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Welcome to Varlance Interactive

Hello and welcome to Varlance Interactive!

Varlance is my pen name for my gay erotic fiction creative work. This site is for archiving published work and presenting other projects such as my interactive fiction games.

For more about my current projects, visit https://www.patreon.com/varlance.

Content warning: The content in these stories and on VarlanceInteractive.com is a work of fiction, which contains explicit descriptions of sexual situations and explicit and crude language. It is not intended for children. The situations described may be unsafe in real life – use good judgement and play safe, sane and consensual.

August 2024: monthly review

I know August isn’t over yet, but I wanted to close this month early and start a new cycle. Also, there are some important changes to Patreon billing – please read carefully.

General changes

1. Stories are on indefinite hold. These days I mostly write for fun in the Wildwood Discord server. Monthly updates will focus on the games I’m working on.

2. Billing is paused for September 1st, and will resume in October.

3. Patreon is mandating its creators to switch to subscription billing (instead of first-day-of-month or per-creation billing) to comply with demands from Apple, to do with Patreon being allowed in the App Store. You can read more about this change in Patreon’s news post here.

  • From November 2024, I’ll allow my Patreon page to switch over to subscription billing along with most other creators.
  • This will mean that new patrons will be charged when they join and then every month on the same date in the month that they first joined. You can read more about how this works here.
  • Existing members will continue to be billed on the 1st of each month.
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The Zhonghua Zero-Day 1.5.0

The Zhonghua Zero-Day is available from the link below:

https://mega.nz/file/ChtQBSAQ#touOpoh3eVuc6vojeVc5oKxhP1OCKApAgM1BKbQDVTE

You can play it on Itch here: https://varlance.itch.io/the-zhonghua-zeroday

The Zhonghua Zero-Day is built in Twine 2 using Sugarcube 2 format. It should run in your browser like other Twine interactive fiction games.

In this game, you play as an augmented agent of the International Security Executive (ISEx) in 2027. When a neuroaugmentation expert is kidnapped in Zhonghua, you have to infiltrate a Ruthenian mercenary group’s yacht to gather intel. But when your augmentations malfunction and your arousal level steadily increases with no release in sight, will you succeed in your mission, or will your own desires result in your surrendering to your enemies?

Features:

  • Choose an avatar for your character!
  • AI-generated avatars using Generated.Photos.
  • Manage your stats – use a combination of Savagery, Stealth and Seduction against your enemies.
  • Navigate a tile-based map spanning four decks of a yacht. Now with pixel art!
  • Map navigation using buttons or keyboard input.
  • Combat system with 3 enemy types and 12 outcomes to encounters. 
  • Sex scene generator for combat scenes. 
  • Bondage and restraint removal mechanics, with consequences for gameplay. 
  • Seven different endings. 
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Santa’s Sweatshop (Twine) 1.1.0

Santa’s Sweatshop 1.1.0 (the Twine port of the original CHYOA game) is available from the link below:

https://mega.nz/file/W8tkBRCb#EmWoP2M7apdHHxq-HO54mee_1Wj_Q3bAlLb_fk9tYw8

You can play it on Itch here: https://varlance.itch.io/santas-sweatshop

Santa’s Sweatshop is built in Twine 2 using Sugarcube 2 format. It should run in your browser like other Twine interactive fiction games.

In this game you play as a young man who is visited by one of Santa’s elves and transported to Santa’s Workshop. It would be any young person’s dream come true, apart from the forced labour, sexual servitude and punishing restraints. Will you escape the Workshop or succumb to the magic of Christmas? And who is that mysterious stranger that wants you to help him sabotage the place? 

Features:

  • Choose an avatar for your character!
  • Images depicting NPCs, AI-generated using Generated.Photos.
  • Manage your stats – Arousal, Corruption and Suspicion – to avoid being punished.
  • Explore Santa’s Workshop, filled with randomised events!
  • Meet an NPC with a quest to complete, leading to two possible endings!
  • Deal with elf encounters through persuasion, seduction or running away.
  • Bondage and restraint mechanics, with consequences for gameplay.
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