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! Act I: "He Knows That You Know and Now There's No Stopping Him" <p><span class="menuheader">How to play:</span><br/>Read each page and select links to make choices and/or advance the story.</p><p>Characters are color-coded, and will retain their colors throughout all acts.</p><p>Italicized links, like the ones below, will take you to different passages and advance the story. Once you've made a choice, you cannot go back and change it: you must bear out its consequences.</p><p><span class="menuheader">Our cast for this act is:</span><br/><span class="him">A rich and imposing, if ugly and impulsive, man.</span><br/><span class="green">A quick-thinking and witty, if selfish and manipulative, woman.</span></p>\ ---- <div class="centered"><<id "credits-popup">><<link "Credits">><</link>><</id>> ● <<id "content-popup">><<link "Content Warnings">><</link>><</id>> ● <<link "Begin" "Confrontation">><<set $begForgiveness to false>><<set $cruel to 0>><<set $eight to false>><<set $monster to false>><<set $prayerRequest to false>><<set $accusation to "murderer">><</link>></div>\ <div class="centered"><span class="him">I</span> ● <<class "acttwo">>[[II|https://overthinking.itch.io/rgb-act-two]]<</class>> ● <<class "actthree">>[[III|https://overthinking.itch.io/rgb-act-three]]<</class>></div>\ <<clickdialog "#credits-popup" "Credits">>\ Conceptualized, written, and programmed by Charm Cochran. Created for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2024 and the Bluebeard Jam. Special thanks to my beta testers: Julia Byrne, Nathan Ray, and Tommy Sullivan-Lovett. Additional special thanks to Tommy Sullivan-Lovett for consulting on Early Modern English. MACROS Attribute macros by //[[Hituro|https://github.com/hituro/hituro-makes-macros/tree/main/attr-macro]]// Popup macros by //[[Mike Westhad|https://github.com/mikewesthad/twine-resources/tree/master/macros/clickdialog]]// Scrolldown macro by //[[TheMadExile|https://twinery.org/questions/11469/timed-macro-autoscroll-twine-2-sugarcube]]// <</clickdialog>>\ <<clickdialog "#content-popup" "Content Warnings">>\ Brief strong language Violence, murder Misogyny (incl. use of slurs) <</clickdialog>>\ [[->Confrontation]]\
<span class="him">//(brandishing a bloody key)//</span> <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Didst think I wouldn't know?</span><</timed>> <<timed 200ms t8n>><div class="her">//(concealing a dagger)//</div><</timed>>\ <span id="choice1">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 300ms t8n>><<link "$g1">><<replace "#choice1" t8n>><<include "IDK">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g2">><<set $monster to true>><<set $accusation to "monster">><<replace "#choice1" t8n>><<include "Monster">><</replace>><</link>> <<next>><<link "$g3">><<replace "#choice1" t8n>><<include "Sorry">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->IDK]][[->Monster]][[->Sorry]]\
<div class="her">$g1</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">LIAR! Play no more witless than thou art. $b1</span><</timed>> <span id="choice2">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g4">><<set $prayerRequest to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "Prayer1">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g6">><<set $begForgiveness to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "BegForgiveness">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->Prayer1]][[->BegForgiveness]]\
<div class="her">$g3</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Not nearly so much as thou wilt be. $b1</span><</timed>> <span id="choice2">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g4">><<set $prayerRequest to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "Prayer1">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g6">><<set $begForgiveness to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "BegForgiveness">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->Prayer1]][[->BegForgiveness]]\
<div class="her">$g2</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">And thou art a snake. $b1</span><</timed>> <span id="choice2">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g4">><<set $prayerRequest to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "Prayer1">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g5">><<set $eight to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "8Women">><</replace>><</link>> <<next>><<link "$g6">><<set $begForgiveness to true>><<replace "#choice2" t8n>><<include "BegForgiveness">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->Prayer1]][[->8Women]][[->BegForgiveness]]\
