Update and Payment Changes... Maybe? 20th Oct '24 (Patreon)

I'll start with the payment changes, although they come with a maybe? as I'm not sure what they actually are. Patreon is changing how they charge (I think the excuse they're using is it's a requirement to be on Apple App, or something). I'd like to be more precise on this, but I've been too busy working on Temptacia and trying to hit other story deadlines to have a chance to dig into it more thoroughly.

If I do get a chance, I'll try and find out more.

As far as I know, Patreon is changing something on the payments and it's happening from November. Rather than setting a flat fee and varying their cut, I think they're doing something odd like passing the charge onto the patron. I'm not sure I like this. I'd prefer the patron was just charged whatever the tier value is ($1, $5, etc) and the creator got what was left after Patreon took their cut.

If anyone knows exactly what the change is and how it will affect patrons, please post below.

I don't want people paying more than they thought they'd be paying, so I thought I'd drop an advance warning before Patreon charges for monthly subs at the start of November. If you do find the changes unacceptable, I do have a backup account on SubscribeStar where I mirror all content from here.

With that out of the way, lets move onto what I got up to last week.

It was a slightly slower week. There's a minor gastric flu-bug type thing floating around so I wasn't quite at 100%. Thankfully, it didn't slow me down that much.

Temptacia's 1st draft is pretty much done. I have a variant of her regular sex scene to write, where the player falls asleep and she drains him in his dreams, but that will likely be adapted from her regular sex scene. Apart from that, pretty much everything is written.

As for typing up, her core is typed up, her paizuri scene is typed up, her anal scene is typed up aside from the Bad End(s), and I'm about halfway through her footjob, sex, and oral scenes. At this point, unless anything untoward comes up, I'm well on course to having her implemented by the end of October.

My original plan was to switch to the Nicole short story for the next collection. There has been a change of plan here.

The ideas and mechanics for The Trapperess have dropped neatly into place. She is the fifth faction mini-boss. She's a succubus from the Huntress Lodge that specialises in creating sex traps to capture humans for the hunts. She's using a basement area of the House to try out new traps and her scenario will have the player running a gauntlet of them (six in total, roughly).

While I was out on Friday I managed to find a couple of spare hours to write the intro and start of her scenario. By starting her early, I'm hoping to avoid the delayed release problems I had with Rwberia and Temptacia, and get back to a regular monthly release schedule again.

Thanks for the support and interest!
- manyeyedhydra