LawnDawn

<img src="LD_home-street_header.png" class="topimage"> //You've just moved to the city! You've got a new flat, but now what? (set: $CakeOffVisit to "no")(set: $AppVisit to "no") To start, your landlady, Frida, wants to talk to you.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Talk to Frida//->BEGIN]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| That's you all settled, little miss. Welcome to the city! (set: $FridaAttend to "no") Fair warning, rent'll always be around 80% of your salary. Them's just the rules. Anyhoo... you ready to party? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Party?->01-YOU-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What's that about rent?->01-YOU-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yeah, you've gotta have a flatwarming party! Your job doesn't start 'til next week, right? That gives you five days to get inviting people. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You mean seven days->01-NEED-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I don't know anyone->01-NEED-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Don't sweat it. My rent raises are only ever so slightly bigger than any median wage increases. Slightly more frequent too. That's landlording 101. Landlording it over you, am I right? Ha! Anyhoo, who's coming to your flatwarming? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I don't know anyone->01-NEED-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Hang on, about this rent->01-NEED-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| What, you gonna have a party on a Sunday? With everyone having work the next day? Have it Saturday, like a normal person. Gives you the weekdays to round up your mates. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What mates?->01-GO-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Think I'll skip the party->01-GO-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Got no mates? Well that's no good. Why've you got no mates? Are you... y'know... Bit of a fucking shit? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What No! I don't think so->01-SEARCH-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[They're all back home->01-SEARCH-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You sure? I mean, fair play if you are. You do you. Shits go far in this town, ha! Not me though, I'm sweet as with everyone. Unless you miss rent! Then you've got 12 hours notice to get out - ha! Not a joke. Please read your contract. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Could we invite your friends?->01-FIND-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[It's just I'm new in town->01-FIND-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| My... friends? Ah, well, y'see, I didn't say nothing about friends. Just said I'm friendly. There's a difference. I'm a busy woman. Gotta collect rents. Gotta collect deposits for them that move out. Gotta figure out why they owe me the deposit. I don't have time to be making friends. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Want to come to my flatwarming?->01-TAKE-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[How long have you lived here?->01-TAKE-B]]

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Really? Well, yeah. Ok, I guess. I mean, I'll have to check my schedule. (set: $FridaAttend to "yes") Tell you what, sure. I'll come. Just let me delete these voicemails, free up some time. They're just tenants bothering me for crap. It's like, "oh no, the hot water tap is too hot, get us a plumber" or, "oh no, we have mice, get us traps" or, "oh no, those rusty pipes burst over that exposed wiring and now our cat is dead." Come on people, we have rules about pets. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[It'll be good to have you there->01-RETURN-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What are the rules about pets?->01-RETURN-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Can't wait! Who else is coming? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Guess I should find some guests->01-CHANGE-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Do you know anyone else?->01-CHANGE-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| That's the spirit! Go out there and find some guests. (set: $FridaTask to "no") A tip for you though, because you're all a small town yokel type. Sorry, "yokel" is old fashioned. I mean you're, y'know, lacking in culture, simple, y'know, a bit of a chav. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Why not call me a ruffian or vagabond while you're at it?->01-CHANGE-A2]]

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Got no mates, huh? That's a toughie. All the same, you gotta have a party. You want all kinds there. Variations means interactions, and that's the key. Like mixing chemicals. The right combination can be explosive. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Explosive?->01-NEED-B2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| No party? I mean, if you say so. It's your flat. Well, my flat that you rent according to a non-negotiable contracted agreement. Is it because you've got no mates? You're friendless, right? Is that because you're kind of a pain to be around? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[My friends are all back home->01-SEARCH-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You're a pain->01-SEARCH-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I get it. You've left everyone else back there with their small town ways, their failing industries, their broken futures, their inability to be woke. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You're describing what we're like in movies->01-SEARCH-B2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Then you gotta get out there. Make some friends. You folk are supposed to be the friendly ones. Not like us city-dwellers. Miserable lot here. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Miserable?->01-FIND-B2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Lived here all my life, love. Born and bred. Did the old husbandry thing. (set: $FridaAttend to "no") That's animal husbandry. I bred livestock. Hard in a flat this size. Your mattress might smell like hay, 'cause it's filled with hay. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Not feathers? Like from chickens?->01-TAKE-B2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh right, yes, pet rules. Animals are the greatest. Scientifically proven to improve your mental health. You can't have them though. Except in some cases. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Some cases?->01-RETURN-B2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Me know anyone? I wish. Too busy for that. Why do you think I'm desperate for you to have a flatwarming party? (set: $FridaTask to "no") You are going to have one, right? Please say you'll have one. I need to talk to people who don't own me rent. They're such whingers. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not, I'll get right on it->01-ENDING]]

<img src="LD_home-street_header.png" class="topimage"> //Looks like you're having a housewarming party. Spend this week finding people you would like to invite. If they accept of course.// <div class="successes">(if: $FridaAttend is "yes")[☻ Frida's coming to your party!](if: $FridaAttend is "no")[☹ Frida isn't one of them]</div> <div class="successes">(if: $FridaTask is "no")[☹ Your rent still sucks](if: $FridaTask is "yes")[☻ Your rent isn't as terrifying]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Go to sleep->MONDAY]]</div>

<img src="LD_monday-top.png" class="topimage"> <div class="choicebutton">[[MONDAY->MONDAY-B]]</div> <img src="LD_monday-bottom.png" class="topimage">

//It's Monday. Time to meet some people and see if there's anybody to invite to this housewarming party of yours. Where to begin?// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Take a baking class//->CAKEOFF-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Let's try a dating app//->DATINGAPP-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Go to a coffee shop//->COFFEESHOP-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Not just rent. There's your deposit. Letting fees, inventory fees, credit check fees, referencing fees... It all costs, kinda, and I don't see why I should pay it. Or not make an amazing profit from it. What if all the dancing people'll definitely be doing at your party wears down the carpet? I'll need to replace it. Well, not //actually// replace it. But charge you to. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[That's natural wear and tear->01-GO-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I haven't even started my job yet->01-GO-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Wear and tear... accidental damage... intentional defacement... it's all the same, isn't it? Contractually speaking, I mean. You wanna avoid it, just have house rules for your party. Shoes off by the door. Plastic cups. Nobody allowed in the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, etc. Y'know, be all uptight and crap about it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You're being crap->01-SEARCH-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Maybe no party...->01-SEARCH-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Okay, that hurts. Talk to like that to anyone else and you won't get any guests to your flatwarming. I mean, you'll fit in amazingly well in this city so... actually you'll get guests. But you gotta be able to take it as much as you can give it. Like me. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Don't talk to people much do you?->01-FIND-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Need to find people to invite first->01-FIND-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yeah, it's just... Landlording is my life. Doesn't leave much room for anything else. Not friends. Not mates. Not acquaintances. Just holidays, my own home, financial security, freedom from indentured servitude... boring stuff. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Could we be friends?->01-TAKE-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sounds nice to me->01-TAKE-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Friends? Like... mates? Does that mean I'm invited to your flatwarming? (set: $FridaAttend to "yes") Oh, who am I kidding? Of course it does! I'll be there. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[One guest down...->01-TAKE-C2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Just save for it. Manage your finances. See what you can cut. Not rent, obviously. That's mine. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What else is there?->01-RETURN-C2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Well... if it was an //interesting// pet... (set: $FridaTask to "yes") Tell you what, let's give you that option. I'll reduce your rent by 3%. Don't frown. That's actually a fair whack. Your rent is super high - ha! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Guess I better prepare for the party->01-ENDING]]

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I know! Then you could've invited your colleagues. Instant social circle! One you don't have to build yourself 'cause it's been preselected for you based on the undoubtedly robust hiring policies at your company. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Maybe no party...->01-SEARCH-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Not sure I'd want my boss here->01-SEARCH-E]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| No flatwarming? Oh, love, you have to. You need a social circle to survive this city and parties are the best way to meet people. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[First I need a social circle to invite->01-FIND-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What's the second best way?->01-FIND-E]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| If you build it, they will come. That's what my dad always said. Wait, not my dad. Kevin... Conestar? That's what he always, well, not always... he said it a couple of times, in that one movie. Actually, was it him that said it? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I think it was ghosts->01-FIND-D2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Meh... money is overrated. (set: $FridaAttend to "no") It's like oxygen. It's just there and I don't have to think about it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Be a quiet party without oxygen->01-RETURN-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[But you're taking my oxygen->01-RETURN-E]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Not if you get out there and get inviting people! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I can't afford a party->01-CHANGE-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Ok, where shall I start?->01-CHANGE-E]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| //*sigh*// (set: $FridaTask to "yes") Okay, how about this? First month's rent is fr- is half- is 18% off if you use the money to throw yourself a flatwarming. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Deal. I'll go find some guests tomorrow->01-ENDING]]

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh you gotta get close to the top brass. That's where the fellas are. Plus they've got the cash to splash. And they all know each other 'cause they went to the same schools, or their dads did, so you only have to get to know one or two and you know them all. I mean, sure, there's other ways to meet people. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What other ways?->01-FIND-E]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What about your friends?->01-FIND-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Erm... dating apps? There's a popular one called //Wood-U-Rarrrther//. Or look for some niche ones, just for peoples who like this and that, so you avoid the common riff raff. I can tell it'll be a great party. Get 'em drunk, that's the trick. I'm jealous. My place is too nice to have a proper party. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Guests can provide their own drinks->01-TAKE-E]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Do you want to come?->01-TAKE-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You gotta give them something. Nobody brings enough for the whole night, not if you're doing it right. (set: $FridaAttend to "yes") People leave without finishing their cheap supermarket drinks? They're leaving 'cause of you. Fact. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Or because the drinks are crap->01-TAKE-E2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I guess, but I'm not gonna let you live here for free, am I? How many people you bringing? Loads? I hope it's loads. Be a tight fit but the more the merrier I say! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Don't even know where to start->01-CHANGE-E]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[As many as I can get, I guess->01-CHANGE-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh I don't know. (set: $FridaTask to "no") Join a club or take a class or something. Isn't that what people say? Go sing in a choir. Shit like that, that nobody ever actually does. Who knows, maybe it works? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Put myself out there you mean? Ok->01-ENDING]]

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> //Let's download this dating app. It's called **Wood-U-Rarrrther**. The idea is that instead of swiping yes or no, it gives you two choices each time and you choose one. If you both match, you chat!// <div class="choicebutton">[[Open the app->02-APP-YOU-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_app_kanebert.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[**KANE ⇔ BERT**] //These are the first two choices. Which to go for? There's **Kane**, who says in his profile he's a mountain-climbing doctor, or **Bert**, who says he's the one true king.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Kane//->02-APP-NEED-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Bert//->02-APP-NEED-B]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**KANE:**<img src="LD_kane-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| OMG! Ur the 1st match Ive had in years!!! & ur gorgers!! U must B perfect. I luv you. Pls hav me!!! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Unmatch... UNMATCH!->02-APP-GO-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| hey :) i'm Bert... i'm 5'11... like to go to the gym, and i'm the one true king! this lady in a lake gave me some sword so u know it's true! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Are you really the king?->02-APP-GO-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//UNMATCH//->02-APP-GO-A1]]</div>

