Ren'Py What a Legend! [v0.7.03] [MagicNuts]

[Ranma]

Homer's Iliad is one of the oldest known works of Western literature & was written between 1260 - 1180 BC.
There was only Medusa, in The Iliad.
It wasn't until 700 BC that the more modern depiction of there being 3 gorgon sisters, Stheno, Eurylae & Medusa.
Her two sisters are immortal, Medusa is the only mortal of the 3 Gorgon sisters.
At this point they also changed to be sea monsters, the off-spring of sea deities, Keto & Phorcys.
Up to this point, they had boar tusks, wings, scaled skin and huge claws. They had also been depicted as lionesses & sphinx.
It wasn't until the Roman retelling of the stories, by Ovid, around 8 AD that they got snakes for hair.

As you say, lots of changes made over time!!

If you want to get it on, with a Gorgon, then Sorcerer is your game!

There's, sadly, a bit of an obvious problem with this girl, which kinda conflicts with most of our pervy intentions.
I can go with wings, horns, purple skin, any of that.
But how do you fuck a girl who's a snake from the waist down?

It's like the old thing with mermaids & which half should be fish!

Oh, friend. But that was never an issue for me.
Like I said, I'm attracted to Snake-Women, NOT Women-Snakes.
I'd take the upper-half human female + bottom-half mythological creature any day, every day!

And while I see the point of your conundrum, to me it's all very simple.
Let me put it this way:

I can easily feel attracted to this

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But definitely NOT this

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To me, the same logic applies to Snake-Women and all other monster-girls out there.

So, tell me whichone you prefer?

 

[Dragon59]

Fun fact: Medusa was the youngest of three Gorgon sisters and the whole "turns anyone who sees her face to stone" thing was actually a curse. The elder two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, could use this power or not at will, so Perseus's "trick her into looking at her own reflection" trick wouldn't have worked. (The two elder sisters were also immortal and couldn't be killed no matter what, also.)

The way I remember it is the Perseus used the reflection in his shield to see her and guide his sword. It was her direct gaze that would have turned him into stone. After all, if her reflected gaze turned her into stone, it would have been rather difficult to behead her with a sword. A chisel would have been more useful.

 

[Viressa]

Not kinkshaming here, whatever floats your boat. There's a certain threshold where you stop fucking a human with monstrous features and start fucking an animal that has some humanoid features. That line is subjective, but for me? Horns? Great. Tails? Nice. Animal ears? Adorable. Fangs? I dig it. Claws? I can work with it, especially if they're retractable. But when you get to the territory of a full-on canine head, or boobs with fur or scales on them, or multiple teats, or a full-on animal lower half with an animal vagina to match, that's when I've gotta nope out.

That said, as for snake-hair:

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The way I remember it is the Perseus used the reflection in his shield to see her and guide his sword. It was her direct gaze that would have turned him into stone. After all, if her reflected gaze turned her into stone, it would have been rather difficult to behead her with a sword. A chisel would have been more useful.

There's multiple versions of the story and that's one version, yes.

What a fun game. I guess the question is would you fool around with Celestina with the glasses on? I guess the MC was saved by her back going out mid kiss, lol. This game is 10/10.

Go back to her house after that scene, you can absolutely fuck her with the glasses on in this version of the game. Personally I don't think I'd do it in real life but in a porn game? Sure. (Real Celestina's age is less of a problem to me than her horrible personality.) Dear Celestina is the best girl in this game in pure terms of appearance.

 

[SuddenReal]

It was her direct gaze that would have turned him into stone.

Again, not her gaze, but looking at her turned people into stone. She could look all she wanted. That's why the shield worked, because it was a bad mirror. He could see a reflection, but not a sharp one.

 

[hentai charley]

As I wrote above, not until 700BC, when Hesiod wrote the other 2 in.

Medusa was the only one in The Iliad, 4-550 years earlier.
It was Ovid's retelling where she was turned into a Gorgon after Poseidon fucked/raped her in Minerva (Athena)'s temple.
The Goddess cursed her & turned her hair to snakes (she never had these before Ovid) & neither of her sisters had snakes for hair.
Only Medusa was cursed & the curse was not about making them turn people to stone, it was just her hair being turned to snakes.
Specifically because her blonde hair is what made Poseidon want her, so that's how Athena punished her, by turning it to snakes.
She was pregnant by Poseidon at the time of Perseus beheading her.
When he did, Pegasus & Chrysaor were born from her body.

Are you familiar with the theory that the Gorgon (here I mean what we would call the meme of the snake-haired head) originated as octopuses used as tribal totems? The give-away clue is that in Classical images, besides the snake-hair (tentacles), the tongue is always sticking out. Why? Well, it's actually the animals siphon.

