I'm not quite done with Chapter 13 yet, but this latest update brings the average playthrough length up to 92,000 words. (Total Wordcount: 388,000.)
As for why this Chapter is turning out so long . . . well, for those of you who have good relationships with Nick, one of the responses at the very end is not like the others. The game is about to do some heavy duty branching. As in,...
2021-09-17 22:21:49 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s absurd,” I said. “Why would anyone want to kill me?”
Delphine stared me down, her eyes slits of green disproval. “Do not insult my intelligence by pretending that yours is lacking,” she said softly, her voice like velvet over steel. “I regret keeping you in the dark regarding my own suspicions, which were so clearly inaccurate. It’s become obvious that the attemp...
2021-09-15 19:51:20 +0000 UTC View PostI'm cackling, everyone. Cackling. Reese now has to deal with the indignity of losing not only to a pair of shih tzus, but to their subordinates (one of whom is Caleb).
Which is to say that, after the second poll, Andy/Liz (aka AL) and Caleb are the winners of this month's interview.
But honestly? Reese deserves to be sidelined (as well as to get cruelly teased about i...
2021-09-14 19:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ll need to act as a Ment, should you agree to enter the program,” Ambrosia Kim continued. “A cover has already been selected for you as a Level Eight Empath.”
Kenna stared at the paperwork before her. After receiving her lackluster ASE Score in the mail, she’d felt disappointment, sure, but mostly relief that she hadn’t told her father about her initial decision to appl...
2021-09-14 04:54:53 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ll need to act as a Ment, should you agree to enter the program,” Ambrose Kim continued. “A cover has already been selected for you as a Level Eight Empath.”
Kent stared at the paperwork before him. After receiving his lackluster ASE Score in the mail, he’d felt disappointment, sure, but mostly relief that he hadn’t told his father about his initial decision to apply fo...
2021-09-14 04:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostCurrent Wordcount (not including Chapter 14): 389k
Next Update: September 16
I’ve finished one of the pathways, and Chapter 13 is now written from beginning to end . . . assuming that Button has a high relationship with Nick and either met Isaiah or gave Caleb’s USB drive to AL.
(Team Disaster Cousins seems to be winning at the newest inte...
2021-09-11 03:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostReese "Rudzite" and Andy/Liz Guerra won by a landslide, but many you pointed rightly out that Caleb and AL would also make a pretty amusing combo (if just Reese wins, Andy/Liz and Caleb be an available combo next month, otherwise it'll be Caleb and Isaiah).
Since I couldn't change the first poll, however, I'm putting up this secondary poll to decide which version of Team Vengeance should ...
2021-09-10 02:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we arrived back at the palace, my sides ached from exertion. Xander had been forced to grab ahold of me several times to prevent me from tripping over my own feet, as my eagerness to see Emilia unfortunately outstripped my capability to run. Eventually, he hooked his arm through mine so as to keep me from planting headfirst onto the cobblestones. Despite our urgency, I was intensely...
2021-09-08 18:20:07 +0000 UTC View PostLucien/Lucia is the final RO in Delivery For The Damned and is gender variable.
In many ways, Luce is your traditional vampire. They drink blood, wear black, and live in a Gothic castle with their pet gargoyle. That being said, your first impression of them may change once you realize that their wardrobe is primarily styled after 1980’s punk fashion and that their castle was co...
2021-09-08 03:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe beginning of Chapter 13 is now playable for all Buttons, including those who witnessed Isaiah's prophecy in Chapter 11 instead of chatting with Caleb. You learn different information depending on which route you went (and whether or not you gave away Caleb's usb drive).
There will be even more ripple effects down the line.
I'm excited.
Link: 2021-09-06 02:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Labor Day Weekend for all those in the States!
First, here’s the roadmap for September (dates subject to being shifted, but everything will be released in September):
Sept 4: Delivery for the Damned Poll
Sept 5: Mind Blind Update (Chapter 13, Isaiah’s missing scene)
Sept 7: Delivery for the Damned Teaser
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2021-09-04 02:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostSchrodinger will get his own poll slot next month, I promise. But for now, I'm sticking with humans.
Annie and Cass were never meant to be a serious option, but I learned my lesson in that people always vote for the animals (who am I kidding, I would've voted for them too). And I did really enjoy writing their interview, despite the trickiness of the language barrier.
For September,...
2021-09-01 22:45:55 +0000 UTC View PostNote: The following interview has been translated into English by Schrodinger Alavidze. Please read Part 1, the untranslated version, first at:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/55589763
* * * *
Dual spotlights shine...
2021-08-31 20:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This version of the interview is untranslated. As such, only the human interviewer talks. The second, translated version can be read at:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/55590069
* * * *
Dual spotlights shine upon a stage’s f...
2021-08-31 20:35:44 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the interview! Now to finish up Annie and Cass's doggerview (which involves them theatrically reenacting a conversation between . . . you know what, I'll just let you guys read it when it drops tomorrow on the 31st).
Total Length: 376k
Link: htt...
2021-08-31 03:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis only includes non-Nover!Buttons' Caleb's route so far (both with usb and without) and Noh's POV (which I'm still figuring out where to put given that my plot has been rearranged).
