VN Ren'Py Karlsson's Gambit [v0.8.2B Final] [Grym Gudinna Games]

[Dark Quean Olivia]

Mr. Chatty

For someone with over a third of his posts in this thread alone (and the timeframe in which they were posted), your comment is hilariously hypocritical, even more so when you don't appear to actually like it, just prefer to try and get under people's skin. Do you even remember what grass is, let alone the color of it sweetheart?

Go away you pathetic little boy.

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

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A self-insert isn't a one to one transfer, it's when a writer puts certain aspects of themselves into a character.
Also, you think that the party girl who is used by the Karlssons in most social situations has no friends?

 

[BurgRoyce]

A self-insert isn't a one to one transfer, it's when a writer puts certain aspects of themselves into a character.
Also, you think that the party girl who is used by the Karlssons in most social situations has no friends?

Can anyone have real friends in this mad postapocalyptic world?
Alessandra can be friendly and fun... if she wants to. But friends? No way. Celeste is a fuck buddy, not a friend.

 

[SirHoneyBadger69]

Mr. Chatty

For someone with over a third of his posts in this thread alone (and the timeframe in which they were posted), your comment is hilariously hypocritical, even more so when you don't appear to actually like it, just prefer to try and get under people's skin. Do you even remember what grass is, let alone the color of it sweetheart?

Go away you pathetic little boy.

You tell 'em petal

 

[Dark Quean Olivia]

p. 7: After this release, Tess finally begins considering to heed to this request, and opens the question up to her patrons, who give a resounding affirmation that they want to see Tess actually in the game.

Tess' character is in Ep7, you must have missed it. Thinking that SubKane is a default cannon, well, you obviously have just not been paying attention, much like with nearly everything in the story...like Kiyomi's romance...like the Ark or like Tess' (self-inserted) character is already in the story before Ep8.

Tess has recently commented about dealing with mal-adjusted individuals, and Alessandra is textbook "mal-adjusted", even more than Juliette. (Juliette suffers from "broken paternal love programming". Needing to be loved by her father, she does whatever is necessary to earn that love, and when he responds, she doubles-down on whatever stimuli created that response. I've seen this broken paternal "love" psychologically ruin some relatives, which, without going into the sick sick details, affected all their relationships with men (both blood relatives and otherwise), to the point where they needed counseling to "reprogram" their brains to a correct and healthy concept of masculine love. Juliette needs similar retraining.) While Juliette can be retrained, Alessandra cannot, she even states that she is not willing to change. I also find it hard to believe that a woman who has two successful businesses with numerous employees, and valuable clients/contracts, and a long-time "partner in crime" in Anais, sees herself most in a deranged woman with zero friends (she just uses Celeste as long as she can boss her), wants her family to die, and whose entire purpose in life is to inflict psychological torment on everyone around her whom she can.

What, are you actually on about? In fact you know what, no need to answer that, just more unrelated nonsense.

How am I the one who's supposed to be struggling with English? THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID! Let me restate what I originally said by drawing out an over-detailed timeline:

When the majority of the thread has no clue what you are on about, what you are saying (because it's mostly gibberish and factually incorrect), then like with many things in life, perhaps the problem is not with the majority?

Just a thought.

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

Can anyone have real friends in this mad postapocalyptic world?
Alessandra can be friendly and fun... if she wants to. But friends? No way. Celeste is a fuck buddy, not a friend.

Fair enough. I've always seen alessandra as this story's version of a valley girl. Esp when she was laughing at Olivia for being poor . But yea you're right, friends isn't really a thing in this world

 

[Maviarab]

Can anyone have real friends in this mad postapocalyptic world?
Alessandra can be friendly and fun... if she wants to. But friends? No way. Celeste is a fuck buddy, not a friend.

Fair enough. I've always seen alessandra as this story's version of a valley girl. Esp when she was laughing at Olivia for being poor . But yea you're right, friends isn't really a thing in this world

I think if you're not part of the elite then yes. If elite, the likes of the Karlsson's, von Reinach's, Richelieu's etc...then I would say 'friend(ly)' is perhaps more accurate, tied in a with a heavy dose of alliance and certain expectations.

