HTML Secretary [v1.0.5.2] [Deedee]

[gregers]

sashkah,

1) Loaded a save from (in-game) Wednesday 30 November, triggered an end-of-month evaluation and payment, with some slightly confusing dialogue about whether the MC was still on probation or not (this is deep in stage 4, but before the classes/re-hiring interview have triggered). But then on the next day, there was the regular end-of-week evaluation, for which the MC obviously failed to meet standards, as it'd only been a day since the last one:

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2) The anal capstone inspection sends the MC back to work without getting dressed.

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I'll message you a save for each of these.


Edited to add:

3) If hiring Candy for her weekend event in event_barkeeper_talk_barista_2, you get two "Back to the bar" links. One of them leads to event_barkeeper_talk_barista_3 and the event being booked, the other just leads back inside The Usual Place.

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(The second "Back to the bar." link should be part of the else statement directly above it, I think.)

 

[Jack q]

Is there a walkthrough?

 

[infiniteduress]

Is there a walkthrough?

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Here's the wiki walkthrough, and there are explanations for most of the side stuff as well

 

[ffive]

Minor UI suggestion: on the Stats screen, use different header bg color for the skills which hit their max threshold (e.g. maybe grey instead of the standard orange for temporary cap, or something little more complex -- white/grey for trainable, orange for temporary cap, green for maxed out)

"It's not a bug, it's a rip-off" -- during your first appointment in the Bodyshop you're offered a nice discount since this is your first procedure. If you decline to go through with the procedure at that point, on subsequent visits you don't get the discount (or option to schedule another "first" appointment), even though it's technically still going to be your first procedure.

edit: walking around town, the list of destinations sometimes includes "You spot a familiar horse and buggy up the street..." which launches an event referring to past events the player hasn't experienced at all. It's apparently part of a chain originated by taking ridershares, which are way too costly to ever justify their use (spend ~30% of your weekly pay to shave a few minutes off your travel time? yeah, no)

 

[CarbonCMX]

stuck on level 17 feminisation " Next thresholds: Voluntary clothing purge; Forced clothing purge; Money style purge event; Obedient clothing purge. " have gone enthusiast path and purged all clothing at start of game now cant proceed any ideas would greatly appreciated

 

[sashkah]

Minor UI suggestion: on the Stats screen, use different header bg color for the skills which hit their max threshold (e.g. maybe grey instead of the standard orange for temporary cap, or something little more complex -- white/grey for trainable, orange for temporary cap, green for maxed out)

Has been fixed

"It's not a bug, it's a rip-off" -- during your first appointment in the Bodyshop you're offered a nice discount since this is your first procedure. If you decline to go through with the procedure at that point, on subsequent visits you don't get the discount (or option to schedule another "first" appointment), even though it's technically still going to be your first procedure.

The first event is purposefully unique/avoids normal rules, working as designed.

edit: walking around town, the list of destinations sometimes includes "You spot a familiar horse and buggy up the street..." which launches an event referring to past events the player hasn't experienced at all. It's apparently part of a chain originated by taking ridershares, which are way too costly to ever justify their use (spend ~30% of your weekly pay to shave a few minutes off your travel time? yeah, no)

Should be fixed on latest, otherwise I need a save

stuck on level 17 feminisation " Next thresholds: Voluntary clothing purge; Forced clothing purge; Money style purge event; Obedient clothing purge. " have gone enthusiast path and purged all clothing at start of game now cant proceed any ideas would greatly appreciated

that's as far as things go on the enthusiast path, on enthusiast "purge" happens earlier/at a different threshold, and the side effect is a slight discrepency at the high end at this point of development.

 

[ffive]

minor bug: some of sex scenes appear to get the check for anal plug backward, and print extra text about it when the PC doesn't actually have anything in their butt. Spotted in couple of Alex's scenes, (and i think some other scenes i can't exactly remember, sorry) where (one) responsible bit of code goes:

<<if $scene.plug == "">>work in concert with your anal occupant to <</if>>

 

[Zoranian]

Is there a possibility of a mod turning all/most of the male characters into Futas/shemales? I don't think it'd technically difficult although it will require some work like changing up some pronouns, maybe a bit more text in the character's descriptions but that's "it"

 

[wastelandQueen]

Affirming and positive? This game? A porn story of an unremarkable man turned (by deception or force, if he does not cooperate) into a cum and piss drenched, sex-obsessed, pink latex-clad, submissive whore with lactating tits who will not say 'no' to anyone or anything that wants a fuck including a border collie (of all dog breeds) and a pot plant? And the world they live in is as patriarchal as fuck, with those at the very top of the society clearly being males (with beards to boot), the middle management possessing phallic symbols of dominance, be these real dicks or strapons, while everyone beneath them is either female or feminized, whether they like it or not.

Are you sure about this?

Did you chat with Alex or Bob? There's flags to turn off slurs, the word "sissy" and "futanari" specifically to make this game as accessible to trans players as possible. Hell, there's a scenes to discuss your gender and where you identify on the spectrum. Like it's a porn game, you're going to have sex, and lots of fetishes, that doesn't invalidate the spots that are clearly meant to support the player. Or, just go ask Sashka if this is supposed to be affirming and positive to trans and queer players. He's generally pretty open to questions if you haven't been banned in the discord yet.

