Just a note. All the status messages are going to have custom graphics, they're just not ready yet. Consider them placeholder until then.
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Stacy Lynn was as easy on the eyes as ever. Today, she wore a pink puffy jacket, furry boots, and a white crop top with a black miniskirt. One hand rested on a designer bag slung around her shoulder, where she presumably had her work clothes stashed inside, while her other hand clutched a large espresso so sugary that Oliver could smell it f...
2023-11-17 03:56:29 +0000 UTC
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Right there, hovering in front of Oliver's field of vision, was what looked like a generic user interface screen straight out of one of his games. Another way to put it would be a pop-up text box, but this one had an image instead of text. The box was the size of a small computer monitor, had a blue background with white borders and rounded corners, and almost all of its surface was covered by a simplified, borderline cartoonish map of the massive coastal city of Vista Venus- the name itself ...
2023-11-16 03:46:35 +0000 UTC
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Thursday, February 15th
Same shit, different day. Oliver awoke the following morning much the same way he did the day before. His head was pounding from a little too much weed, and the alarm clock on his phone was blaring, screaming at him to rejoin the waking world. He grumbled and shut it off without opening his eyes.
Oliver had another alarm set in case he needed a few minutes of extra sleep, and he could already tell today would be one of those days. Unfortunately, getting bac...
2023-11-15 03:33:30 +0000 UTC
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Oliver's fascination with dating sims went all the way back to his last year of middle school. He didn't play any naughty ones back then, of course, but it was a slippery slope that started off with innocent intentions.
Back then, and even now in the present day, Oliver was an awkward kid who had trouble fitting in. He didn't have many friends growing up. Though he got along well enough with the nerds who shared his interests in anime, video games, and TCGs, he was always that one <...
2023-11-14 04:16:25 +0000 UTC
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When you had a small studio apartment, the temptation to throw yourself onto the bed after coming home from work and not get up for the rest of the night was enormous. It was the best seat in the house by far, though its only competition was some cushions on the floor arranged around the coffee table. Oliver failed to resist. He lay face down against his mattress while enjoying the sparse comfort it gave him.
It was a long day, and he needed the rest.
Oliver was in dire danger of ...
2023-11-13 00:56:44 +0000 UTC
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If anyone reading this is a 100% fluent (Mexican-dialect) Spanish speaker, I would appreciate having you as someone I can hit up for translations regarding Mia's occasional offhanded comments. I just used google translate for these and don't want that to be the case forever.
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Payless Foods closed at 9:00 PM on weekdays and 10:00 PM on Fridays and Saturdays. Oliver usually only ever worked Monday through Friday and got off at 5:00 PM, and the end of his shift loomed closer and c...
2023-11-12 03:54:41 +0000 UTC
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Oliver thought things would progress as they usually did and that his partner would keep to herself as they supported each other throughout the day, but Mia surprised him early on. She felt a lot more chatty than he was used to, and it caught him off guard.
"You aren't looking so hot today," she spoke up. "That have anything to do with why you were running late?"
"Huh? Oh, uh..." Oliver was daydreaming about the next heroine on his list and was startled by Mia suddenly calling out...
2023-11-12 03:27:33 +0000 UTC
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As this is new material, it's very important to let me know what you think. I hope you like it, 2 and 3 will be ready soon as I edit them.
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If Hell existed, Oliver Chase imagined it had to be a pretty similar experience to waking up in the morning and getting ready for work after taking a little too many edibles the night before. His head was fogged over by a thick shroud of residual CBD that hadn't entirely passed through his system yet as he swung his legs out of bed and quie...
2023-11-12 02:54:28 +0000 UTC
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And the boss lady. Urban made a logo for their aprons with the storename, but that's not present here. It will be in art.
2023-11-12 01:51:54 +0000 UTC
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bulli gorl
2023-11-12 01:50:11 +0000 UTC
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I'll be posting the first few chapters of Love Collector soon, so here is what Mia looks like. Will show Stacy and Tessa as well in a bit.
