VN Ren'Py Mastering the Pink Box [v0.10] [Studio 68 Games!]

[Lady Lydia]

Its funny I have been thinking how someone mentioned before I believe as a comment to one of my own comments 'oh its just porn you shouldn't be thinking into it too deep, when I complained about how some stuff in term of characterization doesn't make sense... yet here we are with a game where you have have clearly an in-depth mystery with hints layered all over pointing to elements of said mystery... so much for just being porn.

A closer look at the foursome in the PB may be interesting.

I see what you mean yea Devon's parents are at the club, guess that mean I was wrong on her being related to Sam, still if you don't play the foursome scene and thus get a closer view the fact the MC can recognize either of them is a tad incredulous, in addition to the fact he recognize the mother but not the father? I guess I can sorta see it, he recognize the one he'd be attracted to. Yet the MC doesn't recognize the 'Nurse' either time you see her at the lawyer... like I said the Dev clearly like to throw hints that have a fairly variable degree of clarity, from some which are in the background and require you paying extraordinary attention to those that are somewhat announced to you. I guess the 'like mother, like daughter' point still fit if Devon's parents are swingers on the other hand, I suppose it would go to explain the daughter's willingness to let her boyfriend sleep and sharing if she is already aware of her parents swinging.

Still wouldn't agree to sharing Devon, I still hold to my guns on the fact its way too early into their relationship for doing that, a year into their relationship, I can accept it, but Day 2 of their relationship? Its non-sense. And anyone that argue 'but its a sharing game' I'll counter, but the Dev could have made things different so it would be more appropriate. If instead the MC coming to college had restarted his relationship to Jenn had accepted having an open relationship with her, accepting that yes she is a slut, but the MC also get to sleep around all he wants too, considering they had been together 2 years before, I would have said fair enough, they established a relationship strong enough that even with her sleeping around and being a sex worker she'd have a strong enough attachment to always go back to him, so I could accept that, but with Devon its insanely too early for that, if the Dev wanted to make a story which was centered around 'sharing' including the MC's girlfriend to other guys, having kept Jenn as the main LI would have made far more sense than Devon.

 

[Knight_of_the_lance]

While we are at it. Thanks to the person that brought up Tod having more than 50% chances of being the pick up driver that chased the MC and his parents at the start. It got me thinking, maybe a bit much, but causing a fatal car crash is already harder than it seem at first glance with more modern vehicles when you think about it a bit more, so causing a car crash that will 100% kill the front seat passengers and keep the back one alive and still look like an accident is night impossible. So having the parents still being alive and hiding gets more weight as a theory, but it doesn't exclude others. If Tod was the one that caused the crash and it killed the parents, maybe killing them wasn't the goal but it happened anyway. I doubt he would have done it if he knew his brotato was in the car with the intention to kill. He might also only be a "friend" due to his reaction when Zach and him finally reconnect. We need more hints to make a more sound theory since even if Tod did it we lack a motive since we see him acting as a protector of the MC in his conversation with Collene.

 

[Justaphase]

While we are at it. Thanks to the person that brought up Tod having more than 50% chances of being the pick up driver that chased the MC and his parents at the start. It got me thinking, maybe a bit much, but causing a fatal car crash is already harder than it seem at first glance with more modern vehicles when you think about it a bit more, so causing a car crash that will 100% kill the front seat passengers and keep the back one alive and still look like an accident is night impossible. So having the parents still being alive and hiding gets more weight as a theory, but it doesn't exclude others. If Tod was the one that caused the crash and it killed the parents, maybe killing them wasn't the goal but it happened anyway. I doubt he would have done it if he knew his brotato was in the car with the intention to kill. He might also only be a "friend" due to his reaction when Zach and him finally reconnect. We need more hints to make a more sound theory since even if Tod did it we lack a motive since we see him acting as a protector of the MC in his conversation with Collene.

