#audio implementation

[sibyl-of-space]

well one of the benefits of me being spite-motivated and easily pissed off is im still so mad about getting that shitty feedback yesterday that today i sat down and decided to see if i could code a seamless-audio-looping-with-reverb-tail mechanic direct in Unity instead of having to use middleware like Wwise, and i am happy to report that it actually was super easy and i did it in like an hour.

i really, REALLY don't think anyone who follows me is in need of coding seamless audio looping with reverb tail direct in Unity, but uh, if you happen to be, here you go under the cut. all u have to do is drag in 2 audio sources with the same audio file that has reverb tail baked in, then enter the # of bars, bpm, and beats per measure and it'll handle the rest

big thanks to this tutorial for going over the basics of AudioSource.PlayScheduled - https://johnleonardfrench.com/ultimate-guide-to-playscheduled-in-unity/#play_scheduled_intro

using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

public class ReverbLoop : MonoBehaviour { public int bars; public int bpm; public int beatsInMeasure; private double barlength; private double repeatlength; private double goTime; private bool zero;[Tooltip("Drag in 2 audio sources that are the same track each with reverb tail baked in. They will alternate to create a seamless loop.")] public List<AudioSource> trackDupes; private void Start() { goTime = AudioSettings.dspTime + 0.5; Calculate(); } private void Calculate() { barlength = 60d / bpm * beatsInMeasure; repeatlength = barlength * bars; } private void Prepare() { if (zero) { //the last playscheduled we did was for the zeroeth one trackDupes[1].PlayScheduled(goTime); } else { trackDupes[0].PlayScheduled(goTime); } goTime = goTime + repeatlength; zero = !zero; } private void Update() { if (AudioSettings.dspTime > goTime - 1) { Prepare(); } }

}

[gomzdrawfr]

making mood boards as banners reminded me the time I would draw banners for fics

[kcamberart]

the goat miniboss is goat miniboss-ing

[waveknight]

If the ads that autoplay music/sound in the app are pissing you off, you should really consider getting a adblocker/VPN for your phone. I use one and I haven't seen a single one of these ads and didn't know what ppl were talking about lol (I use blokada 5 on an android phone for those curious, it was free and easy to install)

[orcelito]

Listening to this album, sipping a vanilla bean monster, working on cleaning after getting home from my optometrist appointment

I got sunlight and fresh air, a new rewards system for my daily cleaning, and Determination to make my life better

[italiantea]

bafflingly tumblr's copyrighted music detector caught what youtube's did not

[dragonfly756]

likely this means nothing to anyone except maybe two people but the noise ART's medsystem makes (in the new graphic audio adaption of artificial condition) when secunit sits up after their diy bestie surgery times is the exact same sound effect used when you clear a line in petroglyph punch in the classic Nancy drew point and click game curse of blackmoor manor.

[hungee-boy]

language transfer is legit altering my brain chemistry when it comes to translating from english to spanish in my head like i really could be fluent when i finish the whole series

[dattelectronics]

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[sibyl-of-space]

got the chance to work on some more unlistenable music this evening which is always fun

(the first loop is a concept that I was going to develop into a transformation scene BGM for amadeus, but instead I decided to make it into a deranged track for some fucked up floors in my friend's game Lufia II Ancient Cave But If It Was Even More Chaotic a.k.a. Impossible Cave)

[blacktabbygames]

The script for Episode 5 is finally DONE

The script for Episode 5 of Scarlet Hollow is finally finished, bringing the total word count for the game up to 884,000 words. This is the longest and most complicated chapter of the game to-date, coming in at 250,000 words, or 31% larger than the entirety of Slay the Princess, including its expansion. This won't be the final word count, either, since the script usually grows in length by a fair bit while I make edits and additions during implementation. For reference, Episode 4 was ~185k words in total, and for broader cultural context, the entirety of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and The Silmarillion altogether comes in at 700,000 words.

So! What's next? When Episode 5? Give it to me now?

