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The Prologue for A Crown of Ash is now released!
I have no clue how I got the willpower to finish the prologue for the story after how hectic things have been. But yes it is finally here!
I have decided to preserve the original Neo-Twiny jam version of the game separately. So that people can still view that first build if they desire.
Some things were changed in the transition from the 500 word limit draft to this version, but the ideas and concepts are still the same. I took some time to explain things I saw fit.
You can play the prologue here!
Your support is appreciated, and all criticism is welcome! I heavily went through and spell-checked everything, but don't be afraid to say something if I missed something!
Thank you all, I hope you enjoy it!
#interactive fiction#ashes and sand#twine game#writing#if#interactive game#interactive novel#2024#fantasy if#indie games#indie devs#a crown of ash
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Neo Twiny Jam - bite-sized review
The Neo Twiny Jam (@neo-twiny-jam) is an interactive fiction game unranked jam where participants could not write more than 500 words per entry.
You can find every submitted piece on the jam's Itch Page.
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The Real Me by Ashes and Sand
Entry - More by Ashes and Sand - @a-crown-of-ash-if CW: Talk of death, transphobia, and burning alive
A touching submission. Through a fantasy setting, a fairy describes his experience of finding and accepting their identity in the face of adversity. It is quite emotional and raw.
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Here's a thing I did years ago where I screenshotted the 10 Ixupi from the 1995 PC horror game "Shivers" by Sierra Online/Entertainment.
Looking back on it, some of these buggers weren't exactly all THAT scary. But you know, these were the jumpscares I was used to long before FNAF was a thing.
But yeah, hopefully there's people on this site who remember this game that'll enjoy this.
And if not, there's still always the killer soundtrack. Pun intended.
#pc#pc games#pc game#shivers#sierra#sierra online#sierra entertainment#1995#what darkness conceals terror reveals#what darkness conceals#terror reveals#ixupi#the ixupi#ash#tar#water#cloth#sand#crystal#wood#wax#metal#electricity
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Hornfels: oh hey you're back early-
Me: sun's haunted
Hornfels: what?
Me: *flipping off the Nomai statue and climbing back in the ship* sun's haunted
#outer wilds#* through gritted teeth * i am having fun i am having fun i am having fun#i hate the fucking hourglass twins so fucking much oh my fucking god#i thought it was fine and then The Sand#i cannot FUCKING find anything#and by the time i have a clue theres SAND#FUCK#i dont wanna move on to ash twin till i figure out ember twin first though#God.#i refuse to look up a guide cause for ONCE im going into a game completely blind i will NOT spoiler that shit for myself#i will simply grit my teeth and scream at the sunless city to show me its GODDAMN SECRETS#dragons chatting
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nothing, just thinking about how javier is so coyote-coded and low honor arthur is represented by a coyote …
#something something about how arthur’s outlaw lifestyle could in one direction be a catalyst for evil and cruel deeds#how dutch’s preachings arthur could use as a ‘means to an end’ philosophy to rampant crime and corruption#and how this mentality takes him distances that are metaphorically represented by a black coyote#the evil inside him#the sooted cruel byproduct that dutch raised with his own two hands#and how javier’s loyalty blinds him#while he may not exactly share this ashed blackened coat he is still a canine with fangs#a one who bares them in the name of the outlaw lifestyle#the one that welcomed him with open arms#the one that felt like dutch’s embrace#and javier never contracted an illness#he never had something to rock him to his core so deep that be felt the courage to question all he’d known#and so his fangs stayed sharp#and that outlaw blood of his never left him#not at least until it was spilt on the loose sand of mexico when john caught back up with him#anyway. just been thinking.#rdr2#arthur morgan#red dead redemption 2#red dead redemption#rdr#javier escuella#rdr2 meta#kinda ?#hero's talking to himself again#text#john marston#mentioned
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Astro Amp - Astrotone Fuzz
"made by Universal Amplifier Corp. of New York. This is from 1967"
cred: reverb.com/Sean's Funkadelic Gear Parlor
#astro amp#astrotone#astrotone fuzz#umiversal amplifier corp.#favs#sam ash fuzzz boxx#sand cast aluminium#sand cast#enclosures
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lol Sand has no rizz
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He has rizz its why he keeps getting bitches. its just he SUCKS at being vulnerable
#ask#which is what ivy is attracted to in Sandro / Ash anyway#and Sand pretended to be vulnderable by. lying about himself#sometimes on purpose sometimes bc he just thoughtlessly did so#sandro oc#rottmnt#sandro rottmnt#carefree au
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" Space to be alone … " //© Ronald Söthje
#Iceland#nature#landscape#Riverscape#Black Sand#Volcanic#Ash#fpv#Drone#aesthetics#wanderlust#explore#follow#discover
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Rowaelin Chapter 41 Kingdom of Ash:
She'd rebuild it—what she had been.
