So, before the actual progress report stuff, I wanted to thank everyone who has voted in the Patreon Feedback Poll (which is still open). The response so far has been...pretty unequivocal. Much to my genuine surprise, actually. I didn't expect a 100% vote in the direction that ran opposite of my own assumptions :-p. But...it's actually a relief. The truth is that I actually don't do so well with hard deadlines, so everyone so far being okay with occasional SHORT delays in order to get builds right is...major, even if it doesn't seem like it. I constantly ride the ragged edge of how much stuff I can squeeze into builds, because I want every single patron to feel like they've gotten a good deal with what I provide. Your support means a lot to me, and I try to make that evident the best way I know how, by providing the best and largest amounts of content I can, as often and as reliably as I can. But that habit of deliberately shooting the moon is one that puts a TON of stress on me when something I can't predict goes wrong and causes a deadline to slip.
Knowing that at least the 20% of you that have voted so far are okay with it when it happens lessens that stress, a LOT. Which, of course, doesn't mean that I'll let it happen if I can help it :-p. I'll still do my very best not to let deadlines slip, and to keep that slippage down to no more than a day or two when it does happen!
Thanks for being awesome, dudes, dudettes, and non-dude-binary others!
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Now, on to the actual progress report. It's mostly good news at this point. As of maybe half an hour ago, I've gotten the 6 scenes for the Pony Express Courier Service added in. That means that, later today, I'll be grabbing the assets for both the simple scene in the shape of a futa-variant for the Practical Magic training, and the more complex scenes needed for the 2nd Mage Guild quest. Hopefully, I'll have the time to edit all te image/video assets I capture as well, but that will depend on how much they fight me in the process. In turn that will, ideally, leave me with Saturday for implementation of those scenes, then Sunday for testing and an editing pass/grammar check.
Honestly, testing and editing/grammar check take long enough with this engine that you should probably not expect the upload (which itself takes hours) until at least early morning on the first. Were it not for the rather one-sided current results of the poll mentioned above, I might have chopped the two scenes for the second Mage Guild quest, in order to be certain I could get this out by the strict end-of-month deadline. With those early results taken into account...I'm planning on pushing to get them in, even if that means it may not be out until later on the first (which is possible, if the scenes or testing fight me). Hopefully, that doesn't anger anyone too much :-).