Twisted Scene (WIP), an 80s Liverpool Music Scene Story -- Chapter 4 Updated 06-15-23

I’m generally rubbish at names and titles. This is what I came up with for my band Liquid Gravity


What did everyone else come up with?

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I am similarly inept at naming.

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Chapter 3 Update!

After a while, here it is!

In this chapter you’ll get to meet the 3rd RO, another flashback scene with Paul/Paula and Emily, and go and record the first song for your band’s demo.

A little explanation about the 3rd RO

Catherine “Kitty” Roberts
An american, she’s an old acquaintance of your sister before her passing. Her vagueness and often riddled words are complimented with her ever-present blank expression which will either weirded you out or make you intrigued with this complicated woman. She can be romanced by both male and female MC.

Appearance :
5’7", she has a slim build with pale skin. Her straight and messy blonde hair falls just below her shoulders. Her grey eyes love to look straight to the people she talks to. Her favourite style includes a pair of black leather boots, with matching above knees skirt and many variants of cropped t-shirt.

Demo : https://dashingdon.com/go/13416

The update stands at 35k words (more than first two chapters combined :sweat_smile:), for a total of 68.2k words for the first three chapters, and around 30.5k words per playthrough.

Chapter 4 will probably be out in the next 3 weeks or so and will include meeting the 4th RO,
a mixing engineer. Until then I hope this update is more than enough. :slightly_smiling_face:

That’s it from me, and oh! Since my way of working often sees me jumping to another part whenever I get frustrated, there would probably be some moments (hopefully not) where the plot doesn’t flow well that I didn’t noticed. Feel free to let me know about it!

(Since I have yet to be able to edit the post, can any mods please add ‘Chapter 3 Updated’ alonh with today’s date to it? :smiling_face_with_tear:)

Thank you so much!

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I’ve encountered this error unfortunately :')

Nice to have multiple music band themed WIPs being written, love the setting in story.

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Multiple? Would you mind linking me to the others. I haven’t heard about any but I also love all the possibilities that these kind of IFs can lead to.

@BeadyEye loved the update and getting to see more keep up the good work. :smiley:

Hi @BeadyEye.

I made your first post a wiki and updated the title. This should hold you over until you gain trust level 2 and you then have full access to editing.

In the future, please use the @ moderators (without the space) to contact us with any need. :revolving_hearts:

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I follow two others on Tumblr with similar theme, but they don’t have demo yet.

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Noted. Thank you so much!

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Ohhhh! I actually ran across this once but forgot to follow it lol. Thanks for sending the link.

Just finished the demo and it’s really interesting! Love the dialogue between the characters, especially the banter. I also appreciate the way you’ve created a rich story with “well fleshed-out characters” with merely 3 chapters. Can’t wait for the rest ^^ (I’ve noticed a few spelling errors and I’d love to point them out but my eyes are literally closing by themselves as I am writjng this lmao so maybe tmrw idk)

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Better question is will there be male ro’s for male mc’s? :wink:

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It’s so great to see a game about band! I love the characters, they all seems alive and real, with well-written personalities. And all that old 80’s vibe, it was cool. Wish you luck!

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Wow didn’t knew music had so much details to it, these game is definitely teaching me new stuff i didn’t knew

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Hello
Do you have a Tumblr for the game ??

Update on chapter 4.

Hello there!

I haven’t been active on the forum for quite some time mainly because I was spending time in my mom’s hometown for around 4 days or so. Which means I didn’t put any new content on chapter 4 at all during those four days.

But rest assured, because chapter 4 is shaping up really well! Right now it stands at 18k words.
At first I planned this chapter to be somewhere around 35k-40k words, but seeing that I’m already at 18k and have yet to finished the stuff at carmine studios (where chapter 3 ends) along with the fact that the variables are gonna get trickier as the story goes on, there’s a huge possibility that chapter 4 will be pushing 45k or even 50k words.

So with that being said, I remember saying last week (or was it 2?) that chapter 4 will be out in 3 weeks, I’m still gonna push to finish it on time, but there’s a possibility that I might need a couple more days aside from the original 3 weeks time to finish it. So I hope you guys don’t mind. :grin:

I have to admit, this story is gonna reach my goal of 200k words faster than I thought, and I’m really glad for it!

Thank you for your attention!

The bug in chapter 2 during the songwriting scene was a weird one for me for some time, cause I was really sure that I didn’t do anything wrong… as it turns out, There were some codes that I forgot to put in case you’ve got a 50-50 during the personality checks. I solved it some time ago but I forgot to let you guys know, silly me. :sweat_smile:

Glad you guys like the characters! Twisted Scene will be filled with these kind of stuff aside from the music. So I’m glad that you like that aspect of the story.

Not yet I’m afraid, I can be a lazy bastard sometimes, but as soon as I make one I will put the link here.

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Excuse me if someone has asked this question before, but was Gi born during the infamous Years of Lead? If so, that can be a notable character trait with him remembering the childhood trauma from it since he was born in Bologna, a place where a terrorist attack killed 85 people on the year 1980.

Edit: if you do not know about the Years of Lead, I will copy paste the wikipedia article.

The Years of Lead (Italian: Anni di piombo) is a term used for a period of social turmoil and political violence and upheaval in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes.

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Wow, I didn’t know about that… I will learn more about it and see what I can implement to the story.

As for when Gia was born, he was born in late 1961 (MC and Paul/Paula were born in 1962).

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Hello! I apologize in advance for any mistakes, English is not my native language!
First of all, I want to praise your story, it was very interesting to read and imagine yourself in the place of the main character! Looking forward to continuing!
I would also like to ask how often will our musical group perform in front of a live audience? I would like to do it as often as possible!
And one more question, will our musical group tour outside the UK?