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Lorcan - Side story

1986

The yelling could be heard over the booming of his music. He had felt it this morning during breakfast. His parents fought a lot nowadays. He knew it was a bad day when his mother would place his father’s plate on the table in a certain way. It wasn’t slammed but it wasn’t gentle, it wasn't the way she would serve him his breakfast.

And then his father, he would refuse to look at either of them. He would busy himself away with his news...

Episode 5 Scene 3

I know there’s going to be bugs in this one omg but it’s done AND I did get it as close as I could to releasing it on Friday EST I was off by an hour and a half :p

Anyway remember that this part relies on code specifically for those who are trans and enby

Also if you did the side quest with Sally back in episode 3 that has new code for those who got a hair cut or piercing and so you might want to go back and see that or not

Cheers, the sleepy writer

Sneak Peek, scene 3/Writing Diary

That's usually you and if you can't you wait in the bathrooms until it's cleared up. But in biology, Imre passed you a note — this raised some eyebrows — which said to wait by your locker. He signed it.

The cold metal of your locker, cools your head, your back and your legs. Your $holder lays by your feet and your arms are crossed over your chest. You observe the activity around you like a detective. Which, is technically what you now are.

Romance 

Episode 5: scene 2

So like I have no idea if all your saves are broken with this update because of the fact that I added and changed code from the first episodes but I’m sure you can still play the new added scene as if nothing.

I would say you could just replay everything now to get it all over with before the next scene drops which is an important scene it’s the reason I changed so much code for trans/enby Crownies but you can do it anytime you want really as long as it’s before the next update so...

Side Story: Percy

1983

“Do you promise you’re coming?”

Victor moved aside a page and began reading the one beneath it. Small glasses were perched on his nose, a pen in his hand was raised, poised, ready to sign wherever he needed it. 

“Dadddd you said you’d come,” Percy whined. 

His father picked up the page he was reading and squinted. He made a noise and swiftly wrote his signature, an elegant ‘V’ that Percy liked. 

Pe...

Update

It’s a short scene, for the beginning of episode 5. Buts it’s an important scene.

Password: 4546

Byeeeee, the writer

Adventures in Jude’s technological boomerism

I’m making EC public and I was working on the page and I did something and accidentally deleted it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Anyway this is just to say that the version some of you downloaded is slightly different from the version going up tomorrow but not by much I just wanted to display my utter ridicule in the face of modern technology.

Hopefully the OYHS launch will go better (doubtful)

Sincerely, this writer who has no patient

EC access

Here's the prologue for Excellent Cadavers.

So it requires things called "keys" which are just special links. There's like no other clean way to do it so here's 25, if one doesn't work go to the next.

https://darkfictionjude.itch.io/untitled-2/download/aDr9Ds11Wwb5bHzyHZBu88Dfa-t2bJkjruEmeqoyHxeYt8uzmjZk7h

2024-07-29 19:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post

So I wrote...

I wasn't gonna write anything pertaining to the two new IFs but I decided to have no self control and so both have prologues now.

And I'll release the O, Your Heavenly Stars! Today and Excellent Cadavers tomorrow :)

Here it is: https://darkfictionjude.itch.io/untitled/download/Xd_DZAUvSfXV6fi7XXAqupAu7iwnKDhHhYI7GpW9 

And it also asks for a ...

3 sneak peeks

We wretched creatures, episode 5:

You’re walking in the grass.

You’ve been walking for a while you suppose.

Your feet hurt, they must be dirty as the earth leaves the ground with the soles of your feet every time you lift them.

You take a step backwards, thinking it’s best to retrace your steps when something interrupts that heavy silence.

Excellent Cadavers game post

2024-07-26 19:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Sneak peek of something new…

So in between writing the new update I also started working on the poll winners from that poll I did for new IFs.

I haven’t begun plotting them exactly but I know what they’re about.

The mafia one is called Excellent Cadavers and there are four ROs, two male and two female.

The Hollywood one is called O, Your Heavenly Stars! (Yes with the exclamation always). It has four ROs as well two men and two women (one of them is trans).

For those I have no set date for a...

Update

And the final scene for episode four is out. I hope ya'll like it :)

This part is at the house as those of you who played the last scene now but something interesting happens with Mother...

Last route

The final route with Lorcan, Imre and MC going to Samuel Palmer's house is now completed if you want to play it.

The password is the same as before.

Cheers, this writer

Update/Password

Scene 6 is mostly ready. Basically the last quest, having all three go to Samuel Palmer's house is still under construction, it's almost done but I want it playable only when it's completely done. But the four other paths are ready.

Password: 8497

Writing diary/the DL on the next update

So I finally finished the two solo routes. Honestly life has gotten a bit in the way. Also just enormous sections (it won’t seem that enormous to you guys) just seem to work for me when I’m the good headspace to do it. I’ve done more work on it in the last week than I did most of June.

I’m half way through the third route which is the Imre-Sammy route. I figure if I can finish it today. I might be able to finish this section entirely by Thursday/Friday.

After that is the...

Writing Diary (#7?)/slight sneak peakish

I really though limiting myself to 10 pages per route during the investigation/interrogation portion would be easy.

