Can I ask how to get Argentās fight in the auction? I got it from a random char, but when I tried a created one to specifically play out her plot I got the other henchman.
Do you mean follow Argents romance path?
Well, yeah, she kissed my villains in the opening scene, so I though that part in auction would follow, but it didnāt. As I said before, I used a random char to see the new stuff, but when I tried to start from the beginning with a created one I couldnāt get it.
Cheers, that did the trick.
I must say her romance route is my favorite right now, I have a soft spot for bad girls.
Iām so ready for this to come out! There
Are so many things I want to see where they go. I keep playing over and over looking for little things that are different. One of the things I really enjoy about this game. The things that change, even little things.
For example what happened to you at heartbreak can open up different a different scene when flying with Harold and different conversations with your shrink. Heck you can completely miss the Argent romance in both places. You can completely miss a plot with someone and your puppet. Obviously some of those plot points might show up in different places later in the book if you missed them, but it is fun not to have all the choices lined up in front of you, but to have to go looking for them.
It has always annoyed me when games let you choose stuff and then donāt let you see the affects. They donāt always have to be major things. I love all the added paragraphs that change based one things you have said or done. Makes all your choices seem more real even if nothing much really changes.
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Harke
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I dont really much to add here, i just wanted to tell you how much i loved retribution so far! It made me cry several times already. all i found were some minor things, like a switched pronoun or two so nothing big. All in all, thank you so much for your work ^^
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Yeah thereās also a ton of pronoun errors for a male puppet. I hope with the healing serum you can use it on the puppet to give him his life back. Heās fantastic. Or if the healing thing doesnāt work on the main characters body I want to be able to be him forever. Sorry bud.
Side note: I found Herald very annoying in the first part but now I love him. Heās like a puppy. Or a little brother. With an inappropriate crush lol.
Also I was completely disinterested by argent but now I find her hot as fuck. I love a good rivalry/romance almost as much as the tragic lover/playboy stuff (Ortega).
Why? Heās much more useful the way he is right now. Besides it seems little mr. puppet wasnāt a nice guy before the coma. With the twisted sense of morals and ethics my former Sidestep still has this would seem like a fitting price and penance for the guy.
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Laguz
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I also gotta say, the way the story is sometimes so obviously about dysphoria and dissociation makes it a very personal thing for me.
Ever since my trauma Iāve lost whole days to weeks to months of my life to the void without remembering any of it, in a kind of grey blur that I functioned on autopilot. I could not tell you what happened yesterday. I could not tell you what it feels like to own your own body, rather than being trapped in its prison.
I could not tell you what exactly happened in my trauma - recently my mother was speaking about it and I realised my brain had forcibly forgotten a whole year. While she was talking I had flashbacks, and then I promptly forgot again. Everything seems like a haze of too much; this probably isnāt helped by my autism. But I felt very connected to the main character.
I felt like I kind of died - not suddenly or āthat dayā, like in the movies, but slowly and over that year - and everything Iāve been doing since has me āborrowingā this body on borrowed time to squeeze what enjoyment I get out of life, but those enjoyments are never reallyā¦ the sameā¦ as they were before. Iām just waiting for thisā¦ this body to catch up and crash out and take me with it, as it should have four years ago.
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Freja
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In a certain way, I know what you mean. When I was nine years old I went through a trauma that erased almost three years of my childhood. I regained certains memories but as you said theyāre flashes and not about what happened. With time one sees that thereās still beauty in the world and began to enjoy things again. I began to feel better almost ten years later. Give yourself time and credit. 
So, going back to the topic I canāt play to many times as I wish, because sometimes the story hits me hard and need to step back a little. But thatās good, itās a good story.
Iām determined to get my MC through all this.
And about the ROs I donāt like Ortega as a friend is good but not a RO for my MC.
Iām pretty agree with everything @essay715 said before 
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Yes, I know just what you guys mean. I am a multiple trauma victim myself, and for me reading stories like this are both painful and yet healing at the same time. In fact it was Malin writing book one, that led me to discovering what my condition actually has been all my life, CPTSD if your curious. If you are comfortable with it, Iād encourage you to search and post in the thread āsuicide and depressionā I think its called, sorry donāt recall off hand or know how to link it.
