#the wip ask game

[againwiththeturtles]

i still plan on answering those ask game asks. ik it's been like a week or smth

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

For wip ask game: “soft” pls&thx!

Hello there! Excellent choice. Apparently I really like this word!

Someone is with him, sitting on the edge of the pond with a crate at his feet and his back to the door, praising him in a soft and weary voice.

[chiptrillino]

67?

(ID in ALT text) i know technically this can't be considered a wip. but it is wip to me because to this day i can't still pick ONE to post and i keep going back and forth.. and so it got doomed to stay in my folders just like this?

[emry-stars-art]

Coffee shop au please!

Another one I keep saying I’ll finish :,) Andrew’s been staring at the pretty boy waiting for him to order for approximately ever

[hootyhoowoo]

For the WIP folder game can you show us cumplane? 👀 (Also cummies if we're allowed to ask more than one)

These are a few snippets from a small animatic for a TikTok audio that idk if I’ll ever complete considering the app will be banned soon in the u.s! Hope you enjoy these anon :D

[ominouspuff]

ooooh can i see something from "the one about gentleness"?

This one is a large/ambitious image, but here is a section. The idea behind it is “gentleness is a choice” — a major hc of mine for Cody in the RepGA fix-it AU, right alongside the “Cody as a military prodigy that could be (and occasionally is) terrifying”.

@lunaemoth @thepatchycat, since you wanted to see this one too (I’ll also address your second choice options, just wanted to include you here as well.)

[lightweaver-chosen-if]

DEMO | FORUM | MAIN POST

New update is live!

New 27k words of content, bringing the game to 77k Each playthrough is around 32k~

IMPORTANT! Please use a new save. A lot has changed since the last update so it's likely broken. The game passed both the quick and random test, so if you encounter any errors please make sure you didn't use an old save before reporting game breaking bugs.

TO AVOID THE ACHIEVEMENT BUG This is something that happens on the CoGDemos specifically. If you've visited the site before, you may have to clear your cache to avoid this bug. Sometimes just restarting the game or playing it from a private tab also works.

This is it you guys! Omg. I'm just so happy to be able to update the game after so long.

It didn't end on the part where I wanted it to since I couldn't finish the rest of the character paths in time, so if you notice in this update, L’s paths are a bit longer.

And in case you're wondering why L appears sm, J and A is more aloof compared to L, who actively tries to befriend MC, so their interactions naturally feel more frequent right now.

But don’t worry—everything will balance out eventually!

If you want to see most of the new content, I suggest going to dinner with L & A and then decline their invite to train with them.

The unfinished paths will be included in the next update—likely next week.

This update hasn’t been extensively tested, since I really wanted to get it out there. If you spot any jank, garbage text (the drafts you shouldn't be able to see), or continuity errors, please let me know—I’d greatly appreciate your feedback!

The stats are also still under construction. If you notice it's not progressing at a certain point, that's normal. I still haven't set them yet :p

Thank you for your patience and support! I hope you enjoy this update.

Side Note: I actually dropped the update hours ago and desperately needed a nap right after. Some who frequently visit dashingdon or cogdemos might've seen this already :D

What's New:

Wardens

Some more MC lore during solo scenes

Establish your texting style!

Visit the library (and bump into A)

Practice weaving for the first time (and bump into L)

What's Edited:

Prologue

World lore

[the-phantom-peach]

thank you SO MUCH for not posting EoW art yet! fandom isn’t a race to see who can draw the thing first and i respect you for making that decision. i didn’t even watch the trailer to avoid all gameplay and plot spoilers so i’m glad i don’t have to unfollow you to continue that streak ((you’re the only LoZ artist i follow ;))

Not a problem! I will however be posting some art soon so if anyone else is still avoiding spoilers please be sure to filter out tags for echoes of wisdom!

(this ask is over a week old so I wanted to wait a bit before posting anything eow. It will be spoiler heavy!)

