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Dec 20, 2024 07:39 pm

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #6

Hey everyone

This week was pretty busy at work for me, getting everything done before the holidays and so on. So I didn't have too much time/energy to continue writing. But I did replay/reread the stuff I've already written and fixed a bunch of things there, probably saving me some testing and clean-up time later 🙂.

I'm currently about 85% done with the writing. I will have some extra time in the next two weeks, so I should make some good progress, hopefully. The plan to start doing renders in early January still stands.

You can also expect the bonus renders from the render requests coming soon.

Also, if you're interested: Eruption Imminent is currently on sale at https://morriganrae.itch.io/eruption-imminent.

❤️ Happy holidays! And thank you for your support! ❤️

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Morrigan Rae

Dec 14, 2024 01:10 pm

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #5

Hey everyone

I'll keep it short for this one. I've been making very good progress this week. I was basically writing during every free minute I had and I'm probably around 80% done with the first draft now.

I'm already seeing that the episode I'm writing is very, very big... 😳 but I'll focus on finishing writing first, and see what I'll do about that once I get there.

Nothing else to report. Bonus pic coming soon!

❤️ Enjoy your weekend! ❤️

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Morrigan Rae

Dec 07, 2024 01:03 pm

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #4

Hey everyone

After a bit of a rough start this week, I managed to write a lot in the last two days. I'm probably done with about 60-70% of the draft now.

It's been fun to try out some more intricate scenes in regards to choices and consequences 😊. For example throughout the party, you'll be able to decide (on multiple occasions) how much Ashe wants to drink. This will lead to some variations, depending on how you handle it. A drunk Ashe might be willing to do some bold or careless things that a sober Ashe wouldn't. On the other hand, an Ashe with a clear head might have some opportunities that a wasted Ashe would miss. And who even knows what would happen if you decide to go totally overboard with the booze... 😬

There's a lot more factors in there that decide how this party will play out, both from earlier episodes and from things you do at the party. Just as an aside, there's already more choice variables in Episode 6 alone, than in all other episodes combined (and there's still more to come).

As expected, writing this episode isn't as straightforward as earlier ones. It takes a lot more care to keep all the different possibilities and world states in mind. My current rough plan is to finish writing until the end of December, and hopefully get a good chunk of environments & characters done too, before I start doing renders in January.

I'll also try to squeeze in a bonus pin-up again soon, next on the list is a certain lady that often occupied Ashe's daydreams during math class 🤤. You can also expect a general poll again soon.

❤️ Alright, enjoy your weekend everyone! Thanks for being here! ❤️

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Morrigan Rae

Nov 29, 2024 09:04 pm

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #3

Hey everyone

A bit of a shorter post this week, since there's not too much to report.

I've had a pretty busy week and it sometimes can be tricky for me to get in the right headspace to write after a long day's work. I still managed to write a bunch, but not quite as much as I would've liked to. I'll see if I can catch up a bit on the weekend 🙂.

I've also worked on something a little different from what you've seen in EI so far. Something that could almost be described as a mini game. But before you start to panic: No, I won't make you do slide puzzles or sudoku or anything like that 😅. It's much more narratively focused and should hopefully fit in nicely with the rest of the story. There's also the option to progress even if you lose (maybe you'll even want to lose 😮), or avoid the whole thing entirely. So don't get your titties in a twist 😋.

Other than that, I can't tell you much without spoiling. Expect a bunch of familiar faces at the party (and of course a bunch of unfamiliar ones too), and some unique opportunities to get to know them better... 😘

Alright, back to writing!

❤️ Enjoy your weekend everyone! ❤️

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Morrigan Rae

Nov 22, 2024 09:09 pm

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #2

Hey everyone

So... I'm gonna talk a little about my plans for Episode 6 here, and this will touch on some mild Ep. 5 spoilers. If you don't want any of that, leave now! 🙂

I'm currently still in the writing phase, and probably will be for a little while longer too. At a guess, I'd say I have around 40% of that part done.

Looking at how much I've written so far and how much is still left to do, I'm already afraid that this episode is gonna be huge as well. I actually had the silly notion that this one could finally be a bit of a smaller one again, but currently it really doesn't look like it 😅.

Episode 6 will be a very special one, for a bunch of reasons. Some of you might've already guessed it: The whole next episode will be taking place during just the one party night. There's a lot of things happening there, and a lot of important characters are visiting, so you can expect a wild night for sure.

