Weekly Update - 19.09.22

Hello again, everyone. 

I believe at some point I promised an accounting of the absolute disaster that is my living situation right now (a.k.a Why Does Jess Keep Talking About Things Being Weird For Them?)

So the short version is: I came here to Australia with the intention of living in a spare bedroom in my grandmother's house and helping to look after her. It turns out for various reasons I can't do that, which of course came as a surprise to me (and several other people who'd helped me arrange it). 

This has, naturally, left me in a bit of a lurch. I've been staying with a friend of my (other) grandmother's for the last ten days, and arranging something a little more long term (board in exchange for housework) with someone else, and all this necessitates me moving to the opposite coast here in Aus, where I will hopefully finally be able to settle down for a bit and get something resembling a life up and running! 

As you can probably imagine, it's been a mess of bookings, trying to get my things from one of three places to another one by various means, and attempting to be a good guest (a challenge when all my ND brain wants to do is hide in my room). But we're almost there!

In the meantime, FoA has been humming along at its usual pace. I think I've been holding to it for sanity's sake, and because I am bound and determined to have this darn thing submitted to Hosted Games sometime next year. I've had to scrap a planned Twine conversion and several other things, but the plan is still to deliver the best game I can at a reasonable and steady pace. 

I'm in the middle of the Hermes and Charon branch, which has split less than I thought, in some sense, which is sort of good news for the likelihood of my finishing this chapter by the end of October. 

If you're looking forward to the bonus content this week, it might end up a day late or so, but it will definitely be out before my next weekly update.

I just want to thank you all for sticking with me. I literally could not do any of this without you. Not just the writing, but, you know, buying groceries and bus tickets and so on. I'm going to do my absolute best to deliver an update, and eventually a game, you can all be happy to have in your libraries and want to reply for a long time to come.