VN Ren'Py The Survival of Sarah Rose [v0.5.9.9] [HappyDaedalus]

[HappyDaedalus]

someone mentioned in the thread previously that the gallery is known to be bugged and currently unavailable. (
i think they also mentioned the dev is working on it, though??

Yeah, it's currently non-functional, but I am currently working on getting it functional, and I can report that I've made some good progress in fixing some of the problems and getting an understanding for where I went wrong.

Rigging up the whole thing is still a lot of actual grindwork though, so it's also about me finding the time for it in between writing/producing the rest of the game. I think a good gallery is important and valuable to players, but I also have expanding the content as my #1 priority, so it's all about finding the time to really dig in and fix it.

My best hope right now is that I can manage to get it decently functional and complete in 1-2 updates.

 

[Kerilos]

Is the failed Mage summon route going to be a dead end?

 

[HappyDaedalus]

Is the failed Mage summon route going to be a dead end?

Won't be an entirely dead end, as in it will receive an update in the future exploring the scenario a bit more in-depth, but it isn't planned to go on for as long as a 'real' route, more like a smaller, hopefully interesting side-branch.

 

[erosthe69knight]

where do i find jaeid, old soldier and nobody paths? I didn't find it, I think I'm missing some point in the game

 

[LowLevelLesser]

where do i find jaeid, old soldier and nobody paths? I didn't find it, I think I'm missing some point in the game

The nobody path is going along with the adventurers but stopping off at a town instead of travelling further with them.

Edit: I guess this is the village/farm girl path.

 

[Larklin]

where do i find jaeid, old soldier and nobody paths? I didn't find it, I think I'm missing some point in the game

When you are brought before the Khan, you need to lie to him. Then you'll go on the Jaeid path. If you kill Jaeid when he comes as an ambassador to Rosanna, then you get the other paths when you lie to the Khan. Which one you get depends on your choice, when you're sent to be auctioned.

 

[Kerilos]

Played through a bunch of the storylines and I really enjoy this game.

Some things I wonder about though

Will the slave route have a way back to Rosalia through Karem (the new Governor)? Just thought it could be a intresting way for the slave route and princess routes characters to intersect.

If you dont fall for the demon (mage failed summon route), could there be any future interactions with it? Bargains for power, succesfull summoning into real world, accidental redo of the BIG THING. Found the current interaction with it great and am intrested in more if possible.

 

[erosthe69knight]

the paths hassar, jaeid and old soldier I already found, but where do I find the path nobody? i'm lost where to find this path
the adventurers mentioned above to enter the nobody path are sigmund and his companions? if so, what choice do you make to follow the nobody path?

 

[Larklin]

the paths hassar, jaeid and old soldier I already found, but where do I find the path nobody? i'm lost where to find this path
the adventurers mentioned above to enter the nobody path are sigmund and his companions? if so, what choice do you make to follow the nobody path?

The adventurer path wasn't updated in the last version as far as I know. I'm pretty sure the nobody path is

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At least that's the fourth path in the update.

 

[BadmanBaxter]

What about the android update?

 

[almalexie]

I'm going to start a flamewar with this, but game needs the #ai_cg tag after 0.1.9 update. The backgrounds in the new content are AI generated. Not sure whether these are final or placeholder but they are.

 

[Anczej]

Excuse me, could someone tell me how many paths are there and how do I land on each? My first attempt with choices made according to logic, not aiming to score anyone in particular, made me go down Varga's route (I haven't finished it yet, but given the early state of the game, I don't expect much more after the marriage scene. Hope I'm wrong though) and honestly I just can't force myself to make choices I consider stupid, even in female protag games, so I'd like to aim for the dark-skinned lesbian next and later maybe the orc (and perhaps there's someone else that I'd be interested in and just haven't met them yet), not really interested in becoming Hassar's concubine or whatever, but we'll see about that. I just can't really think of a way to find these two characters given what I've seen so far, so I decided to ask here. Thanks in advance!

