Resurgam - Where Things Stand

My Patreon is once again active, now that I've found some footing. Poll scenes are still in flux, but I'll have more to say on that as the year draws to a close.

First and foremost, let me again share links to my public folders and albums. A second post immediately after this will have the private Patreon-only repositories. Yes, there've been some additions, and there will be a few more before the end of December. It is my goal to have all of those unfinished vote scenes completed by the end of December.

TiTS Public Document Folder
CoC2 Public Document Folder
Cloud 10 Document Folder 

(NSFW) Riley Album
(NSFW) Leila Album
(NSFW) Reina Album
(NSFW) Bianca Album
(NSFW) Roo Album
(NSFW) Rat's Raiders Album 

In October I endeavored to finish a smaller legacy project of mine that I theory-crafted in 2019, the 'evil bun' as our Discord community knows her. I believe I've even talked about her here. She is intended to be post-probe Zheng Shi content. It felt right to get on with her as one of my dangling loose threads and the effort wasn't for naught. 

However, her content document will still be kept private until she is implemented, and coding for that will not start until the TiTS JS Port reaches Zheng Shi, so there's still a lot of time to go. I'm still adhering to the mystery I want for her, for better or worse. After I finish another loss scene for her - she is a combat encounter, a nemesis, with an important backstory to explore alongside the still-unadded Zheng Shi Operations Deck and further Jumper & Rat content - she'll be completed.

As you are all aware, Fen abdicated more responsibility to Adjatha, Gedan, and Savin regarding the future of TiTS back in September. To that end, I spent much of November assisting in the finalizing of Dhaal's MQ. Between third-party art negotiations, editing, proofing, and contributing a number of scenes to the scenario. More will likely follow as Savin gets on with writing the sequence. My favorite so far is the Bad End for one thraggen hermaphrodite character.

This December, my goal right now is to just carry on with the tying of loose threads and helping prepare the TiTS JS Port for its release. In the last week I did some broad-strokes stress-testing of the JS Port in between writing a new surprise scene for a beloved TiTS Crew Member. I'm still a ways off from finishing it. The JS Port testing I've done is just one of many, I'm certain, and it's left me mentally cashed out. As soon as that surprise scene is done I'll be sharing it immediately.

From here on, too, a progress report will be posted every Wednesday, coinciding with TiTS work meetings. It will no longer be once a month.

There's been a lot of ado about the nature of Einin and the companion deadline of CoC2. It's a complicated situation, and I take full responsibility for my overpromising and underdelivering. The wiser thing to do would have been to cancel her as a companion much sooner rather than let it go on this long to lead folks on - I should've canceled the companion idea when I was hired for TiTS. She can still be an NPC, however, when I'm able to continue on that. That is a much less daunting prospect for me than taking on the extreme workload of accounting for CoC2's large roster of companions on top of Einin herself.

But I won't let my malignant people-pleasing habits run amok again, like it has this year. I failed to take to heart the lesson that I should focus on what I CAN do, and try to remove as many T's from the CAN'Ts as possible. I haven't concentrated on working really hard at accomplishing tasks satisfactorily; I halfheartedly concentrated on working really hard AND concentrated more on evaluating how all of those tasks will be perceived in the hyper-specific context of what became a job.

Drawing up several pages of reports and feedback on the JS Port helped me recapture some of the magic I've been missing since 2018, when I worked on Rat's Raiders. I even bought a whiteboard not too long ago, and having a physical touch of my work and goals has really helped the last two months.

For now, going forward, expect a progress report every Wednesday, with word counts, with scenes (unless I'm keeping them as a surprise), and with more insight from TiTS development meetings. 

When I've made more significant progress, I'll finally start running the treadmill again, and I'll revive my forums' thread as well.

I've heard from Nonesuch that his second-to-last WiP character is almost ready, too...