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

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Stop pressing ctrl?

 

[Meiri]

theres something wrong with this game. Every time I press ctrl it fast forwards the game, how do I stop this from happening?

It is normal behavior unless you mean it happens to everything and not just to content you have already seen, in which case go to preferences on the menu and disable "skip unseen text".

 

[Maviarab]

It is normal behavior unless you mean it happens to everything and not just to content you have already seen, in which case go to preferences on the menu and disable "skip unseen text".

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

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Raspberry?

 

[PickerLewd]

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Corporate Development Memo 22 June 2025

Hi everyone!

First of all as I said last week I've got a short trip which may impact my ability to write on this exact time or so next week. I'll either post a bit early or later or have Anais post something I just put together for her. I am very sure I may have periods of no access so to speak (no Internet) so I want to be prepared, etc.

I did 112 renders this week for now a grand total of 2,015 renders. I've hit 2000 renders, whew!

I still feel like I have so much more I want to do, but as I said last week I'll try and close some loops earlier than I might have wanted and save a few things for the next update.

The scene above is about wrapped up and is optional. I have been vacillating between having it a K9 rank scene or only the flag "execpt = 1" (an executive point flag scene for Dom Kane you could have gotten from either Kelly or Katsumi at the pool scene last update) and I still haven't decided! This scene is the first formal "harem" type start in terms of Kane building his own team. This is different than Mia/Desdemona who are his staff but not formally under him permanently but more like a job assignment.

Sub side has about two more games and scene or two left. Secret sub is next in my wheelhouse, then probably a shift to dom path last. This is likely the road map to finish this update. I will try and do an end of month game plan/post either next weekend (or if I am really help up traveling) the following week. I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel now.

Anais will be publishing her game Patreon (The Quantum Academy) around August 1st. It will only have an initial $2 tier (she can't show public adult images so needs some kind of tier to lock that content properly) as she develops characters and I think she is going to let people vote/comment on her designs, etc.

A few people on my higher tiers know I had a weird week but still managed to get a decent week of work done! I'm keeping this update a bit short but I am already outlining a plan for the rest of the update and have especially booked my flight times for hard core writing and planning when I can do it without distraction.

Please have a great week all!

Love,

Tess

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[Maviarab]

How do I get this scene , i can't find it in the walkthrough

Part of a Sub Special Render set iirc. Could be wrong though. Silver_Crow117 would be able to tell you.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Part of a Sub Special Render set iirc. Could be wrong though. Silver_Crow117 would be able to tell you.

Can’t see the post…

 

[Negan22]

Sub side has about two more games and scene or two left. Secret sub is next in my wheelhouse, then probably a shift to dom path last.

Of course subs first and Dom's last so dev can cut shit (renders, animations and some dialogues even, not routes) down from Dom path if it takes more time than what is planned for this update.

 

[harsha_26]

Three questions:
1) if otto is super loyal to callista as he claims, why he is planning revolution with kiyomi? Because callista plan is to break the wall between decocks & karlsons and make even more big kingdom and free trade.

2) is Cynthia actually a good person or a bad person? Because, we all know she killed a slave brutally and asked Delilah to clean the mess. And also suspicious to the MC and somehow fears that stefan is in a threat for succession to the throne of decock. And when she meets MC, her behavior sounded somewhat negative (particularly in sub path if you are k1pro, she actually criticizes callista's decision to put him under training but he is not nothing but a slave) now close to getting killed. She haven't talked with him like for say how nadia Or stefan talks with MC. Decock cousins are the best, I can even see some bromance going on with stefan. But, cynthia is kind of a grey character and she all of a sudden helps callista to meet cole by driving plane?

3) Does callista really cares for son's struggles? I think callista just see her son as a person to survive and serve for emperor olivia as her sperm donor. As last he is only useful for cum collection (do you remember Dominique's plan?). She don't have great plans for her son except what I told you above. But thanks for dom paths, I'm very sure MC can write his own history and throw gambit plan into the trashcan.

 

[harsha_26]

So...

I'm wondering if Callista has a 'bomb' inside of her as well.



And the bracelet that Kane was given (which opens an access point), as well as Nadia's obsession with Kane being at least k7 to 'gain access' is related to diffusing this.

How to see all this because I haven't seen this in game. I'm in dom/good path.

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Three questions:
1) if otto is super loyal to callista as he claims, why he is planning revolution with kiyomi? Because callista plan is to break the wall between decocks & karlsons and make even more big kingdom and free trade.