<<set $g1 to "I know not your meaning.">> <<set $g2 to "You're a monster.">> <<set $g3 to "I'm sorry.">> <<set $g4 to "Allow me one hour for prayer, and I’ll acquiesce.">> <<set $g5 to "Eight wives—eight <span class='ital'>women</span> dead before me.">> <<set $g6 to "Husband, I beg thy forgiveness.">> <<set $sg1 to "Would obedience have saved them?">> <<set $g7 to "With my wickedness of late, I fear for mine immortal soul!">> <<set $sg2 to "Thou wouldst condemn your wife to eternal damnation? Thou wouldst shoulder that weight?">> <<set $g8 to "(fall to your knees before him)">> <<set $g9 to "Be not so cruel, husband mine!">> <<set $sg3 to "You <span class='ital'>are</span> a">> <<set $g10 to "Show me mine error with some modicum of mercy!">> <<set $sg4 to "Even the basest among us, even scoundrels, villains, and murderers, are granted final communion.">> <<set $g11 to "Pray with me, husband. Thy soul is imperiled, too, chained to those of us wives.">> <<set $g12 to "I beg you once more, my love, stay thy hand!">> <<set $g13 to "(acquiesce)">> <<set $g14 to "I bid you, o martyr! Consider thyself this once, and how this may tarnish thine own spirit!">> <<set $g15 to "I love you, husband.">> <<set $g16 to "Please, pray with me.">> <<set $g17 to "(approach)">> <<set $g18 to "Dost thou not wish for one last kiss?">> <<set $b1 to "My commandment was simple, and thou disobeyed. The black fate that would follow was made plain, and now must be fulfilled.">> <<set $b2 to "I shan't grant it.">> <<set $b3 to "Tarry no longer, wife. Thou shalt not avoid the inevitable.">> <<set $begForgiveness to false>> <<set $cruel to 0>> <<set $eight to false>> <<set $monster to false>> <<set $prayerRequest to false>> <<set $accusation to "murderer">>
<div class="her">$g4</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Thou thinkest God’s is the forgiveness thou ought seek?</span><</timed>> <span id="choice3">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g7">><<replace "#choice3" t8n>><<include "Wickedness">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms t8n>><<link "$g6">><<set $begForgiveness to true>><<replace "#choice3" t8n>><<include "BegForgiveness">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->Wickedness]][[->BegForgiveness]]\
<div class="her">$g6</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">$b2</span><</timed>> <span id="choice4">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g8">><<replace "#choice4" t8n>><<include "FallToKnees">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g9">><<replace "#choice4" t8n>><<include "BeNotCruel">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->FallToKnees]][[->BeNotCruel]]\
<div class="her">$g5</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Eight disobedient harlots. They knew what consequences awaited them.</span><</timed>> <span id="side1">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$sg1">><<replace "#side1" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$sg1</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">//(smiling wickedly)//</span> <<next>><span class="him">No.</span><</timed>> <span id="side1out">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 300ms t8n>><<link "$g4">><<set $prayerRequest to true>><<replace "#side1out" t8n>><<include "Prayer1">><</replace>><</link>> <<next>><<link "$g6">><<set $begForgiveness to true>><<replace "#side1out" t8n>><<include "BegForgiveness">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ <</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g4">><<set $prayerRequest to true>><<replace "#side1" t8n>><<include "Prayer1">><</replace>><</link>> <<next>><<link "$g6">><<set $begForgiveness to true>><<replace "#side1" t8n>><<include "BegForgiveness">><</replace>><</link>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->Prayer1]][[->BegForgiveness]]\
