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Q&A - Charon

Hello all!

We have a brand-new batch of interview questions for the characters this month, and this time they all have to play 'would you rather.' I tried to pick questions that would get at something interesting about them, rather than random ones (though those can be fun too). 

Anyway, Charon's up fist, so those are below.

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1. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?

Ah, early, I think. I acknowledge the obvious inconve...

Weekly Update - 12.12.22

Hello everyone!

First of all, a big welcome to all the new folks; I'm glad you're here. Of course, if you're just here for early access and dip after a month, that's totally understandable. Though if you're considering that, I should tell you that I update the 'early access' version of the game every month, not just when a whole chapter is finished. That's called the BIP, so if it interests you, please consider sticking around. 

That is entirely more self-promotion than I can...

Bonus Content - RO Scenarios

Hey all!

As I suggested in an earlier update, this month's variable bonus content is the first of what will hopefully be a series of maybe/what-if/canon-optional scenarios, between the ROs and various versions of PC, heh. It's easier to write for a defined character, of course, so I'll basically randomize details like gender, appearance, and personality for these. 

I think the level of romance and/or spiciness will vary somewhat, and this month's is just a touch of sweetness ...

Early Access - Chapter Seven

Hello everyone!

After a week going cross-eyed from editing, I present to you the release-ready version of Chapter Seven! Now with... a lot fewer typos and some continuity fixes, plus hopefully the correction to an annoying bug. 

It's recommended that Chapter Seven be played with a new save, as there are new variables I've gone back and added to previous chapters, so there may be some continuity errors if you don't (particularly, I think, if you're playing Pyri's or Alekto's r...

Weekly Update - 05.12.22

Hey all!

As many of you are aware, the BIP went out last week. I'm currently in the process of editing the chapter for typos, grammar, and consistency, but I anticipate that the official Early Access version will be out around Wednesday. Once that's happened, the rest of the week will be going towards outlining chapter eight!

I'm very excited for all of the aftermath stuff that's going to occur there. I can promise heartfelt conversations with your chosen RO/PO, and then a pretty ...

BIP - November

Hey everyone!

It's finally here, heh. This update contains over 50k new words, and Chapter Seven in its entirety. Of course, it's still in need of some editing and polishing, which I hope to manage this week, after which I'll be updating the same file to the shiny new version. But at least content-wise, this will have everything but a few possible tweaks. 

It's been a long time coming, but I hope it's worth it! If you run into any technical difficulties, or something doesn't ...

Bonus Content Poll - November

Hello, all! 

The BIP will be here in an hour. In the meantime, Alekto is back up on the rotation for the RO POV bonus contents this month. So, if you're interested to see more from her, what intrigues you the most?

Weekly Update - 28.11.22

Hey all!

And here we are at the end of the month, heh. I am about one day's work away from finishing my draft of Chapter Seven completely. That's all routes, all the way to the end! 

Meaning, those of you who get the BIPs will be getting a first draft of the whole chapter for that in just a couple days here. I'll be taking some time to edit, and then the edited version will go up for early access (same tier) as soon as that's done. A week later, hopefully no later than mid-De...

Moirae's Mirror - November

Hey everyone!

I promised a bit of a look at the political situation of Olympus today, so that's below. I focused more on the people involved than the structure, but other than the monarchy, the structure is pretty loose anyhow. It should be pretty well implied what the strata are just by how the information here is organized. 

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy it!

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Major Players

Zeus – Of course, no figure in the Olympian hier...

Weekly Update - 21.11.22

Hey everyone!

November's just about done. I had another really solid week for progress this time, and the Hades route is coming along well! I'd estimate I'm perhaps slightly more than halfway through it at this point, so I'm not sure exactly when I'll finish it, but it should be pretty close to the end of the month, on one side or the other of the actual day. 

Presently, progress for the month is sitting at 42,000 words, and I'm hoping to have a full 60k by the time of the BI...

Bonus Content - Charon POV II

Hey everyone!

