#interaction: ryder

[goldenkwilde]

TEXT: Kitty and Ryder

KITTY: I don’t know why I ever thought we could have a conversation like that in a campus bar on a Saturday and not be seen. Deeply stupid.

KITTY: I blame you, tbh, nothing good comes from sad drinking alone.

@lynnryder

[askjesse]

You'll excuse me if I don't take advice from someone who looks like they crawled out of one of the darker scenes from Euphoria.

Maybe. But you could also try not being a dick.

[dcdreamblog]

Hey so, a while back, I had a layover in Boston for a day (long story), and I swear, when I was heading to a motel for the night, I saw this guy running and swinging around across the rooftops, was laughing like crazy, looked like the Joker but yellow. Creeped me the hell out at least, is he some sort of villain or something?

It might creep you out more when I tell you that THAT guy is evidently on the side of the angels.

You ran into the creature called...the Creeper.

(A painting by a Gotham street artist depicting the antiheroic creature) Nobody know for certain what the Creeper is or where he comes from. He simply appeared soon after the beginning of the second heroic age and obviously made a very striking name for himself. Bright yellow skin, green hair, a rictus grin and a laugh that can chill a hardened criminal straight to the bone. But that's the thing, despite looking like something directly out of a horror show, the Creeper has always come down on the side of justice in the end. His first sighting was taking down the gangster known as 'Angel' Devlin and has been an intermittent scourge of the underworld ever since. He's been spotted most often in Gotham but also in New York and, as you saw, Boston where he seems to have made his modern home base.

We have more questions than answers about him. What we know for sure is that he displays superhuman strength, balance and agility along with a preternatural ability to heal from basically any wound. Eye witnesses have reported him having his skull blown apart by a double barrel shotgun from less than a foot away and the creature standing up laughing. That laughing serves as his trademark, along with a general feeling of mental unease that follows the creature wherever it goes. The Creeper never seems unsettled by anything, no matter how violent or gruesome, simply sweeping down upon the perpetrators and meting out violent justice but like other superheroes, never lethally so. He's also been spotted in the direct company of members of the Bat Family, meaning that the general superhero community must be both aware of and at least tolerating of his presence. Some people think he's a normal man taking vigilantism to a shivering extreme and that stories of his abilities are overblown. Some people thing he's some flavor of metahuman, perhaps putting on his mask of mental unbalance to unsettle criminals the same way the Batman uses fear against them but via a different vector. A popular theory claims the Creeper is a demon in the flesh, a mad spirit of violence seeking to spill the blood of the guilty like something out of an old moral fable. Despite their broad similarities, he also has nothing that we can tell to do with the Joker. The Joker even holds an open bounty on the creature for "stealing his bit" but if there were a heroic version of the Joker out there, as chilling as the thought may be, the Creeper would be it.

[morbethgames]

The Final Part of Chapter 4 Mostly Is Now Live!

So, you guys are probably wondering what the mostly is about. Simply put, there’s a subroute in the final part that I still need to write. Not very long, it won’t be too big of a deal later on, but this scene was blocking me hard. After working on it for 2 months straight I just wanted to move on. Needless to say, if I had to write one more set of variations for how the PC fights the suspect, I was going to go insane. That being said, it is all mostly there. There’s simply one greyed out option is all. I’m going to come revisit this scene when it’s more fresh to me again and when I don’t have to push myself so damn hard and force myself to write it. Along with the final part, I’ll probably be adding a bit more variation to it in general. But, now that that’s out of the way, let me get to the patch notes!

Patch Notes:

Added most of the rest of Chapter 4, which includes another Text Box Investigation Scene!

Added an unlockable extra story of Ryder’s PoV before the after funeral scene.

Multiple gender variable mistakes have been fixed.

Fixed a mistake where Alvarez and Ryder were being referred to as ‘mommy’.

Added a small dialogue variation to Ryder’s train scene where, if you’ve already talked to Alvarez, the PC won’t ask Ryder to clarify details about Alvarez’s age.

Added a small dialogue variation to the talk with Hawks in Dennis’ Office where, if the PC didn’t answer the phone for their brother in Chapter 2, it will reflect that choice.