There's definitely alot more to the main story that we need to let play out. We've seen nothing so far that would suggest that Todd has any ill intentions, but he does know alot more about the MC than the MC seems to know about himself.
For that matter there are a few people who also know about the MC or rather who his father was.
We've seen Ann the lawyer who's in charge of the MC's inheritance, the nurse who knew Jenn's name without him saying it and the dean all meeting up.

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My own theory is that they are trying everything they can to try and rob him of his inheritance. The dean put him in the worst possible room on purpose to try and force him to quit and fail one of the conditions. She has likely told the other teachers to be on his case as much as possible hence why Mrs Thompson was so quick to threaten to fail him for missing classes.

 

[Lady Lydia]

While we are at it. Thanks to the person that brought up Tod having more than 50% chances of being the pick up driver that chased the MC and his parents at the start. It got me thinking, maybe a bit much, but causing a fatal car crash is already harder than it seem at first glance with more modern vehicles when you think about it a bit more, so causing a car crash that will 100% kill the front seat passengers and keep the back one alive and still look like an accident is night impossible. So having the parents still being alive and hiding gets more weight as a theory, but it doesn't exclude others. If Tod was the one that caused the crash and it killed the parents, maybe killing them wasn't the goal but it happened anyway. I doubt he would have done it if he knew his brotato was in the car with the intention to kill. He might also only be a "friend" due to his reaction when Zach and him finally reconnect. We need more hints to make a more sound theory since even if Tod did it we lack a motive since we see him acting as a protector of the MC in his conversation with Collene.

Did the car crash was really meant to be looking like an accident? I am doubtful. Also think of how the MC was put in a coma for 3 weeks while being in the back, what sort of condition you think anyone sitting in the front would have been? Very bad, they would both have needed medical care, so the notion the MC would have been dropped at the hospital but the parents are fine and dandy and went into hiding? Doesn't make sense. If the parents were brought some secret location to recover, why not the MC? Its not like he had it worst and would have required more medical care than the parents in the front.

As for cars being tougher... it depend, a Hummer, sure, those big trucks, alright, but a fancy rich people car? Its not built for durability, its built for luxury and typically speed, and a frontal impact on a big fucking rock would be lethal. Even if its built for protection, you are talking about bullet proof windshield... guess what... that doesn't do shit against crashing into a rock. Again its a car, not a armored vehicle, so survival chance for that sort of impact, is low, if the impact was bad enough to put the MC into a 3 weeks coma.

Also you are missing a key element... the will, if his parents had went missing the will wouldn't have been processed, remember Batman's Begin when it said that it took years after Bruce went missing for him to have been declared dead and everything belonging to Bruce went to Alfred? Yea that is how it works, not 3 weeks MIA, but over a year. Which mean the MC wouldn't have been to a reading of his father's will if his father had merely disappeared, he'd been told 'oh you ended up at the hospital, they found your father's car and your parents are missing' and then no will to deal with until it shifted from 'missing' to 'dead'. You don't fake death by disappearing, you fake death by organizing a situation where a replacement corpse is found in too poor a condition to identify to take your place, not the sort of damage a car accident would cause.

 

[Runner17]

Here's a fun thought about Devon:
First, she tells the MC to chase Colleen because she would.
Secondly. she wears a come fuck me dress to the mixer, her words,
Third, her, Garth and Liz played hide the salami.
Fourth, she sat next to Todd, while Daddy and baby girl played on stage.
Fifth, totally checked out Nikki's ass in Juggs.
Finally, her and Roxy are involved in something that we don't even know about. This doesn't even take into account moms kinky side.

What a great girlfriend , sign me up.

In conclusion, the girl likes sex and the MC.

 

[Adhdclassic]

There's definitely alot more to the main story that we need to let play out. We've seen nothing so far that would suggest that Todd has any ill intentions, but he does know alot more about the MC than the MC seems to know about himself.
For that matter there are a few people who also know about the MC or rather who his father was.
We've seen Ann the lawyer who's in charge of the MC's inheritance, the nurse who knew Jenn's name without him saying it and the dean all meeting up.

