Quest Failed: Chapter Two - Dev Log #146 + Status Update

Hiya there!

Happy July everyone~ I hope you're doing well!

First of all, I just wanted to take the time to let anyone who has newly processed know that rewards will be sent out on the 3rd, as I typically give a little time for the turbulent processing period to sort itself out to avoid sending repeat waves of things or accidentally skip over somebody who has processed late. Thank you for your patience~

Secondly, I wanted to touch on the short story I recently uploaded and thank you all SO much for your kind words and support towards it!

If you haven't read it yet, you can do so here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53051121

I was quite nervous about posting it, and almost scrapped it completely several times while writing it--as I wasn't sure it was good enough, and did second-guess myself a lot. But the love for it has been very heartwarming, and gives me more confidence as a writer--where I don't necessarily have to feel like I'm just constrained to audio/visual content. (Though I know that's important, too, so there won't be a shortage of that either, don't worry!) I'll try to have more short stories as I go along--whenever I feel particularly inspired for a scenario of sorts. They'll typically branch away from QF, just because I write enough of QF as it is--and like to treat these as a break to come back to the main script recharged--but I'll try to keep things varied as best I can! I will say, after all the serious stuff I've been writing for QF lately, it was very liberating to go crazy on a near 20,000 word scene that almost almost entirely lewd, haha. I really can't believe I wrote that much in just a few short days, too! I tapped into some kind of latent power I never even knew I had, clearly.

Moving on to Chapter Two's development--it's regrettable that I didn't quite manage to get the alpha out for last month, but feel the build will benefit from it in the long run. As my potential choices were to cut things off in the middle of a REALLY crucial scene and leave people longing for more in an effort to rush things out--or wrap this whole dramatic story scene up in its entirety, alongside the h-scenes, so people had a good chunk of combat to sink their teeth into. As a result, things have pushed to July, which I apologise for--and like always, I will attempt to backdate things if people pledged for June and felt cheated they didn't get the new build just yet. Please reach out if you have any further concerns, and I'll do my best to help you!

That said--I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but this particular, large scenario I've reached into Chapter Two has been a challenge. I've been steadily making progress--but it's unlike anything I've wrote before, so there's been something of a learning period for me too as I become more comfortable with writing these kinds of more dramatic scenes. I know people don't come to QF for drama entirely, so don't worry--it's not going to become the MAIN focus of the whole game--but I hope you'll appreciate this moment where the stakes are higher than ever, and there's a real sense of danger looming over everyone.

There's a lot of smaller voiced parts I'm hoping to get done, too, from a range of different characters and VAs--so I'm hoping there's no big complications with that, and that I can have at least a large portion of the alpha voiced, if not all of it. I'm feeling quite stretched now with just how much I'm tackling at once--and I won't lie, I've been a little stressed too from day to day--but the more I chip away at each part of it, the easier it all seems as it comes together.

The h-scenes featured in this build have been quite a nice variety of scenes, too--from the kissy/cuddle stuff, to far more possessive and dominating scenes. The whole mix, and everything you've come to know and love from QF~

Finally, as a bonus, please give this cuddly, casual-wear hood-chan your love~ (Don't let the rabbit ears unnerve you. They mean no harm. Probably.)

Until  next time~