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Everyone in Riven desires the pathfinder carnally

pfft-- this came out of a bit of the next chapter, that I'm reworking to fit even if your pathfinder isn't the type to think swooning is "fun" or ''exciting", and would rather intimidate than take it with a click of their heels. Is your pathfinder that type? Or would they just roll their eyes and get on with their day?


*if (race = "human")

    thou...

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dev log #23, 13th november, 2023

I'm free from the flu! It was gruesome! :D

I did manage to write a few sentences here and there, but I am definitely rearing to go now, my twine build and the choicescript IDE already open in the other window. I'm having loads of fun re-imagining how you meet Auryn-- I'll admit that I love those scenes that are there from the old demo, and am having a hard time parting with them (so much so that I even considered adding another RO entirely- but those are naughty and entirely unbaked i...

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dev log #22, 6th of november, 2023

The past week passed in a blur— my fever is excruciatingly high, my lungs feel like bricks, and I sleep in hour long bursts before I have to get up and walk off the strange ache that reverberate in my bones. This influenza has me knocked out. I have been writing, though, but a paragraph or two at most, per writing session. I dreamt about Riven. I'm excited for my story again. So all is not lost. (Thinking about extending my nano-days to account for this period, too, because why not...

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Some sneakpeeks :]

So, guess what. I haven't finished the sexy shorts-- the mood eludes me when I'm sick as a mule. (I'm fine-- what started as a sniffle didn't go away, but I only really get sick like once a year, at most, so I'm just happy to get this over with, pfft.) Anyway, here's some little bits and pieces for you until my brain cooperates and finishes one thing instead of working on a hundred different stuffs :}

2023-11-03 10:31:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter purgatory: Idren/Ida's 101

(a/n: hello! This is the chapter of Idren/I

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dev log #21, october 30th, 2023

First, a sneakpeek(from ouro):

...and much like a pet wouldn’t know the meaning of when you murmur ‘good girl’, you cannot comprehend more of the trees whispers than a general sense of reassurance: you are going the right way, headed down the right path. This is good, your skin tells you; the breeze washes over you like a blanket drawn past bedtime, like a cup of tea in the kitchen, three hours past midnight when everything consists of hope, of potential. Tom...

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Closed October Polls and November Posts

First off— October's polls are now closed and Yor//Yana won both of them! Woaw! Now, m!Leith did technically win the NSFW poll, but I have decided to write both second and first place, which means that Yor will have a haunted special too. I don't know which one I'll write first, but one will be posted this Friday (27th oct), and the other the Friday after (3rd nov). The Q&A will be posted the Friday after that (10th nov) and the new polls go up after that. None...

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dev log #20, october 23'rd, 2023

Hello everyone ❤️ A very raw dev log this week— last week was pure unadulterated hell and piss for me. My past traumas kicked my legs from under me. My dog having intense flares of backpain put me on my knees. Unexpected economic hardship grabbed me by my neck and held me underwater. I'm not trying to be dramatic— I'm still in survival mode and I have no idea how to even sugarcoat it. It's ugly. Every productive week is seemingly followed by this void where I'm left scrambling for scr...

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dev log #19, october 16th, 2023

A little potpurri of Stuff today for you, and we'll start with some accomplished tasks for the past week!

  • I'm done with the outline and scene-cards for my super secret indulgent project. It's a retelling of a classic tale, set in ouro, but that is all I'll say! (for now) :> 
  • I wrote the first draft of Y's character card flashback story (character cards are where you choose the characters pronouns and learn about them)
  • sketched a bit to find a neat sketchi...

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weekly dev log #18, october 9th, 2023

Preptober is in full swing! Coding (and revision. heh) has taken a backseat as I spent all of last week doing deep dives into what makes writing fun for me- listing genres, tropes, themes, and characters that I adore and why I adore them. Basic stuff that gets me thinking and puts me in a creative mood. I carried no less than 9 books from the library to read, and finished four in the last week alone. It's very exciting to get to rediscover all of this! It feels like I'm renovating the foundat...

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October NSFW poll!

I have only one theme for October, and that is haunting. (Ghost voice: oooOOooOoOoOoo). Pick the RO you want to witness while they are haunted by the hunter, driven to despair by how much they crave; enough to take the matter into their own hands. Heh.

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October Q&A poll!

Who do you wish to see questioned next?

-Poll closes on the 23'rd of October!-

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dev log #17, october 2nd, 2023

Auryn before the Stila's collapse, or, me trying to work on anatomy.


It's been a pretty decent week, in retrospect, but it was a tough one to get through in real time! I had a lot of work-related stuff to get through (but now it's done and dusted. The grief of leaving that field of work is there, but there has been such a weight off my chest to get to leave it behind, proba...

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A motive that speaks for itself [hunter changes]

A quick psa before I go off the rails for this one- If you haven't heard me say it, my sleep schedule is all out of whack (I have given up control to my body adjusting to all this craziness until it's out of my system) and my posting schedule is suffering for it- I think there might be a full 24 hours before my Ida/MC nsfw piece goes up, which will be my Friday but probably your Saturday. Sorry for any inconvenience!<3


Now. 

2023-09-29 06:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post

dev log #16, september 25th, 2023

It looks like gold coins have spilled over the entire forest floor. The weather is brooding and dark. I love it so much I might explode.


