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My first ChoiceScript project. Absurdly overambitious, as is tradition.
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Something for you to read
Remember when you voted for me to post one of my old writing practices? Maybe you don't remember. It's okay. You can read it now, even if you didn't even vote.
LINK TO THE STORY (ao3)
I would advise you to keep in mind that this was written by a young teenager, but honestly, my autism shielded me from most psychological effects of puberty*, so I don't think such a disclaimer is really needed.
*apart from deciding that 'normal' suicide is cowardice, that I have to instead die in combat, and consequently trying to go to Ukraine as a volunteer for the Prizrak Brigade when I was 16 lmao
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btw: chances are you don't need a VPN in the first place.
Don't listen to the aggressive YouTube advertising, it's a waste of money in almost all situations.
You do need a VPN when, and only when,
using public networks (other people in the same public network can theoretically track your activities if you don't use a VPN, but... whether that's a problem depends heavily on what activities there are)
you want to circumvent geoblocking (but there's dedicated websites and browser addons functioning like a VPN that do the same, and they are free)
A VPN does not protect you from tracking via cookies or from the government. They just have to ask the VPN company instead of your ISP for your internet history, and either are obliged to comply.
If you really want to avoid anyone tracking you, use Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/). It's free, it's developed by a nonprofit organization, and the whole darknet runs on it.
Basically, it's a network of anonymous devices all over the world (you can also be a part!) which act as strung-together VPNs, making tracking from the target side completely impossible. There is also a mobile version available, and various methods to avoid tracking by other means.
Never use Surfshark VPN
I just wanted to make this post to warn yall about it, I am not a tech genius but I wanted to get a vpn and surfshark was one I knew about so i subscribed to them because it seemed ok, that was where I fucked up.
fast forward a year and now I am trying to cancel my yearly auto-renewing subscription which costs 70 fuckin bucks, didnt find much use in surfshark as it was too laggy when using its vpn services so i go to billing and try to cancel.
there was no cancel button so that was odd, and you cant turn off auto-renew so i figure ill just get rid of my card info so it cant charge me.
i cant or at least i cant figure out how.
I go to help and find the cancellation area after scrolling past why you should keep the subscription and it tells me to contact their live support to cancel, It requires my name and gmail, I know for a fact my gmail is correct but it says its wrong and that my name is wrong no matter how many ways I enter it and I cant find a possible username anywhere on the site i could use. Its for all practical reasons impossible for me to cancel, not just the fact I cant even talk to customer support, but the people on reddit that do, talk to a bot and then the agents take months to actually turn off the subscription so it charges again and there is no refunds.
dont use surfshark VPN
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[off-topic]
am... am I considered a Furry now?
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What's New in IF? - Weekly Zine
Introducing What's New in IF?, a weekly zine recap-ing what's been happening in the Interactive Fiction community, from Ongoing Events, Game releases and updates, published Articles, and more!
It will release every Saturday, looking back at the previous 7-days, in a PDF and text form.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR NEWS!
We are a small team of volunteers trying to collect all the pieces we can find, but we know we can't keep track of it all. So if you know something, submit it (also possible as anon).
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So do we get to create our own special banner for our faction? Also could we name it
You can make your own flag/banner, yes.
Up to three colours, can have a symbol, can have a motto written on it.
I'm not sure what you mean by name it, do you mean like the French flag is called Tricolore? In any case, there's no such feature atm
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I need help deciding which scenes to work on in which order, so...
I'm really curious. The mysterious one (with childhood friend + friends-to-enemies-to-lovers options)? The dependable one (with mommy/daddy vibes)? The eccentric one (mad scientists make for great pets)? Or the one who sees you as a mere puppet of theirs at this point?
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So you're telling me that on this game the mc can be both a bewitching beauty and also a psychopath.... BOY mc is really gona be a red flag for the Ro's 👀
It'll be quite the competition about who out-red flags who with some of the ROs lol
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Okay, off-topic (or is it? this is the kind of stuff I listen to for inspiration), but this song is such a banger
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impromptu translation:
The legend of the dead soldier - Summer 1918
And as the war in its fourth spring
Did not have a prospect for peace
The soldier drew his conclusion
And died a hero's death.
But the war wasn't over yet
So the Emperor felt sorry:
That his soldier died
Felt too soon to him.
Summer moved about the graves
And the soldier was already asleep
There, one night, came a military medical commission.
The medical commission went to the graveyard
And, with a blessed spade,
Dug out the fallen soldier.
The doctor thoroughly inspected the soldier
Or what was left of him
And the doctor found that the soldier was ready to serve
And just dodging the danger.
And they immediately took the soldier with them
The night was blue and beautiful
If you didn't wear a helmet
You could see the stars of home.
They poured strong booze
Into his decayed body
And put two nurses in his arms
And a half-naked woman.
And since the soldier stinks of decay
A priest limps in front
Who waves a censer above him
So he can't stink.
Forward the music
Plays a lively march
And the soldier, as he has learned,
Throws his legs from his ass [marches quickly]
And brotherly hugging him
Go two medics
Otherwise he might fall into the dirt
And that can't happen.
