Hello everyone!
Pretty great news this week, I think. At 93,000 words now, the chapter is up a whopping 18k from last week. I'm very proud of this, and I actually think it's doubly good news, because I suspect the chapter as a whole will land around 100,000 words, and that the whole thing will be available as this month's BIP. It might be slightly rough and unedited (doubtless with a few typos here and there), but I'll have those ironed out by early access.
This all me...
2023-09-25 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
This month's Hermes POV focuses on the time the PC (Seph, in this case) is on Olympus after their departure. The cast were certainly not idle during that time, and there were a few things besides research that they needed to do.
I hope you enjoy this one. :)
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“I found them.”
Hermes alights on the floor of the throne room. Hades has just finished handling petitioners for the day, and though he doesn’t look any different...
2023-09-20 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
Not a whole ton to report this week except more steady progress; Chapter Ten is now 75k words, which is 14,000 more than last week. I'm now into the second (and final) version of the last scene, which is the no-sequel end's farewell with your RO/PO. Naturally, this has a bit of that sad flavour to it, but PCs can be completely unapologetic about their choices if they so desire! I did want to make a route that allowed a PC to never quite warm up to the idea of living in the Unde...
2023-09-18 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I'm happy to report a good week for progress this time! I managed 14,000 words, bringing the chapter's total to 61k. I'm most of the way through the Demeter version of the farewell scene, which I think is probably the one the majority of you will be getting. There's plenty of opportunities to start to reconcile (or not) with her here, and the player's responses will set the tone of the interactions with her in the sequel.
After that, I have the version that t...
2023-09-11 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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As promised, this month, Pyri gets the new questionnaire. I always have a lot of fun writing them and their responses to things, and this is no different. I hope you enjoy reading it!
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1. What is your greatest desire?
Uhh, hm. I feel like I used to want a lot of things. Now, I mostly just want to protect my friends and the spirits in the Underworld. To just keep getting to live the life I have now, as it is.
2. Who was the most...
2023-09-06 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Welcome to a new month. I'm doing my best to hit the ground running with this one, and have now outlined all the versions of the last scene of the chapter. There's some pretty substantial stuff in there, but I'm pretty confident I can finish it this month, which is very exciting. That may not mean an immediate release, as the poll seems to be in favour of bundling Chapter Ten with the Epilogue and releasing both at once, and I don't think I'll quite have both done in a mon...
2023-09-04 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
This month's BIP can be found here. I'm happy to report that the chapter is at exactly 50k words right now, which means I actually managed 40k on the month, which is pretty close to my original goal of 45. Also importantly, everything but the ending scene of the chapter is done (of course, there are multiple versions of that scene, depending on whet...
2023-08-31 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! This month's poll is actually not about what I do for Hermes's POV next month, so I guess I'll choose that myself. Rather, it's about logistics. Specifically, I want to know if you'd rather Chapter Ten dropped on its own before the epilogue, or if I waited until both were done to give you the 'end of FoA' in one release.
Keeping in mind that the epilogue is likely to be short and written pretty quickly, and I likely would just release it whenever it was done, rather ...
2023-08-31 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I'm mostly happy to report that Chapter Ten now has a solid 45k words to it. 'Mostly' happy if only because I thought I was going to manage a few more than that, but still I'm pleased with the rate of progress overall. Because this chapter happens to be quite a lot smaller than I've been making it out to be in my mind as we approached it, I'm just about done with everything save for the last scene, of which there are of course several versions, but which should be quite...
2023-08-28 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I had a pretty good week for progress this time around, even in spite of taking a couple of days off to rest. Right now, the word count is at 37,000, which is 8,000 up from last week. I'm also very close to done with that I had outlined for Chapter Ten. As mentioned, I'll be adding an additional couple of scenes to the end of that which originally would have gone in the epilogue, but effectively I am nearly done with the original content planned for Chapter Ten! As you c...
2023-08-21 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
Something from the Underworld side of Chapter Nine won last month's poll pretty handily, so here's a small scene where Hekate realizes how pissed off she is. Because it's Hekate, she handles this better than most people, but honestly I wouldn't want to be Zeus if they happened to meet with no one else around.
I hope you enjoy it!
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Hekate’s arm tightens on the array of scrolls tucked beneath it, the efficient clip of her gait bringing ...
2023-08-16 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's been a bit of a week, heh. But I'm making pretty steady progress on the chapter still, with another 7,000 added to the total, bringing it to 29,000 as of today. I'm still moving through the main 'plot' scene of the chapter, which serves in some ways as the climax of the story: the PC arguing with or against Demeter and/or the Underworld crew and/or/in front of Zeus (the dynamics of this can get a little bit complicated, as one might expect).
There are also hints...
2023-08-14 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Progress continues apace on Chapter Ten. I have to say I think it's going to come out a bit shorter than I thought, which is fair because I think the epilogue is going to be a bit longer. I may try figuring out how much I can move from the latter to the former and see where we end up.
In any case, I'm now about 22,000 words into it (12,000 up from the BIP), and I'd suspect that's a little under halfway done? Just for what I have in the outline? So I might end up movi...
2023-08-07 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! It's Hades's turn in the q&a queue, so he gets the spotlight this month with the current list of questions. I hope you enjoy.
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1. What is your greatest desire?
To be seen, and taken for what I am without reluctance.
2. Who was the most important person in your formative years?
My mother, by every measure or importance but one. Unfortunately, that one measure is ‘degree to which they changed the ...
2023-08-02 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Because historically new folks to the Patreon have had difficulty finding the BIPs (the links are not the most noticeable), I'm going to try just linking them in the body of a text post for a while, and see if that seems to create less confusion.
