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

[felicemastronzo]

Riona to MC: That'll be $$$$$

we spend $$ for Magnar's underwear...

I'd say that's still a great price for Riona and Camilla.

 

[godkingxerxes]

Saviour complex, of all the girls in the game she's the one most likely to suffer a tragic fate and none of us want that for her.

Completely disagree here.

That's just amateurish theorizing.

Quinn is bad, Riona friends with Quinn, if Quinn dies she doesn't learn her lesson so therefore her friend, Riona must die.

If Pinkcakes goes the "I'm going to kill someone and laugh while you all cry" route again. It's not going to be Riona and it's not going to be predictable.

 

[ename144]

I know Riona is very popular amongst a lot of you. But can some of those Riona lovers please explain to me what you find so attractive about her? I personally just can't see it. Can't believe I'm writing this but... I wouldn't even mind skipping a lewd scene with her...
There I said it, all about personal preference guys haha, isn't it?

(Please, don't be too cruel. I would still like to witness the sex scene with Jill in 10 episodes)

I'm hardly her biggest fan, but I think Riona has a lot going for her. To start with the obvious, she covers the goth and asian niches for the game, and she has a pretty distinctive look. She also gets to be the voice of reason in Quinn's cut scenes, pointing out the obvious flaws with her boss' plans - always a good way to build up audience sympathy.

On top of that she has a fun, uncomplicated personality: she likes music in offbeat ways, jokes when she's in a good mood, and generally tries to enjoy life. She also enjoys sex, and seems openly fond of the MC in a way Mel or Sarah do not (and Quinn refuses to admit). And now that we know she "can't" come from sex, she's an obvious challenge waiting to be bested.

Lastly, while Riona is generally quite independent there is just a hint of damsel in distress about her (we're talking maybe a deciMaya here). As the black hole around Quinn gets larger and larger, we can see Riona is going to get caught up in it. She even bares her soul to the MC about these problems on occasion. But Riona seems unable to take that final step and break free on her own (driven home in Episode when Quinn says she's only good for life in the restaurant). It gives the sense that maybe the MC can toss Riona a lifeline and help get her life back on track.

And who wouldn't want that?

 

[lemonfreak]

Completely disagree here.

That's just amateurish theorizing.

Quinn is bad, Riona friends with Quinn, if Quinn dies she doesn't learn her lesson so therefore her friend, Riona must die.

If Pinkcakes goes the "I'm going to kill someone and laugh while you all cry" route again. It's not going to be Riona and it's not going to be predictable.

Of course it's amateurish, I'm an amateur.

And, for the record, I don't actually think she's headed for a tragic ending but it's hard to deny that DPC has laid the groundwork for one, probably as a misdirect.

 

[felicemastronzo]

Completely disagree here.

That's just amateurish theorizing.

Quinn is bad, Riona friends with Quinn, if Quinn dies she doesn't learn her lesson so therefore her friend, Riona must die.

If Pinkcakes goes the "I'm going to kill someone and laugh while you all cry" route again. It's not going to be Riona and it's not going to be predictable.

you are right about that

Quinn's death would be completely unnecessary and have very little impact on the story and many players.

whereas the death of "an innocent" would have a completely different effect.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Completely disagree here.

That's just amateurish theorizing.

Quinn is bad, Riona friends with Quinn, if Quinn dies she doesn't learn her lesson so therefore her friend, Riona must die.

If Pinkcakes goes the "I'm going to kill someone and laugh while you all cry" route again. It's not going to be Riona and it's not going to be predictable.

He doesn't need to go as far as killing someone to get the point across, and I sincerely hope he doesn't. If Riona were to OD, perhaps on the coke that Quinn has stashed away, and she almost died because of it, then that would probably be enough to really put the shits up Quinn, not just because it risks exposing her operation but because her wrecklessness would nearly cause the death of her closest friend.

 

[Sepulcross]

I'm hardly her biggest fan, but I think Riona has a lot going for her. To start with the obvious, she covers the goth and asian niches for the game, and she has a pretty distinctive look. She also gets to be the voice of reason in Quinn's cut scenes, pointing out the obvious flaws with her boss' plans - always a good way to build up audience sympathy.

On top of that she has a fun, uncomplicated personality: she likes music in offbeat ways, jokes when she's in a good mood, and generally tries to enjoy life. She also enjoys sex, and seems openly fond of the MC in a way Mel or Sarah do not (and Quinn refuses to admit). And now that we know she "can't" come from sex, she's an obvious challenge waiting to be bested.

