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UncleFredo

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If the GPS function is disabled, it's which cell tower the phones were connected to.
As has been demonstrated many times, tower triangulation can place a cell phone with roughly the accuracy described. In the city any cell phone is going to hit multiple towers only one of which is going to carry a call, but the software to perform triangulation has been a feature for a very long time. Even if Carter's, the MC's and Charlotte's phones have GPS disabled, we know that Emma's did not because the MC and Charlotte were tracking her phone. Emma's track identifies the path and timeline that Carter followed. So from the time that Carter started chasing her his location is provable.

They'll say it was the MC's knife. He killed Zac, Carter saw it and chased him, they fought, MC killed him, used his own knife to cut himself then put it in Carter's hand to get his prints on it. The witnesses are not impartial - they live in the same house. By their own admission they owe Emma's life to him so they would say anything to get him off.
We need an impartial witness - say a nosy resident who recorded the incident. Better yet, get rid of the body and sit tight.
The MC's location at the time of Zak's death is provable. Charlotte and the MC can prove that they were at her home and no where near Zak. So the knife could not have been the MC's nor could he have been Zak's murderer. Also provable is the distance between Zak's body and the location that Emma became aware of Carter and that he was coming from the direction of the body. Not to mention that Zak was killed between the movie theater and the location that Carter encountered Emma, and the timeline. Carter turned up minutes after Zak was killed.

If there was no murder attempt, then no one owes anyone for Emma's life, and they are completely impartial witnesses. If Charlotte and Emma owe Emma's life to the MC, then Carter had to have attempted to kill Emma. You can't have this both ways. Either way their testimony is credible.

There's been extensive discussions about disposing of the body which is a criminal act in conjunction with a killing. Doing so might remove the MC protection under the rules of self defense but MIGHT avoid having to deal with a corrupt legal system. People in this thread come down on both sides. I believe, that given Charlotte's resources and my conviction she'll stand behind the MC, his odds are better to call the cops, her lawyers (maybe the press), and act like anyone else who is an innocent victim of a crime (which he in fact is). A number of folks here think that view is naive.
 

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People in this thread come down on both sides. I believe, that given Charlotte's resources and my conviction she'll stand behind the MC, his odds are better to call the cops, her lawyers (maybe the press), and act like anyone else who is an innocent victim of a crime (which he in fact is). A number of folks here think that view is naive.
Similarly, I don't think we, as Johnny Silverhand would say, have a city to burn... yet. A trial involving the bodyguard of the world's top model accused of killing a cop to protect her and her daughter, would lead the game to a conclusion too quickly at this stage.
 

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Who knows the MC might be sleeping with her by the end of it.
Something about that idea, specifically in this story, creeps me out. I think it's because her development is so lacking that it'd basically be like him messing around with a pre-teen. Either way, if, for whatever reason, that ends up being in the story, I really hope it'd be completely optional because if not, I don't think I'd continue playing, even though I enjoy this one a lot.
 
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Something about that idea, specifically in this story, creeps me out. I think it's because her development is so lacking that it'd basically be like him messing around with a pre-teen. Either way, if, for whatever reason, that ends up being in the story, I really hope it'd be completely optional because if not, I don't think I'd continue playing, even though I enjoy this one a lot.
I would say you will be given a choice, as you have had with the other characters so far. As i said to someone i could understand if she was more mature and maybe a little older, and didn't have that creepy pink room, then i could possibly understand it. But to me she looks up to the MC as a father, and maybe i am reading this wrong but when she calls him her phone says Dad, so yeah not sure how this will work out or how Charlotte could ever forgive him.
I am in agreement with Charlotte:
"This town is full of fucking perverts and predators." How does it make the MC any better.
 

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I would say you will be given a choice, as you have had with the other characters so far. As i said to someone i could understand if she was more mature and maybe a little older, and didn't have that creepy pink room, then i could possibly understand it. But to me she looks up to the MC as a father, and maybe i am reading this wrong but when she calls him her phone says Dad, so yeah not sure how this will work out or how Charlotte could ever forgive him.
I am in agreement with Charlotte:
"This town is full of fucking perverts and predators." How does it make the MC any better.
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There have been some concerns voiced recently about Emma being a love interest. In response I said that I would make a post about it.

Simply put, Hillside is about a man who enters the lives of a family of four women and how he comes to fall in love with each of them separately.

Those four women are Charlotte, Lucy, Suzi and Emma, and they are the four main love interests with whom you will be able to have a romantic and sexual relationship.

The relationships are exclusive of one another, so the player chooses their love interest and the other three will be excluded. That means that if you don't choose Emma as your love interest then you will not experience any sexual content involving her and your growing father-daughter relationship will continue.

I chose for Emma and the MC to form a father-daughter kind of relationship for a number of reasons. The main one is because I wanted the player to feel that a romantic relationship with Emma was wrong and inappropriate somehow, which it is on many levels. I hoped that people choosing her as a love interest would feel conflicted about it and experience a moral dilemma, as the MC undoubtedly would.

I don't want to spoil the story by saying too much about what is going to happen, but I will say that, following the events of v0.11, Emma will begin to act more maturely and she will be the one that initiates the romantic relationship with the MC.

If anyone has any more specific questions or concerns then leave a comment and I will try to answer them.

