Ren'Py Seeds of Chaos [v0.4.08] [Vénus Noire]

[DasKapitan]

Is lvl 10 the furthest one can go ?

Level 10? Holy crap I'm only level 2 and I feel like I've already run out of stuff to do.

I captured the first castle, met my quota, turned Helayna into a cum-dumpster for my army but then inexplicably got an opportunity to help her escape. Since then I've explored the world with no clear goals (blank goals page), found Delane, turned her over to Tarish and got two disappointingly blank scenes, researched most of the things, built most of the castle upgrades, and enjoyed everything that my standard "fuck everything and be honest about it" approach offers up... Now I just wander aimlessly around the world hoping to find more random encounter scenes, like the dryad, red sorceress and sissy elf ones.

That's only 267xp worth of gameplay, so I don't know how I'm ever supposed to reach Level 10.

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My biggest gripe so far though is Rowan's internal monologue... I'm playing him as the purest, most self-interested randian objectivist that I can. At one point you get to have a fantastic conversation with Alexia where you can really take ownership of that approach, shake off the labels of 'dirt general' and 'hero' alike, and start building something for yourself. It should be a turning point.

But it's not. Rowan goes right back to moping about his guilty conscience all the damn time. It's like that conversation was meaningless.

I turn noble women into horny camp followers. I cut my strongest allies off at the knees to keep them in line, then turn around and sympathise, charm or lavish praise on my weaker allies to build them up into something useful. I indulge all of my passions and fully encourage Alexia to indulge all of hers (having her whip me was hot, I approve)... And through it all I'm doing my level best to scheme and plot against the twins and turn them on each other; because if this world is destined to have an Emperor and Empress that's gonna be me and Alexia, not those two children.

I think I'm a bit beyond having a guilty conscience over petty little things at this point.

 

[mesoru]

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Hello everyone,

So, August was a bit of a mixed month. On the work front, everything went pretty well I thought, we managed to get the final Orciad release out on time, and it was our largest monthly release to date. It also featured some great content; in fact, Rein's work on the failed escape path is some of my favourite to date. Funding wise, we went up a bit, and then back down to where we started, and then got hit by wrongly attributed fraud issues again, so that is not great. Firstly, I apologize again to all of you who have this issue, unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it, and Patreon told us they had fixed this. If any of you are still having trouble, Hentaiwriter posted some advice

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, which might help.

Soldiering on as always, the focus on this month's release will be bridging the gap between the Orciad and our start on the new Rastedel content. Rastedel is going to be our biggest narrative to date, as it serves as the conclusion of the first act of the game, which will see Rowan tasked with most tricky task yet - taking the city for his demonic masters.

As a result, we've planned to use this month in order to prepare for the start of that story arc. There's a lot of new players and locations in Rastedel, and they require assets, and we'd also like to open with a decent chunk of content for you guys. To that end, Keidi and Sommy will be spending this month, and next month, working on assets for the city. Winter will also be spending this month, and next, focusing on Rastedel content, so we can open with a decent sized introduction to that narrative as well.

What does that mean for the current month though? Don't worry, as while it probably won't be quite as large as last month, it will be a solid release as always. Winter has already written quite a bit before he moved on to Rastedel, including the continuation of Helayna's story line, and a debrief scene following the completion of the Orciad. Rein is working on a bunch of things as well, including some of the content that was featured in his Alexia poll, and Phoenix will be continuing to work on the Fey narrative (including an event with Keidi's dragon ogre sprite above). We'll also have six new CGs for you guys as usual, including the four that won the last poll, and we'll be sharing these with the backers as they arrive as always.

That's all for today. We'll be revealing the new location art, and character sprites, later in the month, to give you a taste of what to expect from the city. We'll also be doing the CG poll, probably next week, and we've started to work on questions for a kink survey, as it was requested during the last survey, and it may see the light of day later in the month, if I have time to work on it. I've also got some pretty big news to announce, which I'm hoping will be ready in a week or two.

On a personal note, the last few months have been quite difficult for me, both work wise, and in my private life, but I'm really happy with how the game is shaping up. With the monthly releases, and the new writers, things are starting to move along at a nice clip, and I'm looking forward to seeing where things are going - first Rastedel, and then the rest of the six realms. I'd like to thank you all for your support, I honestly couldn't do it without you guys, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy the game for years to come.

Yay for more monster girls!

 

[Pseudonymous Pervert]

Dammit, beaten. And by somebody who has an even better post to like ratio then I do!

 

[DasKapitan]

Well, Rowan and Greyhide's bone, to be exact, because we all know that is the true romance route!

