Weekly rambling

Hi there!

So, I’ve gotten well back on my writing routine and I feel good about the state of the update. I will start rambling on Mondays, so I can make goals for the upcoming week.

But first, I finally decided how I’m going to show the relationship stats on the stat page. They will be from Quinn’s POV and they are mental notes instead of physical ones. In them, Quinn is commenting on the state of the relationships and what they think about the progress. It makes sense, they have a lot of opinions, especially when it comes to other ROs. And they have access to your and the ROs' heads. For example, there might be Marcus's name and Quinn commenting like: 'You did WHAT at the baths?!' 😆

Also, I realized that there are some stats that the new personality elements don’t cover. I will need to start tracking Hati’s kindness/ruthlessness (that will be important for the story), as well as if Hati is a little dense or if they’re intelligent. Neither of those are covered by the elements and I think they’re important for the role playing aspect, and for the relationships. For example, Tinsae respects kindness (no surprises there). However, this doesn’t mean that there will be any relationship locks for ruthless Hatis with Tinsae. She is, after all, friends with Camilla, so it definitely doesn’t seem like a deal breaker for her. In addition, your dense Hati might have more in common with Niall (no offense, Niall, we still love you). 

If you’re interested in other variables I’m already tracking, the important ones are: 

• The level of Hati’s devotion to the Twins (you can’t denounce the Twins, Hati’s upbringing doesn’t give room to it just yet. However, you can certainly start being pretty pissed at the Twins for all the mixed messages they’re sending.)

• If you’re using/manipulating the ROs or not (or, when it comes to Marcus, if you’re actively trying to kill him or not). There will be a chance for Hati to develop genuine feelings for the ROs despite the relationships starting out as them using them.

• The level of Hati’s perversion, or if you aren’t interested in sexual stuff at all (this is something I haven’t focused on too much yet but it will be there).

• And, of course, the personality elements. Those will replace the childhood personality stats that were set in the 1st chapter. For example, fire will find it more difficult to remain silent when it’s needed, earth is slightly emotionally constipated, and water is empathetic and finds it difficult to hide their emotions. 
  And air is there.
  Lol.
  Air is like earth but less constipated, silently going with the flow.

I think those are the most important ones. Fine tuning the code is something I will focus on more when I start to edit, since I’ll have to rewrite the Twine-coded chapters in CS and all that. And the earlier chapters need a lot of editing. Anyway, just wanted to let you know the big variables.

For this week's goals: Tomorrow, I will likely finish Cernunnos's smut (it's like 70 % ready so that should be easy). And this week, I hope to finish Camilla's bath scenes. They're about 50 % ready so it's more than possible since I'm back to my groove now. I'm not counting the act of coding in that percentage, so the update won't be finished yet this week. And I will most likely get scatterbrained and write other update scenes on the side but that's to be expected. Anyway, will focus on Camilla this week.

As always, thank you so so much for being here! I'm working my arse off to get more content out soon! 💛💛