 

[gregers]

Is there a possibility of a mod turning all/most of the male characters into Futas/shemales? I don't think it'd technically difficult although it will require some work like changing up some pronouns, maybe a bit more text in the character's descriptions but that's "it"

The dev mentioned a few pages back (before one of the occasional incursions of transphobic fuckwits cluttered up the thread) that this will be an option in the coming release (v. 0.8.7), albeit mostly as text changes with minimal art support.

 

[ffive]

Did you chat with Alex or Bob? There's flags to turn off slurs, the word "sissy" and "futanari" specifically to make this game as accessible to trans players as possible. Hell, there's a scenes to discuss your gender and where you identify on the spectrum. Like it's a porn game, you're going to have sex, and lots of fetishes, that doesn't invalidate the spots that are clearly meant to support the player.

It seems to be somewhat of a mixed bag in this regard -- on one hand yes, you can have discussions with a few characters about your gender and they'll respect that. But on the other, you can have your character appear completely female down to genitals, and yet lot of NPCs will arbitrarily decide to label this characters as a sissy rather than a woman, even though #1 they have no way of knowing this character was ever any different from what they're facing and #2 women with penises appear to be fairly common in the game settings. It creates an unspoken, and perhaps unintended, impression that no matter how far the PC goes, they're still nothing but emasculated man. A message some players might take personally.

 

[sashkah]

<<if $scene.plug == "">>work in concert with your anal occupant to <</if>>

Fixed, thanks

Is there a possibility of a mod turning all/most of the male characters into Futas/shemales? I don't think it'd technically difficult although it will require some work like changing up some pronouns, maybe a bit more text in the character's descriptions but that's "it"

Is added in version 0.8.7 (currently in patreon/substar pre-release testing). It was a very non-trivial quantity of work involving thousands of touchpoints and over 27000 words added to the game just to handle pronouns/descriptions. The game is large.

It seems to be somewhat of a mixed bag in this regard -- on one hand yes, you can have discussions with a few characters about your gender and they'll respect that. But on the other, you can have your character appear completely female down to genitals, and yet lot of NPCs will arbitrarily decide to label this characters as a sissy rather than a woman, even though #1 they have no way of knowing this character was ever any different from what they're facing and #2 women with penises appear to be fairly common in the game settings. It creates an unspoken, and perhaps unintended, impression that no matter how far the PC goes, they're still nothing but emasculated man. A message some players might take personally.

The word sissy is toggleable in the options menu, it doesn't flip over automatically because I'm just not certain what the "correct" point for such to happen would be... but the options menu exists, so not a priority. Other stuff is going to be heavily dependent on your style of play, it's an open ended game and it can be empowering or insulting depending on what approach you take to different scenes.

 

[ffive]

The word sissy is toggleable in the options menu, it doesn't flip over automatically because I'm just not certain what the "correct" point for such to happen would be... but the options menu exists, so not a priority.

I'm aware of the toggle, but that's not quite what i meant -- i think it's fine if the term is used by characters who are aware of the PC past (with some caveats, but no point in getting into these) But it feels really weird when some NPC you meet for the first time, who only ever sees your character with body of a woman and female name.... can somehow magically determine that it's not a woman they're speaking with.

This aspect, per-character knowledge (or lack thereof) is what diminishes viability of universal toggle as a solution, short of purely sledgehammer preference not to see the term ever or wanting to see it always. Although i imagine the toggle is sufficient for enough players, so it's ultimately not a very big issue.

 

[tozs_]

All the female clothing seems to disappear from both inventory and wardrobe after Serena's visit on wednesday which prevents you from starting the voluntary route

 

[sashkah]

All the female clothing seems to disappear from both inventory and wardrobe after Serena's visit on wednesday which prevents you from starting the voluntary route

You can't do voluntary female until stage 2, regardless. If you mean enthusiast, that's been fixed, make sure you're on latest or upload a save.

 

[mfdoom4ever41]

Can anyone please please please reply or message me privately one of their save files. I literally had did almost everything in the game (maxed out all thresholds that you can) but never saved to local disk LOL. I cleared browsing data and lost everything like an idiot. PLEASE. I'll take whatever you can give just do not want to start from complete scratch.

 

[gregers]

Can anyone please please please reply or message me privately one of their save files. I literally had did almost everything in the game (maxed out all thresholds that you can) but never saved to local disk LOL. I cleared browsing data and lost everything like an idiot. PLEASE. I'll take whatever you can give just do not want to start from complete scratch.

You can jump ahead to later stages when starting a new game (pick the "Warp" option).

 

[ffive]

"Maybe a bug, maybe by design" -- the hoop skirt punishment scene in the office has at one stage option to Keep going. that expends willpower. After taking it the tooltip announced it costed 2 willpower... but i've had only 1 point available to begin with, so it's a bit strange the option wasn't disabled due to insufficient mental reserves (unless it's the tooltip that's wrong, ofc)

 

[ffive]

Thank you, but i feel that's a misunderstanding -- the problem wasn't character's insufficient willpower. It's that, even though they didn't have enough stocked up willpower (1 point instead of 2) they were still allowed to pick the "spend willpower to power through" option (it wasn't disabled)

 

[sashkah]

"Maybe a bug, maybe by design" -- the hoop skirt punishment scene in the office has at one stage option to Keep going. that expends willpower. After taking it the tooltip announced it costed 2 willpower... but i've had only 1 point available to begin with, so it's a bit strange the option wasn't disabled due to insufficient mental reserves (unless it's the tooltip that's wrong, ofc)

Fixed, thanks.