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Honor Bound Early Access: Chapter 3
🕑 Added 2023-10-03 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
Dear subscribers, I'm so pleased to share Chapter 3 today - play it here!
I'd love to hear what you think if you have a minute - I'm always interested to hear how you're feeling about the characters and your PC, whether you're feeling like you're having an effect on things, and how everything is feeling for you.
The early access demo is now around 135,000 words! Things you can expect from this chapter:
- go on a trip with students and their families, all of whom will be paying a lot of attention to how you conduct yourself
- more friendly, flirty, and tense developments, both between you and between other characters
- a confrontation!
- you can kiss some people; you can sleep with some people (one at a time... so far); you can have some romantic interludes without either of those things...
- stick to your job or abandon your responsibilities
Note! The intimate scenes in this game are a LOT more explicit than the ones in Creme de la Creme or Royal Affairs, and somewhat more so than the ones in Noblesse Oblige. If you don't want to see that, pick the fade to black options or switch sexual content on and off using the stats screen. If you do want to see that, please do let me know what you think, anonymously or otherwise - I'm well aware of the pitfalls of writing these kinds of scenes! In particular the variables around anatomy are pretty complicated and I want to make sure there aren't any errors there.
Something else I'm especially curious about is the conversation with Fiore about being trans; I am not 100% sure about its placement and framing because Fiore is a pretty private person, but I want to show that being trans is considered ordinary in this society. What I do know is that I'd like the PC to have been aware of it before Fiore talks about it (hence the Chapter 2 Catarina conversation). If you have any thoughts about it, whether you played the scene as cis or trans, please drop me a line - again I don't mind whether it's under your name or anonymously, it's very useful either way.
Enjoy!
Comments
Hannah Powell-Smith
Yes - Korzha/Matia and Fiore/Savarel are the main ones 😃 Raffi can be romanced in an open relationship but isn't compatible with them. Denario is complicated and is mostly not compatible with the others, but I need to figure out some of his stuff as I get to it.
Jinx
Also the question begs, will polygamy be a thing
Jinx
It was certainly... graphic 😂
Hannah Powell-Smith
Haha, that is definitely what I was going for - that it's not about being trans, it's that pretty much anything Fiore wrote that was personal or Catarina thinks is boring (most things!) would be eye-rollingly annoying to her!
emelsi
I like a lot that Catarina just rolls her eyes about Fiore being trans. It's like "Ughhhh my dad always talks about barbecuing" level of teenager I'm-so-over-it. Makes it clear that it's not a big deal, it isn't even a small deal, it's just a parent being embarrassing for existing.
