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Aila's Ramblings - 6/13/22 - Welcome Back!
🕑 Added 2022-06-14 03:01:00 +0000 UTC📣UPDATES: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday @ 10:00PM (22:00 hours) PDT!
Just a reminder that I did switch over to MWF updates, as I wanted to keep my weekends free due to lingering paranoia that the scheduled update will not go up at the right time. If I'm not at home, I can't do much about it. Every time I have any confidence, the time or date somehow get changed, and I don't find out for some time, and want to crawl into a hole.
Anyway, thank you all for your patience these last two weeks. I had a relaxing birthday and much more cake that I really should've had. It was a nice break from writing. Perhaps too nice because I actually forgot my break was ending.
As a result, I did end up writing from last Wednesday to Saturday, but I was much more refreshed and the story was flowing easier. I also had fun writing some more side stories.
📚 Side Stories! 📚
So far, I've posted two of the small handful I wanted to write this summer in "Tales of an NPC", which are pretty much life stories (condensed into 20+ pages) of various NPC that are mentioned in the background of the main story.
Not only were many of you guys interested, but I think they help in world building and help explore the culture of the dating-sim-game-world. All we usually see are the lives of the wealthy and noble elite in the story and not the lives of the average folks.
Writing these, there are some details I need to go back and tweak in the main story to connect them all better. As I write and the story grows, more and more things come to light. I'm able solidify aspects better. Such is the process.
TAG: Tales of an NPC
📗 Completed:
- Sir Ivan Dobchek, First Tier Imperial Knight, Escort Knight to the First Prince of Soleil - His youth, his journey into knighthood, how he feels being an escort knight to the prince that everyone overlooked.
- Landon Voss, Madam Voss’ Eldest Son - The struggle of the brickmaker lady's eldest son as he tries to help his widowed mother from childhood to (spoiler) migrating from Chetterswickshire.
📙 In-Progress (to some degree):
- Daniel Lefevre - The guy who always ranks at #2 behind Ilyana at Lycee (focus on school dynamics/observations for non-nobles)
- Cpt. Elsa Astrid Roth - von Schwert military captain on the front lines at the border. (answers the question of the General Marquis' heir)
- Mathilda Moore - Instructor Ignatius' Ex-Girlfriend (focus on middle-class Horizon dating and social goals)
- Alexander Hamilton de Guevera I - Tori's cat. (crack chapter for shits and giggles)
📘 Would Like To Write (these people don't have names yet):
- Guard to the Archbishop of Karap - what's it like to have to escort around a crystal fanatic? Also, the guards are all technically non-practicing priests.
- A granny refugee who came fled from the border and now lives in Viclya. I kind of want to look into her life at the border village, what happened, the fleeing inland, and struggle of resettlement.
- One of the guild members who works at the delta. Just sort of look into the life of what is essentially a migrant worker in Soleil.
I think that should be enough for the summer; I would like to at least get four more stories done, but let's not jinx myself as I am prone to doing.
I also wrote down summaries to several plot bunnies and yearn to write them, but I know if I do, I will not focus on this, so I am desperately restraining myself.
I hope you all had a great break (from me) and are enjoying yourselves staying healthy and doing your best.
💕 Take care and, as always, thank you for your time and patience!
- Ai
Comments
Gremlin
Who thinks Alessa is also transmigrated, but with a less worldly soul? Her most recent interaction is much more logical if it comes from a western teenager then a local.
Sierra Saldierna
Meowlexander is getting his own show! I love it.
Just you wait.
Dash Marley
I'm looking forward to Alexander's story, so many questions, like where's his family from? Though I guess that's unimportant, there's a million things he hasn't done.
Cymi
CAT NPC STORY!!!! *squeals*
Tarmandan
All those side stories sound fun.
Saaski
All of those sound really interesting 🤤
Brian Czisny
I’m really interested in the refugee side story… all we see is tori’s and the other students and nobles view… itll be nice to see the people getting the direct benefit of her hard work
"The guy who always ranks at #2 behind Ilyana at Lycee" - Really looking forward to this one in particular, I always wondered who this person was. Glad you enjoyed your break, and glad to see you back!
Lady Serin
Glad to hear your back, excited for the side stories!
Summercat
Squeak!