For this month's bonus content, you voted for a backstory bit with Charon, including some hints at their past. So, here we have his initial arrival into the Underworld, with brief appearances by Hades and Hekate. 

(Note: Charon is referred to as 'he' throughout this short, because it is taking place from his perspective, and at the time they had not yet come to realize they were nonbinary and were using he/him pronouns exclusively. His correct 'present' pronouns...

Weekly Update - 14.11.22

Hello everyone!

We're back with the second NaNoWriMo check-in, and I am pleased to say I'm keeping well ahead of pace so far! As of today, I have written 28,000 words of new stuff for Chapter Seven, and I estimate I am only one day away from finishing the Pyri and Alekto route entirely. 

That means, of course, that I am finally onto the last route for the chapter: Hades's. I do hope to be able to keep up the pace and get it done on or near the end of the month, but in any cas...

Q&A - Hypotheticals (Hades)

Hey all!

It was quite rightfully brought to my attention that I'd already done Hekate for this round of Q&As (in my defense, it was five months ago and I barely remember yesterday, so there's that). So, what I've decided to do is leave her questionnaire up, since the answers are perhaps a tad "updated" anyhow, and also actually do a new one. Hades was in fact the only one left, so that makes it his turn by default. 

Sorry for the flub, and cheers. :)

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Character Q&A - Hekate

Hey all!

I decided to do Hekate for the Q&A this month. It's been a while since I've done much with her character, since she was the first of the Chapter Seven routes I wrote, so I felt like spending a bit of time with her, so to speak. Here's her questionnaire. :)

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1. You’re minding your own business when the person you least want to see walks into the room. Who are they, and how do you react?

Quite impossible, I assure you, as that p...

Weekly Update - 07.11.22

Not me almost forgetting I needed to write one of these. 

Hey everyone!

NaNoWriMo is well underway (which for those of you who don't know, is just me trying to get at least another 50k words on chapter seven this month), and so far so good! I've got about 13,000 as of this writing, which is well on track for that goal. Still in the thick of the Pyri and Alekto endings; one of Pyri's possible ones is done, and I'm getting through Alekto's as well. Then it will only be the alte...

Bonus Content - Judgement

Hey everyone!

The first Wednesday of the month was certainly here fast! Fortunately, this is a scene I'd been thinking about doing for a while, so I went ahead and did it. Featuring Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and some background goings-on roughly during the period of political tension Hera mentions in Chapter Six. 

I hope you enjoy it.

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To the fairest.

Aphrodite crossed one leg over the other, leaning back against her chair and gi...

BIP - October 2022

Hey everyone!

Here we have the latest from this month. A brand new 50k words, and the chapter seven file is now so big Dashingdon won't accept it and I had to split it into two. (This should still read as a whole; the divide happens right before the route choice, so if for some reason you can't play past that, let me know and I'll go mutter my annoyance at the files until they're fixed, heh). 

Anyhow, the chapter as a whole is now right at 200,000 words, and not even done, ma...

Weekly Update - 31.10.22

Hello, all, and Happy Halloween to those celebrating. 

Here we are, at the end of October. I daresay it's been another rollercoaster of a month in a lot of ways for me personally, but I have also managed to knuckle down and get 50,000 new words of Chapter Seven, bringing us... well, definitely most of the way to the end now. Hopefully within another month's distance, since I'm attempting another "NaNoWriMo's worth" of progress in November. 

I'm mostly, though definitely ...

Bonus Content Poll - October

Hey y'all! Charon's up next month, so let me know what of them you'd like to see!

The BIP drops in an hour, for those of you waiting on that. :)

The Moirae's Mirror - October

Hey all!

Because I've been writing a lot about Tartarus anyway this month, I figured it would be a good time to do a bit of a writeup on it, which is now the subject of this month's Mirror! I hope you find it interesting. :)

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Tartarus

Within the Underworld, no place is quite so mysterious nor so reviled as Tartarus, the Tower of the Damned. From the outside, it is mostly an unremarkable location, at least physically: a rope ...

