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I felt like a Victorian woman who just lost her husband in the war when you said K won't get a kissing scene in book 1 LMAO I will enjoy the slow burn until book 2 rolls around

hahaha that doesn’t mean they won’t get a passionate (for lack of a better word) scene though! don’t worry, i’ll make up for it <3

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CT:OS Halloween bonus

As promised, wrote like a fiend this month and banged out almost a full chapter's worth of content for spooky season!

The update is three-quarters of chapter 7 (about 40k words including code and variants), and picks up where Sam's visit left off.

Release dates:

It will be out to ko-fi supporters on 31 Oct, and a week after to the public :)

Features:

Deal with the aftermath of your decisions over the weekend (talk to G, Tobin or Rayyan) <True horror>

Attend a language fellow/exchange student dinner-gathering as G's plus one (and the only American in the group). <the G-only scene I promised! You don't have to be dating.>

Prep Halloween costumes with your hallmates (yes, chaotic), and go trick or treating! 🎃

Attend a party after with the team ... then stay for horror movie marathon + sleepover or head back to Haynes to end the night with G.

Yep, Halloween hookups (however ill-advised ;)) are possible.

You can end this chapter very much in a committed relationship with the RO of your choice.

More details on the rest of the chapter/plans for CT:OS for 2024 below the cut.

Note: The rest of chapter 7 will include midterms, a time-skip (with some training/a match) and some fall festival shenanigans (because I love fall festivals). It should add up to a pretty chunky chapter that pretty much seals Act 1 of CT:OS (the 'settling into Cargill' part - establishing most of MC's friendships, routines, and possibly romances, forming a solid base for Act 2.)

I'll start writing the rest of the chapter once I'm done with Merry Crisis, and hope to get it out by end-Dec. We'll see! :)

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no more cold and calculating i want warm and calculating. i want characters who use deductive reasoning to figure out whether their friend would like a wool or cotton quilt based off of their lifestyle, career, hobbies, and habits. i want "your nails are often chipped because you work for a law firm as a typist for this company which notoriously underbudgets their IT department, so ive bought you a keyboard cover that will not only prevent manicure damage but is also sensory friendly because I know you dislike certain clicking noises". i want characters who figure out their friends entire schedules and social battery levels just by examining who only use that info to know when the best time is to hang out with them. i want characters who create elaborate, supervillain level schemes just to get their hands on some collectible they know their best friend wants. most of all i want characters who do not use intelligence and reasoning skills as a reason to be cruel but as a means to be kind

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every overthinker should have someone to fuck them stupid

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guys everything that has been transpiring in north gaza is so insane that it truly boggles my mind how underreported it is. 8 days and counting of siege in north gaza that's killing hundreds of palestinians daily ("genocide within a genocide"), almost half a million people left with no food, water, or electricity, jabalia camp is literally being reduced to rubble as we speak, no signs of the bombing in lebanon abating with time, north gaza is utterly sealed off from the rest of gaza city, mass expulsion and starvation everywhere--and it's just getting worse. please don't be fooled that it's any better because people have chosen to stop caring. it's every bit as horrific as ever before

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During Wallmire, Trouble defaults to offer you a piggyback ride if his relationship is at least 90, but there's no way to accept it platonically, or accept it without losing romance points with someone else. It's really easy to get a high relationship with almost everyone in the current alpha. I was wondering if it's possible for the game to go through highest romance points first, and THEN check highest relationship. That way if you have high friendship with trouble but high romance with someone else, you still get their scene

Hi there, that's a great catch, thanks for outlining the logic of it so clearly! You're totally right, I've adjusted it now so that it does exactly as you said: checking if any of the boys are the highest romance first, and then if that's not true, checking if Trouble has a high enough relationship to default to getting a platonic piggyback from him! That should be reflected in the next update; thanks again for catching that!

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Honor Bound is coming late 2024!

As ever it’s not completely solidly set in stone, so the official message is that Honor Bound’s coming late this year… but Steam currently has the release listed for 5th December, so keep an eye out - and please wishlist so you're the first to know when Honor Bound is ready to play!