<div class="appalert">^^//Wood-U-Rarrrther// would like to access your location, calendar, address book, social media history, mother’s maiden name, weight, height, hopes and dreams. This information will not be shared with third-parties. Definition of third parties is confidential and subject to change.^^</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//AGREE//->02-APP-GO-A2]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| i most undoubtedly am, my dear. do you think the lake lady, that soaking siren, that damp dame, would lie? to me? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Who's this lake lady?->02-APP-SEARCH-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[And what does a king do?->02-APP-SEARCH-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_app_samconnor.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[**RAM ⇔ CONNOR**] //Two more choices. Who to pick? There's **Ram**, who says in his profile he's a time-traveller, or **Connor**, who says he knows the secret to immortality.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Ram//->02-APP-SEARCH-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Connor//->02-APP-SEARCH-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**CONNOR:**<img src="LD_side-connor.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Did yeh just click on mah profile 'cause yeh wanted to ken mah secret? Aye yeh did. Well I'm no havin' it. There can only be one. |==| (align: "=><=")[//**-UNMATCHED-**//] <div class="choicebutton">[[//Try again//->02-APP-FIND-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh boy. Listen, my name is Ram Bhagat. I already know you don't believe I came here from the future. Do you know how I know? Because... You told me. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I get it. Because we'll meet in the future?->02-APP-FIND-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Ghost him and move on//->02-APP-FIND-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I was swimming in a crystal clear chlorine lake when, oh, I found myself struggling. Immediately, a polyester clad beauty called out with a pitch perfect whistling, and pulled me to shore. Whereupon she gave me a kiss that was life itself and handed me a magic sword. She said this sword, pink, and rather bendy, would protect me in my future endeavours. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Ghost this idiot//->02-APP-FIND-A1]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sounds like drowning in a swimming pool->02-APP-FIND-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| For my humble part, I do my utmost to stay out of my subjects affairs. I believe in letting the common folk live their lives without tyranny, influence, or any action from their potentate. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Ghost this idiot//->02-APP-FIND-A1]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I do nothing too, that mean I'm queen?->02-APP-FIND-D]]</div>

<div class="appalert">APP UPDATE AVAILABLE: Version 18.10000324 ^^ * Secret attractiveness ratings now applied. * Matches now based on 19yo CEO's trust-fund algorithm rather than user's preference. * Ghosting added to business model. * Fake profiles now monetised. * That one useful feature moved to paid subscription. ^^</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//UPDATE//->02-APP-FIND-A2]]</div>

<img src="LD_app_mortgage.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[**GAGE ⇔ MORT**] //Another two guys to choose from. There's **Mort**, whose profile says he's can make you feel warm and comforted, or **Gage**, who says he's looking for something long-term.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Mort//->02-APP-TAKE-A]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Gage//->02-APP-TAKE-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Well... yeah. Wait, can you travel through time as well? I have to admit, it's not like I expected the machine to work. How did you do it? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, I'm a time-traveller too->02-APP-TAKE-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I admit, I haven't heard this line before->02-APP-TAKE-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| :( i mean... yes... it was that too. but i am honestly king honest. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Bollocks->02-APP-TAKE-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Because a lifeguard said so?->02-APP-TAKE-E]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Umm... ok... so it's not like i have any power to do anything even if i wanted. not as such. U could be my queen if you wanted still. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You could take power->02-APP-TAKE-F]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Queen might be a bit much->02-APP-TAKE-G]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**MORT: /GAGE:**<img src="LD_mortgage-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Hi there :) I'm Mort, or you can call me Gage. I've a few names on here. Trying to meet so many people! Let's meet and talk about home loan applications! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[This is an ad bot, isn't it?->02-APP-TAKE-02b]]

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You're taking the piss out of me, aren't you? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[...Yes?->02-APP-TAKE-B2]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[No...->02-APP-TAKE-B2]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's not a line! A line would be something like... Hey, I'm a time traveller. I've made you breakfast tomorrow morning. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Block him//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Eh, kinda works->02-APP-RETURN-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| ok ok so someone else is TECHNICALLY the monarch. but I really would be king. it's that buckingham lot. they screwed me over. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You personally?->02-APP-RETURN-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Block him//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Not exactly. ok ok. it was a historian that said it, after i did a genetic test saying i'm related to some woman who should've been queen ages ago. told the lifeguard about it when she gave me a cup of tea after getting me out the pool. she said i should be king too. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Won't loads be related to that woman now?->02-APP-RETURN-E]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Maybe unmatch this one//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| it's the current lot in the palace that took the power from one of my ancestors. don't trust them to give it back. it was a fair while ago i admit. like when years had barely got to quadruple digits. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Bet it's not all it's cracked up to be->02-APP-RETURN-F]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Just block him already//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| lol... yeah, be bit much for a first date! obvs I'm not king in any real sense, but it's kinda technically true. because of family history going way back, not because of the lake lady. i know it wasn't a real sword. it was a pool noodle. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Guess everyone fakes stuff on here->02-APP-RETURN-G]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Block him, find someone else//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]</div>

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<img src="LD_app_tuttlecat.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[**TUTTLE ⇔ CAT**] //Another two choices. There's **Tuttle**, whose profile describes him as a 'loyal company man', or **a cat**, with a profile that just says 'miaow'.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose the cat//->02-APP-CHANGE-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Choose Tuttle//->02-APP-CHANGE-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh... Oh really? But I swear we've met. Maybe my time machine doesn't work. Hang on, that means I've got four days of work left. Gah! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm having a flatwarming on Saturday->02-APP-CHANGE-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Honestly, I think it's just that my Monday is really dragging. Longest day of the week I swear. My time machine probably doesn't work. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Wanna have a party to look forward to?->02-APP-CHANGE-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| not me. my great-great-great-great-great x whatever grandma should been queen. she was shacking up with some king back then, and helped beat some other king in battle, with one boob out if u believe the paintings, and she was supposed to be made his queen. even if not, she won that battle, so she should be ruler anyway. that's what I think. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Fair enough. Want to come to a party?->02-APP-CHANGE-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| yeah ur not wrong. she'll have thousands of decadents. i was just being an optimist about it i guess. fake it til u make it, am i right!? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Wanna fake it at a party?->02-APP-CHANGE-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| u know what, ur right. who needs all the newspapers judging you or all those boring pompous events. and those places they live in have terrible decoration. it's all 200 year-old furniture. bet their backs are just gagging for a plush sofa and tea in a decent sized mug. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No decent parties either. Wanna come to one?->02-APP-CHANGE-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| true dat. can't even trust the photos peeps use on here half the time. i'm just looking to hang out, that's all. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[How about coming to a flatwarming?->02-APP-CHANGE-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**TUTTLE:**<img src="LD_tuttle-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| ohgodohgodohgod... thank you! I've been trying to reach someone for weeks! I'm trapped in a click farm! I lost my visa and they won't let me leave! They make me create hundreds of profiles a day using photos I find online then force me to text with anybody who matches! No matter how disgusting or weird they are! (set: $AppAttend to "no")(set: $AppTask to "no") You gotta help me! My real name is- |==| (align: "=><=")[//**-USER DELETED-**//] <div class="choicebutton">[[//Give up and close app//->02-APP-END-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**CAT:**<img src="LD_cat-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| //Miaow!// (set: $AppAttend to "cat")(set: $AppTask to "no") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Screw it, I'll take you to my party//->02-APP-END-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| At the weekend?! That ages away. (set: $AppAttend to "no")(set: $AppTask to "yes") I'll see how I feel. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//That means no. I'm deleting this app//->02-APP-END-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**BERT:**<img src="LD_bert-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| go on then. sounds like it could be fun. and be good to see my subjects. (set: $AppAttend to "king")(set: $AppTask to "yes") /jk :P |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Close app//->02-APP-END-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> //Okay, so dating apps are a chore. Maybe I should try meeting people in real life.// <div class="successes">(if: $AppAttend is "cat")[☻ A cat is coming to your party. Probably?](if: $AppAttend is "king")[☻ Bert is coming to your party!](if: $AppAttend is "no")[☹ You didn't get any new guests]</div> <div class="successes">(if: $AppTask is "no")[☹ Nobody opened up to you](if: $AppTask is "yes")[☻ You got someone to be truthful]</div> (set: $AppVisit to "yes") <div class="choicebutton">[[//Continue//->02-APP-CONTINUE]]</div>

<img src="LD_me_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**TONY:**<img src="LD_me_side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| What are you doing here? Jesus, I haven't finished writing this section yet. I'm working on it, I'm working on it. Takes time to write this stuff, yeah? Every time I give you the option to, I don't know, tell someone to piss off, I have to write what happens next. Go and use the dating app. You can invite a cat to your flatwarming in that. Or do the baking class. That has a bit where you can meet a snow queen, or maybe she's a witch, I forget, but it's in a possibly enchanted forest. And if you don't get those things? I still had to write them. Think on that. (set: $ClubAttend to "yes") Also, no, I'm not adding myself as an option to be your flatwarming guest. |==| <div class="choicebutton">(link: "Back away, slowly")[(goto: (history: )'s last)]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Your party could be explosive! Could be wild with all kinds of craziness. People dancing, fighting, breaking shit... Any breakages come out of your deposit. As does the dancing. That's wear and tear on the carpet that is. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Think I'll skip the party->01-GO-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Wear and tear doesn't count->01-GO-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_title.png" class="topimage"> (display: "Var Reset") <div class="choicebutton">[[BEGIN->Just moved]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yeah, I watch movies. I know what it's like. You've come to make a name for yourself. Like the kid in that film who likes dancing but everyone says he's too LGBTQ for their tiny little minds. Or the one with the piglet who goes to the city to... I dunno. I didn't see it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I meant I don't know anyone here->01-FIND-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Are you ok?->01-FIND-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Doesn't matter. Just throw an amazing bash with champagne and platters of food and a professional DJ and a celebrity or two, C-list at least. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Sounds expensive->01-TAKE-D]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[They can bring their own booze->01-TAKE-E]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You're allowed crows or ravens, provided they signal portentous disasters that await you, or otherwise monosyllabically drive you to despair. Dogs that play sports are good, if they're in a professional human league. Invisible cats that smile, or turtles with the size, physique, and martial arts skills of a grown man. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Know anyone who'd come to my party?->01-CHANGE-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I can't afford a pet->01-CHANGE-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Don't take holidays. Don't buy a TV, or laptop, or phone. Don't entertain yourself in any way. Forget pets. Companionship is expensive. Same goes for humans. Cook your own food instead of buying out. In fact, do you even need to eat? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I could never afford a pet->01-CHANGE-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Could not throw a party?->01-CHANGE-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> (align: "=><=")[//**-IT'S A MATCH!-**//] |= (align: "==>")[**MORT: /GAGE:**<img src="LD_mortgage-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Don't worry, I'm not a bot or an advert. You won't find those on this app. I'm a real person who is employed to meet other real people, meet them in real life, in real places, and talk about the great offers available for those looking to move onto the housing ladder. How about we have drinks? I can bring pamphlets! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//BLOCK//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]