<div class="her">$g7</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Hadst thou considered thy soul before disobeying me, it would not now be at risk.</span><</timed>> <span id="choice6">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$sg2">><<replace "#choice6" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$sg2</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">... Fifteen minutes.</span><<scrolldown>> <<next 500ms>><div class="centered">. . .</div><<scrolldown>>\ <<next 2500ms>><<include "AfterPrayer">><</timed>><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms t8n>><<link "$sg4">><<replace "#choice6" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$sg4</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Thou wilt not wriggle your way out of your punishment, wench.</span><</timed>> <span id="choice6a">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$sg2">><<replace "#choice6a" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$sg2</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">... Fifteen minutes.</span> <<next 500ms>><div class="centered">. . .</div>\ <<next 2500ms>><<include "AfterPrayer">><</timed>>\ <</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ <</replace>><<scrolldown>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->AfterPrayer]]\
<div class="her">//(falling to her knees before him)//</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><div class="her">Thou wouldst be so cruel? Denying thy loving wife one final boon before her death?</div>\ <<next>><span class="him">My loving wife who styles me a $accusation?</span><</timed>> <span id="side2">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 300ms t8n>><<link "$sg3 $accusation.">><<replace "#side2" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$sg3 $accusation.</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">The accusation smarts nevertheless, my doting dear.</span><</timed>> <span id="side2a">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms>><<link "$g10">><<set $cruel to 1>><<replace "#side2a" t8n>><<include"BeNotCruel">><</replace>><<scrolldown>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g10">><<set $cruel to 1>><<replace "#side2" t8n>><<include"BeNotCruel">><</replace>><<scrolldown>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->BeNotCruel]]\
<div class="her"><<if $cruel is 0>>$g9<<else>>$g10<</if>></div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">//Now// thou wouldst refuse to lie? It was thou that made the bed, wife.</span><</timed>> <span id="choice5">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g7">><<replace "#choice5" t8n>><<include "Wickedness">><</replace>><<scrolldown>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->Wickedness]]\
<span class="him">Thy time runs short, wife. On thy knees. Bow thy head.</span> <span id="choice7">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><<link "$g11">><<replace "#choice7" t8n>><<include "PrayWithMe">><</replace>><</link>> <<next>><<link "$g12">><<replace "#choice7" t8n>><<include "StayYourHand">><</replace>><</link>> <<next>><<link "$g13">><<replace "#choice7" t8n>><<include "Acquiesce">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>> </div>\ </span>\ [[->PrayWithMe]][[->StayYourHand]][[->Acquiesce]]\
<div class="her">$g11</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">$b3</span><</timed>> <span id="choice8">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g14">><<replace "#choice8" t8n>><<include "ConsiderThyself">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ [[->ConsiderThyself]]\
<div class="her">$g12</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">$b3</span><</timed>> <span id="choice9">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g17">><<replace "#choice9" t8n>><<include "EmbraceMe">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ [[->EmbraceMe]]\
<div class="her">//(acquiescing)//</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">How, now! She //can// follow instructions! Any final words, deceiver?</span> <<next>><span id="question">\ <div class="her">\ <<link "Just a question.">><<replace "#question">>\ <div class="her">Just a question.</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Well?</span> <<next>><span id="asked">\ <div class="her">\ <<link "Dost <span class='ital'>thou</span> have any final words, bitch?">><<replace "#asked" t8n>>\ <div class="her">Hast //thou// any final words, bitch?</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">What?</span> <<next>><span id="stabbing">\ <div class="her">\ <<link "(stab him)">><<replace "#stabbing">><<include "StabHim">><</replace>><</link>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</timed>><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</timed>>\ <</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</timed>>\ [[->StabHim]]\