2) is Cynthia actually a good person or a bad person? Because, we all know she killed a slave brutally and asked Delilah to clean the mess. And also suspicious to the MC and somehow fears that stefan is in a threat for succession to the throne of decock. And when she meets MC, her behavior sounded somewhat negative (particularly in sub path if you are k1pro, she actually criticizes callista's decision to put him under training but he is not nothing but a slave) now close to getting killed. She haven't talked with him like for say how nadia Or stefan talks with MC. Decock cousins are the best, I can even see some bromance going on with stefan. But, cynthia is kind of a grey character and she all of a sudden helps callista to meet cole by driving plane?

3) Does callista really cares for son's struggles? I think callista just see her son as a person to survive and serve for emperor olivia as her sperm donor. As last he is only useful for cum collection (do you remember Dominique's plan?). She don't have great plans for her son except what I told you above. But thanks for dom paths, I'm very sure MC can write his own history and throw gambit plan into the trashcan.

1. Callista's ultimate aim is a better future for the world so her son can have a better future. The only thing we can say for sure about the revolution is that they want to end slavery. How large scale any social changes will be outside of that is up for debate. Otto wants a better future and thinks that ending slavery is vital to that. Callista may not like slavery either, but there are other larger issues higher on her list of world problems to deal with.

2. Depends on what you mean by "good person". She gets frustrated with people and disposes of them like they are rotten meat. But this doesn't mean she doesn't care about people like Cole and since she was an old friend of Callista and of course Kane's Decock ties she takes interest in what Kane is up to. Going by our standards in this world, only a small handful of people are "good" in this game.
...So no not really good.

3.She does care about Kane but she didn't see a way for him to have a shot at a better future in a world that isn't doomed without the program. Remember, the world is dying at the moment.

To me, the fact that Callista comes up all the time especially for things about Kane just shows how much of a problem things about her story are. But unfortunately she is central to the plot so everything revolves around her.

 

[harsha_26]

Is liking Veronica a controversial take? She's splendid.
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No man, she is one of my fav. But yeah, as stacy. Not as veronica.

 

[harsha_26]

1. Callista's ultimate aim is a better future for the world so her son can have a better future. The only thing we can say for sure about the revolution is that they want to end slavery. How large scale any social changes will be outside of that is up for debate. Otto wants a better future and thinks that ending slavery is vital to that. Callista may not like slavery either, but there are other larger issues higher on her list of world problems to deal with.

2. Depends on what you mean by "good person". She gets frustrated with people and disposes of them like they are rotten meat. But this doesn't mean she doesn't care about people like Cole and since she was an old friend of Callista and of course Kane's Decock ties she takes interest in what Kane is up to. Going by our standards in this world, only a small handful of people are "good" in this game.
...So no not really good.

3.She does care about Kane but she didn't see a way for him to have a shot at a better future in a world that isn't doomed without the program. Remember, the world is dying at the moment.

To me, the fact that Callista comes up all the time especially for things about Kane just shows how much of a problem things about her story are. But unfortunately she is central to the plot so everything revolves around her.

Yeah callista is the most overhyped
"putting on a pedestal" character who can never be wrong about anything.

Gambit Queen lol.. More like a Dumbwit Queen..

 

[minibaer12]

Three questions:
1) if otto is super loyal to callista as he claims, why he is planning revolution with kiyomi? Because callista plan is to break the wall between decocks & karlsons and make even more big kingdom and free trade.

2) is Cynthia actually a good person or a bad person? Because, we all know she killed a slave brutally and asked Delilah to clean the mess. And also suspicious to the MC and somehow fears that stefan is in a threat for succession to the throne of decock. And when she meets MC, her behavior sounded somewhat negative (particularly in sub path if you are k1pro, she actually criticizes callista's decision to put him under training but he is not nothing but a slave) now close to getting killed. She haven't talked with him like for say how nadia Or stefan talks with MC. Decock cousins are the best, I can even see some bromance going on with stefan. But, cynthia is kind of a grey character and she all of a sudden helps callista to meet cole by driving plane?

3) Does callista really cares for son's struggles? I think callista just see her son as a person to survive and serve for emperor olivia as her sperm donor. As last he is only useful for cum collection (do you remember Dominique's plan?). She don't have great plans for her son except what I told you above. But thanks for dom paths, I'm very sure MC can write his own history and throw gambit plan into the trashcan.

1. Callista's ultimate aim is a better future for the world so her son can have a better future. The only thing we can say for sure about the revolution is that they want to end slavery. How large scale any social changes will be outside of that is up for debate. Otto wants a better future and thinks that ending slavery is vital to that. Callista may not like slavery either, but there are other larger issues higher on her list of world problems to deal with.

