Children of the Gods (Important poll #12306)

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Yeah. I thought it’d be a weird way to introduce Iago (ha). No doubt he would have loved it. [/quote]

The option to dance with Avery disappeared too… :crying_cat_face:

As for Aphrodite, the fact that it isn’t personal somehow makes the fact that she wants the MC dead ok? and the MC shouldn’t be so sensitive?!?!? She’s like the animal control officer who holds a homeless kitten or puppy, softly stroking them and perhaps cooing to them a bit to keep them calm, while another officer injects them with the pink stuff that kills them. It just goes to show that the MC is not a real person to her, more of a kitten or puppy that can grow up to be something really dangerous so it’s best the MC is put down young. “Nothing personal.”

I know for a fact she wouldn’t accept her own excuses if she were on the other side of that conversation. uggh… Her treatment of her own sister was atrocious, but at least Helen doesn’t have to worry about Aphrodite wanting her euthanized.

Of course that’s exactly what I’d expect from a Greek god or goddess, especially one with Aphrodite’s reputation for both selfishness and charm. She’s really not that much different from her father Zeus in that particular regard, a chip off the old block if you will. That was very well written. :thumbsup:

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Not the only one. Pretty sure my Adonis file MC is still reeling from that :))

[spoiler] I’d like to think that based on what the rest of the squad have to say about “stealing” Adonis away from them, Adonis staying away from MC might be to keep them safe :)) because look at that stat change:

“His heart beats quicker when he thinks of you. It’s a frightening experience for him.”

(At the risk of reading too much into this) Why should a crush be a scary experience? Like at first I was thinking it’s another one of those teen things but then I remembered who his mom was. And the idea of liking someone that way with Aphrodite and her brood being scary jealous would be a frightening experience for anyone – factor in his fans and the fact that 90% of Olympus is at least wary of you and welp it’s like “good job Donny” (sarcasm) :))

Also pretty sure Aphrodite is trying to play both fields just in case things go to hell. And almost fairly certain she’s actually pissed that MC and her kid are possibly a romantic thing. Like if it’s just a kiss, or dating without feelings it’s fine, but if Adonis actually admits he’s in love with you, that’s an entirely different can of worms. A big taboo can of worms. [/spoiler]

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[Spoiler]It could also be specifically because of what about love he knows through his mother who he pretty straight forward describes as “not capable of deeper feelings”. Love is her field as goddess, but her love is shallow, so does that mean every romantic love is shallow? Especially with the expirience of soneone who others may see first only as a pretty face? We even could say that true affection is something Adonis only knows from his strictly platonic relationships.

Maybe it’s also some kind of abandonment issue and general distrust agaibst his mothers domain. So to not get hurt himself the best way is to search at least in the romantic department only shallow relationships for himself…If his feelings for MC get deeper as that, that certainly could be scary…and also some kind of loss of control he is not used to…[/spoiler]

Makes any of that sense? I mean I know what I want do say…but is it for others understandable too?

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Yeah, I thought something similar but also slightly different; I wondered if Adonis is reluctant to get with the MC because his mother is Aphrodite, because Aphrodite herself will have had countless lovers and admirers who adore because her godly beauty entices them almost against their will.

Maybe since Adonis is her son, he’s freaked that the MC is attracted to him because of Aphrodite’s influence inside him as her son rather than attracted to him as a person. So he just pre-emptively breaks it off so he doesn’t have to find out what the other person felt was artifical.

Adonis is a troubled little hunk, isn’t he?

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Very. It also helps factor in his relationship/comment about that Gina Vasquez? If I remember correctly that’s her name :))

The friend of mine who texted me the update thing had something similar to say:

"I like the contrast between the grecian notion of love (c/o aphrodite) and the one from corinthians (that whole love is patient, love is kind thing)

Aphrodite be selfish af and I feel like that’s one reason why Adonis is scared

Like what if I fall in love and I end up acting like my mother"

She also now has a litre of my tears :))

@Sherlock221B isn’t everyone in Olympus “troubled” :))

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@squarelyblue some more than others; I think Aphrodite is proof of that. And Adonis is troubled that he’ll follow in her footsteps.

He has it easy though, I’m going to die before I’m 20. But I do get eternal power, so I have that going for me, which is nice.

I haven’t checked this forum in a while, and when I do there’s an update! Yay! :smile: Also happy belated birthday!

