Announcing Best Frenemies: Jess's Relationship Quest!

The school council has spoken and the fourteenth Missy quest will be Jessica's relationship story. The council have made a liar out of me, turns out Becky isn't next and I'll have to change that message when you first meet her! Poll discussion follows after the main article.

Beautiful, intelligent and rich. Jessica Merkin should be one of the most popular girls in school. Just one problem though: she's also a horrible, obnoxious bully!

In this quest, you will finally have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the super-bitch brat of Lady Gardens herself! And best of all, the way you do so will be entirely on your own terms. Maybe you'll decide you want to win over the horrible bully with a sweet yuri ending, or maybe you want one or the other of you to end up collared at the other one's feet. Whatever your poison, I've got you!

Jessica's relationship quest will be the first one in the game to have multiple possible outcomes. You can become girlfriends, as you did with Abbie and Lola, or you can dominate her or have her dominate you. Because this particular character is more divisive than others, you can even reject her altogether if you hate her that much.

The plot: Miss Paris is sick of the drama between you two and finally moves decisively to end it. Involving the school councillor Helena Fafine is an extreme step but one she finally feels is necessary. You are to have resolved your differences before the school disco in a week's time. But a bizarre twist in this tale throws the two of you together in a way you had never expected...

Romance Jess, bow at her feet or finally force her to her knees in Best Frenemies: Headlining Missy 0.10!

Poll Discussion

It turns out that all of the drama this time around happened in the heats, with close contests between Chapter Seven and Miss Paris's relationship quest, then again with Just a Phase and new entrant Charity Begins at School, a side quest in which Missy and her friends mince around in slave outfits in public a lot. In the final though, Jess dominated and takes gold on her second attempt.

It might have been interesting to know what people's second preferences would have been had there not been such a big fish in this small pond. Chapter Seven's support seems to understate the desire shown earlier in its heat to see the inside of a Sapphorian maximum security prison, (I remind you, this is a country where they put naughty high school girls in strict bondage and sensory deprivation, so imagine what they do to the real villains...) and also I'm a little surprised that the Poppy fan club didn't put up more of a fight in the final, though as it almost certainly has a lot of crossover with the Jess fan club, maybe I shouldn't be. (For the uninitiated, this time around, I let slip that Poppy will be putting in an appearance in Just a Phase, though it's not a story about her.)

Turnout was surprisingly low throughout. In the final round, 55% of eligible voters participated, and this was roughly in line with what we'd seen during the heats. As always, the abstainers could easily have swung it. Strange but it is what it is.

In any case, we, the people have triumphed, and work will now begin on this long-awaited quest!

Have a great weekend.
Trinian