(Dev Scroll XI) — Spark in the Dark
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🐈⬛ Velvet Visions #002 — Gold & Grime (Kültist+, 21 exclusive images)
🗡️ (Patron Exclusive) Orphan 3.32 — The Price of Freedom
The next installment of Orphan is now live.
Happy New Year. 🤍 Let's crush the fuck out of 2026 together.
You’ve survived the auction. You’ve learned the yard. Now comes the part House Varro never forgives: the moment you get to test the chain; in silk-lit corridors, beneath a feast that’s half celebration and half slaughterhouse prayer. Are you up for it? Or will you play it safe?
The Price of Freedom exp...
2025-12-31 21:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostStolen Glimpse III (Uncut): Pet & Prisoner🐺🔒
The leash may have changed hands,
But the hound still knows the chain, the collar, the cost.
Before the end of the year, Chapter 3.32 will drag you deeper into House Varro.
¤ Chapter 1 intro expansion is finished — richer home/backstory, sharper hook, more Cradle.
¤ Tanae balcony expansion is finished — three approaches to the encounter, and a real chance to push your relationship with...
🎁 Velvet Visions #001 — Decadent December (Kültist+, 23 exclusive images)
(Dev Scroll IX) — The Golden Age: $1K+, Velvet Visions, and House Varro
Children of Cradle,
The circle turns again.
Not long ago, this project was fragile, something I carried like a small, flickering flame in bare hands. The support of an early few helped me weather the storms of uncertainty in the beginning. Now the flame has found a hearth. The fire is continually stoked; we burn bigger, larger, hotter and faster. The Kult has crossed the first true gate. $1,000+ per month. A foundation stone laid in blood, patienc...
2025-12-17 20:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post🌒🏟️ Patron Poll: Chapter 3.32 — What's Next?
Precious Patrons,
Purveyors of Pleasure and Punishment,
We just hurled 3.31 – First Contact into the arena: 60k words, 14 new images, an interactive ludus map, and a certain raven-haired courtesan dragging you onto a balcony where no gladiator belongs.
Now I’m turning toward Chapter 3.32… and as always, I want your input.
Firstly, I want to address this:
Chapter 3.33 (January, 2026) will be the major conti...
🍷 (Patron Exclusive) Orphan 3.31 — First Contact
The next installment of Orphan is now live.
You’ve survived the auction. You’ve tasted the Ludus. Now you start to live and fight there.
First Contact picks up after 3.3 and drags you through your first week inside Duchess Livia’s gladiator yard: bruises, drills, new routines, new rivals… and a familiar raven-haired courtesan waiting on a high balcony, where no gladiator is supposed to stand.
This is the biggest Orph...
2025-12-12 21:54:23 +0000 UTC View PostStolen Glimpse II (Uncut): Alesia’s Claim💜🔒
The auction is over.
The gavel has fallen.
This is what SOLD looks like.
Silk, lamplight, and the woman in violet who signed your name.
Whether she owns you outright or not, Alesia Cosmas is not the type to let a purchase go to waste. This Uncut glimpse is for Gladiator+ Patrons: a quieter moment behind closed doors; before the sand, before the blood, before the Champion drives the lesson home.
In 3 days, Chapter 3.31 ...
2025-12-09 12:29:48 +0000 UTC View PostStolen Glimpse II: Heiress in White🕯️🔓
The auction is over.
Its consequences are only just beginning to hurt.
In 3 days, Chapter 3.31 drags you into your first week in the ludus: the collar settles around your neck, the Champion tests your grit in the sands, and your role in House Varro's ludus starts to become a little bit clearer; day by day, bruise by bruise.
You'll discover:
¤ 40,000+ words of new, unadulterated Orphan prose
¤ 9 new images
2025-12-09 12:13:18 +0000 UTC
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⛓️(Patron Exclusive) Orphan 3.3 — Welcome to the Ludus
The next installment of Orphan is now live.
