Happy Wednesday everyone! For those of you for whom the traditional week means anything, you're halfway there!
Today I've got the third and final part of Hekate's Proust Questionnaire. Next month, we'll be handing it over to someone else. I'm not totally sure whom yet, but I might make this the subject of a poll or something.
In any case, I hope you enjoy.
2021-05-12 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
A little pile of good news this week.
Firstly, it was a good week for progress: the chapter now sits at 14.5k, meaning I've written 5,000 words this week. This is great progress for me, heh, and I'd really like to keep hitting this number. Hopefully I can do it, and get a really substantial update out on the BIP.
I've also got two more pieces of RO art in the works; the ladies are getting some love this time around. Charina, the artist who drew He...
2021-05-10 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Y'allllll. It's Hermes.
This amazing work was done by Charina Paras (links to Instagram). She comes highly recommended if you're looking to get something commissioned, for really obvious reasons!
She's also on Twitter!
2021-05-06 15:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
The bonus content this week is dealer's choice, and I decided to do a little piece on Alekto and Pyri, from shortly after Pyri took up their post in the Underworld. This is internal to Alekto's head, so we get a fair bit of her musings.
I hope you enjoy it. :)
2021-05-05 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, and happy May!
Alas, summer is beginning to encroach here in the southern portion of the U.S.; I must admit it's my least favorite season. I don't handle heat well, admittedly.
Anyway, as you're likely aware, the BIP went out this week. I have since progressed the chapter word count to 9.5k, still quite firmly within the Charon scene. May is going to be a month of just writing forward as much as I can. I have a goal for the month of 15-20k words, which if sus...
2021-05-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Here's the BIP for April. Most of the work I did this month was code skeleton, which you can probably breeze through pretty quickly, but there's also some branches getting filled in if you initially choose to accept Charon's invitation, for those of you interested in that. The chapter currently sits at slightly over 8,000 words in total (excluding command lines and such).
I hope you enjoy it, and I'm excited to get to make more forward progress next month!
2021-04-30 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
A fairly general bonus content poll this time around—just to figure out what kind of thing you would be most interested in reading.
2021-04-30 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ecology of the Nymph
For FoA purposes (and in general) the term 'nymph' is a type noun of wide applicability. It marks something closer to a genus than a species, with a wide variety of types and subtypes populating that genus.
Classifications
Within the category 'nymph,' broad subtypes are recognized based on affinity. Water nymphs, for example, are any of the subspecies which populate rivers, lakes, seas, or oceans, an...
2021-04-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Pretty good progress this week—the chapter is now a total of 7k words long, a mix of outline and filled in stuff. I'm working my way through the Charon scene now, but the conversation is pretty branchy so it's taking some time, heh. I don't think it'll be all done by the BIP, and the outline may not either, but there should be a pretty nice chunk of new stuff for you all to see nonetheless!
That and a Moirae's Mirror are upcoming this week, plus of course t...
2021-04-26 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Those of you who voted were interested in learning more about the Moirae, so the three of them are the subject of this month's fact sheet! I hope you enjoy!
Cheers,
Jess
Hi all!
Progress to report this week!
Wordcount wise, chapter 3 has 3300 words of code skeleton now, which is definitely over halfway through. I think I may stop once the scene I'm outlining now is done, so I can start on the chapter properly and see how long it seems to be likely to end up. Plus that way there will be some new stuff to properly read around BIP time, heh.
In other news, I have found artists to draw work of both Hermes and Hekate, so of course whenever ...
2021-04-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Hope you're all doing well. :) Today I've got part 2 of Hekate's Proust Questionnaire. Next month will wrap her up, and from there we'll jump to somebody else.
Cheers and stay safe out there!
2021-04-14 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
As I think I mentioned somewhere, I didn't get much done on FoA this week by design. I'm trying to get through the last scene of a Diaspora chapter—the good news is it's coming along and we should be back to our regularly-scheduled Asphodel nonsense quite soon!
Coming up this week is some more Hekate, so hopefully that'll tide things over a bit! I'm looking forward to getting back to FoA soon; the response to Chapter Two has generally been pretty good, so I feel quite m...
2021-04-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo there's been a bit of an influx of people here over the last couple days. I'd just like to say welcome to the Patreon, and thank you so much for your kindness. I hope you enjoy the content on offer here, and I'd be happy to hear from you if you have any suggestions or questions.
I'm still getting the art commissions part of this off the ground, so if anyone knows any artists taking commissions at the moment I would be delighted by recommendations, too. It seems like everyone I ...
2021-04-12 08:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
The first bonus content of the month continues the 'character sheets for important secondary characters' trend, this time with Demeter. Her appearance section is short, because her eye color and skin tone depend on the PC, though some other elements of her appearance do not!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy. I'll be back with some more new content next week. I hope you're all doing well, and cheers!
2021-04-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
At long last, Fields of Asphodel's demo has a (public) update! New stuff this time:
What even is time, honestly? I feel like I did one of these yesterday, but also that it's been a year.
