Love & Jealousy [Act 4a] [Professor Amethyst Games]

Alright guys, is here:

All dates such as (Apr/May) I have taken as Last day of month/First day of month. This is how I have (accurately I might add with a calendar) deduced my days regarding the time apart and MC’s 1460 days. Yes he could just be referrring to 4 years of college (I admit that makes sense), but it’s much, much longer as you will see. I address this in my timeline.

There are currently four things I cannot fix, in any version, as they literally make zero sense. These are:

1. Lacey’s week away. Was supposed to be Wed to Sun (then ‘extended to a week’. It’s actually Wed to the following Friday. 10 days from day leaving to day returning. The first week is easier to deal with, however, the second week (Mon to Fri) is much more difficult to play around with. I’m going to assume another dev error (like the two Wednesday’s in Act 2) Far too much happens on each day and especially each night. As an aside, Lacey’s plan was also supposed to be on the ‘first night’ away. Now this leads to an extra issue.

2. The Fri night of the succubus returning we get the ‘One week without hurting the MC speech’. 4 days later, she tells the MC she only lasted 6 days. Again, without some major…major meshing of her week away, this cannot be fixed. However, both of these are very small things and not terribly important in the grand scheme of things, they do not break anything else in the timeline so are being left.

3. Christine start date is off (given she working every day). Can’t be helped, is another minor thing ultimately. Her wanting to concentrate on last semester (when she hands in resignation) and when she is expected to get her degree now fit perfectly in my ‘Alt’ timeline.

4. Lacey playing tennis in winter. This one annoys me greatly but it can’t be helped. The dev doesn’t care about showing seasons/holidays etc (so why should I?) so I’m just going to let this one go, besides, if it’s set somewhere like Southern Cali (which could make sense given the emphasis on ‘going to the East Coast’ etc), then this would actually be fine. One of those things just going to have to overlook.

Now let me explain a few things first regarding my alternative timeline.

It is never explicitly stated the cliff phone call was in junior year. Yes, the whole dialogue stream starts with Junior year and ends with ‘Anna stayed true to her word and remained a great friend through my Senior year’ and does make it appear it is. Thats all though, nothing else…so Isaac has been moved to senior year and Lacey’s slut time has been adjusted. This also ties in well Lacey’s last ‘hurrah’ being shortly before she leaves college. Really, far more logical to do it here. Also makes more sense why Isaac is still hung up on her…as it’s been less than two years that the script makes it initially appear and also when the MC says ‘over two years ago’….you notice Lacey says nothing (it will be 2 years ago on their anniversary, only 12 months for Lacey when they got married).

Now, think about this logically. MC is fixated on 4 years (not three years until he hears from Lacey). It is also makes sense, when thinking logically, for him to have taken his ‘missed/lost semester’ at the end of the year he lost it, not 12 months later. That’s logical, right? This ties in nicely with the above, especially as Lacey herself states the MC spent four and a half years in college and that:

The succubus says in the brutal conversation in the bedroom, that she then made him wait another entire year ‘after‘ the cliff call to see her. It lines up much, much better if that phone call was just before ‘she graduated’‘. The MC then does another 6 months in college (he states he did it alone as Anna graduated). This ties in nicely with the 12 months since the call before she turns up at his door. It just makes sense. Don’t even need to try and shoehorn this in to fit. It just fits naturally with no work. It’s far more logical and makes far more sense. Remember, MC college time is seriously messed up in his recollections.

Which leads me to:

1. Lacey cannot possibly have started 2 days after Anna (who got a job immediately after graduating) and…Veronica’s conversation with Lacey regarding promotion. So:

LINE 2136 (from scene001.rpy) is changed from “company policy you have to work here for three months before getting a promotion” to ‘twelve months‘ and her ‘start date’ has been adjusted (will just assume MC misunderstood or remembers incorrectly). This also fits in very, very nicely with why Lacey may have been tempted by Jared’s ‘job offer’ and got close to him.

2. When in the pizza place (day of Evan accosting Lacey in the shower) the MC chews Lacey out for playing tennis with ‘the boys’ for 2 months twice a week. This cannot fit anywhere, no matter what I do. It just doesn’t work. Trying to increase this period of time to two months (within the three months of Mia’s lessons) just does not work. So:

LINE 4278 (from scene001.rpy) is changed from “two months” to ‘just over a month‘. Actually refers to the correct time period but is still vague’ish. Sorry, but for me, there is no way that Jared would play tennis with Lacey for 2 months. He is a predator, the timeline I have of him going after her is much more concise now. This also, coincidentally, works alongside her new start date. I refuse to believe he took over twelve months to ‘hunt her down’, even if did he have a currentl supply room slut. It all works better now.

Final Note:

I have tried my best to do this using real world dates. The dev is making a serious story set in the real world, using real world events (prom, college, Isaac being NFL QB etc etc). All of these events have very fixed definitive dates. They cannot change. So the overall ‘timeline’ (my date/months column) may seem weird once college is done…those are only really used as markers to show the passing of time. However, the anniversary is now placed logically in regards to not only when they got married, but everything else.

Note regarding my ‘presumptious’ Ket uses/and or something else in the timeline.

Lacey says she has no access to a dealer in the city…right? However, she also says she fell off the bandwagon a ‘few times’ before marriage. She was already in the city at this point (supposedly working but see my earlier points regarding this). So where did this shit come from? She just found it lying around somewhere? Mia brought it round when she arrived in the city for the job? More lies.

Come on….she has always been able to get it, and still does/can and is still very much an active addict. She is also a recovering alcoholic. When you need it to start your day, get through the day and then again at night…you have a serious fucking problem. Ket withdrawal rarely cause physical sickness, alcohol use does. She drank a lot. And guess what, as we see, plain facts, she still does. A lot.

You know what goes hand in hand with serious alcohol use? I’ll give you three guesses.

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For those who know what they are doing, just change the script lines mentioned above. If not confident, then a ‘fixed’ script is included in the zip file, just throw into the ‘game’ folder of the VN like you would any other mod and overwrite.

The dev seems to be very loose with his own timline so this has taken some damn time wrapping my head around and understanding all the inconsistencies to try and fix it, so I hope it brings some interest to some of you.