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

[JamieSadistic]

Question: someone sends Dawe a lot of photos of Arieth with several DIKs (including Derek teaming with Jakob!). It´s supposed that those photos were in Jamie´s phone? During the previous scene, he says that he lost it. Although, the first foto is a selfie of Rusty, so should be in Rusty´s phone, and the last one seems to have been taken by an spectator (Jaime?) standing over the other three persons laying on the floor.

Maybe those photos were in DIK´s laptop? We know that Professor Burke somehow has access to that laptop when he gets the video of the MC and Jade, although I don´t see why the dean of the college would even know who Arieth and Dawe are. Maybe Tommy or any other of the DIKs?

Who do you think that got those photos and send them to Dawe, and why? Obviously, is the same person that blackmails Chad, since the letters arrive at the same time, and I don´t think Mel and Sarah (my previous number 1 suspects) would have access to those photos. Any crazy (or not so crazy) theory about that?

There was a theory a while ago that someone somehow managed to get the laptop out of the safe in Rustys room. John boy says that he heard sex sounds coming from Rustys room earlier in the party. The theory was that someone snuck into the room while Rusty was busy having sex, stole the laptop and went to the library. They copied the files, posted the Cathy cluck from the official DIK Rooster account and left the laptop in the library.
Not really sure how plausible it is, but I could see how it would work. Im sure someone other than the DIKs know where the laptop is at and the combination to the safe. My guess is that it probably has something to do with Vinny and possibly Nick.

 

[Canto Forte]

To anyone who is yet to play this update ...
MC is looking in the safe for the laptop and rus telld him he gave it up

So no, just about anyone can and will get access to the laptop,
Rus just likes to be liked and someone under his skin will get it no problem.

 

[Klopdwerg]

There was a theory a while ago that someone somehow managed to get the laptop out of the safe in Rustys room. John boy says that he heard sex sounds coming from Rustys room earlier in the party. The theory was that someone snuck into the room while Rusty was busy having sex, stole the laptop and went to the library. They copied the files, posted the Cathy cluck from the official DIK Rooster account and left the laptop in the library.
Not really sure how plausible it is, but I could see how it would work. Im sure someone other than the DIKs know where the laptop is at and the combination to the safe. My guess is that it probably has something to do with Vinny and possibly Nick.

I think you got it right. Vinny and Nick are into it, pretty sure. Nick was still "searching" in the library after the laptop was found there is just too suspicious. Also the person who is lurking around the mansion (the infamous bedroomscene where the light gets blocked) could very well be Vinny.
Nicks room not being trashed makes me thinking that Vinny is in it. Maybe working together with the Alphas perhaps even their new dealer since they stopped doing business with Quinn.
Vinny is going to be a real pain in the ass in the upcoming episodes.

***edit*** And.... for the first time Rusty is changing the login so Vinny would have remember that as well being a former DIK...

 

[J.A.L.]

Everyone has access to everyone during a drug alcohool party.
becoming hazy after some pints / dudds makes it possible for snoopers to snoop.
Girls being wary of gettting hit on and led to chambers will stay sober and would snoop.

But those photos are not taken by a snooper. Two of them are selfies, and the last one was taken by a person that was into the storage room with Arieth, Jakob and Derek, not snooping from a door slit or something. Or maybe was taken by a security camera in the ceiling of the room, although I don´t know why should be a security camera in a empty storage room...

 

[Canto Forte]

There are a lot of vids of people doing stuff they are not supposed to.
Someone used to snooping will tell ya: you just have ta know everything.

The pics are a collection .. if the guys know eachother, they might have shared
them to eachother over the course of several parties.

Playing with your phone .. or what you believe to be your phone
when in some surrealistic state ... those guys maybe thought it had been some orgy,
godd riddance the girls found no traces of any of that.

Day dreaming while intoxicated is a real thing, you know!

 

[mzolix]

Guys is there any differences if i play with Mini games easy or hard difficult?

 

[J.A.L.]

I think you got it right. Vinny and Nick are into it, pretty sure. Nick was still "searching" in the library after the laptop was found there is just too suspicious. Also the person who is lurking around the mansion (the infamous bedroomscene where the light gets blocked) could very well be Vinny.
Nicks room not being trashed makes me thinking that Vinny is in it. Maybe working together with the Alphas perhaps even their new dealer since they stopped doing business with Quinn.
Vinny is going to be a real pain in the ass in the upcoming episodes.

***edit*** And.... for the first time Rusty is changing the login so Vinny would have remember that as well being a former DIK...