A few errors I wanted to report:

When I choose to sit by myself after the Trojan War lesson I get an error after “The chatter in the pavilon ceases.” The error message is “part7 line 987: It is illegal to fall out of a *choice statement; you must *goto or *finish before the end of the indented block.” Looking at your code, I think it’s because you ended the choice block with a *page_break:

*fake_choice
            #this has completely opened my eyes to all the things I don't know about myself.
                How many times have you been someone significant in history, with the potential to change outcomes of wars and global crises? You must have lived infinite lives in the span of billions upon billions of years...
                *page_break The chatter in the pavilion ceases.

Maybe a *goto after the *page_break in every option would solve the problem? Like so:

*fake_choice
            #this has completely opened my eyes to all the things I don't know about myself.
                How many times have you been someone significant in history, with the potential to change outcomes of wars and global crises? You must have lived infinite lives in the span of billions upon billions of years...
                *page_break The chatter in the pavilion ceases.
                *goto seethem

Also, a few minor spelling errors at the prom ceremony before the Trials.

They both wear suits; Aeson’s is deep charcol, with a gold tie, while Adonis’s is a dark purple, with a white tie.

charcoal

“Dylan Parkou,” the Goddes says. “I claim you as my own, with warmth and welcome, and pledge my will to your efforts.”

Dylan seems to sag in relief, making his way over to the Goddes, his back straight.

Goddess

As she walks toward you, flowering spring up from her footsteps. Dove circle her.

(Aphrodite’s entrance) Doves. I’m also not sure what you mean by “flowering spring” here.

She moved so fast, you think. This must be the source power Herme’s children have; speed.

(when asking Sage to dance) Hermes’ (or “Hermes’s”, since I noticed you used “Adonis’s” before).

“Because it’s inevitable,” Aeson says, confidence in his voice. “Me, Aeson, Calypso, Adonis, and anyone else who knows that the Gods can’t pull this off on their own, so it will happen.”

(when dancing with Saint and asking him about the war) It should be Saint I’m speaking to here.

There are also several misspellings of machete. I think I saw “mechete” and “macheta” at different places.

Also I get an error when trying to ask Aeson about Helen, and I think it’s the same problem as the sitting by yourself at lunch one.

#Talk about Queen Helen.
                You can't get her out of your mind.

                "What happened after you two ran away?" you ask Aeson.

                    He pauses. "We went back to Troy." he begins. "But before that, we went to this island...I can't remember the name; Helen picked it out anyway. She said it was a place where Zeus had favored for centuries. She said it'd be safe."

Adding *page_break then *goto activities should fix it, I think.

Also somehow dancing by myself leads to the scene of me trying to find Sage to ask her to dance. Hmm, looking at the code, I think it’s because there’s no *goto at the end of the block for *if dancealone = true

*if dancealone = true
    [words]
    You yell out when everyone else does, keep in sync with the 1-2-3 step, and smile brightly.

So I think it just skips all the others, including *if dancesage = true (because it didn’t give me a choice about what I was trying to accomplish by dancing with Sage) but then it lands on

*label sage1
You finally find Sage sitting with a dark haired boy. She wears a light pink gown, with a large skirt and crystals sewn into the shoulders.

A *page_break then *goto should fix it. If I’m understanding your code correctly, using *goto activities should make it coherent.

Also I think an earlier instance of Santangelo hasn’t been changed to Santiago, unless Santangelo is another character we haven’t met yet.

Content-wise, I really think it’s great that we get more character interaction at the dance! And the Trials - hopefully Sage can put aside her revenge for long enough that we’ll succeed in it. At least we have one person we’re familiar with there. I’ve never been so glad to see Calypso.

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Am I the only one that imagines my MC calling the gods brats and children and such while he shakes his fist in the air.
My MC is also annoyed at being called child.
We are the oldest thing ever.

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FYI, the ancient Greeks had four words for love, but the two you refer to above are eros (ie. Aphrodite, sexual or romantic love, the Greeks did not distinguish between sexual and romantic) and agape (ie. Corinthians, unconditional or selfless love when regardless of what they do you’re still willing to sacrifice for or possibly even die for that person).

And yup, it was an interesting contrast. :smiley_cat:

Nope! They are brats, extremely powerful brats who are liable to curse you and ruin your life if you point out their bratty behavior to them. :head_bandage:

So I’m going to restrain the urge until my character has regained his full “essence” power, and then we shall see… :smirk_cat:

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Fantastic update! It’s great to have another chance to interact with the characters and learn more about them. I specially enjoyed having different options in how to invite people to dance and in how to dance with them, thank you for including that!