Perhaps one last time, perhaps only for a little while, but she'd do it. If only for Terrasen.
Rowan swooped from the mast, shifting as he reached her side at the rail. He surveyed the night-black sea beyond them. "You should rest." She slid him a glance. "I'm not tired." Not a lie, not in some regards. "Want to spar?" He frowned. "Training can start tomorrow."
"Or tonight." She held his piercing stare, matched his dominance with her own.
"It can wait a few hours, Aelin."
"Every day counts." Against Erawan, even a day of training would count.
Rowan's jaw tightened. "True," he said at last. "But it can still wait. There are ... there are things we need to discuss." The silent words rose in his animal-bright eyes. About you and me.
Her mouth went dry. But Aelin nodded In silence, they strode into their spacious quarters, its only decoration the wall of windows that overlooked the churning sea behind them. A far cry from a queen's chamber, or any she might have purchased as Adarlan's assassin.
At least the bed built into the wall looked clean enough, the sheets crisp and stainless. But Aelin headed for the oak desk anchored to the floor, and leaned against it while Rowan shut the door.
In the dim lantern light, they stared at each other.
She'd endured Maeve and Cairn; she'd endured Endovier and countless other horrors and losses. She could have this conversation with him. The first step toward rebuilding herself.
Aelin knew Rowan could hear her thundering heart as the space between them went taut. She swallowed once. "Elide and Lorcan told you... told you everything that was said on that beach."
A curt nod, wariness flooding his eyes. "Everything that Maeve said." Another nod.
She braced herself. "That I'm-we're mates."
Understanding and something like relief replaced that wariness. "Yes."
"I'm your mate," she said, needing to voice it. "And you are mine."
Rowan crossed the room, but halted a few feet from the desk on which she leaned. "What of it, Aelin?" His question was low, rough.
"Don't you..." She scrubbed at her face. "You know what she did to you, to ..." She couldn't say her name. Lyria. "Because of it."
"I do know."
"And?"
"And what do you wish me to say?"
She pushed off the desk. "I wish you to tell me how you feel about it. If…"
"If what?"
"If you wish it wasn't so."
His brows narrowed. "Why would I ever wish that?"
She shook her head, unable to answer, and stared over her shoulder toward the sea.
It seemed like he would close the distance between them, but he remained where he was.
"Aelin." His voice turned hoarse. "Aelin."
She looked at him then, at the pain in his words.
"Do you know what I wish?" He exposed his palms, one tattooed, the other unmarked. "I wish that you had told me. When you realized it. I wish you had told me then."
She swallowed against the ache in her throat. "I didn't want to hurt you."
"Why would it ever hurt me to know the truth that was already in my heart? The truth I hoped for?"
