Alessa feels herself being lifted.
Her eyes are closed, eyelashes locked on each other, and from her slightly parted lips, a soft sigh escapes to the silent air. A soft sigh that matches the calmness that spreads throughout her limbs, the warmness that radiates from her chest, that makes her head sluggish without any thoughts and worries, and Alessa can simply...
Feel.
She fee...
2022-07-13 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Friday, another meeting.
Excuse my lateness. I had a power shortage in my area that lasted for far too long — my phone was at 8%, the sun was starting to dwindle, and I wondered if I had to read by the light of candles when finally, electricity was restored and the world was set right.
I know I'm writing a medieval fantasy, and in the distance fiction provides, I can envis...
2022-07-08 21:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostI will admit, at this point in their lives, none of the ROs can seriously think about marriage and children or anything ahead of what is the immediate future. They all live... very unstable lives at the moment, and those circumstances don't allow them to think much of what stability can look like.
Hadri...
2022-07-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI just finished an amazing writing session!
Work has been tough this past week — people are starting to take time off for their summer vacation, so everything has been much more stressful, but! I had today free, and I took advantage of it.
The words were pouring, my fingers were flying over the keyboard, and I'm almost done with the romance version of Alessa's conversatio...
2022-07-01 15:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe skin is raised around the knuckles, hard to the touch, like leather that was left too long in the sun. Large calluses, of skin made of nothing but scar tissue, grow on the very edge of each knuckle, and even as you press hard into them, you wonder if she can feel it at all.
It is as if nature made a natural cover, a protection against the damage this hand is faded to make. ...
2022-06-27 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe meet again!
It turned out that the game patch required much more work than I (naively) assumed. I worked on it pretty much all week, adding around 10k words to the game — which, in a million, I know it's not much — and countless corrections and improvements.
I also had a lot of fun coming up with achievements. If I'm honest, I forgot about achievements halfway through w...
2022-06-24 15:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's lingering glance, I thought I'd share snippets of two scenes I'm working on for the patch update — which I'll, hopefully, submit tomorrow!
The first is a new conversation at the interrogation with Rafael. I just love the bickering between him and the MC 😆:
(...)
Lance smiles again. "There it is, my big secret."
Rafael ...
2022-06-23 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAll his world resides in his hands.
There is nothing else that Hadrian can pay attention to. No sound, no sight, no smell or taste. It all comes down to his hands, to what his fingertips touch and his palms press, and his skin brushes. He doesn't know if it's dark or if the sun brightens the sky. He doesn't know if he listens or if silence has finally become absolute. He doesn't know, eve...
2022-06-21 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlessa is propped on the bench, back leaning on the window, with her knives spread all around her. She perches like a bird of prey, one knee up, hands flashing with steel.
Whoosh.
Her many rings shine with the flames as her fingers move up and down. She sharpens one knife with a wetting stone, each stroke sending a sizzling hiss that vibrates the air around you.
W...
2022-06-20 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostFriday is upon thee. It is upon us all.
Another week ran past, but what a week it was! I didn't quite manage to write every single day — Wednesday didn't give me a respite — but it was close enough. Six out of seven is not a terrible record, I reckon.
Alessa is, as always, a pleasure to write. While the conversation isn't too long, for you don't have a lot of time to dwell aroun...
2022-06-17 13:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you're on the second draft and have to write the paths you left as placeholders in the first.
Neia won the character vote poll! That means a scenario with our menacing specter will be posted on the 29th!
However, I was thinking. Now that the official list of ROs has been released, I'll stop with the bi-monthly scenarios ...
2022-06-15 21:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post"Why not play a game?"
The words lift in the quiet air like feathers blown by a gentle breeze, and you swear you almost see them materialize before you. Rising upwards, in the translucent shape of mirages, towards a ceiling so elaborate, your eyes can't focus on a single detail.
There are too many, in engravements along the edges, in the frescos painted on the corners, in the textur...
2022-06-13 13:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostA very helpful Forum user, Nell, has made an achievement guide for Book One!
The only thing that I'd add is that, if you achieve the "Friends in High Places" achieveme...
2022-06-11 14:33:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe're already a third of the way into June. Is it just me or is time flying too fast, now? Here I was complaining not two weeks ago that it needed to pick up the pace, and now I'm afraid there's just not enough of it. It keeps slipping like water through my fingers.
And people, I'm parched.
