Weekly Update - 5 February, 2024

Hey everyone!

I hope February is treating you well so far! I'm still working on Chapter Three, as you might imagine, but the good news is I finished the first of the pair scenes! I changed up exactly what the pairs were, so this scene was actually with Alekto and Pyri! In it, the PC tries glassblowing with the two of them in one of the workshops where the cast does crafts. (I know glassblowing wasn't invented until the 1st century BCE, but let's roll with it; the gods can get a lot of things going before humans can because of magic). You can also talk a little bit about Alekto's hard of hearing status, and Pyri's troubles with controlling their powers, and I think it gives a bit more insight into the way the two of them interact with each other as well.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, and I do think the idea to do these scenes was a good one. I've just started work with the Charon and Hermes one that comes next, so my goal for this week is to get through that. The Pyri and Alekto one turned out to be about 8000 words, I think, so if this one's about the same, that should be comfortably doable! I also want to outline the Hades and Hekate one that will follow, so here's hoping for good writing speed this week haha. 

So far I've been making everything mandatory, but I think that will stop after Chapter Three, at which point I think it will be more of a 'choose which of these you want to do; you can choose all of them if you want' sort of situation. Anyway, that's a bit in the future yet, but it's probably best to go in with a plan. :)

Speaking of plans, I'll probably be showing you all my revised game outline and explaining some of what's changing in the rest of the game on Wednesday, so I hope that'll interest those of you who get the month's first bonus content. In the meantime, I hope you're well and stay well (or at least get better)!

I'll be back here next week with another update, as always.