VN Ren'Py Pale Carnations [Ch.4 Up.6 Public] [Mutt & Jeff]

[Turret]

And as final point, Turret help me but Sophia was too cute for her own good.

Hi ffive!
Someone needs a Care packet, so well, here it is.

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[JohnnySmithDoe]

I hope this is not the end of Victoria's career flashbacks. The dynamic that MC knew, but did not tell was interesting. Now that this arc is completed, this kinda pure character with slutty past needs something new and hopefully keeps this struggle with "purity" and the revealed dark urge.

 

[Leinad_Sevla]

I just watched the scene where Hana does a titjob for Edwin and lets him cum in her mouth and I have two things to say: First of all, perfect cumshot. When I say I want a scene ending with a cumshot in the mouth, this is how I want it done. The hand on the chin holding it in place, being able to actually see the cum shoot into the mouth instead of being just an oral creampie with the swallowing sounds. Awesome execution.

Second thing: how hard is it to animate something like that, with the cum fluids and stuff? I only ask because I want to understand why it´s so rare in HS games, at least those I´ve played. Everyone usually goes for the oral creampie when they do cum-in-mouth, which is probably easier but also lazier.

Again, what a great cumshot.

 

[ename144]

Which girl did you guys chose on the orgy? I like Sophia but I had to chose Allison, she's too hot

I chose none, of course. I have shoulder angel credentials to uphold.

What I also find strange is that so far we've seen only Edwin, Kathleen and Jacob being influenced by this drug (that we know of), neither Chuck nor August seem to be affected by it (or Warren for that matter and out of all patreons only Jim seems interested in the old hag). Chuck spends time with Sophia the most out of all people and yet he can easily resist her charms (same goes for Abel, if anything it's Sophia who is under his influence). And judging by what Sophia said this drug works even on old men.

Which suggests it might not work on same sex but then again Sophia might have omitted some facts here (if it would work on everyone I would expect she would say "it works on everyone - males and females, young and old").

The impression I got was the *perfume* only works on men, but the injected drug works on both sexes. We've already seen Kathleen use the drug on the Carnations during their punishments, and the MC can use it on Kathleen during her sadism training.

I wouldn't say that 3 self-confidence points is a small impact when up until that point you can only get 6-7 points (depending on which path you choose with Mina and whether you refuse the threesome) and I personally really liked the scene itself, even though it's not an H-scene.

6-7? Try 2! There's slim pickins when you aren't on Felicia's path.

I suppose on the plus side that means the measly +1 Self-Confidence you get on the generic Felicia conversation is a 50% jump in my total. Sorry, Felicia!

I'm trying to use the URM mod but with this game P.C. I get a exception every time I try to search for variables.

I have used URM in other games and it works ok. Is there something I need to do that will get it working?

I had the same problem in the previous update (and still in this one) and the only fix i found back then was to use a old version of URM (when the interface was still lightblue) it was working perfectly. But unfortunately, i upgraded my computer recently and lost the file. And i can't manage to find a old enough version anywhere to download now.

So if anyone have a fix or a old file version, i'm interested too.

I discussed my experiences with URM at the end of my review, but to summarize: I can get URM working properly by using the modifications to the "00action_data.rpy" file discussed here, but that winds up breaking some features in Pale Carnations, such as the Settings screen or manual game saving. I haven't found a way to get everything working properly yet.

It could be as simple as a combination of doing something easy that effectively curbs her a favor with "middle manager" she can cash in later, and actually enjoying some drugs herself?

I suppose it could be that simple, but it feels like a stretch. Dalia doesn't seem the type to do things on a whim, and she definitely doesn't enjoy herself on the job; that's why she always come across to the MC as nervous.

 

[Discrepancy]

I chose none, of course. I have shoulder angel credentials to uphold.

How could you pass those 2 hotties, Hana GF route mostly?

 

[ename144]

How could you pass those 2 hotties, Hana GF route mostly?

Nah, my main route is holding out for Veronica.

But honestly, turning down Sophia and Allison wasn't hard. Sophia never offered (we have a terrible rapport since my MC doesn't trust her and she's some flavor of insane), and the Allison scene couldn't be skeevier if Jim interrupted it to do more coke off Allison's ass halfway through. That's not what I'm looking for in a sex scene.

 

[GIL3D]

Second thing: how hard is it to animate something like that, with the cum fluids and stuff?

Pretty hard and challenging. Requires quite some ingenuity. We're working with stiff assets here, making them feel fluid is not easy.

 

[pinuz1]

Happy Chapter 4 Update 6 everyone! I've played through a solid chunk of the game now (though it's sufficiently varied that I don't I've seen everything), so it's time to figure out how I feel about it. I think on a narrative level, it's extremely good. There are a lot of moving parts here, but they fit together well and more importantly they come together to sell a pivotal moment of the story in unmistakable style. And as I all to often fail to mention, the art is fantastic, always highlighting the feelings of the various characters and finding clever ways to frame the action.

