Early Access 0.1642.1: 2.5 New Short Endings!

Details of the one-hundred and fiftieth early access release. For Cheesecake and above backers.

Hiii cakes!

Sorry about the lack of meaningful updates this month. I've been working on something of a grab-bag this time, with a bunch of smaller pieces of writing that closes off several short story paths that have been left hanging for many years.

Which ones? Well first, there's the one in Hiroko's Gullible storyline, where Kyou stops messing with Hiroko but commits to making sure she keeps her word. This one basically loops into the story path where he keeps pranking her with some minor script changes. The second is for the Redemption storyline, on the Spiral subpath where Kyou gives into temptation and uses the penlight on Akiko. The new ending occurs when Kyou decides to leave Akiko alone during the critical moment near the end.

Finally, there's an ending partially written for the Villainous Devotion storyline. This one is found when Kyou pursues Nozomi through manipulating her friends right up to the point of victory, intending to do the exact same thing to her only to change his mind at the last second. It's just missing an epilogue, which I'll get to in the next update.

Oh, and there's the new art too! We have some new illustrations for both the story paths written last month, starting with an extention to the CG sequence that was already made for Nozomi's Trance storyline (the "Become mindless for me" path). The other is on Sayori's Alter storyline, where Kyou has Sayori leave his house as herself only to change her back to her alter during an argument they have a little later.

If you're confused about where to find any of the new writing, please refer to the flowchart guide linked below where all the new stuff is marked in green.

It does feel good to close off a few more of these outstanding story paths, but it'd be nice if I could dig into something a bit more substantial to close the year out. We'll see what happens over the next few weeks and in the meantime, please enjoy the new release :)

UPDATE: New release 0.1642.1 brings the Spanish translation up to date. No other changes.

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Penlight Flowchart Guide (Spoilers) (0.1642.1)

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What's New

• WRITING: Wrote the "Make sure she keeps her promise" choice that occurs during Hiroko's Gullible storyline to be a variant of a previously-written story path

• WRITING: New ending written for the Redemption storyline: "Leave her alone"

• WRITING: New scene written for the Villainous Devotion storyline, where Kyou is about to make Nozomi his minion but changes his mind at the last moment

• ART: New CG added for the latest sub-path of Nozomi's Trance storyline ( "Become mindless for me")

• ART: NEW CG added for the "Bring [Sayori's Alter] back" ending on Sayori's Alter storyline

• Word count is now around 476,000

• LOCALIZATION: Various edits and corrections to the existing Spanish script

• Some typo and grammar corrections