pass out at 4 or 5 am in the morning but mina bond was at 23 then she drop to 20 because of the lie to (cover killian ass) i don't know if it effect of their (mina) RP but it currently at 7, and i belive i have get mina higher then i the other girls right for the half nude sense on the bed?
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It may be simplistic however that is still my opinion. I feel like only Hana and Rosalind are really being forced. I feel like the stakes are a lot higher for them and they are on a time limit.
Felicia I will simply never understand yes being a trophy wife sucks but given her position + contacts I believe she has multiple options. Even if she somehow wins there is no way anybody in the club is going to have any respect for her - Kath mentioned even she has trouble with this despite being an owner and because of that Felicia will always be in a losing position even if she wins. Veronica's motives I can understand but I think she still has the option to walk away without it impacting her life other than the fact that she might not be passionate about her new job which is not the end of the world.
I can respect Lucy and Victoria's decision to do what is necessary but I do not have a lot of sympathy for them because I believe they have the choice to walk away. Unless we get in game confirmation that they had absolutely no choice (and Lucy's son studying in the 2nd best school is NOT the same as her not having any choice), I will continue to be unsympathetic to whatever happens to them. Like someone else mentioned it may be a coldhearted way of thinking but I feel like they made a choice to do this and they need to accept the consequences of their decision. I guess Victoria's situation may be a bit different given we only have Edwin's perspective and since he was a child he may not have had a full understanding about her motives however unless we have in game events confirming she was in a horrible position this is what my opinion is going to be.
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A little note for the Devs. I believe it was established early in the game that Rosalind's daughter was 13, you may want to review the dialog.
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I went full Mina so i didnt cover for Ian, he fucked up so it's his problem, i think i even maxed her out, i only not did her bi-curious on this run.
I don't think anyone wants (or at least should) try to change your opinion on this. It's yours and even if i find it to simple minden and coldhearted, i have to accept it. I just wanted as well to lay out my perspective on this so others can understand from where i come.
I would probably having a much easier time enjoying the Game if i could look at the Characters the way you do. But i can't help myself other than taking them serious, relate to their feelings and with that puting myself in their shoes.
I understand that nobody is trying to change my opinion. It is a discussion forum - it is nice to talk about differing opinions in a civil manner and I appreciate the discussion we are having which is why I am responding to replies to my posts. Not trying to argue or defend myself or anything.
whoa i didn't think you can say no to the other girls, threw killian under the bus and still get Mina affection to max or you think to max very nice.
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Personally I've never had any strong feelings on Lucy. She's a serviceable character that I have some sympathy for, but I don't really see her as much different than any of the other house girls (who no doubt have their own sob stories if we got to know them). I find Veronica infinitely more appealing, both as a Carnation and as a character. So it's entirely possible I'm more than a little biased here.
That being said, I'm not sure why you think Lucy is being singled out for harsh treatment. Yes, she lost her spot in the Exhibition to Veronica, but that was always a risk; it's going to happen to two of the three Carnations as well. And as it turns out, Lucy still has a chance to get her son into St. Ives. Sure, she has to suffer through all sorts of abuse as a house girl, but that wouldn't really change if she were a Carnation. Nor are the odds of achieving her goal that much worse.
On top of that, it's not like the MC has declined to help Lucy. AFAIK, he only has one chance to interact with her in semi-private (if you ditch the end of the first week to spend time with Hana), and in that case he automatically tries to buoy her spirits by insisting she isn't being frivolous in trying to get her son into a good school. That's not much on the help scale, but what else could he actually do? He has no connections to St. Ives, he obviously can't afford to pay for the bribe she needs out of his own pocket, and he can't do much to improve her life as a house girl.
Actually, now that I think about it, the one thing the MC could do that might help Lucy would be to tutor her son. It's not clear if that would be enough to make a difference, but it is a skill we know he has that is theoretically relevant. Huh. That would actually be kind of interesting to see.
Okay, change of plans. I'm still happy Veronica won, but I'd be down with the MC taking enough of an interest in Lucy that he might spend a little of his time trying to help her. Realistically, this probably won't happen given all the work the devs have to do just for the main storyline, but you never know. I'd certainly take it over any of the other house girls subplots we seem likely to get.
