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A question for you 🌱

Are the demo's import questions getting too long? Specifically the version where you fully customize your character and answer every single thing that's relevant to the demo.

Rin Bonus Story: Strife Season's for Two Things (nonbinary Rin)

I duck at Rin's shout, dropping to crouch with my hand on the cracked, dusty earth to steady myself and feel a whoosh of air in the spot where my head was. I pivot, grip my dagger in my hand and pop back up hard, throwing my shoulder into the chest of a green-skinned humanoid fae.

The creature—a particularly nasty fae I recognize as a Risora—staggers backward, the wind knocked out of ...

Rin Bonus Story: Strife Season's for Two Things (female Rin)

I duck at Rin's shout, dropping to crouch with my hand on the cracked, dusty earth to steady myself and feel a whoosh of air in the spot where my head was. I pivot, grip my dagger in my hand and pop back up hard, throwing my shoulder into the chest of a green-skinned humanoid fae.

The creature—a particularly nasty fae I recognize as a Risora—staggers backward, the wind knocked out of ...

Rin Bonus Story: Strife Season's for Two Things (male Rin)

“Behind you!”

I duck at Rin's shout, dropping to crouch with my hand on the cracked, dusty earth to steady myself and feel a whoosh of air in the spot where my head was. I pivot, grip my dagger in my hand and pop back up hard, throwing my shoulder into the chest of a green-skinned humanoid fae.

The creature—a particularly nasty fae I recognize as a Risora—s...

Extended Writing Update

I swear someday I'll be done with chapter one. 😂 Listen, I've said before that the first three chapters of a game are the hardest to write and I stand by that. Fortunately, I'm not averse to chucking what I think doesn't work into the bin and making something better - in this case, a lot more opportunities to mouth off to the council or to make them like you, much more insight into ...

Leon Poll 5: Scars & Tattoos

For those keeping track, the picture of Leon so far is: Extremely pale with short, curly brown hair, green eyes, and a slender build.

For poll 5 you can pick multiple options!

I'll use the top 2 tattoos and the top 1 scar (unless the "none" options win, of course!).

Leon Poll 4 results!

This one was close whew, man! Results below.

Here's Patreon:

And here's Ko-fi:

That leaves us with a total of 7 votes for short curly hair, 6 votes for long straight hair. Congrats...

Me, letting the voices win

They said to rewrite the council interaction and give an option for MC to tell the nobles to their faces that they ain't sh*t.

Monthly Extra: A letter from Rivena (Wren's sister)

My dear, wonderful, maddening [sister/brother/sibling],

Don't even start with me - I can feel you rolling your eyes all the way from Nosret, but you've earned 'maddening' ten times over as far as I'm concerned. Leave it to you to get wrapped up in something called death magic.<...

Leon poll results 3 + Poll 4: hair style & length

The complexion poll was a pretty close race on both patreon and ko-fi between extremely pale (9 votes), light olive (7 votes), and the pasty white option that was suggested by one of the wonderful patrons here (5 votes)!

So far, we've got a brown-haired, green-eyed Leon with a slender build and extremely pale skin. Next up is his hair style/length!

Extended Writing Update

Burning the midnight oil this week lol 😂 I've been bouncing back and forth between revising chapter one (again, to no one's surprise) and adding new chapter content. The first three chapters of a story tend to be the most difficult for me to nail down, and this is no exception. To be honest I think that's probably common among writers. It's such a tricky thing to get the opening the way you ...

Sneak peek ~ Dramaaa

Text reads:

"I am sorry to be selfish," Keo says with a huff. "I know we have greater concerns. But Rin stole from us, evaded our questions, made it clear [rin_heSheThey] hated everything fae, and encouraged us to torture a fellow agent. All that and still I was willing to - I don't know. To t...

A quick note:

Welp, that's the last time I attempt to use the queue feature on my platforms 😅 I'm so sorry the Wren bonus story was a few hours late! To make up for it, I'm going to release a sneak peek post today for all tiers 🧡

Wren Bonus Story: Strife Season (male Wren)

“It’s official: I hate strife season.”

I look up in surprise from the fae corpse I’m sketching. It’s a Liner—a long insectoid fae that looks a lot like a dragonfly with pitch-black scales so dark they shine blue. Its wings still beat furiously in death, keeping it suspended about an inch off the ground as its corpse slowly disintegrates on the breeze. “Why?�...

Wren Bonus Story: Strife Season (female Wren)

“It’s official: I hate strife season.”

I look up in surprise from the fae corpse I’m sketching. It’s a Liner—a long insectoid fae that looks a lot like a dragonfly with pitch-black scales so dark they shine blue. Its wings still beat furiously in death, keeping it suspended about an inch off the ground as its corpse slowly disintegrates on the breeze. “Why?�...

Wren Bonus Story: Strife Season (nonbinary Wren)

“It’s official: I hate strife season.”

I look up in surprise from the fae corpse I’m sketching. It’s a Liner—a long insectoid fae that looks a lot like a dragonfly with pitch-black scales so dark they shine blue. Its wings still beat furiously in death, keeping it suspended about an inch off the ground as its corpse slowly disintegrates on the breeze. “Why?�...

Leon poll 2 results + poll 3: choosing his complexion 🌱

The results are in! So far we've got a brown-haired Leon with a slender build :)

Next up: what complexion should he have?

Extended Writing Update

I got so much done this week, good lord. Mostly prepping tier content here, going through and finishing up the bonus stories (I wasn't able to completely finish them last month but now they're good to go!), drafting out my ideas for how the letter for the monthly extra should go (it's from one of Wren's sisters, fun fact), and laying some groundwork for a new type of monthly extra I want to try...

May's Content Schedule :)

Here's what to expect this month ~

This is a bonus stories month, so there's going to be tons of content! 😄 The story topic selected in the last poll was "Strife Season."

• Every Sunday: Extended Writing Updates. (Citizen tier and up)

• Monday May 5th: Leon poll - choosing his complexion (Agent tier and u...

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April's alpha demo is live! 🎉

You can play it here :D It's ~14,000 new words (about the same as the last update), for anyone counting. You'll see some new content in chapter one and then a bunch of new stuff following where the last demo left off! For the Keo romancers: those who ended book o...

Extended Writing Update

It's the end of the month, which means I'm working away to get the demo ready for launch. I finished up the Leon and Tiane scenes in chapter one, restructured the previous scene where everyone's together at the den, and tweaked some dialogue in the final chapter one scene with one of the people you can question (since the new scenes answer some of what you can ask there). All in all it's a pret...

Leon poll 1 results + poll 2: choosing his build 🌱

The results are in - Leon's hair will be brown!

Next up: What build do you want him to have?