The Gladiator ludus arc begins.
You leave the auction block in chains and roll toward Duchess Livia’s ludus under Cradle’s violet dawn. Three condemned men ride with you. The Colosseum curves over the rooftops like a broken halo; the road narrows and the walls rise.
New faces. New masters. No way back.
Welcome to the Ludus.
🔥 What’s new inside 3.3 (Uncut)
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🌑 Cradle Codex — The Colosseum
🔱 What is Reign MUX?
Reign is my next long-form project in the Exalted Text universe: a Multi-User eXperience (MUX), or text-based multiplayer roleplaying game, set in Cradle, the same world as Orphan, but seen from a different angle. Where Orphan follows one unlucky soul through a tightly scripted story, Reign throws the gates open and lets many players build their own dynasties, rivalries, and legends together inside the same city.
(Dev Scroll VIII) — The Ludus, Poll Results & Chapter 3.3 Release Date
🫀Patron Poll: Harrowing vs. Ludus - Direction of Chapter 3.3
Patrons of Pain and Punishment,
Privileged Purveyors of Pleasure,
Two paths now stand before us — both carved in blood and ritual.
The next chapter of Orphan (3.3) will determine which story continues first:
1️⃣ The Harrowing (Academy Arc)
Weeks into their first term, the initiates of Highrock are stripped of sleep, food, and mercy. The Night Watch ends, and what begins as a trial of discipline becomes a descent into madness; the mome...
🧬(Patron Exclusive) Orphan 3.2 — Defy the Scale
The next installment of Orphan is now live.
Let your orphan be realized in the flesh.
The mirror remembers. The night breaks. Desire breathes. The Harrowing waits.
🔥What’s new inside 3.2 (Uncut)
Cinematic intro + extended character creation — 6 archetypes and the new Defy the Scale path. Choose your height, build, endowment, hair, tattoos, scars, and v...
2025-10-31 15:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
(Dev Scroll VII) — Eternal Recurrence ⭕
Blood-born, chain-bound, ever-burning,
It has been over two weeks since the last Dev Scroll, and a full month since the release of Chapter 3.1. I don’t want to feed you slop or gilded promises, so I’ve worked in silence.
Silence is sacred to me. Not the silence of idleness, but of incubation.
When I disappear, it’s because something is forming beneath the surface.
The dream twists, the bones shift, the world renews itself yet again. 2025-10-21 16:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post
(Dev Scroll VI) — My One Desire
Cruel champions, begging bastards & damned devotees,
It has been nearly two weeks since the release of Chapter 3.1.
In that span of time, my life has bent beneath a weight both strange and glorious. Gratitude and honor have sharpened me, while desire - my one desire - burns clearer than ever.
From the very beginning, Orphan has been a vow whispered into the dark; a promise to myself that I would try, that I would bleed ...
2025-09-30 22:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post🧹(Patron Exclusive) Orphan 3.1 — Thief n' Frills
The next installment of Orphan is now live.
She returns!
The goblin thief you chased through Undertown now reappears in Highrock’s halls; no longer ragged, but clad in frills, lace, and livery. What begins as a chance encounter in the servant’s quarters becomes something far more intimate… and far more dangerous.
This is Patron’s Night.
🔥 What’s New
Goblin Maid Scene — If you’re here ...
2025-09-09 16:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
🫀Patron Poll: Do You Want a Darker Orphan?
Precious Patrons,
Purveyors of Pleasure and Punishment,
The abyss stirs. Cradle is already a citadel of chains and cruelty…
But there are darker passages I could carve and that you might yet crave.
Murder. Torture. Sadism.
Ruinous confrontations with the horrific and grotesque.
These themes already breathe in Orphan’s marrow; I want to know if you wish me to...
2025-09-06 17:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post(Dev Scroll V) — Audio Overhaul, QoL Magic, and the Night Grows Deeper
My dearest patrons,
The Night deepens, and with it, Orphan grows richer, stranger, more alive.
