Blink (WIP) [Sci-fi, superpower, Urban Fantasy]

That oblivious flirt options is brilliant. Absolutely like it. Perfect mix with going to the kitchen naked, lol. Seriuosly, its very refreshing compared to classic bold\shy.

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The premise of the story is pretty interesting but I found that the dialogue blends too much with the narration, making the flow a bit choppy and harder to follow. A few minor adjustments to punctuation and phrasing could improve clarity.

Original Text: They give you a glance over their shoulder as you enter the kitchen, and you’re greeted by their bright baritone voice. “Well now, this is a surprise. I normally don’t see you until the day is half done.” They pause, thinking for a second. “Or when I have to drag you out of bed.” Their sing-song cadence filling the space, as cheerful as they always are, no matter the time of day. “How is my favourite housemate doing today?”

Revised Version: They give you a glance over their shoulder as you enter the kitchen, greeting you with their bright baritone voice. “Well now, this is a surprise. I normally don’t see you until the day is half done.”

They pause, thinking for a second, before adding, “Or when I have to drag you out of bed.”

Their sing-song cadence fills the space, as cheerful as ever, no matter the time of day. “How is my favourite housemate doing today?”

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Blink surprise demo update!!!

Hi Guys,

Surprise! :tada:

Have the update a week early. I was looking over what was left to do and realised I only had a couple of options left to be written, so I might or might not have stayed up all night and written them and then spent the morning testing and doing a quick read-through.

The update includes the official end of the mansion infiltration. It is also in a separate file, so saves should still work; you might just need to get through the prologue, but after that, hopefully, you will be able to jump to the last save.

The next update will be the end of the chapter; I don’t have a date in mind for release, but it should be a lot quicker, as it will be a bit more linear.

Demo Link

The demo includes the below:

  • A fight with someone from the past.
  • The end of your first mission.
  • Slight set up for the last part of Chapter 1.

As always, if there are any issues, please feel free to send them here or to the Tumblr blog.

Thank you, and I hope you all enjoy the new content. :sparkling_heart:

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Oooooooooh, surprise, I love it :grinning_face::heart_eyes: runs to the demo :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::heart:

Aaah, that was awesome :heart_eyes: the fight and the rage / non-rage against Dee was so good :grin: Is the person at the end our old friend? I’m looking forward to more :heart:

Can we help A5 to escape?

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Wow, great news! Forgive me my sillyness, I am misunderstanding something or its a bug? When choose “Silently release your firearm from its holster and fire a single shot”, shooted at forehead person still talk to me somehow :smiling_face_with_tear: Seems like I got strange mix of peaceful and non-peaceful paragraphs.

The text which I got

You don’t want to hear his excuses; you don’t want to voice the boiling pot of emotions working through you. You don’t want to live another second knowing he will profit from everything.

There’s only one way to achieve that.

The barrel is pressed to his forehead before either of you can comprehend it, the slide of the pistol recoiling back and the thud of the miniature explosion working in its mechanisms announcing the end.

His forehead is blocked out by the flare of the muzzle as a picture of red is painted behind onto the blinding white of the tile.

Dee’s body sags, chest heaving, as his body falls against the porcelain; you feel your chest tighten and your mind clouded as emotions rage through you. It hits a point of ending, and all you can do is turn and move towards the door. Needing to get away.

You barely get two steps to the door before Dee’s voice hits your ears. “Wait, A5 wasn’t sent here with me. He arrived this morning; I find it strange that Chronos would happen to send an operative here to babysit me, and then you just happen to appear the same day.”

Your steps halt; that would mean…the very idea that Chronos didn’t just predict you would be after Dee but planned for it sends a shiver down your spine. You give yourself a moment before continuing forward, walking out of the bathroom

Later I replayed this scene with “I don’t want your apologies and excuses!” option, and THEN shoot, and I got another text with a correctly dead (it sounds so fucked up, sorry xd) person.

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Noice, a Great Surprise for a saturnday, please tell me we can take a5 under our wing or at least help the guy not get instakilled by cronos, im guessing next update will be the encounter with the mr/ms trash ex friend, will things get heated? my mc would expect a fight at least (not pulling punches of course), also our target could be recruted? letting him live could backfire spetacularly.

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@Queen_Zelda Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. You won’t be able to help A5 escape, but if you chose mercy, he will appear later in the story. And who’s to say? :eyes:

@FFFUUU Yep, it looked like a bug. Updated now, and that should be fixed. forgot to set the variable as true with the earlier option.

@Augusts Both A5 and the target will reappear in the story later on if they are alive; all I will say is that Chronos isn’t as interested in either of them as they are in the MC. Ex-friend will appear in the next update, but more interaction with them face-to-face will be at the beginning of Chapter 2.

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A5 sounds like he was our father figure in the facility, I spared him tbh

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Definitely one of the few more pleasant people in the facility to the MC; it seems like quite a few people spared A5. I should really make a poll for both Dee and A5 to see how many people spared them.

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In my playthrough, A5 was spared, Dee was shot. :nail_polish:

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Loved the update! So excited for more!

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@FFFUUU I feel like that is probably the most likely choice for a lot of players, but I would like to know…so poll!

Who’s alive by the end of the update

  • Dee and A5
  • Only Dee
  • Only A5
  • Both are dead :skull:
0 voters
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well i’m trying to turn on a new leaf… no more pointless killing xD

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I only killed A5 cos I thought he was a doomed character that we have to kill. I’m glad to know he can be spared. I enjoyed his fight

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Hi Guys,

I have created a Google form for any bugs/grammar and spellings mistakes here.

Feel free to drop anything found there, thank you!

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Welcome back. I don’t blame you for taking a break. We all need one once in a while.

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Thank you! It ended up being a lot longer than anticipated after releasing the last update.

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Yesss. It can be really hard to follow along with whose saying or doing what when everything is smashed together in a single paragraph.

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Yeah, it’s pretty rough the full first half of chapter one up to about the nightclub fight scene, something I’ve been actively trying to separate more with both dialogue and characters actions so it’s a lot easier to read.

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I was curious was the most recent update to the cogdemos side a technical update? Just wanted to be sure since it ended with going through the mansion window and a forever loading screen when hitting next chapter button. :grinning: loved it by the way.

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