 

[YuNobi1]

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[Stan5851]

Mistress Tess — Today at 9:54 PM
A quick announcement:

1) I have put out a dom poll on Patreon -- it's always got a lot of characters, but please feel free to check it out and vote!
2) I almost have a draft of walkthrough ready, it's on pace to hopefully be out this Sunday. First draft and given how detailed/precise it is, it's usually hard to avoid a mistake or two, but it should be mostly good to go. I will do a Draft 2 if necessary to clean up minor glitches, etc. It's about 40+ pages so it's long but I tried to make it reasonably readable with color coding/spacing, etc.
3) Thank you for the Itch support! I didn't check except a few times, but it seems KG peaked at about the 30th best selling game on the site out of 54,000 games! I appreciate it so much! Other devs are telling me Itch is much smaller than Steam for sales by quite a bit, so I guess I better get to work on that version too!
4) I hope to cross 100 renders this week with the formal start on Part 2, but the walkthrough is very time consuming (just detailed writing, checking the code, formatting, color coding, which is ALL not my skillset heh) so we shall see. Once that is out of the way, I will pin everything on Patreon and then I should be pretty good to go on just rendering/writing Part 2.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Mistress Tess — Today at 9:54 PM
A quick announcement:

1) I have put out a dom poll on Patreon -- it's always got a lot of characters, but please feel free to check it out and vote!
2) I almost have a draft of walkthrough ready, it's on pace to hopefully be out this Sunday. First draft and given how detailed/precise it is, it's usually hard to avoid a mistake or two, but it should be mostly good to go. I will do a Draft 2 if necessary to clean up minor glitches, etc. It's about 40+ pages so it's long but I tried to make it reasonably readable with color coding/spacing, etc.
3) Thank you for the Itch support! I didn't check except a few times, but it seems KG peaked at about the 30th best selling game on the site out of 54,000 games! I appreciate it so much! Other devs are telling me Itch is much smaller than Steam for sales by quite a bit, so I guess I better get to work on that version too!
4) I hope to cross 100 renders this week with the formal start on Part 2, but the walkthrough is very time consuming (just detailed writing, checking the code, formatting, color coding, which is ALL not my skillset heh) so we shall see. Once that is out of the way, I will pin everything on Patreon and then I should be pretty good to go on just rendering/writing Part 2.

Noting this poll is for custom images, not involved for part 2… sub poll had a mix up with that point

 

[Maviarab]

Mistress Tess — Today at 9:54 PM
A quick announcement:

1) I have put out a dom poll on Patreon -- it's always got a lot of characters, but please feel free to check it out and vote!
2) I almost have a draft of walkthrough ready, it's on pace to hopefully be out this Sunday. First draft and given how detailed/precise it is, it's usually hard to avoid a mistake or two, but it should be mostly good to go. I will do a Draft 2 if necessary to clean up minor glitches, etc. It's about 40+ pages so it's long but I tried to make it reasonably readable with color coding/spacing, etc.
3) Thank you for the Itch support! I didn't check except a few times, but it seems KG peaked at about the 30th best selling game on the site out of 54,000 games! I appreciate it so much! Other devs are telling me Itch is much smaller than Steam for sales by quite a bit, so I guess I better get to work on that version too!
4) I hope to cross 100 renders this week with the formal start on Part 2, but the walkthrough is very time consuming (just detailed writing, checking the code, formatting, color coding, which is ALL not my skillset heh) so we shall see. Once that is out of the way, I will pin everything on Patreon and then I should be pretty good to go on just rendering/writing Part 2.

Lol..forgot to open Discord today heh...thanks for posting Stan.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Interesting tidbit for the sub players:

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[Maviarab]

Interesting tidbit for the sub players:

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Hmm...first bit I already knew...second, not terribly unsurprising, she still not given out a lot of details regarding Delilah on the sub path has she...

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Hmm...first bit I already knew...second, not terribly unsurprising, she still not given out a lot of details regarding Delilah on the sub path has she...