However, as good as the story and character work is, I do feel like the gameplay lets it down a bit because for all the choices available to us, the update is unavoidably about the cruel hedonism that is the Carnation Club. That's not to say there are no moments of levity or sincere tenderness; there are, and some of them are quite good. But those moments are short, isolated, and all too often restricted to very specific paths. Most importantly, though, almost none of those moments do anything to second guess Kathleen's attitude in her moment of triumph, and that definitely stings.

The end result is a good update that I didn't enjoy playing. Of course, given my laughably vanilla tastes I think it's fair to say I was never going to find this update fun. But even in comparison to previous Exhibitions, it didn't feel like my actions made much difference this time, at least not within the Exhibition. I don't know if that's a result of splitting the Exhibition into two parts or me wanting to get the "belly of the whale" portion over as soon as possible - or maybe I've been misreading where the story was going the whole time. We'll have to see what happens next. For now, I'd say I liked the update, but not as much as I was hoping.

So much for the generalities, let's get down to brass tacks.

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Okay, I think that does it for this update. Hopefully we'll be back again before too long to wrap up Chapter 4.

tl;dr A good update with lots of plot progression and plenty of lewd content, but not a lot of variety for those who don't like the Club's brand of entertainment

And I thought my write up of the update was a lot of text , interesting to hear your thoughts about it in general, I also share the feeling of enjoying non exhibition content more, but I was looking forward to the free roam in this update, as it had been a while since the last one, and I wouldn't mind it if devs decided to do them in other places of the game aside from exhibitions, as long as it makes sense of course. Honestly I expect not to enjoy the next update as much, considering it'll just be the main event, and I don't particularly love those scenes, but with everything going on with Felicia, I think it'll still be very interesting, I'm also curious to see what options they give us when it comes to ending the night with someone.

Nah, my main route is holding out for Veronica.

The more the game advances the more I feel like my "cannon" route will also take the Veronica path, it takes a while to penetrate into Ronnie's heart, but she's adorable once you do. I do wonder how the different endings will change based on who the MC ends up with tho I guess the ending is still a couple years away so I shouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[sunaboz]

ename144
Yeah, that coke thing felt off to me too.

I've said as much to TD on Discord:
I find it a bit strange that Edwin would refuse Sophia's drug but could snort coke that for all he knew came from Sophia (or a much worse source).

that occurred to me too, but i dunno. different stages of the party and not a direct line to the mad scientist
arguably no version of edwin would do coke, but kinda just wanted to do the snort coke off a movie star's ass thing

 

[Turret]

I chose none, of course. I have shoulder angel credentials to uphold.

Hi ename144!
Brushing up the on the holy shine, aren´t you? Taking the white path through the orgy.

But honestly, turning down Sophia and Allison wasn't hard. Sophia never offered (we have a terrible rapport since my MC doesn't trust her and she's some flavor of insane),

Well, you never developed a rapport with her, that starts to change quite a bit of what is happening now. Sophia is the most important non-Main LI character going forward. By the way, our lovely bundle of contradictions is NOT insane. Part is her eccentrism, which I expected to show, hats up for TD1900 who wrote it nicely, if fitting it to the storyline with a dark bend by personality imprints and special training from the secret service sphere andI the mentioned imprints/training done so Sophia can function to full extend in Kath and Chucks diabolical den.
Personally I know a couple eccentrics, so some behaviour of Sophia is no biggie for me and we can see in game that Sophia is a cute, nice woman in an extremly problematic position, who should still not be underestimated. I theorise both Abel and Sophia have imprints done to stave off the influence of Kath, Chuck and the others. I think TD has some surprises more for us in his bag. I estimate Abel and Sophia underestimated what these imprints and training would do to them longterm. They might win this war with Chuck, Kath and the Club, but at what personal cost?More tomorrow, because it is really late where I live.

 

[ename144]

Hi ename144!
Brushing up the on the holy shine, aren´t you? Taking the white path through the orgy.

Well, you never developed a rapport with her, that starts to change quite a bit of what is happening now. Sophia is the most important non-Main LI character going forward. By the way, our lovely bundle of contradictions is NOT insane. Part is her eccentrism, which I expected to show, hats up for TD1900 who wrote it nicely, if fitting it to the storyline with a dark bend by personality imprints and special training from the secret service sphere andI the mentioned imprints/training done so Sophia can function to full extend in Kath and Chucks diabolical den.
Personally I know a couple eccentrics, so some behaviour of Sophia is no biggie for me and we can see in game that Sophia is a cute, nice woman in an extremly problematic position, who should still not be underestimated. I theorise both Abel and Sophia have imprints done to stave off the influence of Kath, Chuck and the others. I think TD has some surprises more for us in his bag. I estimate Abel and Sophia underestimated what these imprints and training would do to them longterm. They might win this war with Chuck, Kath and the Club, but at what personal cost?More tomorrow, because it is really late where I live.

Sorry, Turret, but I gotta go with Occam's Razor here: the simplest answer that covers the facts is usually the best. I don't know exactly what is going on with Sophia, but she is not right in the head.

 

[Discrepancy]

Hi ename144!
Brushing up the on the holy shine, aren´t you? Taking the white path through the orgy.

