Past, present and future

Hello, all!  It's Friday, the sun is shining, (well it was earlier today when I started writing this,) the new Beta build is up and things are generally pretty good.  I'll be busy for most of the weekend, but please do keep those bug reports coming and I'll action them as soon as possible.  I've done some more work on Chapter 4 this morning and am mentally planning for maybe one more beta build before I start adding the 0.5 stuff into the game.

I also put up the first school council poll since completing the remaster, and there will soon be more.  So today's piece is a glimpse into what the future holds for each of the story threads we have so far.  I've tried to avoid spoilers, so obviously I won't be able to say too much about some of them.  For council members, this may help inform future decisions, for everyone else, it'll hopefully just be cool.

The main storyline

The main storyline is planned up to the end of Chapter 5, which is the second half of the Reign of Jess story.  However, so much extra has gone into it recently that there may actually end up being a Reign of Jess part 3.  I probably won't know if I'm making Chapter 5 too big until I start actually making it, but there's reasonable odds at this point, that it may end up being a three-parter.
In Act 2, things continue to develop.  We'll be seeing some great new locations including the Royal Palace and reconnecting with some other characters from earlier on in the game as well as plenty of new ones.  Perhaps there's even an audience with Princess Selina herself in our girl's future...

Poppy's story: The Bad girl/popular girl war
This one is going to be great.  Poppy's story is a three-act play, and in part 2, the stakes get even higher.  The popular girls strike back, and just as Poppy threatened in the first part, neutrality is not an option.  Pick your side.  Meet Angel, the most feared and ruthless popular girl at Alancias.  Will she be the girl to tame Poppy?  You'll decide that.
The next part of this story also offers Missy a choice many players have been asking for - to join the bad girls.

The school wrestling questline
Queen of the Ring introduced Alancia's first after-school activity (unless you count being spanked as an activity,) but also gave us a glimpse into what might come next: the interschool wrestling tournament.  The six intrepid Alancias girls will have to train hard if they're to represent their school.
I have school wrestling fights half worked out in my head, and I hope some of the stuff I make for them should be transferrable to the strip-wrestling fights we've already seen too.  This is another oft-requested feature, and even before the next part of the story, I hope to get the school wrestling club fleshed out a lot more.

Emily's story
Our sultry resident milf will be back in one of the upcoming storylines, (I don't want to say which,) but she does also have her own story arc planned.  She doesn't have a relationship quest planned as such, but I have more ideas for her (those who played 0.1 may remember a bug that briefly appeared where you got to read part of a scene I have planned for her.)
I also have a quest in mind in which Missy must help Emily with a problem she's having, and will be richly rewarded for doing so.

With sex.  (In case that wasn't clear.)

The Prefects story
Hayley and Cindy have been waiting patiently since 0.1 for more scenes.  They'll be getting them, and later on, unlocking the prefect lounge will have additional in-game effects, such as being able to skip lessons.  Be careful how you use it though, Miss Paris is likely to become quite annoyed if you overuse this privilege...

More relationship quests
Missy can add to her tally of girlfriends with several planned relationship quests. Currently, these are Jessica, Miss Paris and Becky.  Each of them will have their own unique arc, similar to the ones Abbie and Lola have now.  Jessica's will be fairly involved, and Miss Paris's will take us to some new and interesting parts of the school, while Becky's will be a more traditional girl-meets-girl sort of affair.  Other characters may get relationship quests in the future, depending on how they develop and who proves most popular with players.

Continuing the existing relationship stories
Abbie and Lola may be Missy's girlfriends now, but that doesn't mean we've seen the last of them.  Just as you can continue increasing Abbie's score after her first sex scene until you get the Miss Abbie scene, so too will there be more newe milestones to unlock down the road.  She definitely hasn't finished cosplaying as Miss Paris yet, and it's unlikely that Lola will stop at just a little light bondage either...

The red light district
In the next update, we'll be able to progress our career as a lapdancer at Cervexa, but that's far from all we'll be seeing in the red light district.  We'll be visiting other clubs, legal and otherwise, meeting more new wrestling opponents at the Pussy Pit and perhaps even engaging in a spot of prostitution.  But will Missy jump through the requisite hoops to become officially licensed, or will she risk doing it without?

And much much more...
I have so many ideas buzzing around in my evil mind, it sometimes feels overwhelming! I have a quest planned in which Karen will buy a domestic slave girl. Things don't go as planned. I also have a half-developed idea for a story in which a girl will move to Sapphory from the outside world. How will she react when Missy attempts to show her the ways of girl-on-girl? There's the long-trailed crime and punishment system. And then there's ideas that for now are just sparks of creativity - How would Karen react to having to attend parent's evening? What if the girls played D&D? How about a return to the hospital with Missy being used for more medical school classes? Even a crazy idea for a quest that takes place entirely in Missy's mind.

It'll be up to our school council to decide which of these get priority, assuming the Reign of Jess is able to briefly satiate everyone's need for more of the beautiful brunette terror. Which are you most looking forward to?

Have a great weekend!
Trinian