Choice of Rebels Part 1 WIP thread

Breden is a fairly downplayed example of one of my most oft-repeated mantras when playtesting: never push a love interest. Telling us that we’re attracted to him/her is likely to make us as players say “no, we’re not, screw you narrator.”

(Also, their existence means that our character is defined as non-asexual. Which is appropriate for the setting’s philosophy, as I don’t believe that the idea that a person could be truly asexual would be anything but blasphemy according to Xthonic metaphysics, but it’s still lacking in inclusiveness.)

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I still remember my own rage about the Original scene when I thought a ugly slave were mind raping me to have sex in the forest against my will. I literally thought he was using blood magic against me because her description was totally against about I found sexy and my character would never kiss a commoner by her own volition. Thankfully that scene was changed and now I could get rid of the kissing monkey easily.

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That should be Breden’s official title within the rebellion.

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Can you explain the scene Mara’s talking about? I’d love to hear more about it.

I have no idea; I discovered this game much later in the development. I just like the idea of calling Breden The Official Kissing Monkey of the Rebellion. Sorry. :slight_smile:

You’ll have to ask her, as it only ever existed in her imagination. :slight_smile: It’s true that my original intent for Breden was for your crush on him/her to be written into the MC backstory, and your choice to be whether your feelings had changed or remained the same. But while I’ve changed that, it’s only through tweaks to the text. No scenes have been removed or significantly altered. I leave it to the readership to judge how plausible a reading of your initial encounter with Breden at the bridge the “blood magic mind rape” is; even at the time, I think Mara was the only one to interpret it that way. (And it’s worth noting that even then, kissing Breden – let alone anything else – was a choice, not an inevitability).

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Yeah, I have a very excitable imagination :smile: That’s what makes me, me. You could ask @Eiwynn about The furry orgy I found in her Wip lol. But I think my weird imagination helped a little does this game more varied. Well I will explain why I thought that. Like always I was role playing, I was slightly worried about the fact I have to be a helot lover. Think My Mara wouldn’t be in a million of years. Then suddenly a girl covered in dirty and for me ugly as hell. Appeared and my girl changed out the character and turned frenzy like a porn star full on Viagra trying to kiss that dirty helot. No choice of not being attracted. So what my imagination thought … She is a blood mage like that theurges and wants bang me in the forest to any weird Karagon ritual because my character is a virgin. So since then I hate Breden to death, and still in my mind being a blood mage trying to bang me to her god.

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Aha! I see, I think I joined too late into development to see the scene.

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No, no, you can still read it today. Ch 1, play as an aristo. Imagine that when you notice Breden, the game tells you not just that you’re noticing their attractiveness but that you, the MC, are attracted to them; and that the flashback makes clear that you’d fallen a bit in love. Read through to the end of the scene. Try to keep Mara’s description above of her role playing thought process in mind throughout. That’s it.

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I see. Thanks for clearing it all up, Havenstone ^^. I’ll read it;

@Havenstone could you please upload the betas files so they become downloadable this game would be fun if there was a way I could fix the bugs myself thanks

@Havenstone is fixing the bugs and continues to work towards his publishing date - I think he mentioned in the thread here that he should be getting at least one more update out before the schedule advances to the next stage of testing.

Edit: Here you go:

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yeah but I could download some of the files but I need all the files because some scenes cant be seen from the start up and I want to fix bug as I go but if nobody can post the full game files then it alright

You can see the code of games by following the instructions on the thread below.

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Or in this case, specifically, you’d start with:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88501596/CoRtest/web/mygame/scenes/startup.txt

All the scenes are listed there in scene_list. Just change the last bit of the url from e.g. startup.txt to chirex.txt and you’ll be able to see them all, including saving them as txt files into your own choicescript folder if you like.

Fixing bugs in the current test version will take a lot of time – you probably won’t be done before I update to a new draft, with (no doubt) a new crop of bugs. But you’re welcome to have a go.

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yeah I know but there is some scenes not listed in the start up scenes list

yeah but the error is a bad label always stops me from completing the first chapter

It’s because the second chapter has been disabled for now. Chapter 1 has no code to go to, therefore it bad labels. Wait until the next draft.

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Nice pirate icon lol. Handsome

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There are no scenes not listed in the startup scenes list. There is the stats page: choicescript_stats.txt. Otherwise, everything is there in startup. What are you having trouble finding?

And what’s the bad label error you’re getting in Ch 1? That’s something I want to fix for everyone.

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