<div class="appalert">^^Introducing the new revamped **DicPic Filter 2**! We've added over two dozen photo filters for your penile pictures. Add bunny ears! Use the girth slider! Change hairstyles! Beautify them with our wrinkle remover! You'll want to send these photos to everyone, and we've made it easier than ever!^^</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//SKIP//->02-APP-RETURN-A2]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| No eye contact, no talking to strangers. Say hello to your average guy or gal on the street and they'd soon as kick your face in as say hello back. You'll become the same. Happens to the best of us. But until then, get out there and make some mates, say hello! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You lived here long?->01-TAKE-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Could we be friends?->01-TAKE-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Of course, once the kids left... that'll be the baby goats... I turned to landlording. Lot of money in it. It's a good choice for anyone born twenty years before you, or has parents with cash to spare. You should try it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[This mean I can have pets?->01-RETURN-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I'd like to afford my own place->01-RETURN-C]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I'd return the favour, but I'm not moving anytime soon. I only buy to rent now. Gotta snap up those good places before anybody uses them to raise a family or something stupid. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Not me. Can't afford my own home->01-RETURN-C]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Might just be us two at the party->01-RETURN-D]]</div>

<img src="LD_phone-app.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAM:**<img src="LD_sam-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| But listen, I'm was at work today, and I made a comment about how it's the midweek hump and it'll be the weekend soon. And they said it was Monday! How can it still be Monday? Feels like the weekend was days ago! |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Yeah, everyone gets that->02-APP-RETURN-B]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Block him//->02-APP-RETURN-A1]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Tell you what, I'll come with a bunch of booze. Get you them liquored up before you have a chance to bore them. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Means I can save my money for rent->01-RETURN-E]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[With you there I'll have one guest->01-RETURN-A]]</div>

<img src="LD_home-landlady_header.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**FRIDA:**<img src="LD_side_landlady.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Anyhoo, don't talk to people on trains. Or buses. Not the done thing. No eye contact either. Same goes for shops and, I dunno, libraries. Anywhere public. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[This week's going to be tough->01-ENDING]]

//That's the current end of the demo. I know, bit short, wasn't it? Not to worry, there's plenty more to come. There's a whole week of events to get through to find your flatwarming guests, from cats to time-travellers. What else? Well... * End up at an exclusive club for celebrities. Is there anyone to invite here? Perhaps the 90s indie pop star who can't stop talking and goes to the bathroom every 15 minutes. Perhaps the elderly actor who may or may not need to be on stage right now. Perhaps the older businessman who bought a membership to impress his friends. Perhaps the younger entrepreneur, who bought a membership to impress his friends. Maybe you can get a membership! * How will you get home? Take a nightbus, but don't fall asleep! Rent a bike, but don't get lost. Take the underground, see if you can make friends without speaking or making eye contact. Take a cab, see if you can, or even want, to negotiate the driver's political opinions for the sake of getting an extra guest. * A pub is showing the season finale of that fantasy TV show. Everybody is sure to be in high spirits after what will surely be a great final episode. * ...and, as they say, much more! // <div class="choicebutton">[[Go back to start->Title]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header.png" class="topimage"> //Cooking classes. People always say you can meet people by taking a class. And the classes they suggest are always "cooking" and "dancing". Still, you can't complain about it until you've tried it, and here you are.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Put on apron//->03-CAKEOFF-YOU-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Hallo everyone! I'm Sindy Christmas, and I //won't// be your teacher today. (set: $CakeOffScore to 5) As you can see, we're a tad overcrowded. Seems a particular competitive baking TV show has made classes like this really popular. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Never seen it->03-CAKEOFF-YOU-02]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I know the one->03-CAKEOFF-YOU-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| In the spirit of that show, we're going to have a cooking clash, a //cake-off//, if you will. I'll give you a recipe, you try to make it, at the end I'll judge who's winner! Today we'll be making that classic dessert, everybody knows it, it's //Sus Est Auris//. Now pair up. I did say it was crowded. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Hope my partner can cook->03-CAKEOFF-YOU-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Hope they're not weird->03-CAKEOFF-YOU-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Hey hey, I've got Sindy's recipe here, and you look like you need someone to partner with. (set: $CakeOffAim to "win")(set: $CakeOffScore to it -1) Raymond Zingflower, nice to meet you. Call me Ray. Got to say, this dessert does //not// look easy. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Are you up to the challenge?->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I can hack it->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Hey hey, looking for a partner? I've already grabbed the recipe sheet from Sindy. Got to say, this dessert does //not// look easy. (set: $CakeOffAim to "friend") Apologies, Raymond Zingflower, nice to meet you. Call me Ray. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Think we can hack it?->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-01b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You enjoy baking, then?->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-01a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Um... probably not? I mean, why join a baking class if you can already bake? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[It's a baking competition->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You thought it was a class too->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-02a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Let's bake it before we hack it. If we just follow the recipe we... Ok, this recipe is super confusing. "Beat until loose peaks are medium length." What are loose peaks? How long is medium length? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I thought this would be a class->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You didn't know it was a competition?->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-02a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Guess we need to learn by doing. What does Sus Est Auris taste like anyway? Sorry, I mean "//Sus Est Auris//". I didn't pronounce it right. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I hope it tastes like home cooking->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sounds like it could be fancy->03-CAKEOFF-NEED-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Ugh... how boring. I hope it doesn't. All supposedly good home cooking just comes down to loads of fat or sugar. Both probably. Usually. (set: $CakeOffNeed to "home") Says here to melt a large-medium amount of butter in a small-medium pan over a low-medium heat for a medium time. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I can do that->03-CAKEOFF-GO-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You do that, I'll do the next bit.->03-CAKEOFF-GO-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It better be. I didn't come to a baking class just to learn how to bake something I could make at home. (set: $CakeOffNeed to "fancy") Must be a fancy dessert. Got to do several things at once here. Says to melt butter while also whisking other stuff. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I'll melt the butter->03-CAKEOFF-GO-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I'll get whisking->03-CAKEOFF-GO-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Gah... I got to whisk the sugar and egg yolks into stiff peaks, fold in egg whites then whisk until they're fluffy peaks, add yogurt... yogurt? Add yogurt and beat... What's the difference between beating and whisking? Beat until it "drips loose." What? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Where's this butter go?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Need a hand?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-02b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Okay, you get whisking the eggs, sugar... and yogurt for some reason. Melted butter is just melted butter, right? Well, I'm melting it. Don't know if everything's the right medium. Temperature, height, length, whatever, but it's melting. See? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Does the butter go in here too?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What's next on the list?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-02c]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Here, I'll tip the butter in. Get it good and mixed. Let's add the almonds and cocoa powder too. And a dash of red food colouring! (set: $CakeOffGo to "mixed") Got to make it look good to win. Pink desserts always look the best. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure the butter was for that?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-03b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Looks like congealed blood->03-CAKEOFF-GO-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Okay, yeah, I do. We get to design the decoration ourselves and I wanna focus on that. I'm thinking it should look like a super-detailed sculpture of a human face. Your face! We can mould the dough on you to get it right. (set: $CakeOffGo to "model") This has to look amazing, to win. We taste with our eyes first, you know? The eyeballs are the tongue of the head. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Isn't the tongue, the tongue of the head?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You don't mean mold it //on top// of me, do you?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-03a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I'm busy here myself, you know? Here, you get started on the decoration. These things got to look as good as they taste. (set: $CakeOffGo to "woods") I looked ahead. Says to get the turkish delight, you got to trick the forest sorceress into giving you some then get it in the warming drawer before it freezes. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Wait, does it?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-03c]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Who? Where? How?->03-CAKEOFF-GO-03c]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| See? You get it. You know the kind of detail we need. Believe me, I'd rather it was my face. Or my ex's. They were super hot. All my exes are. You, you're... Hey, once we got the pastry on your face, how do we bake it? Any problems with putting your head in the oven? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You're making me want to->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[There's got to be a better way->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-01a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Okay, okay... we can rescue this. Too late to start again. Tell you what, we bake what we have, spend the rest of the time making and finding and adding the best and fanciest decoration we can. Cover it in shit. We just need to nail the presentation. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Like what? Elegant piping?->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I thought that //was// the decoration->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-01a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| What are you waiting for? Go! Look in the cupboard or something. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Fine. I'll look in the cupboard->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-01c]]</div>

<img src="LD_forest_header.png" class="topimage"> //Huh, how about that. There appears to be an entire enchanted forest of permanent winter in this cupboard. Probably enchanted anyway. It's mostly just trees. But, to be fair, it is in a cupboard. And the winter might not be permanent. You've been here for less than a minute. It's a bit early to tell. Wait... somebody is coming.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Is it cheesy for me to say "who goes there?"//->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-02c]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Hope it's some enchanted half-animal man creature//->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-02c]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| We'll just figure it out. Getting the pastry right is key. It says we should use a damp towel to stop it drying out, but also roll it and layer it with butter in-between. But if the towel's underneath, you can't roll. And on top, how do you butter and layer? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Just don't bake the towel->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-02b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Forget the towel->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-02a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Towel forgotten. I hope you're right. (set: $CakeOffSearch to "friendship") It's like, I wear tailored suits to work 'cause then they see me as someone competent and professional. And Karen in marketing says I look hot. I go to the gym so my body can take on modern life, and so Karen gets turned on looking at me naked. Now I want to cook well, so I can make Karen a healthy breakfast. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[This's mostly desserts->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I wanted to meet people->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Honestly, with good enough decoration, you could get people to eat a baked towel. (set: $CakeOffSearch to "winning") We're a team, right? So let's put our heads together and be the best team in this kitchen nightmare. We're gonna be master chefs. Let's get ready and steady to cook, so everyone wants to come dine with us. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Are you doing that on purpose?->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I did want to meet people->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Doesn't matter. Here comes the judge to see how we're doing. She might have some tips, but don't ask for help. Don't want her to expect anything less than perfection.(set: $CakeOffScore to it -1) |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[She's meant to be the teacher, not judge->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You need more help than she can give->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-01a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You came to a baking competition to meet people? Guess it was advertised as a cooking class and I know that's what everyone suggests to meet people, but didn't think anybody actually tried it. Why not meet people the usual ways? Like when they're dating one of your other friends. Or they work in your company's marketing department. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm lacking both those things->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm trying a lot of things->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-01a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Okie dokie, how are you two getting along? Baking up a treat, I hope? |==| (if: $CakeOffAim is "win")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Have a taste->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffAim is "friend")[<div class="choicebutton">[[We're working on it->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02b]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffAim is "win")[<div class="choicebutton">[[We're aiming for the prize->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffAim is "friend")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Not much choice in partners->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02b]]</div>]

