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[melimelo-ao3]

BtF - chp1 - Je m'voyais déjà

Je m'voyais déjà - interpreted by Charles Aznavour.

You can listen to the original song here (YT link)

Lyrics and personal translation under the cut

À dix-huit ans j'ai quitté ma province Bien décidé à empoigner la vie Le cœur léger et le bagage mince J'étais certain de conquérir Paris

At eighteen, I left the country behind,

Determined to seize life

With a light heart and a lighter baggage

Sure I’d conquer Paris / the city

Chez le tailleur le plus chic j'ai fait faire Ce complet bleu qu'était du dernier cri Les photos, les chansons et les orchestrations Ont eu raison de mes économies

In the most upscale tailor I had made

This blue ensemble that was the trendiest

Pictures, songs and orchestration

Got the better of my coin

Je m'voyais déjà en haut de l'affiche En dix fois plus gros que n'importe qui mon nom s'étalait Je m'voyais déjà adulé et riche Signant mes photos aux admirateurs qui se bousculaient

J'étais le plus grand des grands fantaisistes Faisant un succès si fort que les gens m'acclamaient debout Je m'voyais déjà cherchant dans ma liste Celle qui le soir pourrait par faveur se pendre à mon cou

I already saw myself in the spotlight

Ten times bigger than anyone else was my name spread out

I already saw myself idolized and wealthy

Signing autographs to the hustling crowd of admirers

I was the greatest of the great fantasists

So successful that people gave me standing ovations

I already saw myself pick up in my list

The one who by favor, at night, would hang at my arm

Mes traits ont vieilli, bien sûr, sous mon maquillage Mais la voix est là, le geste est précis et j'ai du ressort Mon cœur s'est aigri un peu en prenant de l'âge Mais j'ai des idées, j'connais mon métier et j'y crois encore

My features turned old, of course, under my makeup

But the voice is strong, the move swift and I have resources

My heart turned a tad sour as I aged

But I have ideas, I know my craft and I still believe

Rien que sous mes pieds de sentir la scène De voir devant moi un public assis, j'ai le cœur battant On m'a pas aidé, je n'ai pas eu de veine Mais au fond de moi, je suis sûr au moins que j'ai du talent

Merely feeling the stage under my feet

Seeing before me the sitting audience, my heart pounds

I never got any help, I never got any luck

But, deep down, at least I’m sure that I’m talented

Mon complet bleu, y a trente ans que j'le porte

Et mes chansons ne font rire que moi J'cours le cachet, je fais du porte à porte Pour subsister je fais n'importe quoi

My blue ensemble, I’ve been wearing it for thirty years

And my songs only make me laugh

I chase any work, I knock on every door

To survive I do anything

Je n'ai connu que des succès faciles Des trains de nuit et des filles à soldats Les minables cachets, les valises à porter Les p'tits meublés et les maigres repas

I’ve only known easy successes

Poor transportation and soldier’s girls

Little coin, no attendant,

Ratty rooms and meager meals

Je m'voyais déjà en photographie Au bras d'une star l'hiver dans la neige, l'été au soleil Je m'voyais déjà racontant ma vie L'air désabusé à des débutants friands de conseils

J'ouvrais calmement les soirs de première Mille télégrammes de ce Tout-Paris qui nous fait si peur Et mourant de trac devant ce parterre Entré sur la scène sous les ovations et les projecteurs

I already saw myself in picture

On the arm of a celebrity, winter in snow, summer under the sun

I already saw myself talking about my life

World-weary to newbies awaiting my tips

Calmly opening on premiere nights

A thousand telegrams from the whole Paris that’s so intimidating

And dying of nerves before this audience

Stepping on stage under the cheers and spotlight

J'ai tout essayé pourtant pour sortir du nombre J'ai chanté l'amour, j'ai fait du comique et de la fantaisie Si tout a raté pour moi, si je suis dans l'ombre

Ce n'est pas ma faute mais celle du public qui n'a rien compris

I tried everything to stand out of the crowd

I sang love, did comedy and fantasy

If everything failed for me, if I’m still in the shadows

It’s not me, it’s the public who understood nothing

On ne m'a jamais accordé ma chance D'autres ont réussi avec peu de voix et beaucoup d'argent Moi j'étais trop pur ou trop en avance Mais un jour viendra je leur montrerai que j'ai du talent

People never gave me my shot

Others succeeded with a poor voice and lots of money

Me, I was too pure, or too ahead of my time

But the day will come I’ll show them I do have talent

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[bedlamgames]

Q&A #30

Today answers on Twine, slave names, more on slave to slavers, typos, and living armour among others.

