Zinnia Demitasse

Gabriel Post Chapter Nine

A/N Assuming you freed Caliban and talked to Gabriel afterwards.

When the old Warden had died, dozens lined up to take his place.  They vied for the role as if it were sport, laying laws down with no real jurisdiction and placing the market in a militant venue of opposing sides and rule.  Gabriel, had not wanted the job.  They had not been one of the ones to come forth while the old Warden’s body was still cooling.  Gabriel, in fact, had liked his curren...

Discord

Hey everyone. I wanted to do a poll to discuss the future of our discord. Do we want to open it up to the public or do you guys feel like that infringes on your Patreon status? I don't know how many of you are here for discord specifically.

Dev Blog 12.5.22

We are at the end game. Holy shit we are at the end game.

I have three more chapters to write and then Book 1 is complete.  Right now, I'm considering just taking an extra week or two and writing them all out. Getting them all on paper while this excitement is thrumming through me. And then going back and implementing the choices.  It might mean that the next chapter doesn't get out to you guys until the second week of January but I think it might be a more polished final prod...

Milo and Malcolm

A/N Just a oneshot that came to mind about Milo and Mal back in the early years.
This will not count against your normal RO shorts. This is just kind of a bonus content for the month.

Malcolm opened his door to a very wet and disheveled Milo. Not a completely foreign sight through the years but still not one he had expected. Not tonight at least. They were on rival jobs and when they took those contracts, they spent their time apart, not even glancing in the other's dire...

Paper Moons Alpha Game Access

Hey everyone. Here is the link for the alpha build and the code to get in. Please be patient with me. It is a very rough draft over there and I have yet to put in anything to the side bar. But all the alternate choices are there. The password for the build will also be changing once a month.

https://the-night-market.itch.io/paper-moons

Password: DecPaperBaron

Paper Moons Part 8

Glancing hesitantly up towards the top of the stairs, I felt my gut twist.  I didn’t trust the woman before me. But her daughter perhaps would be able to help much more.  “I think I would like to hear what she has to say,” I said, nodding towards the girl.  She looked at me with wide, hazel eyes rounded in awe but also struck through with panic.

Before me, Lucin...

Chapter Nine NSFW

The chapter nine NSFW scene is with Belladonna this chapter.  I was not going to have any scene with her until the next book but she decided to take the lead on that one and barrel into one.  Sounds about right for her.

The code for hers is as follows.

Belladonna's code:  9b311a.

Chapter Nine Early Release

Chapter nine is here! I have to admit, it is terrifying coming this close to the end of the game.  I'm both incredibly excited about this chapter and equally terrified.  I hope you all enjoy and please, have faith that it will be okay. :)

Code for the access is 

rav3n93nd.

Malcolm Albright - Gatekeeper

A/N Takes place before Malcolm's death, during his years as the Gatekeeper.

“What exactly happened?”

Malcolm hissed in pain, falling back on the soft bed of kelp. His shirt was discarded somewhere, having been torn through with sizzling cracks of electricity, the lines of which burned across his skin, slashing through his tattoos and previous scars.

“Too many gates,” he said through gritted teeth. “There were too many to close at once. Not with magic at ...

Hazel - Post Chapter Eight

Hazel didn’t have a good reason for coming downstairs when she did that night.  When she awoke, staring at the peeled stars of her ceiling, she had assumed the wisps had roused her. But even they were dim in the late night hours, hovering outside her window but not bothering her or attempting to come inside. She did try to go back to sleep. To roll over in the massive amounts of comforters sh...

Paper Moons Alpha Game Access

Hey everyone. Here is the link for the alpha build and the code to get in. Please be patient with me. It is a very rough draft over there and I have yet to put in anything to the side bar. But all the alternate choices are there. The password for the build will also be changing once a month.

https://the-night-market.itch.io/paper-moons

Password: DecPaperBarons

Paper Moons Part 7

“I’ll need to go get some herbs from the local chemist. I think there are a few, out-of-the-way things we could collect, that might help stem the madness a bit.  I hear there is a store at the end of Apothecary Lane that specializes in items that are a bit harder to procure.”

Reese nodded to me before opening up a particular cupboard that looked as if it were full of half drank whiskey and bourbon bottles.  Shoving them aside, I heard them clang around before he pulled f...

Story ideas

I'm itching to do a Malcolm scene here soon. He's been bouncing around my head.  What kind of story would you guys like to see though?

Gabriel Post Chapter Eight

A/N: A bit of a different format. I felt after chapter eight it was more important to have another follow up scene between Gabriel and the MC. And since I am American and it is the time of giving, I give you a short that is twice the normal length of what I usually do, and a slightly steamy ending. Enjoy!

It had been days. Three, to be exact. I had not seen Gabriel since the night of Elias.  Since we had gone back to his place and sat in a bare living room, listening to Reese sing ...

Paper Moons Part Six

“How did you come to meet Reese and Elias?” I asked.  Fallen didn’t often get the chance to associate. They were either killed for their leftover grace, or went mad with their cut connection from the Knowing.  The fact that two were living under one roof was one of endless fascination to me and now that the danger had begun to pass, I was curious.

“Reese stopped me from swimm...