2. Depends on what you mean by "good person". She gets frustrated with people and disposes of them like they are rotten meat. But this doesn't mean she doesn't care about people like Cole and since she was an old friend of Callista and of course Kane's Decock ties she takes interest in what Kane is up to. Going by our standards in this world, only a small handful of people are "good" in this game.
...So no not really good.

3.She does care about Kane but she didn't see a way for him to have a shot at a better future in a world that isn't doomed without the program. Remember, the world is dying at the moment.

To me, the fact that Callista comes up all the time especially for things about Kane just shows how much of a problem things about her story are. But unfortunately she is central to the plot so everything revolves around her.

Well, the question of which person is good and which person is bad can't be answered like that. We have to consider the world order in this VN; it is, after all, FEMALE-DOMINATED! World history has taught us that good can be bad and bad can be good. There are plenty of examples! And even our current world order is anything but equal. In this VN, men are merely slaves, eking out a miserable existence for the amusement of the ladies, at their mercy. The sub-path demonstrates this impressively (I believe, since I don't play it). Even the Dom path isn't spared from this (yes, I've changed my mind here). A few men are "granted" the opportunity to "pleasure" the ladies in other ways. There's no other explanation for V having Kane "optimized" his penis. This raises the question: is Kane dominant in the Dom path? I say not. I'm much more inclined to believe that the ladies WANT TO BE "submissive", or just WANT to be fucked hard!

Now let's move on to the two posts mentioned above:
Regarding Otto, this could possibly explain one of his motives for the revolution.
Regarding Cynthia, I place her among the ranks of the Karlsson siblings.
Regarding Callista, this explains Callista's strange behavior, especially as a mother. She values her foster daughter far more highly than her own flesh and blood. And I have no idea what sick plan she's pursuing.

I'm curious to hear the opinions of the two experts in this thread.

 

[harsha_26]

Well, the question of which person is good and which person is bad can't be answered like that. We have to consider the world order in this VN; it is, after all, FEMALE-DOMINATED! World history has taught us that good can be bad and bad can be good. There are plenty of examples! And even our current world order is anything but equal. In this VN, men are merely slaves, eking out a miserable existence for the amusement of the ladies, at their mercy. The sub-path demonstrates this impressively (I believe, since I don't play it). Even the Dom path isn't spared from this (yes, I've changed my mind here). A few men are "granted" the opportunity to "pleasure" the ladies in other ways. There's no other explanation for V having Kane "optimized" his penis. This raises the question: is Kane dominant in the Dom path? I say not. I'm much more inclined to believe that the ladies WANT TO BE "submissive" , or just want to be fucked hard!

Now let's move on to the two posts mentioned above:
Regarding Otto, this could possibly explain one of his motives for the revolution.
Regarding Cynthia, I place her among the ranks of the Karlsson siblings.
Regarding Callista, this explains Callista's strange behavior, especially as a mother. She values her foster daughter far more highly than her own flesh and blood. And I have no idea what sick plan she's pursuing.

I'm curious to hear the opinions of the two experts in this thread.

Yeah, it felt like girls wants to be submissive more than MC wants to be dominant (in dom path) .
This actually proves even for so called brutal femdoms like Juli if you observe the MC lines during kastumi's wager video scenes., he said something like "These women are submissive, they just need a strong man". This is alteast right in terms of sex scenes of dom path. But let's see, MC is still k9.

 

[kinkyshin]

Three questions:
1) if otto is super loyal to callista as he claims, why he is planning revolution with kiyomi? Because callista plan is to break the wall between decocks & karlsons and make even more big kingdom and free trade.

He is very loyal to Callista, yes. There's absolutely no reason to believe he is lying about that.

Callista is almost certainly involved with the revolution herself. Yvette says to Kane, "Kane...there's so much more to tell you. You'd be shocked at what we know...and who is part of our efforts."

I think we can very safely assume that she was referring to Callista here.

2) is Cynthia actually a good person or a bad person? Because, we all know she killed a slave brutally and asked Delilah to clean the mess. And also suspicious to the MC and somehow fears that stefan is in a threat for succession to the throne of decock. And when she meets MC, her behavior sounded somewhat negative (particularly in sub path if you are k1pro, she actually criticizes callista's decision to put him under training but he is not nothing but a slave) now close to getting killed. She haven't talked with him like for say how nadia Or stefan talks with MC. Decock cousins are the best, I can even see some bromance going on with stefan. But, cynthia is kind of a grey character and she all of a sudden helps callista to meet cole by driving plane?