I just finished up Lorcan’s solo route (it’s the first one I’ve finished so I have four more) and tell me how it ended up being 30 pages? THATS WHY I SHOULD ALWAYS ACCOUNT FOR BRANCHING!!!

But anyway I feel like if I keep this up I could be finished this scene/portion of the story by the end of next week to release it here. After that there’s only one scene...

Side story - Nia

1988

She wrapped the towel closer to her trembling shoulders. She hated the smell of chlorine. It reminded her of false cleanliness. Artificial mimics of smells always made her uncomfortable.

Clarissa Lepore pushed herself up out of the water. She sat at the end, her pale legs dripping. Her friends immediately came over to her.

T...

Side story - Orla

1983

Ballet classes had been cancelled for that day. Ms. Day said it was because she had caught a cold but Orla was sure it was because she had drank too much from that water bottle that makes her breath smell gross.

She had forgotten the number for the manor and Arthur would only come when ballet class would be done, that is an hour from n...

Update

So I didn’t think I’d finish it so quickly but yeah. Scene five is done and I updated to to itchio. There’s no password input as you only needed to do it for scene four.

Anyway cheers.

Update

Hello lovely readers. Basically what I said last week this is scene four.

Password is 3737

Ciao.

Sneak Peek/Update

So remember how you can choose how MC’s views anger?

This is MC describing a certain incident if you chose that anger brings you delight:

“You remember saying you didn’t remember. The feeling of his head caving in under your strength made you feel alive for the time since you had gotten to that hospital.”

If you chose protection:

“You were only defending yourself. If you’re hands went too hard it wasn’t your intention. You just wanted it to stop. No on...

Side story - Imre

1981

The day Imre learned what life was truly about occurred on a day like any other.

It was recess and he was sitting with a group of his friends, talking about an episode of their favourite tv show. He didn’t like television but he smiled and nodded, a practice he found worked for his mother.

A secondary group of boys were playing on the grass, wrestling. His attention was occasionally drawn to the shouts from them. A boy named Adam was the biggest one of them, he towere...

New Perk Idea

So I’ve been thinking how I could give you guys updates quicker. The way I write episodes is that I break it down in scenes so episode four has 7 scenes and each update is usually 2-3 scenes. What I’m thinking is that instead of you guys waiting for me to finish 2-3 scenes each time I finish a scene I give it to you guys.

You’d get shorter updates but quicker ones meanwhile the public would still get the regular 2-3 scenes when they’re finished. So for you guys the updates for ...

Sally - Side Story

1986

Sally shrugged on his jacket, he adjusted his collar and moved his shoe from left to right to see if the light would catch a dirty spot. Nothing.

He thought the outfit looked good enough, he had gone through multiple iterations of it for the past hour. He had been trying to find the balance between casual attire and upper-class. He was aware that he didn’t quite look like the other boys.

Boys his age wore colourful blazers, denim jeans and ...

Early Access

Here it is. I was really racing to get this done because I don’t like going more than a month without an update. *sigh* those damn side quests (affecionate)

Anyway: https://darkfictionjude.itch.io/we-wretched-creatures

And the password is 5888

Sneak Peek

My delusional ass really thought that I’d have the part 1 of episode 4 out but finals week made it slower. Also it just works better to get content out faster if I divide an episode into 3 parts rather than 2.

Anyway the side quests are really great this episode because I decided to add some interesting mechanics to them. Each side quest has a different level of difficulty, of course it’s not super hard, but relative to the pick and choose options I had for last episode there is a d...

Writing diary #6 (?)

I’m currently working on the side quests. The first one is done, the second one has gone slower because it involves a lot of code like every other paragraph since your chosen gender affects the gender of the person you chose to help. Not that hard but just a lot of copy and paste of variables.

I want to finish the side quests by Thursday so I can get to the story proper. I’m thinking I’m going to release this episode in two parts so I would really like to see part one out before ...

Side Story - Lorcan

1982

It was the first day of first grade and he wasn’t there.

He fought and cried and had a whole tantrum last night because he didn’t want to go to school. It had worked the previous two years when his parents wanted to send him to kindergarten.

But this year it wasn’t his father who put his foot down and was overruled, it was his mother. Apparently she “got a job” and “couldn’t be there to teach him at home anymore.” He had sugge...

Side Story - Victor

Disclaimer: brief mentions of child abuse

1958

Victor Crown knew what awaited him once he reached his home. Home. As if that cold, too perfect and trim place could ever be his home. The nice things within it deceived, its warm yellow light did nothing to quell the loneliness of it all.

The rich upholstery, the shiny vases and the rich foods on the tables were poor comfort for a boy who felt like he didn’t belong in the family he was bor...

Update on the Side Quests/Sneak Peek

Ok I’ve decided that I want to do it for every episode at least until episode 10 (exceptions will be episode 8 I think).

Sneak peak on those. It’s three like before but instead of giving right into the episode, it happens before the main storyline.

1. Is a about a child with specific bloody dietary needs that asks for mc’s help

2. A little bit of romance for the lovely gay community of the town

3. Jonestown cult lite

Yours truly, this inspired writer 2024-04-05 19:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post