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My condolences to the surviving developer. The art is beautiful and the story is fun. I hope they eventually find the right person to help continue the legacy.

If you have data that is important to you, then you have a reason to back it up. Too many of us learn the hard way. But we take it seriously after that.

My advice in addition to communing with nature is to let go of your ssd.

That's right. 

As long as the bully despots know they can hurt you with it they will hold it hostage. Don't give them the satisfaction. Show them they have no power over your happiness, mental stability or income stream. They will get bored of bullying you. Even if they eventually return your property, I would wager it will be rendered useless to you one way or another. ("accidentally" erased/corrupted or physically destroyed.) Best for your sanity to consider it gone. If it does come back then won't that be a pleasant surprise!

In the meantime, I suggest you stick it to them by re-creating your data from scratch and move forward. A arduous task I know, but the product will likely be better than before since your skills will have progressed. I bet your the majority of you patrons and buyers will support you in this endeavor (I am buying MNM as soon as the purchase button goes back up). But this time you'll be prepared by keeping frequent physically offsite backups to prevent future loss. Not just in the cloud. Big Tech companies are well known for collaborating with governments to violate peoples' rights.

Get satisfaction from your life first then your work and also importantly, your fans. Never allow your happiness, sanity or income stream be controlled by anyone else again. Self sufficiency will set you free and you will forever more be in control of your destiny. Communities will thrive when they stick together and support each other. This is true not only for our local communities, but also virtual/online ones based on shared interests etc.

Power to the people through individual freedom! 

Go fourth and prosper my friend.

Fyi, There's still proofreading to be done. Both parts have many question marks on sentences that aren't questions and a few spots where a line is attributed to the wrong person.  Minor stuff.

Don't read the neg comments and Don't feed the trolls.

Especially the ones who don't contribute to the world and want everything given to them free.

Just a proofreading note for ver .22:

There's lots of question marks on dialog that aren't questions.

Some mislabeled dialog as to who is speaking particularly in chapter 14.

Thanks for making such a fun VN!

Interesting you choose to re-do a whole work rather than start something new with your newly advanced skills.  I really enjoyed this as VN. I could see it being awesome as a choose your path game too.

All the best to you and I hope you find the enjoyment and inspiration you seek.

Just ignore the nags, I never understood them anyway. I just play other games and VNs here on itch while I wait for another to post progress. 

Thanks for making this game/story. Enjoy some vacay!

I bought and enjoyed both. I really liked the story arc with Makoto totally into being his "recruiter". But shouldn't a "proper" harem have at least 5 gals? 

I suppose if you include LND2 there is, but are they full members or supernatural side pieces? Hope I'm hyping these well without spoiling!

I vote for chapters 4 and 5. If you need ideas...

Thanks for your hard work on all of it!

Will there be a chapter 4...eventually?

"Needs just a pinch of rosemary."

Exactly, It's an incest/harem FANTASY. Who's supposed to believe your entire family and friends network are all ok with an incest harem. 

Although, Sandra apparently acts like a real polygamist's "head wife" by managing his time with the others and making sure their needs are getting  met.

There is a growth moment. Now we all can understand your viewpoint better and Pray for the best possible outcome for all involved in your situation.

The story goes to great lengths to tell how unhappy, guilty and incomplete she felt.

Y'know forgiving another person is to forgive yourself for judging them in the first place. 

The scenario reminds me of a story about the wisdom of King Solomon. Two mothers in the realm had babies the same day, but one baby died. Both were now claiming the surviving baby was hers. Solomon had to choose which one was the real mother. He said the baby should be cut in half. The First woman agreed. The Second said "Please don't kill it. Let her have the baby."  Solomon determined the First woman, out of jealousy or grief, didn't mind seeing the other mother's baby die too, but the child's real mother would sooner let her baby be raised by a questionable person than have worse harm come to it. So Solomon gave the baby to the Second mother. 

Mothers make personal sacrifices for their children almost daily, some small just in the moment, some with lifelong irreversible outcomes. But that's what a LOVING parent does, they will choose the best possible/least bad outcome for their offspring despite their own aspirations and/or desires. For individuals who haven't had children, it's sometimes hard to understand.

I don't think she's bad. The story explains why she did what she did.  I hated Tanja at first but she got redeemed. But I wouldn't blame someone for not wanting to persue her route. But that's what choose-your-path is good for isn't it? If there's a character that you're not into, skip 'em.

If you're here for lewd scenes, I recommend harem route, more ladies, more opportunities for fun. Plus it sets up scenes with more than one character later on.  ;)  It's the top choice most of the time. 

