first interessting second dissapointed that wulf wouldn’t be available for my solidarty character third and most importantly: from who are the pictures I swear I can almost recognise some of them and wulf’s picture along with herta, sash and vitori look so damn familiar but I just can’t point my finger at who they are …
As you make your way through the crowd, you can’t help but feel you’ll be outnumbered here. Surely the reds will be out in force to try and stop this march.
How the Reds can outnumber New Order if it is New Order parade victory?
We’ll get them back," he pats you on the back, “Tonight’s going to be a night to remember.”
Should be “she”, because I’m with Herta.
The fascists take this as their cue and several charge towards you. Batons, truncheons, knuckle-dusters are drawn. The reds go back to the chorus and charge straight at you.
Why the facists are charging towards me? My character is a facist too.
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Hey Alex;
I was just wondering how you made the css styling for this? It’s really aesthetically pleasing and I would love to use something similar for my text adventures… But apparently my CSS skills aren’t really up to scratch at this point^^
The rears grey ranks are being overwhelmed, dozens of men lying on the ground, taking a beating. You sprint over with Herta and a group of your men, the sheer ferocity of your charge sending many of the cowards running.
After a hard fight, you manage to break out of the encirclement and the greyshirts make a timely withdrawal.
If the New Order mande the Red Front run, why they withdrawing?
How’s your face Herta?" Rosa asks with fatherly concern.
"Painful," she replies, frankly, "But I'll be fine I'm sure."
"Don't worry Viktor, she's got me to look after her!" you joke, pushing her shoulder
Should be Viktor.
As soon as you step inside, you’re hit by a wall of heat, which is not entirely unwelcome. As you and Franz quickly strip off your winter coats, your eyes are drawn to the band playing jazz in the corner, with a small group of brave souls attempting to dance to it.
Should be Herta.
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Thanks a lot @Urban and @ruhenri for those corrections, didn’t realise quite how scruffy the chapter was but fixed now. In particular, thank you @Urban, you’ve obviously been through the chapter with a fine-tooth comb!
- Thanks 2. soz 3. You mean the pictures from the character picture boards I posted a while back? Wulf’s picture is Gerda Taro, a really heroic young woman war photographer who was killed in the Spanish Civil War. Sash is marianne breslauer, a tomboy photographer from the 20s-30s. Vitori’s picture is of another photographer, Lee Miller, a really interesting person who was an abstract artist and war reporter in WW2. I realise now that’s a lot of photographers, not deliberate…
Not my skills, dashingdon gives you a load of options to change the style. Not sure if they are able to be translated over to the release version of the game.
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@AlexClifford1994 - A good update. The low level stuff has been mentioned.
Every time I play the New Order, I want to play the mythic-Rommel route Rommel Myth/legend but for some reason I feel like you are railroading the MC into a Goering type of role within the party.
Conversly, with the Red Order I want to play Trotsky route but feel like I’m being routed into a Molotov role vis-a-vie Stalin.
Just my take on things so far
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So, if i read the rommel-myth correctly, you want to be brilliant but apolitical, basically disagreeing with much of fascism? So you want to be a fascist elected MP who disagrees with fascism? Rommel and the MC are sort of in different places when it comes to their ideology I think. However I do appreciate that so far it can feel a little railroaded in terms of your overall role. That is going to decrease as the game goes on, because from the next chapter on you will be making really big decisions about the future direction of the party and country. You can stay loyal to your leader but you can also undermine them, although only by making alliances with others. You aren’t strong enough or experienced enough to do everything on your own. So from the New Order stand point, if you can increasingly look to National Bloc and the Prince to form an alternative power base, for Solidarity it is the SDP, Centre and Kant in particular.
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This is good - I was also hoping for the army under whatishisname and of course the Italians 
Edit - I’d go into the Rommel thing a bit more but its off-topic. So if you want to pm or something I’d be happy to explain my desires as a New Order PM.
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Each of these actors have their own priorities though, it’ll not just be a simple “oh i’ll work with you”. So for instance the Italians will not be at all happy if you try and deviate from a hard fascist, pro-Riga approach, because that is what they want for Moravia. Equally, General Falk or the Prince won’t be pleased about being sideline if you do take that approach. And of course Herta (or Franz on the Solidarity side) will be pretty dismayed if you start undermining your leader. So each of the main players also comes down on one side or the other.
Feel free to DM me, I’m interested and already you’re helping me think about where I’m going with this story
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Nobody in politics, ever is, anything that says anything else is merely propaganda designed to make certain rulers seem all-powerful, but nobody ever really is. Not even the Kims in North Korea truly rule alone and everybody in politics has some key allies/supporters they cannot afford to piss off (too much). For my main mc it seems to be heading in the direction that those key supporters will be Kant and France.
Don’t forget the possible covert support from the French. Particularly in small countries like mine the great and super-powers of the world, particularly when they’re also your neighbours tend to have (a great deal of) influence as well.