Lastly, while Riona is generally quite independent there is just a hint of damsel in distress about her (we're talking maybe a deciMaya here). As the black hole around Quinn gets larger and larger, we can see Riona is going to get caught up in it. She even bares her soul to the MC about these problems on occasion. But Riona seems unable to take that final step and break free on her own (driven home in Episode when Quinn says she's only good for life in the restaurant). It gives the sense that maybe the MC can toss Riona a lifeline and help get her life back on track.

And who wouldn't want that?

You read my mind, man, you really read my mind. This is exactly the path I want towards Riona.

 

[lemonfreak]

He doesn't need to go as far as killing someone to get the point across, and I sincerely hope he doesn't. If Riona were to OD, perhaps on the coke that Quinn has stashed away, and she almost died because of it, then that would probably be enough to really put the shits up Quinn, not just because it risks exposing her operation but because her wrecklessness would nearly cause the death of her closest friend.

Or cement Quinn as a villain when, while she isn't unaffected by Riona almost dying, she continues to push ahead with her schemes.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Or cement Quinn as a villain when, while she isn't unaffected by Riona almost dying, she continues to push ahead with her schemes.

Also possible.

Riona: "You're not going to stop?! I almost died!"
Quinn: "Well if you hadn't been been snooping around my room looking for a fix that wouldn't have happened!"

 

[godkingxerxes]

He doesn't need to go as far as killing someone to get the point across, and I sincerely hope he doesn't. If Riona were to OD, perhaps on the coke that Quinn has stashed away, and she almost died because of it, then that would probably be enough to really put the shits up Quinn, not just because it risks exposing her operation but because her wrecklessness would nearly cause the death of her closest friend.

Riona smokes weed, she's not going to grab a bag of coke and Scarface it.

If she does snatch the coke she'd share with her friends, Camila and MC.

Finally a way to seperate the DIKs from the dicks.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Riona smokes weed, she's not going to grab a bag of coke and Scarface it.

If she does snatch the coke she'd share with her friends, Camila and MC.

Finally a way to seperate the DIKs from the dicks.

Riona seems pretty on edge at times, and I'm not saying that weed leads to an escalation in drug use because I don't believe it does, but it's not outside the realms of possibility that Riona goes looking for more weed in Quinn's room and comes across that bag and decides to try it because she's feeling stressed. Quinn keeping that bag and hiding it feels like a very big foreshadowing and it could be for something like this, whether it's Riona or somebody else.

 

[Tserriednich'sNen]

Also possible.

Riona: "You're not going to stop?! I almost died!"
Quinn: "Well if you hadn't been been snooping around my room looking for a fix that wouldn't have happened!"

Riona knows Quinn doesn't sell coke. Quinn most likely kept that between herself and Rich. No need to tell Riona that. Riona also doesn't strike as someone who'd snoop around people's things to get high. What Quinn told Tommy about was an obvious quick half assed lie to get him off her. Was she supposed to tell him the truth that she's falling short on money to her supplier?

 

[Anthony11553]

Only simps pick chick path

 

[felicemastronzo]

The idea of Riona dying of an overdose by "accident" seems unbelievable to me. Why would she take it? Why would she use it? We're not talking about one pill confused with another.

 

[gamingdevil800]

The idea of Riona dying of an overdose by "accident" seems unbelievable to me. Why would she take it? Why would she use it? We're not talking about one pill confused with another.

They ain't skittles one bad batch or spiked drugs and it could kill you happens all the time irl, not sure if this game will do something that dark though.

 

[felicemastronzo]

They ain't skittles one bad batch or spiked drugs and it could kill you happens all the time irl, not sure if this game will do something that dark though.

but Riona never used coke (if Quinn didn't sell it, Riona certainly didn't use it), why would she do it all of a sudden?

 

[AchedCroissant]

The idea of Riona dying of an overdose by "accident" seems unbelievable to me. Why would she take it? Why would she use it? We're not talking about one pill confused with another.

Remember when the MC almost fell off the roof of the mansion and if it hadn't been for Quinn he would have at least been paralyzed?

And Quinn I think she tells him that Riona smokes some really strong shit

 

[felicemastronzo]

Remember when the MC almost fell off the roof of the mansion and if it hadn't been for Quinn he would have at least been paralyzed?

