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2023-08-03 03:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, I'm enjoying my vacation in small town america, but we still need some questions for this month! So have fun!
2023-07-24 23:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post(Lady Argent cane second in the poll, here is her POV just before the auction. Flirting gender neutral villain)
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Lost Diablos. Underground. A former bomb shelter rebuilt into a base, not by my hand. Finders keepers, which is easy when you pick up a keycard from the ground and asks it where it belongs.
No, I lie. It's more complicated than that, but detective work never made for interesting memories. A necessary evil, staying alive means staying smart, ...
2023-07-17 09:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, I realized that while I have talked a bit about it on the discord, it's better to have it collected here too. I am now officially a full time writer, though I also have to preface that I am starting that with travels and vacation. This is the first summer we have felt comfortable traveling both due to economic, pandemic and health issues, and so we have had quite a filled schedule. Thanks to my severance pay from work, we can finally afford to visit family in the US, and catch up on ...
2023-07-10 09:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostAlrighty, took a few days longer than plann
2023-07-09 10:39:40 +0000 UTC View Post(The rest of the Dignity is Overrates snippet, Dove rescue, guilty Ranger capture. Around 6000 words. PLEASE NOTE: The original snippet (https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-2-2-dignity-is-84628779) is updated with new content too! I suggest rereading it first, it's more info about who hired Dove)
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(reprising last of Dignity is Ov...
2023-07-04 10:34:04 +0000 UTC View PostWell, have had british friends over for vacation and travel, and then there was midsummer with all the associated parties so I have pretty much been offline for two weeks now, apart from checking news on twitter. So, this month's call for questions is a bit later than usual.
Hope you're doing alright, June has been one long heatwave here, so it's going to be fun to start working again... right now I miss the air conditioning of the factory.
Please feel free to ask about whatever y...
2023-06-26 07:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post(1.2.2 sometimes things happen in the dead of night. 4000 words, a snippet with few variables and no choices. Trying out voices to see what works.)
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There is silence, and then there is movement. You're not sure what wakes you first, but going from sleep to adrenaline pumping awareness is a sign of a threat. A rattle. In the corner. The lights are on but dimmed, a small mercy you hate to think you have Ortega to thank for. $!{he} knows too well about your issues with d...
2023-06-15 19:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post(Revelations, post crash, post talk with an innocent Sidestep in the hospital.)
Is it a nightmare if I'm not sleeping? Hell if I know, but every time I close my eyes, it comes back.
Black. Then bright.
Turn. Crash. Roll. Instincts taking over, nailing the landing without knowing fully what had happened yet. Hurting. Left skin on the pavement, both synth and real. Head clear. The smell of gasoline.
Looking up turned the world slow, all neural channels open, sou...
2023-06-10 13:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhat would Nocture and Jake
2023-06-06 16:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, since the "another view point of a scene from the game from another characters point of view" is winning handily, here is a follow up to see which character to focus on!
2023-05-28 07:43:24 +0000 UTC View PostSince I am now finished with the Void series, I am thinking about what I will write for the lore section next time. The poll will have the major types of lore, but feel free to fill in any suggestions you want in the comments. I want to know what you are interested in! There might be another poll in a week with more choices within the winning choice.
2023-05-26 07:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostTime for this month's questions! Anything you fancy about the world, the story, people, my writing process, writing in general... have fun.
Just consider one thing: Would telling you the answer remove some of the fun and uncertainty of the story in the future? If the answer is yes, you'll probably get told it's spoilers.
2023-05-23 12:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post(1.2.2 continuing from the first one, Rangers capture, this time with Herald flavor. 8100 words, few minor variables yet)
*label heraldfirst
*page_break A Knock On The Door.
"Go away," you say, because you're in no mood for visitors. It's late, if not in the middle of the night, at least too late for doctors. You've had your evening meal, you're supposed to be asleep now.
You was. Until you woke up, one restraint broken.
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(1950 words. Revelations path 1.2.2, same start as the last one, but shifting to Steel instead of Ortega. Few minor variables.)
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*label chenfirst
*page_break A Knock On The Door.
"Go away," you say, because you're in no mood for visitors. It's late, if not in the middle of the night, at least too late for doctors. You've had your evening meal, you're supposed to be asleep now.
You was. Until you woke up, one restraint broken.&nb...
2023-05-16 12:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post1.2.2
(Revelations sketch 5300 words. Broken legs, Ranger's capture, no rescue coming. Rough draft. Few minor variables)
You shouldn't have tried to get out of bed again, but in your defense you were dreaming. Were you chased? Your heart's refusal to slow down gives an indication of that, but you can't remember anything but sliding backwards down the hole. Hole? It's already fading. Good. You've got enough baggage in the waking world.
