The Flow of Starter Marriage

[twobears]

There's also an extremely hot (and promising!?) interaction between you and Allison when talking about Renee being a hypnotherapist. If Tradwife Allison (with Huge Boobs) is going to the party alone, and concerns that Renee could turn her into a mindless slave, you will reassure that you've asked her (Renee) to turn Allison into a "docile, obedient STEPFORD wife", Allison would then (pretend to!?) act like a mindless and silly tradwife for a little bit.

Could you please post a path for this one (and is Alison wearing the dress or her falsies)?

[BenHur Over]

Allison is wearing the polkadot dress with Huge tits.

⇝ Now is not the time.
⇝ Stop... you have something special to do to her.
⇝ "You will get your breasts enlarged."
⇝ "Then I suppose a blowjob is out of the question?"
⇝ "I should deal with that text."
⇝ "Nothing important. Now, we both have big days tomorrow."
⇝ The next morning you decide to sleep in.
⇝ You find one that reminds you of no, this has to wait. Time for breakfast.
⇝ So, you head off to work.
⇝ Yeah, kinda still pissed. What's up?
⇝ The guy you left me for?
⇝ It's OK. What do you need?
⇝ Let me think about it.
⇝ Then you get to work; it's better to talk with Allison about this in person.
⇝ Time for bed. The situation with Annie can wait.
⇝ ... cuddle up to Allison for the night.
⇝ The next morning you wake up alone.
⇝ You check your phone.
⇝ I still can't believe you're asking after what you did.
⇝ I'm listening.
⇝ And what kind of apology did you have in mind?
⇝ It sounds like you want help with more than paperwork.
(You can get the explicit commitment here, and still get the Stepford wife dialogue.)
⇝ OK. I'll come.
(You have to text Lorelei, or you won't find the ring in the bathroom)
⇝ And then you text your "friend".
⇝ I'm flying out to see Annie.
⇝ I think so. But I'd like to talk first.
⇝ Perfect. See you then.
⇝ And then you call Allison.
⇝ ... head off to work.
(You can invite Emma for coffee here)
⇝ "Wanted to remind them I work here. What are you up to?"
⇝ "She's doing great! How's... I'm sorry, I've forgotten his name."
⇝ "Oh, I'm sorry!"
⇝ "Yeah, things are kind of weird for me right now, too."
⇝ "My ex-wife has rematerialized."
⇝ And then you get back to work.
⇝ And then you work until it's time for your date with your "friend".
⇝ You bring up going to see Annie.
⇝ "Her new guy left, and she's panicking?"
⇝ "I also wanted to talk about Allison."
⇝ "She's been very sexual, in new ways."
⇝ "'My girlfriend is a nymphomaniac' doesn't earn much sympathy, I know."
⇝ "Yes! How did you know?"
⇝ "Then may I use my magical powers to lure you to bed?"
⇝ And then you wait for her summons.
(Don't "tell" her to go down on you, but "ask", or you won't find the ring in the bathroom.)
⇝ You slide onto the bed and go down on her.
⇝ You slide into her.
⇝ And then you you slowly pull out.
⇝ And then you head home.
⇝ You help her up, and head to dinner.
⇝ You knock.
⇝ "Excuse me for a moment." You duck to the bathroom.
⇝ So, you follow Renée into the kitchen, having taken the ring.
⇝ "How did you know about that?"
⇝ "No point in being mad at her forever."
⇝ "I enchanted her to accept it."
⇝ "How can I say no to that?"
⇝ You follow her back to the living room.
⇝ You return to the subject of Renée's boobs.
⇝ As the evening winds down, you say your goodbyes.
⇝ You turn to point her out to Allison.
⇝ You head to the car.
⇝ "I'm not comfortable with that."
⇝ "She offered me a blowjob, and I accepted."
⇝ "Is everything OK? You've been acting different lately."
⇝ say, "Well, then, roadside blowjob?"
⇝ You finish the drive home.
⇝ Excuse yourself to the bathroom.
⇝ ... join Allison in the bedroom.
⇝ "Your mouth first."
⇝ You gently stop her, to move on to other things.
⇝ say, "I have a question for you."
⇝ "Do you really want to get a boob job?"
⇝ "Huge. Watermelon boobs."
⇝ Then you decide to explore her being your sex-toy.
⇝ Then you focus on what you are doing with her.
⇝ Then say, "I want to come on your tits."
⇝ ... hand her a towel.
⇝ And then the next morning...
⇝ "I don't think I have the time to do you properly."
⇝ "What would you like to do this evening?"
⇝ say, "I think I have time for a blowjob."
⇝ You decide to come on her face.
⇝ You hand her a napkin.
⇝ ... stand and collect your dishes from the table.
⇝ You head to work.
⇝ You text Renée back.
⇝ And then you slip the ring on.
⇝ ... work until it's time for coffee with Renée.
⇝ "Thank you for a great time in the kitchen."
⇝ "What happened between Allison and Dante while we were in the kitchen last night?"
⇝ "You will blow me in the restroom here."
⇝ "Allison's really looking forward to the party."
⇝ "Your new breasts look amazing."
⇝ "Purely out of appreciation for their beauty."
⇝ "I'm glad you and Lorelei stayed in touch."
⇝ "Tell me what's going on between Dante and Lorelei."
⇝ "So, there's something I'd like to do."
⇝ You then let her into the restroom first, and then slip in.
⇝ And then you come in her mouth.
⇝ And then you update Allison.
⇝ Hang out until it is time to visit Lorelei.
⇝ So you come in, giving her a hug.
⇝ You remove the ring from your finger, and put it on the table.
⇝ "I have to ask, then: what is in your power to give?"
⇝ "The subject of my boon, then, is Allison."
⇝ "I want Allison to be mine exclusively."
⇝ "And now, would asking you to bed be inappropriate?"
⇝ You take your leave, and return to work.
⇝ You work until it's time to head home.
⇝ You go in.
⇝ You do so.
⇝ You suggest dinner.
⇝ "Then I suppose you have dinner ready?"
⇝ Clean-up complete, you decide not to wait for the bedroom.
⇝ You suggest retiring to the bedroom.