Either way, I'm being less productive than I should be right now due to sleepiness. Still, there's a couple of nice juicy reveals (and there will be another 10,000 or so words by Monday).
Link...
2021-08-29 06:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostLate last night I had an epiphany that required changing the first scene of Chapter 13 (more detailed explanation with spoilers after the ellipsis!). This also meant tweaking the interim scene in Chapter 12 which was meant to go before Noh's scene, a task which I mostly accomplished today (and should have the beginning with up in an hour or so, thus why this post is just temporary).
In do...
2021-08-29 02:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostMind Blind Wordcount: 389k (with 375k ready to be uploaded tomorrow)
Next Patreon Update: Tomorrow evening! Will include Chapter 12's missing scenes and the first part of Chapter 13.
The more I write, the more I learn about what works and what doesn’t. There’s nothing too revolutionary in this week’s blog, but I wanted to share some...
2021-08-28 04:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostFor those not on discord: Kenzie’s date and the second file for Chapter 12 will be uploaded Saturday, along with the first of Chapter 13 (which has two main alternate pathways). One of these split scenes in Chapter 13 is based off Chapter 2’s assignment as far as variability and options.
(Warning: slight spoilers ahead.)
Originally, this scene contained a pletho...
2021-08-27 03:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Where are we going?” I asked.
Xander’s grin widened at the audible growl in my voice. “We’re moving forwards,” he said.
Smug jerk. I shouldn’t have agreed to follow, but curiosity had gotten the better of me. And perhaps a part of me had latched onto an excuse to leave, to temporarily escape from Emilia’s sickroom and my own gnawing guilt.
After eliciting an o...
2021-08-25 18:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostGray leaned across the dining room table. His dark gold hair stuck out at various sideways angles, strands reaching towards the sky after their recent liberation from the ballcap that rested on the table surface near his elbow, right besides a half-eaten calzone and a set of customized blue dice that matched his eyes (a stocking stuffer from Nick from yesterday’s Christmas). It was his first ...
2021-08-24 04:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostTelemetry, also referred to as “farsight,” is the psychic ability wherein a Ment is able to accurately visualize a distant location in real time. Telemetrists are exceptionally rare, to the point where percentage is considered statistically moot. Unity has only twenty-eight Telemetrist AMOs in its global employ.
The longest distance ever seen across by a Telemetrist was conducted by H...
2021-08-23 09:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12 is now officially over 50,000 words! Which feels insane to me.
(SOS - Send Caffeine.)
Noh's POV has been temporarily taken out of this release due to length necessitating that the chapter be separated into two files, and the second file (which includes K date and the interim scene back at Aeon) hasn't been fully bug-tested yet.
(I tried to get it all done, whi...
2021-08-22 07:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostI’m still working on Glitch and Kenzie’s scenes. I wanted to get them edited and up tonight, but instead went down a creative rabbit trail for Chapter 13 and wrote an entire scene involving Santa, a drone, and a pigeon. (Sometimes, creating new stuff comes easier than editing and then I look at the clock and realize whoops it’s 9pm.)
(Speaking of new stuff, if anyone knows ...
2021-08-21 03:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the Chapter that never ends
Yes it goes on and on, my friends!
Some writer started writing it
And wrote all about the loves
But she'll keep on updating it
Tomorrow just because
Chapter 12 is over 45,000 words
But now 31,000 is now out
Have you heard?
And I realize that this post
Won't make any sense
<... 2021-08-20 03:46:07 +0000 UTC View PostHenri(etta) Galbraith is a . . . well, the term “mad scientist” is outdated. Henri isn’t interested in reanimating the dead or marrying a pigeon. Rather, they’re a visionary whose experiments constantly blur the boundary between science and magic.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law stating that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? Henri knows that’s ...
2021-08-16 06:31:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m in Washington for the week visiting my mother (and, more importantly, my mother’s dog!), but should have the remaining three date scenes (Glitch, Kenzie, and Rosy) for Chapter 12 finished and uploaded on August 19th, which is the day after I get back to my desktop in Chicago. My desktop doesn’t freeze then overheat whenever I run Choicescript IDE to bug-hunt. Sally’s platonic pathwa...
2021-08-13 22:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostAmbrosia Kim was cold.
Not emotionally—although some, her most recent assignment among them, would claim that she’d long lost the capacity to feel compassion. Contrary to popular belief, however, Ambrosia’s inner life was not a frozen tundra, and she experienced feelings beyond the sliding scale that Justice had doodled in the margin of UCRT’s last mission report, which ranged fro...
2021-08-13 00:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostAmbrose Kim was cold.
Not emotionally—although some, his most recent assignment among them, would claim that he’d long lost the capacity to feel compassion. Contrary to popular belief, however, Ambrose’s inner life was not a frozen tundra, and he experienced feelings beyond the sliding scale that Justice had doodled in the margin of UCRT’s last mission report, which ranged from ...
2021-08-13 00:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the night of my seventeenth birthday sitting in an upholstered chair next to Emilia’s bedside. I drifted in and out of sleep, jerking awake whenever my chin dipped to my chest. Hamen had departed late last night, returning to his house in Bellcrest proper where he lived with Emilia’s mother and brothers. He didn’t want his wife to hear the news about their daughter from a runner. ...
2021-08-11 16:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post