Hello, everyone!
It has been a good progress week for FoA (something I attribute to the need to feel like something is within my control, thanks Autism brain!) I've written 16,000 words since this time last week, bringing the chapter's current total to 69,000 (nice, I know).
We're still in the middle of the scene with the goddess coming to visit, because v a r i a t i o n s, but I t...
2023-06-12 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
I've elected to do more character questionnaires this round for bonus content, because I found quite a few questions I rather liked. I'd almost call this the 'Dispositional' questionnaire, because it's a lot of self-reflecting on personality and relationships with others, as well as some reflection on the past.
First up for this set is Charon, and I do think so...
2023-06-07 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
No news in the apartment hunt yet, but thank you for your support. :)
FoA-wise, I've decided to try and knuckle down and get back to my usual pace of writing, since my short study term has finished for now (contingent on one assignment grade I don't have yet). As a result, I've been quite busy since the BIP came out, and the chapter now has 53,000 words, which is 8k up...
2023-06-05 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As promised, here's the BIP, now with 45k brand-new words, including two fully-finished scenes and one more underway. I hope you like it, and as always if you encounter any trouble, inconsistencies, or other odd things while playing, I'd love to know.
2023-05-31 02:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
For those of you waiting on the BIP, it'll be here in an hour. In the meantime (and for everyone else), I bring you this month's bonus content poll!
We're scheduled to get some Alekto POV in June. The last of those featured her mid-battle with the PC alongside. So naturally the question is: would you rather see her as I've done the others, visiting them after the fight ...
2023-05-31 01:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
This week has brought a rather large change in my personal life—I'm now staying with my partner's family as we look for a place to rent here in Brisbane. The market is frankly awful for renters; everything's way too expensive and still likely to be snapped up within a couple days of being advertised. And of course, two people looking for work just don't look as good on t...
2023-05-29 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
As promised, here's a bit of angsty Charon POV for you all. They have a lot of similarities to Hades when it comes to self-esteem, but those feelings are coming from very different places, and he handles them quite differently, too.
I hope you enjoy!
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“What would it hurt?” Hades asks.
Charon has always admired him for being able t...
2023-05-24 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, everyone!
The chapter continues apace! I've managed another 10,000 words on it, and in so doing have completed the scene with Demeter. That brings the chapter to 33,000 words in total, and next up I'll be working on a scene where the PC receives a visit from either the goddess they're friends with (as determined at the party in chapter one), or their Aunt Hestia, even if they...
2023-05-22 02:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
I've had a pretty eventful week, I must admit. Perhaps the biggest piece of news is that the last chapter of my other project (Diaspora) just saw public release, so I'm waiting for the inevitable flood of bug reports and so on, and am sure to be busy with those, on top of my short-term study projects, and of course FoA.
But I'm still making pretty good progress! Cha...
2023-05-15 02:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
As promised, the first of this month's bonus contents continues the old questionnaire rotation from before Patreon got readjusted. This month it's Hekate's turn. I hope you enjoy the little bits of insight into her character!
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1. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?
Ten minutes late, as for me that means I was doing ...
2023-05-10 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I'm back to announce that the super-awesome @gncrezan on tumblr has continued their fantastic river deity commission series for me, this time featuring Acheron. He's probably the river god that's featured least so far, in part because of his personality—he's pretty withdrawn and antisocial, and content to...
2023-05-10 00:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
It's been quite a week! I'm overwhelmed by the response to Chapter Eight, and trying to keep up with the influx of messages to my askbox haha. Fortunately none of them have been bug reports, which is always a big relief.
Meanwhile, I continue to trek forward on Chapter Nine, which starts off with a pretty big plot development that the PC can respond to in numerous w...
2023-05-08 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
May is here, which for me means a very pleasant downturn in temperature. Unfortunately, as many of you know I'm still quite under the weather, metaphorically-speaking, but I'm happy to report that things have been going well otherwise. It was my partner's birthday yesterday, the first of those that we've spent together, so that was really nice even though we're both a bit ...
2023-05-01 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
While I continue to fight off the last of this flu, I have made the rough outline of Chapter Nine. Sadly I haven't been able to fill any of it in just yet, but hopefully this should be something interesting to click through for those of you who like having a sense of what's coming up!
Fortunately, with the outline done, I should be in the clear to write for the entire mon...
2023-04-30 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
The question for the bonus content poll is pretty simple this month, really. The content will feature Charon, so what I'd like to know is whether you'd like me to continue the 'while PC was injured' series or do something else with this one. :)
2023-04-30 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, friends in the Blossom and Bud tiers!
