Weekly Update for 9.14.20
Added 2020-09-14 16:01:01 +0000 UTCHey everyone, and welcome to my first Patreon Weekly Update. I should probably have a snappier title for this, but I couldn't think of anything, so for now it shall be boringly, but informatively, labeled.
Anyway! Onto the update itself! I spent most of this week working on code skeleton for chapter two. I'm currently smack in the middle of a variable scene second from the end, where the PC can choose to spend time with one of three major characters (Charon, Alekto, or Hermes) or by themselves, writing a letter to someone back home on Olympus on their third day in the Underworld.
Each of these decisions will have some 'benefit' aside from simply getting to spend time with (or writing to) a character, mostly in the form of information, plot foreshadowing, or the like. I'm hoping that, over time, what pieces of information a PC has collected will really help to give later events different kinds of flavors and angles, though in general no one in the Underworld is looking to keep them in the dark about important matters!
In Charon's scene, we get some worldbuilding that I hope won't be too information-dump-y, and an interesting little tidbit which is going to become very plot relevant later. There's a little bonus here for you mythology buffs, who should be able to spot the reference and guess some of what's coming down the pipe here in book one.
Anyway, that's the update for this week. There's of course much more progress above this in my document, but as far as things I've done recently, that seemed like it'd be the most fun to tease. I'll be back next week with another progress update and possibly more plot hints!
-Kiku
