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[SOLDIER First]

Amber shrugs.
"Nope. As long as it doesn't get either of us in any hot water, you can be however you want."

[AbstractTraitorHero]

In a teasing and clearly joking and exagerated form of tone.
"Oh darling it's a match made in heaven what do I have to do to trip your flags?"

[SOLDIER First]

((trip what))

[AbstractTraitorHero]

((It's a visual novel event sequencer as such when you are trying to romance someone in a visual novel you'd have to trip event flags certain parts in the story where the relationship progresses.))

[SOLDIER First]

(([beats up cress for being a nerd]))

"Trip what?"

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Cress blushes a little giving a awkward chuckle rubbing their head and looking away nervously.
"Haha sorry it's a bit of a nerdy reference..."

[SOLDIER First]

"Tell me, I'm sure I would understand."

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Long winded rant from cress.

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A condition in game programming that causes a variable to change. Event Flags are set off when certain events take place — Boss Battles, Cutscenes, leveling up, One Ups — anything that's important to the plot or to your stats. Flags can also trigger anything, from changing a character's status to activating subquests or side-plots to adjusting what sort of Random Encounters show up.
Got that? Well theres more becuase It's important to note that there need not be any logical connection between the action and the results. Sometimes there is a relationship, as when the completion of one quest makes you eligible for others, but very often the game programmers just decided to enforce the order of events. If the door to the Black Tower is impenetrably sealed, but spontaneously unlocks itself after you give 10 flowers to a completely unrelated NPC on the other side of the world, an Event Flag is the little chunk of computer code that made it happen.
 So Setting off certain Event Flags is necessary for the computer to know when you've won most games. Sequence Breaking in the wrong places can make the game Unwinnable if a flag that was supposed to be triggered gets stuck in the wrong state.
Generally, a Broken Bridge is "repaired" by an event flag, and an unsolvable puzzle gets its solution from it as well.
Event flags are also how a game knows when You Shouldn't Know This Already.
The term is often used for gags in Anime and Japanese games, where Genre Savvy characters talk about needing to set off flags for the plot or relationships to move in a favored direction. More commonly it is a joke about Tempting Fate, where once a certain event has been set off, something inevitable will follow.note  Anybody who talks about what they're going to do after a war, for example, has set a death flag.

[SOLDIER First]

"So, if I'm correct, you want to trip my relationship flags. Is that it?"

[AbstractTraitorHero]

"Uh...Y-Yeah I would mind that."

[SOLDIER First]

((>would mind
>"I don't want to do that"))
"Why don't we try finishing a few quests first, see where things go."

[AbstractTraitorHero]

((Stupid autocorrect.))
"Sounds dandy my lady so you like girls?"

[SOLDIER First]

Amber shrugs.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

"I'm going to take that to mean your bi or asexual and don't really care about gender."

[SOLDIER First]

"You can take that however you want."