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My own theory is that they are trying everything they can to try and rob him of his inheritance. The dean put him in the worst possible room on purpose to try and force him to quit and fail one of the conditions. She has likely told the other teachers to be on his case as much as possible hence why Mrs Thompson was so quick to threaten to fail him for missing classes.

I don't know I feel they are actually on his side. Forgot the short haired chicks name but she was the one who checked on him in the hospital. Lawyer she during the meeting tried to help him by repeatingly suggesting Devon was his GF to get him something in the inheritance. Dean has created adversity for him.

 

[Polyphem]

Its funny I have been thinking how someone mentioned before I believe as a comment to one of my own comments 'oh its just porn you shouldn't be thinking into it too deep, when I complained about how some stuff in term of characterization doesn't make sense... yet here we are with a game where you have have clearly an in-depth mystery with hints layered all over pointing to elements of said mystery... so much for just being porn.



I see what you mean yea Devon's parents are at the club, guess that mean I was wrong on her being related to Sam, still if you don't play the foursome scene and thus get a closer view the fact the MC can recognize either of them is a tad incredulous, in addition to the fact he recognize the mother but not the father? I guess I can sorta see it, he recognize the one he'd be attracted to. Yet the MC doesn't recognize the 'Nurse' either time you see her at the lawyer... like I said the Dev clearly like to throw hints that have a fairly variable degree of clarity, from some which are in the background and require you paying extraordinary attention to those that are somewhat announced to you. I guess the 'like mother, like daughter' point still fit if Devon's parents are swingers on the other hand, I suppose it would go to explain the daughter's willingness to let her boyfriend sleep and sharing if she is already aware of her parents swinging.

Just Porn is not a devaluation its true and that is not a bad thing. I see so many how want to be more. And written 1000 of pages to be deep but dont say a word. Be who you are and the sea will deepen. Our rational is not importent, the intern rational of the created world and whose consistency is.
PS: Devon Mom is the first thing he notice in the PB.

 

[Polyphem]

There's definitely alot more to the main story that we need to let play out. We've seen nothing so far that would suggest that Todd has any ill intentions, but he does know alot more about the MC than the MC seems to know about himself.
For that matter there are a few people who also know about the MC or rather who his father was.
We've seen Ann the lawyer who's in charge of the MC's inheritance, the nurse who knew Jenn's name without him saying it and the dean all meeting up.

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My own theory is that they are trying everything they can to try and rob him of his inheritance. The dean put him in the worst possible room on purpose to try and force him to quit and fail one of the conditions. She has likely told the other teachers to be on his case as much as possible hence why Mrs Thompson was so quick to threaten to fail him for missing classes.

Trial by fire?

 

[Lady Lydia]

There's definitely alot more to the main story that we need to let play out. We've seen nothing so far that would suggest that Todd has any ill intentions, but he does know alot more about the MC than the MC seems to know about himself.
For that matter there are a few people who also know about the MC or rather who his father was.
We've seen Ann the lawyer who's in charge of the MC's inheritance, the nurse who knew Jenn's name without him saying it and the dean all meeting up.

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My own theory is that they are trying everything they can to try and rob him of his inheritance. The dean put him in the worst possible room on purpose to try and force him to quit and fail one of the conditions. She has likely told the other teachers to be on his case as much as possible hence why Mrs Thompson was so quick to threaten to fail him for missing classes.

Its not implausible, however... I have a different theory about the room, its the one his own father stayed in during his time at that college, its why he was slotted there while I believe their was a mention of another room available, they are effectively trying to recreate the conditions under which his father became the man he became. If you pay attention it seem the Dean has a positive view of his father and I am talking about in the privacy of her own thoughts, most people that know him all seem in private to have a positive view of him, if anything they seem to actively try to encourage the MC to become like his father, the Nurse encouraged him to head to that college and fuck around, if they wanted to deprive him of his inheritance she would have encouraged him to go somewhere else, take a year off away, encouraged him risking losing everything rather than walk in the footsteps his father intended for him, but no, instead she encourage him to walk those same footsteps.

