Alpha Preview Update (August)

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What's New:

• 13,000 words of new content!

• New Briony character interlude

• New Red character interlude

• Participate in some animal husbandry with Red

• Participate in (or prevent) some casual mangling with Briony

Developer's Notes:

[Content warning for this update: description of a sick animal/pet, though the animal is ultimately totally okay!] 

Hello, everyone! My update for you this month is extremely straightforward: as I've mentioned for the last few months, I'm turning my focus to catching up on many of the character interludes before I move on with the main story, so as to get things like timing and cross-coordination between storylines right, so this is me just plugging away at that! I won't start writing the Ascendancy Festival, I suspect, until at least one character's interludes catch up to it within the game's timeline, but we're getting very close to that moment as well!

So with that being said, this month's update is pretty self-explanatory! And full of fluff and comedic light-heartedness, I might add. I think after the sizzling sexual tension of Chase's last interlude, and the urgent forebodingness of Blade's interlude before that, I just needed some fluff and silliness and laughter, which both Briony and Red's interludes have in spades this time. I also happened to read a novel this month that proved deeply upsetting to me when it took a hard turn into content I was NOT expecting, so consider this update my homemade panacea for that, lol.

(We also watched Alien: Romulus and started the TV show Evil last week, too... I used to be an avid horror fan, but I think age and time have naturally turned my sensibilities a tad more delicate, LOL. We just finished Downton Abbey earlier this month (obsessed. obsessed forever), so it's with gladness that I turn back to Prihine's short story, which reminds me more of that... albeit with murder.........)

Anyway, the Twine conversion is moving briskly along--I just finished Chapter 7, and then it'll be reviewing the code for half of Chapter 8, converting everyone's character interludes, and finishing up some systems stuff like gambling and quests before I think things are ready for the shift over--and I worked a decent bit on the new novel project, too, though as always, not as much as I would have liked! I still worry that I'm not doing enough, but thankfully my higher consciousness--the one that supersedes the anxious animal hindbrain that prods me to keep churning away at things--assures me it's okay to not lose sleep and ruin my health over work, lol.  

Anyway, that's all I have for now! I think this month is particularly auspicious because the wordcount without code turned out to be exactly 1,190,000 (no rounding at all), which I think is a fun little coincidence! Tada! 🎉

Total wordcount: 1,190,000 words without code

What's Next:

More character interludes! I'm getting a whiff that Ayla, and perhaps Trouble or Riel, are next. And perhaps more unfinished loose ends if I've got time, birthdays we've missed and so on and so forth.

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope your end of August goes spectacularly!