It's worth noting that even the listed costs of health treatment in the United States are something of a mess. A lot of insurance companies will establish maximum prices for various procedures, then they use their enormous size to 'negotiate' down to that price with the various hospitals. To make up the difference, the hospitals jack up the nominal price even further to squeeze money out of the poor, uninsured souls who have no leverage of their own. The whole thing is one racket on top of another; it's rackets all the way down.
Not that any of this invalidates your point that August is footing a very large bill. It's pretty clear he cares a great deal about Hana. The real question is if he cares about her as a person or as a symbol. He may only want a legacy, in which case he would probably react badly if Hana insists on walking her own path in life. I'm very curious to see how the two of them will react to each other when whatever Kat's planning starts to rock the boat.
I think, going by the things we saw and heard during the game, that it might have begun with August simply wanting to leave a legacy. The way he forced himself back into Hana´s life after nearly 2 decades and his repeated tries to get her into the leadership of the Club hint towards that view.
But this definitely changed after August saw and learned more about Hana. Now he loves her as his daughter, that is clear. He goes to her concerts, he never really punished her after some of her stunts, he really tries to get into her good graces and is quite philosophical if it was the right thing after he finally convinced her trying out a leader position in the Club.
One tidbit of conversation which might be quickly overlooked, but is important in this case, is August´s reaction after Hana told him misleadingly how she shacked up with Edwin for a couple days. Not only does August react rather happy about this, but he mentions on the side that he had hoped hiring Edwin would bring Hana out of her shell again. August knew(!) that Hana let a lot of her social contacts go to sleep after starting at PC and hoped someone like Edwin could bring her out of this again. Well done, Chummer, well done! If you are playing the Hana path it definitely worked!
How August and Hana will react once Kat makes her powerplay, will and I theorise here, depend on if we are on the Hana path and how we influenced both her and August over time.
She's simply different because we know (a small part of) her Backstory. And yes you are right, the other House Girls are sure having their own sad reasons for being there.
I think it was promised to her, that she would get what she wanted if she becomes a House Girl. Not as a Chance but as a Guaranty, however reliable this might be.
Regarding why i think Lucy is singled out as a Punching Ball for Abuse, i wrote earlier:
So yes i think she is treated especially gruel in my Book, she has to endure the same abuse as the Carnations more often and over a longer period of time, while being daily confronted with her abuse because one of her abusers is her colleauge. And to top it off she has to suffer through all this alone. At least from what i had played, i didn't now about the Scene you described, but i definetly had liked it more than the Oral Rape/Forced Facefuck when Kathleen Rewards you for a good Interview with a Carnation.
It's not that i want the MC to magicaly solve Lucys problems, what angers me is that he has (except the Scene you described) not a single chance to help her like with the Carnations.
If you decide to help one of the three to win, you don't suddenly stop to care for the other two, you can still be there for them and help them even if it's just Emotionaly Support so they can life through the Abuse without becomming empty husks of her former selfs.
Nothing more do i wish for being able to do for Lucys Character. The MC has no need to get her Son into St. Ives, who if not the MC would be qualified to make Lucy realize that, as good as her Intentions may be, her Son probably wouldn't want for her to Destroy herself only to give him a Headstart in Life.
I'm happy aswell that Vermonica won, and i think Lucy deserves more Screentime and a meaningfull Story. If not, the Devs shouldn't have brought her back after the Competition with Veronica. Right now she feels like a halfassed Character, as if her Model was deemed to expensive to not use it again, but her Character not worthy enough to invest more Time in Developing it.
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No offense taken, there is a difference between "That's stupid" and "You're stupid".
Nonetheless thank you for clarifying that you meant no offense.
And while i am very much in favour of keeping discussions civilized there is no need for excessive carefull tiptoeing, let's just call bullshit what it is: bullshit. Although for the sake of a refined debate i would of course prefer to call it bovine feces. If you think an argument made by me is stupid, that's legit until i convince you otherwise.
As long as somebody doesn't obviously aim to offend me personally, and because a lot of the folks here write in their second language (me included), i try to assume no ill intend on their side at first. Too much people are too easily offended nowadays.
However let's quickly recall the relevant lines:
To which i replied: "Nope, i like it just as it is, and hope she gets even more screen time. Yes that's mean, but you can't help everyone."
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Basically you expressed your strong preference for either cutting Lucy completely out the story, or to have the power as MC or Player to ease her fate considerably.
My "Nope, i like it just as it is, and hope she gets even more screen time." was directly geared towards your statement and expressed my preference which is diametrically opposed to yours: don't cut her out and stand by doing next to nothing for her.
