Weekly rambling (Patreon)

Unfortunately, no Camilla’s cucking yet! Next week! Other than that, things are going well. My writing schedule is great, I have a daily writing goal I’m managing to hit every day and I’m aiming to get the next update out as quickly as I can. The end of this month, early next? Not sure but I’m doing my best and focusing on writing. I’m drafting Quinn’s and Tinsae’s scenes as I go, too, so the process with those will hopefully be even swifter.

Some rambling about the branches and coding:

I was writing Niall’s scenes and wondered how I’d track his relationship variables. At first, I thought that I’d code in a ‘trust’ variable for every RO. However, it doesn’t fit Niall very much. He’s already very forgiving and trusting as a character, so the variable wouldn’t serve its purpose as well as I originally thought. What would serve its purpose for him, however, is a ‘confidence’ variable. Eg. if you nag at his confidence or not. That would serve as a variable for toxic Niallmancers. (Terrible, I know.)

When it comes to the ‘toxic’ and ‘healthy’ routes, it’s been a little difficult to think how to code them. With Niall, the ‘confidence’ would fit the relationship dynamics and his character. There is a similar variable for Marcus, too, which greatly impacts the branching, and that is the ‘killer’ route. It’s more straightforward and doesn’t really require as much tracking, other than whether or not you start to doubt your killing ways or not. I think that Tinsae will place a heavy emphasis on Hati’s motives on being in Rome in the first place, eg. whether or not you’re there to kill people or not. There is one other thing I could track with her but it might be a little spoilery. Will have to see how it turns out. I’m not sure about Camilla… It would make sense to track her trust levels too, though. Also with Quinn trust is key. There will soon become a key point with them which determines if you place your trust in them fully or not. They haven’t made it easy lol.

So, this is me basically muttering nonsense and realizing that I can’t just treat every RO similarly, they have different arcs and different motives. (Shocking, I know.)

Anyway, the main priority is to keep writing and I’m definitely doing just that. Thank you so so much for being here and supporting me in this massive endeavor. I couldn’t do it without you. Thank you! 💛