Not too much longer to go!

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You’re a promising officer in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to an injury, you’re no longer in the field. Thanks to the… complicated circumstances of that injury, you’ve been quietly reassigned.

Now you’re to be the bodyguard to the child of a famous scientist who is attending a wilderness boarding school for the children of the richest and most powerful figures of Teran society.

According to your mentor, it’s an easy assignment. The school sits close to your own hometown, so you’ll be familiar with the area; you can recover your health and get your career back on track. What could go wrong?

Bond with those around you or impress with aloof competence. Be a kind, trusted confidante to your charge, or a strict, stern caretaker. Work hard for glowing reports from your charge, your military superiors, or the Headteacher to get your life back on track - or risk it all as you uncover secrets that put you and everyone around you in peril.

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Find out more about the game, setting, and characters

Play the first three chapters

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My 90yr old Irish Catholic grandpa doesn’t miss with my gender. He’s never gotten my name wrong, or my pronouns, never even faltered over it.

It’s all so natural too: son, big man, young man…

We’ve never talked about it. He’s the only one who hasn’t pushed for details. He just accepted it and carried on because it’s not a huge deal.

It’s so comforting.

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I love Blades like, petulant pouting jealousy lol

I think the contrast between him being really intimidating and stoic and grim and actually being a huge drama queen is what we find charming! XD

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wait, now you have to give us the (hypothetical) details! how would taren and rainn work together as a couple? lol :P

They wouldn't :p Rainn would get tired of Taren's distrust/clinginess/whininess very quickly :p Clingy MCs were the exception

Taren is one partner Rainn could not vibe with at all, they'd break up very quickly

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Update. — 3rd October 2024

Well, helloo. If you're following me and reading this then...you must really hate me for my lack of activity on this blog. I apologise for that. Doing a masters degree really kicks my ass, and leaves me with no time to write. But Golden has never been dead or abandoned, it's very much always at the forefront of my mind.

And, for that pure reason, I know it's a story I haven't been 1,000% happy with so the story is going through some major changes. Probably, the first is that it's being rewritten. A (somewhat) new plot written with whole new software—we're making the move to Twine.

My reasoning; I've spent over a year learning the coding which makes me want to rip my hair out. I get to have a lot more ownership over my work, the customisation options are stellar, and you guys will get to read it for free.

The reasons for rewriting has been because I want to fix the cringey writing from when the story's first demo was released. It's mostly from the earlier chapters, but then the thought of plot changes came to me and I wanted to implement those. Realistically, the majority of what's being rewritten is what I had planned for book two—so I'm just bringing that forward. I'll update the synopsis closer to the release of this rewrite.

The changes (which can be subject to change): I'm getting rid of the university idea (though you can still choose careers that are related to those degrees from the options that'll be given) (e.g., if you liked the nursing student option, then your MC can work as a nurse). I'm thinking that the MC will already know about the supernatural world to some extent—there'll still be a lot of suspense and mystery and things to unravel, that was always going to remain. And, in this rewrite, my thought is that the MC and the gang will be working at a multi-agency organisation — called The Everbrook — where the aim is to bridge the gap between humans and supernaturals. To make the world run smoothly, so to speak.

The ROs are the exact same! No changes to that—the only change is that them and the mc will somewhat know of each other already. The genre is the same. MC is still as they are, a Lehsian socialite with a pretty (yet peculiar) birthmark. The parents will have much, much less of a role, but they'll still be mentioned here and there.

This seems like a load of word vomit, but I feel like these changes will improve the story. I'm hoping that it'll make MC less of a spare part in the story, allowing them to have more autonomy in the supernatural universe, especially with their enhanced skillset.

I've done the customisation in terms of the UI layout for Twine already, and it should be mobile friendly too. With that done, I've started writing and I'm a few thousand words in. A lot of what I've written in the ChoiceScript version can still be used, but also getting back into writing a story from scratch is something I'm looking forward to.

