woah it’s been a few since I’ve been a regular on this forum, but I got a notification from one of my old comments on this thread and I was like oh yeah that’s one of my favorite wips! A lot’s changed since then and the wip’s been updated, I’m excited to get back into it! How’ve u been?

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Welll if u like superheroes and villains maybe u should watch or read the trilogy (Unbreakable,Split and Glass) just a recommendation, but I like your Idea, in a world full of heroes why not be the ordinary one~

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Welcome back! I hope you enjoy it once more!

I’ve been doing well! Busy but well. I hope you are doing well too!

Oh fun! Thank you for the recommendation I will have to check them out!

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This WIP is absolutely fab - well-written and engaging and lively; I feel so lucky and blessed to have stumbled across it from some randomass Google Doc, lmfao

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Oh thank you so much!! Your kind words and encouragement are very much appreciated! Thank you!

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The Raf scene was so sweet, and now my heart hurts! Love the writing, felt like a real family interaction. Can’t wait to interact with Raf in the current timeline tbh. I also wanna hear from his family since we were so close!! I’m THRILLED this WIP was updated, I hadn’t played it in ages, and it was as compelling as I remembered!

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I just stumbled upon this wip and now im intrigue. What even happened between us and our spouse? I know he’s a supervillian but i wanna know the backstory of how that happened. God i need to know and it’s killing me🥺

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You and the rest of us. Everything is speculative at this point but sitting in the corner reading the tumblr shorts helps starve the need off imo :eyes:

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Oo thanks! I just found out there’s a tumblr and patreon accts by this author🥰

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I’ve redone the top post to clarify information, streamline it, and frankly make it less rambly. (Which it was in dire need of, since that thing hadn’t been updated since 2016).

It now also has more clear links of where to find me, my work, and information about this project beyond just the forum here!

Something else I may put up there, but will probably be of interest to most-- I have two places where you’ll be able to consistently check the ongoing progress of my work both here and on other projects as well.

The first is the pinned post on the tumblr, which has an FAQ to talk about progress on Model Citizens and a loose, flexible goal of when I want to have the next update out by.

The second is on my Patreon, which will have an up-to-date current projects listing in my public About section. (So, no, you don’t need to pay to see that!) All of which are listed in order of priority.

Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Writing Raf and his family is always a lot of fun and I’m very excited to get to the point where the MC begins interacting with their Ex in the present as well. (And you’ll definitely get to hear from his family again as well!)

Thank you for your support!

As @squarelyblue said! You’ll have to wait and see (but see you will!)

Thank you so much for your support as well! I hope you enjoy the content on the tumblr and patreon!

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Damn… This is interesting…

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Hello everyone! Been a while but!!! New update is up!

This one is everything under Yolanda’s interview! Which you can get to by picking the “The manager of the establishment, Yolanda Waltz, certainly seems open to the press. Maybe you can score and interview? [Incomplete]” option! (Yes it still says incomplete! This is a lie now! I’m getting rid of the extra *line_breaks in the chapter 1 file so the “Incomplete” will remain there until I can safely upload a new version of that file without breaking the game, aha)

It’s a big update but! Most of the content is embedded in a lot of variety and choices! As is such-- I have some questions I’d love if y’all could answer in the polls below:

  • How many questions did you see in the interview?
  • 1-4
  • 5-7
  • 8-9
  • 10-11 (you shouldn’t be able to see this many, so if you have I’ve broken my code aha)

0 voters

  • I felt I got to ask all the questions I wanted to ask.
  • I was left wanting to ask more questions, but was ok with being cut off.
  • I was left wanting to ask more questions, and was unsatisfied with where the game cut me off.

0 voters

  • I got to see Yolanda’s romantic scene.
  • I want to see Yolanda’s romantic scene, but could not find the way to access it.
  • I did not seek to see Yolanda’s romantic scene.

0 voters

  • I was satisfied with the difficulty of the questions and answers.
  • I felt getting the answer I wanted from Yolanda was too difficult / confusing.
  • I felt getting the answer I wanted from Yolanda was too easy.

0 voters

  • The answers given by Yolanda had enough information to be satisfying.
  • The answers / information I got was too vague and makes little sense in the context of what I already know.
  • The answers / information I got gave too much and made me feel like I already had enough before the interview was over.

0 voters

  • It felt possible to curry favor with Yolanda
  • It felt too easy to curry favor with Yolanda
  • It felt too hard to curry favor with Yolanda

0 voters

  • I was kicked out of the interview. (Not counting running out of time)
  • I did not get kicked out of the interview. (Not counting running out of time)

0 voters

I know there’s a lot of these but! It’s good to be thorough, yeah?

