's likely but with his history it's still not a safe bet.... Or it's just the last drop for her and other bad things happen, jumping off a building from despair is less unlikely but still can fit the story.... The point is we as player are following the story and can guess but we also know there will be twists and we know it might not go as we think it would, you can't just say that's not gonna happen, the story is there, there will be some climax, we just don't know where and how at this time.

 

[NewTricks]

in my opinion making Zoey the protagonist of the interlude was a winning choice, just because we practically didn't know her, in this way we can, as players, make her what we want (even if probably this will not have much impact on the next story)
in this case in my opinion is much more pronounced the difference between the choices Chick and those Dik, Zoey Dik is not a girl who wants to have fun and says inappropriate things, but is really a bitch who treats badly all those around her, the dichotomy is much stronger than with MC in the normal game.

instead from the point of view of the narrative in my opinion had a problem due to the excessive speed with which events unfold.
in BADIk we are used to chapters of 5-6 hours of gameplay that cover a couple of weeks, in the interlude an hour of gameplay corresponds to several months, this different speed leads to the fact that everything seems too fast: Zoey is as confident before leaving as insecure as soon as she leaves, after the first lesson in the sea she already doesn't like surfing, she meets Emma and immediately she is her best friend, as suddenly she becomes her worst enemy. all too much but too fast, making all the characters quite schizophrenic

I would have to say that if Zoey was a real friend to Emma she wouldn't try to hook her up with her ex-boyfriend. That is a temporary solution to her permanent problem that lost her the boyfriend in the first place. I wouldn't diagnose Emma with schizophrenia so much as bipolar disorder. Zoey, suffering from grief and mild depression herself probably felt like a kindred spirit what she was in a down period. The sequence with the phone had all the hallmarks of Emma having the onset of a manic episode. This turned what was a mild case of jealousy into a narcissistic rage where she did something harmful to Zoey without any provocation. I used to go through shit like this with my Sister who suffers from BPD.

 

[dolfe67]

Because unfortunately we're getting to a point where we know that to avoid trouble, developers won't do anything that comes close (even very very far) to NTR. Even implied.

If at some point in the game Maya finds herself in a situation where she can solve her problem by selling herself to a generous donor, we won't believe it for a second. We will know in advance that it will not happen.

In the game, other than with the MC, there is almost not a single hint of the girls in the restaurant seeing other customers. This makes the theme of prostitution in the game quite strange. There is only Mona with whom the theme was suggested, and
strangely, she is no longer in the story.

You believe what you want but Quinn & Co are making money with the restaurant and they don't only have the MC as customer. But no need to show it, it is implied.

And this game is not that afraid of "NTR", a lot of characters are fucking people other than the MC but the game don't show it. In a lot of other games the MC is almost the only guy alive on earth, far from it in BADIK.

 

[felicemastronzo]

You really gonna bet it will not happen when this same dev let us make a choice for one girl to survive while the other died in a burning house? We might not think it's likely but with his history it's still not a safe bet.... Or it's just the last drop for her and other bad things happen, jumping off a building from despair is less unlikely but still can fit the story.... The point is we as player are following the story and can guess but we also know there will be twists and we know it might not go as we think it would, you can't just say that's not gonna happen, the story is there, there will be some climax, we just don't know where and how at this time.

But are you still talking about the threat of it happening or the fact that it might actually happen?

in the second case I really serenely exclude it

DPC is aware of the mixed feelings that the first season of BADIk has generated, do you really think he can create a situation where our actions may or may not send Maya to work at the restaurant? there is a limit to unconsciousness....

this as a consequence would bring both Burke and Quinn to levels of villainy that are really out of place in BADIK (where we have at best bullies but almost always basically buffoons), and it would be a pretty definitive overall game over and not just a dramatic moment

I would have to say that if Zoey was a real friend to Emma she wouldn't try to hook her up with her ex-boyfriend. That is a temporary solution to her permanent problem that lost her the boyfriend in the first place. I wouldn't diagnose Emma with schizophrenia so much as bipolar disorder. Zoey, suffering from grief and mild depression herself probably felt like a kindred spirit what she was in a down period. The sequence with the phone had all the hallmarks of Emma having the onset of a manic episode. This turned what was a mild case of jealousy into a narcissistic rage where she did something harmful to Zoey without any provocation. I used to go through shit like this with my Sister who suffers from BPD.

you took me too seriously...mine was not a diagnosis...just a critique of how quickly the behaviors of the characters in the interlude seem to change, but in reality could have taken weeks if not months in moving from one situation to another

 

[gg pie]

is there a save to unlock all rewards and scenes for season 1 and 2 and where do i put them

 

[godkingxerxes]

Interlude was meh, but glad to see it seems that episode 9 will start off with a bang.

Though does Sage always tell you to get the fuck out of the bathroom even if you had minimal interactions with all the involved characters?

 

[felicemastronzo]

You believe what you want but Quinn & Co are making money with the restaurant and they don't only have the MC as customer. But no need to show it, it is implied.

And this game is not that afraid of "NTR", a lot of characters are fucking people other than the MC but the game don't show it. In a lot of other games the MC is almost the only guy alive on earth, far from it in BADIK.

I don't know...

at the end MC is practically the only one interested sexually and romantically in the LIs, the only ones to compete with him are Tybalt and his father... but do we want to consider them competition?

these makes MC quite in the role of the only penis in the story

Interlude was meh, but glad to see it seems that episode 9 will start off with a bang.

Though does Sage always tell you to get the fuck out of the bathroom even if you had minimal interactions with all the involved characters?

yes, even though you arrived there almost a virgin