Okay great story except for all the times A switched from a girl to a guy and then switched back. And this happened in nearly all of the interactions with her
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I could see that going either way. There is at least some evidence against it with the MC knowing a few more personal details, like who his wife is, and that the desire to get a newer, better job was an ongoing thing. If Fernando was snatched, and tied up somewhere to reduce witnesses/be another scapegoat, I wouldn’t be all that surprised.
Night shift guard came across as somewhat incompetent, and she didn’t give the impression of caring about interacting with her fellow guard, which is not good for overall security anywhere. Boring job or not, oddities should be focused on, and discussed for safety. 
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Yep could go either way and it still could be old Fernando decided he was owed a golden parachute before moving onto said new job. Which, don’t get me wrong, with how shitty that place is he very well might have been. Setting the mc up to take the fall…not cool though.
But, like I said, the more likely culprits are Beth and the ex and it is even quite possible for Beth to have been recruited by a rival criminal organisation who just struck first. As I said before, many modern criminal organisations like to recruit white collar, middle management as their insiders, not too high but not too low either. Plus Beth would need to get the connections to actually pawn off the stones for a good price from somewhere.
That latter thing is a black mark against Fernando too, as his guard job only seems to be a tiny bit better than the mc’s utter shit. Especially since I do not see Fernando as having the underworld contacts at a high enough level that he could dispose of the emeralds for a decent price and have that money laundered to him without much fuss or red flags going up with the authorities.
Incidentally, even if our criminal organisation really is going to pay the mc millions it would still mean nothing because the mc has no plausible way of receiving it or being able to spend it in the real world without immediately raising all the alarms at the IRS since, given their extremely shitty financial situation, it is virtually impossible for the mc to receive large amounts of money without tipping off the authorities. 
Even in the underworld it is much, much easier for those already well-off to get richer than for poor people like our mc to get rich.
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Yeah, that will be fixed in the next update. I don’t think I’ve updated it since the last time I posted and am having issues with my dashingdon account. It might be a little while.
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Lol I could see that being a bit jarring.
I asked this on Tumblr, but I figured I’d ask here as well. Since it’s my first time working on a project like this. For these early stages of Price of Emeralds, I was wondering whether people would prefer waiting for me to update the full chapters or chunks of story as I finish them with indications of what’s available. Doesn’t make too much of a difference to me, just means more frequent updates for the parts that I plan to share publicly.
Obviously the game might go through major changes during this whole process as I solidify and streamline things, but it was just a thought, lemme know.
- Full chapter updates
- Update in chunks as it progresses
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@Thourne You gotta let us fight Ben.
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Lmaooo sounds like a good time to me
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@NGC-1097 @Thourne should have let us knock Ben on his ass for stealing MC’s girlfriend/boyfriend (depending on players choice) We would have been justified for doing it and he would have deserved it 
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no matter how many times i playthrough this, the fucking cheating scene still feels so heavy on my heart. always brings me to tears. poor mc. hate B so fucking much and i also want to punch them too
also dont know how R is gonna be salvageable. at first i was actually thinking of giving them a chance but seeing those picture with B that are still being posted (maybe those are old photos and she is just making me feel more shit) i am not going near them anytime soon. im not even gonna follow my own rule with the whole “listen to them try to redeem themselves”
also to the post that says the mc would be a scapegoat. i definitely i agree. id rather get killed than live on with how my life has gone to shit in such a short amount of time
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I feel bad that you cried! I’m sorry! 
To be honest I wrote some of this on personal experience (not the criminal stuff, just a lot of horrible things happening at once lol) I hope that as the story progresses that it kind of shows that you can put up with more than you think, you can overcome more than you ever thought you could and you can thrive. I hope I don’t mess up that message along the way haha.
I know I’m writing it and I probably shouldn’t say it, but Robin/Robyn and Ben/Beth? Trash tier imo
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I mentioned this in a different thread, but never on this one (mostly because I didn’t realize the game was still being worked on).
I could not bring myself to play past the R “cheating” scene, because as a poly person, it’s just so completely unrealistic to me. Yes, it is possible to cheat in a poly relationship. But since when did anyone decide R isn’t allowed to be with B? I never decided that. If the MC decided that, I just… can’t put myself in their shoes. At all. No idea how to play a character that’s like that. And then the MC just doesn’t even try to communicate even though R clearly wants to say something. This MC is just straight up not a good person in my eyes.
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R cheats, and the MC isn’t a good person for not wanting to talk to them afterwards?
Sure.
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@geldar I’ve been in a relationship where my ex cheated on me and even i didn’t want to talk to her after that happened. Does that make me a bad person? No. Because people react differently in that situation and people who are hurt that bad, sometimes theres nothing to say.
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I totally understand not being able to relate to an MC or get into a story. 100% fair. I’m realizing that I’m probably going about this story in a bit of a different fashion than a lot of other stories in the sense that the main character does have bit of a set personality because of their situation (I did add an explanation of that into the main post now that I’ve realized that.) I plan to make the MC more dynamic as the story goes, but I also understand if people can’t get into it!
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Alright, I closed the poll. That’s settled, gonna keep plugging away at chapter 3 then. Thanks all who voted!
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I don’t really know what the MC’s personality is supposed to be like, but why would it differ based on their current situation? Especially since this relationship obviously started in the past and clearly has been flawed since the start. Though I don’t know how long in the past. Honestly though I don’t know of anyone who acts like this, in any situation.
You could say the fact that it’s an obviously flawed relationship means it’s good for the MC to get out of it, but I mean… from my perspective, the MC is the major problem, not R, so any relationship with the MC would be flawed.
Yes, your perspective, mc is not the one who cheated here. What made me not want to talk to R, from my perspective, is the added social media harassment the mc receives after that and R is completely okay with.
Not all breakups are the same and for me this does not seem to be an amicable one. Even moreso if R and B turn out to be the actual thieves or affiliated with them.
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No one cheated as far as I can tell. It’s impossible to say because the MC refuses to communicate. If this is a boundary that was already established, the reader needs to be aware of that. I’m not just gonna assume the MC is monogamous, or what specifically their boundaries are. But if the MC has clearly demonstrated they’re bad at communicating, I am gonna assume that has always been the case.
Never got to any point where social media or thieves were involved because I just could not get past the point where the MC does not value communication in relationships. The MC has already refused to talk to R before the things you mentioned, with no input from the player.
You’re making the assumption that the relationship is open, or polyam.
I’ve been in polyam relationships. There was still communication about sleeping with other people before it happened.
Communication is also a two way street. You think the MC is a horrible person because they don’t want to talk to the person who cheated on them. If you’re going to assume the MC is at fault for not setting boundaries, then it’s only fair to assume that R never asked about them, and just made the active assumption that the MC would be okay with a polyam or open relationship.
One of those is significantly worse than the other.
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