 

[Larklin]

Excuse me, could someone tell me how many paths are there and how do I land on each? My first attempt with choices made according to logic, not aiming to score anyone in particular, made me go down Varga's route (I haven't finished it yet, but given the early state of the game, I don't expect much more after the marriage scene. Hope I'm wrong though) and honestly I just can't force myself to make choices I consider stupid, even in female protag games, so I'd like to aim for the dark-skinned lesbian next and later maybe the orc (and perhaps there's someone else that I'd be interested in and just haven't met them yet), not really interested in becoming Hassar's concubine or whatever, but we'll see about that. I just can't really think of a way to find these two characters given what I've seen so far, so I decided to ask here. Thanks in advance!

The best way to enjoy this game is to try different routes and see what you find. If you really dislike where the route is going, restart or load, and make a different choice. Some choices lead to surprising results. For example, the dark-skinned lesbian is a part of two main routes, and both of those main routes have a lot of different content to explore, and different scenes with her. If you're looking for that character, then one thing you have to do is go with Kate when she wants you to leave. There are also other choices you have to make, but I would really encourage exploring those choices. Some choices don't have content yet, but a lot of them do.

 

[Anczej]

The best way to enjoy this game is to try different routes and see what you find. If you really dislike where the route is going, restart or load, and make a different choice. Some choices lead to surprising results. For example, the dark-skinned lesbian is a part of two main routes, and both of those main routes have a lot of different content to explore, and different scenes with her. If you're looking for that character, then one thing you have to do is go with Kate when she wants you to leave. There are also other choices you have to make, but I would really encourage exploring those choices. Some choices don't have content yet, but a lot of them do.

I understand where you're coming from. And sorry for going offtopic and in case it sounds arrogant, out of place or something like that, but the tropes I enjoy the most are rather rare, so to not run out of porn games I consider great I throw in a lot of variety inbetween. I picked up this game because an acquaintance suggested it, by myself I don't have that much interest, especially that it seems like going down different paths requires you to make idiotic and/or rash decisions. In some female protag games it's done how I mostly tolerate it, how the girl willingly goes down such path, Dilmur off the top of my head, but most, like Karryn's Prison or Fleeting Iris, require you to just be stupid and, if I was to play for the sake of exploring the plot, that's just extremely immersion-breaking to me. So anyway, that's why I kinda can't force myself to make choices I consider bad and see where it leads, so my main idea to keep myself playing is to pursue specific romantic or sexual interests now. And the chocolate beauty is indeed hot + lesbian games are just rare in my experience, while the Orc seems wholesome from literally the one image of him I have seen.

Sooo. Right. Thanks for the info about the dark skinned lady, could you point me towards the Orc as well? And yknow, anal has to be my favourite fetish (unless teen is also a fetish??), so could you tell me in which paths do I find it and how do I get to them? That might as well be my reason to pursue specific paths xD I'm dead serious by the way, I have no interest in seeing Sarah get raped or become a concubine due to my stupid choices (I suppose I play female protag porn games as more so a guardian angel? If you get what I mean), but if sex scenes are hot, I might just have to see them by myself. Thanks again, I mean no offence, but I'm not exactly the target audience of this game anyway, so my approach is a bit weird.

 

[BadmanBaxter]

I understand where you're coming from. And sorry for going offtopic and in case it sounds arrogant, out of place or something like that, but the tropes I enjoy the most are rather rare, so to not run out of porn games I consider great I throw in a lot of variety inbetween. I picked up this game because an acquaintance suggested it, by myself I don't have that much interest, especially that it seems like going down different paths requires you to make idiotic and/or rash decisions. In some female protag games it's done how I mostly tolerate it, how the girl willingly goes down such path, Dilmur off the top of my head, but most, like Karryn's Prison or Fleeting Iris, require you to just be stupid and, if I was to play for the sake of exploring the plot, that's just extremely immersion-breaking to me. So anyway, that's why I kinda can't force myself to make choices I consider bad and see where it leads, so my main idea to keep myself playing is to pursue specific romantic or sexual interests now. And the chocolate beauty is indeed hot + lesbian games are just rare in my experience, while the Orc seems wholesome from literally the one image of him I have seen.