"I didn't understand it. I didn't understand how it was possible. I thought maybe ... maybe you might be able to have two mates within a lifetime, but even then, I just ….." She blew out a breath. "I didn't want you to be distressed." His eyes softened. "Do I regret that Lyria was dragged into this, that the cost of Maeve's game was her life, and the life of the child we might have had? Yes. I regret that, and I wish it had never happened." He would bear the tattoo to remember it for the rest of his days. "But none of that was your fault. I will always carry some of the burden of it, always know I chose to leave her for war and glory, and that I played right into Maeve's hands."
"Maeve wanted to ensnare you to get to me, though."
"Then it is her choice, not yours."
Aelin ran a hand over the worn wood of the desk. "In those illusions she spun for me, she showed me variations on one more than all the others." The words were strained, but she forced them out. Forced herself to look at him. "She spun me one dreamscape that felt so real I could smell the wind off the Staghorns."
"What did she show you?" A breathless question.
Aelin had to swallow before she could answer. "She showed me what might have been—if there had been no Erawan, if Elena had dealt with him properly and banished him. If there had been no Lyria, none of that pain or despair you endured. She showed me Terrasen as it would have been today, with my father as king, and my childhood happy, and..." Her lips wobbled. "When I turned twenty, you came with a delegation of Fae to Terrasen, to make amends for the rift between my mother and Maeve. And you and I took one look at each other in my father's throne room, and we knew."
She didn't fight the stinging in her eyes. "I wanted to believe that was the true world. That this was the nightmare from which I'd awaken. I wanted to believe that there was a place where you and I had never known this suffering and loss, where we'd take one look at each other and know we were mates. Maeve told me she could make it so. If I gave her the keys, she'd make it all possible." She wiped at her cheek, at the tear that escaped down it. "She spun me realities where you were dead, where you'd been killed by Erawan and only in handing over the keys to her would I be able to avenge you. But those realities made me ... I stopped being useful to her when she told me you were gone. She couldn't get me to talk, to think. Yet in the ones where you and I met, where things were as they should have been ... that was when I came the closest."
His swallow was audible. "What stopped you?"
She wiped at her face again. "The male I fell in love with was you. It was you, who knew pain as I did, and who walked with me through it, back to the light. Maeve didn't understand that. That even if she could create that perfect world, it wouldn't be you with me. And I'd never trade that, trade this. Not for anything." He extended his hand. An offer and invitation.
Aelin laid hers atop his, and his callused fingers squeezed gently. "I wanted it to be you," he breathed, closing his eyes. "For months and months, even in Wendlyn, I wondered why you weren't my mate instead. It tore me up, wondering it, but I still did." He opened his eyes, and they burned like green fire. "All this time, I wanted it to be you."
She lowered her gaze, but he hooked a thumb and forefinger around her chin and lifted her face.
"I know you are tired, Fireheart. I know that the burden on your shoulders is more than anyone should endure." He took their joined hands and laid them on his heart. "But we'll face this together. Erawan, the Lock, all of it.
"We'll face it together. And when we are done, when you Settle, we will have a thousand years together. Longer."
A small sound came out of her. "Elena said the Lock requires—"
"We'll face it together," he swore again.
"And if the cost of it truly is you, then we'll pay it together. As one soul in two bodies.
Her heart strained to the point of cleaving. "Terrasen needs a king."
"I have no intention of ruling Terrasen without you. Aedion can have the job."
She scanned his face. He meant every word He brushed the hair from her face, his other hand still clasping hers to his chest, where his heart pounded a steady, unfaltering rhythm.
"Even if I had my choice of any dream-realities, any perfect illusions, I would still choose you, too."
She felt the truth of his words echo into the unbreakable thing that bound their very souls, and tilted her face up toward his. But he made no move beyond it.
She frowned. "Why aren't you kissing me?"
"I thought you might want to be asked first."
"That never stopped you before."
"This first time, I wanted to make sure you were ... ready." After Cairn and Maeve. After months of having no choices whatsoever.
She smiled despite that truth. "I'm ready to be kissed again, Prince."
He let out a dark chuckle and muttered, "Thank the gods," before he lowered his mouth to hers.
