Hello Patrons and happy Sunday 😊 The second week of February has come and gone along with my birthday and Valentine's Day. I don't know about you, but it feels like 2025 has already been way too long.
This past week saw me complete the dialogue scenes with the family members. Next up are the four RO scenes – these shouldn't take me too long but I estimate that the update will only ar...
2025-02-16 08:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons 💖 Recently, Patreon rolled out paid posts which allows for individual posts to be sold at a set price. This doesn't affect your membership but allows for non-subscribed Patrons to purchase posts.
This is something I've thought of implementing for the side stories in general - I'll likely separate and bundle the stories per RO and do a paid post for each new story going fo...
2025-02-15 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs part of your benefits as a Patron, each month you will receive one side story featuring an NPC's perspective. As this is the month of love, each choice will focus on romance. The story with the most votes will be shared with you.
Option 1 - Salyra's POV: Before meeting Ahlf, Salyra was a rebellious priestess who had a relationship with Danzor. In this side...
2025-02-14 06:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Valentine's Day Patrons 🌸💖✨️ While I'm not a huge fan of the day (I get way too many Valentine's Day gifts disguised as birthday gifts), it is still the month of love and I hope you all have a great day. Thank you for your continued support, kindness and patience ❤️
There's no mention of love day holidays in the game but I'd like to think that it is celebrated either w...
2025-02-14 04:34:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnd finally, Rana's scenes are complete. You can be mean to her but don't expect gratuitous cruelty - she's still a child (even if only fictional).
Now, the four RO/companion scenes are left. I want to add NSFW/SFW scenes for these dialogues so it will take me slightly longer to complete (unless...
2025-02-13 07:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostSome sibling bonding over being friendless and a chance to compare childhoods.
Some final goodbyes? Regardless of your relationship, you will still get to hug her even if you hate her - expect some slight variations based on your relationship stat with her.
Next up is Rana's scenes which I hope to complete by the end of this week before I can finally start the main gang's ...
2025-02-11 07:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons 💖 I hope you're enjoying February – the shortest month of the year and one dedicated to love (or in my case, my birthday).
This past week saw Chapter 11 updated for the Nomad tier, meaning that everyone should have been able to play the update. I'd love to get your feedback if you have any thoughts about the gameplay or if you encountered bugs.
I also continued wo...
2025-02-09 10:49:52 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to offer some previews of contrasting relationships with Salyra that you might miss out on if you choose to be antagonistic or forgiving to Salyra. Both offer vastly different gameplays and are things you will miss out on if you don't replay with different relationships. Truthfully, I enjoy writing both sides for Salyra because she is a complicated character with a lot of flaws and whe...
2025-02-07 07:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons 🌸 I wanted to let you know the game links for all tiers have been updated. The reason for this is that itch.io does not, for some reason, limit Patreon external keys to active Patrons. Essentially, anyone who subscribed to a tier and accessed the game once could (and oftentimes) continued to access updates despite unsubs...
2025-02-07 05:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Some support from your fave (and only) uncle.
The Vinia family dialogues are complete. Next up, Salyra's dialogue.
2025-02-06 08:12:20 +0000 UTC View PostI usually tend to cut out extra social scenes because it becomes lengthy and I try to stick with a month-ish update schedule. But since I'm going to have to break up the chapter updates into smaller updates, we will now get all social interactions. Yay for you, not so much for me who has to write the variations.
2025-02-05 07:55:42 +0000 UTC
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Like Chapter 10, you will have different ways to contribute to the final battle - unlike Chapter 10, there will be a lot more variations to account for different skills and success, middling success and failure outcomes. Wish me luck!
And so it begins...
For those of you who read the codex entries, under Ishari, you'll have briefly seen something about the Battle of the Bridge - this features a lot in the final chapter because of poetic reasons and also because I've been planning a river/bridge epic battle since the story ide...
2025-02-03 08:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons 💖
I hope you're all excited for February – it's the month of love but more importantly, the month of my birthday 🎂
It's a short month but work on Chapter 12 will commence tomorrow 🎉 I used most of last week to update the demo and to make a rough chapter outline for what's to come in the final battle scenes.
While I rarely plan my outlines fully, for ...
2025-02-02 07:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
What's new:
Plan your trip to Cyre;
Choose a mare (if you haven't);
Set out to Solime;
Free Miva;
Confront Morden and Virion;
Escape the Blood Guard;
Return to Cyre;
Mourn Ahlf;
Address love confessions in Ishari;
2025-01-29 05:51:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The side stories for January 2025 are now available to read here.
Available for this month are the following:
The Fisherman's Refuge - Ahlf's POV: After leaving Ishari and his past behind, Ahlf is determined to start a new life in the fishing hamlet of Salt...
2025-01-27 07:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons 💖 I hope you've had a wonderful week!
It's been a hot minute since I last checked in but things are in a much better place now than they were last week. For those of you not aware, my mum had to be admitted to hospital last week which means I've had to step up to help with my younger siblings which is a lot but I've been managing.
I am in a much better headspace now...
2025-01-26 10:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Eleven is now available to play. Please RESTART the game from the beginning if you intend to romance Anu. There were a few bugs picked up that have been fixed but if you pick up anything, please let me know!
Hi Patrons 💖 I hope you're all doing well. I wanted to reach out to let you know that testing is going well and the demo should be released in the next few days.
Unfortunately, I've hit a mini-crisis with family matters so I'm going to hold off from posting any side stories until next week when things should have (hopefully) stabilised. My mum is really unwell so it's been chaotic tryi...
2025-01-21 10:58:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons 💖
I'm happy to announce (in case you missed it) that Chapter 11 is now complete 🎉 I'm going to get some responses from my testers to see who's available this round of testing but if all goes well, then game should be ready for update this week.
While that happens, I'll be working on the side stories for this month to share with the different tiers, so expect som...
2025-01-19 05:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs a Patron, you will receive one side story featuring the perspective of a non-RO character. The story that gets the most votes will be shared with you and in the case of a tie, a randomiser will be used to decide the story shared with you.
Option 1 - Ahlf's POV: Ahlf was once a stranger in Salt Bay and had to forge a new life without Salyra or the young chi...
2025-01-17 07:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostAt around 50-60K words long (honestly, Twine isn't very good with differentiating between code and actual story), the chapter is done. It felt like wading through mud for a while because variations really annoy me and this chapter really feels like a filler chapter and I hate filler chapters. Of course, good stories need build-up and all the in-between bits so I had to push through but the chap...
2025-01-17 06:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt's finally happening!
If all goes well, the chapter will be completed by tomorrow 🎉
2025-01-16 08:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostLike the others, the war is weighing heavily on Oren.
Your girl is hurting (mind you, this is for a romanced Elora option).
Hello Patrons 💖
We're two weeks into 2025 and it feels like time is flying past. Last week, I worked on the final Salt Bay scenes then moved on to the Ishari scenes. Irus' dialogue is complete with Elora's currently being worked on. Afterwards, there's only Oren and Anu to go.
A lot of these scenes aren't very in depth on account of wanting to get them done and my brain feels nu...
2025-01-12 04:55:19 +0000 UTC View PostBefore leaving for Vinia, Elora will confess her feelings for the MC which can be addressed upon returning to Ishari.
There's no better way to trauma bond than to discuss your bad fathers.
Irus' dialogue scenes are now done, only three more to go and with Anu's confession scene, it's going to take a lot of willpower to push through these final conclusion scenes. If all goes well, I should be done with the RO di...
2025-01-09 08:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostWhatever you and Irus choose, Salyra will come to Miva's rescue.