Thanks,
DB

 

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There have been some concerns voiced recently about Emma being a love interest. In response I said that I would make a post about it.

Simply put, Hillside is about a man who enters the lives of a family of four women and how he comes to fall in love with each of them separately.

Those four women are Charlotte, Lucy, Suzi and Emma, and they are the four main love interests with whom you will be able to have a romantic and sexual relationship.

The relationships are exclusive of one another, so the player chooses their love interest and the other three will be excluded. That means that if you don't choose Emma as your love interest then you will not experience any sexual content involving her and your growing father-daughter relationship will continue.

I chose for Emma and the MC to form a father-daughter kind of relationship for a number of reasons. The main one is because I wanted the player to feel that a romantic relationship with Emma was wrong and inappropriate somehow, which it is on many levels. I hoped that people choosing her as a love interest would feel conflicted about it and experience a moral dilemma, as the MC undoubtedly would.

I don't want to spoil the story by saying too much about what is going to happen, but I will say that, following the events of v0.11, Emma will begin to act more maturely and she will be the one that initiates the romantic relationship with the MC.

If anyone has any more specific questions or concerns then leave a comment and I will try to answer them.

Thanks,
DB

I'm all for Emma acting more maturely. After the night she just had she is going to need to grow up in a hurry. Don't think that she is the love interest that I would pick myself, but I'm sure that storyline will have its fans.
 

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There have been some concerns voiced recently about Emma being a love interest. In response I said that I would make a post about it.

Simply put, Hillside is about a man who enters the lives of a family of four women and how he comes to fall in love with each of them separately.

Those four women are Charlotte, Lucy, Suzi and Emma, and they are the four main love interests with whom you will be able to have a romantic and sexual relationship.

The relationships are exclusive of one another, so the player chooses their love interest and the other three will be excluded. That means that if you don't choose Emma as your love interest then you will not experience any sexual content involving her and your growing father-daughter relationship will continue.

I chose for Emma and the MC to form a father-daughter kind of relationship for a number of reasons. The main one is because I wanted the player to feel that a romantic relationship with Emma was wrong and inappropriate somehow, which it is on many levels. I hoped that people choosing her as a love interest would feel conflicted about it and experience a moral dilemma, as the MC undoubtedly would.

I don't want to spoil the story by saying too much about what is going to happen, but I will say that, following the events of v0.11, Emma will begin to act more maturely and she will be the one that initiates the romantic relationship with the MC.

If anyone has any more specific questions or concerns then leave a comment and I will try to answer them.

Thanks,
DB

For me feels weird pursuing Emma given how she and mc bonded, as seen in the last update Emma sees the mc as a father figure. My end goal is the mc gets a happy ending with Charlotte and nothing more.
 

DrReyMoore

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There have been some concerns voiced recently about Emma being a love interest. In response I said that I would make a post about it.

Simply put, Hillside is about a man who enters the lives of a family of four women and how he comes to fall in love with each of them separately.

Those four women are Charlotte, Lucy, Suzi and Emma, and they are the four main love interests with whom you will be able to have a romantic and sexual relationship.

The relationships are exclusive of one another, so the player chooses their love interest and the other three will be excluded. That means that if you don't choose Emma as your love interest then you will not experience any sexual content involving her and your growing father-daughter relationship will continue.

I chose for Emma and the MC to form a father-daughter kind of relationship for a number of reasons. The main one is because I wanted the player to feel that a romantic relationship with Emma was wrong and inappropriate somehow, which it is on many levels. I hoped that people choosing her as a love interest would feel conflicted about it and experience a moral dilemma, as the MC undoubtedly would.

I don't want to spoil the story by saying too much about what is going to happen, but I will say that, following the events of v0.11, Emma will begin to act more maturely and she will be the one that initiates the romantic relationship with the MC.

If anyone has any more specific questions or concerns then leave a comment and I will try to answer them.

Thanks,
DB

Maybe you should mark this as spoiler lol, I don't mind but maybe some people do.
 
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There have been some concerns voiced recently about Emma being a love interest. In response I said that I would make a post about it.

Simply put, Hillside is about a man who enters the lives of a family of four women and how he comes to fall in love with each of them separately.

Those four women are Charlotte, Lucy, Suzi and Emma, and they are the four main love interests with whom you will be able to have a romantic and sexual relationship.

The relationships are exclusive of one another, so the player chooses their love interest and the other three will be excluded. That means that if you don't choose Emma as your love interest then you will not experience any sexual content involving her and your growing father-daughter relationship will continue.

I chose for Emma and the MC to form a father-daughter kind of relationship for a number of reasons. The main one is because I wanted the player to feel that a romantic relationship with Emma was wrong and inappropriate somehow, which it is on many levels. I hoped that people choosing her as a love interest would feel conflicted about it and experience a moral dilemma, as the MC undoubtedly would.

I don't want to spoil the story by saying too much about what is going to happen, but I will say that, following the events of v0.11, Emma will begin to act more maturely and she will be the one that initiates the romantic relationship with the MC.

If anyone has any more specific questions or concerns then leave a comment and I will try to answer them.

Thanks,
DB

Right now, considering how Emma has only been trying to push the MC and her mother towards a romantic relationship, I have a hard time seeing how the way she considers the MC can shift towards a romantic relationship rather than a father-daughter one.
That said, with DB's storytelling capabilities, I trust he will find a way
 
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