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Is something supposed to happen once you complete a bounty? I succeeded with Diana but nothing happened. It still shows as my active bounty and I didn't get anything, and any time I prod the narrator it will acknowledge she stopped her research but urge me to wait.

I did sneak past the guard and persuade Diana with a combination of talk and dream manipulation, no "encounters" per se, so I don't know if that could be the reason. 

Also, does the money stat do anything other than make it impossible to pay your landlord? Is it actually possible to gain it? Is there any need to?

So I actually found this pretty compelling.

Like, I was really glued to my first run. Sure, the narrator is what it is and gets things wrong frequently, but it's still possible to roll with a lot of it, or write in a correction as part of the next prompt.

The challenges can be frustrating if you get locked into a loop and don't know what to do. Sometimes it's OK to "fail" them. I think I broke the game slightly by telling the narrator I wasn't enjoying the scene with Mara and asking it to roll everything back to when I last rested - which it tried to do. The in-game time didn't change, but it seemed to retcon Mara out of existence.

 I ended up telling the story of someone desperately failing forward from one disaster to another. (Which makes more sense now that I understand how limbo works). Got abducted by Veronica. Tried to erase a meeting from the landlady's memory and made her forget me completely (interesting, because the narrator acknowledged that wasn't my intention but did it anyway). Interviewed for a job, didn't get it. Failed missions for Lilith (not the bounties - she kept giving me side jobs involving book theft), romanced Sara. Went to spend a last few hours with Sara when it wasn't possible to meet quota and she somehow came up with a way to save my soul?

There was more after that but I ended the run because they were happy and I kind of didn't have a reason to keep collecting.  Also Lilith kept popping up but didn't really seem to remember the player between appearances.

Bottom line, somehow the smut robot ended up helping me tell a story that actually resonated with me emotionally. Not sure what to think about that, but thank you.