Yeah, I was too pissed off to enjoy A’s pain. Maybe Li-sar rubbing A’s face in the fact that they walked away from the MC, leaving them open to Li-sar’s charms will be more enjoyable. I would enjoy seeing A miserable as hell.
Already on it, lol. I saw the huge potential in this one as soon as the big bad came into the picture, and I am 100% it will just create more ridiculous angst instead of the angst I’m craving, and the MC will be useless, as per usual, with A and M being their normal asshole and stupid selves, respectively. The whole setup could be soooo much fun, as well as emotionally charged in an interesting way, instead of flutter, lip-biting, UwUness. Anyway, once I get something other than random scenes, which is what I’ve already got, I’ll let you know.
I did, too. Then, I joined some other Patreons and realized how little I was getting for my money. Other authors actually share spoilers, or give you huge chunks of code they’re working on to read. Or even part of the game or scenes. Not one lonely out-of-context line that tells you nothing of any value.
Maybe. I would think that would be a great thing to give us, though, you know? Something to trigger a bunch of theories over what it could possibly mean, where things are going, and if the LIs will actually be bothered by all of it. Hell, ending the demo with M being seriously shaken over the thought of losing MC to Li-sar would get me HYPED! I just think it’d be more beneficial to give people something juicy, instead of some bland or depressing cliffhanger to the demo.
For explaining the red dome, my guess is that the Agency won’t explain it at all. They’ll either use a veil to hide it like supeernaturals use to hide their true appearance or they’ll find some mind-controlling supes to do mass mind control on the whole town. Of course, if that happens, it just shows how fucking worthless the Agency is that they can do that to a town but can’t handle a bunch of human mooks in the form of Trappers.
Assuming the dome stays up for a while, the ball may either be used as a distraction from that or because Li-sar or MC cause other fires and they’re trying to raise money for the fire department (a fireman’s ball makes sense in this town–wasn’t it said the fire department is volunteers?). That said, I’m not counting on the dome staying up. Plots tend not to make a lot of sense in Wayhaven, and problems are only there to create specific scenes. If it’s necessary to keep the MC trapped, the dome will stay up. If they just need to be trapped long enough to get a specific scene, that thing will be down before you can blink.
Personally, I’d leave it up for at least four or five chapters. Let the MC choose whether to embrace the power in an effort to control it and free the town or resort to depending on the Agency to take care of the problem somehow while rejecting the power as it slowly kills them.
It’d be cool if the MC could choose to go to Li-sar and make a deal–don’t agree to a ‘union’ but basically play them and act like you want to know them better, but in return, you want to be able to control the power enough so it doesn’t kill you. Then, unbeknownst to you, Li-sar teaching you or helping you expel your power so it doesn’t kill you gives them an “in” to your brain and they can affect your emotions and thoughts to some extent (maybe when they are touching you to teach you and their power is flowing into you–I like the imagery).
Anyway, after a while of this thing with Li-sar, MC does learn enough and basically absorbs the power that keeps the dome in place. Only it almost kills them and Li-sar is the only one who can “save” them (which would be freaking glorious to have the LI there to see that, with a very groggy MC coming to and having to lean on Li-sar instead of them, and when the LI tries to go toward them, they can’t because Li-sar is keeping them back with solar power as they lift the MC and walk off into the darkness with them. If MC chooses to have the Agency handle things, maybe the dome doesn’t come down yet and MC just keeps getting worse until someone has to take MC to Li-sar to help them.
Eh, I need to stop. I have all kinds of ideas for this plot. I love the setup.
Sadly, this is true.
This infuriates me. On Patreon, you get a one-line “spoiler” once a week along the lines of “A was wearing a red shirt! Whatever does it mean??”. Like, who the fuck cares? Give me something to work with! (had to correct it from M to A because we almost never get anything about romanced M on Patreon)
I agree my husband is smarter than us. He laughs at my completionist tendencies, and laughs harder at the fact I pay twenty bucks a month for the tumblr in hopes that, one day, I may actually get something good other than a 500 word M scene once or twice a year that shows nothing more than what we get in the game.
like it’s normal for wips to stop at a certain point, but literally nothing happened so far. How are you supposed to sell me this if you’re stopping before any sort of sauce (and the tumblr updates are much of the same, going “wow exciting stuff is happening! doesn’t elaborate”) Plus like, releases are so far in-between, if we start gatekeeping demos then kudos to those who can go on off of nothingburgers.
) and currently am busy emulating different flavours of M type of protagonist in there.
Romances are great too, being enjoyable by themselves and adding both to narrative and protagonist’s characterization. Danny surprised me, I normally don’t go after golden retriever types first, but his route flows from “Fuck yeah, let’s kick this guy while he’s down!” to “Welp we what, lovers now? Preposterous!” in very satisfying “Huh. This actually makes sense” way.