I also successfully made a loop with changing dialog if the player decides to continue to ignore the phone ringing. They can click as much as they like now, but the story won't progress till they pick it up.

Plus I got the first call between Dakota and Hyd started & the phone text boxes formatted.

Look. It’s grey and dreary and awful and I’m cold and the world is on fire. I’m gonna find my joy where i can.

He wants to try all the things! Him copying her way of eating breakfast! It’s new! He’s not done it! He wants to see what it’s like!

That makes me feel good.

(My hormones are doing stuff today. Not in a bad way, I’m just full of Emotion.)

I really like watching people be delighted by stuff. It makes me happy.

I don’t understand how it isn’t a universal desire for everyone around you to be content & provided for, & with the little luxuries that make them feel nice. How can anyone see people feel good & not want everyone to?

And i think many shows would have turned him into a disgusting glutton. He’s a gourmand sure, but a /delighted/ one, who is appreciating all this stuff. And I think that’s neat.

Yeah, there’s a conversation to be had about sexual consent, but even there… the fact that he was equally delighted to invite the “housekeeper” into the sex hot tub, & clearly had before, & knew her name… I dunno. It’s weirdly wholesome?