Weekly Writing Update - 2/3/20 (Patreon)

Alright, .024 will be out on Wednesday. I've finished most of the classes and just need to do the dinner and nighttime events for it. If you wanted more hands-on time with Brittany -- and not her friend Stacy -- then this'll be the update for you. The black light at the start of the update should be particularly fun for people interested in time-stopping shenanigans with her. 

There is one other scene in the morning science class that I feel like I should explain now, since it might be a little hard to come across by accident. If you use the blue light and have intelligence at 5 or higher, you'll be able to access Professor Patel's purse and pull a little prank that'll then pay off after your philosophy class. Most scenes tend to have an almost instant pay-off, so I just wanted to let everyone know about this one specifically since it might immediately seem like it did nothing, when it actually alters a future scene later in the same update. 

Beyond that, I've been doing a lot of bug-hunting from past releases. There was a bizarre bug in the restaurant on the second day that I 'apparently' fixed. I still have no idea what was wrong or what I changed, but it seems to be working fine now in my version so we'll see. 

I also changed the display when you accept the succubus' spell experience gift. Now it just says 'you gained spell experience' instead of assaulting you with 20 notifications about spells leveling up. And I also changed the purple/brown spell colors to make them stand out more against the black background. 

I also added a small modifier to character sheets now. When you check someone in your phone, the role will now notify you if that person is pregnant. For instance, "Role: Pregnant Classmate" vs "Role: Classmate". That should help in the long run if you can't remember who you did/did not have unprotected sex with. It also should now display if you are officially dating someone, though that won't apply to Jake/Jane yet until you permanently transform them. 

Just to reiterate from previous updates, the February release (after .024) will cover three days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But not all classes will have three branching events or anything like that. There's a good chance that I'll be introducing scene replay mechanics in this update, specifically if you're eating lunch/dinner with Jake and want to revisit one of his dreams from a previous update again. 

I'll have a deeper outline for February's update after I've collected all the scene requests and have the full results from the poll. Just as a reminder, you have until February 10th to vote in the poll or to send me a scene request if you're a $15+ patron. 

It looks like for now though that I'll need to plan around a strong focus on Monica and Mrs. Wilson, with other events mainly split between Ms. Hill, Mrs. Maywood on the phone, and Kayla/Karen Porter. And, of course, Brittany and Rio will also have some events reserved for them to keep the story moving. If you want to use the assistant's information/what you saw with the blue light at the party about Brittany against her (or use it to help her), then the February update will be of interest to you. 

The last thing I wanted to talk about is Discord. I figured I'd put a poll up for everyone to vote in since it isn't content-related and is purely based on how the community wants to interact. I originally didn't bother with a Discord server because I figured Patreon lets you send messages anyway, but it's been lagging a lot for me lately, so I'm getting increasingly open to the idea of using Discord. But it's not really worth it if no one's interested, so that's why I'm leaving it to a vote.