Saturday Devlog (November 6)

Hi, everyone! Hope you're staying safe and healthy. :)

Happy to report that it's been a productive week for writing this week! I've managed to storyboard almost the entirety of the next update, and write another 7000 words on top of that. Things look very much on track to an update at least 35k words in length, though I do hope to go beyond that should the stars align. Fingers crossed!

A big reason behind the next update's huge wordcount is due to the lateral variation in the starting scene, which has four entirely separate variants of roughly 2-3k words each! The scene you see will hinge upon the choice of Arcadian division you made back during the Thulrum chapter, and each will have their own transitions to the mainline plot, which will finally take the game to the Free Cities of Yotai. There will also be a fourth option available to non-Arcadian-aligned mages, where you'll be able to attempt an escape from the Arcadian compound (the keyword here, of course, being attempt). This will be the scene featured in this week's sneak peek!

Overall, I think this next arc has one of the strongest plot skeletons in the game, and I'm very excited to show it off in full. It does look to be on the longer side, perhaps nearly as long as the Aulain arc (which was around 43k words altogether!), but I'm hoping to resolve it in a single update, if only so that the story will have some sort of narrative resolution for once. x) Again, fingers crossed!

Lastly, October's side story is already fully written, and I'm currently in the process of putting it to code. All goes well, it will be uploaded within the next 24 hours. Sorry for the long wait, everyone!

That about wraps it up for this week's update! As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!