Hello all!
Next month's variable bonus content is another RO POV, and so far there's only two I haven't given a scene to. So the choice is pretty simple: which one of those two is first? I'll definitely still get the other, of course, just in August rather than July. :)
2022-06-30 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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 ...
2022-06-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
This month's Mirror is a bit of a worldbuilding piece. Perhaps it would be fair to say it's sort of intentionally world-obscuring also haha. By now, you may well have encountered information in-game about the Titanomachy, the war that took place long before "present," in which the current 'eldest' generation of gods overthrew the rule of the titans, who in many cases were their parents.
This information has been mostly very vague, and that's on purpose! In ge...
2022-06-22 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I quite nearly forgot to write the weekly update this week, which I think says something about the kind of week that it’s been! But I did manage to recall in time, so here I am.
It’s been a good week of progress for Asphodel, with a solid 8k words added to the current chapter total. I’m now writing the second scene of the chapter, which is a social gathering with a gently-celebratory feel. Lethe is recovering, the PC has dealt with their first prayer in whatever way...
2022-06-20 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
This week, I'm back with another installment in the RO POV series. The third in the bunch features Hermes, and a rather interesting moment that can occur on his outing, for those of you who got it. :)
I hope y'all enjoy, and I should be back in the same slot next month with a different character.
2022-06-15 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
I just looked at the date, and goodness time is a vortex. Anyway, here we are, just about the middle of June, and Chapter Seven is moving right along. I got another 7k words done this week, so I'm back to keeping the usual pace, and the chapter has 10,000 words already.
So far, we're still in the group meeting of sorts that takes place first, and having discussed a few of the immediate implications surrounding the PC's actions from last chapter, we're getting...
2022-06-13 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
The Q&A formerly in this spot is now one of the two November 2022 Q&As. Yes, that's weird, but I accidentally did Hekate twice, and I liked the updated answers better. You don't miss out on anything, because there are as I mentioned two for that later month. Sorry about the weirdness. :)
2022-06-08 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, and welcome back to the Weekly Update.
This week, I spent mostly outlining Chapter Seven, as well as getting in about 3k words of actual forward progress. It's not quite as much as I'd have liked, but I am pretty happy with the chapter's overall structure. Depending on how the word count shapes up, I might end up combining what was originally planned to be Chapter Eight into this one as well, or at least part thereof, which should allow me a little room to split what ha...
2022-06-06 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, everyone!
I'm continuing with the series of characters-as-if-Pathfinder this month, and I've made Alekto this time.
I had kind of a hard time deciding between Paladin and Ranger for her, because elements of both work pretty well. But, she strikes me as more of a ranger in the end, because her whole deal is acting as a warden for Tartarus, and hunting down targets who go on the run from her very specific brand of furious justice. I did manage to preserve a ...
2022-06-01 16:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, and here it is. Chapter Six, all done and ready to play! It is just about 110,000 words, including an opening scene everyone gets and then several branches to play through, of which everyone will be able to choose two. There's quite a lot of plot development in this one, but also some softer moments scattered here and there, and I hope you all enjoy it.
If you happen to run into a problem playing, please let me know. To warn in advance, some variables have been adj...
2022-05-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
We're back with poll time again this month; the BIP is headed your way in an hour. For now, the RO POV series continues, and we're giving Hermes a go this time. I have an idea which scene I'll be doing from his perspective, but what I want y'all to decide is what his history with the PC is. :)
2022-05-31 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Back with another weekly update, and it's a pretty exciting one this time!
I have managed to finish the initial writing of Chapter Six. This means that I'm currently in the editing phase, and all you lovely early access/BIP folks will be getting the complete/edited chapter tomorrow. The chapter will release to the general public a week later, on 7 June.
Editing is such a tedious process, honestly, but it does feel worth it to catch the typos and r...
2022-05-30 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
For the Mirror this month, I thought I'd go into some detail about what the last four (most likely) chapters of FoA's first book are likely to contain—that is, chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10. This will give you sorta the last pieces of plot overview for FoA, and you can see how it all hangs together!
It almost goes without saying that there are major FoA spoilers here, so if you don't want to see those, this would be a good month to skip, heh.
So. Chapter Seven is t...
2022-05-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
It's weekly update time once more. I am pleased to report I have finished the Kerberos scene (which I actually managed to keep about the length I had planned for it), and have now moved on to the scene with the secret character. Naturally this scene, being the last one in the chapter, has ballooned somewhat.
Mostly, the expansion is due to a number of variables that are changing how things go—specifically, whether the PC and the secret character have met be...
2022-05-23 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
As you voted for in the last poll, Alekto's perspective here features a slightly-awkwardly-crushing PC, though filtered through Alekto's lens they may seem... slightly different. I went with a they/them Persephone, and the scene in question comes from the latter portion of Alekto's 'date.' I hope you enjoy it. :)
2022-05-18 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
It's already mid-May, huh? Sometimes I think time really needs to chill out and go a little slower. Anyway, I'm still pushing through these final, shorter parts of the chapter, after which I'll need to do some proofreading and testing to prepare for release.