[pressplay-if]

Hey guys, about the romance thing:

I don't judge you for enjoying romance in my game! I'm glad you do, because it's fun writing it and I'm proud of how it's turning out. But as an author, I just really hope that some of the darker themes in my story are also resonating because they're very important to me. I love reading romance too and I have nothing against it as a genre, but it's not the main thing I'm trying to do here.

Essentially, I as an author have the vain desire for my story to be perceived as something other than just "Stevie, Angel, Zima and Lincoln". I know Press Play isn't groundbreakingly deep, but it's very meaningful to me and I would love to connect with people via that rather than romance in and of itself.

I hope you understand and let's just be nice to each other again, okay? I've also updated the intro post saying that I'm not answering RO scenario or RO trivia asks at this time. That's probably more effective than me being disappointed over not getting asked more questions I find personally stimulating.

[evansbby]

Would anyone be interested in reading a fic where Ari is a boxer and he fucks his rival’s innocent little sister after beating his rival to a pulp, just to add insult to injury 😭😭🥲🥲

[vendetta-if]

Texting Yvette everday, just to say fuck you lol

Jokes on you, Yvette would definitely take it as a good sign somewhat 😭

She’d be gushing to Skylar like, “Oh my God, Skylar! They’re still texting me everyday! That means I still have a chance to reconcile right?”

“Uhh… What did they text? Is it another ‘fuck you’?” Skylar asks hesitantly.

“Yes and yes, I know it sounds bad, but at least they’re taking the time to text me every day! How many mothers out there can say that their kid texts them everyday?”

Skylar’s smile is strained as they try to share their mentor’s enthusiasm and hopefulness (and delusion). “Haha… Yeah… Even I sometimes forget to text my own mom for holidays…” they reassure, not having the heart to break the more possible harsh truth to Yvette.

“I know they still care deep down… I just need to try harder…” she sighs wistfully.

But yeah, as some have said, the opposite of love is indifference. Fully cutting contact with Yvette would hurt Yvette even more because there’s completely no connection whatsoever for her to latch on 🥺😥

[beckwritesif]

The vast stretches of lone trees and wild grass of the rural countryside lures the ego overboard, pulling consciousness off course into addiction, delusion and seduction’s disintegrating madness. You barely pull yourself home from there every evening, the sun telling your time, the birds your weather forecast. One day you might not return home at all.

From the Mud is a Midwest gothic inspired horror set in a solitary countryside occupied only by two small towns and stretches of untamed nature. You play a troubled cowboy/girl/puncher who‘s ground deep into a maddening, repetitive routine that a string of deaths suddenly upends. The sheriff of the neighboring town along with a driven journalist and an old friend whose bridge you’ve long since burnt comes to town having heard the news. As you’re hunting for the culprit and running from yourself, your quiet life on the ranch is disturbed, forcing you to keep your cards close and choose your company carefully. But the most pressing matter proves to be whether you can trust your own mind.

From the Mud

☆ Interactive fictional psychological horror written in choice script

Features

Play as either a man, woman, or other

Choose your appearance from overall features to minor details

Experience nuanced romance as either straight, gay, or bi, or forgo romance altogether

Choose whether you’re religious or not in an overly christian rural town

Experience the world react differently towards you depending on who you identify as

Get wrapped up in the chaos to solve the mystery of several murders

Lose touch with reality and slowly question everything around you

Remember: you have to choose to get better

Reject the possibility of unnatural forces at play, or believe

Rot in a jail cell

Ride a horse!

Play a game mostly not driven by numbered stats but meaningful actions and a fuck ton of trackers

Demo! | pinterest

Advisory for the story so far: death, gore, profanity

Basics about some of the important RO characters and other below

The Sheriff ☆ Zachariah “Zach” Mallory ☆ a man in his mid thirties

Sheriff Mallory works from his office in Two Rocks, and though his occupation means working closely with other people and seeing to their needs, it would be indolent to describe him as being good with people. At all. Being abrasive and ill-natured, the man does, however, suit the role of authority well. When the angry crease on his forehead soften, you might find there is something else within his tired eyes.

