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Moved Update

I'll post a progress report this weekend, Saturday or possibly Sunday. It was an insomniac week and I wasn't doing well due to having to meet the obligations I have to some other folks in my life... and being forced to remodel our bathroom. August can still finish strongly, but it's been harsh.

Adjustments in August

Another brief update as I haven't put any hours into writing this week, so I don't have anything to report other than that I at least have some commissioned art underway and one other finishing soon that I'm looking forward to sharing. The August monthly scene will get written as soon as I'm able.

What's actually been going on is just a personal overhaul: diet change, reintroduction of an exercise routine. I spent a lot of the weekend just sleeping and napping, to be honest.

I'll write up another post as soon as I have something to share. As always, thank you for your support and incredible patience.

August August

Those pledged to my patreon may be getting excessive emails about new posts. That's because of mistakes in the poll and also the general inadequacy of the UX as it has worsened over the years. I would make a post, forget one thing, be unable to edit it, or add one thing that can't be removed, and have to trash the entire post to fix it lol. Again, sorry about that.

My last week was good. I started exercising again like I did pre-2022 moving crisis. I finished the July Monthly Scene with Cruff's variant and posted it to the TiTS Trello and in a few days I'll have the next monthly scene on the docket after a vote.

I finished the Hyraxi Glaiveswoman bad end (might add more later) and drafted the first win scene. Fen had some requests for unusual bits (like tail genitalia) to add on to these things so I'm thinking that on top of them being brief scenes (given the nature of the main quest), have some options mid-encounter to flesh it out will go a long way.

Look forward to more! And thank you, as always, for your generous support and deep patience.

August 2023 - Monthly Content Poll

Have to repost because an option was mislabeled and it can't be edited for whatever reason. You also can't remove options if you add an extra one by mistake lol. Please cast your votes again, and my apologies.

Cum Addiction in TiTS is a fascinating and rarely explored niche of content. An intriguing idea sent to me suggests a scene to write where a cum addicted PC with the Thirst effect will proc a random encounter in civilization (or any safe town tiles, like Mhen'ga or Novahome) where they pick out a random passerby to satisfy their all-consuming need.

Shekka as a crewmember could always use more scenes. That is why I am interested in writing a scene where a dominant player can perform thigh sex with her, leading her on and on, teasing her to a delightful conclusion. This will naturally require her to be an extra-endowed raskvel, of course.

Anno's anal training is but one step away from completion, so if this is chosen I'll make her original commissioner and possibly several others very happy by enabling that. It's been a while and it would be nice to slam this one out this year.

[July] Monthly Scene - Vava Groom Breast Massage Doc

In the past, There was some consternation in the coding pipeline about my having docs containing multiple scenes from these monthly votes. So from now on, each new scene will be it's own doc.

That being said, the doc was added to the private patreon TiTS folder, and here is the link for posterity.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ieHM7VUxZpUBy-3oMRmxY_KncgSfBos_vPFbwTxZeAQ/edit

August 2023 Poll - Idea Gathering

Now with less bad naming. I only just realized I called the last one the June scene, and not July as it should have been. Please forgive me. 

For those subscribed at $5/mo, go ahead and send me a DM or slap a comment on this post about a scene idea you have for TiTS for me to appraise. It can be anything from a win or loss scene for any enemy, to another repeatable scene for an NPC old or new - crewmembers too, of course. For example, you can ask for a new win scene against, say, the Zil on Mhen'ga, femdom, maledom, etcetera. Give me your ideas and I will let you know if it's doable, or help you expand on it.

In three days I will have at least two ideas put together for you to vote on for a poll. Scenes that were added to the poll but not voted on, will remain on the poll.

Unvoted Ideas:

Cum Addiction in TiTS is a fascinating and rarely explored niche of content. An intriguing idea sent to me suggests a scene to write where a cum addicted PC with the Thirst effect will proc a random encounter in civilization (or any safe town tiles, like Mhen'ga or Novahome) where they pick out a random passerby to satisfy their all-consuming need.

Shekka as a crewmember could always use more scenes. That is why I am interested in writing a scene where a dominant player can perform thigh sex with her, leading her on and on, teasing her to a delightful conclusion. This will naturally require her to be an extra-endowed raskvel, of course.

Evening Movements

I'm still awaiting Nonesuch's proofreading on the July Monthly Scene but I'm sharing it alongside this post all the same. As stated in the original poll, my approach to this was to make it so that the scene has some flavor depending on what you answered: Estie will provide the thorough massage to players who identify as dominant, whereas Cruff will handle all others. Cruff's variant is on the way and will have the scene be ready for next week's patch; the document has been added to the private patreon drive folder.

