Weekly Update - 6 January, 2025

Hey everyone!

If you haven't gotten it from me already, happy new year!

I spent the partial week getting started on my way through the rest of the chapter 3 scenes. With 6,000 new words, it's now sitting at 101k in total. I'm a good chunk of the way through the solo Hekate scene now, but the romance variations at the end are going to be where a lot of the word count comes from. Fortunately, having already written her version of the poly scene, I have a fair bit of that already, so I definitely foresee being done with her scene and onto the next by this time next week.

So, in the spirit of this time of year, I also thought I'd mention my goals for our new rotation around the sun. Obviously, the sooner I can finish BotL the better, but realistically I'd like to shoot for being mostly done by the end of the year, maybe reaching Chapter Seven or Chapter Eight (like FoA, BotL will have 10 chapters in total).

I'd also like to get some serious progress in on my Twine project, currently codenamed Project Crystalline, and release at least to Patreon a workable demo of what that's all about. It's still in the planning stages at this point; there's a lot more systems to work out than with FoA, because it's an homage to tabletop roleplaying games, so there will be some dice involved and some different options for mechanically-relevant traits and so on. Plus a sidequest system.

Of course, BotL is the priority until it is finished, so for now Project Crystalline is firmly on the backburner, and serious development on that will take a while. But that's sort of my plan for the year from a macro perspective.

On a much more micro note, there will be a bonus content this week featuring Pyri and Hermes, the last in the 'ROs from other ROs POV' series. So check that out on Wednesday, if you get those.

Best of luck to us all as we round the corner into a new year; I hope you can all harness a little of the double-edged 'fresh start' spirit to your benefit!