Progress Update — 31/01/25

The first progress update in 2025 year 👋 January feels like two months; I legit had to look at the calendar today because I thought March was tomorrow, lol

Everything for February for Patreon is already written, so I’ve been fully focused on the chapter. I finished the last scenes of the common route and have reached the first individual scenes. I’m done with Vez’s branch and have almost finished Os’s branch.

Vez’s branch sits at ~10K words with all variables included (sorry, counting wordcount for one playthrough is a headache). There’s progression to their side plot, more personal conversations with them, and a couple of adorable moments.

On Os’s branch, I’m working on the last scene, and I’m halfway done with it. This scene wasn’t in the plans, so I had to figure out what to do about it + thought about the relationship progression in the coming chapters. I wasn’t sure about this, but the scene is coming together even better than I thought. Their branch is already at ~11K words. There’s some plot stuff, a new character, one on one time with Os, and relationship progression. I think their dynamic is becoming much clearer in this chapter.

Some scenes differ depending on your relationship with the characters—romantic or platonic, high or low friendship. I’d say the best are the high friendship variants (if you’re not on the romantic path) because the lows are mostly here for these who play through the characters’ routes without growing too close to them. (Idk, maybe you want to see what there’s in their route, lore and other stuff, but you don’t want to be their friend because you don’t like the character that much?) It leads to the characters and the Oracle being less open with each other. So beware that your relationship with them is not, like, zero. Getting the high friendship variants isn’t hard, it doesn’t require max points, so you shouldn’t have problems with that unless you actively try to get low friendship.

The chapter sits at ~38K words with all the branches, excluding the code. I’m not even halfway done with yet, though. I should finish Os’s branch tomorrow, and then I’ll begin Laz.

Btw, this month’s sneak peeks from Ashmedai’s and Vezriel’s romantic paths are on Patreon!