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choices-binglebonkus · 1 year

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#choices stories you play #playchoices #choices stories we play #pixelberry #pixelberry studios #playchoices fandom #choices stories you play fandom #choices stories we play fandom #asks #choices meme #the duchess affair #choices the duchess affair #choices surrender #choices kiss of death #kiss of death #choices kod

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choicesbookclub · 5 months

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12 Days of Choices Special Event

Not sure who is planning to participate, but I figured I'd start this thread to talk about it and share info for anyone that is playing.

If you find the hidden item, please share where and when (what chapter + scene)! All clues and hints welcomed. I'll try to update this post with whatever info I see so that it's all in one place for anyone checking in quick!

Day One: December 12

Book: Mother of the Year

Chapter 1

Scene: MC's daughter has the option for the uniform. The Partridge in a Pair Tree is on the stairs in the background.

Day Two: December 13

Book: The Duchess Affair

Hint: In chapters 1-3

Chapter: beginning of chapter 2

Scene: The location is the breakfast room, in front of the large painting and next to the Christmas tree.

Thanks @lizzybeth1986

Day Three: December 14

Book: Bachelorette Party

Hint: "3 French hens, 3 blind mice, 3 is the number you'll want to check twice "

Chapter 3

Scene: The Abracadabra Lounge, right at the front of the room.

Thanks @lizzybeth1986

Day Four: December 15

Book: The Cursed Heart

Hint: "You didn't hear this from me, but it's in a prime number chapter greater than 3!"

Helpful Math: Prime Numbers include: 5,7,11,13,17,19

Chapter 5

Scene: At the stables talking to Sir Montgomery, perched on the ceiling

Thanks @lizzybeth1986

Day Five: December 16

Book: Ms. Match

Hint: "Five Gold Rings: Starting from the left, which finger is your ring finger? 🖐️"

Chapter 2

Scene: walking home from the bar with jack, they very impressively transformed a building

Thanks @alasforher

Day Six: December 17

Book: Untameable

Hint: "Six Geese A-Laying: (four) The perfect amount of geese to have is four! 🪿"

Chapter 4

Scene: The stables, at the very beginning of the chapter.

Thanks, @lizzybeth1986

Day Seven: December 18

Book: The Unexpected Heiress

Hint: "Seven Swans A-Swimming: You'll spot them right away! 🏊"

Chapter 1

Scene: On the ship, immediately after the MC is introduced and says goodbye to her mother and brother.

Thanks, @lizzybeth1986

Day Eight: December 19

Book: Slow Burn

Hint: "Eight Maids A-Milking: You'll only need two maids to get this job done. 🥛"

Chapter 2

Scene: Bunting when you are first in the New Orleans ‘Hushpuppys’ restaurant

Thanks, @alasforher

Day Nine: December 20

Book: Queen B

Hint: "Nine Ladies Dancing: You'll need to be FOURtunate to find this item! 💃"

Chapter 4

Scene: At the sports field on Kickoff Day

Thanks, @lizzybeth1986

Day Ten: December 21

Book: Laws of Attraction

Hint: "Ten Lords A-Leaping: These lords are leaping VERY early on. 💯"

Chapter 1

Scene: Sadie McGraw's office

Thanks, @lizzybeth1986

Day Eleven: December 22

Book: Wake the Dead

Hint: "Eleven Pipers Piping: You'll need five fingers to play this pipe. 🖐️"

Chapter 3

Scene: Second scene in Red Meadows Cabin discussing the surge, after the upstairs has been cleared

Thanks, @alasforher

Day Twelve: December 23

Book: Roommates with Benefits

Hint: "Twelve Drummers Drumming: These drummers are marching in twos. 🥁"

Chapter 3

Scene: Opening party scene in the dorm room

Thanks, @alasforher

More to Come

*Note, according to PB, you don't have to click on the item or do anything special, once you past that scene/chapter, the app will remember it and the rewards will be granted at the end of the event.

*Rewards will be granted on 12/26 at 11 AM PST

#choices #playchoices #choices game #choices book club #mother of the year #the duchess affair #bachelorette party #the cursed heart

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princepotatosack · 3 months

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What If Choices' Race-customizable LIs Had Surnames Reflective Of Their Ethnicity?: An Experiment Just For FUn (Part 1/3)

As we're probably all aware, Choices has been going ham on their formula of "one LI whose appearance is choosable" for the past few years (ever since they started drawing criticism for narratively favoring white male LIs, i.e., when the Ramsey bubble finally burst; draw your own conclusions), and these LIs almost always have canon names or default names associated with white Anglo Americans. This is one of several reasons these LIs are described by players as "white-coded", or written as if they are white men with any changes reduced to a one-line afterthought, which kind of nullifies the point of romancing an LI of color.

