Behind the scenes writing: Episode 1 (4/4) (Patreon)

(Warning! This post may contain major spoilers for the story! Read further at your own risk.)

So in case it isn't clear with what we're doing here for update 0.15, we're going back and adjusting older content. Mainly fixing up and updating the writing so that it's more in lines with how the writing quality is seen from our route's writing so far.

We're doing something with this where the current system of dates/days are going away and in it's place it'll be episodes instead. We touched a bit on this during our news post #2 for this month. But pretty much it sounds bigger than what it really is, as it's just moving away from the in your face date/time system in favor of giving off the impression on your playthrough that the game is more like anime episodes.

With that all said, let's jump into it! (reminder this is just part (4/4) of the episode, the rest was already covered in the past week.)

Episode 1: We're required to wear what?!

Continuing where we left off in the previous post, we were just getting to the moment when Miki would be heading over to Erika's dorm for the study session.

Miki shows up after a cute little interaction between her and Erika through the door, before Miki meets Brandon. They chat a bit as Brandon gets a good sense of how this girl is, much of this is about the same. Confusing Miki for being much younger than she is, her back and forth with Erika and how things lead to Miki pulling Brandon's pants down to see his diaper, etc.

They move into studying together and it's found that Brandon and Miki don't really like the subject they're studying, but Erika tries to keep them interested. Miki suggests they take breaks every time they read a sentence, which doesn't go over well with Erika.

They manage to plan something out where they can take breaks after so many pages, with their first break being a little snack break to chat together. Where it's mostly discussed how Erika and Miki met, becoming friends, etc. Before they get back to reading.

Then right before their next break, Miki decides to sneak up and tickle Erika leading to their tickle battle together and the original choices for that is still intact. There is some new differences, so I'm sure you'll enjoy that. :P

Things lead back to finishing up study time together and time flew by, with everyone pretty tired out. Miki wants to have Brandon walk her back to her dorm room, since she's scared to be in the halls late at night for some reason.

On the way back to her room to drop her off, she's pretty quiet and it's found out she's scared about a ghost girl who apparently roams the academy in the late hours of the night and during this explaining, a noise startles her. She rushes off ahead and trips over her shoes, leading to a upskirt moment as Brandon helps her back up.

Shortly after, he drops her off and heads to his dorm to pass out. He doesn't think much of what Miki was worried about gets to sleep. He wakes up in the middle of the night though with the urge to pee, not wishing to wet himself like he did earlier. He thinks that with it being so late, no one would be around outside to notice if he were to pee.

He manages to sneak off to the rooftop and before he gets the chance to pee, he notices a girl by herself on the rooftop and he begins to think back on what Miki said about a ghost girl, freezing up and wondering if it could really be true.

Episode 1 ends shortly after this stuff as he heads back to his dorm, bringing things to a close with some setting up for Episode 2. :P

~Writer notes~

-So overall Episode 1 altogether came out to be around 20,000 word count. Given how things will play out in our explaining for the episode format, not all episodes will be nearly as long as these first 5 episodes.

-There's a good bit that's the same as day 1 section 3, but quite a good amount of new stuff and expanding that's been done. Overall I'd suggest if you haven't played through day 1 recently, to check it out before this update on Oct 5th. You'll get a good idea of just how different things have changed.

-It was really fun to reach Miki for the writing again, being able to go over her stuff and knowing how things pan out for her in future events really helped for setting things up earlier here and just expanding on her friendship with Erika better.