We're getting close though! I've started work on the Kerberos scene, which is a lot shorter than some of the other options in the chapter, but should hopefully be a fun little bit for those of you whose PCs will...
2022-05-16 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
This month concludes the series of Proust Questionnaires with the last round of Hades's. That means I need to find something else for this slot starting next month. Suggestions welcome, of course, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this last little bit from the Lord of the Dead. :)
2022-05-11 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
Welcome (or welcome back) to the weekly update.
Twas a solid week of progress; I made another 7,000 words through the chapter. I am so close to being done with this second Hera scene; hopefully by the end of next week I will be. After that, I am going to try very hard to keep the remaining two scenes in the chapter short, as they don't need to be long. But of course, I always underestimate how much I'm going to write.
Those scenes, if anyone was ...
2022-05-09 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
The character build I did for Pyri in the Pathfinder system seemed to be reasonably well-received last month, so I elected to do another. This time, we have Hermes!
He was a little harder to represent, in a way, because his talents are sort of a mix of roguish and magic, so right off the bat the two options I was most considering were the bard and a special archetype of the rogue called the eldritch scoundrel. I like both for him for different reasons, but the fundamental...
2022-05-04 16:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
One more week in the books. It was a fairly productive, if miserable, one for me. I had to move a lot of heavy furniture, and at the moment I'm sort of one big bruise. On the plus side, though, I had a good week for FoA progress. I'm not sure on the exact number, but I think about another 8, possibly 9,000? I had it all properly calculated out for the BIP, haha.
The point being, the chapter is now just over 80,000 words, and I'm still moving through the second scene...
2022-05-02 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Here is, once more, the BIP. It's up 34,000 words from last month, to a grand total of 80,000 words in Chapter Six. I'm probably a little over halfway through the second Hera scene; there are a lot variations in this one for PCs that may have written her a letter or two, as it happens. But I anticipate that by next month, you early access folks will be getting the first taste of Chapter Seven. Hopefully, heh.
In any case, I hope you enjoy all the new stuff, whi...
2022-04-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! It's time again for the votes on next month's variable bonus content. This time, I'll be writing a bit of Alekto POV, and I'm going to have you choose how the PC has generally acted towards her so far (roughly, for what of the game has been written).
2022-04-30 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
It has been… a week. Things are moving pretty fast with the endeavor to sell the house I currently live in (it's not mine, but my roommate's, but I'm helping with the move, obviously), and this week we actually moved ourselves out so that the agent could have open houses without the pets and I needing to figure out a carless way to get out of the house in a very car-dependent area for hours at a time.
So needless to say I've been packing and unpacking all...
2022-04-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
As I probably should have expected by now, Makaria ran away with the poll results at the end of last month, so here I have a bit from her POV. It covers, of course, her visit to the PC's garden. The PC in this one is a he/they Dionysus, slightly more magically-focussed.
I hope you enjoy it! :)
2022-04-20 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
April is… moving rather quickly. I think it might be partly because I'll be moving house shortly, so there's always a ton of things to do to prepare for it. Fortunately, I've been able to keep up with FoA in the meantime, and so there's another 7,000 words in the chapter now, and I've made a hefty start to the first of the two Hera scenes.
This one deals with being there for her arrival, and the small dinner that follows afterwards. Hades and Charon are the...
2022-04-18 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope April is treating you well.
This month's Q&A is the second of Hades's Proust Questionnaires. I hope you enjoy the little tidbits of insight into his head. :)
I'll be back next week with the bonus content y'all voted on, so keep an eye out for that!
2022-04-13 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
New week, new update.
April's been pretty on-track for productivity so far. I've finished up the Hekate & Pyri scene with Hypnos, and am now moving on to the final branch of things. For those of you who don't know already, Hera is paying the Underworld a visit in this chapter, and the final branches for the bulky part of the chapter have to do with her—the first occurs upon her arrival and initial dinner at the Underworld, and the second about a week or s...
2022-04-11 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I've got a little something different and somewhat experimental for the first bonus content this month. For those of you who don't know, I'm a big fan of tabletop roleplaying games, and have been since I was introduced to Pathfinder in… around 2012, I think.
I thought it might be kind of fun to try and represent the characters as PF builds, though of course it would be tough to capture everything. Probably one of the easier sets of abilities to represent is Pyri's, ...
2022-04-06 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all, and (a belated) welcome to April!
As some of you are aware, I released the BIP last Thursday. I've been making steady forward progress since then, to the tune of roughly 3000 words. I'm not sure how much that brings my total to for the week, but it's more than 7k, anyhow! The chapter is now up to 59k and counting. It's likely that by the time I finish, it will be another 100,000+ word chapter. As mentioned on tumblr, I'm shooting for the end of May for a release on tha...
2022-04-04 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I was lucky enough to snag a commission from the awesome s-4-fira on tumblr, and I asked for Hermes being his goofy self. I am in love with the texture of his hair, tho??
I invite y'all to caption this image hehe.
2022-04-03 22:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post