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🕑 Added 2024-08-17 16:37:55 +0000 UTCSaturdays!
How I love them. But most importantly, I love sitting down and organizing my scattered thoughts into a half-coherent post. You'd be admired how much it helps me make creative decisions.
About the Alpha Build, thank you to everyone who commented! ♡ Writing is such a lonely job, and I've been working on this update for about a month, so it's lovely to hear your thoughts and reactions to it!!!
I'll deal with the pesky bugs and typos you reported tomorrow. I hope DashingDon collaborates and lets me upload the file to the game link, but if it doesn't, I'll wait a week and put the new link in the same post. I am so sorry about that inconvenience, but hopefully, all of you will have played the update by then.
Onto new things! I started re-writing Vallen's section!!!! I have the old first draft, but since I changed the beginning of this chapter a lot and have thought of a better direction to go than the one I had before, most of it is... wrong.😭
So, I've been writing it anew, although, of course, I use some passages from the old draft, but I'm loving it!! Vallen is so... Vallen. I don't want to give too much away, but this 'date' will have two versions, basically, and in one of them omg. It gets real. Finally. It feels almost wrong to see the Red Guard act in this way xD
But the dice are being cast. I'm kind of done with all the mysteries.
Other than that, I was going over the outline for the Book, and I think I'm going to change the first chapter of Book One. I'll have Romanus see Juturna's altar as soon as they enter the long underground chamber. Juturna is becoming so much more than I even dreamed of when I wrote Chapter One of Book One (literally years ago), that it doesn't make sense for her to be locked behind an explore choice.
The player will then choose whether or not they want to take her, but the chance will be there for every Romanus. I think I might even have you always look at it in your room at the Leaping Lion too — and then, every reader can decide if they want her in your pocket or not.
In that way, you actively choose if your Romanus believes or not in the old gods — or, at the very least, in Juturna.
This is very easy to change since I have the text already and only need to change the location. I'll do it after I'm done with Chapter 11 in preparation for the big Book One update.
And that's it! The next two or three days I'll dedicate to writing the Bonus Content for this month, but after that, I'll go back to Vallen! Rafael and the revelation of your new abode is after, but that's another scene.
I hope you have a great weekend! Europe is going through a heatwave, so I'm downing gallons of water and dreaming of gentle breezes and cold springs. 🌹
Comments
Warpotato
Welp, guess I got to be Lance’s best friend now. I gotta know more Latin. I can imagine us having secret conversations in the other party members faces. Good way to relay info
Anathema
You'll be able to do both!
Anathema
My favorite season is the winter too! Especially in the Mediterranean 😭 it's rarely too cold and my god, the summers are just getting worse and worse. I totally get you. We need to migrate north lol
Anathema
Thank you 💜
Wrap Wrapowy
Yes you will! You literally never disappoint idk how it's even possible but I have my full trust in you. I can't wait (but I will, however long I have to) 😭😭😭
Anathema
I hope I do her justice!!! I'm always nervous writing "new" characters. But I'll get her voice, eventually 🙏
Wrap Wrapowy
Yessss foaming at the mouth for Vallen, I literally only had one (1) conversation with this woman but I'm ready to spill blood for her (not mine, preferably, but I suppose I could be convinced)
Who's a spoon
It’s really awesome seeing how much things you add to your writing! And I’m glad that the comments help with loneliness!
AndrasteN7
I cannot wait for everything new that is coming our way that you just mentioned! Writing is such a hard thing I am in awe of you writers, especially IF writers who also have to code as well as write 😭 As for the heatwave... Ana I am dying too! I do not dream of the breeze as even the wind is extremely hot because the temperatures are 40+°C. So the wind and "breezes" feel like we are in an air fryer 😂🫠I have always hated summer! Winter has always been my favourite season! I live in the Mediterranean though so my hate for the summer heat is only intensifying with each passing year it gets hotter and hotter 😭 My dog loathes the summer heat too and it exacerbates some of her digestive issues so that is another reason for me to hate summer. It makes my fur baby suffer! I will not stand for that! 😡😝 I hope you are having an amazing summer though and that your weekend is as creative as it is relaxing 🥰☺️😊
Rue
Jurtana is very fun, espescially since my main three Romanus have a very different relationship to the Old Gods, one believes in the church's god and wants nothing to do with her, one is interested in the Old Gods from a purely scholarly perspective and would gladly trade the coin to Mist for more rewards, and the last is really getting into them and is hearing Jurtana's voice very clearly. Getting to explore those dynamics more in a revamped book 1 would be incredibly exciting!
shrek4ever
I cant wait for Vallen!!!! I am so excited to confron her and have Romanus see her unmasked!!! I also love that you might add that Romanus always looks at the coin in the Leaping Lion, cuz ngl I always agonise over the choice there. So that's one of the choices out of the way, tho I'll prolly still pick one that bumps up. Latin, cuz my Romanus is a nerd 🤓