Fixed the error on my part where the hoplite in the painting in Hawks’ office was being referred to as ‘Roman’ instead of ‘Greek’.

Fixed a bug where, if you chose to talk to Lance first on the train, it wouldn’t give you the option to talk to a second person.

Thank you all so much for sticking with me while I’m pumping this stuff out! It feels like such a weight off my shoulders to be able to just moved on from this scene, and to give myself the room to just come back to it later. Expect the Patreon to pick back up to two posts a week again as I get to start writing all the in between stuff for Chapter 4.5! If you like this story, and you want to support either me or this story, head on over to my Patreon where you can get an early look at extra stories, audiobook readings of this story and other IF’s, original short stories with original characters, and so on.

Patreon Link ←

We’re getting close for sure everyone. Hopefully, bare minimum, by the end of the year, this story will be completed. I’m excited, scared, and worried all at the same time.

Thank you all again so much for sticking with me.

Stay Brilliant, -Vi

Demo Link: https://dashingdon.com/play/morbethgames/the-bureau-wip/mygame/

The Bureau forum page: https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/wip-the-bureau-chapters-1-3-550k-total-words-updated-03-14-2024/99993

[laststandx3]

There are many bad things about wish, but one of the most annoying is how it fails to pay off its own set ups.

It's established Asha's father believes in the magic from the stars. He died of an illness (never specified), that Asha's grandfather (her father's father) never got his wish granted in YEARS, well now to me this feels targeted.

Follow my thoughts for a minute, how easy would have been with this already established set up to add the part where it's Magnifico who killed Asha's dad because he was promoting a different kind of magic that would undermine Magnifico's power? This would've established Magnifico as an actual villain from the start, manipulating people's perception of him with magic and the lengths he would go to keep his power and crown.

This would have impacted Asha's journey as well,instead of asking Magnifico to grant her grandfather's wish immediately (which imo is a good reason for him not to hire her, she literally asks for favoritism the moment she arrives), let her instead be perfect for the position, not clumsy and awkward but make her qualified and respectful of the king's secrecy about the wishes. And still she's still not hired. And then she starts questioning him, she's studied, she's ready and it's not enough and the king seemed to like her until she mentioned her father.

And then she talks with the people of rosa about the king, if that was unfair of him maybe , but the answer is that the king is good and kind and doesn't he grants everyone's wishes, isn't that so wonderful of him? (and maybe this can be a song) and at first it sounds like she just doesn't want to accept that she wasn't chosen but after the forth person answers the same exact thing, well then this starts to feel more like a script than an original thought. Just then she looks at all the wishes Magnifico's granted so far and they're all material, it's all about people owning bigger houses, better clothes, riches, nothing is about community, knowledge, about people becoming something(musicians, teachers, scientists, artists...) . The guy that got his wish granted last year also got it granted a few years ago too, Isn't that weird? Some people never get their wishes and this guy twice? And also his wish was so selfish? He wanted a swimming pool! How in the best kingdom, with the best king, nobody wishes nice things for others? And isn't that weird that she and her friends used to make graffitis and jokes on the guards but when Sleepy gave away his wish at 18 suddenly he doesn't make jokes about Magnifico's beard anymore? He's so respectful of the rules now.

And idk maybe Asha doesn't just wish upon a star and everything is given to her. Maybe Magnifico's source of magic is Star and she frees it and that's why Star tags along. The magic of the starts was real, her father was right! Star knew her dad, he tried to save the magical pet but he was killed instead! Now it's not just about freedom and justice she wants revenge. And this is maybe when she fucks up because she was too reckless, she got discovered. Her friends/family are watching how she's getting arrested/executed for treason and that's SO UNFAIR such a cognitive dissonance it breaks Magnifico's brainwash spell.

Now a song about revolution makes sense. But singing about revolution bc they want to be able to wish? Are you kidding me? Not only the movie established that you can have new wishes and that they make you whole again, but also girl, you all read the terms of services when giving Magnifico your wish. You give it to him and if he finds it worth it, it'll be granted. Making questions about the king choices is the opposite of living under a monarchy.

