[Status Report #2] Sicae - Episode 6 + Emergency Announcement

Hey, everyone!

Welp.... where do I even begin? This is a downer.

Just yesterday, a massive power outage covered many locations in our area's feeder. Our electric cooperative recently changed, and the reason for the outage was a 13-year-old transformer on our main feeder died, which the previous coop FAILED TO FCKIN REPLACE!

We still have no power even now, and they gave us an estimate of AT LEAST another 24 hours until they can find a temporary fix. Even then, our area is expected to have unstable power, and a rotation of power outages can still happen FOR TWO FCKIN WEEKS until they replace the broken transformer.

Yeah, our electricity service has been incompetent for years, and we had many outages every week. But this one has been the worst of them all. I can't work sustainably if dying due to the hot weather is not enough.

We are currently running on a backup generator, which I invested in just today, so I can at least continue writing somehow. Screw eating cup noodles for the rest of the month, I just want to work. But it's inefficient, and I can't risk working on the renders in this state. Nevertheless, I will still try my best to get something done.

With all that in mind, I want to inform everyone that development will be slow for a few weeks until they implement a permanent fix. Ah, I should stop ranting...

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On the flip side, development progressed faster than expected, not until the power outage.

Here are our current numbers:
Lines of codes: 894
Renders: 113
Animations: 6
Music & SFX: 0

Again, I want to remind everyone that this update will not be as huge as we usually do in MBML. As we're building up things in the story and Sicae's storyline is vast and complicated compared to MBML, I only want to cover a few topics as we go on its early episodes. There's A LOT to tell, especially during the Gathering of the Forgotten Names(GOTFN) series, as I'd like to call it. So we'll take it slow as much as we can.

I want to discuss more, but we'll leave that for later once we have our power back and running.

To compensate a little for the slow development, here's a spoiler animation of someone you know. It's still alpha and might change during the update's finalization. Still, I hope you like it.

For now, I'd like to rest from all this stress and continue working tomorrow.

As always, take care, and have a nice day ahead of you.

• Niichan