So good news: I’ve finally gotten a new laptop! Bad news: I am way way behind schedule and with school starting again less than a month away and thanks to how long it took me to get a laptop (and all the stress I’ve been through because of all that), I now don’t have a clue when a demo may come 
In the past couple months since my last post, I’ve refined the lore but haven’t gotten it all organized in my actual notes yet, so I’ll be working on that first. I’m expanding a little on how magic and spirits affect the world because I feel like it was too minor at first
Main characters have been developed some more and honestly I think I’m going to redo the current profiles for them entirely because I made them so messy and hard to read last time and I have a few side characters figured out (one I kind of want give a bigger role and make into an RO but then I’d have to make more ROs to keep the numbers available even-ish. I’ll be thinking about it at least)
Plot-wise, this may be an unpopular choice, but after a lot of thought, I’m making it much more mellow than my original idea. I’ve wanted it to be very character driven and about how the experience of life in a new city, college, etc affects the MC and also originally had the idea of the MC resolving a fight between two major spirits. I’m keeping the spirits as characters but changing their roles and taking out the little turf war thing because I found that plot point to be very weak since there’s not much motivation for the MC to even take part in it. Also, with the focus on the normal daily life and with how limited magic originally was in the physical world in my original outline, it just didn’t really mesh at all. With the adjustments I’ve made to magic, it may work better, but I still don’t feel like it would do enough to affect the MC’s internal growth. I’m personally not a fan of using something like the ‘chosen one’ trope since I feel like, on its own anyway, it’s not a strong enough motivation for the MC to meddle with supernatural affairs and also because it’s not really truly world threatening or anything
On the actual writing that I’ve done already (not much, thankfully), I’m keeping the idea of how the story is set up and all, but I’m scrapping the actual writing part entirely because I reread it and just don’t think the quality of the writing was very good and I could do better now
I need an adaptor thingy to get my tablet plugged into my laptop (which is super annoying. Apple, why did you have to change the usb ports??? 
) but I’m going to try to get one soon. I want to draw stuff and possibly get started brainstorming ideas for a cover image soon (it’s a bit soon, but might as well do it now instead of waiting until the end because, knowing me, I’d just keep procrastinating on it forever). I’ve been wanting to maybe include some artwork in the actual game (not much, just maybe once every few chapters) but that’ll be decided probably when I’ve actually finished writing and when I can figure out if I actually have the time to do that
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