As promised, I bring you chapter eight, hopefully edited sufficiently that it reads well, though it's admittedly a bit hard to tell because, well, it was over 180,000 words of editing to get through in under a week, and when I tell you that reading 30,000 words that closely in one sitting is kinda terrible...
Anyway! It's done and I'm gla...
2023-04-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
This month's RO POV features Hades, and you wanted to see him just after the end of Chapter Seven, so here he is in all his angstiness, heh.
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Hades pauses at the threshold, angling his body to see in through the half-ajar door.
As he’d already sensed, Hekate is within, no doubt monitoring her patient. One of a few, at this point in time, u...
2023-04-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
It's been a long week of editing, but I'm pleased to announce that early access for chapter eight is live. Those of you in the Everbloom tier should have access to the whole thing now; please let me know if you have any trouble accessing it. Meanwhile, everyone in the Blossom and Bud tiers will gain access on Thursday the 27th, and the Seedlings will have it on May 1, three ...
2023-04-24 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Everblooms!
As promised, I bring you chapter eight, hopefully edited sufficiently that it reads well, though it's admittedly a bit hard to tell because, well, it was over 180,000 words of editing to get through in under a week, and when I tell you that reading 30,000 words that closely in one sitting is kinda terrible...
Anyway! It's done and I'm glad, because it means ...
2023-04-24 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I've got good news this week: Chapter Eight is officially drafted! Right now that means I am going back through and editing so it is fit for consumption, which has been going decently-well so far. Then I will need to run all the debugging and tests, but after that, we'll be ready for the early access cycle to begin!
So I am writing this into existence now: Early ...
2023-04-17 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, everyone!
The first of this month's bonus contents features an 'interview' of sorts with Hermes. I've only got a couple more to go before the 'round' of Q&As is finished; I'm not sure what I'll put in this slot next, but for now I hope you enjoy his answers. :)
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1. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?
Oh, ...
2023-04-12 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
It was another productive week for writing, if a bit less steady than usual. Some of what I'm working on right now has a bit of emotional heft to it, at least from the perspective of the rest of the cast, and I tend to get a little 'into their feelings' when I write things like that, so it's been an interesting last few days especially.
The good news is, Chapte...
2023-04-10 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI keep confusing myself with the date format, so I'm just going to name the month from here on out, heh.
Anyway! Here we are again at the weekly update. As many of you know, the BIP went out just a few days ago with the 60,000 new words I managed to write in March. Here we are again with a new month, and I'm hoping to write close to the same amount. I don't think I'll manage quite t...
2023-04-03 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
New month, new build-in-progress. For those of you new to the Patreon, this is the game with an incomplete Chapter Eight tacked onto the end, for those of you who don't mind playing part of a chapter and seeing the outline for the rest.
That said, it's not that incomplete at this point! We've got 160,000 words in total in the chapter right now, which is a full...
2023-03-31 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all! Up on the rotation for the vote-able bonus content in April is Hades. I'm not totally sure what kind of scene I want to do from his POV yet, so help me out by voting for one, if you'd be so kind. :)
And for those of you waiting patiently for the BIP, it will be up in an hour.
2023-03-31 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Progress continues—the chapter is now at 152k words, up 14,000 from this time last week. I'm still in the first part of the last scene, as I wrote considerable variations for the ROs/POs reacting to how the PC had or hadn't customized their room, and for six of them with about the same number of room choices, that was a lot of variation!
That said, it's all done no...
2023-03-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
As you voted for in the poll last month, we have here a scene with Hermes. Like the others I've been doing in this slot recently, it features our boy during the time Seph is unconscious, and in his case, during the delivery of some very unpleasant news to a very concerned Demeter. I hope you enjoy it. :)
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Hermes really doesn’t wa...
2023-03-22 02:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello again, everyone!
It's been another good week for writing. The chapter is up to 138,000 words as of today, which is another 14,000 up from last week. I've now finished the Orpheus and Eurydice scenes, and have moved on to the last scene of the chapter, which is bound to be a chunky one because of course there is a variation of it for every route. That said, I'm hoping that, as a read...
2023-03-20 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
It was a good week for progress this time. I've added another 14,000 words to the chapter, bringing us to a total of 124,000 now. I'm also making major headway through the actual myth portion of the Orpheus and Eurydice stuff, which is swiftly approaching the tragic (or not quite so tragic, depending on your choices) ending.
I'm actually pretty happy with the en...
2023-03-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As I suggested I might be, I'll be cycling through a few questionnaires in the bonus content for this slot for a little bit. Most of these are only visible at the Blossom Tier or above, but from here on they'll be viewable by Bud Tier folks as well.
This month, we have Pyri answering some 'would you rather' style questions, which I hope is entertaining. :)
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2023-03-08 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post