Meanwhile, August's monthly idea gathering has also gone up alongside this post. Optimistically, I'll have a whole set of Phaedra scenes to talk about by the end of next week. 

Thank you very much for your continued support and patience.

Changing Pains & July Scene Update; Sophora Overview

The week leading up to the turn of the month into August was a worrisome moment in the family. I knew most of this year was going to be extremely difficult but towards the end it would start shifting favorably, and today I can say that part's finally begun - I can say there's a lot of weight off my shoulders, for now. Hopefully for good.

I don't have a meaningful writing update for the last seven days. I was still crushed, I was exhausted, and I've been struggling back into healthier routines I used to have before 2022's move, like regular, daily exercise.

For the Vava Groom monthly content update, I'm delaying it again. I'm sorry. I also still need Nonesuch to proofread it, as Vava Groom is his creation. As the monthly content is delayed, I will post a proper progress report this Saturday, along with the document and the next poll.

Lastly for this post, I wanted to talk about the currently furloughed Sophora Quest & Jumper Quarters xpac document that I was working on and hoping to have implemented across July. I'm uncertain the content in question - primarily regarding Sophora - and my pitch for the Jumpers will remain faithful to my original goals if it does indeed pick back up and the team decides on a course of action to make it compatible with their wishes.

I figure I might as well explain what my intent was, because there is a fully fleshed out story I'd been keeping close to my chest for a long time.

Every new thing I do is an experiment, or something new to me, and Sophora was no different. I took the idea of Nemesis from RE3 and concepted a doc for her a few years ago, 2019 I think. There was also a bit of the Iron Maiden character from Witcher 3 in there. Originally, Sophora would have been a bit character next to Vanika herself... then things happened. Also never got around to finishing her until 2022. Writing her was a way for me to heal, and I inserted several Nordic themes into her content while hoping to establish a mystery to solve on ZS. Her content focus (Hate Sex, Stalking, Hardcore Amazonian stuff) wouldn't be for everyone so I included several disablers at the behest of the team. Sophora as she is now is an enigma, and she's a laquine, so you only know that she may be a Jumper by association. To get to the bottom of that, having the Jumper Xpac was the next step.

For those who haven't read the xpac document, a proper resolution would come by discovering that Vanika was uncharacteristically afraid of her, wouldn't talk about her, appeared to exert minimal control over her. Through a straightforward process, you could decide to get her voice back and make her talk by working with one of several doctors and coming up with a portable solution that you could use on the spot. You'd maybe learn something, stick it to Vanika, and come away from the whole thing feeling like you'd affected change on ZS. Healing Sophora (while also defeating her in front of Vanika and many of the Jumpers in their own quarters) and learning her story would render Vanika permanently paranoid, and while actual effects on gameplay would be limited (the bulk of writing was a solo endeavor, after all) there was at least a feeling of making an impact.

Sophora would later meet up with you for a one-on-one and you'd get to ask her all the needful about herself, about ZS, and why she attacked you in the first place - she can only get relief through combat. Sophora targets you because you made an impact on ZS through a number of ways (usually just by defeating Vanika and getting the ZS probe). Anyone who has lost to her would have seen stalking events (like perturbing emails) and she would also explain she sent those threats to make you want to fight her as hard as you possibly could. As it stands, I flavored the formation of Zheng Shi as being indirectly her doing: Sophora once commanded a fleet for her own purposes and Vanika (the Shock Hopper) was one of her crew, who mutinied and seized it all by defeating her in personal combat. Fast forward and Vanika has made the Jumpers out of that fleet and all five ZS gangs eventually come together as is described and presented in the main story.

At the end, Sophora says that she will ask a favor of you if you complete your quest for inheritance. You would unlock her as a permanent contact and could phone her over via the CODEX for more rough intimacy, and/or to borrow one of her three powerful weapons or exchange one for another. If this had been implemented, I planned one last side-adventure involving her. You would go with her to the remains of a colony that used to be her home and climb a great mountain together, and at the summit learn why she founded a mercenary fleet and what she's looking for, and gain a purely flavor decision to help her in that search or not into whatever epilogue involves you becoming CEO of Steele Tech.

I actually commissioned music for the hypothetical summit scene, too. It's attached. My idea was that we could see about running it in-game for the scene (embedded like a .gif/.webm) after a long CYOA-style man-vs-environment sequence culminating in revelations and exhaustive, sub-orbital smut, with further repeatable sexual scenes unlocked.