If Elena describes Cynthia as 'evil', then I'm ready to assume that it's true lol. Regardless we have a lot of evidence to suggest that Cynthia is indeed evil. Such as killing a man for spilling a plate of food. Or the state that her servant Lola is in. Or that she presumably raised Nadia who is very sadistic. Or what Otto said about her...

otto "I'm also glad you had the chance to meet my Mistress yesterday. Cynthia is not a consistently moral and honorable woman by any means..."
otto "...but in the end, a lot of who she is today was shaped by the historical forces around her. She probably was a wonderful woman...before."
p "Before what?"
scene e7otemple9 with mediumdissolve
otto "Before...she lost her faith in a lot of things."
otto "[pname], I am bound by an honor code and a promise to not tell you everything I wish I could...but that doesn't mean I can't do other things."
otto "And there are people...that see and mourn the corruption of both The Karlsson Group and The DeKock Syndicate."

3) Does callista really cares for son's struggles? I think callista just see her son as a person to survive and serve for emperor olivia as her sperm donor. As last he is only useful for cum collection (do you remember Dominique's plan?). She don't have great plans for her son except what I told you above. But thanks for dom paths, I'm very sure MC can write his own history and throw gambit plan into the trashcan.

Of course Callista cares about her son's struggles... There's so much evidence of this, but a specific and direct example of this is when she straight up tells Elena, "I love Olivia like my own daughter. But of course I worry about Kane. I feel great sorrow and regret about what he's gone through..."

Callista is in a tough spot and is doing everything she can. There's a lot of people that she cares about (Kane, Seth, Nadia, Cole, Veronica in particular) but the thing about what Callista is doing is that a lot of the problems intertwine, and they all intertwine in a way that they can help all the people she cares about, especially Kane.

For example, from her perspective:
Helping Olivia also helps Kane and Veronica. Or at least, is supposed to.
Helping Kane also helps Olivia and Veronica. Or at least, is supposed to.
Helping Veronica also helps Kane and Olivia. Or at least, is supposed to.

These 3 in particular can help each other in massive ways. So it absolutely makes sense for Callista to try and help all of them, since the stronger that one of them is, the more they can help the other 2. If Olivia and/or Kane and/or Veronica ALL refuse to get along, it's not really Callista's fault. She did everything she could.

We have to consider the world order in this VN; it is, after all, FEMALE-DOMINATED! World history has taught us that good can be bad and bad can be good. There are plenty of examples! And even our current world order is anything but equal. In this VN, men are merely slaves, eking out a miserable existence for the amusement of the ladies, at their mercy. The sub-path demonstrates this impressively (I believe, since I don't play it). Even the Dom path isn't spared from this (yes, I've changed my mind here). A few men are "granted" the opportunity to "pleasure" the ladies in other ways. There's no other explanation for V having Kane "optimized" his penis. This raises the question: is Kane dominant in the Dom path? I say not. I'm much more inclined to believe that the ladies WANT TO BE "submissive", or just WANT to be fucked hard!

Err, kind of? Until pretty recently, The Karlsson Group was very, very much dominated by Alexander, and he was adamant he wanted a male heir to eventually run the company again.

As for the DeKocks, we know much less but we have all reason to believe that Stefan is next in line, so that's the 2 major places on this content that are to be led by a man.

Regarding Otto, this could possibly explain one of his motives for the revolution.

No, I think Otto is just a good guy...

Kwame said why he rebelled and it was because of the way they were treated in the mines... it was eating away at his soul.

Also, the leaders of the revolution are all women.

I don't think anyone is rebelling because they simply hate the idea of women being in charge lol

Regarding Callista, this explains Callista's strange behavior, especially as a mother. She values her foster daughter far more highly than her own flesh and blood.

She doesn't value Olivia over Kane, it's just that their positions (and what they can offer to one another, and what they need) are very different.

And I have no idea what sick plan she's pursuing.

lmao

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

Three questions:
1) if otto is super loyal to callista as he claims, why he is planning revolution with kiyomi? Because callista plan is to break the wall between decocks & karlsons and make even more big kingdom and free trade.

2) is Cynthia actually a good person or a bad person? Because, we all know she killed a slave brutally and asked Delilah to clean the mess. And also suspicious to the MC and somehow fears that stefan is in a threat for succession to the throne of decock. And when she meets MC, her behavior sounded somewhat negative (particularly in sub path if you are k1pro, she actually criticizes callista's decision to put him under training but he is not nothing but a slave) now close to getting killed. She haven't talked with him like for say how nadia Or stefan talks with MC. Decock cousins are the best, I can even see some bromance going on with stefan. But, cynthia is kind of a grey character and she all of a sudden helps callista to meet cole by driving plane?

