Interesting. I didn't know that right-left hand stuff was actually a thing, even tho i've read my fair share of stuff like Solomon's keys before. I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll do with this game even more now.
I'm not surprised
. I myself have only run across the term in a few Urban-fantasy style novel works, despite being fairly well read (and played, and watched, etc) in fantasy overall. I actually wondered if anyone would even ever catch the reference, and I'll probably stick an explanation into the story somewhere, when there's a point that it makes sense. Even doing preperation for this game, I quickly realized that the definition of the 'paths' isn't universally accepted. That just meant I could inject the idea into my own lore even easier, though, since I have some flexibility in deciding what
this specific society would consider Left or Right hand magic.
Was wondering why the game dev was calling out Haven's Port specifically... I'm a goddamn moron
What? I mean, obviously I wasn't engaged in shameless self-promotion! How silly would that be...
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Also, if you believed that, I have this
really nice bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you... ;-)
As I said depending on the lore.
It can be a futa has a fully functioning womb and can get pregnant.
It can be a futa has outside or inside balls and can knock somebody up.
It very rarely can be that both is the case. (Basically a space issue if the balls are inside)
It can be that a futa does not have a functioning womb nor sperm producing balls and only is capable for "fun without consequences".
The later very likely is the case here.
Ultimately it completely depends on the artist and the lore, in this case the futa produces something of white color with cum like texture but we do not know whether or not this cum actually contains living sperm.
*blink* *blink* Hmm, honestly, I hadn't considered infertility specifically an issue. Because...magic! That said, I
did think through the 'why no pregnancy' when writing up the story. You know, aside from it really not being my thing. In this case it honestly comes down to 'this is an advanced (modern equivelent at least) magical society, so I assume they have birth control, which means it would be up to the characters to choose.' And the various characters would react basically like thus if you asked them:
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The Protagonist:
*blinks in confusion and looks at you like you're crazy*
"You know I'm barely over 100, right? I'm only barely old enough to be out on my own and just got my very first stable job! Well,
hopefully stable. I'm not
that irresponsible!"
Arianna:
"Hmmm, kids? Oh, maybe someday, but I'm barely 250, dear. I supposed kids are okay...so long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day. Maybe I'll change my mind in a another couple of centuries. Mother always said I would, anyway. Though she also thought I'd grow out of the whole spiritualist thing quite a while ago."
Trix:
"Err...you know I'm a
submissive lesbian, right? I mean, kids might be a thing I want someday, magic can solve the
lesbian bit if it needs to. But right now it would kinda put a crimp in my lifestyle choices..."
Revina:
*blinking distractedly as you pull her away from her research*
"Kids? Oh. Well, I suppose I should try that at some point to make sure my process is full working, I guess? But I haven't even started on restoring that part of living functionality. The sex part was much more important. People can always adopt after all, or have kids before using my immortality formula! But they'll always want to have kinky sex. What else would they do with all those extra centuries? Hmmm, I suppose the space program could use some long lived people that don't need to breathe. Maybe I should include that in my eventual pitch for more funding?"
Talia (By far the oldest of the characters):
"Oh! Kids! My youngest just turned forty! She sent me pics just the other day of this
really well hung dude she met at an orgy! I'm so proud of her! Oh, but you meant do I want to have more? Not right now! I'm too busy with the company! Wait. Unless being pregnant means I don't have to do as much paperwork?"
*runs out of the office, in the distance you hear...*
Talia: "Trrrrriiiiixxxx, if I get knocked up can I skip my paperwork?"
Trix: "NO! And I'm checking with your doctor to make sure you don't try it! I remember you trying to get him to write you a note about you being allergic to paperwork! He told me to remind you that 'the blowjob was nice, but not nice enough to risk his medical license.'
Talia: "Awwwww..."
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Of course, there's also the fact that the entire VN is only intended to span like two months of game-world time. A very
busy two months, but since I'm actually actively tracking time in this game, there won't be random time skips to explain away long periods of time passing. When you actually stop and look at most Visual Novels, the spans of time they cover actually usually aren't actively that long. A summer, or semester, or similar time frames. And
Left Hand Magic is no different. With the exception of a few that contained lots of time skipping, I can't think of any VNs I've played (and I've played
lots of them) where the story covered more than a single scholastic year at most. Which just makes the fact that some of them include pregnancies even weirder to me. Unless that's the
specific focus of the game at least.