Well, that was long winded. I apologize for the long waits. Whatever happens after upcoming Phaedra content, what's already backlogged will still get done. I'm going to retain Nonesuch for more help this month on one of those projects, too.

So and So

Most of July was spent working on the now-in-stasis ZS expansion, and last week was spent reading through content & documents related to Phaedra to participate in the current MSQ push, so in this last weekly period I didn't have many hours left to write for it. By next week I should have more to show on my first wave of Phaedra scenes, but even still, I've roughed out the first loss scene I'm doing and drafted the rest of the content I want to write. The (35) doc is now available in the private patreon drive folder, but it's quite unfilled at the moment.

The monthly scene was started. I intended to publish it last weekend along with the (35) doc but it didn't go to plan. I'll have it finished this weekend and post it, and it could be implemented as early as next week. I must emphasize that I make no decisions on what is implemented or coded, or what comes first in a queue.

As always, thank you for your continued patience and support.

Catch Up And Hyenas

All of my last week was spent preparing to involve myself in Phaedra content: the story, the species, the content, the goals, and after reading all the docs that have been written and/or implemented to date since last year, and I've begun work on the first wave of scenes I've been tasked. I'll be posting that doc along with the Monthly voted scene this weekend now that I've done my research and the momentum's building.

We'll cross other bridges when we get there. Some other docs unrelated to Phaedra are being talked about in the team and maybe I'll have something to share about them soon. Very small update for this week but the work this week will be ready to post soon enough. Thank you for your patience and continued support.

Change of Plans

Wednesdays are meeting days and typically I will post an update following the get-together but events from yesterday had me thinking, deeply troubled, that I need to get this out of the way sooner rather than later.

Concerns were raised about Sophora's quest and resolution, and in short, it cannot be incrementally added in the coming weeks as I had hoped. That's not all, as other concerns were raised about Vanika and the follow-up to post-probe ZS. What this means is that Sophora's quest will not be added to the game and due to the present uncertainty about Vanika & the rest of the document, the entire project is now in stasis. I am not deleting it, of course, and I'll be sure to tell you if there are any changes in what's to come on this topic.

I'll likely move to help Savin with Phaedra II scenes for the immediate future and be writing weekly reports on that and have the relevant docs posted when the details are hashed out.

As for the monthly voted scene (Breast Massage won, which is fascinating), I will, at the very least, start it this weekend.

The Explosive Week

The night of July 4th was suitably loud and bright and in the past week I have prepped the first chunk of the Jumper Quarters & Sophora etc doc for the ZS Ops Deck to be implemented which will hopefully happen this week, but either way there'll be a chunk of it coming out each week of July. The first week will contain a myriad of light, repeatable encounters with the ordinary Jumpers and some with their Officers - I was also reminded that the Slave Suit xpac on ZS still does not include the three Anal scenes I wrote months ago so ideally they will get coded first and be ready to implement alongside this first chunk.

Next week will have Vanika's personal sex scenes added. The week after will have Sophora's personal quest implemented, and the last chunk will contain a variety of misc scenes; the Breeding Marathon will come in the third or final week.

I want to build myself back up again, and I'm doing my best to achieve that. As always, thank you for your patient support of myself and of the TiTS Project. You are all truly wonderful.

June 2023 - Monthly Content Poll

It returns. Voters may choose as many options as they'd like. If there is a tie, the decision on what to write is mine. Voting will end 72 hours from when the poll is posted.

Vava Groom is Nonesuch's excellent dom/sub bolthole on Uveto Station, a wellspring of potential which sadly remains unexplored. But if this option is chosen, I will add on to it bit by bit first with a breast & lactation focused scene dynamically revolving around the player's declared role: pet or master. PCs who in their first interaction at Vava Groom answered they were doms will be diligently cared for and, if applicable, milked to a satisfying conclusion. Inversely, those who answered the opposite and declared themselves submissive will receive a little gentle trained through the interaction...

Cum Addiction in TiTS is a fascinating and rarely explored niche of content. An intriguing idea sent to me suggests a scene to write where a cum addicted PC with the Thirst effect will proc a random encounter in civilization (or any safe town tiles, like Mhen'ga or Novahome) where they pick out a random passerby to satisfy their all-consuming need.

Shekka as a crewmember could always use more scenes. That is why I am interested in writing a scene where a dominant player can perform thigh sex with her, leading her on and on, teasing her to a delightful conclusion. This will naturally require her to be an extra-endowed raskvel, of course.