3) Does callista really cares for son's struggles? I think callista just see her son as a person to survive and serve for emperor olivia as her sperm donor. As last he is only useful for cum collection (do you remember Dominique's plan?). She don't have great plans for her son except what I told you above. But thanks for dom paths, I'm very sure MC can write his own history and throw gambit plan into the trashcan.

1. The revolution is a backup plan just in case Kane is as rotten as the sisters. I doubt that Astrid would screw over her own sister. As of now they're under the assumption he isnt so they're just putting things in place.

2. Cynthia is the dominique version of a good person. She's raising two kids that arent hers and she wiants to protect Kane. Yet, she considers poor people beneath her . which is why she treated that waiter like that.

3. She does but she's more concerned with the greater good of all people not just her son. She's willing to put her son in danger to ensure the safety of the world and it's inhabitants

 

[Negan22]

2. Cynthia is the dominique version of a good person. She's raising two kids that arent hers and she wiants to protect Kane. Yet, she considers poor people beneath her . which is why she treated that waiter like that.

That's not actually a good person we get attached to these characters so much that we forget the difference between good and bad. Are you saying if someone hurts someone whom you care about that the perpetrator is some kind of a good person (like here Cynthia is Dominique kind of good person lol). Both have similarities but that makes both of them bad.

 

[harsha_26]

He is very loyal to Callista, yes. There's absolutely no reason to believe he is lying about that.

Callista is almost certainly involved with the revolution herself. Yvette says to Kane, "Kane...there's so much more to tell you. You'd be shocked at what we know...and who is part of our efforts."

I think we can very safely assume that she was referring to Callista here.



If Elena describes Cynthia as 'evil', then I'm ready to assume that it's true lol. Regardless we have a lot of evidence to suggest that Cynthia is indeed evil. Such as killing a man for spilling a plate of food. Or the state that her servant Lola is in. Or that she presumably raised Nadia who is very sadistic. Or what Otto said about her...

otto "I'm also glad you had the chance to meet my Mistress yesterday. Cynthia is not a consistently moral and honorable woman by any means..."
otto "...but in the end, a lot of who she is today was shaped by the historical forces around her. She probably was a wonderful woman...before."
p "Before what?"
scene e7otemple9 with mediumdissolve
otto "Before...she lost her faith in a lot of things."
otto "[pname], I am bound by an honor code and a promise to not tell you everything I wish I could...but that doesn't mean I can't do other things."
otto "And there are people...that see and mourn the corruption of both The Karlsson Group and The DeKock Syndicate."



Of course Callista cares about her son's struggles... There's so much evidence of this, but a specific and direct example of this is when she straight up tells Elena, "I love Olivia like my own daughter. But of course I worry about Kane. I feel great sorrow and regret about what he's gone through..."

Callista is in a tough spot and is doing everything she can. There's a lot of people that she cares about (Kane, Seth, Nadia, Cole, Veronica in particular) but the thing about what Callista is doing is that a lot of the problems intertwine, and they all intertwine in a way that they can help all the people she cares about, especially Kane.

For example, from her perspective:
Helping Olivia also helps Kane and Veronica. Or at least, is supposed to.
Helping Kane also helps Olivia and Veronica. Or at least, is supposed to.
Helping Veronica also helps Kane and Olivia. Or at least, is supposed to.

These 3 in particular can help each other in massive ways. So it absolutely makes sense for Callista to try and help all of them, since the stronger that one of them is, the more they can help the other 2. If Olivia and/or Kane and/or Veronica ALL refuse to get along, it's not really Callista's fault. She did everything she could.



Err, kind of? Until pretty recently, The Karlsson Group was very, very much dominated by Alexander, and he was adamant he wanted a male heir to eventually run the company again.

As for the DeKocks, we know much less but we have all reason to believe that Stefan is next in line, so that's the 2 major places on this content that are to be led by a man.


No, I think Otto is just a good guy...

Kwame said why he rebelled and it was because of the way they were treated in the mines... it was eating away at his soul.

Also, the leaders of the revolution are all women.

I don't think anyone is rebelling because they simply hate the idea of women being in charge lol



She doesn't value Olivia over Kane, it's just that their positions (and what they can offer to one another, and what they need) are very different.



lmao

So their positions are like Olivia as a queen and MC as her concubine? Callista took measures for olivia to train fighting skills but giving love to MC? In a dangerous world, if parents care about their children, one has to teach them how to fight, not how to love. By your words, it look likes sub-MC is the canon.

So, that's what dumbwit queen planned. Okay, well, I hope there is at least one ending where instead of olivia, MC can rule the world.

 

[harsha_26]

But, tess is impressive for one reason:

Karlsson's gambit is the first adult game I seen players are fighting over non sexual reasons lol.