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Sept - Left Hand Magic Poll 2/2 - Arianna's Future
🕑 Added 2023-09-05 03:37:52 +0000 UTCAlright everyone! This is the second Left Hand Magic Poll of the month. If you're a $5+ patron, make sure you vote in the regular focus poll too! This poll is going to be open to All Patrons, as I want as much feedback as possible. I mentioned during the last Left Hand Magic Poll that this poll needed to happen, so...here it is!
Arianna! Poor Arianna is proving to be a bit of a bone of contention!
A bit of background, first! Back in the summer months of last year, I ran a series of polls allowing my Patrons of the time to weigh in on Secondary Kinks to give each character. Each of the four girls had their own poll, with the results heavily influencing the direction I took each of them in. Trix, for example, gained her Pet Play kink, Talia her Cosplay Fetish, and so on. Arianna's Poll was the one that surprised me the most! I'd included an option for Drone Content...which ended up winning. You can see the poll via the link that is this sentence. But the relevant section of it is thus:
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Drone Experience: This one is, I think, slightly more esoteric. And one that I need to explicitly clarify. There are a lot of non-consensual and dehumanizing versions of the drone kink floating around in hentai art and such. As you would (I hope) expect from me, that wouldn't be the case here. Specifically, for Arianna and Mira, the Drone kink would take the form of Arianna using her Spiritualist powers. She might, for example, let a kinky spirit take control of Mira's body and have a good time at the gloryhole...with Mira just along for the ride (with Mira's consent, of course). Conversely, this kink would also include things like a spirit-infused latex bodysuit. Mira is still in control...but the suit would be rewarding/punishing her and encouraging her to obey. While in the suit that protects her identity, Mira might be ordered to perform as a dancer, or act as a model for a live demo of Arianna's kinky machines in a BDSM club. Or any number of other such things. It's possible one or both of them might 'accidentally' replace one of the sexbots Arianna is working on, for a little fun...
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That is the option that won. You can then, I think, see the conundrum I'm faced with the backlash I got involving the Glory Hole scene in Arianna's Route. That particular scene was literally given as an example in the original poll. Though, of course, I decided on altering the mechanism for the early experience to be a bit more hypnosis oriented. What I created with Arianna's glory hole scene was 100% in line with what I'd advertised the Drone option to be. Yet, I got more kickback against it than I've gotten against any other scene in any game I've ever made. Multiple people, both Patrons and Non-Patrons, contacted me about Arianna's route being 'suddenly not lesbian.'
This led to be creating a 'skip' ability for that particular scene, which was implemented in the last build. However, it doesn't resolve the issue going forward. Turning Arianna's route into a 100% lesbian route would be a major departure from the original plan. Oh, there wasn't going to be a lot of female/male content. But there was going to be some. Just as there was likely going to be at least one or two 'group/orgy type' scenes with Mira as a 'faceless drone' or 'sexbot.'
Now, it is still possible to shift Arianna's Route away from that. Essentially, instead of going the Drone Route, it would be doubling down on the Hypnosis angle and keeping the content mostly between Arianna and Mira. There is going to be some Exhibitionist content. And the involvement of at least one more female character in the route. The seeds for that are already too deeply placed to avoid. But I can shift it away from any male involvement. If that's what people want. It would be a fairly major rewrite, though. Which is why I'm bringing it up for a vote. Note right now, that BOTH is not an option. It would add months onto the development cycle for the game to try and make a full alternative route, and I'm simply not willing to do that. So, instead, this is a straight up and down vote between the two possibilities:
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Option 1: Stick to the original plan, as described in the original poll. Drone focused with all of what the description implies.
Option 2: Shift from 'Drone' to 'Hypnosis' as the main theme, and make the Route Lesbian-Only. (The Glory Hole scene will remain either way, but would remain skipable)
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That's the whole show here, folks. Vote for your preference.
Comments
George Lever
Like as not we'll both have to restart at some point due to diminishing save slots and forgetting what's where in the files. I'm already getting to the point where I have a page of saves for each character and I'm running out of room due to variations .
Mithile AlitaRaia
Ok, sorry but im not gonna join this poll, i think you alrdy know what my answer would be, but as i have send before, i have mutiple playthroughs going at the same time anyway, so i can play any one of them, So i will just go with the masses for this poll, if i need to re-start i will its not an issue :)
