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Weekly Update - 26.09.22

Hey all!

It has been (only?) a week, that is for sure. The good news is, I have moved across the country to somewhere my housing is at least a little more secure. The bad news is, of course, that there are a million and one things to do. But I'm squeezing writing time in every day, and as of today the progress for September is at 26,000 words, so I'm managing, you know?

The Charon and Hermes section is working out to be longer than anticipated, because there really are more factor...

Bonus Content - Hades POV 2

Hello all!

My apologies for the lateness of this one, but I did finally manage to sit down and get it done! The rest of my writing has been mostly on track this week so far, fortunately, so for the most part I'm still humming along. 

Thanks so much for your support as I get my life figured out; I hope this little alternate POV scene you all asked for will do as an expression of gratitude. :)

Have a great weekend!

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 wh...

Character Q&A - Hermes

Hey all!

When I tell you my life is a rollercoaster...

Anyway I'll save that for the update. More importantly, the bonus content for this week is here. We have the hypotheticals questionnaire, and this month's victim is Hermes. 

I do have so much fun writing him, even in little bits. I hope you enjoy reading!

Weekly Update - 12.09.22

Hey everyone.

This past couple of weeks has really put me through the wringer. Suffice it to say that the housing situation I thought I was moving to here in Australia was not as secure or long term as I thought, and I had to find a new housing situation really fast. As I'm currently unemployed, the conventional options (renting and buying) were right out. 

So at the moment I'm staying with a family friend, and then next week I will be moving (again) to the opposite ...

Bonus Content - Hestia Dossier

Hey all. 

Without getting too much into personal nonsense, I am... really going through it at the moment. I'd meant to do two dossiers at least for this month's bonus content, but at the moment I can only manage one. I hope, at least, that it's a nice read, and it does go along with the art from last month, so there's that. 

I'm going to be all right, and I'm still making progress on the chapter, so if you're the sort to worry, please don't. I'll explain a little more in...

Weekly Update - 05.09.22

Hey all,

I’m back again with the weekly update. It’s been a bit of a rainy one here, but that’s quite nice for relaxing. 

I’m back at it with writing, of course, and have kept up the more standard pace of 1,000 words a day, bringing me almost to the end of Hekate’s route through the chapter. I can’t say I’m the most happy with it, but this sort of thing happens often, where as something is in progress or just finished, I feel a little worse about it tha...

Build in Progress - August

Hello, everyone! 

This month's BIP adds 27,000 new words to chapter seven, and contains the wrap of the dance scenes, and about two thirds of Hekate's route through the remainder of the chapter. So there won't be a whole lot new just yet for those of you on other routes, but as I've mentioned in the updates, those are on the agenda for September, just as soon as I finish this first one. 

I hope you enjoy what's there, and I anticipate being able to return to normal progr...

Bonus Content Poll - August

Hey all!

I think I'm going to do another rotation of RO POVs over the coming months, which means we're back to Hades in the queue. So the poll question I have for you is: what would you like to get his POV on?

Weekly Update - 29.08.22

Hello everyone! 

Tis I, now from the other side of the world! (Relative to where I was, anyway.) I have completed my move to Australia, and settled in pretty nicely here thus far. The future remains to be written, of course, but I’m optimistic about how it’s all going to go!

I did lose a couple days’ worth of progress in the course of my, uh… thirty-two hour, three day (the International Date Line got in the way) trip, so at the moment, the chapter sits at 26,000 word...

Moirae's Mirror - August

Hello all!

This month's Moirae's Mirror is something I've gotten some questions about, that might also interest/amuse you: specifically, some family trees! 

We begin, naturally, with the children of Kronos and Rhea. Now in the original myths, there are a lot more than just Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus, but this fact actually makes it all pretty gross, since if we go by those, pretty mu...

Weekly Update - 08.22.22

Hello, everyone!

Tis the big week, for me. I've got my long day and a half of flights coming up on Wednesday, so as you can imagine the pace around here is pretty frantic at the moment. I'm still squeezing in a pretty good amount or writing, so we're keeping apace on the update. The chapter is up to a total of 116,000 words, on track to make 30k this month.

As you may have noticed, we got an art drop this week, which was super fun to see in progress. If you didn't, by all means sc...

Art Commission - Hestia

Hello, everyone! The amazing Sonia (@inorheona) on tumblr (and here on Twitter) drew and painted Hestia for me! I was fortunate to be able to snag one of their commissions, and if you like this one, I think she's still taking them. :)

Anyway, I'm happy to be able to get you the poll result so soon; turnaround is definitely not usually that fast. Al...

Bonus Content - Pyri POV

Hey everyone! It's Wednesday, and I managed to be on time with the bonus content, fortunately. This is the last of the RO POV scenes from chapter five, and it's Pyri's. One of my favorite dynamics to think about them in is with someone who is very savvy, and more aware of their burgeoning interest than Pyri is, but content to take things as they come, and sort of let Pyri reach their own realizations in their own time, enjoying the dynamic as it is. 

So I've tried to capture that s...

Weekly Update - 08.15.22

Hello everyone!

Here I am, part one of the move completed. I'm not international just yet, but I have made it partway across the US, where I'm staying with my dad for another week and a bit before moving on to Australia. 

So naturally, there's a lot of family time involved, and not an overabundance of time to myself, or for writing. But! I've been taking what I can get, and I'm still averaging normal progress, meaning that the chapter is up to 108,000 words. I'll call that a ...

Q&A - Alekto

Hello, everyone!

The subject of the Q&A this month is Alekto! Here, she answers the hypothetical questions we've had for Hekate and Charon previously. Some of the answers I think get at themes of her route, and backstory bits I'm excited to get to share with you all. 

