Detailed Weekly Update - March 31, 2025

Hello, hello! Back with another update!

As almost every month with this chapter, each part I have to write is a lot longer than I originally expected when I conceived it. I am still working on the preparation part of the plans, considering there are 12 plans… I am getting close to the end though. I’ve created a drug dealer kingpin of the rival school that you will need to convince to help you with the Cecily/Michael “ew” plan and/or the Vivian pyramid fall plan. Finished writing most of that stuff, took longer than expected because I wanted one of your allies to do the talking if you want to remain anonymous, and at this point there are 4 allies that could fill this role. And some of them can do better than the others, so that’s another millions branching ways the encounter can go.

Also started work writing the prosthetic dog head plan preparation. The only choice to make here will be where you want to place the head.

I’ve also mentioned yesterday on Tumblr that I’ve added a funds stat to the game! You now know exactly how many funds your MC has to waste on their evil plans! And you have unlimited funds if you’re mamma’s boy/girl/kid. This makes getting a car a much harder choice since it will cost something like a third of your funds if you’re a Youtuber. You can still ask momma for help to buy it though, so the mom interactive mechanics will be much more vital even for independent characters.

So, the business innovator backgrounds will get you around $1 million funds if you're good in Finance, only 500k if you're not. The crypto choice will give you 2 million, but lower relationship with mom, and the metuber option will give you 150k, but the choice to do a face reveal and get a Popularity boost and extra 50k, with almost no mom relationship debuffs.

The car choice will also eat 50k if you don't ask for mom's support, and there will be many choices where you'll see little changes, like 100 here, 200 there. Nothing to make you feel scared for your networth, but stuff to keep the MC grounded a bit.

Anyway, as most of you know, writing an interactive fiction game like this one takes a lot of goddamn time and I hope you all have patience with me, because only this chapter is almost as long as some of the Hosted Games published (over 120k words by the way).

Exact word count for chapter 4 - 126,154.

This is also my way of explaining why I’ve been missing an update here and there. It annoys me as well how little progress there is sometimes. Especially to explain in a relatively interesting update.

Yep. That’s that. See you all next week!