2023-11-12 01:39:28 +0000 UTC
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Well I think it's safe to say I'm a lot more motivated and invested in this story. I did 6k words today and yesterday because of how much fun I was having. Let me know your thoughts.
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Start
- Oliver wakes up late after a long night of gaming. He had too much edibles so his mind is aching and he's regretting every second of it, but he couldn't stop. The route on the game he was playing was to engaging and he had to see that heroine's story through to the end. It was ...
2023-11-10 02:22:03 +0000 UTC
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Stacy Lynn
22 years old, July 19th
Interests - Stacy starts off as a shallow person who enjoys stereotypical girly things like fashion, reality television, social media, and pop music. She will broaden her interests as she develops as a character. She has a secret passion that she doesn't really talk to anyone about, that being photography. She likes capturing beauty but is embarrassed about the whole white girl Instagram photographer cliché and thinks that all of her work is tri...
2023-11-08 04:45:38 +0000 UTC
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Tessa Robinson
34 years old, August 2nd
Interests - At this point in her life, Tessa's main hobby is drinking too much wine. She's 'focusing on her career right now' and that entails managing her store and trying to make it more profitable. She reads books on running a business, watches lectures on the topic, and does other things of that nature. Rather, that's her excuse. At most she watches the news and gets mad about things which doesn't really help her keep a positive outlook....
2023-11-07 23:39:25 +0000 UTC
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This is not a full story outline or anything. These are my loose ideas for the big moments of the first arc, but because of it being a litRPG, I can't structure it like I do a full novel. So I'll have big ideas and then make it work in the context of the ongoing story's flow.
1 - Mia opens up to Oliver about their shared past after work one day. She doesn't live that far from their job so Oliver volunteers to walk her home after she says she wants to talk to him. The mood is light and a...
2023-11-06 02:34:58 +0000 UTC
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Zoe Myers
23 years old, December 29th
Interests - Zoe is obsessed with video games of any genre to the point where it dominates her life. She doesn't care about nearly anything else aside from her friends, and even then she doesn't exactly go out of her way to be sociable very often except with Mia in particular. Aside from gaming, she enjoys lounging around idly on the internet, shitposting, light trolling- not harassing but rather purposefully posting bait- and memes. Also likes...
2023-11-06 02:33:23 +0000 UTC
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Mia Rosas
22 years old, September 9th
Interests: Anime and manga, watching other people play video games because she isn't coordinated enough to play them herself, drawing lewd art (she is bisexual and draws women more because it makes her more popular), making comics, sketching her environment and drawing character studies while people watching, lewd content in general, weed (nice)
Personality: Seemingly distant and aloof but is actually just soft-spoken and is quite chill ...
2023-11-06 02:32:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, just keeping you informed on what I'm up to. I've been quiet since my last journal but that's mostly because I've been working on stuff behind the scenes and not because of bad moods. I just haven't fully finished anything worth sharing yet. I've written a profile for one girl in the upcoming story, half written another, and am working on a big list of purchaseable skills. The skills are really kicking my ass because I want to have as many as possible mapped out before even st...
2023-11-03 23:27:32 +0000 UTC
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I need to talk about the way I've been feeling and some of my bad habits that I'm going to try and avoid from now on.
At this point, it's safe to say that this year has been messy for me. I ended Coye because I had to come to terms with it not been profitable, I tried making three different stories with ghostwriting partners and then dropped them after going so far as getting character art and covers made for characters that I'll now never use, I started a down to earth romcom in WWYK o...
2023-10-31 01:06:13 +0000 UTC
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If you read this, I want to stress FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST PERKS.
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Basic Powers
This section is not for the skills Oliver will eventually purchase through his point accumulation but for documenting the 'mundane' things that happen as a result of his abilities. These powers are active from the start of the 'game' that is his life as soon as he first activates his power.
The ability to interact with a system and menus which no one else can see. These are all in a poppy, ...
