Ooh yes. While i found that one spicy I actually find myself preferring the scene you can get if you dont tell G to stay away…LIKE G, HELLO??
If you do hook up with Dakota and decide to go into the pool in your undies, they drop some great lines on you lol. And yes the tension and almost jealous annoyance between G and Dakota when it comes to MC is delicioso.
Vic is a sweetheart. FREEDOM FOR VIC! (While i steal her spouse)
Highly recommend going for it, cause there are some tasty crumbs in there. 
Variables flavored crumbs too, which might as well be the best thing out there in this type of games.
Pretty much every celebrity believes they are great even begore they make it big. Perservering in music, acting or whatever requires a belief in your own talent that borders on narcissistic as otherwise you’d find easier things to do.
since were talking about the RO’s, i’ll say only that chapter 4 turned me off basically every RO i was interested in lol. i only played it once when it came out on patreon tbf so maybe i’ll change my mind when i replay it, but it’s not looking good for my poor MC 
Ooh, you’ve talked me into it. I want to see the jealousy stuff, so I’m going to try it.
Pfft. Seven will come out of all of this with everything they want in life. I figure SV is the default winner of BotB, if MC doesn’t manage to eke out a win. Even if they don’t win, they’ll get a contract with some record company.
Sounds like I need to code dive instead of play…
Yeah, this was why I said all the ROs suck. O is probably the best of the lot right now. At least they don’t hate you, haven’t made it their goal in life to destroy you, aren’t managing to ruin your career, and aren’t married.
Just MC, then? 
Well, my MCs are going to win, all of them, and not just because the magic powers of “Save” and “Load” are on their side. We’re Main Character for a reason, and Number can eat my exhaust fumes, default winner my arse. 
Blake’s a better contender anyway.
I think what the number wants is to forget the MC and be free of them.
I think we’re going to need the “save” and “load” to win. And I think we’ll have to avoid the drama and any “fun” (like the party or swimming with G/D). My guess? You can either play to have fun and romance or you can focus on winning–you can’t have it all.
I also have a horrible feeling we’ll have to kiss the band’s ass to keep up morale, not care about the past (to keep them from throwing tantrums), and go along with their voting so they don’t get mad. Probably not being detached, too, or they’ll fuck up. In which case, fine… my MCs can lose. It’d be worth being rid of those assholes.
I can’t see them being the default winner (I mean if the MC gets booted). I just feel like Seven has plot armor for everything. Maybe I’m overestimating just how much Amy has Mary Sue’d them, but given that MC can’t have a positive relationship with Seven unless they’re a total doormat, while Seven basically shits in their face, I’m thinking it’s going to be SV for the win, unless MC does everything perfect and manages to win.
That said, I’m thinking this week’s assignment will definitely not result in a win, no matter what they do.
I’m sure there’ll be multiple endings, some of them good, presumably. Me personally, I can’t wait to set fire to MC’s personal and professional life by making them engage in an affair with their married idol and technically boss while surrounded by cameras nearly 24/7. Dumbest bitch alive, also the baddest bitch alive 
Challenge ACCEPTED!!! 
This week’s assignment’s win is less valuable than usual, anyway, because it doesn’t give immunity from elimination. Even if you win, if the band you wrote for is the least voted you’re going to Face Off. So the only thing at stake (besides bragging rights) is the advantage for next week.
If you DO want a chance at winning regardless, you need to write for UW, because there’s zero chance you’re going to win with Blake as your lyricist.
I love this energy. Personally, I’m going to see if there’s an ending where my MC can pursue a career as a songwriter or something. Otherwise, they’re definitely not going to continue to pursue fame lmao. They’re beginning to fucking hate being on the show and under constant surveillance (which is pretty just what fame is these days ^^;).
A good crash and burn story, then?
I really think that’s how this game is meant to be played, as it’s mainly a MC torture simulator. May as well lean into it. That’s why I’ve decided the MC sucks and deserves all the bad shit that happens to them. I just have to struggle to keep that when the MC is actually nice and doesn’t seem to be a bad person. But we don’t know everything yet, so… MC’s the debbil!!!
But yeah, Amy has said the MC can win this thing. I just figure it’s going to take MC turning into an emotionless drone who worships the band and focuses 100% on winning, without ever being distracted.
Good luck with that!
Yeah, all my MCs wrote for UW. One of them went to the party. I’m thinking going to the party will result in an auto-loss. And being in the pool will be another nightmare of Viktor kicking the MC, at the very least, and probably a loss.
