The Summoner | Updated April 12th, 2025 (213k words) | Kofi Demo 238k words

hmm… willow scene feel off somehow… like it’s too deliberate to ?

QuickSkip: 2 // StatusQuo: 77 // Polite: 82 // Social: 90

CL: 10 // Rel: 89
RL: 4 // Rel: 77
JL: 0 // Rel: 45

accepthand: true // whydididothis: false // spared: 2 // chug1: false // letter1: 1 // letter1sent: 3 // mydaisies: 3 // bookown: true // maskown: false // bitter1: 2 // pov2wishful: 2 // cinterest: 3

dreamin: 0 // dearmed: false // choicech: 0 // changeres: true // pov3ver: 9 // rinterest: 3

sacrificial: 1 // jnick: no // closeness1: 0

:glowing_star:n/a

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I didn’t think I’d go for Jackal. Lol. But my MC, who was already reluctant and a loner, became even more closed off after the death of his friend. So I love that Jackal is harassing my MC despite his prickly attitude. He needs someone to strong-arm their way into his heart again. :rofl:

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My MC is/was sorely tempted to do the snow-brushing, but doesn’t want to “make it weird” for Caine. Alas, the yearning.

He’s begrudgingly going along with Jackal’s plans because he doesn’t have any other friends anything better to do. Jackal’s welcome to keep chipping away at that iceberg.

QuickSkip: 2 // StatusQuo: 61 // Polite: 74 // Social: 58

CL: 11 // Rel: 89
RL: 0 // Rel: 51
JL: 2 // Rel: 57

accepthand: true // whydididothis: false // spared: 2 // chug1: false // letter1: 0 // letter1sent: 0 // mydaisies: 0 // bookown: true // maskown: false // bitter1: 2 // pov2wishful: 1 // cinterest: 2

dreamin: 0 // dearmed: false // choicech: 0 // changeres: true // pov3ver: 13 // rinterest: 0

sacrificial: 1 // jnick: yep // closeness1: 3

:glowing_star:n/a

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QuickSkip: 2 // StatusQuo: 60 // Polite: 57 // Social: 68

CL: 6 // Rel: 82
RL: 2 // Rel: 65
JL: 0 // Rel: 49

accepthand: true // whydididothis: false // spared: 2 // chug1: false // letter1: 0 // letter1sent: 0 // mydaisies: 3 // bookown: true // maskown: true // bitter1: 2 // pov2wishful: 3 // cinterest: 2

dreamin: 0 // dearmed: true // choicech: 3 // changeres: true // pov3ver: 10 // rinterest: 1

sacrificial: 3 // jnick: yep // closeness1: 0

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Progress updateee (talking abt my writing plans)
So pretty much the entirety of my progress lately is BG related—I’ve been racking up notes on things to update related to the plot/world & I’ve decided to tackle that before writing the demo further. I’ve changed my outline several times, but a lot of what’s currently in the demo is built on the basis of an old outline & that muddies my plans.

Initially, I had just wanted to take the time to flesh out my character’s pasts because I found while writing out Jackal’s that doing so adds much more depth to the world & characters. I had thought fleshing out details beyond bullet points & summary-styled paragraphs would be an inefficient use of time since they’d likely not directly appear in the demo, but alas. It adds life. And complicates things.

For example, while working on Rei’s backstory to better write their actions, I would find details I established that made their story less compelling. Trying to write around them made their story less solid, so I’d decide to change the detail whether it was minor or not. But changing a detail changes something important later–long story short, it’s all a domino chain full of revelations.

ANYWAY, I’m saying that to explain why it’s gonna take me some time before I can update the demo. I’ll prolly rewrite chunks of it because a lot of events are outdated by now & not up to my standards.

As an idiot writer, I don’t often know what truly works until I actually try it out. So screw my chicken wire outline, I’m gonna make a solid foundation before attempting to follow it!!

This isn’t a restart btw, I see it as progress considering I’ve been encountering humps while writing that I think I can solve better now. The first draft & beta truly is to learn your world & plot—it walked so #2341 can run or smthn :+1: :+1: :+1:


Thank you to everyone for the stats!

Hmmm, if I’m guessing right, are you perhaps saying you read the scene right before the end of the demo & misinterpreted that as being the MC’s POV?

If so, I did kinda wanna keep it ambiguous whose POV it was, but mb it’s confusing if you missed the section that states it’s a Story Beat. It is pretty extensive compared to the others lol. I could see if adding a “*page_break Back to you.” could help…? Or am I completely misunderstanding this haha

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Progress updatee (brain toast)
Note: This is how I feel abt everything rn, but my judgment is very prone to changing lol. Which is also why I self-censored & tried not to go into too many details.

I’m almost done re-outlining TS and I rlly like the changes & new stuff so far :D!

The beginning’s strong, the mid’s pretty good, the latter parts—I’m iffy on & still writing. Might need several drastic changes. This is much better than how I felt abt the previous outline (as far as I can rmbr). I have a direction while writing here—well, except for the late parts. There’s still many ways I can go about it; I want to find what I think works the best.

After I’m done deciding all that, I want to:

  1. develop Caine’s backstory (cause I want to give them appropriate depth, I feel like I’m neglecting their presence/importance in the story atm bc I haven’t directly written them in a hot moment)
  2. edit Jackal’s if it’s in need of edits and
  3. then I’m gonna write the new demo!!!

I’m keeping chunks of the old stuff, some with edits, some minimal on that front. It should go smoother in comparison cause now I don’t have to learn to code on the fly & I’m better at writing/plotting now than when I started (I hope). Worldbuilding does help… screw you, worldbuilding. I hateeee how long it takes to balance ur world.

I should develop MC’s & Willow’s story too (I should & prob will, depending on how I find writing the demo goes), but their stories/characters are more mutable than the 3 RO’s. The most notable change is that Willow will be a “side RO”. I’m not doing this cause I want to expand the roster/writing time, but cause I want to give her proper presence in the story. Cause I want to rip MC’s heart out properly this time (“want” is the operative word here, idk how successful I’ll be about anything).

It’s hard to balance screen time between everyone, but yeah. I’ll either do an ok job of hitting all my goals or flop. Exciting!

I dunno how much romantic stuff u can do with her cause spoilers, she’s still deffo gonna die, but you can at least have the choice between being sorta friends and close friends with subtext and all that. Also, I’m thinking I wanna rng her gender as M/F (not NB unfortunately because that would add a lot of coding, and I’ve been cutting down on some stuff), but mb you’d prefer it to be set the same way as the gender choice for the ROs.

Lemme know how you feel or else it’s gonna be pretty much up to rng (u can always just restart until u get what u want idc that much abt diversifying the cast lol).

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