>>5311590Strictly speaking you <span class="mu-i">do</span> rule it only in name currently. You've abruptly taken over with no guidance from your predecessors regarding the state of your holdings or the greater political situations abroad. For all the rest of the territory knows, its regents are still Clara and Byrn.
Rinnier has alluded to this briefly in mentioning she can think of other things to do from the estate, and most of those things are administrative in nature. Getting a grasp for what you're working with, how the territory is managed, your budget and income, etc. All of those are things very important to successful leadership, and coincidentally, things Rinnier has a great deal of experience in. Unless you specifically have need of her elsewhere, she's liable to make the estate her new headquarters and begin digging her nails into your newly acquired infrastructure and influence.
>>5311597Technically, Valen Quest has <span class="mu-i">a</span> sex scene, but it's not been part of the main quest and was written with an intent that had little to do with arousal. When I first started the quest, like, in the first thread or so, I'm pretty sure I noted that it really wasn't a lewd narrative... In that same thread, where the Testaments were introduced, I remember anons immediately asking if it was their vote to choose a waifu, and I asked them not to think of it - or the characters - in that light. It's been a really long ride since then. It's interesting to think about, because it's common knowledge to just about everyone that anons try to steer towards waifus, or are terrified of coomers or what not, but most of Valen's playerbase has... Not been that?
I'm not really against intimacy though, despite what the initial warning implies. I had no interest in trying to catch people's interests with smut, and I'm still not really interested in writing sex for the purpose of having something to be horny to.
If it ever did come up on-screen then it'd be the result of a very slow-burned and organically developed process, and I can't promise it'd be arousing in the slightest. That said, I find it incredibly hot when there's emotional chemistry and investment between the participants. Lovey-dovey handholding sex with cuddling is my fetish.Of course the opposite is also theoretically true. Treating not as a lewd event but something more impactful doesn't necessarily mean the impact is <span class="mu-i">positive</span>, so it's not impossible your first on-screen sex scene could end up being something horrific and deeply traumatizing.
For you and the character(s) involved. 