There's still a lot of work to be done before it's ready, but we're confident it will be finished before the end of the year. Walking you all through what we have so far, and what we still need to do:

Art! Episode 4 had 129 new full page background illustrations and 1,424 new sprites. I would assume a roughly similar number of assets for Episode 5. This is what Abby will be focusing on in the coming months, though I (Tony) also get to draw a few this time around >:]

Episode 5 (plus the new ending for Episode 4) is split across 46 script files. On top of adding audio and visual assets to these files, we also need to format them and add in variables and checks against relationship and prior systems. That part of the work is finished for 8 of those files at the time of this writing.

Music and audio design! Brandon has already finished a few tracks, and the music and SFX have always been finished ahead of everything else (thank you Brandon and Phil!)

Now that the script is finished, we'll be able to start providing more regular content updates — before we had hard numbers on us, the best we could say was "more writing was done," which doesn't feel like saying much of anything, but now we can let you all know as individual scenes get finished finished. We'll be posting monthly progress updates on Steam, as well as our newsletter, which I'd recommend subscribing to! (We don't get spammy with it.) Here's the link to sign up for that!

Thank you all so much for your patience while we've pushed ourselves this far. Scarlet Hollow is a beast of a game in scope and the deeper we've gotten into its narrative, the more demanding it's become, both in terms of the quantity of writing we have to do, and also the care we have to take in balancing the game and making sure that player choices feel like they actually matter.

Scoping out the rest of the game, I believe that Episode 5 will ultimately be the longest individual chapter of the story, so the wait shouldn't be quite as long after its release until we reach our conclusion.

[binmeister]

It's natural

It’s perfectly natural and normal for a healthy male to need to do it, there's just a lot of unfortunate timing. Someone walks in on the guys mid-masturbation.

Saja Boys & Huntrix x Bodyguard! Reader | Fem & male

The deed is done. Thank you for interest checking. This idea popped up in my head randomly and I couldn’t stop laughing at the concept of it. 

Includes male!bodyguard and fem!bodyguard separately

CW: may be messy, crude humour, suggestive / NSFW content (R18+) - male masturbation, potential crack fic - MDNI

Huntrix x Male Bodyguard! Reader ── WC: 1.3k

Mira was the reason you had to implement a knock before entering rule.

It was late at night and you were struggling to sleep, restless in bed as you toss and turn to hopefully find that perfect sleeping position to no avail. You’d grumbled before finally sitting up in bed, flicking your bedside lamp on and scrolling through your phone before you contemplated what you could do.

You could exhaust yourself in a way that you were relatively familiar with.

You slipped your over-ear headphones on, opening a private browsing tab and navigated to the mildly shameful site that you’d occasionally visit whenever you needed to relieve some tension or knock one out so you could fall asleep. Blankly scrolling through the homepage until something caught your eye and clicking on the video and letting it play, instinctively lowering the audio on your headphones enough so it wasn’t obnoxiously loud as well in some mild fear that the sound could leak out and be heard outside your room.

You slipped the hem of your sweat pants and briefs just enough to free yourself from the confines, hand loosely wrapping around your dick as you let out low groan at the sensation. You have no clue what’s even going on in the video, just staring blankly at the woman on screen getting absolutely railed and letting the carnal side of your brain activate as the sounds and visuals get you hard enough to start jerking yourself off.

It’s been a few minutes, you’d started out slow and steadily ramped up the speed as small grunts and light huffs of air leave your lungs as your eyes are glued to the screen and you’ve upped the volume a couple notches. Your body feels like it’s on fire and you grit your teeth together to try and stop yourself from getting too loud, could feel yourself steadily building up to your high. 

But that moment is ruined when you door slams open, making you jolt and your headphones slip off your head and around your neck as your eyes catch Mira who’s staring at you with her mouth agape as she processes what she sees in front of her. You clearly didn’t hear her loud footsteps down the hallway. She had come to check if you may have been awake and wanted to watch a late night movie with them, she didn’t even have the decency to slowly click open the door in case you were asleep.

She slams the door closed again and you hear her yell through the door. “My bad! Thought you were uh.. we were gonna watch a movie, but maybe another time.”

All thoughts escape your mind as you feel the shame sink in and you sigh loudly before you respond back, dick unfortunately still hard.

