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* DateCrepe: Chapter 7 has an option for breakfast at Montjoy's flat to be peanut butter and Nutella crepes after a night of drinking.
--> Montjoy: "I can't tell if that's a brilliant idea or an utter abomination... I suppose we'll find out, won't we?"
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''A Very Scandalous Proposal'' is one of the many stories under the ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'' collection. It is currently being released weekly for regular players, and it can be accessed in full through the VIP Subscription.

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''A Very Scandalous Proposal'' is one of the many stories under the ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'' collection. It is currently being released weekly for regular players, and it can be accessed in full through the VIP Subscription.
Subscription. The book is a sequel to ''VisualNovel/TheUnexpectedHeiress''.
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* AffectionateNickname: Sophie's is "Toffee" given to her by Nigel due to her drink of choice. Chapter 2 has Sophie give one to Montjoy which can either be Bunnyc Marmalade, or not bother and just call them by name. Benedict Highgates' name is "Bones" due to streaking at Kingsbridge...especially during Halloween.

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* AffectionateNickname: Sophie's is "Toffee" given to her by Nigel due to her drink of choice. Chapter 2 has Sophie give one to Montjoy which can either be Bunnyc Bunny, Marmalade, or not bother and just call them by name. Benedict Highgates' name is "Bones" due to streaking at Kingsbridge...especially during Halloween.
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''A Very Scandalous Proposal'' is one of the many stories under the ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'' collection, though at the moment it can only be accessed through the VIP Subscription.

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''A Very Scandalous Proposal'' is one of the many stories under the ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'' collection, though at the moment collection. It is currently being released weekly for regular players, and it can only be accessed in full through the VIP Subscription.



* AffectionateNickname: Sophie's is "Toffee" given to her by Nigel due to her drink of choice. Chapter 2 has Sophie give one to Montjoy which can either be Bunny, Marmalade, or not bother and just call them by name. Benedict Highgates' name is "Bones" due to streaking at Kingsbridge...especially during Halloween.

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* AffectionateNickname: Sophie's is "Toffee" given to her by Nigel due to her drink of choice. Chapter 2 has Sophie give one to Montjoy which can either be Bunny, Bunnyc Marmalade, or not bother and just call them by name. Benedict Highgates' name is "Bones" due to streaking at Kingsbridge...especially during Halloween.
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* WithCatlikeTread: In a premium scene to get info on Montjoy after they go to talk with Margaret, regardless if Sophie tries to peek in through the door or window, she ends up making too much noise.
* YourCheatingHeart: Chapter 7 has a premium scene which reveals Arabella cheated on Montjoy with another man. Buying up many of the premium clues reveals [[spoiler: It was Tommy.]]

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* WithCatlikeTread: In a premium scene to get info on Montjoy after they go to talk with Margaret, regardless if Sophie tries to peek in through the door or window, she ends up making too much noise.
* YourCheatingHeart: Chapter 7 has a premium scene which reveals Arabella cheated on Montjoy with another man. Buying up many of the premium clues reveals [[spoiler: It was Tommy.]]
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* TheStinger: Collecting all six letters between Thomas and Moira opens one up. [[spoiler: Ollie is now living with his father in Barrington House, though not a fan of his stepmother Gemma.

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* TheStinger: Collecting all six letters between Thomas and Moira opens one up. [[spoiler: Ollie is now living with his father in Barrington House, though not a fan of his stepmother Gemma.]]
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** In Chapter 5, there is an option for Sophie to ask whether Simon is an [[Literature/HarryPotter Animagus]] (after seeing how well he gets on with horses).

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* DrivingQuestion: Chapter 1 has Sophie wanting to learn what Gemma meant when she wrote, "I bought my freedom from him, and comfort for life, in exchange for silence." [[spoiler: Collecting all the hidden letters between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals once their son, Oliver, was officially sworn in as Andrew Oliver ''Montjoy'', they would run away together.]]

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* DrivingQuestion: Chapter 1 has Sophie wanting to learn what Gemma meant when she wrote, "I bought my freedom from him, and comfort for life, in exchange for silence." [[spoiler: Collecting all the hidden letters between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals once their son, Oliver, was officially sworn in as Andrew Oliver ''Montjoy'', they would run away together. The bonus scene at the end reveals Ollie would be claimed as the legitimate heir to Barrington House, especially since she hasn't been able to conceive an heir for him. For that, she has an affair with Mr. Carruthers, a silk merchant. It's then revealed that Thomas and Moira faked their deaths to live with each other.]]