I hope it's enjoyable!

Weekly Update - 08.08.22

Hey everyone!

One week of August down. I’m happy to report that for the moment at least, progress continues at the usual rate of 1,000 words a day or so. I have finished with the dance scene, and moved into the action stuff that comes afterwards. So this should be pretty interesting, as it contains the route-lock choice, and the second really “major” variance in story dependent on what character you choose. (The first being the outing.)

There are of course plenty of other pl...

Bonus Content - Siege

Hello all!

This month's variable bonus content is something I was quite inspired to write. I've been spending a little bit of time of late contemplating plot threads and doing research for the sequel to FoA, and as part of that I thought I'd do something that, while happening around "now" (as in, contemporary with this game), wouldn't show up as part of the narrative until next. 

At least, not really. Some of you may be able to put this together with a few things that have ha...

Weekly Update - 07.31.22

Hey everyone, welcome back to the weekly update.

For many of you, the BIP just dropped yesterday, but for those who don't yet know, I had... a heck of a month for progress. Chapter Seven is at 94,000 words, meaning that in July, I managed 64,000 of them. That is well over double my usual rate of writing, and a full 14k words more than a NaNoWriMo goal, if you know what that is. 

All this to say, I'm thrilled with how much I've managed. August is, of course, looking to be a mu...

BIP - July

Hello everyone!

Here we have the Build in Progress for the month of July. As you might have been keeping track of, the update this time is quite a large chunk, though a lot of it is buried in variations. Still, there's a fair bit of new forward progress for everyone as well, and I hope those of you who play in advance enjoy it!

For the record, Chapter Seven now sits at 94,000 words, meaning this month alone I managed to write 64,000. Next month is going to be hectic as all get out...

Poll - July

Hello everyone!

For many of you, the BIP drops in an hour. If you're bored waiting for that, or in general just want to help me out, I've got a poll question for you.

Of course, because there's only one character left to do the RO POV from chapter 5 for, we know who that'll be. I could ask other stuff about that scene for the bonus content, but instead I figured I'd make this an art poll. 

Supposing I would be looking to get some art made of a minor character in the nex...

Moirae's Mirror - July

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Mirror. Today I'm using it for preview purposes, and talking a little bit about the structure of Chapter Seven. 

I've spoken about this a little bit in some of my updates, but today's entry comes with a visual aid. (I used Twine to make it, but for now of course the chapter itself is in ChoiceScript). 

Here is the whole thing:

Of co...

Weekly Update - 07.25.22

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the Weekly Update!

Very good news this time, methinks: I’m on track to have not only the 45,000 words I was attempting for this month, but a full 60,000. For those of you new to the Patreon or who just don’t keep track of these things (very understandable), that is quite literally double my usual monthly total, and also 10,000 greater than the goal of NaNoWriMo (which is in November, but whatever, I do what I want).

It’s definitely ...

Bonus Content - Hekate POV

Hello again, everyone!

Here we have the second-to-last of the RO POV scenes from Chapter Five. As you voted, this one is from Hekate's perspective. Pyri will be up next month, in some form or other. 

I'm pretty fond of this one, because it alludes to something I've been keeping under wraps about the Hekate route for a long time. I hope you all enjoy reading it. :)

Weekly Update - 07.18.22

Good whatever-time-of-day, everyone! 

I'm happy to report this week that progress is clipping along very nicely! I'm averaging 2k a day still, meaning that my to-date progress for July is 36,000 words. That's more than I usually write in an entire month, so I'm pretty excited about it. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep this up all the way through the end of July, but I'd be very pleased if I could, considering all the disruptions to my schedule coming in August.  2022-07-18 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Q&A - Charon

Hello again, y'all. 

As promised, the Q&A this month is here. I opted to to go with Charon, first, as I'm fairly sure it's been longer since we heard from them in this slot, so to speak. Pyri will be up in a future month, of course. 

Here's hoping you enjoy learning a few revealing hypothetical answers from him. :)

See everybody for next week's update. 

Weekly Update - 07.11.22

Whew. Is July kicking anyone else’s butt, or is it just me? 

I’m pretty sure both of my roommates have COVID, so here I am trying not to get it. I’ve been lucky so far, so here’s hoping I stay that way. 

In the meantime, progress on Chapter Seven has been going great. I’ve been averaging double my usual progress amount, so 2,000 words a day, and I don’t feel too burned out by it yet, so I’m going to keep it up until I start feeling that it’s not ...

Bonus Content - Departure

Hello everyone!

First of all, thank you for all the well-wishes on my move. I just bought flight tickets yesterday, so it's starting to all feel very real heh. 

Anyway, today is bonus content day, and as I stated in the weekly update this week, it features Empusa and Daeira, as the latter gets ready to leave on a special mission to help the PC regain their choices, in an indirect way. :)

I hope you like it.

Weekly Update - 07.04.22

Hello everyone. Tis July, and I am baking. 

Though eventually I will be complaining about the opposite! As some of you are aware, if you follow updates on tumblr, I am indeed moving internationally next month, and in the process I will be swapping hemispheres (I am, in fact, moving to Australia). This has been in the works for a while; my grandmother lives there, and I might be able to properly afford necessary healthcare in a country not beholden to the private insurance industry....

BIP - June

Hello everyone! 

As those of you who've been here a while are well aware, the last day of the month is BIP day. So I have everything I've written for chapter seven so far here today for you. That's a brand new 30k words, along with some outline, though not yet the whole chapter's worth. There's a few random notes to myself in there as well, if that's at all entertaining for you, heh. 

Please remember that this is the only BIP link that will work; I make a new one every m...