Over the last weeks, I’ve been weaving a host of quiet but essential improvements, many of them invisible until you feel them for yourself. Let me share what’s been stirring in the depths of Cradle as we quickly approach the next update, expanding beyond Chapter 3.
🎼 The Sound of Chains, the Pulse of Blood
Orphan now breathes with a new a...
Cradle Codex — Elves
The Elves
“Once they were stars. Now they are shadows.”
Overview
The Elves are a long-lived and long-fallen race, divided between two branches: the elegant but enslaved High Elves, and the bitterly scarred, knife-hungry Dark Elves.
No one agrees on their origin. The old priests call them the “first inheritors of Cradle,” born with memories older than stone. Goblins claim t...
2025-08-27 13:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post⚖️ (Patron Exclusive) Orphan 3.0 — The Auction
The next installment of Orphan is now live.
This marks the close of the banquet and the descent into the Auction, one of the most pivotal sequences yet. Every path leads here, but not everyone will fetch the same price, or walk away in the same chains. Mark your price, Gladiator.
Coin is King here.
∆ What’s New in This...
2025-08-22 13:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostCradle Codex — Greenskins
The Greenskins
“You can chain the arm. The hand will still find the blade.”
Overview
No one agrees on where the Greenskins came from. The city’s human and dwarven priests call them a stain. But the old elves call them survivors, the first to awaken after the Fall; hatched in darkness to feed on metal and memory in the earliest days of Cradle's rise.
What’s certain is this: they belong to Cradle 2025-08-07 14:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Cradle Codex — Humans
The Human Race
“Fortune favors them, and ruins them, often all in one stroke.”
Overview
Humans are the most populous race in Cradle, filling its alleys, courts, forges, brothels, and thrones. They are everywhere—in every caste, every guild, every district. From silken nobility sipping fragrant wine in the First Quarter to rawboned slavers barking orders in the dust of the Third,
🔥 (Patron Exclusive) Orphan 2.9 — The Fire Returns
We're back and better than ever with a new chapter.
Khalika: orc warrior, friend, unlikely flame. She returns with an intimate scene that unfolds in three distinct ways depending on your past choices and the nature of your character. Whether you're playing as the Orphan, the Bastard, or the Knight, you'll encounter a different shade of desire, tension, and memory in this long-awaited reunion.
This update also incl...
2025-08-02 17:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post(Dev Scroll IV) — Next Update, Plans for July @ Exalted Text
My friends and dearest supporters!
As you can probably tell, a devlog is long overdue. I've been working on crafting together scenes for the next update! Firstly, my apologies for the lack of updates/communication on this Patreon page itself. I'm a bit more communicative and easily accessible in the Exalted Text discord, but I understand that not every patron is a part of the discord.
I've been pretty bad at setting aggressive deadlines for myself and then announcing potential rel...
2025-07-10 16:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post👁️ Stolen Glimpse #2 - A Pact in Silver
Not all bonds are forged in blood and iron.
A silver ring, a whispered promise, a future glimpsed,
Can a dead man's fate truly be rewritten?
Or does every desperate act merely delay the inevitable?
You will belong to someone soon, and your choices will decide who.
With the next update of Orphan quickly approaching (expect it next week), you'll be getting more content here to stoke the f...
2025-06-12 16:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post(Dev Scroll III) — Release Date for Chapter 2.9, Game Art for the main menu & more
Now you may be asking...
"Truth — What's that magnificent piece of art currently crowning this dear Dev Scroll?"
Well, I knew you'd be curious.
🕯️ A New Gateway to Cradle
With Chapter 2.9, Orphan will unveil a brand new Main Menu background. I've touched on this before, so hopefully you can pick up on the pattern in my purpose. Every time a player crosses the threshold into Cradle, I want them to feel something.
Not a c...
2025-06-01 22:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post