They drew on his shroud
The colours black-white-red
And carried it in front of him;
The colours covered up the feces.
A gentleman in a tailcoat also walked in front
With a stiffened chest
He, as a German man,
Was precisely aware of his duty.
So with music they walked
Down the dark highway
And the soldier staggered with them
Like a snowflake in a storm.
The cats and dogs cry
The rats in the field whistle wildly:
They don't want to be French
Because that's a disgrace.
And when they move through the villages
All the women were there
Trees bowed, the full moon was shining
And everything yelled: 'Hurrah!'
With music and goodbyes!
And woman and dog and priest!
And in the midst the dead soldier
Like a drunken ape.
And when they move through the villages
Nobody saw him
So many were around him
With music and Hurrah.
So many danced and cheered around him
That nobody saw him
He could only be seen from above
And there are only stars there.
The stars are not always there
There comes a morning's red
But the soldier, as he's learned
Marches to a hero's death.
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Can we make our MC an arrogant brat that believes their above everyone but when the civil war kicked off and the went all around country seeing things we would never see in our imperial lifetime like all the poor serfs and their living conditions and starts changing a little bit (I mean being an arrogant bastard and seeing the poor then being intently humble is a little bit to cliché at this point so staying arrogant while having a little bit of sympathy will be a nice change in pace)
Sorry, but no
I didn't even think of that possibility tbh and now it
a) would be waaaay to much work to include yet another personality facet stat (remember that they are divided into "outer" (behaviour) and "inner" (actual thoughts/feelings) personality, so every new facet introduces a whole bunch of new possible combinations, which I'd each have to write choices for in all scenes where it makes sense)
and b) it wouldn't make too much sense story-wise, because not only does MC already know the living situation of the poor very well (if only academically), it's also unlikely that anyone's arrogance would survive all the trauma in the Prologue but then get dissolved by standard, everyday misery
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How do the common people view the Empire, the High Nobility, and the protagonist's family, and how might their support (or lack thereof) influence the story?
This is an agrarian, feudal society, so towards the Empire itself, there is little room for animosity, however well deserved it would be. The Church is a major factor in this, so going the Saint route might upset this stagnation.
I can't say much about the popularity of the nobles and the other members of the Imperial family, both because it differs a lot depending on the individual (noble/Imperial, not on the individual commoner), and because it'd be very spoilery. The MC is pretty popular among the common folk at the beginning, thanks to positive coverage by the newspapers, but as for why the newspapers have popularized the MC like this you'll have to find out later in the story.
Mechanics-wise, the people are divided into groups based on their economic/social standing and political orientation (specifically, there are the lower class, nobles, democrats, the church and the believers), and the actions you take will gain you the support of some groups and anger others (i.e. Saint route will get the believers on your side, but depending on your actions the Church might fight you).
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Are there any external powers or neighboring countries that might support or oppose the protagonist's efforts to reclaim Nevetskiya?
Yes, there are several outside parties interested in the power struggle (though not to the historical extent of "23 countries send intervention armies").
Siding with the Tank faction will result in a lot of interaction with them, as the necessary equipment will need to be imported from them; but even apart from that, you'll have to balance getting foreign help with your own independence, otherwise you might rule over a quasi-colony at the end. Or you go full isolationist, but that makes the fight way harder resource-wise.
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But but... my masculine woman.!
Sorry >.<
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I might've gone a little bit overboard with the beauty tags...
In my defense, while it was planned from the start, the timeframe I was working on it was right when the infamous author was being drowned in discussions about whether the MC there was canonically pretty or not, which kinda scared me into putting more emphasis on it.
The result of that is that the Орлёнок MC now is canonically so pretty it makes the more minor NPCs pretty much lose their minds
I... hope you all don't mind?
(if you do, there's always the "bland" option)
Edit: stuff like this is what I'm talking about
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Whew... alright. Ask and ye shall receive.
(pov: you're a soldier that just wanted to stay loyal by joining the army of the last survivor of the Imperial family)
(image source: Candy & Cigarettes)
I know we can’t make our MC we’re cat ears, but can we make our soldiers wear cat ears and if so I wish to make an army of catboy femboys and use that to win the civil war
(you mean "we can make our MC wear cat ears", right? because you absolutely can. your autocorrect is lying)
A rework of the army dress-up system with the updated clothing/headwear list is still on my todo... so, maybe? We'll let the people decide
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Trying to find out how enbies like to be sexualized. For... research.
(I'm serious, I need help, these scene variations are so hard to write ;_; if you have any insights, please tell me)
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Thanks a lot! The current last line would be extremely anti-climactic and boring though, so I rolled a dice to choose a random one:
Egor addresses you again. "Well, now it's time for your execution. I'm... sure you understand the necessity."
@evertidings (pretty please? maybe? or maybe not?)
Thank you for the tag, @gwenllian-in-the-abbey :)
Share the last line of your WIP with no context:
The child is not lying, but neither is he telling the full truth of it, about the many lessons in Dreaming that were beaten into him alongside his own intrinsic knowing.
Tagging @mihrsuri @six-of-snakes @thenightisland and anyone else that wants to participate!
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