<img src="LD_forest_header-q.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**NIPPI:**<img src="LD_snowqueen-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Greetings, small boy. Oh, you're not a small boy. I often find male children in this forest. That's why I come here. I give them sweets. I am the Nippikina The //Source//ress. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You come here for little boys?->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-03c]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm hungry, if you've got any //delightful// sweets perhaps?->03-CAKEOFF-SEARCH-03d]]</div>

<img src="LD_forest_header-q.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**NIPPI:**<img src="LD_snowqueen-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I don't... I'm not hunting them. This forest often contains lost children and nobody else bothers to see if they're ok. (set: $CakeOffSearch to "snowfriend") They're always boys, I don't know why, little shits. I give them sweets so that they come with me and I can show them the way out. Don't want them starving or freezing to death. Though I can't say I'd shed any tears. I'm actually glad to finally meet an adult. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[That sucks, but I gotta get back to my baking->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_forest_header-q.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**NIPPI:**<img src="LD_snowqueen-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh yes, I have plenty. It's just turkish delight I'm afraid. (set: $CakeOffSearch to "snowwin") My mother makes it and always brings me some. I don't know why. The stuff tastes like perfumed soap. I'm always trying to hand it off. Take as much as you like. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Thanks, I need to get back now->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh good, you're back. (set: $CakeOffScore to it -1) I just popped over to see how you two are getting along? Baking up a treat, I hope? |==| (if: $CakeOffAim is "win")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Have a taste->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffAim is "friend")[<div class="choicebutton">[[We're working on it->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02b]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffAim is "win")[<div class="choicebutton">[[We're aiming for the prize->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffAim is "friend")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Not much choice in partners->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-02b]]</div>]

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Well, let's wait and see how it all turns out, shall we? But I'm worried you're not having fun. You must have fun, my dears. I intend to. That's why I'm going to use more baking innuendo, like they do on the telly show. How about this... Ooh, Ray, I love how you've wrapped those two walnuts up in a bag of pastry. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What walnuts? There's walnuts?->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I did some of this too->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-03a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Getting along is so important. Don't fret about getting it all correct. Have fun. That's the first thing I teach in every class. Besides, doesn't everybody come to these things to meet other people? That's what I heard. Was never desperate enough to try it myself, that's why I decided to start a class. To get paid by the people who are. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Except it's not a class->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-03b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Can't I be curious, not desperate?->03-CAKEOFF-FIND-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I'm referring to Ray's testicles. Suggesting they're like a baked goods. You see? Innuendo. Enough of my witterings. And my wit! I'll leave you two to it. Lighten up. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You got the innuendo the wrong way... oh, she's gone->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's the same difference. You're two nice enough looking people, but different enough that I imagine there's no sexual tension. That's perfect. Get chatting, hang out, don't worry about what anyone thinks. I'll be back later to judge the quality of your baking and rate you accordingly in front of everyone else. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[The judge doesn't want us to feel judged?->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| There's not long left. I've pre-heated the oven. That was the first thing I did. Amateur mistake not to. Or maybe I should've not bothered. Just switched it on whenever, now that we're supposed to be just having fun with it. How's it looking? |==| (if: $CakeOffNeed is "home")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Like good old-fashioned home-cooking->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffNeed is "fancy")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Could it be fancier?->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-02d]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffNeed is "home")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Like a wad of fat and sugar->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffNeed is "fancy")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Like you could make it at home->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-02c]]</div>]

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Let me ask you about home cooking. Do you get the same warm, fuzzy feeling when you think of instant noodles, desserts made with powder and milk, sandwiches where all the fillings came from jars, and it was a treat having more than one filling? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What if I do?->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[No, that's not it->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Really? Poor people's food then. We can't serve that. It needs to have a subtle nuance. Not crowd-pleasing, here's your calories, now stuff your face... -ance. Otherwise a sausage roll is good, a kebab is good, chips without duck fat without garlic-infused herbs, or not cut so thick you only get four to a potato are good. What's better? A kebab covered in chilli sauce for a few quid that you can get anywhere, or deconstructed stripped meat with a truffle sauce for £40 so you know not everyone eats it? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[It's not like that->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You're saying we need to be fancy->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03c]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| What? I said I //didn't// want to make something I could make at home. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What if the homemade look is its selling point?->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03d]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What if I do?->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03a]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Could it be fancier? That is the question. You don't want to just make any old tasty treat that people can tell was home baked. You want something that they think some top chef made in a kitchen, that's what impresses. You, you look like you'd eat any old crap. We don't want that. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Fancy is fun->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03c]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What if the homemade look is its selling point?->03-CAKEOFF-TAKE-03d]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Then we've got a problem, because we're not on the same page. We're supposed to be a team. I don't know if you've noticed, but you're not at home. You're not even in your home town. Refine your taste buds. You know what refinement is? It's taking a 100% of everything, making 10% of it better, and knowing that means the other 90% is dogshit. Otherwise, what's the point? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[This-wise, what's the point?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Who decides what's best?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Then what is? It's easy to make tasty food, crisps are tasty. What elevates it is presentation. That's the difference between good and bad. In everything. Baldy, fat union leaders and young freelance creatives want the same thing. Who do //you// support? Cheap council housing or more floor space for your rent? What do //you// want? Everything's all how it looks. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What's your point?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Who's deciding the best look?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yes, fancy. Think about it. Who do we fancy? Who do you //fancy//? The fit ones. The ones that look good. We go after them then figure out which ones we like on the inside after. It's secondary. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What's your point?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[And we all like the same look?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| That's just another way of being fancy. Handmade pies made to look handmade. It's pre-ripped jeans, maintained beard stubble, craft beer. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Your point? They're not bad things->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Who decides what counts as fancy?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| My point? I don't know. My point is, everything you have in your life now would be heaven to someone a couple hundred years ago. You live like a queen, no, a god, compared to most of human history. Information and entertainment everywhere. Modern medicine. You name it. You happy? You satisfied? I'm not. There's always better and I'm aiming higher. I'm not going to be content with what I've got like some mug. |==| (if: $CakeOffGo is "model")[<div class="choicebutton">[[If you want to win, we might win->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "mixed")[<div class="choicebutton">[[If you want to win, we might win->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "woods")[<div class="choicebutton">[[If you want to win, we might win->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02c]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffGo is "model")[<div class="choicebutton">[[At this stage, I'm just hungry->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "mixed")[<div class="choicebutton">[[At this stage, I'm just hungry->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "woods")[<div class="choicebutton">[[At this stage, I'm just hungry->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02c]]</div>]

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Maybe everybody decides what looks best. Maybe it's the only true democracy. That's why it changes. Fashion changes. What's sexy changes. Food changes. Should see the weird shit they ate in the 70s. They were really into mousse made out of things that shouldn't be mousse. (set: $CakeOffScore to it -1) Guess taste isn't democratic. That's up to each of us. Don't care how many people say they're good, I hate olives. Not eating them. |==| (if: $CakeOffGo is "model")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Then our own tastes are what matters->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "mixed")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Then our own tastes are what matters->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "woods")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Then our own tastes are what matters->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02c]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffGo is "model")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Even if they were sexy olives?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "mixed")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Even if they were sexy olives?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffGo is "woods")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Even if they were sexy olives?->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-02c]]</div>]

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Hallo there! Now let's see what tasty treats we have in store for us today. a perfectly made //Sus Est Auris// I hope. Let's see yours. Oh... well, tell me about your... creation. |==| (if: $CakeOffSearch is "friendship")[<div class="choicebutton">[[The gym-going, tailored suit of desserts->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffSearch is "winning")[<div class="choicebutton">[[A team effort->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffSearch is "snowfriend")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Something to keep lost boys warm->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02c]]</div>](if: $CakeOffSearch is "snowwin")[<div class="choicebutton">[[The turkish delight is homemade->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02d]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffSearch is "friendship")[<div class="choicebutton">[[A dessert that looks good naked->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02a]]</div>](if: $CakeOffSearch is "winning")[<div class="choicebutton">[[We literally threw in the towel->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02b]]</div>](if: $CakeOffSearch is "snowfriend")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Great for a picnic in the woods->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02c]]</div>](if: $CakeOffSearch is "snowwin")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Like a mother's love, it reminds you of perfume and soap->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-02d]]</div>]