The sheriff has dark brown, chin-length hair and a matching little effort short beard. His sand-colored skin is sun-kissed from being outside, the circles under his eyes almost a purple kind of shade. Under a heavy set of brows sits a pair of dark blue, almost stormy gray eyes. Standing at an imposing height, Mallory is nigh refused anything, and can’t be forced to wear the ugly uniform his rank requires. Instead, he sports a simple white fitted t-shirt and a pair of well-loved denim jeans.

The Journalist ☆ Candy Tillman ☆ a woman in her early thirties

Working for the local news station in Two Rocks, Ms. Tillman has through work experience and excellent mentoring from her predessessor become a hound chasing stories and truths. She is both idealistic and romanticizing (that which shouldn’t), and yet entirely unsusceptable to bullshit. When her facade falters who will accept her then?

The woman with the sweetest name has blonde hair that falls to the middle of her shoulder blades, which she loves to blowout. Her tan skin is contoured by a natural style of makeup, her small, light blue eyes painted. Candy is average height, reaching taller stature with her go-to minimalist pumps. The journalist prefers simple, feminine silhouttes of clothing, keeping up with the times.

The Best Friend ☆ Blythe Abel Goodwin ☆ a woman in her mid twenties

Blythe is your best friend who you grew up with in Ashley and who stuck around when everyone left, though you know she would’ve loved to leave just as much as you once did. In response to the death of her dreams and the narrow-minded opinions of the general inhabitation of the area, she has defiantly become a person of unique and unpredictable character. You’ve known each other through thick and thin, but is there a side to her yet to be discovered?

Your childhood friend is a contrast-filled woman just under average height. Long, black, cascading hair falls from her head down to her mid-back. Choppily home-cut bangs frame her small face. Her fair skin turns rosy in the cold. Blythe’s almond eyes that are sometimes obscured by a pair of reading glasses, are hazel. She wears whatever the fuck she wants.

The Colleague ☆ Ford Wiley Mallory ☆ a man in his early twenties

Ford Wiley is the younger half-brother of Sheriff Mallory and your colleague on the ranch. Working there only half-time, the younger Mallory is dedicated and driven only in the field of his passion; music. His band has only ever played at the local bar, though. Reserved and perhaps somewhat more thin-skinned than most living out on the countryside, Wiley makes do with refreshing optimism. Whether this optimism is genuine or fabricated is yet to be revealed.

Your part-time cowboy coworker has long, wavy brown hair that he sometimes makes an effort to style, and otherwise lets it live its own life. He and his half-brother have little in common, appearance included; Wiley has olive skin covered in freckles. His eyes are dark brown, and he is of average height. The musician’s clothes consist of unwanted (by himself) hand-me-downs from Zachariah and ill-gotten items.

The Old Friend ☆ Sawyer “Saw” Brennan ☆ a gender selectable person in their late twenties (m/f)

You grew up with Sawyer along with Blythe, and the three of you braved your childhood and youth in this godforsaken place for years. But they left when things got hardest, and you haven’t been able to get past it even after all these years. Over the years Sawyer has been away they’ve grown into a person you barely know anymore, and you struggle with their sudden return. Will you be able to understand and forgive them for leaving?

Sawyer has inky brown curly hair, worn long (f) or short (m) and loose, carefully taken care of and styled. They have warm brown skin and sharp eyes to match. Your old friend is tall, fitting their frame into oversized graphic t-shirts and either color matched sweats or baggy jeans.

My intentions with this game: It is not supposed to be a beautiful story, it is supposed to be ugly. Writing this game in the way I am is my taking a step away from perfection and seeing where my unpolished writing takes the story. I have been ruled by fear of inadequacy and a desire for ‘perfect timing’ long enough. If I continue to wait for the ‘right moment’ to create, I will end up not creating at all. My only desire now is to simply create, and continue doing so until I have something to show for it.