A Note On The Poll

To the $5/mo patrons, I have received an absolute slew of ideas in the past three days that I'm still parsing out while I've been (and still am as of posting this) very busy. I'm writing this quickie post to specify that the post with the poll will be slapped down at 5:00 or 6:00 pm EST today. There are a LOT of great and well thought out ideas on my docket, several of which I'm looking forward to doing eventually even if they aren't chosen early.

Whatever time I do post it, will also be the time frame in which the idea gathering posts are made going forward, that way it's less slapdash.

June 2023 Poll - Idea Gathering

For those subscribed at $5/mo, go ahead and send me a DM or slap a comment on this post about a scene idea you have for TiTS for me to appraise. It can be anything from a win or loss scene for any enemy, to another repeatable scene for an NPC old or new - crewmembers too, of course. For example, you can ask for a new win scene against, say, the Zil on Mhen'ga, femdom, maledom, etcetera. Give me your ideas and I will let you know if it's doable, or help you expand on it.

In three days I will have at least two ideas put together for you to vote on. Any scene not picked remains on the poll for the subsequent months, and at the end of the year, any leftover scenes will be written.

Start of Summer

Most of my last week was spent working on the house: installing new doors, assembling and replacing new furniture, and dealing with another (but mercifully smaller) garage flood. I'm still riding a caffeine high that started with the past weekend, and as such I have even less to mention at the moment other than a modicum of new words and a brief mention of what the plans are going into July.

As previously mentioned, we've hashed out what to implement and in what order for the upcoming xpac doc. Ideally, the first week of July will see the first, base implementation, and each week after will have the next addition and so forth until it's complete, and we'll add on whatever else makes it through the coding pipeline as it comes around. This is not all I will be working on for July, of course.

I would also like to begin the Patron's monthly scene voting again, and emphasize it to be as brief as the mini commission scenes I did last year to help support my down payment at the time. It will follow the usual formula: I'll make a post and request ideas for a scene to write over three days, and then there will be a vote over the next three days to determine what should be done. It will be completed within the same month. Depending on how it goes, I'll be adjusting if more needs to be done, i.e. multiple smaller scenes instead of just one, so that the value will be there.

Thank you for your patience and continued support, and please look forward to what comes next.

Vanika, the Jumper Captain + Sophora Quest 1 + Jumper Quarters

A new addition to the private patreon folder of this year is one of the first major expansions to Zheng Shi, in collaboration with Nonesuch. It is visible in the aforementioned google drive folder and the link is provider here for posterity. In the  long run, I would like to return to the monthly vote, but until some of the needful is finished, it remains on pause.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkDMJZNwZkFYFJ69E6bDMxHbojgTfPkdSvC8yZ5WOi8/edit

It's Been Going

I've received a gentle outpouring of support in private recently, and to those who've reached out, you are all truly wonderful.

Things have been slow since last week. At the start of the weekend, felt trucked by a lot of shit and just slept most of the last few days. I've also posted the upcoming Vanika/Sophora Resolution/Jumper Quarters doc to the Private Patreon folder and will also share a direct link in a follow-up post. The doc contains the full quest sequence for Sophora and of course contains spoilers. It also contains everything else up to this point.

In the last meeting we talked about staggering the implementation of this doc out over several patches and I've taken care of planning that out. All that's left is just to write more sex scenes, some of which got off the ground this week.

As always, thank you for your continued patience.

Work, Work

This week's progress report is brief. Not to mention, a specter of a past housing issue came back last night.

The upcoming ZS Expac doc acquired a few more pages and most of last week was spent editing it with Nonesuch for quality assurance. It's made a huge difference. I didn't do as much writing in this period but what's important is that there's a sense of collaborative spirit rekindling in all this and I feel like a lot of the old memories are coming back to me. If that makes sense, ha ha.

Last week too, as you've seen, Imgur went into a silent purge of sorts so I moved all my art albums to Dropbox. That's all well and taken care of now, but I feel it important to talk about the contracting of the 'freelance artist sphere', as I call it, or the sphere of work-for-hire artists who all gravitate towards twitter. Upcoming changes by Elon are making it impossible to send DMs to users unless you are both following each other, or you, the sender, are a subscriber. If this is implemented it's likely that future art will dry up almost completely; if it's implemented I foresee a lot of nihilism and stress that will cause a massive diminishment of the talent pool.

