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Merry crisis! 🌟🎄✨⭐

I don’t have a full Avulsion chap for you yet, that’ll be next month (I mean it's done done, but it will be uploaded next month on itch), but as I am wrapping up other stuff I found some old missing-scene extras from Patreon that I will periodically upload for you to read here.

Starting with the cursed Reed and Alan combo [here]. Enjoy!

Public snippet masterpost: [here]

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Hi ^^! I hope you’re doing well 💖 I love your Wayhaven takes so I was wondering what other IFs you enjoy?

Honestly TWC opened up a massive can of worms and I’m like drowning in them at this point.

Anything @pdrrook touches is absolute gold and I heavily recommend checking out Perfumare. I’m a Reed stan myself

The Golden Rose by @anathemafiction Is another big, big favorite of mine. The world building, the characters, the options, it’s all *chef’s kiss*. Couldn’t even tell you who I simp for most because I love all the ROs so much. Also one of my absolute favorite subscriptions on Patreon :)

The Soul Stone War by @intimidatingpuffinstudios is another big favorite. Book 1 and book 2 are out, with book 3 in the works! Such a great author, the writing in this is so fun

Viatica by @fir-fireweed is a new one that I’m recently obsessed with as well. Such a unique story and I can’t wait for more updates

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: An Affair of the Heart by @doriana-gray-games is also such a fun one. The writing is fun, the characterization is fun, and who doesn’t love a mystery. Would give my life for Watson

Not an IF necessarily and more of a VN but I’m on my knees begging anyone and everyone to play Our Life: Beginnings & Always by @gb-patch

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Darling, Darling... Dead? Release + Winners 🎉

DDD is live! ✨ You can buy it on [Itch] and [Steam], and play the demo [here].

Congrats to our winners:

@vampryln @justnnyx @rinriya @sincerely-flawed @blightedsaint Remember to have your DMs open today.

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [TikTok] [YouTube]

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Darling, Darling... Dead? - GAME KEYS GIVEAWAY 🤩

To celebrate the (soon-to-be) release of the full game of "Darling, Darling... Dead?", we're giving away 5 keys (Itch.io or Steam)! To participate in the giveaway, like or reblog the post, and on Friday, November 29, 2024, we'll pick 5 random blogs from the list. Good luck! If you are the winner, please have your Ask box or DMs open and respond to us within 48 hours. If you don't, we'll have to pick a new winner. Play the demo on Itch.io [here]!

Wishlist on Steam [here]!

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A quickie to let you guys know that I am still alive (and almost not sick anymore yay!)

I am happy to announce that chapter 4 of FMO is officially done, out and about, on patreon, as well as the beginning of chapter 5. That means there’s only one chap (plus epilogues) to go!!!  

As for Avulsion, 2 out of 3 branches (about 20k words each) of chapter 3 are done, and I’m currently working on the last branch (also 20k). Next time I add that many variables into a game, please whack me on my empty head, it won’t hurt, but maybe it’ll help. 

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Now you can wishlist "Darling, Darling... Dead?" on Steam right [here]!✨

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Bluesky] [Ko-fi] [TikTok] [YouTube]

-> Playlists: [Levon's] [X's]

Play the demo: [Here]

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What's this? A demo for Darling, Darling... Dead? 👀?

-> Studio: [Itch.io] [Carrd] [Ko-fi] [TikTok] [YouTube]

-> Playlists: [Levon's] [X's]

Play the demo: [Here]

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New game 👀🔪♥💗

-> Collab Studio Carrd: [Here]

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FFSAND?! OFFICIAL STEAM RELEASE + Press Kit

The Steam version of FFSAND?! is out! It includes the spicy itch.io content, but you have an option to turn it off at the beginning of the game.

Now, thank you guys SO MUCH for all the wishlists! Your feedback means a lot to us, so please consider leaving us a review and letting us know what you enjoyed and what you’d like to see added in Roy’s possible sequel!

Last but not least, we added a FFSAND?! Press Kit that you can check out [here]. You can still play FFSAND?! on itch.io [here] for the SFW and [here] for the NSFW versions.

Check the demo out [here].

And buy FFSAND?! on Steam [here].

[pdrrook]

Answer to win some cool prizes!

Hello, everyone!

I hope you’re all safe and healthy. Would you like to win a pack of exclusive keys to all of my games? 

I’d LOVE to hear from you and understand you all better, so I prepared a quick survey that is completely anonymous and should take you no more than 5 minutes to answer. As a Thank You for sharing your opinion with me, you can choose to join a special giveaway! 

Four people will receive a pack of keys to:

ALL of the current and future content in "Love the Guard, Be The King" (Book one), 

An exclusive key to access the Supporters version of LtGBtK, now with more than 130k words (almost twice as much as the public version),

A key to my newest game, "Trek to Dead Water," so you can already play the demo, way before the public release in December. 

Cool, innit?

And if the winner is already a supporter on ko-fi (and thus already has all of these), they may choose between a fully painted portrait of ANY character they want OR a short story (of around 600 words) featuring any two characters they want*.

