Congrats @Duriansol on being the first one through the gate for the #Redshirtrun!  I'm planning on doing mine tomorrow!

Completed my Red Shirt Run - 5k with my Gerberian Shepsky. 10/15/2016

This is a new erotic/romantic comedy VN from Christine Love and Raide. The people behind Analogue a Hate Story and Hate Plus.

You are the twin sister of a devious and manipulative man who is black mailed into cross dressing and assuming his identity on a week long cruise with all his class mates and have to try and blend in and pretend to be him. You are a pretty firm lesbian and thankfully most of the women you will interact with are either lesbian, bi or open enough to suggestions.

There are two main romance routes you can follow, but most people you interact with are open to flirtation and going further after a few times together. However you do have to be careful as well. Your twin has many enemies in the class and if you are not careful you can raise too much suspicion about not being him and end up locked in a cargo hold and used to try and hurt him.

The way this works in practice is that you have a 5 bar gauge of suspicion and if all 5 fill up then it is game over. At least until you reload a previous checkpoint. Typically the suspicion building options will be optional prompts, but not always. So you will build up suspicion as the time passes. Luckily one of the romance options also has the ability to clear things up and remove the built up suspicion you have gained. But there is a steep price for her help. Your submission to her at night.

The story and systems of the game do make strong points about domination, submission and power exchange as a whole. And it is used in good well described roles and intelligent in its portrayal of BDSM. Even as the titles load up there is a screen emphasising how power exchange must be consensual and with full communication and trust.
The game uses an art style that is semi Manga/Anime. Although Raide himself is South Korean I believe and it is a style more akin to their native styles. The title itself is graphic and at least in its Humble Store version DRM free and uncensored.

The game is not cheap at £23 and its dollar equivalent. But for me I feel it is well worthwhile. Each playthrough is approximately 6 hours covering 7 days in game time. The game plays out with the day being split into segments and it will ask you who you want to spend time with. The choices there will have an approximate difficulty and how many marks of suspicion you might earn in that scene. Each person has 5 or 6 scenes to their stories so there is option to replay and see what different interactions or flings you might get into. It also has 3 different epilogues to discover as well. There is also a game within the game as a challenge is set up where each person on the cruise is given a single vote which can be given to anyone else on the cruise. An announcement early on says that the person with the most votes after the week will win $5m. So you can also approach the game trying to play and manipulate the others for their votes.

For those not in the know Christine is a trans woman developer who has spent the last 3 years working on this game. All her previous titles have had good LGBT aspects as well. Talking about discrimination or how many are pressured into hiding by changes in society. In the case of Analogue/Hate Plus it focuses on when a neo confucianism conservative rule took over in Korea, but posits it into a future version on a long lost space ship where the events of the past repeat themselves.

Ladykiller is very much a present day tale rather than Sci Fi. But is very much worth a look over. Obviously if Visual Novels are really not your thing then this will not likely convert you, but if you have enjoyed some or are just interested in a good story with some erotic moments. Also humour and deeper connotations especially when it comes to sexuality in late teens and challenges faced by many LGBTQ people then you could do a lot worse then supporting Love Conquers All games and check this out.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/ladykiller-in-a-bind

I just started up the game again.  I just stopped by the guild house to say hi to you guys.  :)  The place looks great!

Great! Thank you guys! I'll try again once the servers are up! :)

It is. You can't join the fleet until you are in the same time line, which won't happen until you are about level 11.
And welcome to the Fleet, glad it was sorted out. The servers are down for maintenance now, but I'll resend you an invite for Ordak when they are back up.

I managed to accept the invite for Aurora but Ordak missed out because the invite was blocked out by Earth Spacedock Operations :(
Can you please send that invite again? 

As for Dhalos, this is my new AOY character and it's only at level 6. Could this be the reason? 

