robrize2169

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EK can leave the Seymour content out as far as i am concerned. just have the blog guy dig up dirt on him, inform the FBI and have his ass jailed off camera. you can have Emma let everyone know about it during some scenes and they can have a party about it where Lena and Ian celebrate being free of the asshole. Ian's book can be posted online and he can make his writing fortune from there. Lena can finally get free of that stalker and get on with her life.
 

Xupuzulla

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EK can leave the Seymour content out as far as i am concerned. just have the blog guy dig up dirt on him, inform the FBI and have his ass jailed off camera. you can have Emma let everyone know about it during some scenes and they can have a party about it where Lena and Ian celebrate being free of the asshole. Ian's book can be posted online and he can make his writing fortune from there. Lena can finally get free of that stalker and get on with her life.
Andrea9999999999999999999 is going to be pissed about this post.
 

Junkey

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Are you continuing the game from older save? There were some changes in the game script over the months, some involved how certain pictures are stored. It's possible that's what tripping you up. Might be worth to try and start a new game, so all variables are up to date.
No, i start playing like new game without any old saves
 

Joe Steel

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EK can leave the Seymour content out as far as i am concerned. just have the blog guy dig up dirt on him, inform the FBI and have his ass jailed off camera. you can have Emma let everyone know about it during some scenes and they can have a party about it where Lena and Ian celebrate being free of the asshole. Ian's book can be posted online and he can make his writing fortune from there. Lena can finally get free of that stalker and get on with her life.

Well, since you've now laid out everything in that branch, there's no reason for EK to even bother with it. You've saved her a lot of time and I'm sure she is grateful.
 

Andrea9999

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Guys, in all my gameplays I follow Seymour's route. If Lena rejects him from the start, will his trip still happen? How come?
Why would it still happen and who cares either way...why would we even see it if Lena is not involved with him? No reason to see it or anything else Seymour does unless it directly involves Ian's perspective.
I imagine Clone002 meant if Lena accepts the proposal but rejects Seymour personally....will they actually go on a trip together with such an antipathy on Lena's part and if so, how would the trip develop in contrast to the scenario I favor in which Lena embraces the proposal...."drawn to the darkness"? I experimentally did a run with Lena reluctantly taking the proposal but found it unappealing in a rape sort of way and did not persevere. Perhaps I will try it again after EK has finished this first trip scenario.
 

Andrea9999

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EK can leave the Seymour content out as far as i am concerned. just have the blog guy dig up dirt on him, inform the FBI and have his ass jailed off camera. you can have Emma let everyone know about it during some scenes and they can have a party about it where Lena and Ian celebrate being free of the asshole. Ian's book can be posted online and he can make his writing fortune from there. Lena can finally get free of that stalker and get on with her life.
Every party needs a pooper; that's why we invited you....
 

Andrea9999

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I'm asking because of the branching possibilities, mainly regarding the beach trip... Eva will have to create two storylines: one in which Lena stays at the beach until its end, one in which she leaves early for Seymour's trip.
Perhaps I got you wrong in your original post. I do not think it would be so labor intensive for EK to do the two renditions of the beach trip unless Lena's presence for the final days were to result in a new arc being generated and hence yet another branch opening up in the story. But you have me wondering whether a hostile, forced Lena would be accompanying Seymour on a "business" trip.
 

jimul18

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Perhaps I got you wrong in your original post. I do not think it would be so labor intensive for EK to do the two renditions of the beach trip unless Lena's presence for the final days were to result in a new arc being generated and hence yet another branch opening up in the story. But you have me wondering whether a hostile, forced Lena would be accompanying Seymour on a "business" trip.
At this point the Seymour debate is moot. I doubt it will be part of Lena's half of the update unless EK has already announced it (Did I miss something?). In my opinion the Seymour arc, while way too tame, at the moment has some of the biggest potential. Axel having similar potential for depravity (e.g. BDSM) though no hints at group involvement on that path...yet.
 
