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Bonus Content - "Habitat Notes"

The title of this bonus content is just a dorky way of saying that I've written up descriptions of everyone's rooms, heh. I think they're an interesting way to get some personality insights, and there are a few clues in here about lesser-known aspects of some of the characters, as well as nods to things you probably already do know. I might use some of these in the games at some point, but I've no specific plans for them yet. 

I hope they're enjoyable. :)

Weekly Update - 01.03.22

Dear all,

Welcome to the first Monday of 2022. I'm sure like all Mondays it's just awesome, heh. 

But in any event, I'm back with another weekly update. It hasn't been too long since the BIP release, but I'm steadily working my way through the rest of the Alekto outing, so there's now 3,000 more words in it! Therefore the chapter is at 99k; I expect it to cross that 100-mark tomorrow. Not such a bad start to a year, right? 

Anyhow, that's about the long and short o...

BIP - December

Hello again everyone! 

Here we have the latest iteration of the build in progress—early access, for those of you who are new to the Patreon. It's 30k longer than last month; I've finished the Hekate outing, and the Charon one, and the very start of Alekto's is there now, too. 

I've also hopefully fixed the issue where everyone was getting sent to the Hermes version regardless of whose they were supposed to be on, but please let me know if that is not the case!...

Bonus Content Poll - December

Hello everybody! 

For those of you waiting for the BIP, that'll be here in an hour. In the meantime, please do help me out in deciding who to write about for the variable bonus content next month—that's the one that comes out in the third week. I did some Hades and Alekto last month, so they're off the table, and I've scrambled around the others for variety's sake. :)

Weekly Update - 12.27.21

Hey all!

After another good week for progress, the chapter is sitting at 93k words. I'm hoping to use the time I have this week to kick it up to 96k for an even 30,000 in progress, then make sure it's tested and ready to go for the BIP release on the 31st. By then I should have all of the Charon outing and the beginning of the Alekto one done, leaving me with two and a bit more than a half to go. That considered, I expect the full 5th chapter to release in February or possibly early Mar...

Moirae's Mirror - December

Hey, all!

I do apologize for having this up a day late; the truth is just that I completely failed to notice what day of the week it was. It happens sometimes; I'm actually more surprised I haven't done it more often. That said, the plan (whatever it was) for this week changed a bit, and what I've got is some WIP stuff on the Twine format! 

Notably, the colors still need some altering for readability, but this is at least what the format should look like, for the most part. I...

Weekly Update - 12.20.21

Hey all! 

Back once more with a weekly update, and largely it's more of the same news—I've been steadily chugging away on the chapter, and we're up to 86,000 words on it now. I'm roughly halfway through the Charon outing, so I can say with absolute confidence that the chapter is going to be considerably longer than 100k when it's all done haha. 

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to keep up the writing no problem over the next week and a bit; I don't really have any plans, s...

Bonus Content - Vignette

Hello everyone!  

Today's bonus content features Alekto and Hades, as you voted. I enjoyed getting to write a little snapshot of their relationship; in general I quite like letting the cast interact with each other. I hope you find it fun to read, too. :)

Weekly Update - 12.13.21

Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well. 

Another steady week of progress on my end; I've brought the chapter up to 79k words and the end of the Hekate outing, which means I'll be starting on Charon's next. Hopefully that will be done by the end of the month, but they're all working out to be long enough that I'm actually not completely sure, heh. Still, progress is chugging along—this chapter is going to break the 100k mark fairly easily, I'm sure. 

I'm enjoying wr...

Q & A - Alekto I

Hello everyone! I've decided the next subject of the questionnaire is going to be Alekto. So this month, January, and February will feature answers from her, and then the only one left will be Hades, after which point I'll have to find fresh questions! 

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy a bit of insight into our terse Erinys. :)

Weekly Update - 12.6.21

Hello everyone, and happy December. Did I already say that? If I did, sorry; my memory is a sieve and I swear it's worse lately. Anyhow.

The word count is up to 72,000 for the chapter as of now, which means I'm comfortably humming along at the usual 1,000/day pace. Not too much else to report on that front. It's a pretty busy (and stressful) part of the year, but I'm going to do my best to keep up with the writing, in part because it helps to feel like I accomplish something wo...

Bonus Content - Research Notes

Hey everyone! 

This month's first bonus content is actually a writeup of some of my research notes for FoA, heh. It mostly has to do with Greek civilization at the time I'm sorta-setting the story, but there's some relative information in there too about when different myths and stories are generally 'set,' and in what order they occur. The sharp-eyed may be able to figure out what some of the myths I'm likely to use in the future are. :)

Anyway, I hope it's of some interest....

BIP - November

I did it! 

Hey y'all—the BIP is here, with a whole 50,000 new words and all! Storywise this comes out to the end of the Makaria and Empusa scene, a new one where the PC is invited on an outing, the entirety of the Hermes path for that outing, and about half of Hekate's. As you can imagine, this chapter's going to be a long one, heh. I do apologize to those of you who read early, as I'm sure there are a lot of typos, given that I spent so much time writing forward I didn'...

Bonus Content Poll - November

Hi everyone! 

December's variable bonus content is going to be something set in FoA-verse. Haven't decided exactly what yet, but this is where you all come in. Choose me a couple of characters and I'll do a piece that features their relationship!

Weekly Update - 11.29.21

Hey everyone! Happy Chanukkah if you happen to be Jewish, otherwise... happy Monday?

Here we are, at the end of the month, and here I am, limping over the NaNo finish line haha. I can confirm that I am currently sitting at 49,000 words, so I have today to write another 1,000, and I'll have officially done it. 

Relatedly, the BIP will be dropping tomorrow, along with the usual end of the month bonus content poll. Thanks for all your support this month, everyone; I'm anticipati...

