Originally Posted by Tarlonniel
Like I said, you're assuming a particular relationship exists between your character and SH and the game is assuming another one. In your headcanon, SH should be over there rejecting Halsin, refusing to consider his advances at all, even if she's attracted to him, because she knows your character wouldn't be up for an open/poly arrangement. But she doesn't. The game is assuming something else. I'm not saying it shouldn't be changed, I'm just speculating about the "What were they thinking?!" question above.
It feels like in this case there should be some extra triggers added into code of the game and some extra dialogues which make those triggers work.
- Would you like to have poly relationships with SH and Halsin? Yes/No
- Would you like SH to have relationships with Halsin? (extra dialogue is needed) Yes/No
We have a term in Russian for some game mechanics - "a crutch", which means something like "not the best option to solve a problem (or an option which doesn't solve it at all), but it works", so my offers would work as such crutch, but, well, nothing stops us from thinking about solutions.