In other words, I don't think you'll be seeing many new art pieces and new blood coming in, and that is very disappointing. Another thing that I did not mention in my previous explanation for nine months of silence is that I've also, rather abruptly, had my fair share of artists suddenly vanishing off the internet or failing to call back. Worse: I've been effectively robbed at least two times in 2023, with a rotten commission only happening once in 2021. No less than five artists have either dropped communications entirely for no good reason, consistently failed to deliver the expected quality and thus canceled, or just went traceless into the void. At least two of them I built a very strong rapport with and it still weighs on me. The sheer stress from this has been intolerable.

Things have to change for the better, sooner or later. As always, thank you very much for your patience and support. Stay tuned for more.

Artwork Album Updates

Imgur changed their policies on May 15th but I brushed it off for various reasons because it would be no issue moving to another host if they went through with their purges.

It turns out they did, but their "purge" has only so far culminated in making it impossible to view certain files and albums unless you are logged in to the uploading account. Therefore, I've moved all my albums to Dropbox and am providing the links here for posterity. They do need to be updated with recent acquisitions but I'll get around to that after some fresh illustrations get colored by waru-geli in the coming weeks. With any luck, Gedan might also do some self-hosting for us (that is, the devs), too.

Riley Album
Leila Album
Reina Album
Bianca Album
Roo Album
Rat's Raiders Album

I'll also make a few more for various other characters like Sophora as the mood strikes, but these are where the lion's share of the commissioning budget went over the last six years. In the long run, I'll probably set up syncing folders for albums on Dropbox but this is the quick and dirty way for now.

A Cleaned Slate & Breeding Season

Since last week, I have cleaned the slate and finished old overdue, backlogged Patron-voted scenes from a long, long time ago, capstoned with the completion of the Penny Roleplay Ambush scenario available in the (a4) document. It turned into the very epitome of scope creep and that made it difficult to finish out, especially these days with a lot of other mounting pressures, but I'm happy to be done with it and to be making more clear, defined progress. 

My attention fully turns to the first expansion of the Zheng Shi Ops Deck. Nonesuch is my rock these days; his friendship and cooperation is extremely vital to sparking a new revolution in me. He's just returned from a trip this past Monday, and we're working together on content for the upcoming Jumper-centric document, with him providing edits and guidance, as well as a few scenes for the Shock Hopper, or Vanika. 

I was able to convince him to write something for the PC's getting sugar mommy'd by her the way LDC was. A small spoiler: he's been discarded by the bunny leader, and that vacancy can be occupied by an equally boyish and well-endowed PC. A handful of other scenes are in the works right now to play around with the pirate queen - she is a vehement powerbottom for those dommy players out there, always goading.

As mentioned before, this upcoming content features the conclusion of Sophora's initial "nemesis" arc. All of that has been written already, and there will be one more expansion to follow containing new sex scenes and a side-adventure. There will be an extensive and vigorous procreative marathon available in the Jumper quarters for players in Rut or Heat (or both) as well as a variety of various scenes throughout their rooms, like Zero-G lasciviousness or making explicit bets at the gun range.

I said I would be working on Kura pregnancy too. It's going to be a slow dabbling for the time being until a few more events are written in the aforementioned Jumper + Vanika + Sophora doc, but it will be done.

A warm thank you to the very patient and generous supporters whom I have kept waiting so long for old promises. As I've said before, I won't stop until I make things right.

Doc Repository Links (Public)

It's been a while, and although there was a long period of silence, things were still being moved around and added in that period. Here again are the links to publicly available projects. At the end of every year, all presently private (or patron exclusive) documents will be made public.

TiTS Public Repository

CoC2 Public Repository

Doc Repository Links (Patrons)

It's been a while, and although there was a long period of silence, things were still being moved around and added in that period. There will be no further private CoC2 projects, aside from Kura Pregnancy, and for either game, I will always be sure to post a notice that something has been added.

For the time being, the relatively latest projects added to the private repository were  the Kitty Courtesans and the Lund Bad End.

TiTS Public Repository 

TiTS Private Repository 

CoC2 Public Repository

On Nine Months of Silence

Writing for TiTS on a lark turned into an unimaginable six years of full-time work on multiple games, opening doors I'd never dreamt of walking through. It saved my life too, three times, but I failed to mature into the role responsibly, and I've been paying for my stubbornness ever since. 