It makes sense. Vinnie wants revenge over the DIKs because they kicked him out, and he knows well the mansion and were to find the laptop. So, he stoles it during the party and goes to his old room because he knows nobody goes there. He send Cathy´s cluck (we don´t know how he get´s Cathy´s photo in a women´s changing room) and uses the other files to hurt as much as possible the DIKs, sending the photos of Arieth to Dawe to antagonize both groups (Alphas and DIKs) with each other even more .

Also makes sense that it is him and his pals the ones that wreck the mansion (after all, he wrecked his own room, so he enjoys by doing that) and write "alphas" in the walls to mislead the DIKs, but respects the room of his friend Nick. It´s not necessary that Nick knows that. If he has an accomplice into the DIKs that gives him information, I bet is Jamie. His greenhouse is not wrecked too (probably that greenhouse is more important for him than his own room), and there are clues in some of the dialogues that suggest that he could have regrets. Maybe Vinnie is somehow blackmailing or threatening Jaime?

But we still don´t know how he knows Chad´s secret, and also, we don´t know how Burke gets the video of Jade and the MC. Vinnie can´t send it to him, since that scene haven´t happened when the laptop is stolen.

 

[JamieSadistic]

But those photos are not taken by a snooper. Two of them are selfies, and the last one was taken by a person that was into the storage room with Arieth, Jakob and Derek, not snooping from a door slit or something. Or maybe was taken by a security camera in the ceiling of the room, although I don´t know why should be a security camera in a empty storage room...

If you remember, before Derek moved in the storage room, there was a step ladder in the corner. A phone could have been placed there to record the whole thing.

 

[Casiope]

The system is both overly complicated and very poorly explained. First, there are actually two different systems, Status and Affinity. Both systems use the terms CHICK/DIK, but they work differently.

Status is determined by a host of small actions the MC can take, like checking out various girls or cheating at tests (+DIK points), or not checking out girls and passing tests fairly (-DIK points, leading to CHICK status). Status is broken into 3 levels (from least to most extreme: normal, Huge, and Massive), plus Neutral in between. The more positive or negative points you have, the more extreme your Status. Status is mostly about how the MC speaks: dialog with CHICK Status tends to be polite and measured, while DIKs are more crude and profane. Early on in the game, Status was also used to gate certain actions (you need Huge DIK status to check Sage's g-string in Episode 1, for example). By Season 2, however, that has almost vanished and Affinity gates actions instead.

Affinity is the net result of all the "Major Decisions" the MC takes. Each decision removes one box on the opposite side of the status bar: for example, choosing to accept Quinn's restaurant offer in Episode 1 is a DIK major decision, so it removes the outermost box on the CHICK track. Likewise turning down Quinn's offer removes the outermost DIK box. As we proceed through the game, the status bar is thus whittled down over time. Affinity is the net result of those choices. If you have made 2+ more DIK major decisions than you have CHICK major decisions, you gain DIK Affinity, and vice versa. If you have made 0-1 more of one type of decision than the other, you have Neutral Affinity. Unlike Status, there are no further gradations for Affinity.

Starting late in Season 1, Affinity began to take over the role of gating the MC's actions. Showering with Jill in Episode 4 required CHICK Affinity, for example, whereas Quinn will only allow the MC to help her in Episode 6 if he has DIK Affinity (in addition to some other requirements). As a side effect of losing boxes, Affinity can indirectly limit Status: lose enough boxes on the CHICK side, for example, and you can no longer get enough points to become a Massive CHICK. Since Status checks are few and far between these days, this doesn't make much difference unless you run completely out of boxes on one side.

If that happens (which first became possible late in Episode 6), the MC would gain permanent Affinity. This means the MC is no longer capable of making contrary major decisions (though it looks like in Season 3 he will now have a neutral option that's sort of a non-committal answer to the dilemma). If the MC manages to make it to through the final Major Decision in Episode 8 without losing all his CHICK and DIK boxes, he'll gain permanent Neutral Affinity instead.

So that's the system in a nutshell. It's not that Affinity determines which LI routes you can follow directly, more that certain actions can have Affinity requirements (which are often not disclosed to the player), and those actions can be vital to starting (or continuing) a given path.

As I said, I think the system is needlessly complicated and is sufficiently opaque that the game is better if you have a guide or walkthrough to keep track of the requirements. YMMV, but hopefully this gives you some idea how it works.

I totally agree with you that this system is poorly explained but it meets its objectives:

• Allowing the player to experience and find his affinity in the first episodes through the status.
• Progressively restrict this flexibility in accordance with the player's behavior.
• After a while, permanently set the affinity for the rest of the game.
• Not to mention, Neutral status and affinity help mitigate a previous mistaken choice.

This evolution over time is rarely understood. Could this be the legacy of the ongoing development of Being a DIK? Balancing and polishing are often processed once the game is finalised.

 

[Dr.Brule]

Since everyone's throwing out theories here's mine. I think Dawe is related to Quinn.

