Relationships take effort

Hi everyone.

Progress on 0.10 continues. Writing on Jess's relationship quest is proceeding and I'll shortly be on to the much more fun step of making some pretty renders for the scenes. There'll also be a sizeable coding stage, as this quest features the second adventure-style "dungeon" stage to be added; (the first was Scarlett's hideout in Fivaviana.)

"A dungeon, though, you say?" do I hear you exclaim, "In a relationship quest? What sort of foolishness are you planning, Trinian?"

Ah, well, that will become clear! Both previous relationship quests have thrown us curveballs - in Abbie's, before you can complete the relatively straightforward task of romancing a girl that was already into you, you first had to go and clean Emily's in a saucy maid outfit and get "sex lessons" into the bargain. Meanwhile, to get past Lola's gatekeeping parents, you had to participate in the school quiz.

Other side quests are even madder. Poppy's story contains you being brought home by the guards, and/or Poppy being led away by them, while Madeline's involves you being put to work in the Red Light District.

That's before we get to the main storyline in which a package fetch quest results in you getting a job as a stripper, you are kidnapped by your own mother, and a schoolgirl's evil scheme to get one over on her rival involves you in corporate espionage, illegal slavers and crazy experimental mind-wipe drugs. This is is a story where the mundane process of going to school day in day out melds seamlessly with wacky and off-the-wall situations.

Jessica is a more extreme character, and her relationship quest calls for something correspondingly left-field. So what event is it that will finally bring the two of you together? Well, that's as much as I want to reveal for today.

Until next time!

Trinian