Hey anyway, everyone. There's not a lot to report this week; as you all likely know by now, Chapter Two will be going out to the public on Wednesday. (Nervous sweating intensifies.)
In the meantime, I'm taking a short break to prioritize the next chapter of Diaspora, which is so close to being done I can almost taste it. I'll still be working on Asphodel, of course...
2021-04-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
As promised, the BIP this month includes the complete second chapter! I would Love some feedback before it goes public, but no pressure for that if you just want to play it either. :)
I think it'll be generally going out in about a week, hopefully with a few QoL improvements but I wanted you guys to have it before anyone else did, so I hope you enjoy it.
It feels so good to finally be done with this chapter, heh.
2021-03-31 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
This month's variable bonus content will be another fact sheet, so vote for whose you want below. Cheers, and here's hoping for a great April.
2021-03-31 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostYOU GUYS (gender neutrally)
It's done! Chapter Two is done!
Well, sorta. I still have a few more things to do, like proofreading and what not, but the actual forward-writing part of it is done! The outline is filled out, there is no more placeholder text!
So the BIP this month will be the complete chapter two (with 12k new words since last month, and a totally of just about 60k in the chapter). About a week later I'll be making the public release of the whole thing, ho...
2021-03-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello, hello!
As I work up to the conclusion of the chapter, I'm starting to solidify some of the backstory stuff that may become relevant in later iterations of FoA, heh. Here is one such bit (though for you guys it's still vague and mysterious)—all about the sunken city of Atlantis!
I hope you're all doing well.
2021-03-24 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all!
Three thousand words in the books this week, and I am so close to the end of chapter two! In fact, I am pretty sure the complete chapter will be the BIP this month, and I'll be able to release it to everyone about a week or so after that, as I work on structuring chapter three and maybe getting some further work done on the character dossier feature I'm working on.
So hopefully that's all reasonably exciting, heh. I know I for one am really looking forward to havi...
2021-03-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As voted on (and then subsequently tiebroken), this week's extra is a fact sheet about Makaria's tutor Empusa! Some of you have already met her, if briefly, but she'll be popping in here and there as things move along.
I'm still working on what kind of format I want for these, as visuals are not my strong suit and I don't have the programs to effectively use what little skill I do have, so for now this is pretty basic, but hopefully it'll improve as time goes o...
2021-03-17 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey again everyone!
'Tis the Ides of March, which somehow I always enjoy heh. Anyway, today's update is pretty straightforward, I think. I wrote another 2,000 words this week, bring the chapter to 55k in total. In terms of story, this has brought me almost to the end of the Minthe/Leuke/Ascalaphus branch of evening activity, so I'm just about through all but the very last one. I'm not sure how long that one will end up turning out, but I do still think I'm on track to release the chapte...
2021-03-15 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I've decided we're lacking a bit in content for the ladies of FoA, so the next character to get the Proust treatment is Hekate! She'll carry us through May, and then maybe I'll poll for who to do after that.
Part one of hers attached! Stay safe and well, everybody.
2021-03-10 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I've been writing fairly speedily this week—4.5k new words since the BIP, bringing the chapter total up to 52k! The end is uh... nearly in sight. I am almost finished with the last of the after-dinner options, and I think the non-dinner things should be somewhat shorter overall. I would still estimate maybe 60k words for the chapter, so hopefully doable within the month!
In a couple days we'll have the first Proust questionnaire for Hekate, for those of you intere...
2021-03-08 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
As mentioned, this month kicks off some CSs for important secondary characters. First up, we have Zeus, who surely no one will be surprised to learn is kinda an antagonist in the story, though I think whether he ends up being an enemy as such will be largely player-dependent!
In either case, here's a little info on the King of the Gods!
2021-03-03 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
Not a whole lot to report today, given that the BIP went out yesterday, heh. That said, to sum up February for you: I made about 10k worth of progress on the chapter, and also snipped about 2.5k worth of outline and moved that all over to the Chapter Three file, mostly to prevent this one from becoming even more unwieldy in size than it is already going to be. So as of the BIP, the chapter is 47,500 words, and I think it will come out to somewhere between 50-55k in total.&n...
2021-03-01 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
Another month, another ~10k words for the BIP.
New this time: Hekate and Charon's after-dinner scenes with drunk!PC, the beginning of Hermes's after-dinner scene with sober!PC, and the first entries in a requested character codex feature (those don't count towards the 10k though.)
I still haven't added stats to a lot of these choices, and the more I sort of... get to thinking about the meta, the less I'm sure I actually need any stats at all? I dunno, this is s...
2021-02-28 17:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostI think this month's variable bonus content is going to be some kind of random factoids sheet on a secondary character I haven't explored much yet. So please vote for someone you'd like to know a little more about!
(Also yes some of these people have definitely not been mentioned yet in the story. For reference: Lethe, Acheron, and Cocytus are the other Underworld rivers, along with Styx and Pyriphlegethon. Kronos is Hades's dad.)
2021-02-28 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post