Sofar this are just two preferences and both are equally permissible.
My "Yes that's mean" implied i am fully aware and kind of looking forward to more and perhaps even nastier stuff done to and with her.
You, on the contrary, don't like this digusting outlook for Lucy and wish to change it. That's fair.
Finally the contested phrase "but you can't help everyone." which you misconceived as an argument to support my view, whereas i really just wanted to state a fact.
Fact is:
Lucy is not one of our five (or six if we include Kathleen) female MainNPCs, she is a background character, a (relatively new) housegirl, granted a prominent one, which elevates her out of the crowd of the other housegirls, with the bulk of them only just recently got names.
She plays on the same level as Victoria, Grace Beaufort, Dalia and Harper. They have profiles, but no relationship statistics. Our interactions with them are limited, their history is fixed and their development will be influenced by our gameplay - if at all - in a mostly indirect way.
Apart from being especially fond (that's an euphemism, i like her body) of Lucy i don't see a reason to single her out of this quite interesting group of important side characters. You can't help Victoria to change her past, you can't help Dalia, Harper and the other Housegirls directly while they conduct their gruesome business. At least as of the most recent update. Even the Emma situation was initiated by Jacob, a character which has an actual relationship statistic with the MC.
Edwins options are limited, which is realistic, given he is a young student, who was just recently hired for a semi-important position inside the club.
I always thought about PC as a Game with a lot of Routes, following wildly ambiguous paths somewhere between "Good Guy" and "Bad/Evil Guy" and respective endings for the Characters.
If you want to play a "Saint" in Hell, your best bet seems to stay close to Hana and sabotage Kathleen in her endeavour to take over and defile the club even further, but you are not able to help or save everyone immediately, including Lucy.
Of course it never hurts to try! (or does it?)
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I think Lucy serves narratively as a pars pro toto for the other housegirls. Instead of telling all their, as ename144 phrased it, "own sob stories" she illustrates which methods were likely used to get them into the business, and the 'breaking in' of new sexworkers is often done in an especially disgusting way to prepare them for the upcoming tasks. "I've already done worse, so this is comparatively tame."
It's a way to keep them compliant in the future.
With her above mentioned role she is in my opinion as important to the story as the other prominent side characters, because it's something different to just getting told what happened to the housegirls versus to experience that first hand in the present with a character some of us already established a bond.
That's the same reason we see Victorias porn videos, the impact would be far less, if we were just told by Edwin "My Mom used to do porn, for keeping us two afloat, before she died two years ago." as part of his exposition. We need to become aquainted with Victoria and to actually see her in this situation to feel the plight she went through.
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Yeah and I think that her reason is not good enough. I think that after marrying her husband she gets easier access to a large pool of rich people she can socialize with. Finding a just one person among them that she can take advantage of behind her husband's back would not be too difficult for her. It happens in the real world and I see no reason why it cannot happen in the game given the game tries to be realistic.
As for chuck - maybe you are right, maybe you are not. I dont know enough about chuck and his motives to make a conclusion. But thats besides the point. How would felicia as someone who does not know chuck know that he or the other owners would respect her? My issue with her is I simply cannot understand her thought process if I were to put myself in her shoes. Why would she think that degrading herself in front of a room full of sleazy perverts would make those same sleazy perverts respect her as an equal? I just dont get it.
I dont think that felicia's reasons for joining is a particularly compelling one. Her motives would have made a bit more sense to me if she really wanted something and there was a time limit of some kind which made her desperate and try this as a last ditch effort to get what she wants before time runs out as she feels like she is backed into a corner and has nothing to lose. For example if the school was still open but had 4-5 weeks before it shut down or someone she cared about was ill (like in the case of hana's mom) and had only had a couple of months before they passed and her husband refused to help her - reasons like this I think would make a bit more sense given her position in society.
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The Question would be what leaving the Club would entail for the MC. After all, we are not talking about a normal Brothel here, even if they would want to let him go, they probably simply couldn't, considering how much he knows about the Club and how he would be a constant Danger/loose End to it. So if he wants out he would have to find something he can use as leverage to buy their way out, or if he really is a "decent Human being" find a way to take the Club down for good.
MC said in the beginning he thinks of himself as a "decent Human being". And i found the concept of him questioning this beliefe as he is confronted with the Club and through that with his own (subconsciously?) darker cravings very interesting.