I didn't know how to pick my battles, or in other words, what projects to focus on and what I should have dropped before they spiraled out of control. That was clarified with my dabbling in a companion for CoC2, my biggest failing and greatest lack of foresight, and a hard lesson that required a lot of time to take to heart. I led folks on and on with it while simultaneously trying to force myself into it by doing things that only became a cycle of self-punishment, for instance commissioning so much art to attempt to justify and elongate a time-frame that existed only in my head. While there are many other severe factors that slowly took my heart out of that endeavor and destroyed my belief in it, they are wounds best not reopened; however, it does not change the fact that it all started with my naïve belief that I would be able to juggle that significant workload in a time where something new - and oftentimes bigger and more important - happened every month, a time, upon retrospect, where I should have embraced flexibility and learned to let go.

From working on Cloud 10 for a spell, from becoming employed on TiTS part-time and then later full-time, voraciously consuming the contents of every other document and submission to improve my work, all while not respecting the dangers in having unrestricted freedom to work on whatever I wanted with only myself to hold myself accountable. I'd worked two years with that modus operandi, as I was not necessarily obligated to any game. When those opportunities arose, I was found wanting, and that was stressed and exacerbated by many situations where I felt isolated by the occasional lack of a common aim with clear, unified and shared goals. When I first started in 2018 going into 2019, things were a lot different, but a lot of the people who were go-getting with me... simply aren't anymore. A lot of them moved on or vanished, and that's a dreadful feeling and a terrible running theme in my life, as I've lost more than a handful of people important to me over these years. The month-to-month events gradually became more and more negative and my general excitement and will to speak up drained as I sank into into the emotional turmoil of not having anything ready, despising myself for not having it ready, and the weeks and months piling up; a windy hall of mirrors, repeating endlessly.

My productivity gradually declined as well, from late 2020 onward, culminating in 2022 with an urgent need to relocate - many long, brutal months of house-hunting and sponging up the stress and anxiety of everyone around me, day in and day out. When the move finally went through, when everything was said and done, when I became a homeowner and finally picked back up again, I was shattered. The torment didn't end there either, despite the valuable certainty it gave us.

The downward trend finally 'peaked' with Sophora's extremely unfinished implementation last September. I hold no grudges over that, but it should not have happened. That it did, though, left me utterly crestfallen. It was something I took alone, as with most things. The last nine months of silence began with that, on top of every month bringing its own unique malus or two, usually some new madness integral to the travails of owning property. 

Just to give one example, not the worst but one timed perfectly with another crushing experience, our insurance sent us a letter that they would be discontinuing service with us. The reason given was "tall trees / branches overhanging the property", even though every house in this neighborhood has tall (and very healthy, and very straight!) trees in their yards. It took two days to resolve that, one of the simpler things in fact. They helpfully disclosed the information of the company they obtained their information from (tall trees or somesuch) so I looked them up, and discovered that they're a heavily maligned bunch of con artists with overwhelmingly negative reviews out of Texas. A call to our insurance provider revealed they didn't even have pictures of these offending "trees / branches", and so the matter was resolved -- but they were still committed to severing us with NO EVIDENCE, by their own admission.

I then went on to experience COVID-19 over the course of a truly horrendous week in December, beginning with a fever more intense than any in my life. I remember going to sleep and waking in genuine delirium and confusion, finding it impossible to speak cogently while also realizing that my faculties were severely diminished. I went to the hospital and received no care, not even a cup of water, and my primary care provider gave me no assistance beyond "if you need to clear your sinuses, go into the bathroom and run the hot water so the steam can clear it up a bit". At the end of it all, I was left bitter, furious beyond words, and then that turned into an equally intense depression at the start of 2023, hardening my inability to communicate out of shame and embarrassment.

That brings the explanation of my diminished presence to a close. That's all in the past, now I will tell you about the future.

I'm still here. 

I'm  not gone yet, and there's still all the time in the world to deliver on  TiTS projects. The pendulum has begun to swing the other direction.  Times'll be tough for a while longer, but I'll put myself back together  again. I will be preparing one more CoC2 project as I can - Kura Pregnancy,  of which the document exists and is laid out, and then I will devote  myself only to TiTS, and try to rebuild my confidence and your  confidence in me. The current project getting pushed on is the expansion  for the Jumpers, Sophora, and Vanika (the Shock Hopper) with some  collaboration from Nonesuch for a few unique smut scenes I was able to  sell him on. This will feature a quest to resolve Sophora's attacks  peacefully and learn Zheng Shi's history while affecting some very  unique changes in the story. I'll share the doc soon. I can't give any  concrete release dates or finish dates, as there's no telling when  something gets coded due to the constant updates & bug fixings  courtesy of Gedan and Jacques00. When It's Done™ is my only answer for  now.