Anonymous: I've dabbled enough in twine to know that snapshot of Whorelock's looked painful. Good luck with that! As a novice is there a reason you went with twine 1 over twine 2? Have you considered doing some of it as script calls? I think that's how FC guy does his descriptions, rather than having a twine passage that has all of the if's it just calls a javascript, might even be able to get someone to help with that part. Thanks for letting me pick your brain.

Thanks! I make no claims to have any idea what I’m doing on the Twine front with script calls being entirely foreign but I did try both and found I preferred how Twine handled things over 2. Main reason though was that was how Stranded was done and that was the game that convinced me WR could be done in that program. 

Anonymous: never mind about the expire it was that they took a really long time to. 

Some do have expiry dates in the 40-80 day region and you check them on some of the assignment overviews. 

Anonymous: not really questions, but just some feedback on a couple things, firstly with scenarios if you try to use the remove dominant options the dominant doesn't get removed, which means you can add secretly submissive multiple times as dominant stays there. secondly in scenarios if you pick disgraced noble human female the veteran head maid has the wrong abbreviations for her traits in the inventory box it lists (C:Cu)(Cre)(Pcp)(Flk)(Sed) and examine says she has (Lea)(Trn) instead of the first two

Feedback is perfectly good, I do like feedback as well as questions. 

Huh, okay will check that and thanks for the spots. 

Anonymous: On the subject of switches, in the future when slaves happen to get both submissive and dominant through training crits/paths will it be melded into switch in the future? Seems like it might be good in case switch itself is ever a modifier for an event, or if it could possibly help alleviate having one as a weakness and one as a strength at the same time, although I haven't seen that happen so far, iirc.

Yeah both of those are good ideas. When I do advanced dominance training for promoting to slaver I’ll probably incorporate that then. Cheers. 

Anonymous: Love the game and thought I would see if I can help out a little. When I examine my second in command, it says this: "Tinaslut has gigantic tits... She has sparkling unnaturally pink eyes, beach-blonde hair with pink highlights, and a magically enhanced physique. Carmen's head is decorated by two small horns.(Btf)(Sub)(Con)(Cun)(Per)(Sed)(Sne)" Carmen was her name pre-event (should be Tinaslut now) and the traits appeared after an event in the Deep Mountains gave her the horns.

Thank you! Also oh wow, you have no idea what a mess you caused me with this innocent little spot. Had completely failed to realise that name changes would cause problems with how the horns corruption currently worked and had to completely change it. 

Anonymous: Is there a way to change the name of a slave?

There will be. Possibly next update.

Anonymous: 0.7202: nethemir slaver got the following examination text after into the depth crit: "As a quintari futanari they have hooves for feet and a long silken tail." wasnt part of any corruption event and has no (fel).

Odd one, not sure what caused that. Will look into it.

Anonymous: is crafting completely randomized or are there certain clothing/armor types that are more frequently crafted of certain races? like silk robes are more likely crafter by elves whereas street walker attire could be more likely crafted by succubi? also if you have a dwarven smith he crafts nearly all the time equipment in dwarven style which is too small for everyone except dwarves and goblins, feels like a restriction.

To some extent yes though it varies. I do need to add a general order so that you can ask for small, regular or large versions for ogres and the like as an option.

Anonymous: 0.7202: theres again something wrong with the clothing equipment, storage says its full and assignments dont give additional items. main suspects are a brief foray and shark of the cards.

How many items had you had by that point and had you done one of the assignment starts?

Anonymous: Bug in version 0.7202 (No Haven) - I'm trying to send a slaver to "Infiltration - Lead Astray - (One Slaver) - (Seven Days) - (Common)" and it tells me "You do not currently have enough slavers available to complete this assignment while keeping the encampment secure." I currently have 8 slavers in the camp (myself included).

Sounds like a counter has gone wonky. Will check it. 

xcomcommander12: I managed to somehow get two Keldan students, both exactly the same after the assignment completed again the day after I completed it. Useful, but now it freaks some when I try to send them out on a mission together.

I can imagine! So they were both of the Keldan diplomacy success? 