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Damn, look at the time. We've only got a couple of minutes left. Get this pastry on your face. I'll mould it on you then cook it with this blowtorch. Then we can just pop it off and put it on this... this pie? Cake? I have no idea what this thing is. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Blowtorch? Yeah, not gonna happen->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Put it on your face->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Nevermind, time's running out and we've still got this big red ball of, of, well everything. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Serve it as is, might taste good->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Wrap it all up in pastry->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-q.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**NIPPI:**<img src="LD_snowqueen-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Greetings, fellow traveler. Thought I'd pop along and see how you're doing. I like to watch the end of these things. I enjoy the looks on the faces of the losers. Of course, it's only a bit of fun in the end, isn't it? How's yours coming along? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[It'll have to do->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Maybe if I cover it in pastry...->03-CAKEOFF-RETURN-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| That's it. Presentation time. Let's leave it open, nothing fancy. Maybe how it tastes is really all the matters. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You don't sound convinced->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I think so->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Screw it, it's presentation time. Let's just cover it with what pastry we have and hope it hides the worst of it.(set: $CakeOffScore to it -1) |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[The taste might be the best of it->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Making it was still fun though->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Ooh, very nice. Visually, I don't get it, but I appreciate the metaphor. You're saying your dessert is like a hot guy. As in, I want it in my mouth. Let me take a bite... hmmm... (if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[How about that. This tastes wonderful. First place to the suited and booted dessert!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[Ooh, not bad, not bad at all. I could see my friends in marketing enjoying this. Second place to you two.](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[Oh dear, it's... ok. Just about. It's all surface, not a lot of depth to the flavours. Third place, I'm afraid.](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[Oh my lord, no. This isn't like some well turned-out gentleman. This is the food equivalent of a smarmy pickup artist. Fourth place, you're last.] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Ray to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Sindy to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Well I'm glad you both went for it. It certainly looks like you did. Let me take a bite... hmmm... (if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[Oh lovely. Mouthwatering. I can tell this was a team effort. First place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[Hmm, this is decent. Nice and moist. You used the towel didn't you? Second place, my dears.](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[Oh, oh this is disappointing. I'm glad you wanted to be a team, but perhaps it was too many cooks. It's third place, I'm afraid.](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[Ugh, what is this? It's a tough as cotton and tastes like old dish soap. Is there actually a towel in here? Fourth place.] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Ray to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03c]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Sindy to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03d]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| That sounds interesting, if a little creepy. It looks creepy too. Let me take a bite... hmmm... (if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[My dears, this is divine. It reminds me of the woods on a crisp winter morning. First place to you two.](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[Oh this is rather tasty. A good effort. Children would love it. I'm giving you second place.](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[Oh dear, my dears. Somehow it tastes of both wet twigs and dry leaves. But it's edible, so third place.](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[No, no, no... I apologise, but this is simply not good at all. Give this to a child and you could poison them. Fourth place.] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Ray to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03c]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Nippi to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03e]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Well doesn't that sound nice? It looks... interesting. But sounds nice. Let me take a bite... hmmm... (if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[Oh yes, this is delicious. The turkish delight just sets it off. First place, my dears.](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[Hmm... yes, this is rather tasty. A good effort. Children would love it. I'm giving you second place.](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[Oh dear, my dears. That's too much turkish delight. If I swore, I could wash my mouth out with this. Third place, I'm afraid. ](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[Ugh, oh dear. Are you trying to poison children with this? Fourth place.] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Ray to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Invite Nippi to your flatwarming//->03-CAKEOFF-CHANGE-03f]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Um... sure. Yeah, I would like that. Will you be serving food? Actually, after today, I'll be happy with a stiff drink. I'll see you there.(set: $CakeOffVisit to "yes") |==| <div class="successes">☻ Ray is coming to your party</div> <div class="successes">(if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[☻ You won first place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[☻ You won second place](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[☹ You won third place](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[☹ You won fourth place]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Class is over//->03-CAKEOFF-CONTINUE]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh, I'm afraid not. I try not to eat or drink anything that isn't served by professionals. It's why this job is my living hell. (set: $CakeOffVisit to "yes") |==| <div class="successes">☹ No extra guests for your party</div> <div class="successes">(if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[☻ You won first place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[☻ You won second place](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[☹ You won third place](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[☹ You won fourth place]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Class is over//->03-CAKEOFF-CONTINUE]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-p.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**RAY:**<img src="LD_partner-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Do you mind if I just, don't? No offense, but this wasn't my thing. Think I'll try a salsa dancing class next time. (set: $CakeOffVisit to "yes") |==| <div class="successes">☹ No extra guests for your party</div> <div class="successes">(if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[☻ You won first place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[☻ You won second place](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[☹ You won third place](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[☹ You won fourth place]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Class is over//->03-CAKEOFF-CONTINUE]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-j.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**SINDY:**<img src="LD_judge-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Um, okay, that sounds lovely. I'll be sure to bring something tasty as a flatwarming gift. Something soaked in rum or vodka. That'll go down well, won't it?(set: $CakeOffVisit to "yes") |==| <div class="successes">☻ Sindy is coming to your party</div> <div class="successes">(if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[☻ You won first place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[☻ You won second place](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[☹ You won third place](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[☹ You won fourth place]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Class is over//->03-CAKEOFF-CONTINUE]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-q.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**NIPPI:**<img src="LD_snowqueen-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| A party? With adults? Indoors? I'll be there.(set: $CakeOffVisit to "yes") |==| <div class="successes">☻ Nippi is coming to your party</div> <div class="successes">(if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[☻ You won first place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[☻ You won second place](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[☹ You won third place](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[☹ You won fourth place]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Class is over//->03-CAKEOFF-CONTINUE]]</div>

<img src="LD_kitchen_header-q.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**NIPPI:**<img src="LD_snowqueen-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's a kind thought, my child. Adult. Whatever. I should be getting back to the woods though. There may be children to find.(set: $CakeOffVisit to "yes") |==| <div class="successes">☹ No extra guests for your party</div> <div class="successes">(if: $CakeOffScore is <= 1)[☻ You won first place!](if: $CakeOffScore is 2)[☻ You won second place](if: $CakeOffScore is 3)[☹ You won third place](if: $CakeOffScore is >= 4)[☹ You won fourth place]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[//Class is over//->03-CAKEOFF-CONTINUE]]</div>

//There's still time left in the day. Perhaps you can find some other guests?// (if: $CoffeeVisit is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Head to a coffee shop//->COFFEESHOP-01]]</div>] (if: $AppVisit is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Let's try a dating app//->DATINGAPP-01]]</div>] (if: $ClubAttend is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Could go clubbing//->CLUBBING-01]]</div>] (if: $CoffeeVisit is "yes" and $AppVisit is "yes" and $ClubAttend is "yes")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Continue//->DEMO end]]</div>]

//You might have better luck getting out and about rather than online. Where can you meet people?// (if: $CakeOffVisit is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Take a baking class//->CAKEOFF-01]]</div>] (if: $CoffeeVisit is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Go to a coffee shop//->COFFEESHOP-01]]</div>] (if: $ClubAttend is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Could go clubbing//->CLUBBING-01]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffVisit is "yes" and $CoffeeVisit is "yes" and $ClubAttend is "yes")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Continue//->DEMO end]]</div>]

<img src="LD_coffee_header.png" class="topimage"> //It's busy in here, but there's a free chair across from that guy. The one on his laptop sucking on some iced latte thing.// <div class="choicebutton">[[//Go sit down//->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**GUY:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Don't mind me, I'll just be tapping away here. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Why would I mind? You were here first->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What are you writing?->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-02b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**GUY:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Sure, but sometimes I type furiously and it's loud. Or gently. Or sometimes slow, sometimes fast. I type with a variety of emotions that'll keep changing depending on the scene.(set: $CoffeeYou to "mind") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Oh, you're writing a story?->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I really don't mind->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**GUY:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's an epic tale, full of... everything. Full of life.(set: $CoffeeYou to "what") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[A story then->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What is it about?->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**GUY:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's a novel. The next fantasy bestseller, that's what I've told this literary agent I'm meeting this week. Just polishing it up now. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Then don't mind me either->COFFEE-YOU-EMPWORLD-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Go on, just the start, it's a grabber, I swear. Look, here, chapter one, page one, paragraph one. Just start, you won't regret it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[//Read beginning//->COFFEE-NEED-NOVEL-01]]</div>

(display: "Writer Novel") <div class="choicebutton">[[//Hmm...//->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-02]]</div>

<div class="thenovel">$NovelYou $NovelNeed $NovelGo $NovelSearch $NovelFind $NovelTake $NovelReturn $NovelChange</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Okay, give it to me straight. What are your thoughts? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Any characters in this story?->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Is this meant to be a bad place? Why?->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| What do you mean? You've just read about them. The J'Ordez. An uneducated, uncouth, un-normal people. That's character. That's a bunch of characters. (set: $CoffeeNeed to "char") Oh jeez, you hate it don't you. That's why you didn't give an opinion, just asked me a question. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[It wasn't a good question?->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-04a]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Well, yeah... I'd say it's bad. I say they're destructive. I say they speak in groans. What more do you need? (set: $CoffeeNeed to "place") Oh jeez, you didn't give an opinion, just asked me a question. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[So?->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-04b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Ok... ok... what do I know? Need to give it my unique voice. I know. It shouldn't just start with the J'Ordez. I need to bring in the good guys.(set: $CoffeeGo01 to "obsess") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Good guys?->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You're right. It's not the idea, it's the execution. That's what they say. I just need to own it.(set: $CoffeeGo01 to "satis") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Write something only you can write->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Of course. But they inspire me to do my own thing. That's the key. I've got to use my unique voice. Like, how about this, "The J'Ordez really resented their rural rituals, relying on rage, resentment, and ravenous recreational relations to rouse their redundant routines."(set: $CoffeeGo02 to "inspire") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Your voice is alliteration then->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Recreational relations? Meaning casual sex?->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I see it now. The J'Ordez with their uneducated, simple ways. People think they're friendly but they're not. They're racist. Mostly to the cultured southern folk. And they're drunks. And always bonking, having too many children they drag around the shopping cent- their village markets.(set: $CoffeeGo02 to "going") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Racism in fantasy, that's... an approach->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[They enjoy sex and alcohol, how bizarre->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| The Long Dyn, you see, aren't liked by the J'Ordez. They use crude insults to suggest the Dyn are homosexual, because the J'Ordez are obsessed with sex. Always doing it, kids everywhere. But the Long Dyn, they have meaningful connections. Not just anybody. They choose their partners based on superior grooming, on status, or on their partner's job, the contribution they offer society.(set: $CoffeeGo02 to "start") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Their commerce-based society->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm guessing the Dyn are naturally tall and beautiful->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| The J'Ordez, really they're just there to be defeated by the Long Dyn. Not with violence, the Dyn don't do that. They do it with ideas. Like closing the J'Ordez mining operations. The Dyn thought of that.(set: $CoffeeGo02 to "miners") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[And that makes them the good guys?->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-02ba]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I'll do it with subtlety and fine detail, don't you worry. This'll be a layered and... lauded work. Award-winning too, probably. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Lauded AND award-winning? Wow->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Maybe settle for getting published first->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Just wish I could have it finished. I don't want to spend all this time writing my magnum onus. I want to //have// written it. It'll show the world how great I am. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You mean opus?->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-01b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Onus, is that rhyming slang?->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-01b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I think the Long Dyn should also be artists. The J'Ordez don't do any of that. They just scrabble around doing menial tasks, filling their days, complaining they used to have more to do. But they're also lazy. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[If you say so->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's real. It might be fiction, but it's real. Don't you feel it? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Are we meant to like these Dyn?->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I prefer the orcs, sorry, the J'Ordez->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-02b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Like them? Well, yes. What's not to like? They're cultured. Everything they do is refined. For example, they don't just cook food, they know how to create culinary delights, or they know to eat raw food because it's better for you.(set: $CoffeeSearch to "food") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[For example, they take skiing holidays?->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[For example, they go on gap years?->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Them? But they're so... they don't... they don't...(set: $CoffeeSearch to "orcs") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Don't take skiing holidays?->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Don't go on gap years?->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Why not? That's a great idea. Yes, the Long Dyn travel the world and expand their horizons. Unlike the J'Ordez who never go far and just look for base pleasures like alcohol and revealing their pasty bodies to the slightest hint of sun. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I take it a Dyn is the novel's hero?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Anything actually happen in this story?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSPLOT-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Naturally. Oh, yeah, I've got to tell you about him. He's this average Dyn. Medium height, not fat or skinny, probably in his late 20s or early 30s, or the Dyn equivalent. I want him to be an everyman, you understand? Someone all readers will immediately identify with. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[An everyman?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Sure, there's a Dyn who wants to travel to the northern lands of the J'Ordez. His friends and family say no, but he convinces them it's a good idea and then goes. When he gets there, he can't understand their slurred language, but then he learns it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Right...->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSPLOT-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I like that. You've inspired me. I'm going to use it. The J'Ordez can also be a proud people. Misplaced pride though. That's why they don't produce anything beautiful, because they're insular, stuck in their own communities. They don't face the world, make it see them.(set: $CoffeeSearch to "proud") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You think they should be on instagram?->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[But I left my community, moved here->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| But you still moved here. That's interesting. I can use that. Maybe some J'Ordez do journey south, but they're a stubborn people. They come to enjoy the riches of the Dyn, yet they refuse to adapt. The Dyn are educated and opinionated and the J'Ordez need to expose themselves to that.(set: $CoffeeSearch to "stubborn") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Does this world have twitter?->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I moved here, should I adapt?->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You're not getting it. The Long Dyn don't need social media. They're already so socially connected. I mean, yeah, maybe they're all telepathically linked. Thoughts and ideas always bouncing back and forth, keeping each other in check. That's what makes them peaceful. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Does your novel have a plot?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[And who's your hero?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**GUY:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I'm Jake Owling. Keep an eye on the bookshelves for that name. Oh, hey, wanna read it? I'd love the feedback. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[The whole thing?->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You don't need my opinion->COFFEE-NEED-EMPWORLD-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Another question! It means you hate it. Means you don't want to actually give an opinion, just keep me talking about it so you don't have to. Oh bloody hell, the agent is going to see I'm a hack. What do I do? How do I fix this? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I hear you should write what you know->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you need to have confidence in it->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Stop asking questions. You want to keep me talking about it so you don't have to. Oh jeez, oh jeez, the agent is going to see I'm a hack. What do I do? How do I fix this? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[They say, write what you know->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Nothing's bad when done with confidence->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| They're the Long Dyn, a tall and honourable race. They're the lawgivers, always in pursuit of higher pleasures. They take the time to create, not just work. And they're experts of commerce. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[That's a start->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What about the J'Ordez?->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-02b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| The Long Dyn use reason and facts, use their intellect, to create a better world in the south. A world the J'Ordez can join, if they adopt the ways of the Dyn and have the means to contribute to their, not perfect, to their middle-perfect, no, upper-middle lives. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I guess you're fleshing the world out->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I get it, one lot good, the other lot bad->COFFEE-GO-OBSESSWORLD-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| But the Dyn, they relax, they turn their thoughts into images and words, into art. They communicate their lives. The J'Ordez don't do that, except as another way to moan. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[And this is what you know?->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sounds familiar and yet, not->COFFEE-SEARCH-OBSESSWORLD-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| So these J'Ordez, they're ugly, grey, aggressive things. Saved from destroying their own land, from themselves. I need to really push that. Push their, ugh, their pure baseness. Get the audience to really feel it. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[That's the spirit, keep going->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-02b]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Any writers that inspire you?->COFFEE-GO-SATISWORLD-02a]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| What about you? How do you want to prove you're awesome? Bet you want to show that you're better than where you started. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I don't need to prove anything->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-02a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I've no problems with where I started->COFFEE-SEARCH-SATISWORLD-02b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Don't read into it so much. It's not about you, don't go thinking it is. That's just what they call projection. I'm a writer. I make things up. It's just fiction. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[And does anything happen in this fiction?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Do you have a hero? A Dyn writer perhaps?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I was just setting the scene. Of course stuff happens, it's tightly plotted. It starts with an insightful incident, a call to attention, then a first act turn, a second act return, a rising section, and finally the dinner mint. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Which means what?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| The word is protagonist. Okay, how about this. Scene opens in a peaceful tavern. A Dyn tavern though, so it's not serving mead and ale, it's... I don't know... they're drinking potions based on roasted beans or seeds that help awaken and heighten their senses. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm listening...->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| A female J'Ordez enters. It's busy so she sits in an empty chair next to a Dyn, busy in his creative work. (if: $CoffeeYou is "mind")[She says she doesn't mind him working as he was there first, but he knows that. She marvels at his furious and loud scribbling. Or gentle, slow... basically she's impressed by how emotional he is with his work.(set: $NovelNeed to "Her travelling partner is a Dyn scribe, who she keeps around despite his unusually loud yet slow writing, always just within earshot.")](if: $CoffeeYou is "what")[She asks him what he is scribbling. To her it makes no sense. He passionately explains he is attempting to transcribe the epicness of their world. How full of life their... lives are. She's transfixed.(set: $NovelNeed to "Her travelling partner is a Dyn scribe, there to write her story, though the passion for his work outweighs his talent.")] Make no mistake, there's something different about this J'Ordez. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm flattered->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Remind me, J'Ordez are ugly creatures?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-03b]]</div>