Our socialist party used to be partly financed by Maoist China, who our Communist were co-financed by was obvious and our conservatives and then liberals (not the current liberal party, which only dates from the 60’s) took payments from German and American industrialists in particular and all sorts of wealthy people in general. All made possible by our traditional (and current too) near lack of any campaign finance regulations.
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But when he comes back, she seems brighter, happier and you all have a laugh.
Should be she.
“And how precisely have you acquired the funds to suppor this lifestyle,” asks Herta, “Perk of the job of being finance minister?”
Should be support.
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Hey Alex, what are these achievos:
Ultraviolence: Choose the military career path (35 points)
Ceremony: Choose the civilian career path (35 points)
What are Military and Civilian career paths?
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I by no means intend to offend anyone with this. Frankly, I shouldn’t even have to say that, but, sadly, I do.
A question I’ve been meaning to straight up ask you is this:
The New Order path. Is it going to end badly pretty much no matter what just because its the fascist path, or will we be ble to do what is advertised from the start, and actually succeed? I’m genuinely just concerned that just because its considered the “bad” path, that its results will be at least somewhat negative no matter what, whereas, with the Socialist path, the “good” path, success will come not only easier, but in more variety, as well.
I am not stating that this is the case, I’m merely asking if it is, or will be. As the game stands right now, I have no real problem with it. Again, this is just a curiosity and concern of mine.
No, I am not Fascist. I simply enjoy the New Order path most, and genuinely just want to know if it will get as much attention as the other main path.
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Alex has explained previously that there will be two sucessful outcomes for each party, with the Solidarity having a more difficult task in establishing the “radical” path than New Order.
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“They thought they could stop me,” she grins, "
*if helpfranz = true
But $!{fn} here saved the day!"
*if helpfranz = false
Even a knife won’t stop me, or this movement."
The stitches across her cheek are still raw.
“The red bastards will never keep Herta down,” you reply.
“You’ve done a lot today,” Riga says, “And you’ll be doing even more tomorrow. Go out, relax enjoy yourselves a little. Moosach will be quiet. Take the night off.”
You smile, “Thank you Viktor… I’ll do that.”
Since when is Herta man ? another common mistake.
You copied Solidarity chapter 4 and tried to edit it to fit New order heh ?
i mean you have use the communistic variables for fascist meetings.
Anyways i love how you make the characters come alive. I mean Riga being slighly awkward in that question if you are an item ?
Anyway how many chapters will each of the paths have ?
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The variable are the same for simplification, I think. No need to create another variable to do the same thing. It’s not like the readers will see the variable when they are reading the game.
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Yes, the less variables you use, the better. You can easily confuse yourself if you’re not careful.
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@Urban thanks, will fix these soon.
About 3 quarters of the way through, there will be a conflict in Moravia, the severity of which depends on the players’ actions to that point and the subsequent support you enjoy. When this conflict happens, you can choose whether to maintain a political role (will probably change the name from civilian to politician) or join the fighting, i.e. the military path. Basically, having experienced both political dealing and decision making as well as a fair bit of combat and street fighting, you get the choice which to follow for the game’s final phase.
Yes, they’ll be the same length
Not 100% sure I understand what you mean there, but yes, you can succeed. There are effectively 3 endings- failure, moderate success or radical success for both sides. It is actually easier to succeed as the fascists as they start from a position of strength and as the story as progressed so far you should see that the fascists do have the upper hand. If you’re asking do bad things happen if the fascists succeed, then yes, some will for sure, but they do not only have ‘bad’ endings in the sense that they don’t always lose.
Just to be clear, are you just referring to the variable *helpfranz? As @Urban and @Eiwynn have pointed out, I just used the same variable for each side for this situation and others in the game for simplicity and to reduce the overall number of variables, of which there are already a lot. So there is no point in creating a helpherta variable for exactly the same incident or a right wing alliance variable to replace the popular front variable when they serve the same purpose on each side. I have copied over for all the chapters so far, quite simply because otherwise it would be like writing two games and I would never finish. The story is written showing effectively the same events but from two contrasting perspectives.
Thank you, one of the things I’ve really tried to do is make the characters actual people, so they have their own goals, objectives and personalities and are not just pliant and do whatever the player wants. Also, I’ve worked to make the NPCs as human as possible, with all the flaws and doubts that go with being human.
I’m currently looking at around 9-10 chapters in total for both.
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Another question: a what point will ROs be “locked in,” if you choose one? Or does it vary by character?
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The next chapter is really where that happens, although with some of them (maybe all, we’ll see) you can break up with them later in the game. However, you won’t get a chance to choose someone else at that point. It will also be pretty clear to the player I think that this is where you are making your choice.
The first 4 chapters have almost been an introduction to Moravia, its problems and the characters within it, in chapter 5 you have to start making game changing decisions, i.e. who, if anyone, you want to ‘lock in’ (if they’ll have you)
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