I think what is happening is his father effectively founded a very sexually open community, centered around that college and the Pink Box, and the people involved in all of this want the son to follow after the father to effectively keep this going. I mean look all the adults involved in this college are clearly actively partaking in debauchery, all the teachers, the Dean, everyone of them, and they clearly have gotten the students in unto it, its a massive sex network.

I think part of trying to turn the MC into his father is basically by putting pressure on him, stressing him, pushing him to have to desire to 'let steam out' by fucking around. Everything is built around incentivizing the MC into sleep around as much as humanly possible. Charlie as from Day 1 helped enable him have some sex, Todd as also helped the same thing by both sharing his gf and the whole deal with Colleen. The Dean I don't doubt knew by offering him a job like she did that the her pool boy would likely fuck one of her daughters. If you play things right you even have her and Alan watching the MC fuck his wife, and neither seem to have any negative intent about it, if anything they clearly want him to join in with Alan wanting to invite the MC to their special Poker Night.

I think those that organized the hit on the MC's father haven't done so with intent to take away from the MC, but because the father might have been up into far too shady shit and wanted to end it and simply return things to the good old days of open debauchery, rather than possibly far worst stuff. so they are pushing the MC to become like his father used to be rather than the far more nefarious man he had become later in life.

The reason I think that is because of Todd, if he did kill the father, he is also aware of the affairs of the Pink Box, and doesn't like the turn things are taking, disapproing of how Charlie has been doing, possibly following in the disturbing path of the MC's father, getting involved with likely very much criminal elements, considering the name of the guy she was fucking at the club, possibly the Russian Mafia, which is the sort of direction which significantly would take away from the fun into the realm of the dangerous.

 

[Adhdclassic]

One thing that I am curious about who gave him a master door card key.

 

[Polyphem]

One thing that I am curious about who gave him a master door card key.

Physical Lola but at the order of the dean. Defect key or master key?

 

[Knight_of_the_lance]

Did the car crash was really meant to be looking like an accident? I am doubtful. Also think of how the MC was put in a coma for 3 weeks while being in the back, what sort of condition you think anyone sitting in the front would have been? Very bad, they would both have needed medical care, so the notion the MC would have been dropped at the hospital but the parents are fine and dandy and went into hiding? Doesn't make sense. If the parents were brought some secret location to recover, why not the MC? Its not like he had it worst and would have required more medical care than the parents in the front.

As for cars being tougher... it depend, a Hummer, sure, those big trucks, alright, but a fancy rich people car? Its not built for durability, its built for luxury and typically speed, and a frontal impact on a big fucking rock would be lethal. Even if its built for protection, you are talking about bullet proof windshield... guess what... that doesn't do shit against crashing into a rock. Again its a car, not a armored vehicle, so survival chance for that sort of impact, is low, if the impact was bad enough to put the MC into a 3 weeks coma.

Also you are missing a key element... the will, if his parents had went missing the will wouldn't have been processed, remember Batman's Begin when it said that it took years after Bruce went missing for him to have been declared dead and everything belonging to Bruce went to Alfred? Yea that is how it works, not 3 weeks MIA, but over a year. Which mean the MC wouldn't have been to a reading of his father's will if his father had merely disappeared, he'd been told 'oh you ended up at the hospital, they found your father's car and your parents are missing' and then no will to deal with until it shifted from 'missing' to 'dead'. You don't fake death by disappearing, you fake death by organizing a situation where a replacement corpse is found in too poor a condition to identify to take your place, not the sort of damage a car accident would cause.

