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Time for your questions of the month! (and update)

Feel free to ask about anything, story, process, lore etc.

Also, a short update. I have been very busy this month wrapping up the remains of my work here in Sweden, in April I will be doing the same in France, so I will be traveling for most of the month. This will either lead to lots of wr...

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The Void - 6, Ortega revisited.

Once upon a time, I was told what my story would be. I wasn't old enough to get it yet; I felt mostly curious when I looked at the family pictures. The medals. The stories. They weren't about me. They were about my father, and his father, and his grandfather and what they had given for this great...

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Sorry I'm late

Sorry I am late with this month's lore post, wrapping things up at work (quits at the end of may) has left me utterly exhausted and I have come down with something. Will kick my brain back in gear as soon as possible.


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Old QnA spoilers unlocked

I think I have unlocked all the old Retribution spoiler questions and answers for everyone now. If I have missed one, please let me know!

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February questions answered!

First of all, congratulations. The seco

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This month's questions here!

Alright, I have just sent in a big bugfix update on Retribution (not sure when it goes live on various platforms) and I am working on the Rebirth update. Once that is done, the first Revelations content will pop out here.

Until then, please amuse yourself by asking me weird things about wri...

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The Void 5 - Sidestep revisited

The funny thing with pain is that they think it gets to you. Think you fear the bruises or the damage. Sure, it's not nice, and your body does its reflexive twitching like always. Tries to turn. Tries to yank away. Tries to mitigate the damage. Breathing is an issue, your lungs do what they want,...

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Got asked for writing advice

- How did you improve your writing specifically beyond 'just writing more'?

The first thing is to read different things from different genres. Read an old book, and see how that is written. Read a genre you normally don't read. Read some poetry. Go to the library and walk t...

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January QnA, consolidated.

As one of the upcoming changes of my Patreon, the QnA will no longer be split in spoiler and no spoiler questions and will assume that people have read Retribution. I will go back and change the level of the old ones in the future, but there's a lot so it will take a while. I've got some othe...

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Discord info

Since the discord invitations seem to be going out of business even if I set forever, here is one that will last for seven days.

If it doesn't please DM me!

https://discord.gg/QvWjNE2C

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It is released!

Finally Fallen Hero: Retribution is released, thank you for your patience!

Have fun, and don't forget to write a review!

Thank you so much for your support, I really couldn't have done it without you.

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2:nd February is getting closer!

The demo for Fallen Hero: Retribution is up! Go have fun and tell your friends!

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Time for questions of the month again!

Well, it is time for your questions this month again! I am currently in the process of revamping the Patreon, though you won't see any changes until the feb/march update. Going to be some new stuff once Retribution is out, but until then, feel free to ask anything!

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The Void 4 - Sentinel

It's been a long time coming.

The evening is quiet and the sky is clear. Just like last time, the winds are heavy with promise. Not mine. Not yet. I lay on my back in the sand, watching the sunset. Waiting for something to change.

I'd rather have been up there, but the radar would hav...

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Spoilers QnA december


Is Sidestep's vision of Themmy any indication of how the real Themmy would have responded and spoken to them, had Themmy survived Heartbreak?

Yeah, at least Sidestep thinks so. It was nt out of character.


Is it possible that sidestep coul...

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December QnA here we go

Any IFs out there that caught your attention or tv shows you watch? What's your favourite genre?

I don't really care about the genre, I just want something to grab a hold of me. I am so behind on checking out IF's, but I just bought and love "The Passenger," and I look very...

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Time for your december questions!

Alright, it's time to see what questions you have for December. Feel free to ask me anything, about the books, about my process or just general weirdness.

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The Void 3 - Ashfall

Impossible but functional. Not my words. No brain to think them. No tongue to speak them. And yet, even dispersed at my widest, they are there. Words. Thoughts. 

Impossible.

Not really. I exist. I think. I speak. I change. I'm not impossible; the natural laws of the world just ne...

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Spoiler QnA November - edit with more questions

Sorry, I was alerted to the fact that the questions got cut off. Here is all of them!

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Steel finds what sidestep shares, about heartbreak, "interesting". Is it "interesting" because (1) it matches what he found out when he went looking, (2) it made ...

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November QnA - edited with more questions

Sorry! I was alerted to the fact that about half the questions got cut off. This is the whole shebang!

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Disregarding Hood's death, would Ortega have any interest in bringing down Hollow Ground?

I mean... ye...

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Some personal updates:

First of all, apologies, I forgot to put up the question of the month this month, so it is only the questions from the discord server. If you want the discord invite, just DM me if you're on the right tier. Life has been very weird lately, with some bad turns, and it just slipped my mind. I'll wr...

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The Void -2- Charge

Butterfly nerves. Like standing on the edge before a big jump. Making peace with the fact that I might not come back alive, yet certain that I will. The illusion of control over my own destiny.

Will that ever get old?

"We should be closer." Ashfall's voice is hardly more than a whispe...

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QnA October!

Any advice for sticking with an idea and seeing it through? I've been interested in writing my own choicescript game, but have a hard time picking one idea and developing it. 

My advice would be to ignore the idea and pick the people. Which characters are the most fun ...

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QnA for October with spoilers!

Is what Chen found, when he went looking for Sidestep, related to what Vernon Browne had found too?

Nope, that's not connected.


Did Shroud ever come across Dave? If not, did she get any help from anyone we know in her escape?

Hmmmm no...

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Time for your questions!

Well, it feels weird to finally have submitted Retribution, my brain is still wired up. I plan to rest until November, then work on a different project for a while for a change of pace. In the new year, I will work on an update of Rebirth, with bug and grammar fixes, and some extended content. Of...

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The Void - I - Sidestep

2012 - Summer 

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The thoughts won't stay out. Not even if you try. Ever since the Nanosurge, things have been weird. You hardly need to dig anymore. The minds around you open up and vomit their thoughts at you without invitation. Except Charge...

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September QnA

I don’t know if this has been asked before but would it be possible for our step to potentially take hold of multiple people at the same time?

Oh yes, but the question is to what level of control. As well as they do the puppet? Not yet. Well enough to do a synchronized da...

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September spoiler questions.

Alright, I have one week left before I send in Fallen Hero: Retribution to CoG for their edit round. So if the answers are short, that's because my mind is busy. Soon I will have more time to get back and do a lot of cool stuff on here!

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Could Argent sense Si...

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Ask your questions here!

Sorry for being late, real life is busy, but please ask any questions here! Only two weeks until I submit the game for good, so I need to work.

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Restart - Rewind.

There's an emptiness in the conference room once Sidestep has left with Chen. 

The quiet before the storm. 

I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding, and oh boy, I finally dare to breathe again. Good job remembering life's basic functions. Maybe you are the one that sh...

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