Story is written and coded by me

Credits to Cole Meanor for the beautiful photography done for the headers!

[wings-of-ink]

Chapter 5 is finally here!

Tumblr crew, please let me know right away if you see any issues with running the game. I *think* I fixed the issue with fonts not changing but I did the upload a different way so I'm paranoid. It works for me though.

This was a big one – do not anticipate your saves working. Such is the nature of a work-in-progress. Some of the code for early chapters had to change. I do apologize, I know it's a lot of content to click through.

I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know if you find any serious problems/errors – especially ones that break the game. I have tested it myself a few times, but I can only do so much on my own. I will be watching Tumblr closely for a bit, so if there are any urgent issues you can pop them into my ask-inbox.

This chapter was written using a different method. Mostly, it worked out for me and helped me find more typos and grammar issues, but I found more programming errors than normal. My hope is that all the major ones have been resolved. A game-breaking issue was found just this morning and took a few hours to resolve (it was a mess so I redid the entire section - peeps, if you see issues in the moment with Zahn let me know because they were my troublemaker, go figure).

A couple of new trigger warnings were added as well, so be sure to peruse the list if you may have areas of sensitivity. In the future, a couple of areas of this chapter may receive options to bypass segments with certain difficult content, so be advised that these do not have a skip function enabled currently.

Coming in the future…

Lunan is taking a break through the end of the year! I will still be monitoring Tumblr, answering questions, and resolving any technical issues of course. But I will not be writing chapter content. Some short extras may be posted in the meantime to Tumblr.

Each chapter will get a passage-by-passage check for typos and grammar issues before the release of Chapter 6.

A chapter skip function will be arranged so you can bypass content you've already read. This will likely be implemented before or with Chapter 6.

The release time for Chapter 6 is currently unknown but estimated for late Spring of 2025 (March-May *ish).

The Patreon will likely start up in January 2025 and will focus on early releases of new content and extras/POVs (including the spicy kind).

Thank you so much for sticking with me. I hope you enjoy this chapter and have fun with it!

~Lunan ^_^

PS: Also let me know if you find weird stuff in there that might be from testing, lol. I think I deleted all that stuff, but I am more than a little bit frazzled today and there is a real possibility that I left some garbage behind...

Itch.io Link:

[chiptrillino]

I'm sorry, just sent in 62 for the ask game because I'd overlooked that it's the amazing scifi thing!

Soooo 63?

(ID in ALT text)

okay so... you know whats really funny here. i think made this while for the first time polls popped up on tumblr. and i had this werid idea of like... "choose your adventure" kind of story telling. but... lets be honest i don't have much... time to draw all the options? but this is still like... a sort of darker AU which is deer to my heart. and till today i don't know if they should have a happy end or not. sokka got shipwrecked. and to make his situation even worse zuko poped up and and took a bite of him.

the whole siren idea is more based on the sinister one. the one drowning and eating seamen. and zuko is now out to eat sokka. i have some plot lines written out. -sokka playing with zuko a game of riddles to buy himself some more time -zuko being unable to stay in the sun so sokka has to decide if he lest him take shelter underneath his make shift raft or lure him out of there to burn him. at the end sokka does get saved and can escape for some time? because zuko did end up biting him. and now sokka cant stop hearing him in his head, and zuko can still follow him. so... watch out sokka! zuko is on his way to eat you up but i still don't know if he means it literally or in a more plessurable way...

[emry-stars-art]

Jerejean transit?

Oh boy this one’s an old one that I keep thinking “yeah I’ll redo it so I like it better” but that day has yet to come, so you can just have the og lol

A reference study!

[hootyhoowoo]

for the wip folder game i must ask abt 79 👀

Ehehe…another snippet from that Qijiu animatic!