Weekly Update - 24.10.22

Hey everyone!

I am back once more with an update. Progress continues on the chapter, and the to-date word count for this month has risen to 42,000. That's a little short of where I hoped it would be at this stage, and I probably won't quite get 60k this month, but I'm satisfied that things are moving along relatively briskly nonetheless. 

In terms of where in the chapter that puts me, I'm smack in the middle of the Pyri and Alekto branch, which should hopefully be mostly fini...

Bonus Content - Hermes POV

Hey everyone!

The poll came out in favor of a scene between Hermes and the PC before the events of the game, so I went all the way back to a potential first meeting. This can certainly be canon if you feel so inclined, but if you imagined this event a different way, by all means consider this unofficial. :)

Featuring Hermes, Dionysus, and Hestia. 

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Hermes heaves a heavy sigh, scuffing his sandals against the ground more than was strictly nec...

Weekly Update - 17.10.22

Hello, everyone. We have hit mid-October, it seems. 

So far so good on progress this month. The to-date progress for these 17 days is at 33,000 additional words to the chapter, plus I did a fair bit of outlining, so I'm definitely managing some swiftness. I'm hoping to be able to manage 60k on the month, but we'll see how it goes. 

I'm well into the Alekto/Pyri portion of the chapter's end, the third of four parts, if you will. I'm optimistic that I'll be mostly done wit...

Q&A - Pyri

And we're back with the hypotheticals Q&A, this time featuring Pyri. I realize I sometimes post things as text files that really don't need to be, so I think this one's just going to go here in the Patreon box. 

Cheers, all.

1. You’re minding your own business when the person you least want to see walks into the room. Who are they, and how do you react?

The ‘person I least want to see?’ I don’t really know who that is, to be honest with you. Maybeâ€...

Weekly Update - 10.10.22

Hey all,

I am once again mystified by how fast days are going. Fortunately, I've been spending them well, I think, even if much too quickly. Progress for the month is up to 18,000 words, so I'm moving along at a swift clip again this time. I'm really trying to make a big push in this project for the end of the year; I'm under no illusions I'll be done or even close to it by then, of course, but I think by 2023 I'd like to be at least halfway through Chapter Eight, and if possible I'd re...

Bonus Content - Dust

Hey all!

As I suggested in my weekly update, I decided to do the "missing" Hades POV (of the outing in chapter five) as the extra bonus content this month. The Hermes pre-game scene will of course be proceeding as voted for in the other slot. But for those of you maybe missing out on His Deathliness due to recent BIP updates not really featuring him, maybe this will tide you over just a little. :)

I hope you're all having a good week, and I'll be back soon with another update.

Weekly Update - 03.10.22

Hey everyone. 

October is here, and I think after the way September went, I have no choice but to be optimistic this month will be better. In any case, it's off to a nice start with progress; 5,000 words in three days. I'll take it, honestly. 

I would really like to be done with this chapter by the end of this month, but I'm not sure it's going to happen. We'll see how it goes, and I should have a better idea if that's possible by the 15th or so. I'm suspecting not, but ...

BIP - September

Hello everyone!

Here we are on the last day of the month, and so here is the BIP. This month, we have 30k new words, which finish out the chapter on the Hekate route and get most of the way through Charon's and Hermes's. If you play as they come out, I hope you enjoy, and if you don't, I hope you're at least somewhat encouraged by the fact that things are still moving along!

Cheers, all.

Bonus Content Poll - September

Hey everyone!

As you may have guessed, we're doing another round of RO POV scenes in this bonus content slot. Next up is Hermes, and I think there are some unique opportunities for scenes with him that may not necessarily actually appear in the game. So I've listed one of those along with the more obvious options for you all to choose from. :)

Moirae's Mirror - September

Hey everyone!

This month's Mirror is here, and as my last Weekly Update indicated, there's some news in here about the state of FoA, in the development sense. (Also a few more personal bits of information for context, but those aren't really the important bits.)

Cheers.