Belladonna - Post Chapter Eight

A/N: A conversation between Belladonna and Gabriel after the events of Chapter eight.  Assuming it is a few days later after the dust has settled.  

Belladonna waited.

She was very good at waiting.  Some might say she was too good, in fact.  There was a distinct possibility it may be a fault because it didn’t allow her to move on from any single slight. Mainly, because she was willing to wait years to see things through.  Not many knew that ab...

Dev Blog 11/14/22

I'm doing some end game route coding today and then chapter nine should be off to the editors.  I didn't realize when starting this how immensely important this chapter was going to be for the end game scenario. There is one choice that was clearly going to shape the game a bit going into Book 2, but as I've been writing, I've realized it is going to make your character possibly look like a hypocrite in Book 2 if the routes are not chosen a certain way.

This is of course not to say...

Paper Moons Part 5

Reaching out, I placed my hand gently on Elias’s wrist. I could see the tears in his eyes but most of all, I could see the determination.  “We could try combining our grace? I- I am unsure if that’s even something we’re capable of but if we can do that then maybe it’ll be enough to heal him.  Just until I get my full power back.”

“Do it,” Reese said, interrupting Elias. When Elias looked up at him, he shook his head. “I’m not negotiating this.”

I co...

Milo - Post Chapter Eight

A/N Post chapter eight and right before we head into chapter nine. This can be a story for a romantic route with Milo or a platonic one.

The lights flickered on above sending the spectral crabs scattering.  The chandelier was made of crustacean bone and tapered flickering candles, the likes of which had glass bulbs instead of wicks.  Milo looked up, nodding as the crabs ran away and the little seahorse he had seen bobbing off to the side, hid beneath an old ba...

Dev Blog 11/8/22

Last night I pretty much finished all of Chapter nine. I still have to go in and put in variations for different RO's, but this chapter was one I had been excited to write from the beginning and may be one of the only chapters I have ever had planned out. Due to this, it was completed in two marathon work days.  I no longer know if I've just hit the jackpot stride of creativity with these chapters, or I have learned to compartmentalize so well that I'm able to write despite everything el...

Gabriel Caine Full Body Art

Done by mooreaux.  The wonderful Gabriel Caine in his Night Market uniform.

Paper Moons Part 4

“Wait!” My heart thudded in my chest as I stepped around Gabriel. There was a wildness to the goblins eyes. A sense of amusement at our predicament that I knew was only a mask for sinister intentions. “Just wait,” I said, placing my hand on Gabriel’s arm. It shook with the effort to keep the blade leveled at the intruder. “I will go with you.”

Gabriel’s arm faltered as he turned to look at me.  While the blade still hovering in the air, he blinked at me, confusion c...

Paper Moons Delay

Due to my husband's new work schedule, my work schedule has had to change around. I'm going to set Paper Moons to every Friday now instead of Wednesday.  Sorry about the inconvenience. It will just be much easier to write more towards the weekend when I have extra hands for the kiddos.

Zinnia

Dev Blog 10/31/22

Happy Halloween if you celebrate!

Not much new going on over on this end. My husband starts back to work this week after a seven week hiatus so we are in a mini adjustment in the household.  However, I am going to be starting chapter nine today.

Chapter eight will be out for early release this Wednesday! With it, does come a warning of body modification and body horror, so please just keep that in mind. Also, if you are on the Hazel route, please go back to chapter seven upon...

Belladonna - Post Chapter Seven

A/N: After the garden scene in Belladonna's route. Though, this one is nor romance related and I would say has far more plot detail in it than any of the others. 

It was far colder than what should have been appropriate for the time of year. Not that the Night Market had seasons, per se, but it did have subtle shifts based on which district you were in.  The gemstone district, for example, loved the crisp and cold weather.  It created a shine to the crystals th...

Paper Moons choices Part 3

Here are your choices for Part 3! Please remember that these are the last for the month of October and starting November, this story will go up to the Baron tier only.  I just did not want members to get double charged in the month of October.

Paper Moons Part 3

A/N: Please remember this is the last Paper Moons of the month, posted at all tiers. Starting November, it will only be available at the Baron tier.

The room was dimly lit, the only window off to the far right covered in gauzy moonlit curtains.  The sound of the small brook outside filtered in with a trickle, providing a soft background noise to the otherw...

Dev Blog 10/23/22

Hey everyone!

I think I have a release date for the next chapter. It should be going up on November 2nd! So not that far away at all. There are a few more things my beta's are looking at, and I have to flesh out a few little scenes here and there, but it is pretty much done for now.

With the update comes a lot more spelling and grammar fixes through the entirety of the Night Market IF.  I'm still tweaking your Character Sheet on the sidebar and your Baron sheet so it looks pr...

Milo - Post Chapter Seven

A/N: Assuming you slept with Milo at the end of chapter seven.

I hissed in pain, arching up off the mattress as something cold and wet swiped across my belly.  Eyes flashing open, I stared up at the piped ceiling of a rusted distillery.

“Sorry. Sorry.” Milo’s voice was soft and warm in the chilled night.  A rag was clenched in his hands as he sat next to me, naked.  I blinked the grit from my eyes, trying to gain my bearings, but feeling every muscl...

Paper Moon Part 2 Choices

Voting will close next Wednesday.