To join the giveaway, just answer THIS survey: https://forms.gle/XoFmE4CrZidcvB1c8 and please remember to leave a comment in THIS post (or this here post on Tumblr xD) so I can contact you if you win. If you have any questions, just send me a message on Tumblr or Itch.io.

This survey will be open from August 21 to September 21/2024, and I'll announce one winner per week starting on August 28. I'll make weekly announcements on my Tumblr, and a final announcement with all the winners on itch.

I hope to hear from you!

Kisses, Ligia / Ursa em Percurso

*content limitations: no explicitly NSFW content.

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Apple soon charging 30% on Patreon subscriptions through iOS

This is the email Patreon creators woke up to today. Patreon is asking us to either raise our prices on the iOS app so that Apple can slurp up 30% of the subscription price, or we can keep our prices as they are and have that 30% come out of our own earnings. Either way, this fee is hidden from potential subscribers so they don't know they're paying 30% to Apple when they could be avoiding that by subscribing on Patreon's website as opposed to the app.

I find this to be a disgusting cash grab on the part of Apple because if they felt like their fees were fair then they would simply tack it on themselves at the point of checkout, not baking it into the prices of creators who had no say in this to make it look like we were the ones asking for more. If you find yourself wondering "Why are Patreon creators all raising their prices?" this is why. Please avoid transactions through iOS apps.

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What if during ROs love confessions to MC, MC just sort of greyrocked them? Like 'Mmhh...anyways-' and went back to talking to whatever they were before? And later it turns out that MC thought they were being mean-spirited and asking them out as a joke, which is why they reacted like that? Maybe MC just has been burnt like this in the past many times 🤷‍♀️

Jewel would take it as a rejection and would never bring it up again, even if she had an inkling that MC didn’t mean it. She’d think about it all the time, though, entertaining all the reasons as to why MC did what they did

Reed, since they know each other like forever, would know if MC had a situation like this in the past, but he’s also stupid when his feelings are concerned so he’d take it as a ‘no,’ too, and he’d be glad to see MC is acting normal afterward, bc at least they can return to the status quo and act like they did before (he also thinks MC already knows he’s into them, so nothing much would change)

Laurent would be so confused, but he’d assume he misunderstood something and his confession must have inconvenienced MC in some way, so he’d keep it to himself from there on out

Nino would ignore & avoid MC afterwards, bc it’d cost her a LOT to be/act vulnerable, and if MC just brushed it off, she’d be super ashamed and super gutted

Flavio’d be like ‘fair enough,’ bc he knowssss it’s a stupid idea to confess so just it serves him right for taking the plunge

Alan, kinda depends on the confession and circumstances, bc he could be just pikatchu face and try again, or he’d be hurt like Nino, and react similarly to her

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Hi, hope you’re having a wonderful day!

So, I have a kinda weird question, you see, I have a lot of plants and I started naming them after your characters for shits and giggles (like, Nino is a cute cactus and Reed’s leaves have a reddish tone, heh). The thing is that I’ve run out of names so I wanted to ask if you could suggest me other names so they all have the same ~vibe~. Love u!!

Omg?! Stopp that's so cute!

I can defo list off a few names I’ll use for new characters in the second part of the IF, but I’ll keep it spoiler-free as to who they are:

Ernst, Chelsea, Emil and Emily, Linden. Hope that helps!

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The song Primadonna by MARINA is so Reed omg

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Hi Rook! I had a question about Perfumare: Avulsion - when you choose whether you'll go with Jewel, Reed or Laurent, do you lock in your romance/route in the way you do in the VN, or can you still for example leave with Laurent and then later romance Jewel or Reed? <: Curious because of the flirt options on the patreon demo, so I'm assuming this differs from the VN but wanted to ask just to be sure.

Hi! It doesn’t lock you at all, on the contrary, there are unique romance options if you go with a different RO.

The next chapter (club scene) will be like that, too, you’ll be able to take let’s say Laurent with you, as a friend, but romance Jewel etc. And just because you leave with i.e. Laurent doesn’t mean you have to take him with you to the club in the next scene, there will be an option to pick your branch again until like where the VN ends.

And there will be options to lock yourself out of the romance too, they will be marked with an icon.

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Did you see the official trailer yet? 👀 And did we mention there's going to be a Steam release on August 27th? 👀 You can Wishlist on Steam [here]! ✨

-> Collab Studio Itch.io Page: [Here]

-> Collab Studio Steam Page: [Here]

-> Collab Studio Carrd: [Here]

-> Tumblr: [Here]

-> Kofi: [Here]

-> TikTok: [Here]

-> Duke's Playlist: [Here]

[pdrrook]

Hi Rook! Would you kindly share with us from where you take inspirations for the stories you write? And which LI in each game would you personally romance and why?

Hi! I sure can. So for me, it’s like either I get a random thought in the middle of the night and then spend like 3 hours writing it out in my phone’s notes, or it’s smth I see that gives me an idea, usually just as random. I often have loose scenes that I write the plot around, like in FMO, the first scene of chapter 1, and the last one of chapter 3. 

As for the LIs I am not really attracted to my own characters, maybe because I know them too much, and it’s just not that exciting to think about them in that context, but if I had to pick it’d be either Laurent or Mirren, bc I like the prim and proper type best.