“Give me 10.”

Zoey was the reason you had to implement a knock and wait rule.

A few weeks had gone by of awkward eye contact with Mira since ‘the incident’, the collective name you and the girls had given the unfortunate event and you were finally all back to normal. The girls were out today for some ‘girl brunch’ which meant you had the afternoon to yourself, a rare occurrence but it worked out for the better so you could all have some time apart.

Even though you were home alone you still instinctively kept your door closed, usually just preferring to have it closed even when you weren’t home - habit of just living with girls because you didn’t like the idea of them snooping around your personal space and you respected their space. Since you were home alone you thought you could rub a quick one out, no risk of anyone walking in this time. Surely.

You’re seated at your desk this time, propping your phone up on your table and letting the audio play out of the speakers instead of bothering to go grab your headphones and you bring up a random video again. Leaning back in your chair you slip your pants and briefs down enough to be free as you pull the hem of your shirt up to be held between your teeth as you blankly stare at the little screen. You go through the same song and dance, occasionally lifting your other hand up to raise the volume of your phone as your eyes glaze over and you let out small muffled moans against the material in between your teeth.

As your eyes fall shut and you’ve worked yourself up enough to start occasionally bucking up into your fist, you don’t hear the sound of faint knocking and your door clicking open immediately right after. What you do hear though is Zoey’s very guilty sounding ‘eep!’ as she shrieks, she doesn’t close the door shut as she slaps her hands to cover her eyes and she blindly turns around and walks into the doorframe. 

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I just wanted to let you know we were hooome.” She cries out as her face is beet red at this rate and you’re dazed as you’re trying to figure out what’s going on, brain barely functioning at how close you were to finishing and then you realise you’re extremely exposed right now and your shirt falls from your mouth and you rush over to slam the door closed as she manages to navigate herself down the hallway. You can still hear her distant apologies and you drop your forehead against the door as you yell out.

“Jesus Christ, can you guys wait before opening the door!”

Rumi was the reason you had to implement a knock, wait and confirm entry rule.

The last time you get caught is a couple weeks after that, at 6:30am on a weekend that had no scheduled events or proposed plans. Nothing. You’d waken up with almost painful morning wood and you just wanted to get it over with because at the rate things have been going you’ll likely summon someone the second you’re about to bust.

You don’t bother to pull up any material on your phone this time, thinking that maybe if you’re able to be more aware of any noises that you’ll be able to cover yourself up if someone randomly were to walk in. You’d glanced at the time and relaxed a little as you pulled the covers off your over heated body and slid your hand under your briefs, wincing a little at how hard you actually were and then you let out a sigh of relief as you slip yourself out of your pants. There is no way in hell that any of the girls would be awake given their horrendous sleep schedules.

Your grip tightens a little and your hips instinctively buck up into your hand, pre is dribbling out at this rate and you know you’re definitely close to finishing when your lungs tighten up and the familiar tension in your stomach starts to become unbearable. You’ve managed to stay quiet, only a couple of grunts being let out and mostly shallow ragged breaths. You feel the tension tighten, your dick aches and your head fogs up as you’re a hair away from cumming.

You hear the knock at your door, the brief pause and you panic as you feel yourself tip over the edge and make a mess of yourself as your eyes snap open to stare at whoever just invaded your room this time. Did god curse you? Rumi stares at you, her brain malfunctioning as her eyes flick from your face down to your dick and your cum splattered all over your stomach and chest and then back up to your face.

“I’m uh.. I’m just gonna- okay byeeee.” She sings out as she slams the door closed behind her after she awkwardly points to the hallway. Your chest heaves and the post-nut clarity is making the shame hit a lot faster than you would’ve liked, but you groan as your non-soiled hand rubs at your face. 

Maybe you should just never jerk off again, it’s truly not worth it.

Saja Boys x Female Bodyguard! Reader ── WC: 1.8k

Jinu is the first one you accidentally catch in the act.

