Efa: Let Kyn take over (Patreon)

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Advanced release. Still rendering a smaller version for E621 and elsewhere. It's still 2020. Target met.

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You've had your fun pushing Kyn around. Now it's his turn to show you what he's got. And he certainly does show you for quite a while. You can tell by the way he's moving that he's close, so when he attempts to pull away, you grab on and go to finish the ride. Unfortunately, this backfires in a spectacular way.

You risk ending up glued to his fur, which wouldn't be a totally awful thing, you think. Regardless, it's time to go get cleaned up and you saw a huge bath last night. With a minimum amount of peeling, you extricate yourself from the slightly sticky otter and head to see what fun things you can get up to with him in the bathroom.

Over the water noises, you do hear another voice shouting angrily. You have no idea what that's about, you're sure Kyn will mention it if it's important.

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You are now Kyn.

You sort of got a bit lost for a while there with Efa, and once it was over, you quickly noticed a message waiting for you on the Comms unit. You also noticed Kobold Ass, which is currently of far more interest.

Efa proclaims a desire to clean up, but you also need to find out what the message is, so you tell her you want to grab some food before joining her in the bath.

It's not really a surprise that Roane answers the Comms. She's normally a fairly calm and collected Wolf, so her snappish attitude is kind of worrying, especially with all the alarms going off behind her. Your unease grows when she says she's already got two escorts on their way to collect you.

You still had 3 weeks of Leave left, and it's unusual to be recalled early, especially when the place is supposed to be a primitive, quiet, safe and pastoral world. You're worried about the implications of all this, but you also can't even start to guess at what's wrong. 

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Audio Credits

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MixKit (https://mixkit.co/free-stock-music/) 

Romantic Getaway

The Farewell

Love Slave

Epical Drums 3

Kevin Mcleod (https://incompetech.com/music/)

Temple of the Manes

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Another one with not much description needed, but surprise! The story is sci-fi! I'm hoping the little hints and blatant dialogue occasionally didn't make it too much of a swerve across genres. I've wanted to have at least some sci-fi elements since fairly early on, and they've been in the model for Kyns apartment since I built the damn thing. There's actually an exterior!

This is another case where I've rendered stuff ages ago, and by the time it got to the edit, I hate how stiff it is. Much more practice seems to be required. Part of the reason this took so long, is the fluids. Not to beat around the bush, but they're basically the climax of several episodes, so it had to at least be mildly acceptable. So, so many of them literally spurted once nicely, then the rest detonated everywhere. I still don't understand why. Tiny changes to velocity would change a trickle to a shotgun blast or vice versa. Eventually, I stopped when it gave me something not terrible.

Ironically, the biggest fluid sim, right at the end, was the easiest. Literally 4 attempts, 1 where the water went through the floor, 1 it leaked out the sides, 1 was perfect but the flow was too small and barely filled the bottom, and the 4th was what you see. In comparison, the 2 spurts when they fall off the bed took probably 60-70 attempts and given the scale of the sims and how far they could go, each one took a long time to simulate then bake just to see it was shit again. What I got isn't perfect, but hopefully it's not too awful.

The other reason for taking so long is that I quit my job and moved to another company, which means a lot more commuting and work, so free time vanished significantly. The 4 day christmas holiday actually gave me time to do the last 2 minutes of the episode. Finally, I was originally aiming for christmas for this, after halloween got missed. I then aimed for the end of the year, and it's a few hours before that, so: suck it, 2020.

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Finally finally, the Patreons at the end of the video were a massive help, even if they don't know it. Just knowing some people give a shit about this helps me keep going back and pushing on with it when you're stuck in an endless cycle of explosive simulations. The other thing is the OSTs for both of the Ori games. But mostly the Patreons.