(set: $CakeOffScore to 5)(set: $NovelYou to "Up in the grim northern wastes live a hunched, grey-skinned race known as the J'Ordez.")(set: $NovelNeed to "There they once mined for natural minerals, turning a once beautiful land into a brown and bland estate.")(set: $NovelGo to "No longer able to ravage their home, banned from their destructive ways, they grow restless.")(set: $NovelSearch to "Their guttural groans are aimed at the law givers in the south.")(set: $NovelFind to "Groans that are no threat, not yet.")(set: $NovelTake to "But that may change, for their allegiance is needed in an upcoming war.")(set: $NovelReturn to "Will the J'Ordez pledge fealty, or will they give in to their base nature, and look to cause ruination?")(set: $NovelChange to "This is the question to which the law givers must find an answer.")(set: $NovelName to "Ari-Poh'Ah")(set: $CoffeeTask to "no")(set: $CoffeeAttend to "no")(set: $CakeOffVisit to "no")(set: $AppVisit to "no")(set: $CoffeeVisit to "no")(set: $ClubAttend to "no")(set: $ClubAttend to "no")

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Flattered? I guess... yes, you would be. You're the first person to hear this story, before the literary agent even. I need to give her a name, something fantasy-sounding, with apostrophes and maybe a hyphen. Her name is... Soh-Y'Hu.(set: $NovelName to "Soy-Y'Hu") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Not what I meant by flattered->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-04a]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| They're... they're unattractive by objective standards. No, subjective standards. By just standards, right? Hey, that's good. This meeting between the Dyn and J'Ordez will him helping her, teaching her, making her all cultured and so forth. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Because beauty is within, right?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISCHAR-04b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You're not... you're not projecting, are you? Ooh, how about this. The reason this female J'Ordez is there is because she //projected// into the coff- the tavern, from her home. Like teleported. Not on purpose. Mysterious forces, perhaps the gods themselves, have dropped her amongst those she is most unlike, leaving everything she knows behind.(set: $NovelTake to "The Dyn was surprised when she approached him this time - he was easy to sneak up upon - but theorised that she had the powers of projection. She didn't correct him. The mission was on.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Like what, her agency?->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISCHAR-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Please tell me she's wearing clothes->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Bloody hell. You don't get it, do you? Here I am, creating this fully-rounded character, and you're just giving me a damn time of it. I didn't ask your opinion. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[What? Yes you did->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISCHAR-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Of course. Inner beauty. But he'll fix the outside too. Help her dress nicer, maybe rub pigment into her skin for the paleness. And that could be an amazing scene, with him taking her to a waterfall and showing her how to crush the flowers for the pigment and mix it with water, then he splashes it over her body.(set: $NovelTake to "The Dyn suggested disguises, such as rubbing pigment into their skin, but she shut down that idea. Not only was it stupid, they didn't have time.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[He gives her a spray-tan?->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISCHAR-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[She could wear glasses, then take them off->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| But... ok... maybe I did, and what did you say? (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[Asked me if there were any characters. I'd just set the scene, describing the J'Ordez, loads of characters in that if you'd just waited.(set: $NovelSearch to "He's her connection to the Dyn leaders. If only he'd pass on detailed information, rather than a simple roster of everyone he comes across.")(set: $NovelChange to "Today the Dyn's roster of leaders could prove useful. Today, they're going to take them all down.")](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[Asked if it was a "bad place". I'd just done all this scene-setting, and that's what you asked, like you needed more.(set: $NovelSearch to "He's her connection to the Dyn leaders. If only he'd pass on information about them, rather than mundane details of every place he visits.")(set: $NovelChange to "Today the Dyn's detailed location information could prove useful. Today, they're going infiltrate the leaders' temple.")] It's called world-building. I wanted opinions and you gave me questions. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Opinionated questions though->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISCHAR-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Questions shouldn't be opinionated if they're the wrong opinions. (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[I mean, when I do tell you about specific characters, you act like they're... shit.](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[Tell you what, maybe the J'Ordez are "bad" because they're judgemental fuckers. Happy with that tidbit of exposition?] You don't know what you want. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[I want to understand the J'Ordez better->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What about looking //from// the J'Ordez perspective?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I don't get it. Listen, you're focusing on the wrong characters there. Not much more to say about them. (if: $CoffeeGo01 is "obsess")[Didn't you say to write what I know?](if: $CoffeeGo01 is "satis")[You told me to write with confidence.] |==| (if: $CoffeeGo01 is "obsess")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Maybe think what the J'Ordez know->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-02a]]</div>] (if: $CoffeeGo01 is "satis")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Confidently get in the head of the J'Ordez->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-02b]]</div>]