He’s frustrated, sick of fans over-stepping boundaries and sick of the other guys messing around too much. Stuff that doesn’t normally bother him is starting to piss him off, like Abs talking with his mouth full of food or when Mystery randomly decides to scream for no reason. Just small things building up and it’s to the point that he questions whether or not killing his other group mates was really that bad of an idea.

Then Jinu realises he’s just sexually frustrated. There’s a time a fan all but shoves her tits in his face and he almost lets the idol image slip as he looks down to her chest a little too frequently and he’s beating himself up over it afterwards. He finally realises this fact after he catches himself staring at your ass for a little too long, or when his eyes trail down from your face to your cleavage and he just openly stares instead of his usual subtle way of taking peaks. He apologised profusely when he stopped paying attention to what you were saying and you’re not that bothered, joking that he’s got great eye contact skills though unfortunately he overshot the target.

He’d shooed the tiger and crow from his room, sitting on the edge of his bed and palms himself through his jeans with a hiss as he realises how sensitive he was. Groaning softly as he works himself up before lifting his hips to pull his jeans and briefs down his thighs and letting them cling to his knees. He’s slow with his hand, eyes falling shut as he lets his mind wander to whatever it needed. A brief flash of your tits appears in head and his hips buck up at that, he feels a little embarrassed to be using you for material but it was just a once off so surely it’ll be fine.

You knocked gently on his door, calling out to him and when he grunts from the feeling of his hand you mistake it as an okay to enter. 

“Hey for the upcoming event-”

You pause, door half swung open and Jinu freezes as he stares at you with wide eyes and his dick still in his hand - a dribble of pre breaks the tension. There isn’t a word uttered between you two as you quietly shut the door and he’s left on his own again, he hears your muffled voice through the door as he drags a hand down his face in shame.

“I’ll check back in later.” 

Abs was the second one you’d accidentally walked in on.

He’s got a fairly decent sex drive and usually knocks one out when he first wakes up as well as one right before he cools down for the night, helps keep a routine and usually keeps the demon in his head a lot quieter if he overrides it with post-nut clarity. Abs was feeling particularly pent up today though, having run a gym session with you and his eyes kept lingering on your ass as you’re doing your sets. When you catch him, he lies and mentions he’s just watching your form which you don’t particularly believe but he’s got a charming smile on his face that grants him a pass this time around.

You’re in the living room with a few of the other guys loitering about if not in their own rooms so it’s not uncommon for someone to drift away, which is what Abs does as he retires to his room saying he needs to do something really quick and no one questions him. Which leads to him sitting at the foot of his bed, shirt discarded and pants tight on his thighs as his hand rapidly jerks himself off. He doesn’t moan, occasionally lets out a groan and a grunt but mostly just lets out ragged breaths as he tries to get himself off fast. 

“Hey, Abby-” He hears your voice vaguely, but his eyes are scrunched shut and his brows furrowed as he keeps his pace up. Your muffled voice had asked if you could come in but he didn’t hear it, too busy pumping his fist to the point he lets out a deep ‘yeah..’ in ecstasy which had unintentionally answered your request on if you could pop your head in and talk to him about something. 

You’re surprised as you swing the door open, his eyes crack open at the sound and you freeze as you process what is going on. His hand freezes in place, you quirk an apologetic smile as you close the door. Abs lets out a husky laugh as his hand lets go of his dick as his brain works over time to figure out what the hell just happened.

Mystery was the third.

He doesn’t really get the urge often, but when he does - the only thing on his brain is how can he get it done and over with. He’ll go about his idol routines with no problems, get through practice or interviews with the same reserved smile and be perfectly fine on the outside. But in his mind? All he can think about is sex and it’s grating on his nerves.

Mystery is actually pretty glad that he gets away with keeping his eyes covered because in his head, it means he gets away with staring at you for extended periods of time and you have no clue where he’s looking. Like right now where he’s just staring at your tits as you arrive in their apartment, eyes locked on them as you walk in and likes the way they jiggle a little when you walk. When you carelessly plop down on the couch and you bounce a little from the spring of the cushion he has to excuse himself because he stared a little too hard at the way they’d bounced from that motion.