* TheReveal:
** Chapter 14 reveals [[spoiler: Tommy was the one who leaked Sophie's story to the tabloids.]]
** Collecting all of the hidden notes between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals [[spoiler: that their bastard son, Ollie, is really Andrew Oliver Montjoy, Gerald's father and Simon/Ava's great-grandfather.]]



* ShipperOnDeck: A premium scene in Chapter 8 allows Sophie to be one for Juliet and Cecile, seeing the two have feelings for each other.

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* ShipperOnDeck: A premium scene in Chapter 8 allows Sophie to be one for Juliet and Cecile, seeing the two have feelings for each other. By Chapter 16, the two of them have started seeing each other.



* TheStinger: Collecting all six letters between Thomas and Moira opens one up. [[spoiler: Ollie is now living with his father in Barrington House, though not a fan of his stepmother Gemma.



* TheReveal:
** Chapter 14 reveals [[spoiler: Tommy was the one who leaked Sophie's story to the tabloids.]]
** Collecting all of the hidden notes between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals [[spoiler: that their bastard son, Ollie, is really Andrew Oliver Montjoy, Gerald's father and Simon/Ava's great-grandfather.]]

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* TheReveal:
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ThoseTwoGuys: Juliet and Cecile are this in the story, and can be recruited as allies.
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Chapter 14 reveals [[spoiler: Tommy was the 16, one who leaked year passes after Montjoy's birthday when they're now officially engaged to Sophie and made Duke/Duchess of Wessex. Depending on how many premium scenes were bought, Sophie's story to the tabloids.]]
** Collecting all of the hidden notes between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals [[spoiler: that their bastard son, Ollie,
book is really Andrew Oliver Montjoy, Gerald's father and Simon/Ava's great-grandfather.]]either a huge success, average or middling.

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* DrivingQuestion: Chapter 1 has Sophie wanting to learn what Gemma meant when she wrote, "I bought my freedom from him, and comfort for life, in exchange for silence."

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* DrivingQuestion: Chapter 1 has Sophie wanting to learn what Gemma meant when she wrote, "I bought my freedom from him, and comfort for life, in exchange for silence."" [[spoiler: Collecting all the hidden letters between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals once their son, Oliver, was officially sworn in as Andrew Oliver ''Montjoy'', they would run away together.]]



* RiddleForTheAges: Played for laughs in Chapter 6 if you take the premium choice to go with Allegra. She talks about a prank Montjoy pulled at Kingsbridge that involved leading a herd of cows upstairs to the headmasters office. When Sophie asks where they found the cows, Allegra says that's still an answer she still doesn't know. Kingsbridge is in the country, but not ''that'' rural.

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* RiddleForTheAges: Played for laughs in Chapter 6 if you take the premium choice to go with Allegra. She talks about a prank Montjoy pulled at Kingsbridge that involved leading a herd of cows upstairs to the headmasters office. When Sophie asks where they found the cows, Allegra says that's still an answer she still doesn't know. Kingsbridge is in the country, but not ''that'' rural. Getting all the paintings has an in-universe one when Montjoy gives Sophie a painting of a woman implied to be Moira.


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* TheReveal:
** Chapter 14 reveals [[spoiler: Tommy was the one who leaked Sophie's story to the tabloids.]]
** Collecting all of the hidden notes between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals [[spoiler: that their bastard son, Ollie, is really Andrew Oliver Montjoy, Gerald's father and Simon/Ava's great-grandfather.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: Chapter 7 has a premium scene which reveals Arabella cheated on Montjoy with another man.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Chapter 7 has a premium scene which reveals Arabella cheated on Montjoy with another man. Buying up many of the premium clues reveals [[spoiler: It was Tommy.]]
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* StockEpisodeTitles: Chapter 14 is titled "Revelations."

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In Chapter 13, a premium choice has Sophia and Montjoy take a secret passageway from Sophia's room and into Tommy's personal guest room and knows about the passageways. Sophia is now starting to believe [[spoiler: Tommy leaked her story to the tabloids.]]



* RichesToRags: Chapter 14 reveals Tommy Harrington is this. [[spoiler: His father was up for knighthood until he was caught in an embezzlement scandal and soon after, Tommy's immediately cut off from his family.]]