I don't know how random those events are but the Greyhide scene seemed to happen really late in my playthrough and Rowan's reaction at that point made no goddamn sense. You practically throw your wife at Greyhide because she'll be totally DTF, and then Rowan gets all pissy with her for grinding that giant dick and loving it... I mean, by that point in my playthrough a more appropriate response would have been to try and work her/loosen her up to actually riding the thing.

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

Yay for more monster girls!

I am always up for some monster girl!:FeelsGoodMan::FeelsGoodMan::FeelsGoodMan::FeelsGoodMan:

What is she? A centaur from hell? x'Dx'D

 

[TheMagister]

She's a dragon ogre going by the text up there.

I don't know how random those events are but the Greyhide scene seemed to happen really late in my playthrough and Rowan's reaction at that point made no goddamn sense. You practically throw your wife at Greyhide because she'll be totally DTF, and then Rowan gets all pissy with her for grinding that giant dick and loving it... I mean, by that point in my playthrough a more appropriate response would have been to try and work her/loosen her up to actually riding the thing.

I feel like this is definitely an issue with the random events system and I hope it will just even itself out the longer they work on the game and the more they can lock certain events behind a certain amount of time or other events.

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

Lol...I totally missed that part. Anyway, bring on the dragoness ogre! x'D:FeelsGoodMan::FeelsGoodMan:

 

[T51bwinterized]

Lol...I totally missed that part. Anyway, bring on the dragoness ogre! x'D:FeelsGoodMan::FeelsGoodMan:

Dragon Ogress, but close enough XD

 

[TheSexinati]

By god, there's an alien/centaury thingo...

It's on my hit-list!

I don't know how random those events are but the Greyhide scene seemed to happen really late in my playthrough and Rowan's reaction at that point made no goddamn sense. You practically throw your wife at Greyhide because she'll be totally DTF, and then Rowan gets all pissy with her for grinding that giant dick and loving it... I mean, by that point in my playthrough a more appropriate response would have been to try and work her/loosen her up to actually riding the thing.

If you're talking about the 'lettuce dinner scene', I mainly go the male x male route, which avoids that scene.

I think I get what you mean, though, and I partially agree.

 

[Rein]

But would this really happen?

After all, is it not true that Alexia has but three holes with which to fuck?

If I were a demon or an orc, a wolfyius-maximus or a minotaur, so willing and able, so ready for the fucking... but was dismayed to find, her holes were all but filled? Andras here, Greyhide there, and a Orc between her face... oh, how cruel... the bitter realities of life in a demon army, when fucks are all but filled!

And there on the side, a crying Rowan... Would you really leave that ass or mouth unblemished? Your dick is solidly hard, it seems as though it would burst through the seams... you find you have but two choices... to fuck... or to be that one dude in a demon army with an awkward boner!

Would you be castigated, by your friends and compatriots, for an awkward demon-monster-boner?

Not I, I say, Not I!

Face it. Rowan has a fine ass, and that face is oh-so-fuckable! Fine asses should be used, not left aside or squandered, and so I say, let the asses fly forth in every direction, to hell with the consequences!

And so I would fuck Rowan. Not once, not twice, but perhaps three times over, if not more. From here to there, I come as I please, and leave it all messy!

Let this be placed, upon my epitaph:
I shall never abide, to an ass left aside!

And Rowans ass, may yet be useful.

Edit: I also doubt that Greyhide would stand for that stuff, at least not based on his characterization.

Everyone who read this has had their life enriched. Poetry indeed, TheSexinati.

Is lvl 10 the furthest one can go ?

Probably. The game doesn’t give you nearly enough exp to get to level 10, and I don’t know what the arbitrary level cap is.

turned her over to Tarish and got two disappointingly blank scenes

The scene is first written, then a description of it is sent to the artist. Because the game updates every month, this means new scenes always start blank, and usually get Cgs later on. I believe all of the Orciad endgame sex scenes will receive Cgs in the upcoming months (next one even? I’m not certain).

My biggest gripe so far though is Rowan's internal monologue... I'm playing him as the purest, most self-interested randian objectivist that I can. At one point you get to have a fantastic conversation with Alexia where you can really take ownership of that approach, shake off the labels of 'dirt general' and 'hero' alike, and start building something for yourself. It should be a turning point.

But it's not. Rowan goes right back to moping about his guilty conscience all the damn time. It's like that conversation was meaningless.

I turn noble women into horny camp followers. I cut my strongest allies off at the knees to keep them in line, then turn around and sympathise, charm or lavish praise on my weaker allies to build them up into something useful. I indulge all of my passions and fully encourage Alexia to indulge all of hers (having her whip me was hot, I approve)... And through it all I'm doing my level best to scheme and plot against the twins and turn them on each other; because if this world is destined to have an Emperor and Empress that's gonna be me and Alexia, not those two children.