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Andrea9999

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At this point the Seymour debate is moot. I doubt it will be part of Lena's half of the update unless EK has already announced it (Did I miss something?). In my opinion the Seymour arc, while way too tame, at the moment has some of the biggest potential. Axel having similar potential for depravity (e.g. BDSM) though no hints at group involvement on that path...yet.
Except for mention of an upcoming trip by Seymour to Lena. That may be in the next half coming in. But EK has been so slow to develop this arc that it may be a while. I agree it has the most potential. An erotic inclusion of Axel is possible ; I expect that would occur with Seymour ceding the handling of a Lena-Axel duo to Agnes. While that could be hot, I also would welcome seeing a Lena-Ian puppet duo. The latter would be consistent with Ian depending vocationally on Seymour.
 

lucadiadis

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I'd guess it's the "stealing other guy's girl" factor, since it's the only storyline like that.
Alright. Not my fetish at all. IRL I had such an opportunity with a stunning girl in my twenties, but in the end I turned her down, the lad was a really good friend and a genuinely great bloke. I had my limits. Maybe like Jeremy, girlfriends of very good friends is where I draw the line.
 

dolfe67

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Alright. Not my fetish at all. IRL I had such an opportunity with a stunning girl in my twenties, but in the end I turned her down, the lad was a really good friend and a genuinely great bloke. I had my limits. Maybe like Jeremy, girlfriends of very good friends is where I draw the line.
Sure and most people are like this. But it's just a game, we can experience things we don't irl.
 

Socrambus

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I'd guess it's the "stealing other guy's girl" factor, since it's the only storyline like that.
That's just one layer because is not just any other guy. It's your friend who is taller, more handsome and used to be way more successful with girls than you in your teens. And Cindy kind of embodies the trope of the hot popular cheerleader that paid no attention to Ian and was way out of his league back in the day.

So "stealing" Cindy has the forbidden fruit appeal with an extra of betrayal of a close friend. And it also works as validation for Ian that despite everything (his awkard teens, Gillian's break up, struggling writing career and so on) he's now better than Wade and he can get a girl like Cindy. I don't think it's about Cindy as an individual and more about what she represents, kind of the platinum trophy Ian gets for being more confident, working at the gym and getting this career on the right track.

And Cindy as a character is the insatisfaction of someone with a normal boring life when confronted with the (fake or not) appeal of the exciting and successful social media stardom. I find her refreshing compared to most other LI (on this game and others) that she provokes love and hate reactions not just based on her looks and attractiveness but on her contradicting personality. She has obvious flaws and it kind of makes her more real as a character and enhaces the guilty pleasure vibes on her path.
 

dobzzz

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That's just one layer because is not just any other guy. It's your friend who is taller, more handsome and used to be way more successful with girls than you in your teens. And Cindy kind of embodies the trope of the hot popular cheerleader that paid no attention to Ian and was way out of his league back in the day.

So "stealing" Cindy has the forbidden fruit appeal with an extra of betrayal of a close friend. And it also works as validation for Ian that despite everything (his awkard teens, Gillian's break up, struggling writing career and so on) he's now better than Wade and he can get a girl like Cindy. I don't think it's about Cindy as an individual and more about what she represents, kind of the platinum trophy Ian gets for being more confident, working at the gym and getting this career on the right track.

And Cindy as a character is the insatisfaction of someone with a normal boring life when confronted with the (fake or not) appeal of the exciting and successful social media stardom. I find her refreshing compared to most other LI (on this game and others) that she provokes love and hate reactions not just based on her looks and attractiveness but on her contradicting personality. She has obvious flaws and it kind of makes her more real as a character and enhaces the guilty pleasure vibes on her path.
y do people even assume Ian wasn't popular ?? He was in band and was in a long term relationship, and the dude's been doing martial arts since he was pre-teen. Is it because he is 175 ??
 

BlandChili

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At this point the Seymour debate is moot. I doubt it will be part of Lena's half of the update unless EK has already announced it (Did I miss something?). In my opinion the Seymour arc, while way too tame, at the moment has some of the biggest potential. Axel having similar potential for depravity (e.g. BDSM) though no hints at group involvement on that path...yet.
Unless Eva does another split (like with Cindy's birthday party for Wade and Holly's book fair) I doubt Seymour and Lena will ever have a significant amount of time devoted to them alone. We are talking about an optional route here after all, so any Seymour scenes that become too lengthy will need non-Seymour alternatives to at least fill in some of that same time slot.

Since Billy's route is optional too, or at least seems that way so far, it probably won't serve as a Seymour alternative either, for example. Last scene I recall that was a direct replacement was when Lena was introduced to that random new photographer guy.
 
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