manyeyedhydra
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Update 2nd Feb '25
🕑 Added 2025-02-02 13:55:43 +0000 UTCIt was another fairly solid week to round out January. I split my time pretty much equally between revamping the NPC code for HoHH and typing up the short story for Literotica's Valentine's Day competition.
The NPC Shop code and layout is pretty much done (for regular computer displays - I still need to do the mobile version). I need to create proper icons for the 'Buy' and 'Close' buttons and maybe something fancier than plain text for 'Sold', but I'm pretty happy with the layout overall. It nudges HoHH closer to looking like a indie game, which is very far from where I thought I'd get when I first started working with Twine.
I also updated Nurse Honey's NPC section. I decided against using the NPC shop layout for her. My aim is to have nice icons to represent the ailments on the character sheet (and icons for the charms as well), but Nurse Honey doesn't really have enough options to justify jumping to a shop window layout. In a normal playthrough a player will probably only be carrying a couple of ailments at once at any particular time, so the regular text display is probably fine.
Currently I'm working on The Doctoress's layout. Her potions could definitely use the NPC shop layout, so I'm fiddling around trying to find the best way to display them.
I'm also running into the limitations of generative AI art here and with ailment icons. These need a slightly more consistent look and it's quite difficult to get that and specific designs with AI art. The placeholders here will probably be very placeholder-y until I can replace them with proper, consistent art.
The other half of the week was spent typing up the Valentine's Day short story. I was a little concerned with this one as the first draft was pretty rough. Fortunately, it came together quite well while I was typing it up. I finished that yesterday and it's 6,500 words. It wasn't ready to release for January, but it should go up in time for the competition deadline. My plan is to leave it on the side for a couple of days and then give it a final edit before submitting it on the 5th. If all goes to plan, you should be able to read it around the end of next week.
It's very much an Anti-Valentine's Day story with quite a dour theme and weird monster girl. I suspect Literotica readers looking for the usual saccharine sweetness and romanticism on Valentine's Day are going to hate this one! :)
I do like my horror.
Anyway, onto next week, where I'm hoping to finally get a good chunk of writing of the slime smother nun done.
Thanks for the support.
- manyeyedhydra
Comments
Many-Eyed Hydra
I'd probably treat it as a different establishment. Maybe the Madam of HoHH knows the Madam of the other one. They're both playing games of a sort.
Many-Eyed Hydra
My rough plan is to move more of the reveal to later. For the first two guys, it would just be the devil girl hostess showing off exotic lust daemons to a mysterious man, and the reader wondering why the man is there to pick a demon prostitute who is going to kill him. More of the connections would be revealed until the final reveal this a revenge story. This would require rewriting the short story and leaving bits off to the 5th character. I think it will be quite tricky to write, so I'll leave it to "cook" in the back of my brain for a bit until I figure out how to best parcel out the back story and expand the characters out a little more. My guess it will be similar to the original Crow comic, but with the protagonist being a bystander while lust daemons carry out his revenge.
Ron Krenzel
You could even turn this into a prequel for HoHH like have the Madamn decide after the events to create HoHH and then introduce it at end as a cliff hanger leading people to check out HoHH . It would be a good way to connect them and introduce HoHH to new clients
Ron Krenzel
I too forgot mid-through it was a separate story and not part of HoHH. I dont know if I'd consider it a Anti-Valentine's Day / Horror story......it wasn't as bad as your Succubus For VDay story having guy basically force a relationship that wasn't his and defiling the one he "loved" I'm assuming this will become a series.....looming g forward to future chapters. As a suggestion, more detail on the back story needs to be filled in as the series continues. The next chapter should have more into the background story and maybe show perspective of the criminals the event s leading up to it and then flashing forward amd connecting it to whatever is happening in present as the guy watches. You could have a line like "And there I watched that asshole (insert name) as he ......little did he know the horrible reality he was a out to experience" I watched .... you know something like that.
