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The Moirae's Mirror - February

Hello everyone!

Lachesis has had control of the Mirror for a while now, but this month Atropos gets it for a bit. That is, instead of using it to showcase something about how the world of the game is, I'm using it to give you a plot preview, of a scene that may very well occur somewhere in the next few chapters of the plot! In this one, I've used Persephone, and assumed a fairly good relationship with the Underworld characters, though she is not present, only mentioned. 

I ho...

Weekly Update - 02.22.21

Hey everyone,

Welcome to the beginning of uh… some week or other. Time is fake. 

Anyway. This week I managed 2.5k on the project. Incrementally getting back to reasonable progress levels (and incrementally feeling better, as it happens). I've decided to close Ko-fi comms for a bit so I'm only splitting my progress between about 3 things instead of 4 on a regular basis, so I'm hoping that will help me make the last push to get through this chapter. That will definitely not b...

Art Poll - Who's Next?

Hey all!

As some of you are already aware, I have at least one more commission slot with the artist who drew Charon before she closes comms again. Ideally, I'd like to get her to draw everyone, but depending on when she's taking work that might be a while yet. 

So! With that in mind, who would you like to see next? I exclude Hades as there is technically already art of him, even if it's not the official patreon stuff, and I'd like to see some of the others before getting anot...

Bonus Content - Unwinding Time

Hey all,

I'm back with a vignette. As promised, this one is Hades-centric, and from the point of view of his mother, Rhea, at a point many eons ago, when he was still a very young non-Underworld god and Zeus and Poseidon weren't even born yet. It heavily references a particular myth, modified slightly for FoA purposes.

Weekly Update - 02.15.21

Hey all,

This is a really difficult update to write in a way, heh. I only managed 1,000 words on the game this week, and there's no real reason for it other than my brain's terrible chemistry. As I'm sure some of you are well aware, depression can really suck the joy and motivation out of anything, and frankly I'm just proud I managed to do laundry this week, never mind anything else. 

I'm hoping the next one will be better. One thing I can say of myself is that even...

Monthly Q&A - Charon III

Hey all!

I'm back with the last part of Charon's Proust Questionnaire. This means next month we'll probably flip to someone else for a while; at the moment I'm thinking Alekto. 

Cheers!

Weekly Update - 02.08.21

Hey all!

It's progress report time!

This week I've managed 2.5k words on the chapter, which is roughly on target for how things were last month. Considering I'm also doing commission work and upping my daily wordcounts on Diaspora, I'd consider this fairly successful. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up. I'd like to hit 15k words this month overall, but that might be a little much to ask since I'm also trying very hard to make the Dia chapter happen in the next month/month and a ...

Bonus Content - Pyri's Character Sheet!

Hey all!

As promised, the first bonus content of the month is here! I've got Pyri's CS for you this time, and I think that marks the last of the main cast, which means this bonus content slot may start to vary a little. I do have CS's planned for some of the secondary characters, though, so look forward to those in coming months! Some of them may end up being pretty spoilery, but I'll try to remember to mark them if so. 

Cheers!

Weekly Update - 02.01.21

Hey all!

Not much to report for the weekly update this time that wasn't in the tumblr post or the BIP update, heh. There will be a bonus content this week of course—for those of you in Sprout Tier or higher, look forward to another character sheet for the set. 

I'm hoping to keep on the roll of good progress for this month, despite it being a short one. We'll see how it goes. 

I hope you're all safe and well moving into February. Cheers.

BIP Update - January

Hey all, it's BIP day! This month there is a grand total of 12,000 new words, which I'm pretty excited about. The dinner scene is now complete, as are two of the after dinner branches. Note that to see either of those branches, the PC has to be drunk. (The particular options are for Alekto and Hades to escort the inebriated PC back to their room.)

I'm hoping next month will see similar progress, which should see me the rest of the way through the various after-dinner options and hopeful...

Bonus Content Poll - January

Hey all!

Next month's variable bonus content is a backstory scene from someone. Up to you whom! Be warned that spoilers may ensue.

The Moirae's Mirror - January

Hello all! 

(I think there's like... two of you who get this, but yanno.)

This month's Mirror is about Olympus, as promised. Not really sure yet what I'm going to do with next month's, so if there happens to be anything you'd like to request, drop me a line somewhere!

Cheers, and thanks for being awesome!

Art Commission - Charon

Y'all. 

Just.

Look at them.

I have expired. 

This amazing piece is the work of the incredibly talented Andrea Hernández, aka @theartloca on tumblr, instagram, Patreon, twitter, and Artfol!

Weekly Update - 01.25.21

Hey all, and welcome back to the weekly update!

The word count for the chapter is sitting at 38k today, meaning another 2.5k from last week and an overall milestone of 10k for the month thus far! I'm not sure how much more will get done before the BIP goes out on the 31st, but I'm hoping you'll be looking at a minimum of 12k new words from this month alone, which feels pretty good!

Equally good though less immediately relevant for most of you is that I'm also making solid progress...

Bonus Content - From Olympus

Hey all,

Ares somehow won the poll last month despite never having been mentioned to my knowledge in anything I've said haha. Of course, I do have plans for him, so it might be that this vignette provides some insight into where he's headed here. 

Anyhow, a content warning for some very unkind thoughts about Hephaestus, including a derogatory remark about a physical disability. 

I hope you like the plot hints!

Weekly Update - 01.18.21

Hey all!

I have… no idea where this week went? It’s suddenly Monday again somehow. 