Getaway Girls impressed me with branching that gave two of the six Jordan appearance options (the ones described in the asset files as "Indian") the surname Paudwal, as opposed to the other options that had the surname Parker. And then they NEVER DID IT AGAIN (ingnoring Kiss of Death cause it was a weird case I don't know how to categorize)!!

So here's me assigning surnames to race-custom LIs of other books because it's fun for me:

DISCLAIMER: The Choices single LI formula has for the most part consisted of a white LI, a Black LI, and one or occasionally two other option(s) of varying races. Framing it as white, Black, and "wildcard" raises a lot of questions about racial dynamics and percieved binaries in the United States which are NOT the point of this post but I didn't want to not address it. Also have to address that I will not be assigning new surnames to the Black LI options since most of them are American and a lot of Black Americans have Anglo surnames due to the community's history with enslavement and enslavers, and Choices has simply not given us enough lore to determine if each of the custom race LI Black options are African (or another background) and which languages are a part of their heritages. Would really appreciate if they started writing more African LIs though. Also, similar reasoning applies to face options described as "Native American" in the files re: American colonization.

ALPHA

Channing Luna

These face options are described in the files as "Hispanic". Luna was a Spanish-language surname sound match for Lowe, and plus it also means "moon"!! Yippee werewolf theme!!!!!

Channing Liu

These face options are described in the files as "Asian". The Chinese surname Liu was just the closest sound match to "Lowe" tbh.

BABY BUMP

Clint Kao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". He reminds me a little of the Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao (rip) so in my head he's Taiwanese like meeee!!! Which sucks cause I didn't like this LI that much lmao. Anyway Kao is the Taiwanese spelling of the surname that is Anglicized as Gao in Chinese Pinyin so I gave it to him cause he reminds me of Godfrey Gao (rip). Not a spelling match but then again there aren't any Chinese surnames that start with the same letter and sound as Covington (e.g., Chang and Cai both start with the letter C but start with the sounds "ch" and "ts" respectively.).

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

Charles Quiñones / Charlotte Quiñones

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Went with sound matches since there aren't many (any?) Spanish-language surnames that start with K like King.

Charles Kim / Charlotte Kim

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I thought Kim was a pretty good sound and spelling match for King. But it did make me realize that although Kim is the most common surname in Korea by a lot, a Choices Wiki search revealed to me that there's only one character in the entire Choicesverse with that surname and it's the FBI guy from Veil of Secrets?

DISTANT SHORES

Edward Mao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". I originally chose the Japanese surname Morishima because it was an initial spelling match, multisyllabic, and had the ending "ma/mer" sound, but I wanted to honor the great Ming Dynasty Chinese tradition of piracy and its far-reaching legacy. So I went with the Chinese Mao.

Also I know he's canonically from like England which would explain why he's an 18th-century Asian man with an English first name but just for fun if he was from China I think he would be called Mao Aiwei. Or Morishima Eiji if he was from Japan.

Edward Montoya

This face option is described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Montoya was a relatively close Spanish-language sound match.

And if he had a Spanish first name too he would be Eduardo Montoya ovb.

THE DUCHESS AFFAIR

Nathaniel Pandit / Natalie Pandit

These face options are described in the asset files as "Indian". Not a lot of sound matches for Pippin but the Sanskrit surname Pandit has the intial "P" and the ending "i" sound, plus it means "scholar" and fun fact, this word is also the origin of the English term "pundit".

Also since in my research I learned that the vast majority of Indian immigrants to England in this time period adopted English language aliases for use in English society, I came up with some potential real names for these face options: Nathuram for Nathaniel and Nalini for Natalie.

FIRST COMES LOVE

Blake Mai

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I decided on Mai since it could be Vietnamese or broadly Sinophone.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Blaine Juárez

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Not any Spanish-language surnames that start with the letters "Ha" as far as I know so I went with a sound match.

GUARDED

Ash Harada

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". The Japanese surname Harada is a sound and spelling match and also one of the most common surnames in Japan! EASAYY!!! Though headcanoning them as Japanese brings the total number of Choicesverse Japanese-Americans Named Ash to three. Laugh out loud.......

