Alpha preview updated! Features:
Hi everyone, updating the alpha link today!
I’m making lots of headway on Chapter 2 (Riel’s route) and will likely finish it within a few weeks and move on to Chapter 3, saving Chase’s route to finish on the side. I’ve found it’s more productive if I just power through and lay down the bare bones of the story instead of trying to fill out the massive, sprawling beast I create with each chapter (my fault): it’s a lesson I learned with Chapter 1 and Trouble and Tallys’...
2019-10-28 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, thanks so much for your participation, as always! There seemed to be more questions this time, so I think I'll be sticking with two days for questions from now on, haha! As usual, things are separated into general, spoilers, and NSFW sections for anyone who wants to skip over anything! ❤
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Kat Voight: Are there any aspects of your characters you wish you hadn't given them? ...
2019-10-27 19:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello! You probably all know the drill by now, but it's already that time again--submitting your questions for the monthly Q&A!
Added about 5,000 more words to Chapter 3 of ShoH: all of the build-up is done with and Riel and Chase's separate missions are embarking in earnest! I'm not totally happy with the pacing of the chapter--transitions feel a bit choppy, but I can always go back and refine them once I push out all this content--but I'm very happy with the pace I've been setting recently!
I'm also concentrating on Riel's route for now, wherein you infiltrate an exclusive party at a certain minister's mansion...
2019-10-21 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The winner of this month's art poll was more secret art, so here is a very, very early concept sketch of Chase done 7 years ago (by the same artist who did the character sketch portraits)! I've never shown it to anybody because it doesn't fit the vision of him I have in my head really at all lol, but I do think it's very interesting to look at! His clothes and weapons are very close,...
2019-10-20 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostCallsigns are codenames or nicknames that the Shepherds assign to each other, generally to refer to each other in incognito/coded messages or to address each other in the field when identities should remain a secret or a mission is being conducted subversively. (You can see a list of example callsigns on the ShoH Character Page.)
I'm not great at coming up with these types of names, so I'm ...
2019-10-15 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody,
Short update this week! Since posting the link to the alpha preview last week, I haven't had much time to work on ShoH as I've been dealing with some work deadlines and some social obligations (my sister's first fall break from college, a good friend's murder mystery birthday party, which required a surprising amount of preparation)! I also got the results back from my last law school exam, and despite thinking I did horribly, I actually got a higher score than ever ...
2019-10-15 02:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys!
Here's a silly game I whipped up for your enjoyment: take a screenshot on your phone or computer and see what your results are! I'd love it if you'd share your results below, too! ❤ Enjoy!
2019-10-11 03:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostUpdated! Here are some new features:
Hi everyone, I've been working hard on ShoH this past week! I've added about 6,000 or more words to Chapter 2 as well as the newspaper to the day off sequence and a dream sequence in Chapter 1. This brings us up to 165,000 words for the project so far, not including code, and not including scraps and segments I've written of future chapters.
Put another way, the first 3 chapters of ShoH are longer than The Grapes of Wrath, The Two Towers, and Harry Potter a...
2019-10-07 18:48:53 +0000 UTC View PostOoh, a spooky month for writing! I love the onset of fall, in case you couldn't tell (the fact that I live in a desert hellscape doesn't help). Which short story should be written this month? Maybe I'll even do something Halloween-themed!
(And don't forget there's a list of master prompts under the "Pinned" tag if you want to throw out any theme suggestions!)
2019-10-01 22:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHere's another question for you guys, this time about other characters' happy endings...
If you do succeed in unlocking a character's "good" ending (not an RO), how would you feel about them getting married or having families with other (unnamed) people? (Not with each other, just randoms down the road.)
This isn't really something I've seen in other games, so I'm curious.
Say you romance Trouble, or Tallys, or no one at all. And you manage to ...
2019-10-01 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChase’s father was a corsair. When Chase was very young, seven or eight, he didn’t know, he was forced to accompany the man on his raids along the coast. He had no mother, had stayed in an orphanage with the other urchins until his father showed up one day to claim him, and until his death the man never once showed him an ounce of affection. He was a hard, gnarled sea captain, someone who seemed carved from solid oak, stiff with brine and corsair harshness. He made Chase earn his keep alo...
2019-09-30 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThanks everyone for your great questions! As always, answers are separated into their own categories of NSFW, spoilers, and regular under the cut!
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Anonymous: Which ROs would want to take a bath/shower with MC all the time?