2023-10-29 03:50:19 +0000 UTC
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Oliver 'Ollie' Chase
22 Years Old, Birthday Jan 15th
Interests: Anime, Manga, Games, Dating Sims, Visual Novels, Edibles
Personality: Starts off as a quiet, awkward, loser who is nervous around girls but will grow into a confident and determined protagonist who loves helping others.
Appearance: 5'3ft, initially scrawny, poor posture, shaggy black hair, brown eyes, wears nerdy clothes outside of work but the story will see him as he develops by hitting the gym and putti...
2023-10-29 03:48:40 +0000 UTC
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About to drop two documents of development on the dating sim story, will finish Clouded Soul 26 tomorrow hopefully. Alternating on the projects is helping my mood a lot and I feel very productive. Please let me know if you have any feedback on the documents, specifically the second.
2023-10-29 03:36:59 +0000 UTC
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Just following up on the things I said yesterday, but I think writing out that comedic story pitch helped clear up a lot of my funk. It led me to reaching 3k words for the first time in a couple of weeks now I think and I'm already on the way to 4k+. 1.5k of that is the pitch, the rest is Clouded Soul 25 which should be done soon.
I think the takeaway here is very obvious in that I really did need something more fun to balance out CS's more seriousness, so I'm thinking I will keep devel...
2023-10-26 01:19:20 +0000 UTC
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I ranted in a blog earlier today about how Clouded Soul was making me depressed because we're still in the setup and tragedy prologue and it's getting pretty tiresome writing *and then things get worse and the little boy loses even more of his hope* for 30 straight chapters. I'm proud of the results, but I'm already having unstable moods lately and writing sad shit isn't really conducive to that. I mentioned that my only way out is to grind the rest of the prologue out, but that creates a neg...
2023-10-25 11:18:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, I wanted to let you all know what's going on and what I'm up to. I didn't say so but last weekend my adderall prescription wasn't ready so I took those two days off, and for the last three days I've not been feeling great even though I'm past that. I hate the pace I've been working at lately and I want to improve but my mood is more unstable than it usually is as of late. It's been making work on Clouded Soul difficult, especially with the darker subject matter in the early chapters...
2023-10-24 23:17:05 +0000 UTC
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Just reporting in again now that we only have 10 more chapters to get to before we finally have the 30 advance chapters locked in. Despite still getting my ass kicked by my inconsistent moods, we're still making progress little by little. I'd like to say we'll be ready to launch by the end of the month but it'll probably be in the first week of November at this rate, since I'm not consistently pulling off a chapter a day.
Thank you everyone at the lower tiers for being patient as I buil...
2023-10-20 01:33:56 +0000 UTC
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I just finished all the available chapters of a manga series called Marriagetoxin and randomly felt like sharing some thoughts. I’d usually do this on Twitter but we all know how that place is doing. I have 3.3k followers and my engagement is at an all time low. Maybe I’ll post more thoughts about things I read and watch if you guys are interested.
Anyway, Marriagetoxin is a pretty fun action series with a focus on romance. I think most readers would like it but my autism prevents m...
2023-10-14 22:08:41 +0000 UTC
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Don't really have much to say on this one but I did want to point out that I just posted Clouded Soul Chapter 18, so we're officially at the halfway mark! As soon as the advance chapters get to 33, we're going live with 1-3. Hopefully it won't be long now.
2023-10-12 11:01:27 +0000 UTC
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Just posted 13, so now we have the 10 promised ready to go! We're launching as soon as we hit chapter 33 so I can launch 1-3 on the same day, so we're 1/3rd of the way there now. Unfortunately I need to remind you guys that unless you're at the $15 tier you're not going to be getting any new chapters for several weeks because of this. Probably a month or more if this pace keeps up. Now's the time to change tiers if you want to keep up, but no pressure if you don't!
Not feeling much like...
2023-10-02 02:25:41 +0000 UTC
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I took the day off from writing to make this. It had to be done for future art's sake, and I'm quite happy with the results. This shade of blue is Miao's primary color, her first outfit doesn't really reflect that lol
2023-10-01 10:49:14 +0000 UTC
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