That does sound weird. I’ll do a rerun to check if I misclicked the costume selection. 
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I personally prefer it when I can’t “do everything” in a single playthrough. When I have to set my priorities and carefully choose my actions (and therefore see different things each playthrough) I feel like my choices were more meaningful.
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I think a good in between/alternative could be to pick your first dance partner, but then the next person you have the highest romance with will confront you later in private and you can choose to dance with them, or not after a dramatic/angsty scene
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I want to be able to romance one person and do whatever needed for the ball. Though I figured it would mostly be waiting around for something to happen. Lol. So I guess number 3 option.
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This is a good idea. I don’t know if it makes it easier for the author, but it might make the coding narrow down further if it starts to soft-lock in romances/jealousy triangles, rather than let us all run wild—which I totally would, by the way lol. And I doubt I’ll be the only one too.
The author made everybody way too interesting. I guess that’s what they mean when they say ‘suffering with success’.
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I definitely would run wild if there is more than one Im interested in.
If I select them not to be women. Its easy to end up not thinking about them at all. Flip a switch in my head and the character as male, its auto no interest. Flip em back, I might be interested unless they so heavily flawed I can’t ignore it. Flaw as in way too toxic.
I fall for dommies to easily in several cases but, learned hardway, abusers are not the same as dommies.
Finally read Watson’s pov. They’re so precious, so sweet, so kind and caring 
I loved them before but now… now I adore them.
Anyway, great update. I noticed when picking the dress option and when in the carriage thinking about someone, you’re in a bit of a loop until you select a determined choice to exit it (for example you need to pick Mrs Hudson to have the option to have arrived), is that intentional?
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I asked on patreon too, and made it a poll, and they overwhelmingly voted for “experience control” which was simply that you had time for everything and you can choose to end the choices early, ex, “I’ve done all I wish to tonight, and the hour is getting late.” Some votes also were given to the “compromise option”, which was that there are some mutually exclusive scenes rather than time management, so I might still do that if I find some more minor variation/stuff where that would make sense.
Actually, thinking about it, I realise there are already some scenes like that 
How you first meet Adler, etc. And, of course, there’s some such variation in earlier set variables/choices.
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Aww, I’m glad to hear it!
I don’t do RO POV a lot, but I’m trying to do it more 
Yes—so the loop was intended, but I did think that it wasn’t the ideal solution while I was making it 
I suppose I could make it so you only have to talk to one of the people in the carriage 
(The reason the “thinking about” thing is replayable is that it was the easiest solution. Because a choice thing has to always have a choice available, and if I wanted to do it otherwise, I would have to do some weird counter of “who can be thought of + who have you thought of → then lock out choice” and … a loop was quicker.)
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Lestrade short story 
If Sherlock took to crime
Now posted on Patreon!
Y’all have been asking me, since the start of this whole project, “What if Sherlock took to crime and did so very well?”
What if Sherlock became the worst killer London had ever seen?
We all know they’d be capable of such a thing. Don’t we? 
Remember this part from Chapter 5?
“We all expect great things the day you can’t find an excuse from your own company… There’s really only a few worthy ways this all ends. When the crime is too low, perhaps you can turn to making your own, really sink low and comfortable in the depths of depravity—"
A two-part, two-POVs, short story, with that final showdown between detective and inspector, now killer and once friend.
I had a lot of fun writing a new type of MC 
I hope you enjoy it too! 
P.S.! (non-patreon users look here!)
I’ll be doing another one-month paid tier giveaway later today to one free tier Patreon user! So make sure you join <3
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Watson AU Game - A Knightly Tale
y’all, I just released a big “mini”-game on patreon!
I got a little… lost in working on this. I’ve worked on and off on this for a month and… yeah. I got really into the prompt. The LONGING! THE DEVOTION! (also play both endings and maybe try some variation!)
It’s the size of a smaller chapter update, has 2 endings, variation, many scenes, IT’S A LOT!
- Watson is your devoted, loyal knight ♘
- Medieval setting
- 2 endings (one sad
)
Sneak peek:
Neither of you speaks of how their shoulder now grazes yours where you lie on the soft ground. You simply open your eyes to stare at the canopy of green, the soft shading from the tree above you. The sprinkling of sun passing through as if gilded glitter, and the breeze blessing you, turning oppressive heat into perfectly, heavenly comfort.
Tranquillity and peace.
By their side…
“No,” their voice is soft. Near wistful a sound, as their lungs fill easily in the lighter linen shirt than the standard metal and mail. “Truly, I never did think of marriage, my lady/lord/liege.”
I hope you like it 
Take care, be safe, and happy spring! 
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xoxo
Doriana
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I wrote a smutty aaoth short story…
Link to patreon
So, uh…
Ngl it wasn’t planned. I had been writing sexy practice content for the upcoming ball as Adler is to join, and, well, Adler isn’t very PG-13. Nor is the rest of the ball. And so I was working on this coded Patreon short story (the moment H comes home for y’all’s first meeting and decides to send you flower/s).
And it got away from me.
Bipedy boop – this happened.
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Hii! I’m sorry if it’s a stupid question, but I see you wrote ‘‘Chapter 6.2 is out now’’, but I only seem to find the demo that end with chapter 6.1. Is this normal?
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I’m so sorry, the 2 in the description was a full on typo!
The game out to 6.1 
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Full ball chapter coming next month! 
You’ve all been waiting, and as I said, I’ve been deliberating—the next of the chapter will be in one piece, one very big piece, as I couldn’t see it any other way, and—
I’m now putting a deadline on it!
November, patreon 6.2 release
I’ve been keeping a good pace, finding both energy and focus that i’ve needed despite other work and life, and I’m seeing the end of the tunnel and I want to limit myself of adding too much… So a deadline is set. (The exact date in Novemeber is still up in the air).
See you there!
Plans for patreon:
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I’d like to simply code that previous L short story of y’all’s previous case, just to give it a more flexible MC vibe—this week if nothing comes up.
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TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT FOR HALLOWEEN 
- Werewolf Watson? Magic Hawthorne? Another vampire Lestrade ? Fae Adler? Gimme anything you’ve got!
I’d love to make something either sexy or scary—but we can try fun and happy too if y’all like!
- Werewolf Watson? Magic Hawthorne? Another vampire Lestrade
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waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah so exciting!!
I actually think vampire would suit Watson better…all the angst and barely constrained thirst is very Watson coded indeed 
I wouldn’t mind reading them longing for a bite 
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Vampire Watson New thought.
Hmmm, I agree that the yearning of it all is Watson-y, but hmmmmm—I’m trying to imagine W as a vampire and I can’t even decide on the archetype
I suppose in my head, they don’t come off as a very angsty vamp, strangely?
More like a more modern interpretation. The type that is practically human, and still very good and kind, but has some barely seen, yet tremendous pain about it all?
Although I suppose I could see them as sort of Angel from Buffy? (Yes, I am more of a Bangel shipper than Spuffy, though I had to Google both of these names 
). Or the Stefan from TVD. Just very pained by some hurt they’ve done in the past and determined to find their way back to humanity, and seemingly very human and kind on the outside for all to see.
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werewolf watson… i want him to transform and ask for belly rubs
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Golden Retriever werewolves aren’t utilized enough, I say.
A fluffy, friendly one, for sure. Sherlock’s guard dog. 
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Well… Hmmm. In a sense, perhaps 
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