“I Am The Senate!” --Probably Augasta
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Seems like Augusta can live up to her eponymous real-life counterpart. Hopefully her descendants won’t suffer the same fate as the Julio-Claudians.
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teaching Augusta 2 skills opens so many possibility’s.
something like teaching her combat and strategy and then allying with foederati and making her paragon sounds fun.
i do like paragon foderati Augusta and tyratnt senate aligned one .
My favorite part of a tyrant senate path is use scholaship to tell the consul that agusta have the legal power to trow the senator in prison for petition to move the corts
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So, I’ve been working on my content update for the previous chapters like I said I would. I’ve done quite a few of the revisions and fixes suggested or reported to me, and I’ve finished the shorter Augusta POV (there are seven versions of it, for the various states of being and personalities) and the Victoria POV. I’ve still got a few things left to do, mainly expanding on some fake_choices and adding in some location descriptors.
Well, Victoria POV is probably an understatement, since I may have expanded upon my original outline and used it as an opportunity to really expand on her character, develop more lore of Hadat and the Old World, and tease future revelations of the latter. It’s settled at about 5.8k words, which may be too long for a mere interlude you’ll be clicking through without choices (though there’s some modest variability dependent on who was responsible for Aite’s death).
So, what should I do with this?
- Put it in the story as is, 5.8k words is fine for an interlude
- Put in the Stat Menu as an optional read
- Upload it separate from the story
- Scrap it
- Other (specify)
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Sometimes, a long text interlude can work. Choicescript works can easily fall into a pattern, if merely a pattern that works well. There’s a few screens of moderately scrolling text, interrupted by a choice, about 500 times in a row. Having a lengthy out-of-character segue from another perspective can both encourage reflection and break up the narrative a bit. Much like sentence and paragraph lengths can provide a sense of pace, the placement of choice and exposition here I think would work well, by deepening the cliffhanger and keeping a broader focus on the world’s motions while we seemingly dive back into the personal-scale life of the Prefect.
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You’re doing this in the middle of Act 2, for the sake of filling in a major character, one who’s already made a splash in the main narrative.
Any player who reaches this point will probably be engaged enough to read through.
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Put it in the story as is, 5.8k words is fine for an interlude
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
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is there going to be a way to skip to specific chapters? the game updated when i got to the beginning of chapter 6 and restarted my whole progress 
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I’m not certain how to do that without a long chain of choice blocks to define all of the 200+ variables.
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Will we meet any other novae throughout the story?
You already have.
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I don’t have a problem keeping it in as long as there’s also an option to skip it if we don’t want to read it.
Personally, I’m not really a fan of POVs of other characters (regardless of who it is) because it feels a little like metagaming.
This is especially pertinent with Victoria, because I’d rather formulate my character’s thoughts and opinions on her (and the situation at hand) without potentially being influenced by information and thoughts that they wouldn’t be privy to.
Even with Augusta, I’d rather not read her POV either if possible (even just a short one) because I’d want to learn more about her (her thoughts and feelings) through our interactions together.
There’s also the fact I generally find that suddenly reading other POVs while in the middle of the story takes me out of of it a little bit.
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For the former, I decided to implement a choice block before the interlude begins which allows you to skip it.
I will put as a choice at the beginning of the game asking whether you’d like to skip POV switches. If you say yes, you’ll automatically skip them without further prompt, including the Chapter V POV stinger.
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That’s what I would do, yeah.
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Wait we have? Who?
Honestly, that’s perfect. Thank you 
Would that include the one that’s already there, where it’s revealed who ‘Diana’ actually is (and that she’s working with the Consul/Legate)?
Depending on your choices, it may be openly revealed later on.
Well, it is technically a POV switch, so I suppose I’d have to if I’m giving a POV opt-out function.
I agree it’s important, which is why I’m hesitant to include it under this choice, but also it risks dubbing the others I’ve written as “extraneous” or unimportant if I just say “oh this choice will cut out most POVs but not all.”
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