When he’s alone in his room he’s closed the door, doesn’t bother locking it because he’s under the assumption that everyone would be preoccupied. Terrible mistake on his part but at least he knows better for next time. He sits at the crappy office chair that he’d been given because he was told it’s good practice to not always just flop on the floor when he wanted to rest, stay in the the habit of appearing human. Doesn’t think twice about palming himself to ease the ache of his boner and has no other thoughts in his head as he frees himself and gives a few light pumps.

He hadn’t known you were only there for a short while, lost in his head as he drools a little as his mind flashes images of your chest or your ass, even the familiar feeling of your thighs lingers in his head and his hand starts to jerk faster. 

You’d bid the others goodbye, and out of habit you go up to Mystery’s door and knock before you crack open the door a little so you could properly bid him farewell too. You hadn’t opened the door too far when you realise you’ve caught him in an unfortunate position and slam the door closed, apologising aloud and Romance starts hollering behind you.

He didn’t even notice honestly, so when he’s instinctively following you around like he normally does he’s a little upset that you’re not giving him the usual physical affection he craves and huffs about it.

You hadn’t even meant to see Romance.

Romance isn’t ashamed of his urges, he’d jerk himself off in the middle of the living room if he really needed to but out of respect for the others he does the bare minimum of doing it in his room or in the shower if he really can’t be bothered waiting until he’s in the privacy of his room. There’s no real issues about that at least, the only real problem is that there’s been instances where he leaves his bed room door wide open.

The guys have told him off for it, told him to at least keep it shut or at least mostly all the way shut because they’re sick of walking by and accidentally making direct eye contact with his dick but Romance just shrugs it off and does his thing. The only thing is.. you weren’t made aware of this.

You’d come over in the evening and had no clue that the man was currently indulging in his self desires, so when you walk down the main hallway after entering the apartment you accidentally look into the room with it’s door wide open and make eye contact with Romance as he’s sprawled out on his bed jerking himself off like he’s not going to live to see tomorrow, you’re caught off guard. You froze in place for a moment before shifting your gaze away and continuing to walk towards the living room, Jinu greets you when he sees you and he notices the slightly embarrassed look on your face and sees Romance’s wide open door.

“Dude, seriously!” Jinu shouts and Romance responds with a whorish moan.

Baby was the last straw.

He doesn’t really do it out of necessity, honestly jerks off just because he’s bored. Which unfortunately happens a lot more often than he would want to admit but he’s pretty good at keeping it on the low. Usually he would do it in his room, scroll on his phone looking at memes while he jerks himself off absentmindedly but none of the guys are home and the living room is empty.

So he doesn’t really think about the consequences when he unzips his pants and pulls his dick out, spitting a little into his hand as he unlocks his phone and scrolls mindlessly. It’s loud soundbites, random gaming clips, the occasional mukbang highlight and some random compilation of comedy show bits with soap cutting videos slapped in the corner somewhere. His hand is slow and he’s not that interested in actually finishing himself off, just likes the stimulation.

Because of how loud his YouTube shorts were he doesn’t hear you when you enter their apartment, doesn’t register that you’d said hello because the videos playing out of his phone’s speaker was louder. It’s not til he actively senses your presence nearby does he pause and look up at you, hand still actively moving as he does so because he’s actually forgotten that he’s jerking himself off.

Your eyebrows shoot up when you see Baby on the couch, jerking himself off while watching random shorts and you turn on your heel and walk out. You do not get paid enough for this.

After that incident you complain to Jinu and sit them all down and talk to them about how maybe you shouldn’t be requested to visit as often as you had been told to because it’s a little insane how this had happened so many times, or at least if you’re still requested to come over that there needs to be rules set in place so it doesn’t happen again.

[honeytonedhottie]

beauty and brains⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🎀☕️

in this post we'll talk about how to implement continual learning into ur life and how to nurture ur intellect and ur beauty, like elle woods for example…💬🎀

MINDSET ;

first off lets take a look at ur mindset. you need to be willing to learn and if ur stubborn then ur not gonna allow urself to learn and become smarter so for that reason mindset is the perfect place to start when ur starting ur beauty and brains journey.

perspective is EVERYTHING when it comes to learning. if u have the belief that "i hate math so much, im so not good at it etc etc" you're already setting urself up for failure. remember that we are in charge of our own learning.

figure out the sources of ur limiting beliefs about urself and challenge them. ask urself "why do i think im bad at math (or any other subject)" and the answers that u give urself, CHALLENGE them.

