Sounds like fun! Have you read this? It’s an article by the chef and academic who reacted the regency ball food…Food History Jottings: Pride and Prejudice - Having a Ball I’m obsessed with this bbc documentary…obsessed…
I read Austen, a lot, and am interested in how such small historical details gives us glimpses into life…
You’re an excellent writer. And most British people can’t spell or write properly…
Oh wow, I can’t wait to read that! I did live in the UK for a few years, I had very lofty ideas about the excellence of the British people, but as soon as I walked out of Heathrow the first time someone spat on my boot and snarled, “Git.” So yeah, I quickly learnt that not all Brits step out of an Austen book lol. Still think you guys do have some of the best writers in the world though.
I have a theory that Christian is super broody just because he’s so sick of everyone treating him horribly. (Or he’s a vampire. Whichever.)
Oh, he’s adorable. And so properly dressed! (Btw, I did add an athletic MC option for him, I presume. Also an intellectual MC. It’s just not published yet.) What’s his name?
You’ll learn a bit more about Christian this coming chapter. Him and other RO’s that didn’t get much of an introduction get their time to shine. (I want to say more but I’d be giving plot away.)
His name is Derek Collins, he’s a Scottish baronet who had to sell his family estate to cover his late father’s gambling debts, and leave cavalry because he punched a superior, so he and his trusty steed moved to London (squatting with the friends he still has) where he spends his time dancing in balls, participating in duels, and riding around countryside rescuing ladies from broken down carriages.
You might see why I’m using him as a basis. 
As an avid reader of period/regency romance I have to say this is a dream of an interactive fiction game for me. You are also hilarious! The “or maybe he’s just German” joke was -chefs kiss-, also the whole bit with the tree in the park.
And am I detecting some Scarlet Pimpernel shenanigans?
Very excited to see where you take this story! 
Aha! Another familiar with the play. Lance just screams SP to me. 
@judy I’ve only just started reading Pride and Prejudice, but Mary Bennet seems rather likable so far. There are worse things than being the Mary Bennet of MCs. 
@Kwartel Here’s my post, resurrected:
In the event that we get the chance to take more than one positive or negative trait, I plan to load up on negative traits until my Beauty stat hits 0. I like Beauty and the Beast narratives. Besides, there’s a certain sweetness and amusement in Esther Daughtry seeing the ugliest man in London and immediately going ‘hear me out.’
Here, have this completely unsolicited snippet of fanfic about my MC’s appearance.
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Among those who hold to the theory of maternal impressions, Sebastian Wrexford’s appearance is attributed to his mother being frightened by a large boar-pig during her pregnancy. Others, more scientific or more skeptical, suggest that the boy merely inherited his father’s tendency to fleshiness and his mother’s sizeable nose. (It’s not clear which relative is to blame for his complexion, though.) Whatever the truth of the matter, there is no family feeling between himself and his porcine relatives: a childhood altercation with a tenant farmer’s prize sow left him with a pronounced facial scar.
Sebastian Wrexford is twenty-four now, with the build of a storybook ogre and an unintentionally menacing squint. (He is nearsighted and refuses to get glasses.) Mrs. Wrexford is proud of her son’s local fame as an athlete and horseman; she is less proud of his local fame as the ugliest man in the South Downs. When her husband’s gambling habits require Sebastian to make a wealthy marriage, she can only sigh in resignation and commend her soul to God.
@Garagos Haha, so plain untalented MC wasn’t enough? We need hideous MC! I’ll see what I can do, but I can’t promise that people will scream and yell in horror wherever poor Sebastian Wrexford goes. …Just ocassionally. Really like your post btw, I’m glad you resurrected it.
Btw, if anyone has similar requests, now’s a good time to ask since I am doing a major edit and I’m more receptive to changing stuff around right now. I might say no if it’s too much work or doesn’t work with my vision for the story though.
@faeriewilds Thanks so much! I hope you’ll enjoy the rest of it too. (I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read The Scarlet Pimpernell. I should rectify that. But now I’m terribly curious.)
You’ll be glad to know that I’ve reached London with my M!MC and it is golden.
You gather your top hat and step forward. If Covent Garden is a battlefield, you well know how to march.
You’re almost ready to declare a duel right there and then when aunt Beatrice lets out a vapid giggle.
Is this PTSD I’m sensing?
For a moment, his words take you a few years back to Spain, and the crisp march of regiments’ boots, to mud and death and to a night that you will never forget.
Also the part about MC bashing journalism when they took him as a girl didn’t appear. (I would think it would be fun to see how scandalized that article’s writer would be about a girl wearing a top hat and trousers, ahem.)
He’s a man, and a great dancer, how does his status of curiosityness affect his dancing prospects?
