I don't know about the Alison route (I don't like her) but as a Cherry fan I can help with that one, the scene you are looking for is called "Cherry facetimes Ian". It is from a video call between Ian and Cherry at Perry's parents' summer house and shows Cherry in a bathroom covered in a white towel. I think you just need to be on her relationship path and it should come automatically. In the scene she goes on to shower nude for Ian which is really hot NGL.
Yes, Alison needs to be on her Bimbo route to get her to send you that photo.
I’d imagine that’s why most of these “choose your own adventure” VNs tend to see longer and longer gaps between updates, and so many just get outright abandoned; as more and more characters come on, each with their own stories and branching paths, it just becomes too much of a tangled mess for one person to keep track of.
Very true. In fact, in the scene that I was referencing, when Lena meets up with Robert around the corner after her first kiss with Ian, she has the option to either go straight to her apt for sex or to walk with Robert and have an actual conversation. It seemed like she was trying to have a real relationship with him instead of just using him as her fuck toy. Even if you choose that option she still ends up using him as her fuck toy.
Some sex scenes add to the narrative, some don't. There's also a lot of times where ORS feels like a romance story that just allows the scene to continue without a fade to black, and in those moments, yeah it all aligns and it is great. But it's not an even spread across the board for all characters and all relationships.
Jeremy is sort of exception to the overall rule. If Lena gets sexual with him, she won't be interested in relationship with Ian.
She can cheat with Axel at the photo shoot (when Ivy fails to show up and also when she misses her train to Perry's beachhouse) and then when she's working at Blazers she can cheat with Marcel, Axel, and/or Jack. Then also with Seymour in Italy as well. Jeremy won't work since if she woke him up in Louise's bed, then she won't get involved seriously with Ian.
To add to this, Lena can also cheat with Mike and/or, if you really hate yourself, Robert. Also Mark, i think?
damn those are some underwhelming options. Cheating with Jeremy seems the spiciest one since Jeremey is Ian's friend. None of the ones you mentioned idt Ian even cares. Such a bummer if it's limited to just that.
Ian takes it quite personally if Lena fucks Robert, for what little it's worth.
For what it's worth, in the new update if she's on the cheating path and Ian hasn't dumped her yet, Lena will fuck Robert as well. When Robert asks her if she's dating Ian she shuts him up and tells him it's none of his business. So yes, she will cheat with Robert as well.Ian takes it quite personally if Lena fucks Robert, for what little it's worth.
(there's also fan theory that Mike is the guy Ian's former girlfriend Gillian cheated on him with, and her current boyfriend. Although that one has yet to be resolved one way or the other)
She won't cheat with Mike. At the scene at Blazer's, she's pissed at Mike and Ivy for having an affair behind her back. Mark is only an option if she's not seriously dating Ian. So at Blazer's where most of the cheating can take place it's either Marcel and/or Axel and/or Jack. And like I mentioned earlier, if Ian decides to keep quiet about her cheating when he sees her at the beach house, then she can call Robert in the new update and have sex with him as well.
As you can tell, Jeremy is a real creep towards Lena. Lena protects him by not informing Louise about his flirtations with Ivy. Nevertheless, he immediately throws her under the bus after the Blazer's scene and tells Ian that she's cheating on him.
Lena can cheat on Ian with Mike from Ch.10 onwards, if she's fucked him before and had a fight with Ian:
if lena_mike_dating:
//...
menu:
"{image=icon_lust.webp}Call Mike over":
//...
$ v10_mike_sex = True
if ian_lena_couple:
$ lena_cheating = True