On the topic of "Paths" (Patreon)

The following contains spoilers.

This is a subject that is likely to become more relevant the further into the story we go. I believe thus far I've been referring to route updates on Patreon as "Good/Bad Timeline" when it's a little more nuanced than that. Not to mention that things will become even harder as things continue to diverge further down the lines too. To that end, it's best I explain where things stand now, at least so there's an understood framework on how to denote what continuations of the plot happen on any given update.

First and foremost, this is separate entirely to what people know as a "Route". Functionally consider what "Route" you're on to be the partner you pick for the scavenger hunt on Day 4.   However due to the nature of the game handling the survival of the cast members, a secondary "path" exists to denote who is alive and who is dead. 

At some point I'll assign actual names to these paths for the sake of later integration, but the important part is that at time of writing, there are 4 paths:

Path A - Day 8 (Support Benson), Day 10 (Password used) 

Path B - Day 8 (Reveal Oz), Day 10 (Password used)

Path C - Day 8 (Support Benson), Day 10 (No password)

Path D - Day 8 (Reveal Oz), Day 10 (No password)

I'll say it here that expect there to be more paths the further into the story we get. You'll know when it happens when we get there.

To facilitate this, and making it easy to keep track of where you are in the grand scheme of things, I've been talking to Kitashi about the save system (at least I'm fairly certain I've raised this before) and how to better indicate what path you're on. I haven't quite figured out how yet, but I intend for there to be a means to know this based on the UI as well. When I know more, I'll be sure to put up where we're at.