So this unique setup for the episode brings some challenges with it. Both in the writing department and the technical side.

On the narrative side, I want to experiment a little as well, since this gives me some good opportunities for it. Mainly I want this episode to be a bit less linear than usual and have a lot of different ways on how this whole thing can play out. Since this is a bit more of an isolated event, there's a lot of room to play around with diverging paths and such, without making my life miserable in the future with too many loose ends 😅. (But of course, there's still a bunch of things that will have consequences later on, so this is definitely not just some fun spin-off episode 😉)

I even played around with the idea to make this episode kind of a sandbox-lite thing in some parts, but ultimately decided against it. The extra headaches with writing in regards to different world states and timelines and all that wasn't worth it in my opinion. At least not in the way I've imagined it. Especially since I can tell you already that this episode will be the most complex one yet with branching and such, even without the sandbox elements.

I'm of course not even halfway done yet, so things might still change if I see it not working out, or if the episode just gets way too big. This is another difficulty I'm facing right now, since usually I can just kind of push certain things back into another episode if it gets too big. But there's no way to do that here, since I'm not gonna spread this party over more than one episode. (I actually had kind of the same issue in the last episode, since I needed to fit all the pre-party stuff in there too)

There will also be some challenges with renders that I'm already aware of. In particular the fact that there's a lot of people attending the party. Big crowds are a tricky thing to do in DAZ, especially when you don't just want blurry shadow people or obvious cardboard cutouts in the background, while still wanting the place to feel lively and packed. I'll need some time to figure out what works best here... I have some ideas, but I just need to find a way to implement that in my workflow without slowing everything down too much. And also... I'll need to create a lot of background characters. Like... a lot 😬.

This time I'll also need to pretty much finish all environments and new characters (or at least a big portion of background characters) before I even start doing renders. So it could take a while until I'll have some previews to show, unfortunately.

All in all I'm very excited for this episode, but I'm also a little nervous since there's a lot of tricky things to juggle here. We'll see how it goes! 😊

❤️ Enjoy your weekend! ❤️

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Morrigan Rae

Nov 16, 2024 01:00 pm

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #1

Hey everyone

It's been a while 🙂. I've been back from my break for a little bit now, and with the public release of Ep. 5 done, I can now fully focus on working on Ep. 6.

You guys have given a ton of feedback and reviews for the latest update, and I'm happy to read it all. And if you haven't yet and would like to, hop over on Discord or tell me here in a DM. I appreciate all the critique, comments and praise. And of course all the lively discussions and theories this has spawned.

I feel like I don't thank you people enough, but it really is immensely motivating when I see so many people interested in my little lewd story. Thank you so much ❤️! And with that, I'd also like to welcome the many, many (so many) new supporters here 😊! Seeing the numbers go up like that makes me a little dizzy every time.

So, what's been going on the last couple weeks? As announced, I took a short break to recharge a bit. I think this was a good idea as it made me so giddy to work on the next episode. I'll talk a bit more about the plans for Episode 6 in next week's progress report. Since there'll be some mild spoilers from Ep. 5, I want people to have a chance to finish it before that. So, if you haven't played through Ep. 5 yet and you don't want any spoilers whatsoever, you might want to stay away a bit from here until you finished it.

So far I'll just say that I've finished planning the next episode and started writing it too. Progress so far has been decent, but I'm not close to being done with that part yet. You'll have to wait a bit before you'll get some previews.

And to people new here, here's a quick rundown on what you can expect here during the development process:

Weekly progress reports (every Friday): This should give you an idea where we stand and how much is done, what's left to do, and (eventually) an estimate for the next release date.
Weekly preview pics: As soon as I start doing renders, you'll get a preview picture every Monday. (For paid supporters only)
Polls. I'll eventually do some polls to gather everyone's thoughts. There'll be some polls (limited to higher tiers) that will let you directly decide on some small thing that will make it in the game too.
Bonus pics. Silver and Gold tier will continue to get bonus pin-up pictures of the cast, and some member requested special renders. If you're a Gold member and want to request something, make sure to check out the Discord.

Also: To all the people who are waiting for a Steam release, you'll have to wait a bit longer unfortunately. I need to spend some more time to properly get all this set up, and I decided I'll put that off until I have some more free time. I'll likely prepare everything over the holidays at the end of the year. Which means a Steam release will be ready in Summer 2025 at the earliest.

That's all for now, see you all next week! 😊

❤️ Enjoy your weekend and thank you for all your support! ❤️

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