Talk:Life Hacks/Familiarize Yourself

Question for Jemini and Elerneron, since I do no really enjoy making stories with perfect characters, to avoid any further concerns with his maxed out stats, do you have any objection if I start a path where he does not just max out his stats and actually has a steep learning curve on his powers? --Telgar (talk) 16:00, 22 April 2019 (PST)

I think that's an excellent idea. I had considered it myself on several occasions, but never really had the time for it. Really, the only reason I keep contributing to this story is because the barrier to entry of the early difficulties in set-up were already taken care of, so I could just lightly and casually add one more page at any time. I think another path like this though is something this story has been sorely needing. Jemini (talk) 04:17, 23 April 2019 (CEST)

There can even be a path where Xander is sitting in his living room, and he has the urge to jerk off onto one of his mother's porcelain dolls; doing this causes BlackRose to outfit Xander with godlike powers right out of the box instead of Loki. This path would mainly be used as a way for writers to write whatever they want; then have the story return to the choices menu, as if whatever had happened was all a dream/fantasy of some sort --MrPib (talk) 04:30, 23 April 2019 (CEST)

Wow... for 1, that sounds like it is absolutely the opposite direction of where Telgar wants to go. 2, I am not certain that Xander would have the ability to gain Black Rose's trust without having maxed out his mental stats. Jemini (talk) 10:42, 23 April 2019 (CEST)

1) Having another of Black Rose's RARE mana engine sex dolls in the same area as another lost one is stretching believability. 2) Without Loki ticking the god flag in Xander's code; Black Rose could care less about a random lifie jacking off on one of her dolls. 3) While I DID mention that were she doing the "prank" Loki was that she would load the lifie form bear and see what chaos ensued; there would need to be a reason for her to select Xander for that purpose. One way this idea could work is instead of having Xander do anything at all; write an alternate start where Black Rose found out what Loki was going to do, and beats him to the punch. In that scenario, however, it should be a given that Xander would NOT get Black Hack. But as Jemini said this is the opposite of what Telgar is looking for. --Elerneron (talk) 14:27, 23 April 2019 (CEST)

My idea was more like the writer can write what they like without limitations or other users inputs; a 'free play sandbox mode'. About the dolls, since it would be a completely separate route, the Holiday's could know that Xander's mom collects porcelain dolls and give her Cora.--MrPib (talk) 16:23, 23 April 2019 (CEST)

Trying to keep all time-lines fairly consistent. On that note, since more authors are confirmed joining in, I think I will start work on a time-line. (This would be the order of events when Xander's not involved.) Jemini (talk) 19:13, 23 April 2019 (CEST)