"You're my mate." Her words were a breathless rush. "And I am yours."
The world might have been burning around them for all she cared, all he cared, too.
"Together, Aelin," he promised, and she heard the rest of the words in every place their bodies joined. Together they would face this, together they would find a way.
Together we'll find a way, their mingling breaths, the crashing sea, seemed to echo.
Together.
#Chapter 41#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Aelin Galathynius#Rowan Whitethorn#Rowaelin#soulmates#mates#spoilers and notes in tags cause this chapter and also spoilers in post cause this chapter first read react with me read along#Rowaelin chapters scenes moments quotes#they want to make it possible bring that love to light#am I allowed to cry? — Again the word endured — finally the dream — the sand she still sees — he’s magic being steady — them talking time#again if Maeve could convince Rowan Lyria was his mate how bad was it when she convinced Aelin her actual mate was dead… this hurts me…#the fact Aelin stopped being useful because it destroyed her beyond belief but the dreams the dreams almost got her because its all she wan#again then both feeling sorry and the other not realizing and then consent and then comfort and love & I just wanted it2be U how could I no#I know you are tired Fireheart (ALL THE TROPES IN ONE LINE… UGH I MISSED THIS SHIP)#together. one soul in two bodies. their endgame like literally they are. I’d choose you too. even the apologies that were needed just heali#what it might have once been — together — not alone — not returning alone — the king and queen of Terrasen — I need u more — 2 whatever end#Aelin watched the boat until it disappeared trying not to stare too long at the clean unstained sand beneath her boots#always north — she didn’t care she just wanted far away — who knew — what she knew-the letters she sent-Valg-dark blood that had turned red#If it had been another dreamscape or some fragment that had blended into the very real memory of Connall's death. — always a plab&theory#all these things to deal with later-she’d rebuild all she had been-her match helper mirror-matched his piercing stare with her own-wait/res#A far cry from a queen's chamber or any she might have purchased as Adarlan's assassin. — how far we’ve come-she had ENDURED she can do it#I'm your mate she said needing to voice it. And you are mine. — Lyria. — I do know. and?&what do you wish me to say?-this was perfect#If what? If you wish it wasn't so. His brows narrowed. Why would I ever wish that? — Aelin. she looked at him at the pain in his words#the way it's changed since Mistward... and grown... even in names like Whitethorn Galathynius together — the brain thoughts are back —#The kiss was gentle-light. Letting her decide how to guide it. So she did. — he’d do it all night if that was what’s he wished#Together we'll find a way their mingling breaths the crashing sea seemed to echo. Together. — mountains and oceans#Might’ve been before-thought snapped-the bond- u r my mate&I am urs-the world might have been burning for all she cared all he cared too#Together they would face this together they would find a way. — claiming him as he claimed her — a scar a marker a tattoo
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Help . Every once and a while I remember a cat's canon parents and it makes me loose my shitttt
ASHFUR IS SQUIRRELFLIGHT'S UNCLE 😭
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I am once again facing the crippling choice of what I should eat today
#its noon and i haven't eaten yet#m hungry#but for what?#everything i imagine eating tastes like sand#and ashes
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Planning for the future of A Crown of Ash and an overall update
First of all, I want to thank everyone for the huge amount of support for the prologue! I honestly never expected to see this many people interested in something I was doing for fun.
I want to start off by saying that I have started to write the first chapter.
I have also decided not to put any full dates for when an update will be released. As I go in and out of being able to predict my availability. I would rather not rush out a product with which I am unhappy or have taken liberties. It's not fair to either side of the party.
I am currently unaware of how long this story will end up being. I have ideas written down on a document, but nothing has a solid order. I work best by letting things flow as they come to my head.
While I have made this clear on the Itch page, I wish to state it here too. This project is going to become more mature in nature as it progresses. There will be blood and gore, profanity, along with mature topics, themes, and the potential of mentioned adult actions. As progress moves along, I will update the intro page with a list of warnings and potential triggers. If things do have their moments of 18+ content, that will be updated too.
