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Thanks for the update! I've been checking in annually since 0.20 and I wanted to say I really appreciate both that the latest iteration of helping IO with distribution before a shift feels so unintrusive and beneficial compared to previous systems and that you're still taking the time to answer questions here.

Thank you, and sorry again for creating more work for you!

Love your writing!  Usually I've got a severe completionist streak but this is the first rpg of any kind in a long while that I've empathized with the lead enough to get properly immersed in the story and tamp down on any mechanical FOMO.  There ended up being a chunk of the supporting cast I deliberately avoided and picked “bad” options during conversations with because I felt a stronger obligation to keeping my version of Luc honest and unembarrassed during downtime than I did to pursing an eventual Sword of Great Friends with Everybody.  It was honestly to the point I regretted toggling explicit scenes on at the start since I wanted to get back to unraveling the mysteries sooner.

Also, I feel bad bringing up such a minor nitpick but it made me laugh when I stumbled across it: in week 3, one of the videos available during the rental shift is explored during Wednesday's lit class, but you have time earlier in the week to take the shift.  It doesn't read strangely out of context, so on my first playthrough when I took the shift on Tuesday I assumed it was a detail from a past lecture that you mercifully spared us from the full duration of.  At least, I did until the following morning when the professor actually mentioned by name and I realized I'd created a temporal anomaly.  Oops.

Really enjoying this new version so far! A couple things I'm sure have already been pointed out by paid backers but I'd be remiss not to note:

• The new arousal mechanic helps a lot with the pacing of nightlife scenes, but currently makes it so Sable ends up getting more easily stressed over the course of a club shift as she gets more aroused. It's cute in its own way but feels at odds with her otherwise more relaxed high lewdness dialogue.

• Nim's war on dodgy vending machines, which is an excellent sequence that got me to laugh out loud, currently interrupts her original sequence between asking if she'd accept a lunch date and actually bringing her a sandwich. I don't dislike the new flow, but the lunch date does mention specifically it's the third time Sable's approached her.

• The new anal gloryhole scene opens with Sable thinking about the last creampie without actually requiring any previous such scenes. This one is small potatoes, 99.9% of people probably wouldn't think to make a high lewdness virgin save at all, much less when major mechanics are yet to be introduced and brick said save.

Overall, though, I'm very much enjoying reading what you've made and hope to see more of it soon!