<div class="her">//(stabbing him)//</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Fuck! Oh, shit! What the fuck are you doing, you whore? I’ll fucking destroy you! You’re //dead!//</span> <<next>><span id="maim">\ <div class="her">\ <<link "(maim him)">><<replace "#maim" t8n>>\ <div class="her">//(maiming him)//</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">//(weakly)//</span> <<next>><span class="him">You cunt. I’ll fucking kill you.</span> <<next>><span id="murder">\ <div class="her">\ <<link "(murder him)">><<replace "#murder" t8n>>\ <div class="her">//(murdering him)//</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">//(dies)//</span><</timed>> <<include "Goodnight">>\ <</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</timed>>\ <</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</timed>>\ [[->Goodnight]]\
<div class="her"><span id="gn1" class="blk">Goodnight</span><span id="gn2" class="blk">, ladies.</span><span id="gn3" class="blk"> Goodnight</span><span id="gn4" class="blk">, sweet</span><span id="gn5" class="blk"> ladies.</span><span id="gn6" class="blk"> Goodnight,</span><span id="gn7" class="blk"> goodnight.</span></div><<scrolldown>><<timed 9400ms t8n>> <div class="centered endcard">[[END ACT I]]</div><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ <<timed 1500ms t8n>><<toggleclass "#gn1" "blk appear">><<next 600ms>><<toggleclass "#gn2" "blk appear">><<next 1500ms>><<toggleclass "#gn3" "blk appear">><<next 1200ms>><<toggleclass "#gn4" "blk appear">><<next 600ms>><<toggleclass "#gn5" "blk appear">><<next 1500ms>><<toggleclass "#gn6" "blk appear">><<next>><<toggleclass "#gn7" "blk appear">><</timed>>\
Thank you for playing! Conceptualized, written, and programmed by Charm Cochran. Created for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2024 and the Bluebeard Jam. Special thanks to Tommy Sullivan-Lovett for beta testing & consulting on Early Modern English. <div class="centered"><<link "Main Menu" "Main Menu">><</link>> ● <<class "acttwo">>[[Act II|https://overthinking.itch.io/rgb-act-two]]<</class>> ● <<class "actthree">>[[Act III|https://overthinking.itch.io/rgb-act-three]]<</class>></div>\
<div class="her">$g14</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Even now, thou considerest the fate of thine own executioner’s blackened soul?</span><</timed>> <span id="choice10">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g15">><<replace "#choice10" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$g15</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">And you understand? Why I must do this?</span><</timed>> <span id="side3">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><<link "$g16">><<replace "#side3" t8n>><<include "SecondPrayer">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g16">><<replace "#choice10" t8n>><<include "SecondPrayer">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ [[->SecondPrayer]]\
<div class="her">//(approaching)//</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><div class="her">Please, husband, embrace me and remember thy vows.</div>\ <<next>><span class="him">Give back, temptress, and forswear thy wicked charms.</span><</timed>> <span id="choice11">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 300ms t8n>><<link "$g18">><<replace "#choice11" t8n>><<include "LastKiss">><</replace>><</link>> <<next 100ms>><<link "$g15">><<replace "#choice11" t8n>>\ <div class="her">$g15</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">Extort me not! Veil thy lips, wench. Veil thy hands, thy bosom…</span><</timed>> <span id="side4">\ <div class="her">\ <<timed 200ms t8n>><<link "$g18">><<replace "#side4" t8n>><<include "LastKiss">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ <</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ </div>\ </span>\ [[->LastKiss]]\
<div class="her">$g16</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">//(kneels beside her)//</span><</timed>> <<timed 200ms t8n>><div class="her">We pray my husband finds forgiveness in Heaven, and that I find forgiveness for what I must do.</div><</timed>>\ <<timed 300ms t8n>><span class="him">What?</span> <<next 100ms>><span id="stabbing">\ <div class="her">\ <<link "(stab him)">><<replace "#stabbing">><<include "StabHim">><</replace>><</link>>\ </div>\ </span><<scrolldown>><</timed>>\ [[->StabHim]]\
<div class="her">$g18</div>\ <<timed 100ms t8n>><span class="him">//(embracing)//</span> <<next>><span class="him">Thy heart beats at murine speeds, wife, and thy breath comes amain.</span><</timed>> <span id="stabbing"><div class="her"><<timed 300ms t8n>><<link "(stab him)">><<replace "#stabbing">><<include "StabHim">><</replace>><</link>><<scrolldown>><</timed>></div></span>\ [[->StabHim]]\