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Work continued on the train station this week and introducing Sammy to some of the early game locations. Alison's quest was also wrapped up and is playable from start to finish. Much of her story happens over a longer period of time and a lot of it is something Sammy has no control over. But there are some bits she can...

Side with Dez

Siding with Dez basically has them eventually being together properly. And as you can see in the pic, Alison is at home looking after the kids. What? Dez used his connections to allow them to keep and raise the children. I wonder how Alison feels about that?

If you side with Alison, you kind of realise that she is not operating under the current worlds principles. Sammy tries to give her advice on what to do, but it all mostly falls on deaf ears. Eventually one of three possibilities happen to result in her leaving or being fired from the station She goes missing for a while until you bump into her at the motel.

It took her a while of being unemployed to see the world for what it truly is now, but it was already too late to stop herself from hitting rock bottom. So she eventually works the pink rooms. Talking to her reveals she is saving every penny in the hopes of opening her own little mechanics shop. Will she eventually manage it? Well, maybe. Maybe not. Depends on your game.

And now a new main mission for Sammy. She will be paired up with P.C Paige who will show Sammy around. The slums is the first stop to check out.

I am thinking the slums will be locked off at first in a new game and only accessible through certain quests. The normal way will be through this mission, but of course things like homeless start or Oskar kicking Sammy out the house will also unlock it.

The slums are also planned to be expanded. There will be a market place much like revel street, but only selling cheaper items and a large set of new clothes I am planning to make which will be mostly raggy, homeless style clothing.

(image unrelated, I just had nowhere else to put it)

And while I generally try to avoid serious porn tropes. I am heavily considering adding in the slums what is called a butt wall. This will be where junkies pay off their debts and is not a nice place to work at all. I think I will also add a loan shark in the slums, which of course can lead to Sammy working the wall to pay off her debt if she is unable to.

So, Sammy and Paige will head off to the slums and take a look around. This is something Paige is somewhat familiar with, but will probably be new to Sammy and maybe the player. It will also give a lot more info about security and the dangers they face. They are pretty well hated and going to the slums is not a very good idea. I have quite a few ideas for events to introduce, but I will save that for next week when they are written a bit.

Also the leading up to security events were updated a bit. I never really liked the point and click aspect of investigating, so I decided to remove it and put in Sammy and Paige going through all the papers. It also allowed me to have Sammy ask Paige questions about the crazy things she finds and give a little more info.