Extended Progress Update: September 1 2023 (Patreon)

Hi Returning Visitors,

Key highlights of this update and reminders:

• My typical gentle nudge to remember to add my email address can be found here. It's important for the TFS character portrait inquires and welcome message.
• Reminder: September marks our Q&A sessions, so you'll notice posts all throughout this month! 😁🌲
• Important: The TFS: Book Two alpha this month features a RO excursion! 💞
• I hyper-fixated and wrapped up another section with Mal; they're quite pleased.
• Book Two Snippet: J probably doesn't mind R being at a loss for words…

Our Content Schedule published relatively close to this Extended Progress Update, so you have likely seen how content will be releasing throughout the month with some tiers having certain days that are theirs. I kept some of the Spicy Q&A posts 🔥 on Thursdays as a nod to ‘Thirsty Thursdays', while Saturday and Sunday can be heavy with answers too. I mixed the characters/the moods along with the other content so there will be a variety during September.

We'll be having another TFS: Book Two alpha content drop in the second half of this month!

It features a RO excursion that the hickory patrons voted on! 🍂 I've decided to keep the first winner a secret, although I will be telling you once the new content is available since you'll need to be on this character's route to trigger the date branch. From the current alpha, many of you will have a solid idea about what the evening in Fernweh could hold for you: visiting the station, searching for a beloved friend, enduring a harrowing trial then getting fruit, and much more. The one unknown in all of this is: Mal. How will they creep up, if your MC has expressed interest..?

As more content is added, you might be able to spy the enigmatic server or trigger exchanges with them even while out with your RO(s). Recently, I've been working on a section with Mal that I had so much fun writing, possibly because they've been having cameos in other segments, so it felt good to give them some dedicated ‘screen time'. This also required me to introduce a whole new host of variables. In order to carry forward Mal's distinct awareness and knowingness, I've got to track your choices and unlocked scenes to a finer degree. There is a secrecy variable, a conflict variable, and more that I probably shouldn't tease in an Extended Progress update. 😉

But, yes, I lost myself in Mal's section before working on answering Q&A questions. I must have still been in a writing mode because they tended to be more narrative than me talking to you all, so you'll probably enjoy that even more. There are quite a few self-contained exchanges! 💚

Aside from the testing/editing on the upcoming alpha content, I'll be working on a few more posts and then moving on to some of Fernweh's eeriness, including a scene that's been set up from the start.

It'll be fun to work on the spine-tingling payoff that will hopefully make you uneasy! 👻

[Spoilers Ahead!]

Here's an excerpt from Book Two:

The harsh overhead lights only help you notice how R's eyes are a little widened while taking in J, so you look in their direction as well to see why.

I wonder what stunned the Verner heir? 😎

Thank you again for all of your support. I hope you're looking forward to a restful weekend and the upcoming Q&A sessions, general and spicy. 💚