This doesn’t seem to follow right. At the end of this page, the MC is ready to get out of there…
Oh and also, riding skill has a variable but doesn’t have a stats bar, which I’m noting in case it’s not intentional.
Thank you!
So that confirms the problem is definitely my terrible coding (not that anything else was ever a suspect, but now we have 100% confirmation and that is good.) And it seems there’s a scene in the wrong place too, or perhaps one missing.
Sorry everyone for a disjointed reading experience, I’ll fix it. I just can’t publish fixes right now with all the incomplete changes to the prologue and Chapter one 
(The good thing is that all my mistakes are helping me to learn code a bit better.)
I’ll sort out the dancing scene too - you are right, a dancing pro would not let such a trifle make him stumble. This is also why the big interactivity and MC’s personality edit is so important, there’s a lot of reactivity missing to MC’s choices and talents. (When I woke up this morning I realized that an MC who hates London doesn’t even have any reaction to arriving there! Amongst many other such examples.) Shame on me. But I’m on it!
The equestrian stats bar has been added, as has a Math & Science one. (The stats page has been revamped a lot and is much less of a ‘I guess I need a stats page’ situation than it was. Just can’t upload it, because I haven’t implemented the personality stats in the text yet.)
Oh yeah, and regarding PTSD, you’ll find out what that’s about in Chapter Three. Sorry for being protective about the plot, but I want to keep people guessing.
Appreciate your feedback and I hope Sir Collins will soon have a less error-free romp in London <3
@judy Btw, I started reading some of your resources last night. So good! Thank you.
This is my first time actually saying anything in the forum so, uh, hopefully I’ve done this correctly. First off, I wanna say this is one of the stories I’m most excited about. I can’t recall any other IF where I’ve wanted to make such a variety of MCs rather than using just the same one over and over.
As for requests, I don’t know how much you plan on doing with the dogs so I don’t know how annoying it would be to add another variable, but could I suggest the option of being afraid of dogs? I mean, have you seen Lord Fluffywuffykins’ face? Terrifying.
Lastly, I actually really enjoy proofreading things so if you ever feel you need help with editing, I certainly don’t mind if you reach out to me. I’m no expert in anything Regency so I can’t help with that, but I’d like to think I’m at least decent with grammar type things, catching typos, and basic coding. (But I’m also not going to be offended if you don’t want a stranger helping, and I hope this didn’t come off as rude or anything by offering out of nowhere.)
Welcome! I’m so happy you like the story!
I’m absolutely not offended, I’m honoured. I know very well what my weaknesses are and I’m only too happy to have people help make this story better <3 But really, only if you really want to and enjoy it. (I can give early access as a lame sort of payment? And also credit any editors of course.) Just getting feedback on the forum is already such a help, imagine if I didn’t post here, I wouldn’t be aware of any of the issues.
I did actually initially have an option for an MC that feared dogs. But I found it hard to reconcile that MC would willingly stay in a place where they are terrified. I’m scared of spiders and I would nope right out of a house filled with arachnids, escape London forever and leave my family in debt and despair…It could be pretty funny though, I’ll think about it some more for sure.
This is great!
I adore your writing and haven’t enjoyed a wip this much in a very long time. 
Oh, nothing to be sorry about. I’m just being excited.
…you want him to face more errors?
Your description is so good!
I love Jane Austen, I hope you enjoy reading it, it’s interesting the gaps involved re: description, as Austen just assumed her audience would be from her time period, and know how balls, dances, etc went. And now a whole level of nuance is lost to most readers unless you research the time period.
Persuasion + Mansfield Park are to me arguably the more intriguing books exploring human behaviour. And Emma + Northanger Abbey are funny is how they capture timeless human stupidity and ridiculousness so well.
Thank you! I hope I deliver and more! (I’m very excited about the plot to come, I just hope everyone else likes it too.)
@LiliArch 
See why I need an editor?
I think Quinn might be my only potential RO
(…decently sure we havent met her yet ) and i just remembered!
THANK YOU FOR BUILT IN CHEAT MODE 
You haven’t met Quinn, no. She’s in the background in one or two scenes so far, (depending on what your goal is) that’s all. But she’s getting quite a lot of screen time in Chapter Two - and also some Morning Slander time! I really hope you like her - she’s definitely not boring.
Haha, I use Cheat Mode in all my test plays too. It’s amusing how there’s some of us who want to be perfect and beautiful and then there’s @Garagos and @judy, who are clamouring for Quasimodo MC 
I’m still not convinced my MC isn’t planning to just run off to continent - sure he thinks he’s going to do his duty and save the family, and he does feel sorry for his sisters, but if push comes to shove…