I feel like this is a bittersweet thing because yay to a new and better story, but also the time it's going to take to get it out. I'll debate whether to release the whole ten chapters, or do a few chapters at a time, like splitting it up into chunks (releasing three chapters now, and three chapters later on).

Another reason as to why I've taken so long to mention this, other than learning code and the rewrite, is just the while process of this being a little nerve-wracking. The whole thought of a rewrite of something I've put so much effort into is scary, but it'll be worth it.

I'll accept any questions you've got, and I'll create an FAQ regarding all of this too. But, most importantly, you're in the loop of how this is progressing. I really appreciate everyone's kind words about this story: loving the ros, re-reading it, still sticking by my writing—it means a lot. So, thank you and I hope the future of this story is what you want and more.

PLANS.

Finish introductory scenes.

Finish chapter one.

WORD COUNT.

2.2k (rewrite)

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Spoiler

In blades latest day off what would have happened if mc had kissed blade when they were in his room?

I think, with the state of mind he was in at that moment and knowing how proximity to him just resulted in MC's near injury or even death, I think he would instinctually have kissed MC back for approximately 1 second to 2 seconds, then panicked and pulled away and done the whole "it's too dangerous to be involved with me" fleeing/romantic angst thing he's so dramatically known for

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My friends, I would like to start by thanking you for your support and help for me and my family. Unfortunately, my account has been restricted for reasons I do not know. I kindly ask for your assistance in sharing my new account and giving hope to me and my family so we can live in a safe place.

My previous account :

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‏We have lost our home and my advocacy bureau , leaving us with nothing but the clothes on our backs. In search of safety, we have become refugees, fleeing to another city where we now face immense challenges. 🥹

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when you let your situationship beat you up (for the view)

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it's not enough to read infamous over and over, i need it to be injected into my bones

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Ten years ago you went missing.

It was a normal day. You woke up, had breakfast with your roommate and left shortly after for a full day of college classes and errands, only to never return home that afternoon.

Ten years ago you fell through a blip in time. Today you show up on your mother’s doorstep, unaged and unaware of the time you lost.

Mirror Mine is a sci-fi work-in-progress interactive fiction coded in Twine, with certain elements of horror. It is rated 18+ for graphic content.

Demo (last update: 3 June 2023) - RO Appearances - Pinterest - FAQ - Masterlist - Drabble Requests - Ask Directory

Customise the main character to your liking

Romance one of three character (one of which is gender customisable) or the poly

Solve the mystery of what happened to you

Make crucial decisions that will affect the story

Learn the ins and outs of time manipulation

Discover one of four endings

Take back the life that was stolen from you, if you’re lucky enough

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Years ago, you were uprooted from the only home you had ever known and captured to be sold as a slave. Now, war is at your doorstep once more while you are left in a delicate position — as a commander of the country that invaded your homeland. While investigating a case of illegal human trafficking, you come across a plot that threatens to rip this tentative peace apart.

This is the first book of the series Eyes of Shan, an 18+ trilogy that follows your character, The Commander, through the tumultous times of an empire on the brink of war. Set in the fictional Empire of Hae, explore the bitter relationship between two countries and make choices that will decide which side you ally yourself with.

Play as male or female, choose to romance characters or build friendships along the way.

Pick between various interactions with those who fate crosses your paths with.

Shape the course of history with your choices.

Uncover a mysterious black market and auction selling body parts to the highest bidder.

Choose whether to aid a slave in attempting to run away from the palace.

Explore the vast Empire of Hae, from the stunning Gwangjeom Palace to the cold walls of the North.

What choices will you make, Commander?

DEMO | KOFI | PATREON

as of 26/12/23,

word count has increased from 121k to 178k

bugs from the previous version have been fixed

romance and relationship system fixed

please feel free to leave a comment or review it!

content warnings: violence, death, attempted sexual assault (not to pc), war, torture, racism, EXTREMELY SLOW BURN

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