So Arlan would mess up the timeline again? Something mofo would definitely do!🤔

I'd like it if you could keep the lovey dovey couples, aka Harry&Lapis (or if you want to change Lapis with someone else, alternative would be Fiona who acts as a Mara's Saint in front of Arlan but acts as a devout Dibellan follower with Harry boy!)

Jesper and Nat, i want that ship, he deserves some positivity in his life. Plus Jesper could mock his dad that he maybe weak, but still got laid or something like that.

What about some old characters? Like Lilith, Selene etc? or my fav trio Choblin, Boblin & Kevin? What's gonna happen with them?

No matter what, if "Dew it" wins the poll i think you're gonna cook something good with this!

10 minutes ago, bdmt said:

So Arlan would mess up the timeline again? Something mofo would definitely do!🤔

It is either him nur the One I'm currently writing. (You'll see soon. Chapter should be done soon. 🤔)

Depending on the pool however, the written person will do something entirely else. Just a character I had planned to use anyways. 

10 minutes ago, bdmt said:

I'd like it if you could keep the lovey dovey couples, aka Harry&Lapis

It will still be Harry and Lapis^^

I like Lapis especially because she never, ever had sex with Arlan and Fiona, even if timeline would change, still had in the past and through the nature of this softreboot, Arlan AND the Hag (Which is even worse) Would know that^^ So Lapis x Harry all the way no matter what the pool says at the end. 

The Goblin Trio also will be used in a way. I like the Goblinking thing and Arlan will either  be it again or the Trio could become a running gag kinda thing. Plopping up and saving the day 🤔 (Imagine them solving sidequests like the foresowrn conspiracy or becoming Thane xD) "3 Goblins in a trenchcoat~"

Btw this kind of fun is not bound by the pool either. I really adore those green fucks <,< and my List of goblin poses grows bigger and bigger whenever I use them.

10 minutes ago, bdmt said:

Jesper and Nat, i want that ship, he deserves some positivity in his life. Plus Jesper could mock his dad that he maybe weak, but still got laid or something like that.

Uff.. Srly you'll make me do it <,< partly because she was supposed to be arlaned chapters ago and still isn't, which makes her a Unicorn like Lapis..

We'll see. I'm not that against it anymore regardless of pool. (But I don't want to see Jesper in a sexscene. That's a OG Character from a youtuber who's a major part in his very wholesome youtube series. I want to respect this so be prepared to never see more than a few nudes from Nat. 🤔)

PS: Thanks for the feedback = D 

Just to check if I understand the proposal. Arlan spends a long time where he deserves to be, and then he gets back. Did the same amount of time pass in the real world, or is it a time dilation thing and he gets back on roughly the same date that he left, but the past and present have changed? This smells like Elder Scrolls shenanigans.

I'm conflicted.

On the one hand, there are a lot of small threads from past chapters that are still hanging and would probably be eventually forgotten, so a clean slate would solve those. Though those were mostly from characters that haven't returned after their arc, so it wasn't really an issue either. For example, I recall Arlan agreed to work with this noble lady back in Solitude, that was a couple of side quests ago.

And I know the plan was to return to the spider plot eventually, but the story has been drifting farther and farther away from it. Arlan himself was never really invested in the issue. Sure he wanted to help, but it didn't survive his goldfish attention span. I think that is part of the issue you have with writing a longer story line with Arlan. He might care about an issue that's right in front of him, but that only goes so far. Once the issue's out of sight, it's out of mind and he finds something else to do. He does care about a couple of people, but there is very little he can do for them at the moment. (That's a major difference between him and Harald, I think. Arlan will squish a daedric spider that walks in front of him, but he won't even question if he can do more, and will only work to solve the problems when a pretty face asks, and even then only when said pretty face is nearby. Harald on the other hand, will investigate and solve the underlying problem because it's the right thing to do.)

Giving him an overarching quest which he actually wants to do gives him a goal to pursue, one he will return to even after a side quest distracted him.

On the other hand, a soft reboot will sever a lot of the connections made in the past 83 chapters, and that being wiped away would feel a bit bitter. It would also make it a lot harder to work with past events, because they might not have happened anymore (problem with timey-whimy stuff). For example, Arlan's dad was just introduced, and would immediately be wiped away. Or the events with Arlan's wife and that vampire, did those still happen? They would have happened for Arlan, but did those event happen like that in the new timeline?

The idea to have the kids forget about Arlan would also remove most of his positive relations (and I count Lapis amongst those). Those positive relations grounded him, and I think that's a major reason why I like Vargr re more than the original series. Granted, I was also conflicted about that hard reboot, and now I think it was the right decision back then.

