VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[Kpyna]

Ok, this must have come up a lot of times by now but I'll just write my 2 cents anyways. Cocaine .. cut with fentanyl? I mean I'm not exactly blushing virgin on substance abuse but that doesn't really make sense. Were they out of baking powder or the old fallback of flour? Fentanyl is expensive and as they correctly say, kind of dangerous. Now your hardworking friendly neighbourhood drug dealer might now care about the dangerous part but probably does about the expensive part, after all that fentanyl can be sold for profit as-is. Pulp fiction scene of snorting mystery white powder you found on your date's pocket and turning out to be a real bad idea I could get behind 100%.

Look at it from the other side. It doesn't make much sense to add something like fentanyl to cocaine to dilute it. As you correctly noted, flour or powdered sugar are much better suited - it's practically free and, more importantly, if you care about the reputation of a reliable supplier to your customers who bring you money and bring new customers too... you will not poison them and drive them to OD. If you play the Quinn branch, you'll find out interesting details.

As it turns out, Rox (her father) dies in a matter of minutes after Lana and Jonathan leave them. In the flashback of episode 6, we see drug lair from a different perspective and even see Jonathan himself and the legs of the girl who came with him (Lana). Rox snorts the same cocaine that was sold to Jonathan, and everything seems to be fine, but in the flashback it is shown that Rox is "breathing heavily" after and Buddy calms him down. At the same time, we see that little Quinn heard their argument and screams and came to see what's happening. Right at that moment, her father begins to suffocate and dies. So, Rox is not a rookie in taking different drugs, but even he wasn't able to handle it. Lana in such case had no chances either.

What it was? We know that Rox and Buddy didn't get along very well. Rox even wanted to stab him just for calling little Quinn a rat. And as we know, Buddy also didn't liked Quinn herself, considering her a burden. So what happened doesn't seem like a coincidence or a "bad batch". This drug den has existed for a couple of decades (!!), at least, and they wouldn't poison their clients like it's nothing. Lana was just unlucky to get same coke Buddy had "cooked" for Rox.

p.s. Another interesting thing is how this drug den has existed for so many years and has never been raided by the DEA or at least attracted the attention of the police. In Acting Lessons, the DPC played a card of corruption with a single policeman, to be more precise, but the scale of what was happening there was several times smaller and concerned only the cover-up of a single character (Melissa's stepfather).

 

[Lord Bradley]

Just read the Q&A (thanks Better Cock Spock & Darkdevil66 ) and while it often seems I have love/hate relationship with Being a DIK and DrPinkCake, another thing is always present regardless of where I am leaning at any given moment - respect. I did scream internally at one particular part about side girl talk and encouragement to pursue them if you wish to see what happens (ugh a filler, what else >.< ), but yeah this game and the developer are absolutely legendary and will put a serious mark in the industry for a long long long time!

 

[Better Cock Spock]

Just read the Q&A (thanks Better Cock Spock & Darkdevil66 ) and while it often seems I have love/hate relationship with Being a DIK and DrPinkCake, another thing is always present regardless of where I am leaning at any given moment - respect. I did scream internally at one particular part about side girl talk and encouragement to pursue them if you wish to see what happens (ugh a filler, what else >.< ), but yeah this game and the developer are absolutely legendary and will put a serious mark in the industry for a long long long time!

 

[KАRАMBA]

Lana was just unlucky to get same coke Buddy had "cooked" for Rox.

 

[Derek in a Bush]

The talk about MC's future family with Sage really is one of the most heartwarming things in the entire game
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Great content as always

 

[dalli_x]

Look at it from the other side. It doesn't make much sense to add something like fentanyl to cocaine to dilute it. As you correctly noted, flour or powdered sugar are much better suited - it's practically free and, more importantly, if you care about the reputation of a reliable supplier to your customers who bring you money and bring new customers too... you will not poison them and drive them to OD. If you play the Quinn branch, you'll find out interesting details.