[hereno]

Interesting path. Gets interesting if you leave the ring, too.

[jwik01]

It really amazes me that I'm still seeing stuff I haven't before, in the pre-4.1 content.  I suppose this is what simultaneously frustrates me about Starter Marriage and keeps me coming back to it: I know I haven't seen absolutely everything, I don't know what I haven't seen, and I don't know how to reliably obtain most of the results I have seen (given how tiny changes snowball).

For instance, hereno wrote back in January that if you have successfully flirted with Emma enough she might flash you on your way home at the end of work Thursday. I've played a lot with trying to work out what choices make Emma most interested in you (short answer: she likes horny guys who have Allison's permission to fuck other women, but who aren't too overtly manipulative or dishonest) and I've managed to get her to send you a text after coffee reminding you she's interested in accompanying you and Allison to Renée's party, and I've even gotten her to leave a flirty post-it on your monitor a few times, but never the flashing.

[hereno]

I don't know what I haven't seen

Keep in mind too that Daphne is tweaking and tuning the old content, meaning some routes have actually changed. Sometimes I notice this, sometimes I don't; I update the flow as I can. But as the sheer number of branches gets exponentially larger, it's getting less and less possible for me to even find every possibility, much less know about all the changes. So the game will remain a mystery. My flow is merely my best understanding.

Getting on my soapbox for a second: This is a video game analogy, but I think it's useful for people to think of Starter Marriage as an early access game. A very early access game. It is nowhere close to content-complete. So I think it's going to keep changing, a lot, both in terms of new content (obviously) but also in terms of how the old content hooks up into that new content. That's what early access is.

If anyone out there would really rather play a completely locked-off version of the game, that's fine! But then you'll have to wait for development to finish. Which... could be a while.

[Daphne]

While I really do try not to gratuitously change significant storyline items (changes in dialogue aren't, changes in what scenes result from what paths are, to set some boundaries), it's inevitable that there will be some. Consider it part of the adventure.

[jwik01]

I should start using the new "path" feature to log various playthroughs that have specific scenes, such that I can easily find the route through to Renée hypnotizing you in the coffee shop, or Allison adopting the persona of Alis the French maid/sex-slave, or Bimbo Lorelei.

[hereno]

I should start using the new "path" feature to log various playthroughs

I strongly recommend doing this.

[Daphne]

I should start using the new "path" feature to log various playthroughs that have specific scenes, such that I can easily find the route through to Renée hypnotizing you in the coffee shop, or Allison adopting the persona of Alis the French maid/sex-slave, or Bimbo Lorelei.

That's what it's there for! Note that if you restore a savepoint, you also restore the path display.

The number of savepoint slots available at any one time has been increased to 15 as of 4.1.

[JonJacub]

I should start using the new "path" feature to log various playthroughs that have specific scenes, such that I can easily find the route through to Renée hypnotizing you in the coffee shop, or Allison adopting the persona of Alis the French maid/sex-slave, or Bimbo Lorelei.

That's what it's there for! Note that if you restore a savepoint, you also restore the path display.

The number of savepoint slots available at any one time has been increased to 15 as of 4.1.

I don't think this is actually functioning at the moment. I'm currently capped at 5.

[BenHur Over]

I can still only have 5 savepoints

[Daphne]

You'd think after <mumble> years of programming I'd learn to never hard-code a constant. 4.1.4 fixes the savepoint limit. Sorry about that!

[JonJacub]

You'd think after <mumble> years of programming I'd learn to never hard-code a constant. 4.1.4 fixes the savepoint limit. Sorry about that!

Appreciate the quick turn around.

[twobears]

If anyone has a path where Allison is using an alternative name during the final maid scenes, I'd appreciate it.

Also, Henry kindly posted a path where Alison is on the trad wife route but you fantasize about her having gotten breast enlargement.  Has anyone been able to trigger this for any other costumes (other than the leotard of course)

[BenHur Over]

I think the most likely scenario for Allison to have a "big boobs" variation is when she’s a maid, because whenever she shows you the black dress, she always eats dinner naked. However, I'd extremely pleasantly surprised if someone could get her to eat dinner wearing the slutty black dress.