Part 2

Part 3

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zoeywades-spouse · 1 year

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Lmao seeing people rightfully dragging PB in the comments is wonderful

#choices #playchoices #choices stories you play #the duchess affair

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playchoicesconfessions · 6 months

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Sent by anonymous

‘I wanted to like Nat in The Duchess Affair but she’s actually really annoying and sex obsessed. MC is trying to navigate a serious crisis to protect her sister and Nat is here whining about MC not risking it all for the biscuit. Major turn off.’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

#choices the duchess affair #the duchess affair #choices tda #tda #nat pippin #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

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jmojellybae · 9 months

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Did…did choices actually make the cursed horse ad into a reality…

I’m gonna be sick

#fuck this dumb app #choices stories you play #choices #playchoices #the duchess affair

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the-unconquered-queen · 1 year

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Not another -Affair book 💀

Come up with something else COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE

#playchoices #the duchess affair #choices tda

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farizrz · 8 months

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Just some name day in choices in two weeks again.

#playchoices #choices stories you play #choicesgame #choices game #choicesstoriesyouplay #play choices #crimes of passion #crimes of passion ii #first comes love #the billionaire's baby #kindred #blades of light and shadow ii #blades of light and shadow #the duchess affair #dirty little secrets

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sciralta · 1 year

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Okay but how are some of you shocked that the titular duchess in The Duchess Affair is having an affair.

#‘she’s MARRIED!?’ girl do you not know what an affair is #playchoices #choices #the duchess affair #choices the duchess affair #choices tda

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sporticus1234 · 1 year

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Decided to play the first chapter for the hell of it and...

1) Re-used MC faces...no comment

2) The fact that the MC and the Duke are MARRIED? And she’s going to have an affair while she’s MARRIED?! At least Sam and Sophia weren’t married when Sam had his affair. This just adds that extra bit of ick onto it knowing she’s married and cheating on her husband.

3) They’ve already established in the first few seconds that the Duke will be the one at fault for the MC’s affair because as we know, any female MC in these gender-locked stories cannot be anything other than strong, empowered, and faultess in the PB universe. And how the MC is just a sheer example of massive perfection in society’s eyes like every other freaking MC in these stories

4) Of course, after one touch from the love interest, she already had butterflies in her stomach and had her cheeks flushed after a simple compliment.

5) The fact that the love interest is supposed to be remarkably attractive yet the Duke is fat and will eventually be the antagonist in the series..says everything I need to know about that...

6) Already we get the flirty banter but 1700s version of it and it’s not even been 1 diamond scene with the Tutor.

7) Instead of making this story a single love interest and making the Duke sexist and misogynistic, they easily could’ve written the Duke better and had both the Duke and Tutor as love interests. But nope. Can’t have multiple love interests in these stories anymore.

All in all, it’s nothing new. It’s just taking PB going “Let’s take Desire and Decorum and make it smutty”

#playchoices #my thoughts #the duchess affair #choices the duchess affair

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masked-alien-lesbian · 10 months

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❤️❤️❤️ the wlw routes are getting better and better lately! ❤️❤️❤️

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choices-binglebonkus · 7 months

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tea-stained-notes · 7 months

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choices used to have really cool stories with creative plots, interesting worlds, memorable characters and charming romances

now it's all 'a hyper-attractive, emotionally unavailable stranger walks into the room. you want to fuck them immediately.' and that's the plot for 18 chapters

#and dear lord let's not even talk about the fucking covers #choices stories you play #Choices #pixelberry #pixelberry studios #the nanny affair #dirty little secrets #the duchess affair #the billionaire's baby #roommates with benefits

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princepotatosack · 9 months

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ibuprofen wasnt invented yet in the 1700s

#playchoices #the duchess affair #choices the duchess affair #the duchess affair choices #choices tda #nat pippin #nathaniel pippin #natalie pippin

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playchoicesconfessions · 6 months

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Sent by @cadybear420

‘No because it is actually very hard to take TDA seriously. Like I want to take it seriously, it's the one affair story on this app where there's actually a believable sympathetic reason for it. So this could be an interesting story about how women (especially sapphic women) did not have a lot of options back in those days. But it's really hard to take the story seriously when Nat's an entitled prick, I'm forced to watch animals straight up mating, and MC gets stimulation from horseback riding. Just like with MTFL, the sexual tone is incredibly off.’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

#choices the duchess affair #the duchess affair #choices tda #tda #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

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a-cloud-for-dreams · 7 months

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Me at all the pro-cheating/bland smut books PB has written

#for legal reasons this is a JOKE #priya is my spirit animal she sucks as a person but AAAAAAAAH #playchoices #priya lacroix #the billionaire's baby #the nanny affair #sam dalton #wolf bride #the duchess affair #surrender

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