As it turns out, Rox (her father) dies in a matter of minutes after Lana and Jonathan leave them. In the flashback of episode 6, we see drug lair from a different perspective and even see Jonathan himself and the legs of the girl who came with him (Lana). Rox snorts the same cocaine that was sold to Jonathan, and everything seems to be fine, but in the flashback it is shown that Rox is "breathing heavily" after and Buddy calms him down. At the same time, we see that little Quinn heard their argument and screams and came to see what's happening. Right at that moment, her father begins to suffocate and dies. So, Rox is not a rookie in taking different drugs, but even he wasn't able to handle it. Lana in such case had no chances either.

What it was? We know that Rox and Buddy didn't get along very well. Rox even wanted to stab him just for calling little Quinn a rat. And as we know, Buddy also didn't liked Quinn herself, considering her a burden. So what happened doesn't seem like a coincidence or a "bad batch". This drug den has existed for a couple of decades (!!), at least, and they wouldn't poison their clients like it's nothing. Lana was just unlucky to get same coke Buddy had "cooked" for Rox.

p.s. Another interesting thing is how this drug den has existed for so many years and has never been raided by the DEA or at least attracted the attention of the police. In Acting Lessons, the DPC played a card of corruption with a single policeman, to be more precise, but the scale of what was happening there was several times smaller and concerned only the cover-up of a single character (Melissa's stepfather).

These findings provide fodder for a new theory. In EP11, Lana herself brings up her father. What if Rox and Geoff knew each other? Geoff, as his father, would have found out about Lana so that she could have been poisoned, and it would be very strange if Rox would poison himself, especially since he took the cocaine before Lana. Geoff knows this so that Rox isn't his daughter Lana's murderer.

What if Quinn and Riona were only accepted to college because Geoff wanted them to? What if Geoff had a deal with Quinn? What if Quinn was supposed to find out from Geoff who laced the cocaine with fentanyl? Geoff lost his daughter and Quinn lost her father.

Quinn had blinders on the whole time because she considered Buddy her father's friend. But then Buddy makes the mistake of talking to Riona, and Quinn takes off her blinders and calls the police. The rest is then dealt with in jail because Geoff uses his connections.

 

[DDreggZ]

Playing Jill's branch for the first time and there are definitely some great scenes in there, both funny and heart-warming ones.

Btw, it doesn't get more duplicitous than this: "THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! I JUST KICKED HIM OUT OF MY HOUSE"

5 minutes later:

 

[BellasPersonalToilet]

Playing Jill's branch for the first time and there are definitely some great scenes in there, both funny and heart-warming ones.

Btw, it doesn't get more duplicitous than this: "THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! I JUST KICKED HIM OUT OF MY HOUSE"

5 minutes later:
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I can't wait to fuck Bianca's tight little ass while I'm on the phone with Jill

 

[joebob77474]

Sure, but those are all POV shots during lewds where MC most certainly did not have a camera on him (outside of the Jade one, but that's not the from the actual video).

I know I was more wondering if someone made the board using POV shots or if the game actually had it.

 

[Jayfcsp]

Do you guys know how the layout for the planning games are being defined? I know after the Interlude, the starting items for the Halloween game are being set and you can change them with reloading. But how can I for example change the layout for the Christmas party?

 

[Kpyna]

These findings provide fodder for a new theory. In EP11, Lana herself brings up her father. What if Rox and Geoff knew each other? Geoff, as his father, would have found out about Lana so that she could have been poisoned, and it would be very strange if Rox would poison himself, especially since he took the cocaine before Lana. Geoff knows this so that Rox isn't his daughter Lana's murderer.

What if Quinn and Riona were only accepted to college because Geoff wanted them to? What if Geoff had a deal with Quinn? What if Quinn was supposed to find out from Geoff who laced the cocaine with fentanyl? Geoff lost his daughter and Quinn lost her father.