 

[J.A.L.]

If you remember, before Derek moved in the storage room, there was a step ladder in the corner. A phone could have been placed there to record the whole thing.

That step ladder can be seen in the photo, so the camera was not there.

 

[J.A.L.]

Since everyone's throwing out theories here's mine. I think Dawe is related to Quinn.

Because they both have the hair tinted white?

 

[Dr.Brule]

Because they both have the hair tinted white?

Well that and if you look at them side by side they have similar features and smile.

 

[JamieSadistic]

Well that and if you look at them side by side they have similar features and smile.

Well if thats your explanation, Derek, John Boy and Neil are all related as well

 

[Killerwhale5678]

Well that and if you look at them side by side they have similar features and smile.

Could be possible after sage cliffhanger anything is possible

 

[Meghead]

This was my "others" on a Chick Jill route.

How to do it? I only had three options.

 

[Lightaces]

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But you can do so much more....

Spoiler: Fairly obvious (Good and evil here in the mundane ever day sense - Quinn's not going to kill half the universe or anything!)

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[Klopdwerg]

It makes sense. Vinnie wants revenge over the DIKs because they kicked him out, and he knows well the mansion and were to find the laptop. So, he stoles it during the party and goes to his old room because he knows nobody goes there. He send Cathy´s cluck (we don´t know how he get´s Cathy´s photo in a women´s changing room) and uses the other files to hurt as much as possible the DIKs, sending the photos of Arieth to Dawe to antagonize both groups (Alphas and DIKs) with each other even more .

Also makes sense that it is him and his pals the ones that wreck the mansion (after all, he wrecked his own room, so he enjoys by doing that) and write "alphas" in the walls to mislead the DIKs, but respects the room of his friend Nick. It´s not necessary that Nick knows that. If he has an accomplice into the DIKs that gives him information, I bet is Jamie. His greenhouse is not wrecked too (probably that greenhouse is more important for him than his own room), and there are clues in some of the dialogues that suggest that he could have regrets. Maybe Vinnie is somehow blackmailing or threatening Jaime?

But we still don´t know how he knows Chad´s secret, and also, we don´t know how Burke gets the video of Jade and the MC. Vinnie can´t send it to him, since that scene haven´t happened when the laptop is stolen.

I mentioned it a while back when we were discussing who trashed the mansion and who is actually fucking over the DIKS.
Now you bring it up again and i'm getting more and more certain about Vinny. The Writing on the walls.
Look at the writing in the library and then in Rustys room. MC even mentioning it is a nice handwriting. And they look very similar. So Vinny wrote the that Alpha karma bullshit as well imho. And who knows, maybe the Alphas are really in it together with Vinny.

 

[N7]

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DIKs!

Right now, I'm mostly working on Steam beta testing, bug fixing, etc.

But I'm also using my PCs by posing and rendering animations for the next update.

I'm polishing the walkthrough and releasing it to the Major DIK tiers and above this weekend.

Today, I want to talk about what's coming up in Season 3.

If you haven't played episode 8 yet. Please, stop reading right now, as you will get spoiled.

I would even advise you not to read my future posts until you have played and finished episode 8.

Spoilers are incoming below this sentence.

So, what is the plan for Season 3?

As you saw from reaching the end of Season 2, Episode 9 is not the next update that I will release.

Right now, we have reached an approximate midpoint of the main story.

Where we are right now, I have planned for a special part of the game that I have chosen to call "Interlude - Riding the Waves".

An interlude is a short story in the middle of an ongoing story, and that's what's next for Being a DIK.

Season 3 will start with this shorter interlude, and after that, Episode 9 will continue where you left off.

I will release the interlude before episode 9. This gives you some more Being a DIK content faster, and it also gives a perfect opportunity to make sure that the save transfers from Season 2 to Season 3 works for all of your games.

I wanted to manage your expectations for what the next release means in terms of development and content by telling you this.

The interlude won't be as long as the previous episodes have been, and it will primarily be focused on story events, not lewd content.

It's a shorter piece of the story that's too big to be handled within an episode and focused on story events that I want to tell in a certain way.

I hope that this will come to mean that the upcoming development cycle will be shorter as well. Both the planned animation and render count won't be near what you've seen recently from me.

That said, I know that the interlude will speak for itself and be both satisfying and worth playing for any fan of the game.

I will have more information about the interlude later and tease it more with previews and status updates.

After the interlude has been released on Patreon, it will be full speed ahead with episode 9 development.

Season 3 as a whole will feel fresh and fun; I have big plans for it.

I appreciate your support, and I hope you will enjoy the journey ahead on your chosen roads.

Have a nice weekend!

Dr PinkCake

 

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