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Hey ho folks!  Let's do an art update!

So first of all, we thought we'd need one more build to close this route, but that would get us the sort of ending we originally had for book 2(love route), very unfulfilling. Any of you being with us for that long will remember we went back and redid that ending after the reactions to it were those of disappointment.  My estimation is two more will bring us to the end of the current route.

Regardless, we got some hopefully interesting developments planned for the next build and depending on what we will or won't be able to put in, it will be a sort of sadish(no I'm not trying to spell sadistic although that could be part of it) cliffhanger or an exiting cliffhanger, but yeah the next build will most likely make you feel like we ended it at the worst possible place. In theory we could just say we're going to take as long as it'll need and include the end, but looking at our release schedule during the last half of 2019 I am in no way eager to do that.

I sent out three extra scenes to the coder a few days ago and those are the last ones I'll send him for the next build. We'll have a few scenes in the next build which will only trigger when you've made  a certain choice. So choice A will get you scene A and choice B will get you scene B. I like offering some real visual changes for different choices, but that sort of stuff effectively halves content for the player and creates twice the amount of work for us which is why we don't do those too often. Still, I'm looking forward to this build. You'll have the option to be super mean to Korra but also not to. That's where those scene A and scene B stuff I talked about earlier comes into action.

Yes this is the slave route and the player character is in general more concerned with satisfying his  own lustful needs than anything else, but we'd like to offer the player an alternative when things  get really dark. We imagine there's quite a few people playing this route simply because the love route isn't there yet. Besides, it's always nice to have more options.

Oh and the twink scene I mentioned before is also going to be one of those A or B choices. No worries,  there will be no doubt whatsoever what you'll be getting yourself into. In fact I even added a C choice for that scene! but you'll find out what that exactly entails when the time is there.

I'm really happy to see my little test of offering a smaller file to update to 0.8.5d has worked out nicely. I really like offering a smaller sized file to update the game instead of you having to download it  again in it's entirety. It has been a growing annoyance to me but I always figured there's either no way to do it differently or so complicated I wouldn't be able to get it to work.

I've been doing some more small experiments and after some frustrating moments (only to find out a certain line of code should go in front of the other...)  I *think* I've come up with a  way we should be able to make a habit of offering update files. All thanks to one of you guys giving me enough of a pointer to start figuring things out! 

I Wish I did so a lot earlier, but that goes for a lot of things. I still have to tell the coder exactly how and what needs to be done to make this a recurring thing, but things look reasonably simple once you know how to so I'm not expecting problems.

Still, exactly how trustworthy that process will be is something we'll have to find out over time in practice.  My internet connection  isn't nearly as fast as it should be so I can understand anyone else's pain when it comes to downloading larger files. 

So right now I'm working on some more scenes for the final build of this route.  Since we've decided we're not going to finish all of this in one more build I might as well try  and "fill some more holes"... literally  *badumm tsssh* .

Also I think I should mention this NOW before some of you might be disappointed, but the end of this route will NOT be the end of FET. We have no intention of creating book 5, 6, 7 8 etc. but we want to create an extra... hmm let's call it a "chapter" instead of a "book" where stuff will come together and  things end. This is something we've known about since the start and have mentioned in comments before but it's better to make it super clear to everyone.

What's more, that chapter won't be divided into a slave or love route. We'd like to have FET end  for both slave and love players at the same time. An ending is way more exciting when you can experience it together with everyone else at the same time. That's at least how we look at it. So of course the disappointing part is if you expected each route to end the game by itself and you're playing slave route, there's not going to be any sort of closure soon!

I've also started doing some suuuuuper minor preparations for the love route even though there's still two slave route builds which need to be finished first. That preparation is currently consisting out of re-watching the  TLOK cartoon.  

I'm really happy we decided to split the characters and have some of them appear during the slave route and the others during the love route. I think I already mentioned that, but if not, that's what we're doing.  I guess it's not the ideal solution, but if you want to have a lot of different girls and not take forever to finish a route, choices have to be made. Naturally there will be some overlap if only because Korra will be there and Tenzin etc.  Ps. you won't be playing as Tenzin. You'll find out who you'll be possessing when the time is there.  I'm looking forward to include some Tenzin being his own self instead of a sock puppet for the player.  He's one of my favorite TLOK characters after all.

In general you can expect the characters you didn't see during the slave route to make their appearance during the love route. Everyone? Well, maybe not everyone, but we'll try to keep things varied.

And that's all I have for you right now. Hope you'll have a great weekend! Till next time!