Hey all!
Happy December. :) As it happens the first thing to come up this month is a bonus content. Continuing in the pattern of character sheets for these, I've got Alekto's for you. Next month is likely to be Charon or Pyri; I hope you enjoy them!
2020-12-02 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey again, y'all.
It's poll day for next month's bonus content! This month I think I'm going to do a little slice of life bit for someone, and I'd like it to be someone I haven't featured in one of these yet. I'm opening up the poll to a few side characters, too, so let me know who you'd like to follow for a bit!
2020-11-30 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere it is as promised: this month's BIP update!
I hope y'all like the new stuff, and thanks for reading as always. :)
-Jess
2020-11-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
There's a lot of stuff popping up on Patreon today, heh. For those of you following the BIP, that should show up here in about an hour, and the poll about next month's bonus content will appear at roughly the same time, so if you've an interest in that please go ahead and vote!
This serves as my weekly update for this week as well. I have reached 22k words on the chapter in progress, and the end of the Hekate scene. Next on the docket is a scene with everyone having ...
2020-11-30 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, and welcome, or welcome back, to the Moirae's Mirror! Last month, this little preview section talked about Erebus, the Underworld's repurposed deific domain that acts more or less like an AI program.
This month, we're going to talk a little bit about souls! As you may have seen in the BIP, there's a section later in the chapter where the PC has the chance to shadow Charon at his work, more or less, and the conversation that results hints at or outright explains some imp...
2020-11-25 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey friends!
Not a bad week for progress this time around. Chapter Two is up to just about the 20k word mark, and I'm almost done with the Hekate scene. There's a lot of stuff on deck this week: the Moirae's Mirror should be out around Wednesday, with more information about the workings of the Underworld, and for those of you waiting on the BIP, the end of November quickly approaches. It looks like at this rate there will be two new scenes added from this month, the Pyri and the Hekate ...
2020-11-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe winged god dreams of falling.
Not too much to report on this one, heh. Have some Hermes angst!
2020-11-18 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I'm saving up for a future art commission, and excitingly I think I might be able to swing it in the next couple of months! I think I'm eventually going to get the whole cast done in the style of Hades in my pfp, so I was wondering who you'd like to see first!
2020-11-17 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
This week, I finished the Pyri conversation and moved on to the very first little bit of the Hekate one that follows. Like with Pyri, this one's a chance for the PC to get to know her a little, but also to establish some things about themselves, in particular how they use their magic and what direction they might like to develop it in the future! That choice doesn't necessarily lock you into anything, of course, but it may start off a development path at least.
The c...
2020-11-16 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all,
I attach the Q&A doc for this month's in-character "interview" with Pyri. I didn't get all that many submitted questions, so I filled in the rest to the usual 10 with some character development questions I had on hand. I hope you enjoy!
-Jess
2020-11-11 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
What a week. There's a lot I could say about it, but probably nothing particularly insightful, so instead I'll just say that I hope y'all are staying safe and well, and looking after yourselves.
It was a rough week for doing anything but stressing out, for me, but I managed to make some progress in spite of this. The chapter is up to about 16k words now, and I've finished up through the sparring scene with Pyri, meaning I have the non-action version of that scene an...
2020-11-09 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, I'm soliciting questions for the monthly Q&A again! I think this time I'm gonna answer in character, anything anyone wants to know abut Pyri, including spoilers and such. There's not really any Pyri content on the Patreon yet and I figure it'd be a fun way to fix this.
Please feel free to ask them anything in a comment below, or in the discord channel!
2020-11-07 01:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
In the continuing pattern of a character sheet a month, I have another! This time, it's Hekate's, and man is she more put together than the rest of them, heh.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy. :)
2020-11-04 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone.
A fairly short update this week.
Firstly, welcome to all the new names I see. (Though a couple of you are familiar from other contexts!) I'm so flattered and appreciative that you're here, and I hope the extras make it worthwhile.
As far as the usual weekly progress update: I got another chunk of story done so I could put it out with the BIP, and spent some more time worldbuilding and getting a few later ducks in a row also. There will be a bonus co...
2020-11-02 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
End of the month means BIP update! As promised, the Hades conversation at the beginning of the chapter is done, and there's a bit of the Pyri stuff that follows, too. The rest remains unchanged from last month, save for a few typo fixes in the first chapter.
The BIP can be accessed here: https://dashingdon.com/play/kurokiku/fields-of-asphodel-bip/mygame/
Good morning/afternoon/evening/etc, everybody. It's the last day of the month, and that means, among other things, we have the bonus content for next month to decide on.
This time, I'm going to do a dream sequence for someone, which will likely include a backstory reveal of some degree of spoilerific-ness. Who would you like to see?
2020-10-31 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, and welcome to the first Moirae's Mirror, an in-depth preview sort of thing about some aspect of FoA and its world. This month, I'll be using some of the notes from Chapter Two (in progress) to talk a little bit about the Underworld and how it works, in particular the Erebus System!