Like I said a lot of stuff here is locked behind different presets so! Replaying will reward you here! Including replaying the very first chapter since the information you get / interactions you have there will also change what’s available in the interview!

Any answers are appreciated! As well as any feedback / bugs y’all find! Thank you!

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I’m sorry, did Christmas come early this year cause y’all author’s are really treating us rn

also it’s good to see this WIP is still alive and kicking

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I got this when I tried to go back a save, I also found this when I was trying to look at my relationship stat with Yolanda


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Omg! An update :sob::sob::sob::sneezing_face::heart_eyes:

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During the interview the game for some reason cut out my characters first name, and instead
used the last name twice. It had shown the names correctly before that though.

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This is a really interesting story. Glad this WIP was not abandoned

PS- Saw the option for Yolanda Romantic scene in poll. Can anyone tell me how to reach it

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Always happy to give a treat! And thank you!!

Hmm, was this an older save or one made new with this update? (I think I’ve heard that if you change / update a scene and then try to reload a save into that changed scene it can mess with the save, but I’m not sure-- I’ll see if I can fix it!)

And oops yeah I think I forgot to put that in the startup-- so sorry! I’ll fix that ASAP!

Yeah!! Thank you for reading!! :grin:

Oh, whoops! Thank you for pointing that out!

Thank you!! And no plans to abandon this bad boy, he’s just chugging along slowly!

Yes! I’m actually making a guide for it which I’ll put below!


There’s two main ways! An easy way and a more difficult / hidden way, so here’s the two main ways to access them:

Easy-Way Breakdown

Easy Way
The easy way is just by asking the “Wanna get out of here?” question.

All you need to access this question is to have flirted with Yolanda!
And! You can actually flirt with her right after the very first question you ask!

The first cool-down (post-question conversation) you have with Yolanda will always be the same, Yolanda will always ask why you were the person chosen to interview her, no matter what first question you ask.

To flirt with her, you need to fulfill only two requirements:

  • Be playing as a female MC
  • Have Yolanda respect you
    ^^ This is arguably the trickiest aspect here but! Don’t worry! It’s easy too! In order to gain her respect right off the bat: Tell the truth when she asks you what you think of Nickelport at the very start (and have a strong opinion), OR say you’d never want to be like her. (Also at the very start)
    (She doesn’t like liars and likes people who want to carve their own path)

It’s at this point Yolanda should flirt with the MC

She pauses here, the tiniest of playful, enticing smirks lighting her face, “I couldn’t help but be… intrigued, by the woman who I saw was going to interview me.” There’s something a little coy about her tone, you see Yolanda Waltz lean forward, arms resting on her knees as she carefully judges your reaction.

(If you’re seeing this, you’re gucci)

Now you just want to pick one of these two options:

”I like to think I have that effect on most people.” (Flirt)

“Uh… oh… well… I… um…”

Either one of these will set the flirt_yolanda marker true.

Now just pick the

“Wanna get out of here?”

question, agree to her terms, and you’re all set!

And below is purely the options you’ll need to pick in order to get to her romantic scene the quickest. I know I can ramble so I figured it’d be good to make this as well.

Easy-Way (just the options you need to pick, no breakdown)

Before interview:

Play a female MC

Start of interview:

Either

You answer, ”I love it.”

Or

You answer, “I hate it.”

Or

You’d never want to be like her.

Ask your first question (any question will do)

First question cool-down:

Either:

”I like to think I have that effect on most people.” (Flirt)

Or

“Uh… oh… well… I… um…”

Next pick:

“Wanna get out of here?” (Flirt)

And you’re done!

((Hard-Way guide TBD, I’ll edit it in here but first I wanna give:))

Hope this helps! :grin:


A Roadmap of Whats Next!

Thank you so so much for your help in answering the polls! Based off of what I’m seeing there and to keep y’all in the loop here’s the two main goals I’m going to plan for the next update:

Adding more questions

I’m going to add some more basic questions to either make Yolanda more or less suspicious. So far not a lot of people have been kicked out of the interview and that’s good because it means I have more space to play around with the results of her suspicion.

To also go with this:

Upping the number of questions you can ask.

With the addition of questions you can ask I’m going to up the inquiry limit before you get kicked out of the interview. This will give you more room to pick and choose what’s important, I hope (allowing you to choose ones that aren’t as important to your article but could be a chance to curry favor / lower suspicion with her / just get to know Yolanda more, or stick to purely info gathering)

This will be a shorter update, and thus also come along quicker (not another year-long gap, aha) and hopefully with the higher inquiry limit and the extra questions make some secret scenes (getting kicked out and her romance, for example) more accessible in general.

Thanks for sticking around and your continued support!

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It was made with a new save, I hope that helps!

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Oh wow I’ve missed this. I was just thinking about this WIP the other day. Welcome back

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