She’s keeping it close to the vest :/ only said, her character teased it in the beginning

 

[Maviarab]

She’s keeping it close to the vest :/ only said, her character teased it in the beginning

She a sneaky Tess. Doesn't really bother me but I'm still curious hehe.

 

[jaxofalltrades]

Not suggested at all, spoken as fact by Veronica when she tells Olivia the birth order (conveniently leaving out Astrid). My suspicions are Dominique was born before the inception of the company. I'm putting her a good 3 or 4 years older than Veronica and Olivia (who are both 24).

I knew the birth order, just couldn't remember if it was explicitly said that Dom was born before Callista and Alexander got together. Her mom and Alexander could have been "over" before she was born and died while he was with Callista. That was where I was fuzzy so I hedged my response with a suggested instead of confirmed.

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[Dreadlord Sinister]

New here Love the game quick question. I'm doing different Playthroughs for each level how can I stay on K5 without getting promoted?

 

[Maviarab]

I knew the birth order, just couldn't remember if it was explicitly said that Dom was born before Callista and Alexander got together. Her mom and Alexander could have been "over" before she was born and died while he was with Callista. That was where I was fuzzy so I hedged my response with a suggested instead of confirmed.

Unfortunately we have no idea when any of the relations started. All we can ascertain 100% for sure, Alexander was fooling around with both Yvette and Elena 'while with' Callista (the discovery is the beginning of the end for them). Anything else, when..for how long...is a mystery at this point, especially considering they were all friends before starting the company.

All that is said by Veronica regarding Dominique's parentage is that she didn't think Callista and Alexander were together during Dominique's timeline. This is one basis for my reasoning as to Dominique's possible age and that she was born before the company started. If Dominique's mother was still around (if recall, stated she died when Dom was young), then why was she also not a company founder?

New here Love the game quick question. I'm doing different Playthroughs for each level how can I stay on K5 without getting promoted?

First of all welcome to our crazy place here full of theories, facts and arguments Glad to have you with us.

You just need to game a little:

If Kane has zpts 8 points or higher:
Chanel recommends Kane be given a K5 rank (no matter current rank)

Then:

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Similar process for your 2nd evaluation at the end of Ep6, though DomThrone points are the import ones, so keep your work placement scores low as doing well in your work placements (getting high scores) determines your ThronePoints which ultimately affect your rank in this evaluation.

 

[YuNobi1]

I knew the birth order, just couldn't remember if it was explicitly said that Dom was born before Callista and Alexander got together. Her mom and Alexander could have been "over" before she was born and died while he was with Callista. That was where I was fuzzy so I hedged my response with a suggested instead of confirmed.

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So then answer this: what does Grymm give Callista? Not theory, actual substance: how is she used by Callista? What part of Callista's plan is advanced, or more specifically: what is the result from the information and direction she gives Grymm?

While Callista refuses to use video communication, evidence suggests that Grymm does know who her benefactor is. She knows that Queen is very familiar with her, her character, her father, that she knew him well years ago, knows history of the Karlsson empire, and current interior workings of the Board, but is not on the Board, knows that Elena is Olivia's mother, and knows when Elena found out despite it's secret, she knows the siblings, knows who #7 is and how they'll vote, and she knows the whole Gambit plan. Considering Grymm mentions Elena in the third person, and that she will support Olivia, which Queen is showing she's supporting Alessandra, means Grymm knows Queen is not Elena. Now this certainly sounds like a point to support her not knowing Queen's identity, but she doesn't know Callista, and therefore if she even likes Olivia. With an absent mother, the only concept Grymm has of a parent is Alexander, and she knows what he did/try to do to Astrid, so if he abandoned his own blood, why should Callista, in Grymm's mind, support a non-daughter?

 

[Dark Quean Olivia]

New here Love the game quick question. I'm doing different Playthroughs for each level how can I stay on K5 without getting promoted?

Welcome Dreadlord! Don't forget your proper place and be sure to get my heels nice and clean. They a little messy from walking all over Jakey earlier. Oh, have you also met my friend Eloise? She is soooo lovely! You'll love her, she just the absolute best! I#ll make you an appointment to go and see her!

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