About the luxury car I'm not talking about a warzone car, I'm talking about safety features like multiple airbags, auto break or break release and impact reduction focus in structural design, some cars are impressive in that regard. About the injuries, keeping someone sedated for three week is dangerous and not something that would be normally feasible so I admit that faking MC's injuries to keep him sedated until he wakes up in the story is a stretch. I don't remember who wore their seatbelts or not I must admit, but if Zach was unbuckled but his parents where they might still be alive and even well.

About the will, if the lawyers are in the loop it's easy to spoof it to make MC do various things. They don't have to pretend to die to fool everyone only the ones they want fooled so they might not need to go to extreme lengths.

But they might have been the ones that didn't wore their seat belts and the MC did and they died, he didn't. no body or gravestone has been shown. It's clear it's just speculation at this point.

About the lawyer's clique mentioned by Justaphase, it's clear they are engineering MC's environment and social circle. I think that if they wanted to get rid of him they could have done so simply by making sure he doesn't wake up at the start. Did they receive instructions themselves surrounding the will that goes beyond handing it to Zach that's a given at this point but what is their implication in the grander plot or what is in it for them is still up in the air.

About the will I remember someone saying that such an elaborated will with knowing the current conditions is irealist, but I disagree if you know that your life is in danger it's not unthinkable that a will could be worked on and altered every three or four months or when major events happen. For example the go to college thing could be written out once they forced him to go or changed to start the following semester if he miss the first.

I don't care who gave the master card to the MC the more interesting question is why. To me it all feel part of that social engineering surrounding him. Hell I would even say that the incompetent construction workers in the washroom next to his room making noise at seven in the morning are there on purpose and are told to go slow in a deliberate fashion. His dorm building cooccupent also feel deliberately chosen to be so if you go down that rabbit hole enough.

One thing is clear: there are a lot of conflicting interests but everything is hidden for now. They don't even let the MC have basic documentation to read about his parents, fake or not, will. He didn't even know he could access the money for business purpose before he tried. I don't think we will have more than breadcrumbs before Zach is aware that things have a hidden purpose and people hidden agendas even if he himself is not aware of what those are.

Who did Zach's father cross? What are the different characters allegiances, to groups or single individuals? How are the pink box's app and club linked and where is the doughnut stand in that place? Can't wait to play it on Monday.

 

[Runner17]

Woman from the subway station at the beginning has showed up again.

Its been determined my detective skills suck.

 

[Polyphem]

Woman from the subway station at the beginning has showed up again.

Its been determined my detective skills suck.

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But the question who she is, could be your great case.

 

[Polyphem]

Woman from the subway station at the beginning has showed up again.

Its been determined my detective skills suck.

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The Law firm seems only for the family business.

 

[Runner17]

Crap, screwed up that play through. Teresa is tied in with Aimee.

 

[Justaphase]

Crap, screwed up that play through. Teresa is tied in with Aimee.

Yep, Aimee likes to hear tales of the MC's fun fun with others. There is absolutely zero point in not fucking every girl in this. Her lust is also going to come into play in the future and also jealousy, the MC is unleashing her wild side. How naughty is Aimee going to be?

 

[Dessolos]

Yep, Aimee likes to hear tales of the MC's fun fun with others. There is absolutely zero point in not fucking every girl in this. Her lust is also going to come into play in the future and also jealousy, the MC is unleashing her wild side. How naughty is Aimee going to be?

I think on my main save I only did stuff Kywu and maybe Crystal I turned down every other girl haha. I found a reason for me to not go through with going after everyone on my main save somehow haha. Jenn was the easiest for me to turn tho cause fuck her I told her to fuck off. Everyone else was a bit more difficult but that is why I got like 6 + saves

 

[Joan6969]

Usually I'm more into the story with a lot of these games. But this one.....
Yeah I'm all about who's the next girl I get to play with!
Just being honest here! It's why I went with sharing Devon alllllll the way!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

Crap, screwed up that play through. Teresa is tied in with Aimee.

yeah- aimee's lust depends on how many crazy stories you have to tell her...