I feel it returning to me- the joy of creating. I can see it, approaching, gently, softly. It's sensitive and fickle, a wild animal. When I turn my back on it and just breathe, taking a moment to appreciate the horizon, it approaches cauti...

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September polls are closed!

For the NSFW poll with 35% : 'Hatefucking'- Ida & F!MC 😈 which will be out on Friday the 29th! Ooh this one is already sizzling and I am excited.


For the Q&A with 32%: Auryn! This will be dropping Friday the 6th of October. Send in your questions on discord, here or tumblr :D Also...

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weekly dev log #15, september 18th, 2023

Mild spoilers for worldbuilding and stuff I want to change!

Oh, and the polls will close on Friday, so make sure to leave your votes ❤️

We live another week! Not going to lie, having started up with my therapist on a regular basis again has been pretty damn brutal on my mental health. The mind-numbing fatigue is real. The processing mind is ...

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weekly dev log #14, september 11th 2023

What a weird, wonderful week it has been for me- I've felt a little like Alice in Wonderland about it all. The week was spent getting back into painting for the different splash screens I want to have for ouro(which mostly consisted of trying different art-styles and crying about the resulting look) and the portraits of the RO's (as you have seen), but also some sprite backgrounds for different sections of the game. That started a weekend-long trek into Unity's asset store, which in ...

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F!Leith portrait

Ohhhhh I have spent most of my week trying to get back into art, and today I finally started on F!Leith's portrait :] Still a wip! (My brushstrokes are as stiff as a.... no...I shan't say it.)


And hey, I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead!<3

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weekly dev log #13, september 4th 2023


Writing last weeks dev log was a real weight off my shoulders. Thank you for letting me share that, and for your really supportive response<3
I have been painting (above is the one i'm happiest with), writing in styles I didn't think I could write in, reading a dramoine fanfic (I found rock bottom and then proceeded further, apparently (the fanfic was utterly fantastic though)), an...

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September NSFW poll!

O.O It's the girlies turn! 

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September Q&A poll!

Not me completely forgetting to post the polls, I would never!!! Hope you enjoyed the last Q&A with Oma, and here are the candidates for September! :D

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Sensory overload, an Idren POV NSFW short (part 1)




(a/n: This was written with the last dredges of energy I’ve had over the past week, brute forcing it through my blockage, and after two very failed, very unsexy attempts, I woke up near delirious with mischief and decided to write it in Idren’s pov, with a bit of a different prose than usual. It is only part one because my two famished braincells have unionized against me and are demanding that I put the laptop away and attempt to fix this wrench I put...

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Weekly dev log #12, 28th August 2023

Hello everyone! 


Here comes another dreadfully honest dev log, lol. If you aren't in the mood for me being vulnerable, here's a tl;dr of progress:

  • I have been coding and keeping at it, writing the theme from scratch just to get comfortable with the coding. It has come with a lot of ups and downs (coding and then recoding because it was a trashfire. pfft.) It's moving!
  • I have been rewriting passages and thinking so hard that it makes me dizzy, solving...

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Unholy, disgusting thing: A Selene flashback + S moodboard


Oakwerth, 240 years before leaving for Riven.


In the heart of desolation, she is intimate with the cadence of waiting— whispers of wind that taste like stagnant breath, the tremor of ground that shift beneath her feet from the scourge awakening— and that, the unbearable wailing that carves new pathways of sorrow through her once lithe heart. Her routine is me...

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August Polls are closed! :>

And the winners are...

For the Q&A dropping on the 30th of August, with a whopping 40% is OMA!!!! I can't believe you guys. I have been giggling like a sleep-deprived toddler over this. Amazing, showstopping, gorgeous. Can't wait. Send in your questions, on tumblr, discord or through here!!! :D I have been toying with the idea of doing a live Q&A with the character/s over on tumblr... Let me know how you feel about that? O.O

For the NSFW s...

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Weekly dev log #11, August 21st 2023


The work continues although life is a steamroller at present- I am determined to navigate through this. I might make a disturbing sight as I'm narrowing my eyes at the screen and mumbling threats at the code, plotpoints and actual sentence to sentence writing I'm trying to figure out BUT I will do this thing come hell or high water. Hoping to have some fun news next week if I make it out of this in one piece.

That's it. That's the update- I have to get back because the twine file is...

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Sive & Lyselin

A/N: Life has been incredibly unkind to me in the past week, and the muses have made room for some unexpected stress- nothing life-threatening but also something I'm not entirely comfortable talking about. I am not giving up, just unable to complete the Selene short I was hoping to have finished for today. I hope a little snippet into Sive & Lyselins standalone story will tide you over until things settle. This was written a looooong time ago and I have hopes of rewriting it one day, but ...

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I've collected stupid tweets and I'm about to make it your problem

Yor//Yana


Auryn

Sene//Selene

2023-08-16 15:41:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly dev log #10, August 14th 2023

If last week's dev log was breezier to write, this week I barely have anything to say! Last week I made a progress report for Tumblr and… that's about it! I did fool around a bit in twine, but it was a bit of negative progress since I deleted a lot that I want to get rewritten, but, that counts as progress too! I also did finally take a long hike with nana, my dog, which was the highlight of my week. She is finally doing better! :') I hope I can get her to go for a run this week, with an al...

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