Also, the much later "Gookie Face" (puffed-out cheeks with tongue sticking out- Harpo Marx is probably most noted for it) evolved from the Gorgon.

 

[whichone]

Are you familiar with the theory that the Gorgon (here I mean what we would call the meme of the snake-haired head) originated as octopuses used as tribal totems? The give-away clue is that in Classical images, besides the snake-hair (tentacles), the tongue is always sticking out. Why? Well, it's actually the animals siphon.

Also, the much later "Gookie Face" (puffed out cheeks with tongue sticking out) evolved from the Gorgon.

Yeah, as I said, her being portrayed as a sea monster didn't happen until around Hesiod's time. She was written as the daughter of Ceto/Keto & Phorcys (sister & brother for some sea-god incest!).
The three old women who share one eye & one tooth between them (Perseus stole the eye and forced them to give him the location of the items needed to kill Medusa), the Graeae, are also daughters of Ceto & Phorcys & sisters to the Gorgons.

Her 2 Gorgon sisters did not appear until Hesiod's Theogony (700BC) retelling, 400+ years after Homer wrote The Iliad. Neither of her sisters had snakes for hair.
Only Medusa had snakes for hair & this did not happen until Ovid's Metamorphoses retelling, around 7AD. Over 1,100 years later than Homer.
She was the only one cursed by Athena (or Minerva, as Ovid was Roman).
The curse was her hair being turned from beautiful, flowing locks of blonde, to snakes. This was done as punishment for Poseidon fucking/raping Medusa in one of Athena's temples. Because her hair is what most attracted him.

Ovid's version is one of the first where Medusa was originally a beautiful woman, instead of a monster.
Other writers had begun describing her as beautiful (as well as monstrous!) from around 500BC. Pindar described her as "fair-cheeked".
Up to this point, they'd had boar tusks, wings, scaled skin and huge claws. They had also been depicted as lionesses & sphinx, as well as being sea monsters, as you rightly say.

Again, not her gaze, but looking at her turned people into stone. She could look all she wanted. That's why the shield worked, because it was a bad mirror. He could see a reflection, but not a sharp one.

Yup, precisely.
She didn't turn people to stone by looking at them.
If you looked into her eyes/met her gaze, then you would be turned.
Which is why the shield works, because Perseus never looked INTO her eyes.
He only looked AT a reflection of them.

So, tell me whichone you prefer?

lol that's kinda why I posted the Ricky Gervais clip.
The question is not "which one do I prefer?", it's "which one can I fuck?".
I can see the argument for human bottom half, but who wants to look at a fish face while you're fucking mer-pussy?
There are other things you can do, if the top half is human...

"She's half fish! Don't get me wrong, of all the fishy things in the sea, she's the best. The breasts alone take her ahead of the turbot, the mackerel, but I'm not just gonna shag her for the halibut!"
I'll get my coat...

If you want to get it on with a Gorgon, then Sorcerer is your game!

 

[dkatryl]

All this talk of gorgons and medusas...

...you know magicnuts might just run with it and put in something that stares at MC's dick and turns it to stone!

 

[PePeTheCoCk]

Just finished playing through What a Legend... in one sitting. People talked about it so much, I thought it was more finished. The art and humor is so good I'm looking forward to more, but as wegs go it'll probably stretch on for years and never finish, especially with this much polish

 

[kratoscar2008]

Just finished playing through What a Legend... in one sitting. People talked about it so much, I thought it was more finished. The art and humor is so good I'm looking forward to more, but as wegs go it'll probably stretch on for years and never finish, especially with this much polish

Man almost all your posts are about update frequency or pessimism about a game, your avatar its probably an spitting image of your expression.
Maybe should play japanese games, this amount of depression cant be healthy.

 

[PePeTheCoCk]

Your avatar its probably an spitting image of your expression.

 

[SuddenReal]

The art and humor is so good I'm looking forward to more, but as wegs go it'll probably stretch on for years and never finish, especially with this much polish

Yes, but if it hadn't this much polish, the humor and art wouldn't have been so good. What's that old saying? "You can have it fast and cheap, cheap and good or good and fast, but not all three". This is cheap and good, so it won't be done fast.

 

[sexypeanut]

All this talk of gorgons and medusas...

...you know magicnuts might just run with it and put in something that stares at MC's dick and turns it to stone!

Well, she probably only likes dicks hard as rocks!

 

[whichone]

What's that old saying? "You can have it fast and cheap, cheap and good or good and fast, but not all three". This is cheap and good, so it won't be done fast.

