One of the Girls

Hello everyone, another Friday is upon us, and today I'd like to talk a little about bad girl Missy. This is a feature that's been requested often and I still suspect may have played a role in helping Avenging Angel to defeat Chapter 5 in December's poll. Now you finally have your grubby mits on those shiny new ribbons, what do you get to do with them?

Bad Girl Cred

First-up, your standing in the group matters! Missy is an unusual RPG Maker game in that the stats that matter the most aren't your combat stats, which change remarkably little as you progress through the story, due to the game's lesser focus on combat, but those that govern personality and relationships. The most important of these being your relationship scores with individual characters, since they are necessary to complete romance quests.  These are the closest thing the game has to a grind, but the idea is that you should gain them naturally by just playing the game and making the right decisions.

Next is your reputation. You have a score for how highly Miss Paris regards you, which changes depending on whether you're a good girl or not (or at least, if you are misbehaving, such as by wearing the wrong underwear, whether you get caught.) You have a school reputation score that you improve by helping other girls with problems and which makes characters more likely to listen to you or do what you want. (For now, this also governs your relationship with the popular girls, since to them, your most important asset is how popular you are in school.) You also have a score for your level of antagonism towards Jess, and another for the wider group of bad girls. In case you're wondering, some of these are invisible and there's not currently a way to see what they are, the rest can be viewed on the wall in Missy's bedroom.

With the mini-update, a new stat will arrive - your standing within the bad girls. (Assuming you joined them.)  You will now have the opportunity to impress or annoy your fellow bad girls, and like the other stats, this one will also govern their reactions to you. Help them to raise it, hinder them to lower it. Climb the ranks within the group, or be a maverick outsider!

Poll Results

About three weeks ago, I ran this just-for-fun poll, then completely forgot to mention its results, because they're quite interesting.  Not the massive majority that loyally served Poppy and are still kissing her ass, that was to be expected nor that the second most popular option was to help Angel to beat her, but what's curious is how (relatively) few people opted to join the bad girls!

Of those that did, we have a roughly 50/50 split  between helping Poppy or Angel to win. (The help Angel then become a bad girl anyway route is my favourite, so if you're looking for something to do on a second playthrough, give it a try.) No respondents helped Poppy just for the hell of it (probably the route that makes least sense, so understandable.)

It means that one thing for me to bear in mind as I work through the mini-update is that the majority of supporters are still on the subby route and so not to go too overboard with bad girl Missy stuff that most of you won't see on your first playthrough. That said, many of the options available to Bad Girl Missy basically make things easier with the other bad girls - they're less inclined to bully you when you're one of them - well... with one exception....

Have a great weekend!

Trinian