A case of the blehs. (Patreon)

Every now and then I just kinda shut down for a few days and just let the world do its thing around me. The last few days have been just that. Luckily, when I come out of this little funk, I'm generally reenergized and ready to get shit done. Kinda like I'm rebooting the Compy 286 that is my old body.

Well... today I'm going to get some shit done. What I did do since we last talked was rewrite the first part of day 2 about three more times. Day 2 is different from what I usually write in that it's basically just a huge info dump of stuff anyone who's played NSFW already knows (for the most part), but it also contains an interaction between two characters that is fairly important in scale, yet I can't really dwell on it or give it the impact it would actually have because, well.... this is a porn game, not a soap opera.

So I need to address it, then move on, but there's also the fact that I can't answer any questions the characters would have because of how it needs to be explained, and so I have to just kinda vomit that fact out and move on and... it's a weird sequence to write. And unfortunately, that sequence is pretty much the entirety of Day 2. Obviously there's going to be some scenes that are part of the day but removed enough to be their own thing and that serve as a break from the info dump, but I still need to try to keep the pacing moving along while literally just glossing over some things that would normally require in-depth conversations (and probably therapy).

I've found most of the locations I'm going to be using and I think I've made all the characters that will be needed, so now it's just the writing and posing to be done. Most of the first part of the day is literally just a long walk with dialogue. I think I've sped it up enough to power through  to the first "break" scene and even though I haven't written the next part of the info dump, I have come up with an idea for a bit of relief in the middle of it to distract and defuse the issues some of the characters would have with the reveal. Can't have this getting too serious, can we?

I'm also thinking of adding in the first "side story" optional scene, and I think I'm going to treat these kind of like the one-offs for Masters of the Ring, but these are going to be baked into the game itself. That being said, there will probably be two versions released from now on: one for fan-favorites and higher that has all the extra scenes that would normally be exclusive to them anyway, and another without these optional scenes that will serve as the "standard" version.

Almost all of the extra scenes will be from the point of view of someone besides one of the two mcs. They won't advance the story in any way and will mostly just serve as a window into what certain characters were doing while the mcs were busy advancing the story. These will NOT include the optional content I've eluded to previously that does involve one or both of the mcs. Those scenes will always be available in the standard version (though they won't start appearing until I get the groundwork surrounding them laid down).

This has gone on a bit long, hasn't it? Well, I guess I'll finish this off by showing you one of the final characters created for Day 2... Eve:

I'll have a couple of extra pics for those of you at mid-carder and higher as usual, but besides that, I think I'll end it here so I can actually get some real progress made on Day 2. Back in a few with the next one!