Chapter 4 WIP: first voices (Patreon)

The script has been done for a few days. This week Chapter 4 started talking back.

The first two scenes are voiced and sitting in the engine. One of them is a morning. You know from her record where the story stands: tomorrow, the dwarves name her in his hall. Chapter 4 opens on that tomorrow, and mornings in Lord Avel's keep have rules now. More than that I will not say, except that Serith meets one of those rules before breakfast, and it costs her more than she lets the room see.

I cut a short clip so you can hear the chapter instead of reading me describing it: the steward announcing what rides toward the keep, and Serith with the kind of answer that stops a stylus mid word.

The rooms are further along too. The hall from the record entry exists now. It has a throne, a long table, benches for people who wait, and windows built for the kind of light that makes everyone stand very straight. One more room rides along in full: a stair, long after the honest hours. Where it sits in the chapter, you will find out the way she does.

Pipeline from here: sprites for the new faces, then music, then the rest of the voice work as scenes lock. You will hear it here as it lands.

Enjoy the descent.