So with that in mind, here is July's. As I'd hoped, I managed to get an outline and 10k words on it, which is very cool...
2023-07-31 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello again everyone!
This month's variable bonus content is destined to be a piece featuring Hekate's POV. The question is, what do you want her perspective on?
2023-07-31 01:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's a Monday and the last day of the month, so there's a fair bit coming your way from me today. First, this update, and then the bonus content poll, and then lastly the BIP (which will drop in about an hour, for those of you looking to play it).
I'm pretty satisfied with what I managed this month overall. I finished, edited, and published Chapter Nine, which seems to have gone over well, and now I've outlined and begun work on Chapter Ten. There's on...
2023-07-31 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As you're all most likely aware, Chapter Nine has now been released to the public. So far, the reactions have been really fun, though poor Demeter is getting a bit dragged. Not that this is unexpected; I think a lot of people are playing PCs that very much enjoy being in the Underworld, so she can seem very much like an obstacle in that case, especially given her actions in the last chapter. It's interesting having a character whose role in the story varies so much
2023-07-24 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
As I mentioned a while back, this month's bonus content actually has two pieces, because way back when I forgot to post a Pyri bonus content I had written, and it's been sitting in a folder on my desktop all this time haha. So that one's attached, and then below is the one you voted on for this month: Pyri's POV on the fruit scene. The below is pretty chill, the attached, pretty angsty.
I hope you enjoy them both!
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"Do you ever think so much y...
2023-07-19 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
We're smack in the middle of the early access period, as you're all aware. Just as a reminder, Seedlings will be getting access to that on Wednesday, with public release of the chapter to follow on Saturday.
As for what I'm up to now, at the moment I'm working on the outline for Chapter Ten. I'm still in what I suspect is the first third of it, but it's coming along well, and I think I should be finished with outlining by the end of the month, which is my goa...
2023-07-17 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
As promised, I bring you Chapter Nine. It's a bit short, comparatively speaking, at 111,000 words or so, but does the important work of setting up the big finale to come. I hope you enjoy it.
Just so you know, this chapter contains potential content warnings for abduction and confinement.
Please do let me know what you think!
2023-07-15 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
As promised, I bring you Chapter Nine. It's a bit short, comparatively speaking, at 111,000 words or so, but does the important work of setting up the big finale to come. I hope you enjoy it.
Just so you know, this chapter contains potential content warnings for abduction and confinement.
Please do let me know what you think!
2023-07-12 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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(My references date me, don't they?)
Anyway!
The good news is that the Early Access releases of Chapter Nine begin this week! I'm just about done editing the chapter, so that means after a few final tests, it'll be ready for release. Those of you in the Everbloom Tier will get it first, which will tentatively be on Wednesday, 12 July. The Blossom and Bud Tiers will have access star...
2023-07-10 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As mentioned last month, I've got a new set of questions for the characters that I quite like, and this month, it's Alekto's turn to answer them. I hope you enjoy.
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1. What is your greatest desire?
To be useful to the people who have given me everything.
2. Who was the most important person in your formative years?
I hate to say this, but in some sense I suppose it would have been Apollo. Not that he ...
2023-07-05 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's only been a few days since the BIP, so there's not a lot to report for those of you who get that. But for the benefit of everyone: I'm now into the final scene of the chapter, which I am hoping to keep relatively short. My hope is that the whole thing in total will be somewhere between 110,000 and 120,000 words. That's still quite a few of course, and significantly, I will have to do quite a few days worth of editing just to stomp out as many typos as I can before ear...
2023-07-03 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
Here's this month's BIP. Don't mind the url; it says May, but it's really June. I just got a little lazy with the titles this time around. Also, someone here has been posting my BIP urls on a game-pirating website, which makes the whole thing kind of moot. I'll still change them fairly regularly, but it is all a bit demoralizing, I must admit.
If this is you, I would like to ask (as gently as possible) that you stop. The game is going to be free to everyone to play until ...
2023-06-30 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
For those of you waiting on the BIP, that drops in an hour. In the meantime (and for everyone else), please do consider letting me know what you think I should do with Pyri's POV this month.
Just so everyone knows, it will be a double feature, because apparently all the way back in January I just... forgot to post the vignette I had of Pyri fretting at Seph's bedside. So that will be one of the things I'm posting, and the other will be...
2023-06-30 01:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I'm happy to report that this week was another steady one for progress. I wrote another 14,000 words, bringing the chapter total now to 97,000. I'm currently in the middle of writing a very not-dreamlike dream sequence, of which the dreamier version is next up. My hope is that both will be done by the end of next week, leaving us with really only the final scene of the chapter to go!
This makes a mid to late July release for the chapter look very likely, which is e...
2023-06-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As voted for in the poll last month, here is Alekto's third entry in the RO POV series, set like the other in this last round while the PC is unconscious. I hope you enjoy it!
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Alekto finds that not stopping is about the best way she has of dealing with the situation.
Really, it feels ridiculous to even suggest that she of all people has a ‘situation’ to ‘deal with.’ She is, after all, relatively hale, already healed of ...
2023-06-21 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, everyone.
I have... excellent news to report all around. Firstly, I have a place to live! Getting ready to move in is a process all on its own, but it's one I'm much happier to be undertaking than the apartment hunt. Fortunately for all involved, you won't have to hear any more about that, heh.
And in news much more relevant to the topic of this development blog, I made great progress in FoA this week, too. I am finally done with the scene where the PC talks to the go...
2023-06-19 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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