Anonymous: stumbled upon the new male goblin start which i have somehow missed ^.^ anywho in the ogre rashnags lore there is a line: 'the Countess insisted that Rashnag, nor a single one of his follower, had so much as even a finger on her body' i think theres a word missing (had 'laid' so much as even a finger on her body) maybe? Thanks for your efforts!

Cheers for the typo spot, and thank you. 

Anonymous: something for no haven, maybe its what the healslut will do in future builds, but i had a slightly different idea about a slave who helps to watch over other slaves: headgirl, alpha or prime camp bitch, same traits like a regular camp bitch but also needs leader to command the camp bitches, several other traits improve the status of the camp bitches line faster regeneration or more durable in sexing, or to reduce camp bitch sexing, some qol improvements. got quite some more ideas

That’s got potential and it could be used as part of the progression from slave to slaver to show they can handle it. Added it to my notes. 

Anonymous: whorelocks revengen has an unimplemented feature, all natural. it mentions living and natural clothing like equipment. could this be a thing for no haven too? enchanted clothing/armor that has tentacles inside to boost traits like strength or agi?

It wasn’t actually entirely un-implemented as the Tangle Infestation item was in the game for ages but I disabled it temporarily (course that turned into quite the long temporarily..) due to not being entirely happy with how the quest to remove it was working. But that digression aside, yeah I’m sure I’ll do something with that in No Haven. Probably as you discover more about what’s going on in the depths of the Ever Forest. 

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[melimelo-ao3]

BtF - chp1 - J'ai peur

J'ai peur - interpreted by Damien Sargue (Romeo) in the 2001 Romeo and Juliet musical

You can listen to the original song here (Youtube link)

Lyrics and personal translation under the cut

Vous mes amis mes frères de sang,

Vous que j'aime depuis si longtemps Est-ce que comme moi sur vos épaules,

Vous sentez la mort qui vous frôle ?

You my friends, my brothers of blood

You whom I’ve loved since forever

Do you, like me, on your shoulders

Feel death brush past?

Vous qui riez de tout de rien,

Qui vous moquez bien de demain Moi Roméo qui vit debout,

Ce soir, amis, je vous l'avoue

You who laugh of everything and nothing

Who don’t care about tomorrow

I, Romeo, who stand on my feet

Tonight, friends, I confess to you

J'ai peur, j'ai peur Que nos ombres si légères,

Demain se changent en pierre Que les étoiles qui nous guident,

Un jour nous poussent au vide

I’m afraid, I’m afraid

That our oh so light shadows

Tomorrow turn into stones

That the stars guiding us

One day lead us to fall

J'ai peur, j'ai peur, j'ai peur, j'ai peur, j'ai peur Que demain tout s'arrête,

Que l'ennui s'installe dans nos têtes Que le vent du hasard

Se prenne dans nos guitares

I’m afraid (x5)

That tomorrow everything stops

That boredom takes hold of our minds

That hazard’s wind

Gets tangled in our guitars

Vous mes amis mes frères de goût,

Vous qui voulez goûter à tout Les fruits du cœur sont les plus tendres Mais ils se meurent quand vient décembre

You, my friends, my brothers of taste

You who want to taste everything

Heart’s fruits are the sweetest

But die when December comes

Vous qui avez de la jeunesse,

Tout le courage et la paresse Alors écoutez un de votre âge

Qui ce soir voit venir le naufrage

You who have youth,

All the heart and the indolence

Listen to a peer

Who, tonight, sees the disaster coming

J'ai peur, j'ai peur De la vie qui nous attend,

Des mensonges de nos parents Pour nous tout est facile

Mais le bonheur est fragile

I’m afraid, I’m afraid

Of the life that awaits us,

Of our parents’ lies

For us, all is easy

But happiness is vulnerable

J'ai peur, j'ai peur, j'ai peur, oh j'ai peur Que les dieux en colère

Se vengent sur nous mes frères D'aimer autant la vie

Mais sans leur dire merci

I’m afraid (x4)

That the wrathful gods

Retaliate upon us my brothers

For loving life so much

Without thanking them

J'ai peur, oh j'ai peur De la vie qui nous attend,

Des mensonges de nos parents J'ai peur, oh si peur, j'ai peur... j'ai peur Que les étoiles qui nous guident

Un jour nous poussent au vide J'ai peur, j'ai peur

I’m afraid, oh I’m afraid

Of life that awaits us

Of our parents’ lies

I’m afraid (x4)

That the stars guiding us

One day lead us to fall

I’m afraid, I’m afraid

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