 

[reees754]

Hey guys, i just finished the update and it was again charming, amazing and funny and allaround amusing as expected

It took me around 10 hours to finish it, as i wasn´t in a hurry at all to finish this gem as soon as possible. Often i would just stand there and enjoy the sights like on the marketplace .... the castle in the far back..... The feel of this game reminds me a bit of World of Warcraft, i would often just stand around in WoW too, enjoying the evironment.

Although i´m a very fast reader and can read every sentence in a split second, i instead red the sentences in the tempo and manner the characters would speak. I even gave each of them their own voices in my head (the old king is charming new character, i want to grab his beard). I even noticed the changes in the facial expressions every time a sentence would change as often it would add to the feel of the scene. I wouldn´t do that for any other game, but this one was worth it and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Am i the only one doing this as some are finishing in 3 hours?

Anyway, there was talk that some parts of the 0.5 update should have been cut because it was too dark or too long or whatever and i really don´t get that at all. The eye-thing? That was nothing i would complain about really, i indeed love the update the way it is, i wouldn´t have cut anything. It´s perfect as it is.

There´ll always be different opinions, everybody wants this or that, more of this, less of that. While the developer should listen to the players for input, in this case i would advise the dev to mainly

FOLLOW HIS OWN INSTINCT!

Up to now the game is brilliantly presented and for myself, i trust this dev with the choices he´ll make!

 

[whichone]

Anyway, there was talk that some parts of the 0.5 update should have been cut because it was too dark or too long or whatever and i really don´t get that at all. The eye-thing? That was nothing i would complain about really, i indeed love the update the way it is, i wouldn´t have cut anything. It´s perfect as it is.

100% agree. Thought the scenes were absolutely perfect, for the story that they told & that they fitted in with the overall feel, because that's where the story took us.

There´ll always be different opinions, everybody wants this or that, more of this, less of that. While the developer should listen to the players for input, in this case i would advise the dev to mainly

FOLLOW HIS OWN INSTINCT!

Up to now the game is brilliantly presented and for myself, i trust this dev with the choices he´ll make!

Double agree.
Can please some of the people, some of the time. Not all of the people, all of the time & all that.
This dev has not once failed to please me with this game.

 

[Evil13]

Anyway, looks like the planning for Rose's content is almost done.

Yep, lots of fun waiting for Rose.

 

[hrimthyrs]

...instead of the people, because that would take too long and become a popularity contest like in the States instead of just electing on competence).

You'll be happy to learn that's not actually how PotUS is elected. Instead, we have this enlightened and totally rational system where the states are allocated Electors equal in number to their Congressional representation (Representatives + Senators) that creates a 7:2 ratio in number of people per Elector between California and Wyoming because fuck equal representation with a bus. What voters really vote for is the slate of Electors in their state (plus DC, which doesn't get a voting representative in Congress, but does get three Electors as if it were a state) who pinky-swore to vote for a given party's useless fuckwit of a candidate. Except faithless electors happen all the time, because the entire goal the Foundin' Daddies had with the Electoral College was to provide a mechanism to overrule the will of the people if it ever conflicted with the will of the ruling class. Oh, sorry, I meant to say "elect on competence instead of a popularity contest".

As I type this, it occurs to me that it's no wonder I read Serena's petulant foot stamping about how it's her right to be queen, shrugged, and said "sounds legit".

 

[johnelros]

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Hi everybody.
We've finished the planning of 0.6 and have already begun creating artworks and coding the base structure of the events.
The next update will focus on Rose and will have three quests, two antagonists, two think quests, three new locations, and six sex scenes involving vaginal sex, blowjob, cunnilingus, toying, fingering, anal sex, and a threesome. We do think that our sex scenes could have a bit more complexity, and hence in 0.6, five out of six scenes will allow you to change from one act to another (similar to Serena's scene in the tent where you could switch from sucking her nipple to titfucking). This added complexity may prove to be too time-consuming to develop, and we may adjust our plans as we go along, but at this stage, we rather err on the side of ambition. Still, we want 0.6 to be a sex-heavy update, and we estimate the amount of content to be somewhat similar to Myrtle's story.
Additionally, if you're a Best Friend patron, head over to this

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and choose what characters you would like to have their hidden photos taken in 0.6.
Lastly, starting next week, we will resume posting spoiler images and art creation videos, something we couldn't do in the final stages of 0.5 for obvious reasons. So if you're interested, stay tuned.

That's all, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Cheers

 

[sexypeanut]

to be a sex-heavy update

Now that's what I like to hear!

 

[Horker14]

Enjoyed it a lot. The art style is just amazing. Real eye candy.