And Quinn I think she tells him that Riona smokes some really strong shit

but definitely not cocaine, which Quinn says she has never dealt with (then there is always the question of what she and Tommy injected themselves with...).

to justify such a scene Riona would have to be upset, and almost seek death herself

 

[Holy Bacchus]

Riona knows Quinn doesn't sell coke. Quinn most likely kept that between herself and Rich. No need to tell Riona that. Riona also doesn't strike as someone who'd snoop around people's things to get high. What Quinn told Tommy about was an obvious quick half assed lie to get him off her. Was she supposed to tell him the truth that she's falling short on money to her supplier?

That's why she'd find it by accident. She's not looking for it specifically, she's looking for weed, and maybe she'll confront Quinn about it or maybe she'll take it, or maybe both.

Only simps pick chick path

Oh brother.

Don't you dare suggest that I want to catch em all!

Well, we had something like that in Ep 5 when choosing between Josy and Maya. Could happen here too. I mean, Sage doesn't strike me as a threesome or foursome kinda gal. She doesn't even strike me as a gal interested in other gals either.

The idea of Riona dying of an overdose by "accident" seems unbelievable to me. Why would she take it? Why would she use it? We're not talking about one pill confused with another.

I wouldn't think that she'd die, just OD, and I don't see it as being something unbelievable, in fact it feels exactly like something you'd see in a movie or TV show.

Let's say that things continue to go badly for Quinn and the walls are really closing in around her, and since Riona is basically like her closest ally in all this, Riona's feeling this too. We already saw in Ep 3 that she seems to be stressing out and in Ep 4 she's developing some paranoia thinking she's possibly being followed. It's possible that this pressure starts to get too much for her and she looks for a release, so she goes to have a smoke but finds she's all out so she goes to see if Quinn has a stash and finds the bag.

From here, it can go one of 2 ways; either she confronts Quinn about it and says she's going to get rid of the bag, or she just takes the bag to her room. In the first scenario, it could be one of those cliche moments where she's going to flush it down the toilet but changes her mind because she still feels like she needs to take the edge off her stress somehow. In both this and the 2nd scenario, she takes it to her room and snorts some of it. Since she's never had it before she could have a bad reaction, or maybe it's laced with something else and that's what causes her OD. (Not a fatal one, but she will end up in the hospital.)

Either way, this is something that not only feels like it would be pulled right out of a TV show plot, but it's something that I feel does actually fit with this game.

 

[felicemastronzo]

That's why she'd find it by accident. She's not looking for it specifically, she's looking for weed, and maybe she'll confront Quinn about it or maybe she'll take it, or maybe both.



Oh brother.



Well, we had something like that in Ep 5 when choosing between Josy and Maya. Could happen here too. I mean, Sage doesn't strike me as a threesome or foursome kinda gal. She doesn't even strike me as a gal interested in other gals either.



I wouldn't think that she'd die, just OD, and I don't see it as being something unbelievable, in fact it feels exactly like something you'd see in a movie or TV show.

Let's say that things continue to go badly for Quinn and the walls are really closing in around her, and since Riona is basically like her closest ally in all this, Riona's feeling this too. We already saw in Ep 3 that she seems to be stressing out and in Ep 4 she's developing some paranoia thinking she's possibly being followed. It's possible that this pressure starts to get too much for her and she looks for a release, so she goes to have a smoke but finds she's all out so she goes to see if Quinn has a stash and finds the bag.

From here, it can go one of 2 ways; either she confronts Quinn about it and says she's going to get rid of the bag, or she just takes the bag to her room. In the first scenario, it could be one of those cliche moments where she's going to flush it down the toilet but changes her mind because she still feels like she needs to take the edge off her stress somehow. In both this and the 2nd scenario, she takes it to her room and snorts some of it. Since she's never had it before she could have a bad reaction, or maybe it's laced with something else and that's what causes her OD.

Either way, this is something that not only feels like it would be pulled right out of a TV show plot, but it's something that I feel does actually fit with this game.

Usually, in movies as well as in the news, the risk of overdose is faced by confirmed addicts or complete amateurs.

Riona doesn't belong to either of these categories, as long as she smokes to numb herself she doesn't really fall into the typology of the cocaine user, but she is certainly not an angelic soul who doesn't know what cocaine is either.

Anyway, we'll see.