So of course their is (should) be no clear Good/Evil path from the beginning, but more a mix of options where MC is tempted and has to decide for the moment if he's able to withstand the temptation or succumbs to it. But in the end, he can't stay on "common route" forever and at some point has to decide wich path he want's to walk down towards the end.
But!
If this choice would be only between running away (with his Li) leaving everyone else behind, or falling for the Club and embracing it's gruel debauchery, it would be an extremely dissapointing and unsatisfying End in my eyes. At least for all of us that don't want to embrace our Darker side.
If i could wish for a way to End PC i would wish for something like the old Fallouts did for their Endings, especially Fallout 2 comes to my mind. Like having 2 or 3 "Main Endings" lets call them Good, Evil and maybe a Bad End if MC stays non committal until the End, and after this show us how the Story Arcs/ Endings of the other (side) Characters and if/how they where influenced by us and give us some closure on them with that.
Of course this would mean quite a lot of work for Scripting and Writing but i think it would be worth the effort.
I starting to get the feeling we are talking past each other here, that or I'm just really bad at making my thoughts clear and/or understanding yours. I would almost second everything you wrote here.
It's not that i want Lucy to have some sort of "magic Plot Armor" so she is saved from all/most of the abuse. I only try to advocate that we both can and should get something to enjoy with her Character. Right now she only caters to the Fantasy of Abusing/Breaking an innocent Women.
Although i as well have a "Dark Spot" in my mind that enjoys the Fantasy of Rape and Abuse from Time to Time, i need at least to feel indifferent towards the Character subjected to it. Or, like with Kathleen, think of the Character as someone who deserves what is comming to him/her.
I would love to reduce Kathleen to a slobbering broken mess for her Actions and wouldn't feel bad about it for only a second. As for Lucy i don't have such excuse so i can't help myself other than feeling hurt when i have to see her suffering.
Until ename144 told me about the Scene where MC seems to at least trying to console her, i got the Picture that he was hardcoded to being indifferent towards her. Now i have at least a glimpse of hope that in the future, if she comes back and hopefully becomes a more Important/fleshed out Character, the MC will have more options with her, like with the other Women.
So my whole point with Lucy was from the beginning not that she is not meant to being abused at all, but that she is (right now) handled different from the other, more important feeling Characters. She feels badly balanced right now, as i said kinda halfassed, as if there was to much work put into her Model to not use it again, but also she was/is not seen as worth enough to invest more time/thought into her to make her a real, fleshed out side Character. This may change in the future, and i hope, if she becomes the prominent Proxy for the House Girls MC get's more options with her.
I really wish for all the more important Characters to have at least an "Good" Arc for me, and an "Evil" Arc for you.
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I'd like to elaborate a bit more on my last post and instead of editing it, i'll write a follow up.
This technique encourages authors not to describe a particular subject from the narrator's point of view, but to use plot and dialogue instead. Its intend is to keep the interest of a reader alive, who is nowadays used to filmic narrative structures, and is for obvious reasons especially useful in Visual Novels, since they are an amalgamation of movies and literature. The role of the narrator is pushed into the background, which should make it easier for the reader or player respectively to identify with the characters. I think it's quite successful used in PC.
Now the technical interesting thing about anal is, that one needs to prepare for it. Professionals who are scheduled for anal the next day will diet or fast and purge herself with enemas, just like they would prepare for a coloscopy. If they don't, we are in for a mess and a different porn genre.
There are quite a few examples of castings, in which the girls genuinely seem to be surprised, when they realize what type of casting this really is. There are a lot of girls who are sent to shower, take a dump and very likely are told to apply a small laxative enema (you can buy them at your local trusted pharmacy for home use). If they knew he wasn't planning on doing just a normal or nude model casting, this wouldn't be necessary. And because of this lacking preparation beforehand, there are quite a few scenes in which we see them leaking ... well, uhm, you know ... feces.
Which would be considered a blooper for professionals, but here it adds authenticity and degradation.
Which is the principle of "Show, don't tell".
This technique encourages authors not to describe a particular subject from the narrator's point of view, but to use plot and dialogue instead. Its intend is to keep the interest of a reader alive, who is nowadays used to filmic narrative structures, and is for obvious reasons especially useful in Visual Novels, since they are an amalgamation of movies and literature. The role of the narrator is pushed into the background, which should make it easier for the reader or player respectively to identify with the characters. I think it's quite successful used in PC.