I need to go read the code for that pool scene now…
This is why I am finding the Blake route difficult to play, along with the whole “sub-romance” thing. MC gets kicked enough, and Blake gets off on wearing steel-toed boots with spikes on the end when he’s kicking my MCs.
I’m not sure there will ever be a way to actually convince Blake MC isn’t a dirty damned cheater.
Do you have any theories on who Dakota is?
After this chapter, I’m ready to ditch them all, to be honest. I don’t know what the hell is going on with O’s sudden antagonistic bullshit moment over August, but it’s getting to bridge too far territory. I’m tired of letting everyone kick MC around, for O to have a chance at this point, I’m gonna need them to do a bit of the chasing.
I’d pay to swap Blake with Sebastian at this point 
Like who is this random man?? Why is he following me??
That’s fair. But my MC just doesn’t take anything seriously enough to care about strangers or a reality show. They’re there for the bag, and I headcanon them as being hot, shameless and charming enough to use their minor celebrity status from the show to become an influencer if it all turns to shit lol
The trick to going through the Blake route is realising that Blake’s animosity isn’t personal, it’s principled AND it’s reasonable.
UW’s the fair winner of the audition. MC’s band is only on BotB because there was cheating. We know this. UW knows this. Blake knows this. Everyone knows this.
Now imagine you’re Blake - you busted your ass to get on this career-making show, and then you don’t get in because someone cheated. And involved in the cheating is the person (and potential former friend/roommate?) who already stole your song (shitty as it was) and got propelled to world fame and ridiculous fortune from that audition, and they never gave you even a smidgen of credit for it. And THEN the main singer of the band that was cheated into the show instead of yours comes to you and says, “actually we didn’t cheat and aren’t aware of any cheating.” It’s insane. Nobody would believe this.
WE wouldn’t believe this.
If the game was from Blake’s POV instead, at least a third of the posts in this thread would be wishing the MC-equivalent dead.
At one point the cheating plot has to come a resolution. My hypothesis is that you’re going to get a confession from G or Viktor or whoever or get emails or whatever that prove the cheating in which you’re not a participant. Maybe you’ll be able to resolve that issue then by showing that sort of stuff to Blake.
Alternatively, maybe you can be so earnest towards Blake (or maybe make them like you so much) that they’ll believe you when you say you really were not aware of anything untowards (presumably it’ll help your case if you don’t take the “I’d have cheated if I could, fuck yeah” options).
I don’t, MAYBE because I barely have any contact with them. I don’t meet them at the fight party first party* and I don’t stay at the pool.
Wait, what, what’s this? I don’t remember this.
*I was more surprised than Seven when she looked at my wrist and there was the phone number of a woman I’d NEVER MET. I wish I had like 1/100th of my MC’s game
Wait what happened??
Oh, I think that happened for me? Yeah, I took that the same as you.
I’m personally still the proud leader of durian raccoon agenda. We’re getting somewhere, and it’s going much better than expected - I mean, there’s already “I like you far more than the band” even on 18% rel, I fully expected it to not come online until Ch.10. It’s so weirdly rapid that it convinces me both fully stalked each other from burner accs and Seven has a backlog of promo pics hidden somewhere on a hard drive with Abstergo-tier of protection, and, in the end, it never really was a full-on break-up as much as both wanted to believe it is. At times it feels like Seven is the weirdly balanced nagging wife to my famehound of a MC who constantly nags and reminds him that, back then, he cared about music, not just making stacks. Back then they were a duet.
I’m fully on them being either Viktor’s kid or one of the sponsors’ nepobaby. I mean. they literally sell crack to show contestants on the beach three steps away from the camera and G notes they have never known any actual hardship in the pool scene. Related to BOTB, probably through either G or their parents, but too far apart to actually care about it outside of anything that concerns G - if you smoke weed with them, Dakota notes that if you leak dark secrets G had said in the pool, they’ll ensure you’ll be out immediately. Implies certain ability to push.
I think they mighttt be referring to if youre dipping into romancing/flirting with both O and August or have high approval with August. I do recall it only happens if you have 4 or more romance points with O. Theres a moment where you can express something to O about not knowing them and Cory were close while at the cafe, and O claps back with “not as close as you and August”
It just read to me as an intrusive jealous thought that O blurted out
Thats the only thing I can think of lol.
It still happens even without any flirts. It just checks for high approval with August instead.
