Weekly Update - 22 January, 2024

Hey everyone!

It's been kind of a hectic week, but progress on FoA's rewrites continues apace. Suffice it to say that I don't think I'll quite be done with Chapter Three by the end of the month (due to the new scenes I have to write), but I should be done with everything up until those, which I think will constitute about half the chapter. 

This week, I made good progress through Chapter Two, including writing a whole new scene for Alekto, featuring her sisters Megaira and Tisiphone. Plus some information the PC really should have had earlier in the game, if I'd been thinking about that. My full changelog  for the week looks like this: 

Chapter Two

• Edits and adjustments to the group dinner scene
• Edits and adjustments to post-dinner escort scenes
• Removed orchard keepers introduction scene for later use
• Streamlined Kronos introduction
• Edits and minor adjustments to Charon ferry scene/Eurydice introduction
• Edits and adjustments to Hermes scene
• Rewrote the Alekto spar scene completely; included more interaction with Megaira and an introduction to Tisiphone
• Minor adjustments to letter writing scene

My plan for next week is to round out Chapter Two with the judgement scene, which will still be optional, and then to move into Chapter Three with an option to pursue your reading choice further, set up your garden (and meet Ascalaphus, Minthe, and Leuke in the process), and go on that walk with Hades (and meet the Moirae along the way).

After that, I'll be into the block of new scenes for the chapter, which may take a while. The Alekto scene took me about three days to write, and it was comparatively simple. Still, I think the new stuff will be well worth having, to make sure every PC gets time with all the characters, and gets to know them better before certain vital choices have to be made. 

Anyway, I'll be back next week with a quick check-in about how far I've gotten on all of that, and some idea what those of you who get the BIP can expect from that this month!

Please take care of yourselves, and thanks, as always, for being here. :)