UNDERSTAND THAT ;

before we go any further understand that no subject is too complicated to learn and if ur experiencing that then ur learning it the wrong way…💬🎀

if ur having a hard time understanding a subject in school because of the way ur teacher explains it, ask another teacher at ur school and if that doesn't work turn to online resources OR just ask chat gpt. i ask chat gpt to help me break down math problems and explain how to do them and it works rly good for me.

READING ;

from my own experience i feel like reading is so so important. bcuz reading helps u to expand ur vocabulary and improves comprehension and so much more. personally i love to read so this isnt hard for me to do but if u originally dont like to read here are some ways to romanticize reading.

♡ start with topics/genres that u love

♡ set small goals (like reading for 5-10 minutes a day) and then building upon those goals

♡ experiment with physical books, e-books etc to figure out what u like best

WHAT U WATCH ;

i watch a lot of discussion based youtube videos, and video essays, documentaries etc and i have learned so much from them and they're actually one of my favorite ways to learn things. so i highly recommend watching some. watching things like this is so important because they provide a deeper understanding of real-world issues, cultures, and events that we might not encounter in our daily lives.

HOW TO UNDERSTAND ;

understanding what u read and what u learn is so so important. the way i make sure that i understand what im learning is through writing papers. writing papers about things that interest me or things that i learn has helped me to retain what i learn instead of forgetting it all.

another key thing to remember is PRACTICE. if u dont practice what u learn you'll literally forget it. use everything that u learn and if u can't physically use it, imagine urself using it.

MAKE IT A GAME ;

this is where the beauty aspect of the phrase "beauty and brains" comes into play. make learning like a GAME. i think thats how u get smart the best. just implement it into ur daily life.

for example if u have a habit of watching an episode of ur favorite show a day (or multiple) between episodes read for x amount of time. if u go for a run everyday listen to an audio book whilst running. think of that scene in the movie legally blonde where elle was reading her textbook while working out.

[suniani]

BAHASKH I'M JUST SEEING THIS LMAO. why do people act like same face syndrome is something a minority of self taught artists struggle with, it's pretty much all of us. this shit is literally taught in art schools!!!

so yeah if you think you, anon, can do a better job then don't be shy and tag me when you do 🥰 (i expect you'll be proud of it enough to post it!!)

you have such a horrible case of same face, respectfully /nm do you have any redacted designs with different body types? Or ethic features? Anything other than an anime boy from pintrest just with different hair colors like genuinely

uhm thank you? but saying 'NOT TO BE RUDE'/ ' RESPECTFULLY' doesn't really sound any better LOL

stop complaining and draw them yourself??

don't be shy, why you hiding behind anon LMAO

[autistichalsin]

Masterpost of cut content, changes, and etc for early game builds of Halsin

I have found a lot of cut things relating to Halsin, some from developer interviews, a lot from the datamine, and some from other sources. I decided to compile those here.

Some disclaimers and clarifications first:

I use the term "early build(s)" to distinguish it from both release and from the Early Access test period. If you don't remember something here, it's because it was removed without ever being implemented in Early Access.

I do not have the energy to link or upload the datamined files, etc, so instead I will state where I found them and you are free to look if you want to.

This list is not exhaustive. There are likely even more things that we will never know about.

The game underwent many, many rewrites; some characters existed in ways you would not recognize today, before being rewritten.

I am not including things that were changed after release, IE the unfinished Halsin vs Minthara ultimatum that started to be worked on from patches 4-6 but was never implemented.

With that said, let's jump in! I will try to organize these roughly in order of how early the game build was, but it's not always possible to know how far back a given change was, so it won't be precise.

If I missed any, please feel free to let me know!