I understand that as after the rape attempt I have at 12 and stories with my mother that abandoned me as baby and all that I fell in a spiralling of depression and mutter feelings without strength to do anything and days an emotions just passed over me in a blur. Therapy and group sessions helped me in all that and in anxiety and mistrust to men in general.
Reason why this story reaching me dep too
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Laguz
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You know that scene near the end of Cowboy Bebop where Spike is setting himself up for a suicide mission? And he goes āIām not going there to die. Iām going to find out if Iām really alive.ā
Part of the whole series is shown in a dissociative, episodic manner where the main characters are kept separate from the subplots and world that surrounds them, and only the actual finale ties everything together and focuses solely on them (mostly Spike), because itās their āwaking upā to no longer passively experiencing their own lives, like the viewer does. The viewer is now, at last, the only passive one.
Of course, Fallen Hero canāt do this exactly: itās a game, so you canāt technically be truly passive as you would be watching a show. But I do think Fallen Hero works on a similar wavelength here. The closest it does is give you choices that are essentially irrelevant to the overarching important points in the world: choices to be greedy, survivalist, bitter, nihilistic or reclusiveā¦
ā¦Which arenāt inherently bad, and both arenāt and shouldnāt be displayed as such. There are no easy choices and no clear morality. You can be anything, up to a villain only in name. But it doesnāt really matter, because how others perceive you is a stat in the game, whereas the protagonistās self-perception is almost non-existent. Including the twist revealed in this game, how we perceive and how we are perceived are major themes in this series.
The main objective for your character differs, but they are an outsider looking in at the changing climate, strained tensions and conflicts of the city and its heroes in small subplots rather than as the full picture. Itās another piece about a traumatised character that cannot or will not confront their past to live in the present, and views the world through a dissociative state in scenes and tidbits that the world throws at them, never fully engaged, never wanting to be.
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Yes. I agree However I role playing this as a character that is hoping of can fix herself. Make all work She is starting accept her own body. And I think I could make her feel better with herself. For me is important have that choices. To in a way reinforced my own recuperation. In a weird view as I really feel like a character. I really think this is so well written that anyone that has suffered any mental illness a immense depression and or a trauma can see reflectied in the character.
For me is important Make my character recovery at least in part. But anyway absolutely all iterations are fascinating. My only gripe is character is too submissive in Villain and Pc but is in beta so is normal is not written yet.
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Dizzie
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Okay so, the fact that as of this update you can choose to show your tattoos to every romantic interest EXCEPT Ortega is doing me a big concern. (And Chen, but that is a tentative friendship at best as of now). At the same time one of the things Iām most excited for is when that scene will finally come up.
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I want show everyone except him. Because My pc hates Ortega.
However i agree that as plotting goes is a big scene for people like xhim.
@malinryden Sorry to bother you but i have a question important for me. I heard that Herald if is turn a villain will be set as Dominant to point be abusive. it is that true? It is i am not interested in dominant characters and if a romance will turn dominant i WONāT that romance so i want know first hand to not found the scene that for me would be terrible. I think Choice of dynamic should be spot on. I am so happy that i could choose dynamuc with the puppet and Mortum that was so cool.
Is I donāt like dominant romances that are hidden and only show That the RO is dominant when you are already lock in the romance. -
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I really look forward to where things go with Ortega. I have a hard time liking them right now. But I think that is because the other relationships all feel like they go somewhere. As in they advance. You canāt really advance in your relationship with Ortega because you canāt tell them anything. So even while you have conversations it often feels like you havenāt gone anywhere, Even if you did just have a big conversation about depression.
But hopefully this is just a case of where the demo stops and by the time I play the whole book I will feel much better about Ortega. Or at least feel it is going somewhere. Even if it is going horribly wrong. Because given my decision making skills, it is going to go horribly wrong.
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Laguz
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get out of the way EVERYONE. IM ASKINT THE REAL QUESTIONS HERE:
Will I be able to adopt a dog?
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Maybe we can kill Steel and take Spoon?
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