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Hi Returning Visitors,

I hope you're doing well.

It's time to unveil the next romance route that was voted on by Hickory patrons. 🍂

You'll not only be spending time with a special someone (or someones), but also discovering different parts of Fernweh, learning lore hints, influencing your romance dynamic, interacting with a friend, and more. I feel like we've been waiting together to get into these. I think the cat lounging with the book might give you a solid hint about who is next! The bird pictures are cute as well.

(I'll be finding themed GIFs for each reveal.)

The next RO Excursion is: S. Dorran, which means you must be romancing them to unlock the new content in Chapter 2. You'll be making this choice during the main character creation.

If you would like even more friendship scenes with B. Warrick, make them your bestie/best friend. Your MC will see them at the end of S's RO excursion.

As a reminder: Mal can appear in all of these RO excursions if you're romancing them as well. In most cases, they will engage with the MC!  Also, as another heads-up, the 'trial' part of this excursion has variation based on your MC's Resistance stat, particularly the number of steps they took away from the town line at the end of Book One. It's a good idea to explore. 👀

✨ I will be direct messaging you on Patreon with the link and password information, so I request your patience, please, as I send out these messages when/if the benefit is available to you. ✨

  • The guidelines for alpha content can be found: here along with how to add your Discord account. Please remember that this content is only for TFS patrons.
  • There are some teasers/hints for the next drop at the end of this one that you can choose to view or not.
I will have the next alpha content drop ready for eligible TFS patrons to explore in January.

💞RO Excursions!💞 That's where we will be for a while, and I'm so excited for you to experience them.

Thank you for all of your support and encouragement! 💚🥰

(Reminder: Please be sure to add my email address: lacunafiction@gmail.com to your contacts. I try to send out character portrait emails within 24 hours of a patron joining, so you might need to check your spam if you haven't received one. You can also always reach out to me as well!)

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Anonymous

*internal screaming*

Renata G.

SCREAMS EXCITEDLY ALSO HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HERE EXCITED TO READ AND SCREAM ABOUT IT!!

dasburnfrau

*clutching S to me tenderly and gnawing on their shoulder with love*

sunday

Wow. This was maybe my favorite RO excursion which is saying a lot because R is the love of my mc’s life. S and the MC have a quiet intimacy that’s really cozy, it feels like a genuine connection and it’s easy to get lost in. 💓

Anonymous

Oooh I can only agree with the previous comment, this was my favourite RO excursion! S is lovely beyond words, I love them endlessly. They are such a steady, patient presence in Mc's life, so attentive and careful. But Mal — Mal was brutal in this one and I loved that too. They baited Mc into coming over — probably my favourite scene in book 2 so far, impeccable writing, the anglerfish vibes of it all — and then forced them to reflect on why they so readily abandoned S to rush over to Mal's side instead. A single cut but oh-so precise 🤭

Sadie

Really loved S in this. Their care shining through the usual reserved stoicism...just so sweet. Their determination at the Fernweh border had me in a grip... :(! Also Mrs. Dorran cheering from the sidelines and being the biggest shipper is the best. Ok, I need to stop activating the Mal romance when I play through these excursions lmao (like that'll happen) because Mal always steals the scene for me. This one probably has my fav Mal intervention so far. The method they used to get MC to come over had me DEAD. Nice myriad of knife skillz you got there Mal. The remarks with double meaning behind them and pointed actions, Mal just casually calling MC OUT. Perfection.

Noah

god im so excited! was way too busy the past few days but I have this one saved when I got a little bit more room to sit down and read!

chellyense

I finally got around to reading this! My interest in S has upgraded a few levels I must say. An interesting thing of note in this excursion: MC was apparently a premature birth? The trial at the border was interesting too. Also some patterns I’m noticing in the excursions (so far): Some sort of fall out with the wrestling team seems to happen in all of them (I’m guessing a few of those teens from R’s date are on the team), someone catching a cold is mentioned in two of them (R and J’s), and someone getting wet in some manner or water being mentioned has happened in all of them (with R there is the lake view, J with the sprinklers, B and the shower, and S with the juice?). They could all mean something or nothing at all but I’d thought I’d make note of it. 🤷 Also, it may just be my imagination but I believe I am noticing some similarities between some things in these dates and some of what happens with the corresponding RO in that dream back from book 1 that was supposed to have Grandpa’s head on a platter… 🤔 And the best part of this excursion: I absolutely died of laughter at Mrs. Dorran’s reaction to catching MC and S in the pantry! That was fantastic! Loved it! Also I’m sorry but the Jmancer in me must state: Aaahh!! I’m so bad with slow burns and yet I fell for the slowest burn in the game didn’t I?!? J’s the only one we can’t get some sort of smooch from… 😭 It’s ok though J sweetie. You are worth the wait. 🤍

ckl

I think the first part of S's excursion is the creepiest of the RO excursions so far. When Jam had to resort to telling S that they belonged here to get S to turn back, and the lines about S coming back a shell, without S inside. Ahhhh, who or what (??? is that you) is piloting the ROs when they don't sound like themselves? Things that make me curious! Mrs. D makes peach cobbler when the MC is around? The returning visitor is considered special company? HM... Plus the aggression of Coach Klay over a slow waitress and Assistant Coach losing it over oranges... theorizing here that the high school is the next nexus of weird in Fernweh. If so, perhaps we will get some Buffy references? 😇 If not, these coaches really weirdly love being dramatic and starting fights over nothing... Things that made me melt - holding hands with S at the market and seeing that S was waiting for it. I didn't get a smooch from S (oh wait the forehead kiss! of course), so I have to replay and be more bold. There was a lot of sweet tension in the choices I made though. Finally, not a Mal run although reading the reactions above... I will be checking out what Mal pulled at the market!! Plus, after reading the B and Mal excursion and "service with a smile." I wonder how Mal feels about these trials Jam and S are running? Trying to leave Fernweh... seeing how far they can go...