I'll start returning to regular updates - from now on, I'll talk about whatever I've done every Wednesday, coinciding with TiTS work meetings. Over these last few years, there were assets and materials I've been slowly accruing, pieces of other, non-smut works I'll present and release someday.

Thank you for your continued support not of myself, but of TiTS, without which I would not be here. So long as I'm still here, I'll do my best to make things right. 

Public Doc Repositories

Here is a refresher on the links for public doc drive folders that I maintain, where freely available projects can be read, downloaded, looked over, etc.

TiTS:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yLGG16dnGjTr8U6O6czOE12gBULtcChz

CoC2:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GhxePXsjU1Q_V4t2N31oTmVHzel3QwK1

Doc Repositories for Patrons

Here is the link for the drive folder I keep for private documents and projects pertaining to TiTS and CoC2.

TiTS:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-pkisn4mymg5_mgJw5PJgxdvXPIkJ8RO

CoC2:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pLWEm3tgGhfjJ7SHPqioY-LErxFAJ5NP

Lethargic September, Perky October

Since the last, and much too distant post on Patreon, a bunch of things have been touched, added, and started.

1) The 'Slave Suit Xpac', for lack of a better title on that entire project - which has been separated into its own doc, (30) - is coded and ready to be implemented and will hopefully make it into TiTS soon. Given that it is much less complex than Sophora was, fingers crossed it won't launch with any gamebreaking bugs. It hasn't been merged yet by Fen or Gedan so I haven't been able to do any testing with it.

To summarize it, the xpac is more of an overhaul to the early Zheng Shi zones. The Slave Uniform that you can find in the Mines has been moved to the Slave Pen in the ZS Hangar, and it comes with an explicit notice that you can use it to disguise yourself at the cost of having to submit to the various pirates you encounter, and a whole host of 'Bad' Ends are available to those who indulge too deeply.

There's a planned number of rump-focused scenes for the Jumpers in this project but I haven't gotten around to them yet, as I've not really been in the mindspace for them, and the recurring need to keep looking back over past content (Sophora, for instance) has been draining. Nevertheless, Oral, Vaginal, and Pitching (the Jumpers ride your dongus) is available, totaling 9 all-new scenes not including the 'Bad Ends' and more.

2) I started another three "mini" commission scenes recently to make up for my absence and slowness in getting the previous project completed, of three scenes I've wanted to do for some time. A new doc has been added to the private TiTs repository, (31). It may look like a big jump from all that's visible in the Public & Private folders, but bear in mind there's a number of docs that are laid out and not started yet, like a space encounters overhaul that I've been making plans for once the Dhaal MQ is implemented.

This (31) doc is built around a Facesitting scene for Una, the gabilani on Tarkus, who has always needed more content. I have also convinced Nonesuch to add a new scene for her too, so she'll be getting a mini-xpac from us in October. The second 'scene' is to expand Shalena into her own NPC, purely so that I can persuade Adjatha to give her a bust. Shalena is a character introduced in a previous mini-commission, the towel[pc.boyGirl] event on Uveto, the very mommy-like kaithrit hermaphrodite who put the missive there in the first place. She'll encourage you to look her up on ExtraMeat and arrange a date where she mommies you more intimately. The last of the scenes is part 2 of Anno's derriere training, which I'm doing pro-bono for SubjectXIII.

Sophora is still not 'there' yet, and I'm not sure what's been merged and what hasn't been for Public & Backers. However in the private dev testing, I have been testing her off and on since the weekend based on recent changes and the 'feel' of things is almost perfect and true to the vision. There's some niggling problems, chiefly with how difficult she feels as a melee class versus my last impression of her, but that's going to get taken care of. I am aware that her sex scenes are still buggy and hopefully at least those and especially her 'Bad End' will be fixed, as that's one of the bugbears.

I'll keep working to the best of my ability and I'll keep sharing everything I can as it comes up. I want to be in a position where I've chipped away my overdue responsibilities and can let things simply breathe. 

Thank you very much for your kind and generous support. Please reach out to me through the various avenues if you have any questions.

The Condition of Sophora, part 2 + Report

During the TiTS meeting today, there were a few revelations about the current state of Sophora's implementation that will necessitate disabling her content as issues are worked through when time permits. For now, there's no estimate on when that might be, and while I wish for it to be resolved ASAP, there are only so many talented hands available that're often needed on more critical aspects of the game. 

I apologize very deeply again, for this.