Every day: Red, Chase, Ayla
Every few days to once a week: Blade, Tallys, Trouble
Rarely to never: Shery, Riel, Lavinet
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2019-09-26 23:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again! Author Q&A day!
If you're new to this Patreon or just need a refresher, here's how to participate:
OR
A very simple question for this poll...
If you're interested in romance, would an RO being previously married (and now separated or widowed) prevent you from romancing them?
What if their previous marriage was bad, unhealthy, or overall a negative experience for them?
2019-09-22 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostBeen cranking away at things like a little busy bee! I'm actually at my last law school exam as of the time of this posting; wish me luck!
Unbelievably, I've found a smidgen of time to work on ShoH in the middle of all my apps and texts. I've:
Secret art won the poll, so here's a full-body portrait of Red by the artist yawniverse! I love his outfit and his eyes--he sort of looks like Sora from Kingdom Hearts in this, don't you think? And his rings hngggg
What art do you want to see next?
2019-09-20 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I've gotten various questions about how to access ShoH's alpha preview link on Patreon, leading me to discover that the link is not as obvious on the user side as it is on my end of things! Here's a quick tutorial that I'm going to pin for ease of access!
Method 1: Using the pinned post
The pinned/topmost post on this Patreon feed will always be the link to the alpha preview! This should be true for desktop, but certa...
2019-09-18 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a bug that caused the game to crash when telling Chase if you're square or not. This has been fixed!
2019-09-16 19:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostAs I'm sure you know, Lavinet is the ruler of her own fiefdom, Falkirk.
However, I hate the name Falkirk. With a passion. I came up with it when it didn't have anything to do with Lavinet (before she was a character in the game, it was going to be a farming town that another female character, Wintry, was going to be encountered in, instead), but I hate calling her "the Lady of Falkirk."
(It's a place in Scotland that I remembered seeing the name of while study...
2019-09-15 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised in the update below, about 2000 words of more content has been added to the alpha preview, continuing Chase and Riel's paths! (Also, "Lone Wolf and Team Player" stats have been altered to "Soldier and Rebel," as I felt the latter two conveyed the nature of those choices more!) Enjoy!
2019-09-14 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks, some big news to share this week!
I got into my first law school! Only 6 days after I submitted my application to them, which is really crazy! It doesn't diminish all the other work I have to do in turning in my other applications and studying for my law school test, but it definitely takes a lot of the pressure off!
I managed to write about 2,000 words of ShoH in between the craziness that has been this past week; if you're an Officer or higher, you'll be able to view t...
2019-09-14 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, what a whirlwind month it's been already!
Law school applications opened on the first, so I've been very busy trying to get a handle on those. In addition, my third (!) LSAT is this month, so there's studying for that, working two urgent jobs with deadlines, getting a handle on what's happening with the publication process for WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, having a social life, working on ShoH, and working on this Patreon. That's a lot, so I just wanted to giv...
2019-09-07 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI might have mentioned this before, but Halek actually has a twin brother! They're identical and look very similar, though Halek was born 7(!) minutes before. Whereas Halek is quiet, lazy, laidback, and hard to stir up, his brother is more business-like, hardworking, studious, and gentlemanly.
I've been calling Halek's brother "Dane" this whole time, but recently realized that paired with their last name--"Dane Prince"--the name looks dumb as hell...
So I'm opening it ...
2019-09-01 23:26:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time again! Vote below for who you want to see a focus on in this month's short story!
2019-09-01 23:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs a child, Red is obsessed with recording things.
He keeps a little leather-bound journal tucked in his belt at all times: its plain, battered cover is as green as a leaf and well-loved, a gift from his parents for his ninth birthday. He writes diligently in it everything he sees and experiences: the color of the sky at sunset, the progress of the little white buds peeping out of his mother’s garden. Even what he had for each meal that day, and its exact ingredients, if his oldest si...
2019-08-31 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a secret plan only Vice-Commanders and up will know about--please don't share! 🤫
I am developing a secret mini-game (similar to Soldiers of Hael) alongside Shepherds of Haven, to be released the day ShoH is published! This game is free but will be part of a promotion to generat...
2019-08-29 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostA small update! Added some stuff in the prologue (mostly MC's birthday, small dialogue changes, writing and prose tweaks) and added more to Chase's route in Chapter 2! If it doesn't seem like much, it's because I work on scenes out of order, so I haven't been able to cobble it all together into a cohesive story for an audience yet! (I'd rather give you big updates than smaller, more frequent ones.) But I'm very happy with how much writing I've been able to plug away at, even with applications...
2019-08-28 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post