I’m… pretty sure I made good progress on the chapter this week? Maybe? Word count is sitting at 35,500 for the chapter, which is uh… *check notes*… 2.5k more than last week. I will take it, heh. 

If you like me live in the U.S. right now, you probably know that this week might be… well, kind of like the previous couple have been. It’s more than a little nerve-wrackin...

Monthly Q&A - Charon II

Hey all!

Proust Questionnaire Pt. 2 for Charon this week. It's turning out to be a pretty Charon-ish month, heh, for reasons that are both obvious and known only to me, which is kind of fun. :)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

Okay so I'm an idiot

A.k.a. oh man y'all, you could have told me the first bonus content never went up! xD

So I've had the first bonus content (the monthly character sheet) done since... well before it needed to go up but apparently I never queued it? I'm so sorry y'all, please have it now with my shame and apologies!

Weekly Update - 01.11.21

Hey all!

Some pretty good news this week! Firstly, the chapter is now up to 33k, which means that there's already 5k new words just since the BIP release! This is a lot of progress for me in 10 days; and the really nice part is I've been pretty consistently hitting 500 words a day which is a fair bit for me. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the new year momentum going. 

Secondly, Charon art is finally happening! I scraped together enough for a commission, but finding an artist ...

Weekly Update - 01.04.21

Hello again everyone!

Normally I don't get much done in the time between a BIP and the update after it, but I'm happy to report that since the start of the year I've done another 1500 words. Hopefully the productivity streak continues; I'd really like to have this chapter properly out to all of you soon. We're just about through the question and answer part of dinner here, after which the scene can break a number of different ways, then I have the other 1.5 paths through the evening to ...

BIP Update - December

Hey all!

Last day of the month means it's BIP time! There's a grand total of 6,000 new words in it, bringing us up to 28k in total for the chapter. We're almost but not quite to the end of the group dinner scene, and the possible shenanigans involving the walk back for some of our more inebriated cast members. There's a lot of opportunities in here to ask the cast some questions, though only so many per playthrough, heh. In any case, I had fun writing them interacting, and I hope it's f...

Bonus Content Poll - December

Hi everyone! It's the end of the month again, meaning your BIP update will be along in an hour, for those of you involved in that. There's also, however, the traditional bonus content poll, and in keeping with how I'm expecting the Mirror next month to involve Olympus, I thought I'd focus the attention on an Olympian deity or two to give a bit more background on them. Juno (Hera) is after all meant to be the tutelary deity of the month, (according to Roman farmers' almanacs anyway). 

Weekly Update - 12.28.20

Hey all!

Twas a holiday week here, so naturally I didn't end up getting as much done as expected, heh. But still, the chapter has reached 27k, and I'm almost done building the structure of the core dinner conversation, and have filled in all the answers to the questions the PC can ask the group. (I still need to think of and structure the group's questions to the PC, though.) 

The plan is for all that to at least be properly built, and hopefully filled in, by the time the new...

The Moirae's Mirror - December

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Moirae's Mirror!

As promised, this month's installment is going to talk a little bit about the parts of the Underworld. I don't really have any appropriate screenshots this time, as a lot of this doesn't come up until considerably later. So this will be mostly in short essay form, with a couple section headings. 

I: Space, Time, and Broad Divisions

So one thing that is useful to understand is that space and time don't really apply...

Weekly Update - 12.21.20

Hey all,

Bit of a weird week this time around. (Will I ever acquire a 'sleep schedule?' Who knows!) 

I did, however, manage to get another 1,000 words into the outline, not including stuff that was deleted and then replaced, and I've done a bit of restructuring on the dinner scene that will probably continue into the first part of next week. I think I've opted for the conversational questions to be many but with a limited number selectable on any single playthrough, so everyo...

Bonus Content - Makaria's Morning

Hey all!

The second bonus content for this month, as voted on by you, is a bit of Makaria's daily life. Bonus appearance by her dad, who likes to be the one to wake the beast in the morning. xD

Cheers.

Weekly Update - 12.14.20

Hey all,

The chapter has officially hit 25k! And we're still smack in the middle of the dinner scene, heh. I guess this is what I get for trying to provide lots of options, but I can't complain, as I'm having loads of fun with it. And 2k progress in a week isn't half bad for the week I've had! 

Up on deck this week is a bonus content, a little bit of slice of life with Makaria. Depending on how much material there seems to be, I may break it into a short series, but we shall ...

Monthly Q&A - December

Hey all!

The title of this post is of now slightly inaccurate; due to getting no questions for the Q&A this month I figured I really do need to find something else to do with the segment, heh. So for now I have elected to have the characters answer the Proust Questionnaire, roughly 10 questions at a time. So for this month, then January and February, this slot will be 10 questions with Charon, and then I'll have other characters do it, and so on until I run out and need to pick some...

Weekly Update 12.07.20

Hey y'all, and welcome to the weekly update. 

This week has been nutty for me for completely non-FOA reasons. My roommate, who is an essential worker, was exposed to a coworker who tested positive for COVID, so she is now halfway into a 14-day quarantine, meaning I am picking up a lot of slack on our collective chores and errands lately, on top of everything I usually do. (Don't worry; no symptoms so far from ether of us!) So unfortunately it hasn't been a great week for writing—...

Soliciting Q&A Questions - December

Hey y'all, it's that time again. I'm soliciting questions for another Q&A. Ask me whatever you like, including for spoilers, etc. If you've ever wondered something about one of the characters or the plot or the process of writing a CS game or whatever it may be, now's the perfect opportunity to ask. xD

Comments, DMs, emails, or whatever all welcome! You can also drop these in the Makaria's Treehouse channel on Discord.