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| A female J'Ordez, name of Zub J'Hekkt, meets an artistic Dym in a local bean tavern. They have a mission. (if: $CoffeeYou is "mind")[The Dym got there first, so is already furiously scribbling away, but also sometimes slowing down, being gentle, totally emotionally involved.](if: $CoffeeYou is "what")[She wants to know how his work is progressing. He explains that soon the epic reality of their lives will be transcribed for all to read.] For their mission is to write a document that will change the world. |==| (set: $NovelName to "Zub J'Hekkt") <div class="choicebutton">[[Change the world with a document?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What happens next?->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Sure. You don't fix the world by action, by doing... //things//. You do it through words. The J'Ordez has made a perilous journey to meet the Dyn, so she can deliver his work to where it's needed, back to her people. But is he really the one she was meant to meet? Yes, except the document from beneath their noses. Did she do it? No, but he thinks she did...(set: $NovelNeed to "She's travelled south to meet a Long Dyn, to collect a document he now claimed not to have.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Wait...->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-04a]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Next? Next the Dym discovers a bomb under their table. Did the J'Ordez put it there? But she thinks it's him. When she looks back at the table, the document is gone. She wonders if he took it. But he wrote it, why hide it? A secret agent sends a message, his secret agent, they need the document. The bomb is ticking. But it's not a bomb. It's a fake made by the simple J'Ordez people. Her people! But why?(set: $NovelNeed to "She's journeyed to meet a southern Dyn, who has already changed the meeting location because of a fake bomb scare he obviously invented.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Hang on...->COFFEE-FIND-SATISPLOT-04b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| They both go hunting for it, meanwhile the Dyn's agent, a secret agent, is pressuring him to get it out in the world before it's too late. The J'Ordez, she can't find it, maybe couldn't recognise it or understand if she could. Her people need subduing. Before the assassin hired by the Dyn kills her family and her deadly illness, that she passed onto the Dyn when they met, ravages his mind.(set: $NovelTake to "The Dyn made excuses for the missing document, going on about assassins and agents, but it didn't matter. It was useless. She needed him and his status. They had work to do.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Hang on, I'm lost->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You just making this up right now?->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Bloody hell, leave it for a second will you? Are you just one of those people who when watching a movie is always asking questions like, "who's he?", "what happened?", "why'd they do that?", "do they need to show us the dead girl's breasts?" |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Only if I want to know the answer->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| She leaves first, then the fake bomb goes off, killing the Dyn. Except he's not really dead. Oh, and the fake bomb had a real bomb inside it. The exterior was just there to make it look like a J'Ordez bomb, except the real bomb was also J'Ordez. Did the Dyn fake his death, no, but he is alive. Except now somebody else is pretending to be him.(set: $NovelTake to "After finding a meeting spot devoid of bombs, real or otherwise, they can finally get down to business.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Are you making this up on the spot?->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Slow down, this doesn't make sense->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Questions, questions. Why always questions? Didn't I ask for your thoughts, your opinions? (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[You just replied asking me if there were any characters. Well now you have characters and, oh no, there's too much stuff happening for you to follow.(set: $NovelSearch to "He's meant to be giving her research, to figure out their next steps, but he has a habit of noting everything, both important and not.")(set: $NovelChange to "For once the Dyn's research should prove useful, if they're to pass as historians and gain access to the lawgivers temple.")](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[You just want to know why the J'Ordez homeland was a "bad place". Do you get it now? Shit is going down. Not my fault you don't know why.(set: $NovelSearch to "He's meant to be giving her research, to figure out their next steps, but has a pessimistic habit of seeing the worst in every place he goes.")(set: $NovelChange to "They'll be lucky to still be alive by next moon. For once, the Dyn's pessimism may not be bad enough.")] Not knowing is the point. It's called mystery bin writing. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Mystery bin?->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Ugh, fine. Imagine a bin and you don't know what's in it. You put your hand in a feel fur. Ooh, what is it? That's exciting. Might be a dead rat, might be a sleeping cat, might be a fox eating a dead rat. Or you might feel something squishy or slimy or you might not get to touch anything at all. Point is you don't know. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Do I want to know?->COFFEE-TAKE-SATISPLOT-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You think you do, but you don't. You're the audience. The mystery is exciting. (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[Why did you ask about characters? Because the mystery of who the J'Ordez were was enticing.](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[Why did you want to know if the J'Ordez home was a "bad place"? Because you've never been there and can't wait to look.] Most crime stories would be better if they never told you who the killer was. It's the questions that make us pay attention. I embrace mystery. Ideally every sentence should have you saying, who? Or what? Or why? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Knowing character motivation could be helpful->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPPLOT-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You want to know what keeps them going? It's good versus evil. The righteous facing off against the... wrong-eous. (if: $CoffeeGo01 is "obsess")[I'm writing what I know, like you said. Writing about what I have to face.](if: $CoffeeGo01 is "satis")[It's about confidence, like you said. Confidently drawing lines and confidently saying this is this side, and that is that.] |==| (if: $CoffeeGo01 is "obsess")[<div class="choicebutton">[[What about what //others// have to face?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPPLOT-02a]]</div>] (if: $CoffeeGo01 is "satis")[<div class="choicebutton">[[Wrong people can be confident->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPPLOT-02b]]</div>]