Halsin wasn't always the only Archdruid at the Emerald Grove; there was once a second Archdruid, Denor, who worshipped Eldath. She and Halsin had a fight because she was worried about the Shadow-Cursed Lands, and she went off to investigate a lead and got captured, presumably leading Halsin to try and go save her. Likely to simplify that plot, they instead made the Grove solely consist of Druids of Silvanus, and Halsin and Denor's plots were combined into just Halsin. (This was recovered from datamined files.)

Halsin used to be an elderly man; this has been confirmed by both Kevin (writer of Lae'zel and Wyll) and John (Halsin's writer). Halsin's pipe is an artifact from this time, which they never removed. This caused a lot of confusion for the writers when Halsin got de-aged to what we know today, causing a lot of fans in Early Access to thirst for him, as the last the writers had seen, he was, well, an old man. There were streams at this time with writers explaining they had been baffled at first until they saw Halsin's then-new model.

Listening to old voice files from back when each Tav narrated their own story, Halsin originally had two bear companions, a male and a female, who were mates. It was possible to cause both Halsin and one of the bears to die at the goblin camp, leaving the other bear heartbroken at losing both their mate and their master.

Halsin had a friend, the cut Origin character Helia, and they would have been imprisoned together. (This was recovered from datamined files.) Helia had two recruitment locations, one in the forest and one in the worg pens, and in fact there is still text in the post-release file for the worg pen scene mentioning it could be her or Halsin there. Her recruitment dialogue mentioned that goblins had taken Halsin away (more on that below) and it seems (though not confirmed, but just putting pieces together) that which location Helia was recruited from would influence where you found Halsin; if you found her in the forest, he'd be in the goblin cage, but if you missed Helia there and found her in the pens, he'd be taken to Moonrise. Leading to...

It was possible for Halsin to be imprisoned in Moonrise. There was an audio file recovered where Minthara would mention the Druid the player was looking for was there and she could get them an audience with him, and there are multiple tags referring to Halsin being imprisoned in a pod (such as a dialogue option to leave him in his pod), as well as an eventflag suggesting Halsin could have been tadpoled. More specifically, there was a flag set for saving Halsin before he was tadpoled, which by implication also strongly hints he could have been tadpoled there. There was also a cut dialogue line from an unknown character (possibly, but not certainly, Helia or a Druid) saying, "Halsin! What did they do to you???" which also hints at this. Another line said, "easy, Halsin. We're all friends here," and was removed at the same time that all references to this outcome were, suggesting it was part of that same path. (Possibly tadpoled Halsin would have been disoriented and aggressive, causing the player to need to reassure him they're friendly, though that is sheer speculation on my part.)

As shown in the concept art book, Halsin's scar used to, in fact, be from a battle, instead of being attacked for rejecting a she-bear's advances.

As is very well-known by now, Halsin was responsible for Isobel's death. Rather than being promoted to Archdruid after the battle, he was always in charge, and represented the Druids and Harpers in a negotiation attempt with Ketheric. Instead, some unknown force (believed to be Shar) caused Isobel and other combatants to go temporarily insane and attack each other. She attacked Halsin, and he immediately reacted in self-defense, stabbing her with the glaive Sorrow. He believed it became cursed as a result, because holding it filled him with such sadness, and anyone who used it would take psychic damage as well. Essentially, his trauma and regret from killing her was so great that it gained a physical form in the blade. Further, that was the main reason for his guilt regarding the Shadow-Cursed Lands, leading to...

Halsin's friendship with Thaniel was a later addition. Before, Halsin only mentioned having seen him briefly in his meditations; he wanted to save Thaniel because it would break the curse over the land, not because it was Thaniel himself.

Halsin's mission in act 2 was much bigger, and was trimmed significantly as a result- being far too big for an optional sidequest for a non-Origin character. Instead of waking Art Cullagh to get information on the Shadowfell, you fought the three Thorms to get a bone from each of them, which you would then bring to Isobel, who would grind them up for use in a ritual. Then you would defend Halsin while he tried to open the portal (more on the portal below), instead of defending him while he was inside it. You were then instructed to go to the Shar temple to wait for him, after which the quest would presumably end with Halsin, overjoyed and grateful beyond words for your help, bringing Thaniel to recover in Last Light and promising light would return to the lands soon.