That would be her role after she becomes a new housegirl, before that she also illustrates the selection process for the carnations, which was only just hinted on by Rosie in a few sentences.
In this context i'd like to point to Pierre Woodmans older casting videos, which were less staged and used fewer professionals and/or other girls with already some experience in the field. In his castings he will always push for at least anal, and often add slapping and spanking, dirty, degrading talk and sometimes even pissing to the casting. There are indeed porn actresses whose only anal scene was shot with Woodman.
Now the technical interesting thing about anal is, that one needs to prepare for it. Professionals who are scheduled for anal the next day will diet or fast and purge herself with enemas, just like they would prepare for a coloscopy. If they don't, we are in for a mess and a different porn genre.
There are quite a few examples of castings, in which the girls genuinely seem to be surprised, when they realize what type of casting this really is. There are a lot of girls who are sent to shower, take a dump and very likely are told to apply a small laxative enema (you can buy them at your local trusted pharmacy for home use). If they knew he wasn't planning on doing just a normal or nude model casting, this wouldn't be necessary. And because of this lacking preparation beforehand, there are quite a few scenes in which we see them leaking ... well, uhm, you know ... feces.
Which would be considered a blooper for professionals, but here it adds authenticity and degradation.
I'm well aware of "Show don't tell" aswell as "sometimes less is more" and so on. I write small Campaigns and Oneshots for my local Pen & Paper group, so i have some experience in creating scenes and an general flow for a Story and look out for their pacing and stuff, but i suck at Dialouges so I'm happy i can improvise most of it
. And i think aswell that this principle was well adapted from what i have seen until now. I'm with you aswell for what was Lucys purpose so far with the selection process and could be in the Future as a Proxy for the House Girls.Where i'm strongly against you is with the Woodman stuff. I've seen a couple of them and it looks like the reason you seem to like them is the reason for me why i resent them. We are no longer talking about a Fantasy and/or fictional Characters here. We are talking about real people who have been exploited by an asshole. That is a line i will not cross and to be honest, people that go off on this, they disgust me, or at least their enjoyment of this does. Yes Porn often isn't a nice Bussiness in generall but stuff like the Woodmann Vids and similar content is one of the worst stuff that is out there. In my Opinion.
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With the preface of my former posts, i have to say well done, TD1900, mission accomplished. You achieved to make a side character with a probably distinctive narrative role so likeable, that we start to care for her.
vakkyr i understand and respect your position, and i am all in to enhance our agency in determining the fate of the characters.
However, i am also all in for letting TD1900 tell their story, since they did a stellar job sofar, and if they decide to keep Lucy a mere side character for illustration purposes only, i am fine with it.
That would be indeed preferable if it's done right. Again, i am very fond of giving agency to the players.
But shoehorning a 'Happy Ending' into the story just for the sake of it, would be detrimental in my opinion.
What if the author intented to write a tragedy?
Romeo and Juliet is what it is because they both die, if they would overcome their families enmity or would elope together to live happily ever after it would be a completely different story, and quite probably not considered as one of the greatest romantic plays of all time.
For now i trust TD1900 enough to pull it off, one way or the other. Don't loose hope, vakkyr!
P.S. i want to elaborate a bit more on the "(... ) 'Evil' Arc for you", but that's for another post.
P.P.S. also
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Oh, i don't wanted to recommened his stuff to anyone, and it is indeed controversial, your feelings about it is more than ok, it's probably healthy.
No, i used this real world example to underline my statement about 'breaking in new sex workers into the business in a especially disgusting way' and how Lucys handling is grounded in reality, it is sadly not overly exaggerated.
Then the Author should have written a Book/Light or Graphic Novelle or Play not a VN. Or at least tag the VN as "Kinetic" when the Story is already set and the choices Players have are having no impact, This way people know what to expect.
If a play a Game and have coices i expect them to have an impact, if not they are meaningless and redundant. You still can tell the Story you want even with different Endings. Yes even if a Happy Ending where to be kinda shoehorned in, you still can consider the more "Evil" ending canon and loose nothing but instead adding more value for different Players with it.
Just look at the Carnations, Rose looks quite clear like the "canon choice" as a Li, still you are free to choose Veronica or Felicia if you want. It doesn't watering down the Quality of the Writing or the Characters, it ads variety and more value to the Story.