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| He meets a female J'Ordez called Larv Un'Trezt, has to fight her in ritual battle, but he wins, with his wits. (if: $CoffeeYou is "mind")[He's a Dyn of words, you see. A bard, a passionate scribe.](if: $CoffeeYou is "what")[She falls for him, but he resists her temptations, telling her he is a Dyn of words.] He has travelled there to tell the story of his people. |==| (set: $NovelName to "Larv Un'Trezt") <div class="choicebutton">[[And he succeeds?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSPLOT-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Bit boring->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSPLOT-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yes! First they don't want to hear it, then they do. He meets a rough ex-miner, who challenges him to drinking competition. When the Dyn wins, he gets some respect. He meets a young J'Ordez mother with sickly kids, but he makes them better by feeding them his natural foods from home, and she thanks him.(set: $NovelNeed to "Today the Dyn she was meeting told her he'd won a drinking competition that somehow helped feed sickly kids. She wondered what fragment of truth was in that obvious fiction.")(set: $NovelTake to "The Dyn had no more boasts this time, that was good. They had something to do.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Doesn't face any real setbacks, does he?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSPLOT-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| It's not boring. He does plenty of other things too. Like he meets a group of young J'Ordez, all drinking and eating drugs, and gets them cleaned up. They assist him on his quest. One of them is pregnant, and he helps her give birth. And find the father. And convince the father to stick around.(set: $NovelNeed to "Recently she met a Dyn, desperate to help her people, but with odd ideas how to do it. For some reason he was concerned she was pregnant or didn't know her father.")(set: $NovelTake to "Today the Dyn didn't comment on her family or ask if she was in the family way. Good. more important things lay ahead.") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Just succeeds at everything, does he?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSPLOT-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh, this Long Dyn has had his struggles. I said he was a scribe, but here's the thing, nobody reads his words. That's why he has to go on this mission. His home is small and not even his. His father had to pay for half of it. His relationships have all failed. His last girlfriend didn't even do that thing he liked. Not even on his birthday. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Is the plot him just being good at stuff?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSPLOT-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[It's not the most tragic of backstories->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSPLOT-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Jeez, just give it a rest will you? You're acting like this isn't good. If you have to give feedback, make it constructive feedback, yeah? You even know what that means? It means you //construct// your feedback so it doesn't sound so negative and hurt so much to hear. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Is that what it means?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSPLOT-02]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[I'm sorry?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSPLOT-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I don't think you even know what's good. When you first read it, (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[you asked if there were any characters. Well what do you call this? I just gave you an amazing character who does everything, despite what he's had to overcome.(set: $NovelSearch to "Theirs is a tough partnership. For one, he is always trying to do everything by himself.")(set: $NovelChange to "He'll need to learn to work with her. This is a two-person job, that will require one of them to die.")](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[you asked if the J'Ordez home was meant to be bad. Well yeah, that's so this guy can go there and sort it out. You want a protagonist who has nothing to do?(set: $NovelSearch to "She and the Dyn have a tough partnership. To begin with, he views everything as something to overcome, scared he'll have nothing to do, nothing to define himself.")(set: $NovelChange to "The Dyn will have plenty to overcome with what's ahead. Though he may find himself defined as dead.")] This's why readers shouldn't give their opinions. The reader should be silent, invisible. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Didn't you want my thoughts?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSPLOT-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Not like that I didn't. Not with all your little questions like, "oh, (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[any bloody characters in this boring story?](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[this meant to be some bloody bad place?]" I said asking questions meant you didn't want to give your opinion, didn't I? I was wrong. Meant you wanted to sneak your opinions past me and stab me in the back with them. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[How about you tell me //why// your characters do what they do?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPPLOT-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| That's right. What every single normal, ordinary person is like. Just a fellow doing mid-level work, same as his dad, Has some ex-girlfriends, isn't seeing anybody now. Dreams of being an artist, like a scribe, but hasn't made it yet. Wants love, but hasn't met the interesting and quirky woman that'll complete him yet, make him see himself for how awesome he really is. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[He's awesome? No bad qualities?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Any other characters?->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I just said, his problem is he can't see his own true value. But then he meets this female J'Ordez in, like, a tavern. Her name's Piks E'Jreem. (if: $CoffeeYou is "mind")[When they meet, she asks him if he minds her sitting at his table. Even though it's not busy.(set: $NovelNeed to "Today she met a Dyn in a busy bean brewery, thankfully the only free seat was at his table.")(set: $NovelTake to "The crowded brewery would hopeful hide the clandestine nature of their meeting.")](if: $CoffeeYou is "what")[They meet by her coming to his table, even though it's not busy, and asking what he's writing, I mean scribing.(set: $NovelNeed to "Today she met the writer Dyn where it was known stars shine over wild bucks, and watched as he attempted to transcribe the sight to paper.")(set: $NovelTake to "The stars and bucks disappeared, and now she had the Dyn's attention.")] She's the one that'll open his eyes... to himself. |==| (set: $NovelName to "Piks-E'Jreem") <div class="choicebutton">[[Definitely a fantasy novel then->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-04]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[So the everyman will see he's... every man->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yes, definitely. There's a lovely little female J'Ordez, prettier than most, called Phan T'Seawanx. She approaches him when she sees him(if: $CoffeeYou is "mind")[ loudly scribbling away with furious intent, but also gently sometimes, because he's an emotional scribe.(set: $NovelNeed to "Today she met a Dyn in a busy bean brewery, thankfully the only free seat was at his table.")(set: $NovelTake to "The crowded brewery would hopeful hide the clandestine nature of their meeting.")](if: $CoffeeYou is "what")[, because she's heard he's the one writing an epic tale, full of life.(set: $NovelNeed to "Today she met the writer Dyn where it was known stars shine over wild bucks, and watched as he attempted to transcribe the sight to paper.")(set: $NovelTake to "The stars and bucks disappeared, and now she had the Dyn's attention.")] He puts his emotions on the page, and she's the one to help open him up and put the emotions on his... um, face. |==| (set: $NovelName to "Phan T'Seawanx") <div class="choicebutton">[[It's important that she does that for him->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-04]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Prettier than most? Good character trait->COFFEE-FIND-OBSESSCHAR-04]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Is that sarcasm? I don't do sarcasm. I'm a writer and it's impossible to portray sarcasm in text. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, impossible. Never been done->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSCHAR-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[What do you do?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| See, now, what was that? Why are you even here? Here I am, drinking my coffee, in my own fantasy world, //and// writing my novel, and you just plonk yourself down asking (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[if I've any actual characters in this.](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[is the land I'm writing about meant to be a bad place.] I didn't force you to read my story. And by the way, the answers yes. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[The answer's yes?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSCHAR-02]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Yes! (if: $CoffeeNeed is "char")[Yes there's characters in this. I just gave you an awesome one with this Dyn. So identifiable, so relatable, so complete. But, well, not so complete that the female J'Ordez won't complete him with the ways she is different.(set: $NovelSearch to "They work well together though. He completes her roster of agents in this region.")(set: $NovelChange to "She'll need no more agents after this mission. This Dyn could be the last one. If he survives.")](if: $CoffeeNeed is "place")[Yes the J'Ordez homeland is a bad place. The Dyn hero is going to go there, or least meet people from there. They need to be opposite to him. Different to him, to create conflict and story.(set: $NovelSearch to "They work well together though. He's different, lacks the common sense experience of those back home. That can be useful.")(set: $NovelChange to "Back home they'll think he's an idiot. That will disarm them as she enacts her plan, through him, to take power.")] It's called diversity and its important. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[They're diverse... from the hero?->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSCHAR-03]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You've the full spectrum. From blue to navy->COFFEE-TAKE-OBSESSCHAR-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Don't make fun of diversity in fiction. My protagonist can't just meet people like himself. He's got to come across all sorts of other... others. He's got to learn from them, take what is good about them for himself. Otherwise, why's he the hero? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Good question. Why not a J'Ordez hero?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-01]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Maybe see him from the J'Ordez point of view?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh, like you said, (if: $CoffeeGo02 is "start")[the J'Ordez are always using gay insults and are obsessed with sex.(set: $NovelGo to "She's only had to reject this Dyn's advances once, which is a record, and makes him tolerable.")(set: $NovelReturn to "To begin with, $NovelName and the Dyn will need go undercover as a couple. Something easier for him than her.")](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "miners")[the Dyn do everything with ideas, but the J'Ordez are about violence.(set: $NovelGo to "She has her battle scars, but this Dyn claims to fight with ideas. Unfortunately he's always unarmed.")(set: $NovelReturn to "$NovelName doesn't need the Dyn's ideas, but she does need his reputation for cowardice. his presence lowers her threat level.")] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you said that->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh, but, (if: $CoffeeGo02 is "inspire")[I'm using my voice like you said. Their crappy lives will be very poetically described.(set: $NovelGo to "The Dyn is known for liking the sound of his own voice, bringing the total number of people who do to one.")(set: $NovelReturn to "It's the Dyn's talkative nature she needs. With him in tow, they can talk, or at least bore, their way into any meeting.")](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "going")[I've already said they're drunk, bonking, racists.(set: $NovelGo to "She knows this Dyn sees her as a drunk, because he can't handle alcohol, too sexually active, because he wishes he was, and racist, because she doesn't like him.")(set: $NovelReturn to "She'll have to work on the Dyn's alcohol tolerance and lack of charisma, if their undercover story of being a couple was to work.")] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You're missing my point->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| How about this, (if: $CoffeeGo02 is "inspire")[instead of their "ravenous recreational relations", I say they expressed an easy-going enthusiasm in their earnest... what's another word for bonking that begins with "e"?](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "going")[they're not all drunk racists. There's a younger one who has better ideas, like he wants to become a dancer and perform for the Dyn?](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "start")[they don't have loads of kids because they're obsessed with sex. It's because they're badly educated and have no access to decent birth control.](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "miners")[the problem with losing their mining is it gave them dignity and purpose. They're proud. They literally have no value without it.] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Or just maybe they're not all the same?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-04a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[And maybe the Dyn aren't all that->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPCHAR-04b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I was trying to show they have a culture. I know they're individuals. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Then write it->COFFEE-CHANGE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| But they're... but you said... okay I get it. You mean more than this, but you're saying the Dyn can be dicks too. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[They're people, aren't they?->COFFEE-CHANGE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I need to get this down. Let me ask you though, how should it start? |==| <div class="choicebutton">(if: $CoffeeSearch is "proud")[[[With someone proud, but not because it's misplaced->COFFEE-CHANGE-02a]]](if: $CoffeeSearch is "stubborn")[[[With someone who has a reason to be stubborn->COFFEE-CHANGE-02b]]](if: $CoffeeSearch is "food")[[[With someone who knows good food is everywhere->COFFEE-CHANGE-02c]]](if: $CoffeeSearch is "orcs")[[[With the J'Ordez not sounding like orcs->COFFEE-CHANGE-02d]]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">(if: $CoffeeSearch is "proud")[[[With a community that is open, but cut off->COFFEE-CHANGE-02e]]](if: $CoffeeSearch is "stubborn")[[[With the Dyn being too opinionated->COFFEE-CHANGE-02f]]](if: $CoffeeSearch is "food")[[[With the Dyn knowing the difference between eating and showing off->COFFEE-CHANGE-02g]]](if: $CoffeeSearch is "orcs")[[[With the Dyn not sounding like elves->COFFEE-CHANGE-02h]]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh, you mean (if: $CoffeeGo02 is "start")[the J'Ordez have to face big families and that just because their son likes to dance doesn't mean he's gay.(set: $NovelGo to "The J'Ordez have a reputation for large familes, though $NovelName is an only child.")(set: $NovelReturn to "For $NovelName has discovered she may have a half-sibling out there after all, another Long Dyn they say, and she needs to find them before anybody else does.")](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "miners")[like the J'Ordez don't get to mine anymore and that's, like, their whole identity.(set: $NovelGo to "$NovelName came from a hardworking J'Ordez family, though there is no work back home for her now.")(set: $NovelReturn to "For $NovelName has discovered a plan to give her people work, in the form of slave labour, and she means to put a stop to it.")] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Aim for a bit more nuance?->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPLOT-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Ok but... they're wrong first, then confident about it. Their confidence is part of how they're wrong. Totally different to the ones who are right, who are confident because they're right. (if: $CoffeeGo02 is "inspire")[That's why I'm inspired by confident writers, and I'll be a confident writer, no matter what I write.(set: $NovelGo to "She studies the Dyn, and senses he has more confidence than acumen.")(set: $NovelReturn to "For $NovelName needs this Dyn's confidence, if their infiltration is to succeed.")](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "going")[The J'Ordez are confident drunks, confident bonkers, confident racists. I'm sure of that.(set: $NovelGo to "She radiates confidence, but is always thinking, analysing, it doesn't mean she's always certain.")(set: $NovelReturn to "It's $NovelName's lack of certainty that has brought her together with the Dyn. She needs to know what he knows, even if he himself doesn't know it yet.")] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[A bit less certainty wouldn't go amiss->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPLOT-03]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| You mean don't make it so clear cut? (if: $CoffeeGo02 is "inspire")[Like a J'Ordez could be getting on with their "ravenous recreational relations" because of love, or horniness, or... wow... or because they fancy each other and want to? Or even a combination?](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "going")[Like the J'Ordez aren't all drunk racists. Some of them have legitimate economic concerns.](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "start")[Like some of the J'Ordez want their kids? Even the dads?](if: $CoffeeGo02 is "miners")[Like the J'Ordez are ok with not being miners, but they want something else to do. Like work in a call centre, I mean, psychic support commune or... carrier pigeon... helpline.] |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Or they're just not all the same->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPPLOT-04a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[And maybe the Dyn aren't just lawful good or whatever->COFFEE-RETURN-EMPPLOT-04b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I know they're not all the same. I was going to have one that was diff... oh, right. Maybe all the //rest// aren't all the same. But what, I'm meant to write about every single one of them? How do I show they're varied or some such. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[You're the writer, figure it out->COFFEE-CHANGE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| But the hero is a Dyn. Wait, I get it... they can't all be heroes. and the J'Ordez can't all be dicks. Otherwise what's making my characters special? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[That's one way of looking at it->COFFEE-CHANGE-01]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Too opinionated? They make assumptions. I'll go with that. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "$NovelName was a J'Ordez who struggled with the Long Dyn and their assumptions about her.")(set: $NovelFind to "Of all the assumptions made about $NovelName because she was J'Ordez, this Dyn had made the most. But he was learning.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Taste is taste, right? Maybe it's more about opinion than what's actually good. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "$NovelName didn't eat when around the Long Dyn. As a J'Ordez, they saw her tastes as simple, and not refined as theirs.")(set: $NovelFind to "This Dyn was the only one $NovelName ate around. Not because he didn't judge, he did, but because she liked to hear his stomach rumble when he refused her offer to share.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Because it's more about how you cook, not what you cook? Ok, let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "$NovelName finished the last of her rations. It was good not because she wasn't a fussy eater (she wasn't) but because she knew preparation mattered as much as ingredients.")(set: $NovelFind to "He had refused to share in $NovelName's rations. A mistake he often made.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| How about I just avoid making it all racy? I mean racist. I mean race-based. Racy is still ok. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "$NovelName was a J'Ordez, which just defined the region she was born, not who she was. But try telling others that.")(set: $NovelFind to "It had taken the Dyn some time to see $NovelName as more than a J'Ordez.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Maybe the J'Ordez and Dyn aren't all that physically different. Forget the orc and elf stuff. I wasn't meaning to go for that. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "There was little difference between the J'Ordez and the Long Dyn. $NovelName knew that, but she'd feel the difference whenever she met a Dyn, because they'd focus on her being J'Ordez.")(set: $NovelFind to "This Dyn still primarily saw $NovelName as a J'Ordez. But gradually he was seeing more than that.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| I get it. Someone with self-respect. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "$NovelName had to hold on to her self-respect. Nobody else would.")(set: $NovelFind to "Perhaps he respected $NovelName. It didn't matter. She didn't need him to.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| How about "remote"? Maybe they're cut off too, but that can come later. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "$NovelName came from the friendly, but remote, J'Ordez region.")(set: $NovelFind to "Despite the J'Ordez's friendly nature, the Dyn pushed $NovelName's patience.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Right, like how there's a difference between being stubborn and standing firm. Let me type this up. (set: $NovelYou to "As a J'Ordez, $NovelName knew she had to hold her ground in any disagreement.")(set: $NovelFind to "Whenever he and $NovelName disagreed, it didn't take much for him to back down.") Want to read what I've got now? |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[No, you're good. I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-03a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[Sure, why not?->COFFEE-CHANGE-03b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Oh, ok, sure.(set: $CoffeeTask to "no") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Want to come to a flatwarming?->COFFEE-CHANGE-04a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[See ya->COFFEE-CHANGE-04b]]</div>

(display: "Writer Novel") (set: $CoffeeTask to "yes") <div class="choicebutton">[[Getting better. Want to come to a party?->COFFEE-CHANGE-04a]]</div> <div class="choicebutton">[[You made a lot of changes, but I've got to go->COFFEE-CHANGE-04b]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| Actually, yes please. I could do with a break. And hey, who knows, maybe I'll have news from this literary agent by then. She might like it.(set: $CoffeeAttend to "yes") |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[See you there->COFFEE-END]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header-w.png" class="topimage"> |= (align: "==>")[**JAKE:**<img src="LD_writer-side.png" class="sideimage">] =||||| No problem. Nice to meet you. Maybe I'll give you a shout and let you know how the meeting with the literary agent went. |==| <div class="choicebutton">[[Good luck->COFFEE-END]]</div>

<img src="LD_coffee_header.png" class="topimage"> //My coffee went cold during all that. Note to self, when at a coffee shop, avoid the guys with a laptop or notepad.// <div class="successes">(if: $CoffeeAttend is "yes")[☻ Jake is coming to your party](if: $CoffeeAttend is "no")[☹ You didn't get a new guest]</div> <div class="successes">⚬ You'll find out later about the novel</div> (set: $CoffeeVisit to "yes") <div class="choicebutton">[[//Continue//->COFFEE-CONTINUE]]</div>

//What to try next?// (if: $CakeOffVisit is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Take a baking class//->CAKEOFF-01]]</div>] (if: $AppVisit is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Let's try a dating app//->DATINGAPP-01]]</div>] (if: $ClubAttend is "no")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Could go clubbing//->CLUBBING-01]]</div>] (if: $CakeOffVisit is "yes" and $AppVisit is "yes" and $ClubAttend is "yes")[<div class="choicebutton">[[//Continue//->DEMO end]]</div>]