During this quest, Halsin would also give you a dagger called Promise, which would help him find you from the Shadowfell. He also mentioned that a sign of his spirit would manifest itself in the Shar temple when the player had found the right place. That's where the "you are the beacon that will guide me home" line likely originated from.

The portal quest was different, as noted above. Most notably, there are still files in-game for a scenario where, despite being warned repeatedly not to touch the portal, you could wait for him to open it and then attempt to enter, causing it to collapse. Horrified and heartbroken, Halsin would yell at you, and you could give an explanation ranging from "sorry I panicked" to "I worship Shar and didn't want you to succeed, hahaha dumbass." Halsin, heartbroken, would leave to be alone to grieve, and then would leave you forever.

Oliver was likely not a part of this quest originally; he, along with Art's story, were added when the quest got trimmed down from what it had been, but still needed some little quest progressions, so they tweaked the story to give it some meat back without making it such a daunting quest as it was before.

There was once going to be a scene of Halsin and Jaheira having a very heated argument during act 2. What it was about, and how it would have ended, has never been discovered; the only thing we know is the title of the file from an early datamine. It is possible it could have been about Jaheira learning about Halsin's responsibility for Isobel's death, as she is shown in canon to be protective of Isobel, or it could be about their different priorities over whether the cult or the curse should be a priority.

Worth noting here are various changes to characterization (rather than noting every single one individually). Halsin was more openly emotional (particularly after you saved Thaniel), often sassier, and his abilities as a healer were emphasized more strongly back then. He teased you about if the tadpole would share your hangover the day after the party, he would dryly say he can't cut your tadpole out or he'd be removing it from a corpse, etc. It is also possible, though has never been confirmed, that we might have been intended to learn his last name of Silverbough at some point, as John has mentioned an earlier character outline having said that as his last name, in reference to Celtic mythology.

Halsin had voice lines referencing Orpheus; you could mention him to Halsin, and he would mention he wanted to meet anyone who knew about these tadpoles.

Halsin's sex scene with him wildshaping into a bear seems to have once been intended for a different scene where the wildshaping occurred offscreen and was also played for laughs; this was pitched by Baudelaire Welch, and then John Corcoran turned it into a part of the main romance. What that original pitch was, what the context would have been, etc, are not known. Just that the wildshaping was originally an offscreen gag in another scene. (Possibly Sharess' Caress?)

There were going to be scenes, near the end of the game, where the elder brain would torment the group with hallucinations of themselves that would pick at their weaknesses, fears and insecurities; these files still exist in rough draft form in the game. Halsin's particular hallucination would have hinted at his struggles with feelings of meaningless, and his wondering whether he should just give up, etc.

There is also a voice line that still exists for characters who were in your party, but left either due to plot events or their approval dropping, being captured by the Absolute and showing up to fight against you in the courtyard battle. Halsin was included here as well, being an enemy who would yell "For the Absolute!" at the start of his turns.

It is possible, though not certain, that the writers intended for you to be able to bring Halsin back to act 1; he and Minthara both have voice lines for the creche. However, it is possible that this was just added to cover the exploit where casting silence on either of them would leave them unable to initiate their scene where they refuse to return with you.

I hesitate to include this one, as I have yet to find anything even remotely concrete (the closest things being an ambiguous tag and the circumstantial evidence of there being many hanging plot threads), but it is widely believed that there was supposed to be a continuation of the Shadow Druids plot which would center around Halsin, based on Halsin's uncertainty in act 3 of whether they might actually be right, a tag referencing Kagha's act 1 turn from the Shadow Druids if this happened, a line from the Shadow Druids mentioning they were going to Baldur's Gate, and the reveal that Ketheric had the Shadow Druids sent to the Grove to weaken the Drudis there as he knew from experience what a threat they could be.

Hope you enjoyed that deep dive! I don't THINK I forgot anything, but on the off chance I did, do feel free to let me know and I will update this post!