Quinn had blinders on the whole time because she considered Buddy her father's friend. But then Buddy makes the mistake of talking to Riona, and Quinn takes off her blinders and calls the police. The rest is then dealt with in jail because Geoff uses his connections.

That's what happening when you're not playing other branches and build theories (or better to say generate them) from the head or based on some assumptions which is based on another assumptions with zero grounds

Lana & Jonathan just assumed that their fathers could also did drugs when they was younger or in college. That's all. And if they are - Buddy & Rox was a kids at that time.

Geoff's character is a desperate father, who still feels guilty and grief, even though 10+- years had past since his daughter death. He found relief in alcohol and this is going more and more bad with each year. You can find out THIS if you'd play Jill or Bella's branches.

Buddy is Rox's brother and Quinn's uncle. Quinn was taken to an orphanage shortly after her father's death, and she soon found a foster family. She was a difficult child because of where she grew up and because she had learned some "life lessons" from her father. Shortly after she was adopted, when she was in high school, she ran away back to Buddy. That's how her "career" began, he wouldn't let her live in a drug den, but she started selling drugs. She returned to foster care, accepted her fate, and learned to pretend and "use" her foster parents. At the beginning of the episode, after a flashback with Lana, we see her talking to someone on the phone. It's one of her foster parents. She talks about Christmas, when and how she is planning to celebrate it, etc. By playing her branch you will also learn how and where she met Riona and HOW Quinn used her for years, but their friendship only strengthened and intensified, while Quinn always expected the opposite from her not understanding why she is so attracted to her. After she ends telling her story she wants MC to call her an awful person and abandon her. And there we have a choice to finally take her side or leave her. It's a split for the further Quinn/Riona paths, obviously. And an important MC's "moral" choice too.

 

[El_Magnifico]

Buddy is Rox's brother and Quinn's uncle.

Small correction, Buddy was just Rox's best friend, "uncle buddy" is just a nickname.

 

[Chrisanity]

question, if im on the dik path,who can i get with and vise versa

 

[Chrisanity]

or do i need to make 2 gameplays for good and bad route

 

[ffive]

Playing Jill's branch for the first time and there are definitely some great scenes in there, both funny and heart-warming ones.

Btw, it doesn't get more duplicitous than this: "THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! I JUST KICKED HIM OUT OF MY HOUSE"

5 minutes later:
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Gotta love how the landmine is shamelessly flirting there the entire time in these screenshots.

 

[El_Magnifico]

Gotta love how the landmine is shamelessly flirting there the entire time in these screenshots.

She wants him since EP8

 

[ffive]

She wants him since EP8

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This totally did not influence my decision to play at the teachers' party, not at all.

 

[Thomas089]

Do you guys know how the layout for the planning games are being defined? I know after the Interlude, the starting items for the Halloween game are being set and you can change them with reloading. But how can I for example change the layout for the Christmas party?

Dont quote me on it, but I think i read somewhere that the layouts are determined randomly from a pool of layouts at the start of the episode. So you'd have to replay from the beginning if the layout doesn't suit you.

 

[Just Jericho]

question, if im on the dik path,who can i get with and vise versa

or do i need to make 2 gameplays for good and bad route

Basically, if you're interested in Jill, choose the Chick alignment. If you're interested in Quinn, choose the DIK alignment. While there are some girls that need a dik or chick alignment at certain important choices, Jill and Quinn are the hardliners.

By season 3, the alignment system is more or less de-emphasized compared to S1 and S2. It's mostly dialogue flavors with the occasional dependency on it in the Quinn path. In chapter... 8? the alignment system turns into "permanent alignment", and gets locked in. After this point, all of of the main girls can basically be considered "chick" aligned.

 

[Kpyna]

Small correction, Buddy was just Rox's best friend, "uncle buddy" is just a nickname.

I forgot about this line already. That makes even more sense then. Because if they were siblings, he would have to hate Rox very much to do what he did. And since they was just "best" friends, it only increases suspicions about Buddy. Apparently, Mick quickly replaced the deceased Rox.