Sophora's documents will remain available for those who wish to see what's all there. It is what will be, eventually. I hope that we can turn things around and be better going forward.

Insights from today's Meeting: the main story Dhaal Dungeon is progressing well, code-wise, and only a few busts remain to be done. All but a couple sex scenes are written and Fen is chunking through combat encounters and room texts. There is currently no time frame on release, but it isn't that much further off at this stage.

Here's to September.

The Condition of Sophora, a.k.a Evilbun + Sophora's Docs

I was radio silent most of the month due to concerns in the family over the current recession - there was a rocky period following my mother's retirement on top of some unusual activity concerning our mortgage with regards to homeowner's insurance. It's still not fully resolved and it's been a real headache. I also used the quiet time to keep working hard on what I've got left to do in the hopes of posting an update when I've got some real work done.

I can say that I do in the form of nearly finishing all the old patreon backlog scenes, for one.

As for the other...

I've received a few messages asking for Evilbun's document. My intention was to wait a few days after the implementation to maintain the mystique and surprise I'd been building up for so long but the condition that she launched in is... well, tragic, to put it lightly. I wasn't expecting it at all. I always make an effort to playtest my content - especially any combat encounters - before it goes in. Ever since Rat's Raiders that's been my principle, but her getting finished and getting merged happened at a very coincidental time where I was also basically the walking dead and totally indisposed.

In playtesting her after the fact, I am extremely embarrassed to find that a massive amount of her content is missing. I think over 60 percent of the project just isn't working right now, and that includes all of the flavor texts and reactions I wrote for her when you use all your various skills. The bad end cuts off prematurely, crashes in scenes, and she can't use her signature moves. This has the effect of robbing the encounter of all its threat, danger, excitement, and the feeling of overcoming a dangerous enemy for the heavy bunny-zon hatesex that accompanied a win or a loss.

I have made Sophora's document available in the public document repository for TiTS, and am linking them here as well. They are split into General + Combat, and Sex Scenes -- 23-1 & 23-2. It is being set to the public repository, because her conceptualization goes all the way back to 2019.

Over the last work day I've been fervently scrutinizing her content for what's missing, what's inaccurate... and the thing of it is, I can't even do a full playtest because so much just isn't working. I hope all of it gets fixed as soon as possible so that my goal for a lengthy midboss amazon nemesis fight will be be realized in the end. Her current implementation is a far cry from the experience I wished for players to have, and for that I am so, so sorry.

(23-1) Sophora General Scenes + Combat Text
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1njqbc7RYn7N_3NKydhciCd9uI8XINPZYjd2xrPZMAFg/edit#

(23-2) Sophora Smut Texts + Bad End
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wl1vTaTIlfATSr8hlJuDkSxEN3TkA1CzlxS9EZA5Rg/edit#heading=h.q0vg08bu4div

TiTS Project Documents Public Repository
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yLGG16dnGjTr8U6O6czOE12gBULtcChz

Going into August

I was remiss on making a post last week due to a lot of critical house work that had to be done. My dad and I set up things in the garage and got to work building a workspace and set of cabinets for storage in there for an eventual kitchen and bathroom remodeling. We're also looking into the estimates for work on the gutters and to move the electrical panel. Had to also rip some carpet up and that's still not done, and won't be 'til this weekend.

At the time, I went through Evilbun with some extra help and refined her a little more, but didn't have the energy at the start of this week to really push on the backlog. I foundation'd out all of the next addition to the ZS Operations Deck, starting with the reintroduction of the Shock Hopper and the Jumper Quarters on-base, including a Zero-G training room with smut in Zero-G.

I also began working on the rest of the Patreon Backlog, like the Zheng Shi Slave Suit interactions, but today's been low energy and it's gonna get tougher.

Autosaves are coming to TiTS JS build soon and there's been a lot of large projects getting coded. Leek works for CoC2 and spends a lot of time on TiTS, when he can, and recently he's been cranking on this and that for the fantasy side of things and picking at Evilbun for me, which I'm grateful for. The next TiTS patch will hopefully include some more of my backlogged, already-completed scenes, such as those patreon voted events in the (a4) doc.

Next month I'll be putting together a new (a6) doc and restarting the monthly votes, and ultra-defining the vote as being for something significant, as most of them have turned out. Weekly mini commissions for various little scenes could also continue again via streaming, but these things really need to be paced.

Thank you all for your patience and support. There's a lot more being worked on in the background and I'm excited to share it. I've attached a new music commission to this post.

It is, in fact, TiTS related. I will leave it vague for now.