If you don't see the invite prompt when you first login, try entering the /guild_acceptinvite command in chat. Also, characters that have been inactive for sometime can't be invited into a fleet. You may need to login to your third character before we can invite him.

Hello,

I sent an invite for Aurora Lam into our main Stonewall Fleet just now, all you need to do now is log into STO and Accept the invite.

An invite to Deep Space Stonewall was already sent for Ordak -you simply need to log into STO and Accept the invite.

I could not send an invite for Dhalos because STO kept telling me (for all fleets, Romulan, KDF, and Fed) that the character/player was not found.  Please check the spelling of your character and ensure that all tutorials or level-up requirements are complete.

Thank you : )

Zander Hawk
Admiral and Chief of Membership Management

STONEWALL GAMING NETWORK
STONEWALL FLEET
Department of Membership Management

Email: zander.hawk@outlook.com
Kik: Zander.Hawk
Website: http://www.stonewallgaming.net/people/Zander_Hawk

I am in the fleet channel or so i think - my chat window shows [StonewallFleet]. Due to the time difference, I believe most of the admirals or fleet captains may be offline by the time i logged in. 

I was recommended by a member to post this request in the forums.

My 3 characters are currently, 
1) Aurora Lam
2) Ordak
3) Dhalos

Have you joined our public chat channel?  You can do so by entering '/channel_join stonewallfleet' into chat. From there, select the stonewallfleet channel and ask for an invite in the channel. There should be an Admiral or Fleet Captain online to help you. If not, post your character names and factions here and we can send you some offline invites.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but it has been almost 3 weeks since my introductory post. Can anyone advise, how I can get access into the fleet and start contributing?

Well tomorrow is the big day when I finally get to go and our little caravan is setup at a site 10 minutes from the NEC so no rushing in or out.  Really keen to see the free talks this year as it looks like we finally get actors giving freebie talks (or at least I hope they are).  Looking forward to seeing both Dax'es (Daxii??) , George Takei and Marina sirtis along with the concept Enterprises :)

Stranger Things is awesome! Loved it from start to finish. 

The scariest part of the show is all contained in the first episode. After that it's a bit like The Walking Dead .. it never really crosses the horror-line. It's just more of a mystery drama type thing. But it's AWESOME.

Poor Barb.

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SO I love Babs!!!

SO I loved Stranger things the moment it dropped on Netflix.. to me its a mash up of the Xfiles meets american horror story.
Im so glad they are doing a second series!

The music is amazballz your right Jacien.

(Dont watch this video if you havent watched stranger things)

Also Jacien, when are you going to watch Downton Abbey.. so we can discuss it!!!

Anyone who hasn't seen Stranger things don't read this part, Spoiler Alert: Gareth, Barb's fashion was so terribly heinous that even a monster with no eyes understood she needed to die. I see barb as a classic Christ figure, she had to die for the sins of 80's fashion so that the rest of us could do fun theme parties today, lol.


And yes, it's on my watch list, though I do wish Dame Maggie Smith would've come out here just once to accept even one of the Emmy Television Awards she's won over the years for that show. 

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I've been meaning to watch this. It looks pretty good, but scary stuff gives me nightmares. :/

It's more suspenseful than scary. Yes, there's a monster, but it's more about the mystery and the characters which are very well done.

Nice setup Tekno

I loved this show and I loved the music. Jonathan and myself could have been very good friends in the 80es... 

But the are huge plot holes in the story line. I'm willing to ignore them, because the athmosphere and characters are just superb. I just hope they make a better plot for the second season!

I've been meaning to watch this. It looks pretty good, but scary stuff gives me nightmares. :/

SO I love Babs!!!

SO I loved Stranger things the moment it dropped on Netflix.. to me its a mash up of the Xfiles meets american horror story.
Im so glad they are doing a second series!

The music is amazballz your right Jacien.

(Dont watch this video if you havent watched stranger things)



Also Jacien, when are you going to watch Downton Abbey.. so we can discuss it!!!