* StealingFromTheTill: Chapter 14 reveals [[spoiler: Tommy's father was up for knighthood until he was caught in an embezzlement scandal.]]



* WhamEpisode: Chapter 9 has all of Sophie's investigation published on a tabloid and read out loud by Hugo.

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* BookcasePassage: While the Blythe Suite in Chapter 13 is revealed to have a hidden stash of port in the bookcase, Montjoy reveals that there's secretly a hidden passage behind the bed, which Sophie never knew was there in all the time she's slept there.

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* BookcasePassage: While the Blythe Suite in Chapter 13 is revealed to have a hidden stash of port in the bookcase, Montjoy reveals that there's secretly a hidden passage behind the bed, which Sophie never knew was there in all the time she's slept there. Montjoy tells the hidden chambers were originally used by the servants in the old days when the upper crust didn't want to see the help, and they used to use them to play hide and seek with their mother.
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* BookcasePassage: While the Blythe Suite in Chapter 13 is revealed to have a hidden stash of port in the bookcase, Montjoy reveals that there's secretly a hidden passage behind the bed, which Sophie never knew was there in all the time she's slept there.
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* TheArcher: Chapter 12 reveals Arabella Fitzwilliams was the Kingsbridge archery champion during her time in school. Sophie can say she's one as well, having been shooting since she was twelve.
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** Chapter 12 has Montjoy make Sophie a British fry-up to take their mind off the tabloid investigation. Said plate consists of black pudding, fried eggs, baked beans, sliced tomatoes, sausages, bacon and kippers.
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* StayInTheKitchen: A premium scene in Chapter 10 has Genevieve tell Sophie that Hugo is this, saying they have their "parts to play," which is why she takes designing classes in secret.
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** Reading the tabloid story says Montjoy had an affair with the [[VisualNovel/TheHeistMonaco Princess of Monaco]].
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* ClearMyName: While it doesn't involve a murder, everything after Chapter 9 involves Sophie having to prove she didn't leak her investigation of the Montjoys to the tabloids.


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* WhamEpisode: Chapter 9 has all of Sophie's investigation published on a tabloid and read out loud by Hugo.
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** A popular children's book Sophie reads in Chapter 9 is "[[VisualNovel/RedCarpetDiaries The Secret of Ninradell]]."
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* FakeCharity: Montjoy feels the Whittenby Gala, a charity ball to help families below the poverty line, is this as not only boring, but not as useful to the people they should be helping.
-->Montjoy: "Merely another opportunity for the wealthy attendees to faff about and feel self-righteously benevolent...when half of it goes to pay for the admittedly exquisite canapes."
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Earl and Countess Rathbone haven't spoken to each other for ten years and won't divorce because it's "just not done" in the upper crust.

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* AwfulWeddedLife: Earl and Countess Rathbone haven't spoken to each other for ten years and won't divorce because it's "just not done" in the upper crust. As for the cause, Montjoy is unclear on why. Rumor is because of a starlet catching the Earl or Countess's eye.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Earl and Countess Rathbone haven't spoken to each other for ten years and won't divorce because it's "just not done" in the upper crust.
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* ShipperOnDeck: A premium scene in Chapter 8 allows Sophie to be one for Juliet and Cecile, seeing the two have feelings for each other.
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* AliceAllusion: While taking a premium choice to learn social etiquette from Juliet in Chapter 8, when you meet Cecile, one dialogue choice is to say that social protocol is like being in the titular book.
--> Sophie: "Counts don't exist, but an earl's wife is somehow a countess... and nothing seems to make actual sense. It feels like a lot of running just to stay in one place."
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* LessonsInSophistication: A premium choice in Chapter 8 allows Sophie to take lessons from Juliet, the Barrington House docent, about high class society so she doesn't embarrass herself at the Royal Ascot, as well as gaining Juliet as an ally.
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* ChildOfForbiddenLove: The second premium letter you find between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals she became pregnant with his child.

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* ChildOfForbiddenLove: The second premium letter you find between Thomas Montjoy and Moira reveals she became pregnant with his child. The third letter reveals Thomas meets his son by accident.
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* TheChanteuse: A premium scene in Chapter 7 reveals Margaret used to be a lounge singer in her younger days, though she hid it by going under her maiden name of Mosley.

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