Public Release: Alpha 32

Alright, first up for what you actually came for, the new content and file:

• Cyan has several options for pursuing criminals as a Space Ranger.
• She can also agree to split up on the bunker mission in the Dark Sector. Or she can pass Rakell's door in the ag sector. Or, she can become a prostitute in the city sector.
• Cyan can also browse the sales ads on Devilist.
• The demon version of Cyan can elect to turn poor captive Leslie into a "Meat Forge", or she can keep up her deception much longer. Inversely, human Cyan can start pondering ways to get rid of demon-Leslie.
• In the D&D books, the Complete Bard has been started, and the Complete Wizard has been changed to the Complete Mage (with the original option becoming the Apprentice archetype).
• After catching him banging Karen at the phone store, Cyan can now elect to blackmail her dad instead.
• Cyantaur can now offer her friends as tribute to Sleipnir.
• Cyan can play the Twilight Sparkle VR video.
• Cyan can pick the Bubblegum Pink lingerie as her gift. There's also a continuation of her issues with the Blood Wine lingerie.
• Cyan can buy the Doctor Deviant costume at Missus Mazorium's.
• More stuff of Cyan going to Oz. (Currently she and Glinda are not getting along.)
• The east wing of the mall is now populated by various stores, several of which have beginner content.
• Jamie can now go visit his brother.
• Eric's greatsword option in the museum has been replaced by a longsword.
• Anubilis can now give Rei the best (and last) experience of her life.

File is here.

Now, on to several other matters.

First off, one week this month got unexpectedly hectic and really disrupted things, and I wound up missing an incremental. I'm really sorry about that. I do intend to make it up by doing some extra prose writing when possible, which will be exclusive to patrons for awhile. 

Second, the poll I put up came in and pretty clearly the winner was that people want character portraits. So I'm going to begin shopping around for commission artists and hopefully by the end of the month we'll actually have a vision for Cyan. (With other characters to follow on a monthly basis.) While the Discord was going strong for awhile, it fell off and far more people showed interest in a wiki. So I'm also going to look into options for that... I know at least one reader spoke up about helping out with that so hopefully that can get done fairly soon as well. The Discord will happen too, eventually, but what may happen is that I'll wind up working on it in bits and pieces over time and just debut it when I've got a good setup and possibly some mods already in place.

Third, the goal has definitely been met for this month, so I'm going to start timing myself and doing my best to put in at least forty hours a week every week. I'm honestly a little anxious about this... I'm well aware I could be risking burnout or pressure anxiety. (And you know what they say about self-imposed deadlines... "I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.") But I am going to try, because people believing in me this much is amazing and I want to do my best job for it. The important thing is to do this and develop proper habits for writing full-time and just making continuous progress. I may wind up venturing out from Cyan a bit more just to give myself more breathing room and avoid burning out... I do still want to have at least one storyline finished by the end of the year, but we'll see if that hope is realistic or not.

Fourthly, those of you following incrementals probably noticed I changed up the way I was doing updates. At first this worked fairly well, but as it went on it was becoming spammy, both for me, and for people reading as was pointed out to me. Luckily I think I've found a way to make it work. From now on there will be a monthly "dev diary" page... the daily updates will go on the main update page for that week, and then once the incremental with those updates in it is released, they'll move to the dev diary. At the end of the month, I'll sum up the new content for the main update page. This should let people who are following the incrementals keep abreast of the very latest content, and also allow everyone to see the progress in more detail if they want, without the spamminess of keeping everything on the same page.

Anyway, that should just about do it. We're moving forward into uncharted territory, but we're going together, so I think we'll make it. See you in the weeks ahead!