Bellcrest’s summers are as hot as its winters are icy. During the Festival of Bells, however, no one in the capital seemed bothered by the sweltering humidity. Businesses closed and makeshift woo...
2021-04-21 14:56:06 +0000 UTC
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Nick’s panic sets off your panic, which in turn increases his panic, which makes you panic some more, until both of you are panicking like a Rube Goldberg machine triggered by a marble of pure an...
2021-04-21 01:25:05 +0000 UTC
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Featuring Sally and Elliot (M!Button)
Set in high school, two years before game
“I didn’t want to go anyw...
2021-04-21 00:53:41 +0000 UTC
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Featuring Talia Parker
AU set in Georgia, 1946
You awake to the rustle of someone climbing in through your bedroom ...
2021-04-18 21:59:29 +0000 UTC
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Featuring: Ferro Parker
AU set in Georgia, 1946
You awake to the rustle of someone climbing in through your bedroom...
2021-04-18 21:57:34 +0000 UTC
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Next Patreon Chapter: Chapter 9 (coming 4/28)
Current Wordcount: 273k
Average Playthrough: 64k
As some of you may already have r...
2021-04-17 01:11:49 +0000 UTC
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Fun fact: Nick is the only character who has his own dedicated journal for bad jokes and puns.
(Photo contains joke conceptual versions only--oneliners undergo polishing before being includ...
2021-04-16 20:46:58 +0000 UTC
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From the Journal of Lady Vitrula Rhys: The Third Death
I sat in the east parlor of Rhys Manor with my hands folded primly atop my lap. My father had not respon...
2021-04-14 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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"PSA"
Featuring Nick Wiseman and Grayson Black
“Follow me, fresh meat!” Integrity...
2021-04-12 23:57:22 +0000 UTC
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Yes, Rosy is ethically dubious. It's part of their charm? Maybe? (Alternative: they should be fired from teaching.)
Rosy is also difficult to romance. This newest scene scene in Chapter 8 mar...
2021-04-12 01:10:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 8 is now completely playable . . . albeit two weeks later than I'd hoped and missing Rosy's scenes. I also want to elaborate on the last bit of the chapter, but that's getting added to my T...
2021-04-09 21:47:12 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t know why you’re so shocked to learn about Xander.” Delphine passed me a cup of tea. “It’s not unheard of for a woman my age to have children.”
“Although if you ask,...
2021-04-07 21:58:34 +0000 UTC
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I realized that Glitch wasn't being completely honest with me when it came to their intentions, so we sat down and had a long talk (read: I glared at the computer screen for several hours while try...
2021-04-07 01:05:24 +0000 UTC
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Introducing: Ev’s Cottage (aka “The Cottage,” aka “Miss Ginger”)
That’s right: Ev’s house gets introduced before Evander/Evelyn does, even though Ev is an RO.
2021-04-05 16:01:03 +0000 UTC
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A spotlight shines upon a stage where Nicholas Wiseman is once again wearing a sequined jacket and top hat.
Nick: It's me!
2021-04-05 00:28:40 +0000 UTC
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First off, I'm so sorry for taking so long to get all of Chapter 8 out! The current build is now 232,000 words and includes of all of Sally's scene (including the potential initiation of Nick and S...
2021-04-03 03:32:28 +0000 UTC
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It's April! Happy April Fools and may your younger brother not give you a heart attack by claiming that he's moving to New Zealand to marry a goat yoga instructor that he met while playing SWTOR (t...
2021-04-01 22:29:35 +0000 UTC
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A spotlight shines on a stage with Nicholas Wiseman, this time wearing a black-and-white formal suit. He reclines on in one of two cushioned chairs, a microphone is clutched in his hand.
2021-03-30 21:39:15 +0000 UTC
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I had a 'Eureka!' moment while rewriting Glitch's breakup scene, which (to make a long story short) made me realize that I wanted to add some new options during the cover story creation arc in Chap...
2021-03-29 03:52:35 +0000 UTC
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Some of you were surprised when Gray dropped the f-bomb in last week's Saucy Side, and even more taken aback when I admitted on discord that Gray is the Mind Blind character who curses the...
2021-03-28 03:03:39 +0000 UTC
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So, you may be aware that I lost my startup file this week due to accidentally overwriting the .txt file. This wouldn't usually be a huge deal, and I was able to reassemble most of it from Dashingd...
2021-03-27 01:15:11 +0000 UTC
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Note: And now for something completely different!
I wrote this last year, as part of a short series experimenting with characters of various ages,...
2021-03-26 01:53:28 +0000 UTC
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Glitch’s tendency to rap against the thin wall separating your offices to chat whenever boredom strikes (which amounts to roughly every six seconds for Glitch) means that you’re forced to wear ...
2021-03-20 15:01:01 +0000 UTC
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I’ve been quiet on social media this week, in large part because I was relocating back to Chicago from Seattle. (My three-week stay turned into four months because I couldn’t bear to say goodby...
2021-03-20 02:20:55 +0000 UTC
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A "What-if" Set Post-Aeon Graduation
Featuring: Gray and Button
“What the fuck were you thinking?!”
2021-03-20 01:32:24 +0000 UTC
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I remained in Kothe a few weeks longer in order to celebrate my fifteenth birthday with my family. The day passed without much incident, which was more to my preference than the party Loren had des...
2021-03-18 00:47:44 +0000 UTC
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I always assumed Death wore hooded robes, rode a dark horse, and had a face made of shadows. The whole nine yards.
He doesn't. Death looks kinda like Jim from Accounting, except with more ha...
2021-03-15 20:01:18 +0000 UTC
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The above picture is what my screen looks like when I'm working on Mind Blind. As you can see, it's crowded.
There's Microsoft Word, where I write and code the first draft. There’s...
2021-03-13 01:41:24 +0000 UTC
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From the Journal of Lady Vitrula Rhys: The Second Death
I blame my second death on my own naivete. After the initial shock of my first execution and being cast back to my fourtee...
2021-03-12 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Kent Zarneki was going to die.
He realized this the moment he stepped off the jet and onto the tarmac, which burned so hot under the Atlanta summer sun that Kent could swear he’d seen a swe...
2021-03-11 04:51:55 +0000 UTC
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