... 2023-05-15 17:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostOrtega's still breathing. It's a stupid compulsion needing to look to make sure, but you were always like that. Couldn't trust the world hadn't changed since the last time you checked, maybe that's why you started seeing the edges back at the... No. Don't think about that. Think about Ortega instead, the sweat-stained skin, the slow rise and fall of that bruised chest, deeply asleep. Not unconscious, not limp enough for that. There's a stillness to an unconscious human, something almost appro...
2023-05-13 18:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post1.2.3 Ortega late night rescue, no minor variables added yet but a lot of banter. 4150 words of it.
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Why does this feel familiar? Stuck in a wheelchair, coming down from painkillers and struggling to keep hold of the thoughts around you? Look away, look away, look away or turn to stone. You don't care which, there's too many memories running adjacent to this experience. As the wheels roll you try to find a position that doesn't hurt. Find a way to breathe, even though...
2023-04-29 14:08:03 +0000 UTC View Post(3700 words or so, the continuation of the last one, now with Sidestep pickup. Not all variables, friendly boss and variable leadership. )
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"Stop and open the doors. No need to get me out yet, if we do this smart we can roll me from one van to the other."
"Are you sure you want me to stay?" You can feel his concern as a visceral thing, a sour taste at the back of his tongue. "I'm the Marshal, your people might not apprechiate that."
*fake_choice
#"Yo...
2023-04-28 19:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post1.2.6
Chen guilty rescue, about 6000 words before I ran out of steam.
(no minor variables added yet)
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Why does this feel familiar? Stuck in a wheelchair, coming down from painkillers and struggling to keep hold of the thoughts around you? Look away, look away, look away or turn to stone. You don't care which, there's too many memories running adjacent to this experience. As the wheels roll you try to find a position...
2023-04-27 20:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostWell, bit hungover from yesterdays work party but managed to bang out 3650 words or so of Argent and Sidestep shenanigans.
(guilty escape with Argent, no minor variables added yet)
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Pain. Sharp. Blinding. Centered in your chest, broken ribs grinding sore muscles, every movement of your legs leaving you nauseous with agony.
You've gotten used to pain by now, even though you still hate it. You never knew how goo...
2023-04-22 14:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostGimme your questions about game, process or writing in general. Now only a little more than a month left at work before I start writing full time, it is hectic, but the countdown has started.
It's going to be nice, I feel so filled with Revelations ideas.
2023-04-21 06:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo, managed to work almost a full Saturday, though I was interrupted by phonecalls and making dinner. Not hyperfocus, just normal writing. Still, managed 9250 words in one sitting. Looks like 10 000 a day is easily doable. Nice to see my brain is recovering.
(Guilty escape with Herald, being carried as a blanket burrito. Not fully coded, but some variables. Friendly hench relations and good leadership, no minor variables added yet.)
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2023-04-15 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy brain is being bad due to oversocialising for several weeks in a row, but I managed to wrestle it into finally finishing this. Steel was hard to write, he turned out third person. Wouldn't let me in his head.
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The Green Sky compound, lit up by floodlights, everything covered by a thin layer of dust and sand. Wei Chen is standing in the courtyard, Sergeant Steel armor securely sealed, scanning the area. The interference is a staticky buzz on his HUD, a common occurre...
2023-04-14 18:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostMe and Emma have finally signed the contract to publish our comic Breaks with a new publisher! Looking forward to some nice new editions, I'll let you know when there are more details.
Just feels nice to have that taken care of!
EDIT: Forgot to link the web version. You can read it all on Tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/190485
2023-04-11 11:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostTry this link instead, I have no idea why they keep breaking!
Don't be afraid to DM me if it does....
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2023-04-08 17:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis is what things look like when I write my first drafts, petering out at the end because I had an online meeting at eight. Not spell or grammar checked.
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There's a sound in the dark that doesn't fit right, not an echo of the empty corridors of your dreams, but a stumble and a curse. Not at you. For once.
"Ortega?" You mumble the name, half awake and yet it comes easy to your lips. A special kind of curse you don't know whether you'd want broken or not. That's the kind ...
2023-04-04 18:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, still travelling, but at least my brain has gone back to normal. So, how will I write Revelations after the massive variations of the ending? Glad you asked!
Cataloguing the basic structure!
I needed to catalogue the main ending variants of Retribution. And by main, I mean the ones that will lead to different starting positions in Revelations. There will of course be a lot of variables within them, but that will be dealt with later. There are four major p...
2023-04-02 18:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post