3 minutes ago, a_random_user said:

Just to check if I understand the proposal. Arlan spends a long time where he deserves to be, and then he gets back. Did the same amount of time pass in the real world, or is it a time dilation thing and he gets back on roughly the same date that he left, but the past and present have changed? This smells like Elder Scrolls shenanigans.

The rough Idea would be that he goes to oblivion long enough until we arrive in roughly the day and year Skyrim as a game takes place. Let's say he gets thrown 200 years into the past and gets out of oblivion after those 200 years 🤔

4 minutes ago, a_random_user said:

I'm conflicted.

On the one hand, there are a lot of small threads from past chapters that are still hanging and would probably be eventually forgotten, so a clean slate would solve those. Though those were mostly from characters that haven't returned after their arc, so it wasn't really an issue either. For example, I recall Arlan agreed to work with this noble lady back in Solitude, that was a couple of side quests ago.

True and I always write them in a way they get be worked on, either off screen by different characters like Mavis working with some of the Sotitute gang and investigate that problem Fiona had 🤔 So no the lose ends are not really the issue for me here. The noble Lady can be pushed aside as it is with real life "Promises" sometimes. Also not that big of a deal 🤔 

6 minutes ago, a_random_user said:

And I know the plan was to return to the spider plot eventually, but the story has been drifting farther and farther away from it. Arlan himself was never really invested in the issue. Sure he wanted to help, but it didn't survive his goldfish attention span.

A better description of him never has been written 🤣

But I don't think it driftet that far off. Yes sure it did drift a lot but not in a way I couldn't return to it. The sacking of the Goblintribe for example was meant to be one of the steps needed to be taken to get more range and no named People to use, the way you just described so Arlan can ignore, can forget or lose interest while the actual people dealing with it remind him of it then he's needed 🤔 (He's best use as a convinient fool when you know how to.)

10 minutes ago, a_random_user said:

On the other hand, a soft reboot will sever a lot of the connections made in the past 83 chapters, and that being wiped away would feel a bit bitter. It would also make it a lot harder to work with past events, because they might not have happened anymore

That is exactly the reason why I wanted to discuss the idea first, since I am unsure myself about it but the idea itself is also something I've been thinking about a while ago and wich became more intense after I started the sidequest with the Trials. Because it gives me a way to do it inside the story instead of the way I did it with the hard reboot 🤔

A lot of connections will be cut, but also a few of them can be restored the same manner as with his kids. Still not the most fleshed out idea tbh. 

15 minutes ago, a_random_user said:

. For example, Arlan's dad was just introduced, and would immediately be wiped away. Or the events with Arlan's wife and that vampire, did those still happen?

Absolutly right with his dad, which would be a major middle finger to readers very interested in seeing Arlan's few relatable moments. His Wife and the vampire would still be happen, just instead of Arlan being the one doing the rescue, it would be probably be the Hag. 🤔 Like I said, it is not totally fleshed out yet and the soft reboot could also be played out differently. Like erasing not the entire timeline but just like, maybe change it. The moment Arlan stepped foot inside the trials would be the moment time flows for the other's and they would perharps dealw ith some of the loose threats. In the meantime Arlan would get his deserved vaccation in Oblivion and only for him it would be years. 

Is also an idea 🤔 

(Or like, not do it entirely depending on the pool.)
 

I'm being totally honest, I wouldn't really think about doing it if not for the situation with the filehoster and the possibility of losing those chapters.

(I can't reupload over 80 chapters. I mean I "Could" but I would feel like an asshole towards other bloggers.)

22 minutes ago, a_random_user said:

The idea to have the kids forget about Arlan would also remove most of his positive relations (and I count Lapis amongst those). Those positive relations grounded him, and I think that's a major reason why I like Vargr re more than the original series. Granted, I was also conflicted about that hard reboot, and now I think it was the right decision back then.

That is an relationship he would repair eventually but yes, it's the one thing I really love about the current Vargr. I can throw his kids at him and we suddenly get to see an actual human being instead of whatever Arlan is. 🤔

Thanks, this is really the kind of discussion I wanted to bring to the table and see what the readers think of it.

Ya all are keeping me going for a long time and I enjoy seeing your thoughts about the things I write, (even of most of it is just lewding with comedy mixed in)

Here's another possibility. Arlan's journy continues almost exactly the same, but with the difference that Arlan wakes up and only a very minor changes happened. 

Like; the wents through oblivion but not much time past for anyone else, past events happened all up to the point he enters the Trials but, the fact that peole who shouldn't have lived their lifes changed some things for the better or for the worse. 🤔 

Best example would be the Spider stuff