Sooo. Right. Thanks for the info about the dark skinned lady, could you point me towards the Orc as well? And yknow, anal has to be my favourite fetish (unless teen is also a fetish??), so could you tell me in which paths do I find it and how do I get to them? That might as well be my reason to pursue specific paths xD I'm dead serious by the way, I have no interest in seeing Sarah get raped or become a concubine due to my stupid choices (I suppose I play female protag porn games as more so a guardian angel? If you get what I mean), but if sex scenes are hot, I might just have to see them by myself. Thanks again, I mean no offence, but I'm not exactly the target audience of this game anyway, so my approach is a bit weird.

Its the same. You need to go with Kate and she will take you to a place where you will spend some time. Eventually a decision needs to be made about staying there or leaving on your own. Stay there if you want the orc it will be easy to navigate yourself to that path from there. If the woman I'm thinking of is correct you need to leave the place and go on your own and from there I'm not 100% sure how to get to her but that is the start.

 

[Anczej]

Its the same. You need to go with Kate and she will take you to a place where you will spend some time. Eventually a decision needs to be made about staying there or leaving on your own. Stay there if you want the orc it will be easy to navigate yourself to that path from there. If the woman I'm thinking of is correct you need to leave the place and go on your own and from there I'm not 100% sure how to get to her but that is the start.

I see. And I'm a bit irritated. I can somewhat justify being more... cautious of nobles as well as aware of the possibility of attrition war of burning the countryside down by Hassar's forces and because of that, not allowing the army to rally in the capital, but having Sarah leave Thomas by himself when there's clearly in great danger at court, for no good reason other than cryptic messages from Kate (admittedly I was already extremely paranoid seeing her be all that "friendly" and not being honest from the start), it's hard to justify. Extremely hard in fact, I guess I'll just turn a blind eye and somehow modify the plot to make it seem like Sarah didn't have a choice in that matter or something, because honestly what kind of logic would make someone ignore all their responsibilities and follow a former friend that so far wasn't honest with you?

Thanks for the information, I guess I'll take a few days to apply some mental gymnastics and go through with such choices.

 

[damnedfrog]

I see. And I'm a bit irritated. I can somewhat justify being more... cautious of nobles as well as aware of the possibility of attrition war of burning the countryside down by Hassar's forces and because of that, not allowing the army to rally in the capital, but having Sarah leave Thomas by himself when there's clearly in great danger at court, for no good reason other than cryptic messages from Kate (admittedly I was already extremely paranoid seeing her be all that "friendly" and not being honest from the start), it's hard to justify. Extremely hard in fact, I guess I'll just turn a blind eye and somehow modify the plot to make it seem like Sarah didn't have a choice in that matter or something, because honestly what kind of logic would make someone ignore all their responsibilities and follow a former friend that so far wasn't honest with you?

Thanks for the information, I guess I'll take a few days to apply some mental gymnastics and go through with such choices.

I understand why you are reluctant to follow Kate.
How I personally "rationalized" it:

1. The king was just murdered. Sarah is in shock. And she as reasons to think she is in danger, because who kills the king may want to kill her also.
2. After having learned why Kate disappear when they where young, she fill guilty.
3. She's happy to see again her long lost friend. And don't want to lost her again.

I agree that this is not totally logical
For example, if she fear for her life, she should fear for the life of her brother and want to protect him instead of abandon it.
Or, if Kate was forced to leave when they where young, it's not Sarah fault.
But people rarely act only by logic. Emotions and feelings drive a lot of our actions.
When you fear for your live, you often make questionable choices.
It's also common to feel guilt for something that not your fault. Like the survivor guilt, people who survived an accident, attack.. and feel guilty that they survived when other died.
So, it's how I explain that Sarah could make choices that don't seems rational.

And unfortunately, as far as I know, if you want to meet the dark girl (Samayra), you must escape with Kate.
You can cross her path on the warrior or mage route.

For the Orc, it's also on the warrior route. But beware that it's a dead end for now. I don't know if HappyDaedalus will change that and expand this route on day.

