Progress Update — 30/06/25

I've been sick for most of the month (twice, too 😩), so work has been a bit slow, but I finished outlining and have begun writing the first draft. I'm almost done with the first scene. It's quite long, around 8-9K words with all the branches. Considering who the Oracle meets at the end of the previous chapter, there's a lot to unpack, so it's not surprising the scene has grown so big.

On tumblr, I asked about the readers' opinion on the Oracle's reaction to that character. If you sent me a message, thank you 🫶 I've decided to stick to the options I chose. But don't worry—your Oracle still will have plenty of space to express their feelings in different ways. You won't be locked into feeling and acting in one particular way with that character. My goal is to make their relationship and interactions as fluid as possible, so you can make decisions independently of your feelings (or dependently, if you want it to be that way).

For example, your primary emotion might be happiness, but you still can get angry with the character. You can be bitter/angry about the meeting, but still give them more kind responses. Or you can stick to the emotion you chose and be angry/happy/bitter with them to the end. So basically, your primary emotion will add some flavor text to your other reactions. And none of these things will affect what plot decisions you can make, but I'll speak on that a bit later, when you know what I mean.

There are also some other variations at work during the convos with them. Some answers will influence your relationship with the character and some other things. But I'm keeping these details a secret for now :)

As I mentioned, the chapter will be shorter than the previous one. I made sure not to add to many scenes into it, but I still have to write five routes (romantic + platonic variations), so I won't finish it in a month. But I promise it'll be worth the wait!! So many tasty things are happening in this chapter 🫣🤭

I hope you all are enjoying your summer! 💛 Here's to another productive month for me 🥂