I think I'm a bit beyond having a guilty conscience over petty little things at this point.

Making Rowan’s outlook and philosophy be both believable and naturally evolve over the course of the game has been a personal crusade of mine. It’s been… Challenging work.

The point is, while you can play Rowan as a selfish bastard, he does not start the game as one. He’s a hero who literally helped save the world. Much of that persona is still present at the start of the game, and remains present through most of Rosaria. As the game progresses, you will see it disintegrate – though it is still a bit too early to remove them from the equation here.

If you went Tarish route, you are literally deceiving an innocent woman to have her mindbroken into an orc cum dumbster. Not exactly something that can be justified easily.

I don't know how random those events are but the Greyhide scene seemed to happen really late in my playthrough and Rowan's reaction at that point made no goddamn sense. You practically throw your wife at Greyhide because she'll be totally DTF, and then Rowan gets all pissy with her for grinding that giant dick and loving it... I mean, by that point in my playthrough a more appropriate response would have been to try and work her/loosen her up to actually riding the thing.

*scribbles down*

I feel like this is definitely an issue with the random events system and I hope it will just even itself out the longer they work on the game and the more they can lock certain events behind a certain amount of time or other events.

The event mechanic is being looked upon to give the player a bit more control over what and with who triggers every week.

 

[T51bwinterized]

Also, Fountainhead has not been written in this setting.

 

[nio12]

Any save?

 

[TheMagister]

Is there any other event other than Indarah x Jak that changes depending on Alexia's corruption?

I'd also advise you guys to maybe tell players of stat changes. I can understand why you don't show influence or corruption changes, but losing 3 Intelligence because I got poisoned was a bit of a surprise, as that's not really the stat I associate with poison.

I'd also like to ask to not lock certain scenes behind a low corruption. I for instance triggered introducing Greyhide to Alexia and the following dinner scene very late in my run, but that also meant it was impossible for me to get the second scene where he hotdogs them. So either give those scenes a high encounter rate at the start or just remove those conditions altogether. I know you stated there was going to be a system that would give players more agency in the events, so if that solves it, all the better.

 

[FFollower95]

Is there any other event other than Indarah x Jak that changes depending on Alexia's corruption?

Rowan x Alexia x (Elven secretary, forgot her name). There's no CG though, text-only scene.

 

[DasKapitan]

Also, Fountainhead has not been written in this setting.

Good. It's crap... Which means my character can still write it.

 

[TheSexinati]

Everyone who read this has had their life enriched. Poetry indeed, TheSexinati.

Balderdash.

My words are not so elegant,
Truly, a farce most Rabelaisian,
Conjured forth, from many parts,
Of the ass-ends of a hundred arts.

And of Chaucer too, who's voice,
Echoes through eternity, I hold at poise,
Or of Guerin, who could make cunts speak,
(Which is literally the title, take a peek,)
who I wield as a weapon most obscene,
But it is Catullus thus, who you should fear,
He will face-fuck you, this is not in jest,
So please, don't put it to the test!

These are the people who should be araised,
Put on a pedestal and rightly appraised,
Not horned goat-men, with Illuminati-inspired avatar names,
Who lasciviously plays sex-filled games.

 

[FlipFish]

So when are we going to get this route with Andras?

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[TheSexinati]

So when are we going to get this route with Andras?

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Hopefully sometime very soon!

 

[Rein]

I'd also advise you guys to maybe tell players of stat changes. I can understand why you don't show influence or corruption changes, but losing 3 Intelligence because I got poisoned was a bit of a surprise, as that's not really the stat I associate with poison.

I'll make sure wounds and injuries are properly communicated to the player once the skill rework is in.

I'd also like to ask to not lock certain scenes behind a low corruption.

Oh we will.

A fall to darkness has no weight if the player is not given the option to avoid it. You do not have to kill the elder. You do not have to leave Delane to the orcs. There are consequences for resistance, but resisting is an option. And standing firm agaisnt the darkness comes with its own rewards, available for those who pursue that route.

At the same time, Lord Arioch is always checking the variables to make sure the scene requirement is not *too* harsh for the players.

So when are we going to get this route with Andras?

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At some point, but the groundwork for it has not yet been laid.
If I don't get the option to TF Andras into a submissive little slave for Rowan I riot.

 

[TheMagister]

I understand your reaction to low corruption, but I think if you consider the rest of my post there is some merit to it.