Anyone else on windows having trouble with screen refresh? Recently, each time I advance the dialogue, I have to alt-tab away and back to see the updated screen. It happens on MNF 0.14 for me and other games built on the same framework.

I too would like to do a one-time pay what you can 'purchase'.

There's too much good content out there worthy of support to do a monthly subscriptions on Patreon (plus the censor so I hear so they shouldn't get a cut). I much prefer  to support creators by purchasing merch or just one time donations.

So trying to stop tyrants' ability to finance their war to take over another sovereign nation counts as "political bullshit" to you? 

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Take comfort in the fact that Russia and China have no problem pirating any and all intellectual property that suits them. Your generosity is appreciated so they won't have to suffer due to the great wank material sanctions the big banks arbitrarily inflicted on the proletariat.

I think it's sarcasm. Holding hands isn't lewd at all. But Lucy's very reserved, almost tsundere, so holding hands in public is a big deal. He's teasing her.

The protagonist and Elys seem to be peers and she's old enough to strike out on her own and get a job at a tavern, so you can turn off the pedo-alarm. It's fiction anyway.

As for his dick, maybe there's gonna be a potion for that in a similar fashion to the boob potion.

I can't find Roxanne's temple home.

Is it because it hasn't been added yet?

Also there's many potions but I've only found opportunities to use 2-3 and only once. Sure would like to provide Elys with a boob potion on a regular basis since she mentions visiting and having a drink. Maybe we can learn how to make it persist.

You teased it too well. I'm curious but...

Yes there's no spoilers, but also didn't mention what type of interests/kinks this vis-novel might satisfy. So how does one know if it's their taste?

Godspeed. Prayers for all Ukrainians everywhere.

Bravo! I've only seen 26.4% of the content according to my first play through, but I fell for this Lillie right away. Gotta play again to see an Ally route and hopefully a threesome route too!

Patience padawans. These developers are reg folks with real lives in addition to developing "one-handed gameplay technology" for your enjoyment. Meanwhile if you don't feel like making anything for the world yourself, there's plenty of stuff here on Itch.io to keep your kink stim up and your other hand busy.

I too am really enjoying this story, characters, art style and humor. 

All the best to you at Voluptasoft.

I love the reference to candlepin bowling! Wicked cool, Killer7.

Hit the deadwood to pick up the spare on the third roll of the frame.

You're foxy if you can drink a Moxie without showing any signs of disgust.

It's December and 38 F, T-shirt and shorts weather!

It's a New England thing.  ;)

That’s ok. It’s totally understandable to want to keep the project manageable. And I did think of losing touch with an actor and having to recast.  It was more of an idea than a request. Thanks for your work on making the game in the first place. 

Maybe that could be a community driven task.

Perhaps a contest where users can submit demo recordings in a specified format of a selection of lines performed as a character in the game, following some creative guidance from the developers, for instance: "this character should have a husky sultry voice" etc. and sign a release form giving the developers use rights. Then developers could choose "winners" to provide complete and ongoing voice performances for said character and a full license to the game.

Many shall we say "special interest" games do force progression, limit your time to get things done, are puzzling about how to progress or otherwise make getting the desired results frustrating. I find that to be a tease. I rather like the sandbox freedom of play in this one, It's refreshing and relaxing in a Minecraft sort of way.

I don't know how difficult it would be for the developers to add different modes in the spirit of "survival mode" and "creative mode". But it might be a way to satisfy a variety of different tastes such as yours and mine.

Yeah, it seemed kinda grindy now I'm like "One more day cycle, then I'll go to bed."

Skillshare perhaps, so many youtubers have that.

This is a kink game, why not go all-out with fanservice?

Or make it an option at least, I can see how some folks would like to see a shirt ride up or ripping cloth/seams or popping buttons. Ooh, yeah.

is the sail not implemented yet in linux ver 1.04?

Nah. Sexuality is a spectrum, right? 

According to the Lgbtq...lmnop...wxyz set.

I second.. well third that request. :)

The sounds are really good, add more.

Is there a bonus cumshot and/or her screaming or something for getting the pleasure meters to climax simultaneously?

Isn't playable on web browser controls are too sloppy.

For better or worse, rape fantasy (doing or being raped) is part of the kink spectrum. That's all it is, FANTASY.

So if it doesn't appeal to you fine, if it does, it sure beats hurting people in real life. 

That's what fantasy is for, to tickle your kink in a safe judgement-free manner away from the taboos and haters out in "polite society".

If you want to be left alone to enjoy YOUR kink (why else would you be here?), don't hate on others'.