Weekly Update - 06.27.22

Hello again everyone!

Chapter Seven continues to clip along nicely; I should actually be caught up with my 'word deficit' by the time the month ends, meaning the BIP that goes out on Thursday will have a full 30k new words in it, all of them in the new chapter. 

So far, that includes the whole of the meeting it opens with, and part of the party scene that follows. The way that works so far is that it's broken down into four optional sections, all of which you can take in any order you like. Each section features one or two ROs, and possibly some other characters. I've finished with the section that includes Hades and Lethe, and am currently working on the one with Hekate, Kokytos, and Daeira. After that, I'll have the sections with Charon & Alekto and Pyri & Hermes to do. 

After the player has done as many or as few of those sections as they like, they can choose the option to advance the plot forward (in this case, heading out into the courtyard to take a little breather), and there they'll get a scene with whomever they went on an outing with, something a little more one-on-one, and 'intimate' in a general sense. (A little more specifically depending on whether initiative is on, and/or whether the PC has indicated any interest, depending on character.)

Alas, that scene is doomed to be interrupted, which will hopefully be something I can talk about in more detail next month, as I'm hoping another 30k words or so will take me that far! 

I am hoping this chapter will land at roughly 100k words, but there's going to be quite a bit of variation at the end, so we'll see how that goes for me. Tentatively, though with no guarantees, I think I'll aim for a late August/early September release on it for those of you with early access, and just a little bit after for everyone else. 

I hope you're all hanging in there as we round out Pride Month. The way things are going, I think maybe July needs to be Wrath Month. <_<