But, racing time aside, this week has been so good! I've had to turn off my phone...
2022-06-10 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI adore my sarcastic MCs, using words and quips like daggers and pocking the world until, eventually, the world can't help but poke back. I love my stoic ones, the ones whose real thoughts are as much a mystery as the constellations shining in the sky. They face everyone from behind a stone wall, impregnable but for a few.
I love the exact opposite too, those that can't — and don't want...
2022-06-10 16:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
This is yet another post asking for input for what shall be future content. 😋 But! Please send in your character asks for July! It can be directed to any character that appears in Book 1.
Hope you participate! ♡
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Edit: Thank you to those who have submitted questions already! I'm already brainstorming on how to answer them. 😋
B...
2022-06-09 16:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe first Bonus Content for the month has been mostly written — it'll feature Alain, the last poll winner. I was going to write the second about Ysabella since she was in second place, however, since the game's launch and new characters coming into the mix, I think it better to ask you instead.
Which character should feature in the second scenario of the month?
2022-06-08 07:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a bit more work than I expected, specifically because of the number of variables that I had used, but it is all done, and I truly believe the book is better for it. I know it may seem like just a small thing, but Nero and his life will have a signifi...
2022-06-06 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostShe does not like how her fingers stiffen.
The joints are cold as if the bone is cracked, and she cannot have as full control over her movements as she would like. The chamber is warm, she can feel the beads of sweat gathering on her forehead and slipping down her tunic, but her hands are cold and unresponsive, and for the first time in a long while, Alessa wishes she could be gentler. 2022-06-06 14:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post
'Tis not Friday, but Saturday, and thus I find myself a day late to our weekly meeting. For that, I can only apologize.
As you're aware, Book One was (finally!) released on Thursday, and to tell you I've been overwhelmed would be the understatement of the century.
It has been... a rollercoaster. Or, more fittingly to the Rose's world, it has been like riding Billy for an extended pe...
2022-06-04 14:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post
“As the artist mourns his fortune
So the Dynasty falls to crumble,
And the two branches snatch asunder”
You are a recent member of The White Company, a mercenary guild on the far side of the law. You...
2022-06-02 16:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Beka, the street urchin made by the amazing lilyveins (Here's her Tumblr— check out her commission page!)
I just adore how Beka looks! 😭 Lily really...
2022-05-31 13:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostAnd way down
Her hand stills, fingers clenching around the blade so tightly that nails turn white and dig into the flesh of her palm. She does not shake, but something within her chest does. Alessa has him at her mercy, and she did not want to see it, but the fool angled his head, and now he stares right at her.
Fear. Desperation. "Please."
Her hand d...
2022-05-30 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post27th of May.
Seven more days have gone by, and May is coming to a gentle end. This week has been all about Book 2! I wrote in every free time that I had, and that list I showed you last week is almost— almost!— done. The dialogue has been a delight, as always, and I'm honestly finding new sides of not only Hadrian but the MC as well. New lights on how they communicate and understand e...
2022-05-27 18:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostYou wouldn't call them waves, for they're much too gentle and make too little noise.
They're more akin to a tide, you think. The kind of which you imagine rules the deep, cold bottoms of the ocean. The surface doesn't rise to meet you, but it moves all the same, somehow staying in place while the ripples slide back and forth. Back and forth.
They do not crash against the plier, but ...
2022-05-25 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFriday is upon us.
This week went by in a rush! Sometimes time moves like a snail, unhurried, for she knows that the destination awaits, and what matters is the journey. While other times, it seems it flies like a sparrow with her little heart hammering when it sees an eagle soaring in the sky above.
For time has been running out on me. The week has been busy, altho...
2022-05-20 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostYour eyes narrow, watching him laugh with too much glee. "If we're throwing blame around, then don't let me out of the fun," you say, lifting your chin defiantly. Hadrian's arms shake up and down, his fingers tickling your sides. "You should have locked the door."
Slowly, almost too slowly, his chuckles subside. Hadrian still smiles, close to beaming at this point, and you wonder then how...
2022-05-18 14:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time of the month!
Which character would you like to see in one of June's Bonus Content?
Also... I will complete this list and eventually write a scenario for each of these remaining characters, but after that, I was thinking of diversifying things a little bit. For the Bonus Contents, I could maybe host a Character Q&A event - I'm planning on adding discord benefits i...
2022-05-16 19:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post