Ultimately I agree with everyone who says this movie feels empty, because it's true, it's a bunch of disney trope stitched together with easter eggs that don't makes us feel anything and that contradicts its own message. The fact that disney doesn't want to make grey characters anymore it's felt. And it mirrors the way people have started to see enjoying stories as media consumption, everything that alludes to people being flawed is an endorsement of abuse. So disney's characters have all turned is these empty shells of heroine tropes. They're always bubbly, their worst flaw is being clumsy, but the worst is that they're always right. Asha's quest to free the wishes is based only on her conviction that the king is wrong in not granting everyone's wish. It's never even hinted in the movie that the subjects of rosa lack something. It's a fairy-tale kingdom in every aspect (maybe the king is a bit egocentric but that hasn't hurt anyone so far), except that her grandpa's wish wasn't granted and so the king must be wrong. If it wasn't for Magnifico's long exposition of I don't accept criticism she wouldn't have questioned him. And even then, that's what living in a kingdom means, that you follow the king's rules. I'm sorry but singing about revolution and then ending the movie still under a monarchy is just contradictory with the whole premise.

[askhunterclarington]

You know, that's actually a pretty good business idea. Though I guess hard to police - but maybe you wouldn't have to if you advertised it right. Find the right person to pitch to and maybe you could make some money off of that idea, or at the very least save some people the heartache of trying to work out with the idiots filming.

I guess that's true, TikTok has just made it easier and quicker to embarrass yourself than before. I've definitely seen people in the gym filming TikTok challenges, maybe they should have like an 'influencer hour' there so the rest of us know when to avoid them.

[gemteeth]

Professor Ryder and her Sylveon! She studies Pokémon Emotions and Psychology :)

[snowberriesromanoff]

ik everyone is talking about Jo and Nubia (as they should be tbc) but I'm also over here screaming because Renee and Jo were in panels together! Where they both had lines! They have now met and talked to each other in canon!

[ryderthornton]

For Finn:

Ryder finished picking out an outfit for their date. He wanted to look good. To be honest he looked good all the time for Finn, for what he said to him. Ryder was excited to see Finn all the time. “I know how much you love seeing me dressed up and even naked. So decided to give you a little sneak peak of my outfit for tonight.”

@finnaaustin

[goldenkwilde]

Private: On this? Absolutely. Don't hold your breath about the other stuff.

Private: No problem, look forward to it.

If no-one is being weird then are we good?

[chvndlr]

who? @owenryder where? ryder's house when? during the storm

Chandler had a talent for knowing where the party was at. It was a skill that had helped him repeatedly during high school and college, and certainly didn't hurt here in Merrock. Case in point - there was a Surburban blizzard party. Chandler was already planning on getting drunk alone in his house, but if he could go somewhere else and drink with other people? So much more socially acceptable. And probably better for him, mentally. After knocking on the door, Chandler waited with his large reusable shopping bag. Inside was a bottle of vodka and a couple fruit juices to mix it with. If Ryder was cool enough to throw a party in the middle of a snow storm, Chandler couldn't exactly show up empty handed. Once the door open, he smiled slightly. "Hey, heard this was the place to hang out! I brought vodka."

[goldenkwilde]

TEXT: Kitty and Ryder

KITTY: Big news KITTY: 👉👌🚀💥😌

@lynnryder

[sol-consort]

ik I'm supposed to hate director Tann but he is so

[askjesse]

As my charitable act of the week, I'm going to let you keep that thought instead of shooting it down.

If you say so dude. Maybe New Directions can just do both. We'll definitely be grinning when we beat you all to the trophy.

[morbethgames]

Ok but like has S ever been touched before MC?

As far as skin to skin contact goes? Not in a way that's really meaningful. People may have brushed against them here and there, but those are very rare moments and don't really count in my mind. Then there was the extra story within the game which tells you about the time Ryder was at a party that Alvarez had to drive them and Kate home from because it didn't end well.

So, in that regard, MC may quite literally be the only person who could ever give them the normalcy of touch without barriers in between.

[likethecolour]

chapter 9 part 2 aka Ryder has an even worse time than before (and ate shit so hard on the pavement that their eyebrow piercing got ripped out.. ouch. sorry buddy)

(All characters other than Ryder are from When Twilight Strikes by @evertidings)