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Walkthrough??
1. Create a character
2. Click through the story

(AFAIK There is only one spot, where you can die. This is when you go exploring a building cite with an instagram couple you meet during your free time. If you roll too low, you can fall to your death. You don't even have to save-scum, since the game allows you to go back a few screens and try again.)
 

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1. Create a character
2. Click through the story

(AFAIK There is only one spot, where you can die. This is when you go exploring a building cite with an instagram couple you meet during your free time. If you roll too low, you can fall to your death. You don't even have to save-scum, since the game allows you to go back a few screens and try again.)
I reckon this should be pinned as an Official Walkthrough to the OP. Quite an informative guide. I think it might be helpful for the new players.
 

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You know out of all his books, one has to be the most sexual one right? Would that one be worthy of translating into game format? :unsure:
 
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You know out of all his books, one has to be the most sexual one right? Would that one be worthy of translating into game format? :unsure:
Tommyknockers had a scene where the protagonist has sex with an alien possessed woman, and is thinking about maggots and rotting flesh to avoid getting hard and cumming. Peak anti-erotocism.
And in IT, a bunch of 11 year olds have a gangbang. They didn't show this in the movie for some reason.
 
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The internal monologue of the character doesn't match the reality of that character's own internal thoughts? What?

There's no unreliable narrator issue here because the only thing that matters is what the protagonist thinks is happening. If she doesn't think she was raped, she can't have a traumatic reaction to being raped.
People don't just have their conscious internal thoughts, they also have involuntary emotional reactions that their consciousness will react to. You can absolutely have internal thoughts that are contradictory to how a traumatic event is being emotionally processed. In fact, people's internal thoughts often adjust themselves to be more accepting of the event to cope with trauma. It's what we call "cope", where someone tries to actively deny reality in favor of something more preferable to process.

This is getting into very complicated territory but one of the reasons suggested as to why individuals who have been raped may fetishize rape later on is because they're trying to reprocess the event on their own terms.
 
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I never got how the player character is supposed to be surprised and deeply mortified that she might have to engage in sexual activity with targets in the first place. Intelligence agencies are no strangers to having their agents use sex for espionage purposes, and it stands to reason that they would at least pick an agent who is ready to use sex to accomplish their goals (especially in such a dangerous setting). I doubt they would use an inexperienced agent for such a mission in the first place with no prior training and mental conditioning for these actions. Especially when she's got top level clearance to info that would compromise several other agents including high ranking ones. The parts of the story where the player character is so concerned about what her coworkers will think of seeing her have sex is kind of nonsensical, in reality they'd be shitting themselves watching this clueless agent who knows their names and faces try to sexually bungle her way into the enemy compound.

The game would have made more sense if the player character was someone who had the skills and psychological profile to be a honeypot/femme-fatale agent using sex to manipulate her way into the enemy organization. That's not to say that the player character wouldn't be traumatized by rape or other violent events, but she wouldn't be as clueless as she is in this story.
 
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here we go again!:sleep:




Hey guys! I'm sorry for being quiet here, and on Discord. I've been struggling with the writing in this episode, and it wasn't clear to me last weekend how to fix it.
For story reasons, we need to send the heroine back into the club for a barmaid shift. My idea to spice it up was to do something cool with wardrobe, and give her an excuse to wear some hot gothy fuck-me boots for a shift.

It seemed cool in the outline. Our illustrator lovely Victoria created some gorgeous art, and we had some cool scenes of the heroine getting the boots, the bargirls cooing over her new look in the dressing room, the regulars commenting on and loving her whorish new look, etc.

Shakedown run
Unfortunately, once I'd put it all together, when I tested it…I hated it. I hated it so much I didn’t even bother sharing it with any of the normal testers. It felt contrived and, worse – boring. I have been a very sad crab about this.

I know it’s just a porno, but the story’s so important to me. When it doesn’t work I get dispirited.

Still, fear and despair are all parts of the creative process, so I just accepted it wasn’t what I wanted it to be, and worked hard on fixing it.

Diagnosis
In an effort to figure out what was wrong, I replayed the last episode, and at the end asked myself: as a player, what would I want to happen next?

When I pictured what I’d been planning, I realised that I’d just gotten the pacing completely wrong. ☹ Going back into the club as a topless barmaid is fine, but it needs to be a sexy little blast, not a long drawn out procedural.

An experiment: leaner episodes
I cut a bunch of stuff, rewrote it to feel more like a little montage than a step-by-step simulation of a barmaiding shift. It’s now much zingier, sexier and faster paced.
I’ve cut so much that it’s actually now too short to release, even as a mini episode. My plan is to skinny down the planned length of the Big Mac side quest and roll it into this episode. So, the structure will be:
– Short punchy scene set in the club
– Short punchy first date with Big Mac

I’m much much happier with this approach, and if it works out I think it’s got some important advantages going forward – not least that if the episodes are a little skinnier, then we’ll make faster progress towards the part of the story that I really want to write (the heroine bargirling).

I’m really sorry for the delay; I wanted to blast this out of the way quick and I messed up on my first pass at it. I’m working really hard on making a faster, better episode and I hope you’ll like it. ❤
 
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