Here we are. The first part of Chapter 3 is here, which means we’ll SOON be moving from the reactive mode to the proactive one; mostly in the second half of the chapter.
The update includes the first portion of Chapter 3, which is about 6.500 words.
This portion mostly moves the main story forward, while also including more personality and sanity checks than before.
The next portion will be longer, and it will feature much more romance, including proper romantic and/or sexual encounters with the love interests.
From semi-related news, I recently sat down to think about the endings for the game, and I somehow already wrote two of them. While there will be “good” endings, I think more than half will be pretty grim. And when I say grim, I mean death or madness.
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"The fuck is that supposed to mean?" Tyler snorts, pulling you all out of the haze.
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"What's that supposed to mean?" Tyler snorts, pulling you all out of the haze.
Work on the next part of Chapter 3 is going… Well, not ‘surprisingly well,’ but at least it’s going.
I had no issues writing the horror/sanity bits, but the romance scenes turned out to be trickier than I expected. I’m done with Caleb and Julia, but I still have Tyler and Luna to write. I hope to have them all done by the end of the year and push the update out by then, too.
Turns out I still need to rewrite parts of Tyler’s romantic scene because I don’t like how they turned out. The update will be out this week, but sadly not by NYE.
Just discovered this gripping WiP. I’m a sucker for eldritch horror and I’ll be sure to leave feedback at some point.
I really love the randomized events, and paying no such attention to my sanity!
The one thing that put me on the back foot when I first started reading this was getting thrust into having to put 4 new faces to 4 new names (mind you, I didn’t read the Romance Spoilers).
It might just be me but I’ve a hard time of keeping track of information when books/IFs throw a bunch of characters talking to me in a scene. It makes me stop and focus on: OK. Who’s who? What makes these characters distinctive from one another? Why should I care about these people?
Not necessarily a bad thing. Just something I personally struggle with from time to time when I’m given a lot of information to try to process early in a story.
Another update is here. I know it took quite a bit of time, but things should speed up now that we’re in the new year. I have a very different schedule now, so you can expect to see the updates much more frequently. Perhaps I might even write the whole thing by April?
This update includes the second portion of Chapter 3, which is about 10.500 words.
This portion moves the story forward just by a little and is more about romance and/or relaxation before the next significant development that will happen in the morning.
Basically, the update includes the rest of the evening and lets you start a relationship (actual relationship or friends-with-benefits) with any of the four love interests.
Thank you so, so much for the feedback! Do you think it might help if I add a few sentences about each character to the Codex portion of the stats screen?
Just giving you a heads’ up that the server that supports Dashingdon will be shut down by the end of January.
You’ll want to migrate any and all demos for your WiP to the new hosting service. https://cogdemos.ink/. The support thread for cogdemos.ink is here and it’s run by a user named EvilChani.