Well, you never developed a rapport with her, that starts to change quite a bit of what is happening now. Sophia is the most important non-Main LI character going forward. By the way, our lovely bundle of contradictions is NOT insane. Part is her eccentrism, which I expected to show, hats up for TD1900 who wrote it nicely, if fitting it to the storyline with a dark bend by personality imprints and special training from the secret service sphere andI the mentioned imprints/training done so Sophia can function to full extend in Kath and Chucks diabolical den.
Personally I know a couple eccentrics, so some behaviour of Sophia is no biggie for me and we can see in game that Sophia is a cute, nice woman in an extremly problematic position, who should still not be underestimated. I theorise both Abel and Sophia have imprints done to stave off the influence of Kath, Chuck and the others. I think TD has some surprises more for us in his bag. I estimate Abel and Sophia underestimated what these imprints and training would do to them longterm. They might win this war with Chuck, Kath and the Club, but at what personal cost?More tomorrow, because it is really late where I live.

I think your love for Sophia might be clouding your judgement just a bit
What's those imprints you talking about? Did they ever talk about something like that on the game?

 

[Turret]

I think your love for Sophia might be clouding your judgement just a bit
What's those imprints you talking about? Did they ever talk about something like that on the game?

A quick answer before bed: Yes, in a roundabout way. Sophia answers our hero on the question where her "seducer side" went and she answers she only comes out when she is needed, also she talked about special training before. That are very strong hints towards mental imprints and other work done. That is Secret Service/black ops stuff. Since we also learn that Chuck and Abel really fight a shadow war, it is obviously all in.

 

[sunaboz]

An MC who decides to fuck Allison at the orgy will emphatically note that he *loves* the Carnation Club, but there is no inverse declaration: no combination of choices that I can find will make the MC ponder whether he *dislikes* the Club.

Well, if Edwin would decide to fuck Allison at the orgy it shouldn't come to a surprise that he would say that.

As for other scenarios where he could admit he dislikes the club I think for this to happen we would need different choices from the very start. At various stages of his employment he enjoyed his job more than he should have (judging by his initial reaction when he learned the truth he would be learning in a brothel). IMO if Edwin was a person who could dislike the club he wouldn't have accepted the job in the first place but then there would be a pre-mature game over screen.

I could see TD writing it in a plausible way though but that would require even more paths and even more time spent on a path that only a handful of gamers would appreciate (although I guess some of your suggestions could be implemented at a relatively fast rate, who knows). Sadly most of us here are total perverts (including me) so TD and GIL have to be selective on what to show.

As for Edwin not pondering about Lucy, it also doesn't surprise me. She's become a whore just for a chance for her son to be admitted to a prestigious school even though she knew that he's not even interested in it. I think it's been revealed here that she was looking for an excuse to let loose and lead a promiscuous life and there wouldn't be much to do for Edwin to change that. And any comment he could think of would feel hypocritical considering what he's doing here.

(...) No, that's nice and all, but if we want to show meaningful support for everyone's favorite trophy wife, we need to not only be on her path, but also ace her date and then turn down the threesome with Mina. In that case - and only in that case! - will the MC not only bend the rules, but offer a genuinely insightful, full-throated support of the woman, come what may. (...)

Are you sure it's the case? I'm pretty sure that Edwin had Felicia x Mina threesome but also had a hand-holding intimate moment with her where he told her to prepare herself.

 

[testers123456]

A quick answer before bed: Yes, in a roundabout way. Sophia answers our hero on the question where her "seducer side" went and she answers she only comes out when she is needed, also she talked about special training before. That are very strong hints towards mental imprints and other work done. That is Secret Service/black ops stuff. Since we also learn that Chuck and Abel really fight a shadow war, it is obviously all in.

Did it ever occur to you that it might just be down to her many faces as a woman and not to do with imprinting at all?

 

[BBC246]

did they remove the music and sounds from this game?

 

[Discrepancy]

did they remove the music and sounds from this game?

nope

 

[eomnuu]

is my game trippin? after the "delete the videos of your mother" or "search for casting video with donovan" choice, for me it says that is the end of the build. Am i fully caught up or is my game messed up?

 

[shroomify]

While loading <renpy.display.im.Image object ('gui/button/quick_idle_background.png') at 0x000000001da36a30>:
File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 671, in execute_call_screen
store._return = renpy.call_screen(name, *args, **kwargs)
File "renpy/common/00action_data.rpy", line 157, in __init__
super(LocalVariable, self).__init__(sys._getframe(1).f_locals,
AttributeError: 'ADVCharacter' object has no attribute '_getframe'

I have encountered similar error with urm. I my case it was corrected by adding an underscore before the sys._getframe changing it to _sys._getframe in the 00action_data.rpy file. So the error is caused by the bundled renpy version.

HTH

great review BTY.

 

[Discrepancy]

is my game trippin? after the "delete the videos of your mother" or "search for casting video with donovan" choice, for me it says that is the end of the build. Am i fully caught up or is my game messed up?

You probably using an outdated mod