Weekly Update - 06.03.23

Hello all!

And to those of you who are new, welcome. I'm happy to report that the transition to the new structure was pretty painless; hopefully you all found it so as well. 

In the roughly five days since the BIP was released, I've written 10k new words, bringing the chapter total to 110,000. I am hoping to either finish the chapter or get it to a full 160k this month, whichever is shorter. I don't know exactly how many more words the chapter is going to take, but the Orpheus and Eurydice scenes have been moving fairly well; I'm done with the first and into the second, where the PC can offer one or neither of them a bit of advice about their upcoming trial. 

A lot of the routes are going to diverge from the myth by quite a ways, but there will be at least one that plays out identically to how the story usually goes. There should also be some opportunity to influence things after it's over, as that part isn't usually covered by tellings of the story. My goal here has been not only to give the player some agency over how things go, but to give Eurydice some agency as well. As the story is usually told, she has very little to do with things at all. The story, while featuring her, is very much about Orpheus. His choices shape the narrative, and steer it towards its tragic ending. Eurydice, important as she is to him, isn't especially important to the tale except as a plot device. 

Hopefully, my version changes that a little, or a lot if the PC leans into it.

Anyway, I'm off to go work on it some more. Later this week there will be a bonus content, though I'm not sure what form it will have yet. I might finish off the current batch of questionnaires in the first slot of the month until they're concluded and go from there. Later in the month will be the bonus content featuring Hermes that was the subject of the last poll. 

In the meantime, I've got some writing to do, and I hope you all have a fantastic week. :)