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What @Deammerung said in their comment is correct (and I would recommend following their guide), your political choices at this stage have no significant effect on your romantic relationship. If you're getting an unsteady romance with D, it's because the choices you made in interactions with D are incompatible with their preferences. Hope that clears it up!

Ty for letting me know about the error!! For future reference, you can report these things in the bug report form linked in the game description 🙏 And also great to hear you enjoyed the various routes 💖 💖 

That's such unbelievable praise, thank you so much!! 💖💖 I can only say that I'm deeply flattered, and I'll do my best to meet your expectations with future chapters 🙏🏼

The best compliment I could ask for 🫶🏼

Tysm!! I appreciate your patience for the polyamorous routes, I'm very much looking forward to writing them as well. Happy pride 🥰🌈

Ahh thanks so much for the wonderful comment!! 💖🙏🏼 I'm so glad to hear it's one of your favs, and that dance performance was also one of my favorite scenes to write in the story as well!

Happy to hear you enjoyed it!! 🫶🏼💖 D's route is truly meant to be agonizing, it's definitely best played while doing another less painful route to give yourself a break from the yearning haha

Thanks so much for the kind words, I'm so glad!! I spent a lot of time designing the world of Arsur (and still am) so it's lovely to hear that you enjoy the setting, as well as other aspects of the story 💖💖

Glad to hear it!! 🙏🏼 I can't take credit for saving to files, that one is just an innate feature of the game tool I'm using, but I definitely recommend people do that to ensure they keep their saves haha

Tysm for the kind words and the high praise!! 💖💖 

Secondly, yes, I actually did do a summary of all the choices the player made once for CH13, but I forgot to update it! It requires me to take all the possible variations into account so it's a whole ordeal 😵‍💫 But I'll try to remember to add it for when CH16 updates!

Anywhere from 25-28 is the current estimate :)

It's not worth playing the game for it IMO, it just means (spoilers): you'll end up hitting a dead end at the end of CH4 where the Crown dies and can't progress the game because you don't have enough romance points with any of the love interests haha. It's very short, just a few additional lines!

I always enjoy writing the side characters and the friendship scenes, so you'll definitely keep getting more of them, don't worry 💖😌

I appreciate it, and don't worry, I don't take it to heart!! It's just a very serious accusation to make when it's so easily disproven in my case, I'm baffled what this person was thinking. And I have heard AI tends to overuse/misuse em-dashes like you said, I mean it was trained on human writing that uses em-dashes in the first place after all 😭 

Ah I see!! It could be that I forgot to set the save naming function to CH14 and you happened to save before I corrected it, so yours never got updated. If you go through the start of CH14 again it would update properly, but not really necessary to do unless it's bothering you in particular haha

For future reference, yes, definitely counts as a bug so it can go in the bug report!! Ty for letting me know, I'll update it later today 🙏 

Happy to hear it!! Playing every route definitely gets you the most out of the story 😌💖

I'm not sure what you mean by save logs? You mean your own saves? But no this is definitely the CH15 update. I mean, I hope I'd know if it wasn't 💀 

Very high praise, tysm!! I hope to keep surpassing your expectations 💖✨ 

Yesss I'm glad you noticed that, it's a feeling of alienation but also how much things have changed for the MC that I really wanted to get across 🙏 

Thanks so much, I really appreciate that!! 💖 💖 I'm especially glad you're enjoying the slowburn yearning on D's route, it's not for the faint of heart haha

I'll try not to make you wait too long for the next chapter!! 💖 😊 

This is an absurd accusation, I have used em-dashes CONSTANTLY in my writing LONG before AI was a thing.

Please think for two seconds before making claims like this.

Thank you so much for the very high praise!! 💖💖 Lovely to hear the game is being recommended by others too, so you could find your way to it 🙏🏼 Right in time for CH15!

Thanks so much for the kind comment!! 💖 You started playing it just in time for the next chapter release ✨

Tysm for the kind words and the very high praise!! 😊💖💖 Love that you get a birthday treat with CH15, I hope you enjoy it once it's out!

I would say the ending scene of CH8 is the earliest where you get overtly romantic scenes, which includes physical touches (in varying degrees for each RO). CH9 is more plot-oriented, so CH10/11 is where you get more romance depending on your RO (CH11 especially diverges wildly depending on whose route you're on). R's route gets you the romantic scenes the quickest, followed by X, then A, while D is the slowest burn due to outside circumstances making it difficult for them and the Crown to have a relationship (so if you're into the forbidden romance trope then D is definitely the pick). CH11-14 include first kisses (and intimacy on X's route) for all the ROs (except for D lol, lots of almost-but-not-quite moments instead).

There's also a lot of emotional development happening for each romance route starting from CH7 though, the ending scene of that chapter forms the foundation for each of the romances and a major plot point for each ROs subplot!

So glad to hear you're enjoying the game!! 😊 You can use this walkthrough, it'll tell you how to get enough points for each LI to get past CH4.

Thanks so much, that's very high praise!! 💖💖 We're exactly 1 month away from CH15's public release in case you didn't see the release dates posted above (June 5), and in the meantime, I'm posting free previews on my Tumblr if you want some snippets to tide you over ✨

Glad you're enjoying it!! 💖 We're about halfway through the main game/monogamous LI routes right now, and if I'm optimistic it'll be like 3-4 years until I've completed that, so the polyamorous routes are pretty far away. They're not really a priority tbh, it's just something I think will be interesting to add after the game has finished as a bonus. I haven't even started plotting them out (though I obviously have some ideas!). 

And yes, transferring save files is definitely possible! You could download your save files with "Save to files" in the save menu (at the very bottom), then email those save files to yourself or use a USB or something, and then load them in on your new laptop with "Load from files"!

Hi! First, on the page to edit your game on itch.io, do you have the option to enable scrollbars checked? You can find it under "embed options" if you scroll down a bit. If that's the case or that doesn't work, feel free to send me the html file of your game to my email (you can find it above in the description) and I'll take a look at it for you!

Thanks so much for the wonderful comment, I really appreciate it 🙏🏼💖💖 Always happy to see some love for R, and it's great to hear you feel the choices really matter in the game, that was definitely one of my aims in writing the story 😊

It has actually never occurred in the history of Arsur that the child of the Crown became the next Crown. It's not a hereditary title, every time the previous one dies someone completely new has been chosen for the role! The children of Crowns (regardless of the Crown's gender) are referred to as Crownsblood to denote their lineage, but it doesn't afford them any political or noble rights: in fact they are barred from any political positions. At most they merely inherit some wealth to live comfortable lives. Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you're enjoying the game!! 💖💖💖

No plans for that one, I'm afraid! All the polyamorous routes (A/R, A/X, D/X) are all mutual triads, but D and A are not interested in each other romantically so it wouldn't work out.

Sorry to hear that!! It may be one of your extensions causing the problem? You could try turning some off to find out the culprit or try playing on a different browser!

Thank you so much!! I'm glad it could give you several days' worth of entertainment 🫶🏼💖

Thanks so much, that's high praise!! 💖💖

Glad to hear you're still checking in for it 🙏🏼💖

Aw, thank you!! 💖 I'm working on CH15 as we speak so hopefully the wait won't be too long haha

Thanks so much for this lovely comment!! I'm especially glad you enjoyed the game enough to try out all the routes 💞💖