 

[Anczej]

I understand why you are reluctant to follow Kate.
How I personally "rationalized" it:

1. The king was just murdered. Sarah is in shock. And she as reasons to think she is in danger, because who kills the king may want to kill her also.
2. After having learned why Kate disappear when they where young, she fill guilty.
3. She's happy to see again her long lost friend. And don't want to lost her again.

I agree that this is not totally logical
For example, if she fear for her life, she should fear for the life of her brother and want to protect him instead of abandon it.
Or, if Kate was forced to leave when they where young, it's not Sarah fault.
But people rarely act only by logic. Emotions and feelings drive a lot of our actions.
When you fear for your live, you often make questionable choices.
It's also common to feel guilt for something that not your fault. Like the survivor guilt, people who survived an accident, attack.. and feel guilty that they survived when other died.
So, it's how I explain that Sarah could make choices that don't seems rational.

And unfortunately, as far as I know, if you want to meet the dark girl (Samayra), you must escape with Kate.
You can cross her path on the warrior or mage route.

For the Orc, it's also on the warrior route. But beware that it's a dead end for now. I don't know if HappyDaedalus will change that and expand this route on day.

Ugh. I mean, I truly appreciate what you're trying to do. But it's a major conflict of my personality and what path the plot went down. I am far too responsible and dutiful to just... run away from everything with a reason as selfish as "I might die". Especially that if someone wanted Sarah or Thomas dead, they'd be dead by now. Guilt, I understand, but well admittedly the game had a little too little of the backstory for me to care about Kate (really, maybe if there was some childhood memories first, but a random ass woman comes into the game, claiming to be Sarah's best friend when me, the guy behind the PC, feels no connection to her) and even then, it would never be a guilt capable of outweighting the guilt of abandoning Thomas in the time of his greatest need.

I don't even know what warrior and mage routes are. As for the orc, oh well, it's at an early stage of development, so I expect it to be expanded upon as long as people pick up interest. Actually, do you maybe know what the game focuses on as of now? Are the "true love" and otherwise "trying to genuinely survive" paths fleshed out, or is it mainly "act stupid, become a whore/concubine/get raped, get corrupted/depraved, tada"? Oh, and any clue about the anal part? Heh.

I've had only like an hour to think, but I think I'll just ignore the plot the dev offered and say Sarah was forced to. I'd bet Thomas will be mentioned and all that, but at least some mental gymnastics of Kate being extremely assertive rather than backing off so easily should do the job, as if the choice wasn't offered and even though Sarah resisted, she couldn't do so for long. And if it turns out Sarah just agrees and feels no guilt whatsoever, then I guess I'll try some more mental gymnastics. Or drop the game, my patience has its limits and there are far too many "dumb female protag" games for me to invest more time into them than I already did. ...Did that sound like an edgy threat? I hope not, I just understand I'm not the target audience, so I'll back off if that's not my cup of tea.

 

[Joe Steel]

I don't understand why one would drop the game entirely if a given route offends their suspension of disbelief. If you don't like a route, for whatever reason, just take another. The game has many routes to choose from.

 

[Anczej]

I don't understand why one would drop the game entirely if a given route offends their suspension of disbelief. If you don't like a route, for whatever reason, just take another. The game has many routes to choose from.

Oh, but of course. And that's why I still have hopes for other paths, I just hope they're fleshed out enough and that's basically my worry. Anyway, I also came here with a... wish I suppose? PLEASE for the love of all that's holy let me lie to Marlon and kill him after he lets Thomas go. I have ZERO mercy for traitors, especially for a rebellion as unjust as this one, and if his word of swearing loyalty meant nothing, then so does my word of offering him mercy. Seriously, call me whatever you want, I crave bloodshed.

EDIT: I could use a guide sometimes. Like, I've been loading saves at any decision that came up and some seem to not matter for now, for example what we do to Lily, so replaying the game from every choice to lead back to the same result is kinda underwhelming. Not complaining really, more so hoping for a kind user to write a proper guide. Thanks.

EDIT: Yknow what? I'll shut up for a few days and try to explore for now. It is a bit tedious to skip to the end by changing every single little choice, even if they seem unimportant, but hey, I just got to witness a different scene if I befriend Lily and didn't romance Varga, so I guess I'll try to look for such outcomes some more.