I’m planning on getting ME Legendary on my next payday! Haven’t played through Mass effect 1 in like 10 years because of the UI, so I’m excited!
I’m already looking forward to a scifi space opera from you!
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Update:
-I’m very close to finished with the gender-swap edit for romantic options in the existing material.
-I’ve finished coding Chapter 0, which will allow you to
- Set achievements to visible or hidden
- Set in-game art to visible or hidden
- Set RO gender to default, all male, all female, or to manually select for each character among male, female, and randomize.
-I’ve made chapters 7a, 7b, and 7c playable in any order.
-I’ve coded the groundwork for 8a and 8b to be played in any order.
-Have to say, I’ve developed a deep respect for anyone who has completed a work with separate male-female descriptions and gender-swap variables for all pronouns. I knew it slowed me down, writing forward. Retro-fitting, it took me maybe 5hrs for 15k words average, depending on pronoun density. It’s deceptively involved.
Delivery should be on schedule. I’ve diverted some time to running the Chain of Kindness: Book Giveaway. Check it out if you haven’t. At current, donations outnumber requests 34 to 21. Cheers, all.
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I’ve uploaded the patch to Dashingdon. For changelog, see above. Hope you enjoy.
I’m interested in screenshots of gender slips: nouns, pronouns, descriptions–Rudi (male Trudy) still wears nail polish on purpose.
The path forward:
-8a Temple of Dune (Desert, Octo/Octa, Fogbeard)
-8b Game of Throats (Swamp, Zale, Megdura)
-patch to make 8a-8b interchangeable
-9 Enter the Fhtagn: from here you will have a full party. Decisions will push you toward a faction alignment with consequences. And you can enter into an official romantic relationship with some characters.
-Things will progress quickly from there. You will revisit each duchy to find things developed. In each you will choose a side and fight. In each, you can spend a vacation day with ROs.
-At the end, based on your duchy and RO decisions, you will receive your ending.
By word count, we’re halfway there. Thanks for riding along.
Has the ability to swap RO gender changed your favorite RO?
- Yes.
- No.
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Considering only interactions, not art or appearance (if possible) who is your favorite RO?
- Llorick/Llivette.
- Trudy/Rudi.
- Saz.
- Octo/Octa.
- Vera/Vero.
- Zale.
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I love this story, it never fails to make me cackle no matter how many times I play through it. You’re a great comedic author, and I love the plot.
Though I will admit that I just want to ditch the mission and live in a hut made out of leaves and mud with Saz.
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*Sees Octa female version character art
[AUDIBLY GULPS]
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This is a charming little adventure.
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I’m so happy to hear that. Thank you so much! I haven’t named Saz’s husband/wife (changes with gender now). If you have a few ideas, you can feel free to PM me. The name (Saz Lejamb) has kind of a whole New Orleans thing going on. “Saz” came from “sazerac.” I can’t remember where “Lejamb” came from. Maybe from hearing a French musician say “Let’s jam.” 
Ha, ha! I’m glad. I was feeling like a bit of a failure across the spectrum with the RO art. It’s tricky to release after everyone has already formed an image in their mind. Based on your comment, I think you’ll be VERY pleased with this upcoming chapter. 
Thank you for saying so! It’s certainly good to hear. I’m always repulsed by people who find themselves charming, so I think I overcompensate and move through the world assuming I and my writing are not. Hope you find something in the story that keeps you coming back. Cheers! 
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This was probably asked before so I will apologize beforehand but I wanted to ask is/will Yester be a RO?
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Hmm, I’m not super decided. Originally, I’d planned for an author work-load of six ROs. However, so many people seem to like him/her that I’m reconsidering. It would require me to restructure some plot elements.
The six current ROs will form the PCs “party” in RPG terms. That is, they will travel with the PC for the rest of the game as an NPC entourage. Phill is somewhat sided with the PC, for now, but isn’t in the party. Yester would fall into that category, so I’m not sure it would make them as compelling of an RO. Right now, there’s faction balance: 2 Dragonfall, 2 Dragonsworn, and 2 Unaligned. Also, it might strain the story to squeeze yet another person into Duchy side quests and vacation days. Really, the best thing would be to finish the story as I have it planned and then do Yester RO as an add on. Only I don’t know how to do that, and I’m not really into that model. I’d rather just write a sequel.
Sorry if that’s a long way of saying nothing–just letting you in on my thought process. You have any thoughts? Maybe I should throw up a poll? (If I wouldn’t be terrified of the results.) @Frieza
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Thanks for answering! Yeah, I guess it would be a strain to try and add him/her as a RO now. If you have a clear path regarding the story then it would be best to finish it the way you envisioned it. As for the poll, it would be interesting to see the results at the very least haha since I think Yester is a very appealing and likable character for people.
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I’ve posted a poll below. For anyone who wants to answer: is there something about Yester as a romantic option that you feel isn’t provided by other ROs? Or, what is Yester’s unique value proposition as an RO?
Do you think Yester could be a compelling romantic option if not included as a main-party member?
- Super yes–damn you for asking!
- Yeppers–I like him/her that much.
- Nah, it wouldn’t be right to do half a job of it.
- Don’t do it!
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Would you like to see Yester as an RO even if it meant the game would take longer to finish?
- Unrealistic: include him/her but finish on schedule, you bastard.
- Trusting: don’t include him/her but also don’t disappoint me.
- Patient: include him/her–he/she’s worth the wait.
- Other: I don’t feel strongly about this issue–you do you.
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Would you rather see Yester featured as a party member in a sequel: “Still Not Your Mother’s Shire”?
- Yes!
- Nope.
- Do that, but also give me what I want. Thanks, bye.
- Other: still don’t care.
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Love this story so much! My cheeks hurt from laughing the whole time. Keep up the good work 
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I personally really like Yester, but especially at this point where you can see the finish line, I totally get wanting to wait till the sequel (but I do want Yester as an RO eventually! please)
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Yester as RO?Sign me up,please 
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finally 
It would be interesting to have him/her as a side-RO/character, then bringing him/her on board in a sequel
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I just really love Yester;
Like she has always been there for us and I am always looking forward to our interactions. Her reactions is just too adorable, and I really really hope she becomes an RO.
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Re: Yester poll. Wow. That’s . . . something to think about. He/she began as something of a sassy tutorial and, apparently, has grown into much more.
Update: progress on 8a the slightest bit derailed by the fulfillment end of the book giveaway. I expect to have that wrapped in a couple of days. Complications.
As of this moment, 8a has 20,324 words written, which is looking like it will be half. Teaser: someone important dies. AND two ROs can suffer maiming slash permanent injury. Will you still love them, I wonder?
The three sidequests are 1) research Octo/a’s bastard ancestry with Llorick/Llivette and Lorne–make astonishing discovery 2) Go w Vera/o to set up a parley with “Fogbeard” and Octo/a who has been called in as reinforcement to the Desert Duchy 3) Investigate battleground with Trudy/Rudy and Saz. Possibly get taken hostage by raiders. Also, you meet Hazmek and can have sex with one of the main party members. Big fight at the end. So . . . back to work.
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Hmm, not really sure. I’d have to think some more about which characters would be into it and which wouldn’t. Do you think enough people would want to see that, that it would be worth the effort to code?
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Welllllll okay then:-
Would You like a poly route in this game?
- Yay
- Nay
- Don’t care
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