Minor nitpick. In the scene in the hospital Aeson is described as having a towel over his eyes, both in the case of the MC being alone and with Athena, but the towel isn’t mentioned again if Athena’s there.
When with Athena the text describes Aeson’s eyes as being closed and the presence of the towel is ignored, while if the MC is alone it’s mentioned that Aeson lowers the towel before opening his eyes.

And I found what I think is a mistake in the flashback if you pick to be female.
Playing as a Korrina Spiros who is Helen’s friend has guard text. It’s mentioned that one of the benefits of having the Queen’s ear is having day patrols rather than night patrols like the MC’s fellow guards.

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Oh man, awesome update! It took a while to dance with everyone and see the background story from everyone’s point of view. That said, I almost joined the group that wants to throttle Saint for ruining my MC’s moment with Calypso. I can’t though after I learned that, with a high enough relationship stat, Saint would “happily joust Lavei til first blood, at which point he will apologize profusely”.

Saint is such a dork. I love him hahaha :smiley:

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so you mean my caracter is going to have a bad time…

o well, it sound like i can enjoy his failure.

Loved The update <3 However im really confused wasent Saint a RO plan at first? But he isent now? Why not? Sorry im really confused and can someone explain Why? I wanted to RO that guy~ ‘-’

Saint hasn’t been an RO since day two of the game’s release. [quote=“alex_jansink, post:3766, topic:15482, full:true”]
so you mean my caracter is going to have a bad time…

o well, it sound like i can enjoy his failure.
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Like I said, you can use magic, or if you’re a warrior, you can use your skills as well. There will always be options to utilize whatever skills you have.

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found these the other day when doing a play through :slight_smile:


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Awesome. Now I picture my 61-40-59 Poseidon-spawn MC to buff his spear up with electric “magic” and do something like this:

Also, this:

“When she’s aiming her arrows toward the hearts of her enemies, your face pops up in her mind.”

The relationship progression texts are so good lmao

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I’ve been reading this for a while now and decided to finally make an account. Just wanted to say how interesting everything has been, and I love how the relationships flow naturally and the interactions in generally (way to make the dance choice more tense by having us actually having to choose how we go about asking and dancing with them :laughing:). I swear I could picture my poor MC silently panicking as he outright asked Cally to dance with him and had to deal with that moment of silence while everyone in the group looked straight at him (all the while thinking ‘Is Ares going to kill me? is Calypso going to kill me? Will they tag-team and make it a bonding moment for themselves?’).

I’ve been having a blast trying to get my MC to be close with Cally, especially since he’s extremely mellow and more often goes with the flow of thing with fluctuating emotions (which makes who his father is a little funny for me) and she just comes off as really driven and fierce. I don’t know how you did it, but you managed to make Calypso come off as friendly and intimidating at the same time, and it’s great :joy:. But I have to say that my MC dance with Calypso was enlightening yet brought up even more questions about Ares’ stance on you.

I am curious though. Are the romances only triggered during the dance,or is it possible to trigger them later on at some point (or will one of the ROs make a move themselves if they become interested enough or notice someone else may be interested in the MC)?

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Ooo, someone else interested in the MC causing a declaration of love? I hadn’t considered that, but now it’s all I want in the world. I mean, it kind of depends on the RO though.

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I was awaiting this moment, I think that the RO is only triggered at the dance since I can find no other possibilities for an RO to be triggred.

I imagine some of them - such as Calypso and Adonis - might get a significant ‘boost’ to the romance during the dance, but considering Aeson, Santiago, and Avery, most of them will likely ‘trigger’ later on. Aeson, for example, starts with a relationship stat of 10% by the time you might’ve already raised the wonder gang’s relationship stats pretty high. We haven’t really gotten the proper chance to interact with half of the ROs, so it’s highly unlikely for them be to be locked in so early in the game.

I’d be more than game for ROs confessing to our MC, but… I don’t know. I doubt Aeson would confess of his own volition if he starts to get feelings for you. That boy is just mask upon mask upon mask, methinks. Funnily enough, Santiago is like… the one person I figure would be the type to openly admit his feelings. If only 'cause of his personality. :joy:

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