The Moirae's Mirror - November

Hey y'all,

So I vaguely hinted at some kind of overhaul of FoA's mechanics when I updated this week, and suggested that you folks might get the longer version of how my thought process is going on that. 

So…yeah. My basic reasoning here is that FoA is starting to feel a little bloated as we move into the latter half of it. There's a lot of variables to consider, some of which haven't even come up on every playthrough. And that's good, I want to keep that! I want th...

Weekly Update - 11.22.21

Hey all!

I'm through the big NaNo push! I was aiming for 2k a day for the first 20 days, so I could finish at my more normal writing pace to wind down for the last 10, and fortunately I managed it (just barely; squeaked over the 40k mark right on the 20th). As of this writing, the chapter is at 57k, which is 41,000 more words than it had on November 1, and 14k more than last update. 

I... think that's right? I've been sort of in a fugue state for most of the month; math may b...

Bonus Content - Masquerade II

Hey everyone! Tis bonus content time again, and I've wrapped up the Masquerade AU with a bit featuring Hades. I think next month's stuff will all be firmly back in FoA-verse, but it was kind of fun to do a different setting for a bit.

I'm still chugging away on the chapter itself; about two-thirds through the Hermes section now, I think.

I'll be back with a more solid update next Monday, and the Moirae's Mirror after that. Hard to believe we're over halfway through the month, righ...

Weekly Update - 11.15.21

Hey everyone!

We're halfway through the month, and I have made it halfway to the NaNo goal, heh. A little over, actually, as I've written 12k more words this week, bringing me up to a total of 27k for the month. That is... nearly twice as fast as I usually write. 

Some days I really feel it, haha, but other days are pretty smooth. I'm hoping to keep up a basically 2k/day pace until the 20th, so I can wind down a little bit earlier in the month and resume my normal 1k/day spee...

Q & A - Pyri III

Hello again everyone! We're back with the last of Pyri's interview segments for now. I'm actually not sure who is next up in the rotation, so I'll be sure to get that figured out before next month, heh. 

I've had fun writing for them; they're rather spirited and have what for me is a fairly easy voice to find, so to speak. Which is funny because I resemble them in almost no way. :)

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy. Hang in there!

Weekly Update - 11.08.21

Hello everyone!

Whew. It has been... quite a week for writing progress, I must say. NaNo is going well. The chapter is presently sitting at 31k words, which means I managed... roughly 15k in the last week? I'm shooting for 66 in the chap by the end of the month, which would be 50k more than I started November with. I'm on pretty good track for that; just gotta keep it up. 

At the moment what I'm working on is what turned out to be a pretty convoluted system for who invites th...

Bonus Content - Ranked Lists I

Those of you on the Diaspora patreon know what this one's all about haha. But, basically, this month's bonus content is me picking some arbitrary criteria and ranking characters by them. Hopefully it's kind of fun insight, if nothing else. :)

Have a great week, y'all.

Weekly Update - 11.01.21

Hey everyone!

November is here. I hope you had a great Halloween last night if you celebrated. As you may have seen on tumblr, I'm tentatively dipping my toes in the NaNoWriMo pool, which really just means I've set myself a very ambitious 50k word goal for the month. I can report that so far, things are going well; I've managed the 2k I'd planned to do on this first day haha. 

If all goes well, I should therefore be able to substantially push forward in Chapter 5, which shoul...

BIP - October

Hello everyone!

New month, new BIP. What we have here is roughly the first 15k words of the new chapter, and a little bit of outline beyond. Mostly the undone stuff is the last half of the Makaria version of the second scene, the whole Empusa version, and then just... a big gaping void where I'm promising a small dinner bit with the group and then a longer, more in-depth scene with one character in particular.

Hopefully a fair bit of that will be in the next BIP, but for those of ...

Bonus Content Poll - October

Hey all!

So I think for the variable bonus content this month, I'm probably going to write forward all or part of a 'route' starting from roughly where this month's bonus content (the masquerade AU) left off. 

So, the question is, whose route do you want?

The Moirae's Mirror - October

Hello again, friends! 

I believe I hinted that there might be an exclusive announcement coming our way this month, and, uh, there is, as it turns out! 

In pictures:

In words: I'm learning to use Twine, and plan to move FoA there as soon as I can make it happen. These are screens...

Weekly Update - 10.25.21

And here we are again. :)

Welcome back to Monday, everyone. Over this last week I have managed to *checks notes* uh… looks like I did everything I was hoping to for the rest of the month! So that's cool. The outline for everything but the dates is done, and I'm 10k into the chapter. That's 7k words and some outlining this week, plus I got a bit done on the character codex. Not the whole thing, but some. 

That's all pretty exciting, and I'm hoping to be able to get just a li...

Bonus Content - Masquerade I

Hello all!

As promised, we have a very AU costume party of sorts for this month's variable bonus content. I may ask you to vote for how it continues as next month's bonus, but we'll see on that one. As it is, there's of course one conspicuous absence in this part, but I do hope you enjoy what's there. :)

Weekly Update - 10.18.21

Happy Monday, everybody (if there is such a thing anyway). Tis I, back with the news as usual. 

The Chapter Four release seems to have gone well, in the sense that the bugs were minimal and easily-swatted, for the most part. The feedback I've received is spare, but mostly positive, so I'm pretty pleased with it overall. So far, I'm 3k into Chapter Five, which is effectively I think about a third of the outline and about 1k words in forward-written text. My goal is to have everythin...

Q&A - Pyri II

Happy Wednesday, everybody! This week in bonus content we have the second part of Pyri's questionnaire, which includes a pretty big spoiler, if a vague one. I hope you enjoy the read, and hang in there. :)