Around 48 hours after chapter 1 releases I will reveal the potential love interests, and dig a bit into them as I see fit. I consider it a spoiler for what I'm planning for Chapter 1. So I'd rather wait to post it.
I am still considering adding a fourth romance option, but I am not sure if it will blend in too much with another option that I am 100% sure will be in the game. I will be hosting a poll to gauge interest after the first chapter's release.
I want it to be known that I will always put a story narrative over adding more options for the player to pick. It's not fun when you're just adding something to add it. Some choices are going to be separated to give different bits of lore. I'm building the game this way so that if someone decides to replay it, they can learn different aspects of the story they didn't notice or find before.
The same here goes for that mature content label. Mature topics and themes aren't being added just for the sake of being there. There are other projects like that out there for people who are looking for it. That's not the direction I desire for this story to take.
That being said, I am still learning coding and Twine. I am going to make mistakes, but I am always going to try my best to fix said mistakes that happen. Whether it's a spelling error I missed, something coded incorrectly, or a major bug. Whatever it is, I will try to the best of limited knowledge I currently hold to fix everything that pops up.
Once again thank you all for the support, I will slowly update the blog with progress as I see fit. Monthly updates put too much pressure on me, and I'm going to stray away from that in favor of smaller and more spread out but more content heavy updates.
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Neo Twiny Jam - bite-sized review
The Neo Twiny Jam (@neo-twiny-jam) is an interactive fiction game unranked jam where participants could not write more than 500 words per entry.
You can find every submitted piece on the jam's Itch Page.
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A Crown of Ash by Ashes and Sand
Entry - More by Ashes and Sand - @a-crown-of-ash-if CW: mention of bullying
Anxiousness and marriage ceremony, name a more iconic duo. As a short prototype, this piece manages to tell just enough to hook the reader, and very little that it leaves you wanting more. From is ominous title to the tense descriptions, the writing manages to leave you with too many questions. It would be interesting to see where the author takes the story... Also Armstead is a great name for a knight!
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Jedi Knight... like, Kyle Katarn?
Holy shit my dude :D
I only ever played Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy (the latter which consumed my soul way back then.) And man I really miss Kyle. Like he's still one of my favourite SW characters. I was pretty young when I played through them and he was such a great mentor role to my lil twi'lek and I love his and Luke's friendship and hhhhhhhg.
I just way prefer the path old canon took with what happened post the original movies, compared to the new stuff. >.>
That's why I wanna read the old books too.
If I do write something post the originals, Kyle's defo gonna show up somewhere in HC.
#fuck the AT-STs in those games tho; I still have a weird intense fear whenever i see those things in games#big big nope#just like the frigging blue huge aliens in half life too; immediate nope factor#OR THE RANCORS#like one of my pre order 66 drabbles with tbb and ash are heavily inspired by a mission in jedi academy with the sand worms xD
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The path to the high energy lab needed to be difficult huh?
#shut it ash#ash plays outer wilds#don't worry i made it there but by the skin of my teeth#the path there was like#“would like to be crushed by sand or punctured by cacti?”#and man i barely had fuel and was seconds away from running out of oxygen#the sigh of relief i made when i got there was huge lol#outer wilds
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7 Free Deepspace Wishes?!
Let's see how many 3-Star repeats I pull today!
UPDATE: 7.... it was 7. I also had Empyreal wishes saved up so I did a 10-pull to cope with my loss.... Nine 3-star repeats and a 4-star repeat. It's official... This game wants me to be sad.
#seriously.... how do you people get so dang lucky#the amount of blue heartsand I have is STUPID#I wish we could convert it to purple or gold sand. those shop items are wayyy more valuable#i'm assuming you only get those from 4 and 5 star R3s tho#love and deepspace#ash talks
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