Talk:Desire & Decorum, Book 2/@comment-34296592-20181218211833/@comment-34138917-20181224211724

If we have to pay to get out of the engagement, sorry PB, but I'm not doing that. I'm sick of crucial parts of the story being locked behind paywalls. Not to mention, it seems like there have been a lot more diamond choices in modern stories. ILB has a ton of diamond choices (weapons/rune items, animal allies, bottled messages, time increasing nerve with LI's, etc.) and this story always tries to pawn dresses off on us. I don't even like the dresses, and they're so unimportant to the story that it's actually pretty pointless to buy them.

If we have to dig up dirt on Duke Richards, could we just...please, please, PLEASE get some free clues? Like, if there's a prompt such as "Oh wow, Duke Richards left so many documents in his office unattended, and no one is nearby!" I feel like it should be free. Since there's no risk in searching the office, there should be no reason for MC to decline the prompt and not search the office, thus essentially nullifying a diamond option.

Same thing with dresses/gifts. It's so ridiculous when some family members comes up to you in a story and says "Hey, you should wear that one outfit you bought that one time!" and you have to pay for it even though you already own it. And paying for gifts is just ridiculous. "Here's a pug, that'll be 20 diamonds, please."

So yeah. Free clues, please, Pixelberry. If there are really important clues, sure, I might pay for them. If every clue is behind a paywall, sorry, but no, since I don't really like this story too much to begin with.