I got excited for a moment hoping that there was an update. But there isn’t, so nothing to distract me from my writing.
I for one am glad that Choice of Rebels isn’t going to be released as a far simpler game. I’m loving all the changes being made to it and how it’s forming.
Excellent! I look forward to seeing that sadistic helot getting whats coming to him/her.
Really I think that cute and adorable noble Simon(e) is the most important spy, sadly.
While I’m not ruling out Breden quite yet i think it might hopefully be possible to turn him/her into a double agent and use the enemy’s own weapon against them. Sadly when it comes to Simon(e) I’m not sure that is achievable.
Unless you mean Kala/Kalt those revenge driven hotheads are bad news regardless of whether or not they’re actually spies.
@FG, well, the greater complexity is significantly thanks to your feedback on that draft back in… was it April? Radmar, Elery and the rest wouldn’t have come to life without that. So thanks again!
Apologies to anyone else who came hoping for an update. As a teaser, much of what I’ve been working on over the past month is essentially Choice of the Drazen – what happens if you’re an aristo and your initial response to Breden’s boldness is “I can no longer countenance this appalling impudence!”
There are plenty of ways forward from there, some of which take you into the confrontation with Chirex with Breden as an outright enemy.
Also been fleshing out the bandit vignettes with more of the Rim Square helots.
@Havenstone Your game was good when you sent it to me. It’s just so much better now. Ha! Choice of the Drazen sounds amusing. It’s not likely to be the way I ever play mind you, but it should satisfy others.
@Idonotlikeusernames I think Simon is as honourable as he claims to be. I hope at least since I like the idea of the naïve, idealistic blademaster ending up broken by what they need to endure. And the whole unrequited love thing. Poor Simon.
I like Breden a lot, traitor or no traitor.
Methinks he puts a little to much emphasis on the fact that an agent of the empire could certainly impersonate a Helot as easily as a noble when he tries to put us at ease. In the case of my character the love is certainly not unrequited either but that doesn’t mean I trust the boy at all.
Simon’s mine though even if I have to magically chain him to my bed.
I think it is quite possible Simon, Breden and Kala/Kalt are all spies.
Choice of the @Drazen… :))
From what I recall, Suzane/Simon joined a bit late to be the traitor, although I suppose it’s possible for there to be more than one.
@Havestone choice of drazen is cool but when a choice of mara including you are ugly Breden you has to die with poison and make a aristocrats conspiracy using the stupid helots like canon meat i offered them a constitution and not bleding , but that dont mean i love or trust peasants agggh peasants everywhere, also a male noble to make blue blood lil nobles and make daddy proud simon is to nun for the job so i want a Casanova noble
I don’t think Kala/Kalt or Simon/Suzanne are spies. I think it’s Breden or your father who’s the traitor. Of course it could also be the leader of the bandits, I suppose. Or Radmar.
@Havenstone is probably cackling madly in his evil chair whilst taking a gander at our many musings of running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to figure out the traitor.
With regards to Simon/Suzanne and Kala/Kalt it would be an intriguing possibility if for example Simon and Kala are indeed spies while Suzanne and Kalt are not. it would at least make the gender flipped characters different and add more replay value to the game.
In the event that Choice of Rebels is a big hit, I’m totally celebrating by buying an Evil Chair. In which I will then do my best to cackle madly.
@Mara, I’m also trying to make it clearer that you don’t have to be in love with Breden. The opportunity to kill Breden will come up. Aristos suitable for conspiracy and mating are still, alas, waiting until Game 2 to make their appearance.
i dont care traitors. my character would behead all the conspiration comrades daddy included so i becoming like heart queen well maybe i let them choose how dead i got some mercy :))
Edit wait until second Buaaa :(( that would be like 2 years more lol. Poor Mara alone in forest surrounded by peasants
“Aristos suitable for conspiracy and mating are still, alas, waiting until Game 2 to make their appearance.”
Does this mean Simon is a pseudo romance like Samara in Mass Effect at best then?
No! Don’t kill Breden. Well as long as it’s a choice and not compulsory, then it’s okay to have the option. I’ll definitely never take it though.
I wouldn’t call Simon/Suzane a pseudo romance. He/she cares about the chastity code you were raised with, which is why Mara has taken to calling Simon a nun. If sex with Sim’zane makes it into Game 1 at all, it’s going to be unhappy sex with anguished regrets as soon as it’s over. Not at all like Breden.
But surely there’s more to romance than “to bone or not to bone”? 
Edit: @FG, of course it’s not going to be compulsory. I’m much too fond of Breden to ditch them from the game that quickly.
and the thread lives again <:-P
@Scrivener: I know @Havenstone is tickled pink that I care enough to mod his WIP.
@FairyGodfeather Yep, although it’s probably not Breden either since that would muddy her motive for recruiting you. Of course she could have been ordered to recruit a noble to be made an example of, or to make the rebellion as big as possible to supply lots of blood for Karagond’s theurges. And then her own harrowing could be chalked up to a payback from a superior, or a case of bureaucratic foul-up where the government’s left hand didn’t know what its right hand was doing. Occam’s Razor however suggests that she’s much more likely to be innocent however.
Radmar on the other hand is a very obvious suspect, perhaps too obvious. The MC’s father could be argued either way. It’s hard to say for certain without a better understanding of him than has been presented so far. Clearly he thinks that this rebellion is doomed, and that his son/daughter is going to drag him down with them. But does he seriously believe that Karagond would spare him and allow him to retain his noble status in return for betraying his son? He is no naive idealist. He doesn’t love Karagond, he fears them, including their very attention on him and his family. And would he betray his only remaining close family member to save his own skin? The second one is a toss-up, but the first makes me think that he doesn’t trust Karagond enough to cut a deal and thus it’s unlikely that he’s the traitor either.
@Havenstone Who said there has to be sex with Suzane/Simon in game 1? How about some old-fashioned romance/courtship with the attendant subtle flirting?
of course, @Havenstone but my girl is obsesed to conserve hee bloodline and is scared to dead without pure descendants. So the nun is merely a anoyance for now, if rebelion have sucess she could even wait for him but for now , he is useless
@Havenstone “I can no longer countenance this appalling impudence!” - Here here.