Do You Ever Notice Yourself Getting Bad Again…like, You Know You’re Not Doing Work That Needs To

surprise? i know it’s been a while but chapter seven of When Twilight Strikes will (finally) go live publicly june 3rd at 1pm EST. the password is already up for those of you in the midnight tier on patreon, and will be released for the twilight tier this sunday.

(if you’re thinking of pledging for the demo, i’d suggest doing so and cancelling once you get the password unless you plan on sticking around for june, as my patreon charges every 1st of the month).

in this chapter…

meet Mirai, who, honestly, is a pain in the ass

learn more about the ros’ backgrounds and struggles

enter some dangerous situations, including one where you can be in close proximity to your chosen ro

use those fight or flight instincts

make some crucial choices…

thanks for sticking by me everyone <3

Crown of Exile - Chapter 5 Update

Chapter 5 is now available for the public!

Play the game here. Please RESTART your game. Old saves will not work.

The chapter includes:

The entirety of chapter 5;

Dealing with the Nomad Tribe prisoners;

Arriving in Ishari;

Learning more about the other Temple of Ehulla;

Convincing the Ishari people to help Prince Irus;

Freeing prisoners from the Blood Guard prison;

Uncovering major revelations about a certain prisoner;

Dealing with the aftermath of these revelations;

Spend time with your chosen RO;

Introducing a new RO - Anu;

Deepen your bond with Prince Irus;

The first (optional) NSFW scene of the game with Prince Irus.

Word Count: 78 368 words. Total game word count: 324 810 words.

Things to note:

As always, this is a first draft so expect scenes to be lacking some choices;

I wanted to include a lot more interactivity as well as more romance scenes, but I ultimately ran out of time;

Please report bugs to me via Tumblr, the game page or through this form;

The issue with the return button should be fixed and you should no longer get stuck in a loop;

For exclusive side stories posted monthly and weekly devlogs, sneak-peeks and general rambling, consider supporting me on Patreon.

I hope you enjoy the chapter and have fun!

Me n the girls sitting upon the shattered corpse of a false god

People love to talk about the immortality of the machine, but I'm a mechanical engineer, so I know they delude themselves. Most machines are far more mortal than flesh.

How long does a machine last? A car is a very solid machine, expensive, precision designed, and you're lucky if you get more than three decades out of them.

Your enemy is not the flesh. It's entropy. It's the death knell of the energy imbalance. If you want to live as a complex machine you will, by necessity, generate a great deal of entropy until your machine breaks irrevocably.

You want to be immortal? Then don't worship the machine, worship the stone, the forest. Seek that which is either simple enough to never know death or diffused enough to accept every death.

Larkin Has Been Updated with New Routes!

Hoohoo! Happy Larkin Update Day Folks! The game has been updated today with a total of about 50k words on my end and about 12k on yours! Bringing our grand total up to 407k words! <3

In this update visit Nash for Lunch, (with Rose or not), argue with an old lady at the casino, make some decisions about your character's past and get a little Ace lore.

As a note, the update is available for all players but expands with the most content to those who have either visited Nash or Rose and Wyatt on their second night in Larkin. (For a detailed map on how to get the most of the new content, I'll drop it under a read more.)

I've done some bug fixes as well, and cleaned up some typos in previous chapters, thank you to all who've reported!

Happy Playing!

How to get the most of today's content update

Visit Nash on your first free night

Have a conversation with him, don't interrogate him about the mine

Head to the Emerald, and tag along with Rose

Tell her about the Happenings!

Move to include Nash in your investigation

Friend: Wanna hang out tomorrow?

Me: I actually performed an Activity yesterday. Please wait the three day recovery period to submit another inquiry

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

Demo Update Chapter 2 Part 3

Chapter 2 Part 3 is now Live!

Demo

Have at it!

Shenanigans aside, as previously stated this update includes just over 170,000 words, which covers Peyton, Peidyn, Abelyn, and Anadora’s Romance, Platonic, and Friendship Routes (where you can still see their scenes without being on their specific path).

The update will have Broken your save files so make sure to start a fresh game.

Update Notes and Details Below:

There are now four accessibility settings, some old, a few new.

The Unicode Hints, and Panic Switch you should all be familiar with by now. The Script Display and Weights and Measures Switches, not so much.

There is a full explanation in the demo, but in brief:

The Scripts Display switch gives you the ability to swap between using Old English letters like the wynn Ƿ, and using the standard Roman Alphabet. It also changes the display of certain words to match their pronunciation with a British English accent. Since I'm well aware that only a minority of my readership have such an accent I've also included a rough transcript of each word using the IPA on each of the word's journal page.

The Weights and Measures switch allows you to switch between the in story measurements system and the metric system.

All the accessibility switches can be accessed at any point during the game from the Stats Screen Menu.

There are gaps present in the Stats Screen Journal Pages. I ran out of time and brain power before the release deadline -_-

I'll try and get a mini patch out by the end of the week to fix this.

I hope you all enjoy reading the new update, and as always feedback and bug reports are much appreciated.

Now, unless any major bugs emerge in the next 30 minutes or so, I'm off to collapse in a heap.

Have fun everyone!

6k Followers Raffle!!! 🎉

Wow! This is a crazy number. Thank you all so much for giving this blog a follow ❤ To celebrate, I thought we could do a raffle! 

The prizes:

A short story featuring your Romanus and a character of your choice — must be SFW, and if it’s romantic in nature it has to be with the official ROs only.

You pick one snippet in the Patreon tag, and I’ll send you the whole story!

You pick one snippet from the Ko-fi tag, and I’ll send you the entire commission!

The first winner gets the first pick of the three prizes, the second winner chooses between the two left, and the third gets the last.

Rules:

Must be following me.

Reblogs count as 2 entries — but only one reblog is valid, so please don’t spam your followers’ dashes with the post! 😄

Likes count as one entry.

On the 12th of May, I’ll put all entries in a random number generator and get the winners! Please have your messages open, so I can contact you :)

I hope this will be fun, I’ve never done anything like this. Thank you, again, for all the support, it only motivates me to work harder and pick up the pen even on days when it seems to weigh a ton.

I know I’ve been quiet regarding Book Two’s progress, but that’s only because I want to get to a specific part before I make any sort of announcements. But I hope you find comfort in knowing that I’m working on it almost every day — and the days I’m not, I’m thinking about it constantly. It won’t be very long before I invite you to step back into the world of the Rose.

May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

And may you have an amazing Friday. 🌹