First up, here we the PC experiencing a connection to 'Erebus.' The idea here, which is a lot h...
2020-10-28 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello again everyone!
As predicted last week, the Pyri scene is now in progress. My stretch goal is to have it finished for the end of the week, so that it can go in the upcoming BIP update. I don't think it'll all be there, but I'm gonna get as much done as I can!
This week is set to be pretty busy on the patreon. I have the BIP and a poll on the last day of the month, and midweek the in-depth preview will be out. I plan at the moment to spend that one talking more about the Unde...
2020-10-26 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
The voted-on bonus content is here. As requested, it is Charon's immediate reaction to learning about the impending arrival of PC to the Underworld, and in particular gives a bit of a glimpse into his friendship with Hades.
I hope you enjoy it!
2020-10-21 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! First off, please excuse the screenshot; I still haven't quite figured out how lightshot works and there's a weird filter over my screen when I go to pick the box size? Anyway. Hopefully it's still readable.
This is a selection from the ~3.5k words I did this week! Most of the conversation with Hades is now done; just the rest of the Erebus stuff and the wrap-up to finish and then I'll be on to the Pyri parts, which should be a fun tone change. A lot of the characters r...
2020-10-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I compiled all the questions I got from the monthly Q&A and my answers into a document. They were super fun; I appreciate the spooky-season theme in some of them haha.
Next month, I'll probably do one in-character as Hermes, so if that's not too cringe feel free to think of interview type questions you (or your PC) would like to ask him! As before, those can be dropped here, in the Q&A channel, or sent to me via DM or something.
I hope these ones...
2020-10-14 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
I made some progress on the chapter this week; about 3k words in total. It's not much, but it's progress, and I'm I think most of the way through the first scene of Chapter Two now. In it, as some of you know, you can ask Hades about a range of things, from his side of how the PC wound up in the Underworld to how the place actually works. My goal for next week is to finish the scene, so hopefully I'll be writing to say I have next Monday!
Up on the docket after that will b...
2020-10-12 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello hello!
Today's bonus content day—at least for most of you—and this month I bring you Hermes's character sheet, with a little more insight on one of the most notorious sons of Olympus. I hope you guys enjoy learning a little bit more about your PC's best friend/quasi-rival/almost a complete stranger haha.
2020-10-07 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I'm due to furnish you with a Q&A next week, but as I may have mentioned before, I don't want to obligate everyone who wants to participate to be in the same time and place, so I'm soliciting questions in advance, so I can compile the answers in a document that I post here. I'm aiming for roughly ten a month, but feel free to submit multiple; I'll just move the extras to the next month!
You're welcome to ask me about spoilery things for these, btw. I'm pretty much fin...
2020-10-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
As you're no doubt aware, part of the week last week was spent in preparation for dropping the BIP here. The rest mostly went to trying to finish a Diaspora chapter (my "main" project, for those of you who weren't aware). So not a lot of new FOA happened after Wednesday, but I managed to sneak in a few minutes on it here and there. I'm looking forward to spending more time on it this week, though the next Dia chapter is almost entirely my responsibility, as it is Pan's...
2020-10-05 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello lovelies! (Does that sound a little too supervillain?)
I have a super-special announcement for you today: the first edition of the FoA Build in Progress is up! At the moment there is... about half of the chapter's first scene done in full, but all of it is at least very basically outlined, so if you want to get a sense of what I will be frantically working on next month, as well as a heap of spoilers, by all means keep going past the fully fleshed parts!
I hope the new conte...
2020-09-30 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, it's time for a poll!
This one has to do with one of the pieces of bonus content for next month. I'm planning to write someone's reaction to the news that Hades unwittingly found himself engaged to the PC, but the question is: whose reaction do you want?
2020-09-30 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
It's Monday, and that means it's time for the weekly update!
This week, I finally finished the code skeleton, which means I'm on to properly writing the chapter! This I usually do from start to finish in order, so those of you who will be reading the BIP will likely be getting the first scene of the chapter in a few days, plus some skeleton for the rest. This scene involves the PC finally getting to sit down and have a proper one-on-one chat with Hades, though of course hi...
2020-09-28 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! It's Monday again, and that means it's time for the weekly update!
This week I got a lot of coding done, all but the last scene, in fact. That means this week should be getting that done, and then moving into the proper "writing" phase of the chapter. Which is nice, as it will mean the upcoming BIP has more of an update than just my reminders to myself of what goes where and placeholder text haha.
Anyway, today's excerpt above is from a scene with Alekto. Pictured is...
2020-09-21 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
For this month's all-tier bonus content, I have a character sheet. Usually, these would be voted on, but given the time in the month when the patreon started up, I figured this time I'd just drop one on you. :)
I'll poll for next month's, though; look for that around the 30th!
2020-09-16 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post