WIP Grey Swan - Birds of a Rose Update 29.05.25 total 220k

Exactly! They live in a cage within a cage.

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I know I should stay away from Astoria… Fuchsia is right there… and yet… I cannot help myself???

I did notice if I curtsey

and Astoria gets really mad about it and leaves with a nod after taking it out on MC it still ends up with the distracting kiss and … TBATBA bite and touching scene that happens when I do not curtsey?

It goes angry bite scene, Eulenspiegel apologising for not warning us, says lets go back to the others, then on the same page goes into the Astoria Convo about it was planned and didnt hurt and “are you sure” before the bite scene and how it will feel good takes place.

Hm that shouldnt happen.

Thanks for informing me, I will take a look at it!

Edit: hope it works now

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By the way! Not an error report, just a thing that confuses me a bit… this part:

“Did your Wing also try to convince you that you needed to go to the meeting for first years? We are here for one hour and already they start to indoctrinate us…”

Why the reaction? Given that the MC thinks the Strays are there to learn about the Flock, isn’t it perfectly natural to direct them to somewhere that assumedly gives a comprehensive orientation?

I should probably reword this, its just that Fuchsia wasnt prepared for it to begin so early! She assumed they would have a more slow approach, which would have given them a bit more “free” time.

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Working perfectly! Thank you.

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I get that, but still, it reads to me more like someone starting in a new school and then complaining when their tutor tries to be helpful. Even if she didn’t realize that her being there under pretense of being a student meant to the people already there that she wanted to learn, she asked questions from the MC and said she wanted to know more about the place!

Yeah I will reword it! (can you tell that I barely go over the earlier parts? there are some things i am not that happy with anymore, but I will focus on that later!)

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Haha! Yeah, for a draft it is perfectly serviceable, I agree.

But also, didn't there used to be more options? Why did you remove them? I liked the singing one.

Also the Droznik-gift-bug is still happening!

Yeah there used to be two more, but I wanted to make sure I could give them the attention such a thing deserves, (also the singing one would have meant I had to come up with more songs) which is why I removed them.

Why did the bug return :sob: it was gone!

I will check it out later, however I am working again means I have much less time now, so it will take a while.

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This is the last one, I promise!

This feels really disjointed, the paragraph that starts with 'He won't' being very unclear as to who the he in question is (I'm assuming Droznik, but it's not clear)

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Hm I thought I wrote sth before that, will also check it out later! Yeah it is Droznik.

Hi! I really love the story so far. And I can’t wait to read about what happened to the MC in the past. Although, something confused me a bit. I’m kinda confused about Astoria and MC’s relationship. In my playthrough, MC and Astoria aren’t close friends. They just exchange greetings from time to time or maybe speak to each other a little bit, but nothing beyond that. From my point of view, Astoria seems really mysterious. But then why is Astoria offering her protection to MC so freely and MC isn’t weirded out by that? She also says something along the line of “I swear this on my immortal soul”. But from the Raven route, it is revealed that MC doesn’t know anything about magic. Is vampire commonly known in this world but not magic?
I’m also a bit confused about the birthday thing. If it’s supposed to be a secret why does it seem like everyone knows about MC’s birthday? Like the Nest for example. From my understanding, our nest consists of a bunch of people like about ten or more, or am I wrong? Because I can’t remember :joy:. And then there is Astoria again, shouldn’t MC who isn’t close friend with Astoria be weirded out when Astoria giving them gift on their birthday?

Also, I have a suggestion. It would be really nice if you explain the rank (Nest, Wing, Tarsus, Ceres, etc) and the roles of each rank in the stat screen.
I’m sorry for asking too much :sob:. I really love your story and I look forward to the next update :two_hearts:

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Thanks for your words!
Well MC may not know Astoria but Astoria knows MC, quite well actually, but you are right I should write sth if MC isnt that close to Astoria (also regarding the gift)!

And no neither vampires nor magic are kown to exist (they will however be publicy known in the AU named Birds of a broken Mirror!), as for the Raven route… I still have to write that :smiling_face_with_tear: but their unique storyline will be heavily influenced by Krabat!

The birthday is considered an open secret, so if you know someones birthday but never heard it from the person themselves than you dont really acknowledge it, as it would be rude.
However it is also polite that if someone tells you their b-day you tell your own, which is what the kids did.

The stats screen is my nemesis :sob: I try to ignore it as much as I can ngl… I still have to figure out how to add multiple pages to that thing…

Dont apologise for asking, this gives me an outlet to puking out lore that wouldnt feature in the game otherwise :heart:
I apologise its taking me such a long time with this update :cry:

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Ohh, I see. I get it now, thanks for the explanation!
And please take your time with the update! We’ll patiently wait for you author :pleading_face::two_hearts:

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Me again :slight_smile: found another error tag_der_offenen_tuer line 4540 increasing indent expected 0 was 1

Fixed! Thank you very much

Found another one

Summary

The betrayal scene repeats

why :sob: :sob: this used to work!

Will look into it!
Could you maybe show me at which point it repeats? And when it starts the repeat?

Lol tell you what, ill go through my saves and create a log of all the errors including screenshots. Hopefully that’ll be helpful to you, it probably wont happen until tomorrow however