Fun update! I did notice an error in ch.4 speaking to the fates. I didn’t get rid of my ability to receive prayers but got this:
Atropos snorts. “Whether you like it or not.”
And she’s not necessarily wrong to mention that. You’d gotten rid of your ability to receive prayers in your dreams for a good reason, after all: you don’t particularly desire to be prayed to at all. Still, you suppose it’s within your power to ignore this, and you doubt the
Ah, yeah, that’s there because the total-save import feature isn’t here yet. If you start a brand new file from character creation, you can have the game act like you still have prayers by choosing the option to have gone to Hypnos second in the save builder. (This was previously broken, hence the need for a new save).
Hello everyone!
It is now 7 July where I’m from, so the public release of Blood of the Living’s fifth chapter is here. It adds 98,000 words to the demo.
In the update, you can:
I hope you all enjoy it. As always, I welcome your feedback. Have a lovely week!
Ignore me. Imma just toss about on my bed, hugging a pillow and squealing over getting to kiss my Hades. 
I am currently on another playthrough of the first book and extremely pleased to find the sequel is coming along so well.
Both the characters and the setting are very dear to me and I am fond of it in a comfort game kind of way.
If I want something that doesn’t stress me out, then I’m reading FoA.
Really looking forward to taking another try at the demo again.
happiness screaming Hades, my heart! Thank you so much for the part about courting him as well. I 1000% need to treat him as my baby girl. I desperately need to shower this precious man with flowers. Full bouquets delivered. Single ones waiting by his plate. Sooo many flower crowns made by me and Makaria. I will live off those soft smiles and huffs of laughter. Hoping I can pull a surprised blush from him as well. No one in the Underworld will have the slightest doubt about my feelings!!
Shoot, my Pyrrhos has been courting him since day one. Lol.
Also, I hope with Makaria, we’ll be able to talk to her with Hades about eventually becoming parent 2. I want her to be ok with it to, since she’s a very smart little girl.
Exactly! 
In practice, the relationship with Makaria might not change all that much, but it would still be an important discussion to have, especially with how that relationship can vary from player to player. I don’t expect good things for those who’ve chosen a more negative stance, and that’s largely because Hades and Makaria were already an established family unit prior to the events of FoA, so I don’t know if Hades even pursues it. Most likely not. But even with a good relationship, she’s still an individual, and would be totally within her rights to need a long adjustment period because of that long time of just being the two of them, plus the extended relations/staff. All the same though… it could be a happy thing for her with the good relationship. And all either before, or after a potential tea date with Kronos.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I’ve already had some of this in mind, but it’s interesting to see what people are looking to do in the ~5 chapters we have left. 
All I have to say is that I enjoyed the update. And that there seems to be some bug regarding how we dealt with the prayer dreams in book 1; I picked the option where I investigated the place, and nothing else, but at the part where we’re talking about getting a prayer the narration says I got rid of getting them in dreams, which I didn’t.
I can get a screenshot if that helps.
Yeah, my MC adores Makaria. But because he loves her and Hades, and because he respects Makaria’s will as well, he’ll only step up gradually as a parent with BOTH Hades and Makaria’s approval. Even if Hades is ok with it, he’d want to make sure Makaria wants him as a second parent in her life(considering her…past parental experiences).
This was an issue for me as well. But it could be because this wip based things on a couple choices at the start and not variables from the first game’s save.
I mean, one of those choices was about it, so it does sound like a bug to me. In the setup, if nothing else.
Ah, I forgot it was. Then yeah…I have that issue to as someone who never saw Hypno about it. I mean, prayer dreams are no biggy to me.
Speaking of, I’m suffering from curiosity about what other domains we could get coming up. My Pyrrhos is a clumsy but powerful mage. After his magic, comes his love of book learning. He’s gentle, but very logical about things. (oh dear… considering how mad he got at the demis for insulting his underworld gods…He really does kinda share personality bits with his mom. Oh no … )
Does this solution still not work? I swear I’m having a ton of trouble with this, specifically, and it makes no sense.
shakes fist at code
Hm. I didn’t visit Hypnos at all; I assumed that meant nothing was done to my dreams. Did I misunderstand something?
Nono, it’s just that the way the character creator currently “imports” values means that most things are false by default, so unless you set them to true, the game will act as though they aren’t. Currently, the only way to set the dreams variable to true is to choose going to Hypnos second in the save creation system.
It’s something of a design flaw, but I wanted to have all my *creates for variables set to false by default so I didn’t have to remember to change them for submission. Maybe I’ll just… not do that.
I’m actually obssesed with him, it’s to the point that I can’t do the other routes. And now he wants to love me back? SCREAMS I literally just want to take him on dates outside the underworld so he can be happy and blushy
Ah, so I wasn’t off thinking it was tied more to eventual save files from first game rather then just our wip starting options. Good. 
