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Sweet Nectar — Alessa (Mature)

Alessa feels herself being lifted.

Her eyes are closed, eyelashes locked on each other, and from her slightly parted lips, a soft sigh escapes to the silent air. A soft sigh that matches the calmness that spreads throughout her limbs, the warmness that radiates from her chest, that makes he...

Sneak Peek

Been editing the Prologue...

Progress Report

Another Friday, another meeting.

Excuse my lateness. I had a power shortage in my area that lasted for far too long — my phone was at 8%, the sun was starting to dwindle, and I wondered if I had to read by the light of candles when finally, electricity was restored and the world was set r...

Q&A — Part 1

• What are the ROs thoughts on children and marriage?

I will admit, at this point in their lives, none of the ROs can seriously think about marriage and children or anything ahead of what is the immediate future. They all live... very unstable lives at the moment, and tho...

Progress Report

I just finished an amazing writing session!

Work has been tough this past week — people are starting to take time off for their summer vacation, so everything has been much more stressful, but! I had today free, and I took advantage of it.

The words were pouring, my fingers...

No Stranger to Touch — Neia

The skin is raised around the knuckles, hard to the touch, like leather that was left too long in the sun. Large calluses, of skin made of nothing but scar tissue, grow on the very edge of each knuckle, and even as you press hard into them, you wonder if she can feel it at all. 

It is ...

Progress Report

We meet again! 

It turned out that the game patch required much more work than I (naively) assumed. I worked on it pretty much all week, adding around 10k words to the game — which, in a million, I know it's not much — and countless corrections and improvements.

I also had a ...

Lingering Glance

This month's lingering glance, I thought I'd share snippets of two scenes I'm working on for the patch update — which I'll, hopefully, submit tomorrow!

The first is a new conversation at the interrogation with Rafael. I just love the bickering between him and the MC 😆...

A Different Kind of Zeal — Hadrian (Mature)

All his world resides in his hands.

There is nothing else that Hadrian can pay attention to. No sound, no sight, no smell or taste. It all comes down to his hands, to what his fingertips touch and his palms press, and his skin brushes. He doesn't know if it's dark or if the sun brightens th...

Sneak Peek

Alessa is propped on the bench, back leaning on the window, with her knives spread all around her. She perches like a bird of prey, one knee up, hands flashing with steel.

Whoosh.

Her many rings shine with the flames as her fingers move up and down. She sharpens one knife wit...

Progress Report

Friday is upon thee. It is upon us all.

Another week ran past, but what a week it was! I didn't quite manage to write every single day — Wednesday didn't give me a respite — but it was close enough. Six out of seven is not a terrible record, I reckon.

Alessa is, as always, a pleas...

I played myself

When you're on the second draft and have to write the paths you left as placeholders in the first. 

Scenario Vote

Neia won the character vote poll! That means a scenario with our menacing specter will be posted on the 29th!

However, I was thinking. Now that the 2022-06-15 21:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Truth or Dare — Alain

"Why not play a game?"

The words lift in the quiet air like feathers blown by a gentle breeze, and you swear you almost see them materialize before you. Rising upwards, in the translucent shape of mirages, towards a ceiling so elaborate, your eyes can't focus on a single detail.

There...

Achievement Guide

A very helpful Forum user, Nell, has made an achievement guide for Book One!

Read it here!<...

Progress Report

We're already a third of the way into June. Is it just me or is time flying too fast, now? Here I was complaining not two weeks ago that it needed to pick up the pace, and now I'm afraid there's just not enough of it. It keeps slipping like water through my fingers. 

And people, I'm pa...

Different shreds of the same fabric

I adore my sarcastic MCs, using words and quips like daggers and pocking the world until, eventually, the world can't help but poke back. I love my stoic ones, the ones whose real thoughts are as much a mystery as the constellations shining in the sky. They face everyone from behind a stone wall,...

Character Q&A — July!

Hello!

This is yet another post asking for input for what shall be future content. 😋 But! Please send in your character asks for July! It can be directed to any character that appears in Book 1.

Hope you participate! ♡

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Edit: Thank you to those who h...

Character Vote

The first Bonus Content for the month has been mostly written — it'll feature Alain, the last poll winner. I was going to write the second about Ysabella since she was in second place, however, since the game's launch and new characters coming into the mix, I think it better to ask you instead....

So long, Book One

I sent the patch to COG!!!

It was a bit more work than I expected, specifically because of the number of variables that I had used, but it is all done, and I truly believe the book is ...

Touch — Alessa

She does not like how her fingers stiffen.

The joints are cold as if the bone is cracked, and she cannot have as full control over her movements as she would like. The chamber is warm, she can feel the beads of sweat gathering on her forehead and slipping down her tunic, but her hands are c...

Progress Report

'Tis not Friday, but Saturday, and thus I find myself a day late to our weekly meeting. For that, I can only apologize.

As you're aware, Book One was (finally!) released on Thursday, and to tell you I've been overwhelmed would be the understatement of the century.

It has been... a rol...

The Golden Rose: Book One is OUT NOW!!!

“As the artist mourns his fortune

So the Dynasty falls to crumble,

And the two branches snatch asunder” 2022-06-02 16:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Beka

Beka, the street urchin made by the amazing lilyveins (Here's her Tumblr— check out her 2022-05-31 13:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Raindrops in Time

And way down

Her hand stills, fingers clenching around the blade so tightly that nails turn white and dig into the flesh of her palm. She does not shake, but something within her chest does. Alessa has him at her mercy, and she did not want to see it, but the fool ...

Progress Report

27th of May.

Seven more days have gone by, and May is coming to a gentle end. This week has been all about Book 2! I wrote in every free time that I had, and that list I showed you last week is almost— almost!— done. The dialogue has been a delight, as always, and I'm honestly finding n...

Sea Spell — The Pirate King

You wouldn't call them waves, for they're much too gentle and make too little noise.

They're more akin to a tide, you think. The kind of which you imagine rules the deep, cold bottoms of the ocean. The surface doesn't rise to meet you, but it moves all the same, somehow staying in place whi...

Progress Report

Friday is upon us.

This week went by in a rush! Sometimes time moves like a snail, unhurried, for she knows that the destination awaits, and what matters is the journey. While other times, it seems it flies like a sparrow with her little heart hammering when it sees an eagl...

Lingering Glance

Your eyes narrow, watching him laugh with too much glee. "If we're throwing blame around, then don't let me out of the fun," you say, lifting your chin defiantly. Hadrian's arms shake up and down, his fingers tickling your sides. "You should have locked the door."

Slowly, almost too slowly,...

Bonus Content Vote

It's that time of the month!

Which character would you like to see in one of June's Bonus Content?

Also... I will complete this list and eventually write a scenario for each of these remaining characters, but after that, I was thinking of diversifying things a little bit. For the Bonu...