This hasn't been the best month, really! Too hot for a country with no air conditioning, for a start. Plus the next things on my to-do list have been a bit stickier.
And then more recently itch.io de-listing content, the intfiction forum going down (temporarily, but with no known timeline for restoration), the IF Archive blocking UK users because of the so-called Online Safety Act...
Anyway, since I can't post it in my dev thread on the forum, let's see a little example of the kind of things I do to make my own stories more interesting to me. One of those sticky bits on my to-do list? The character of "Dav", a scruffy man with some exposition to share:
I spent a lot of the month not wanting to do any work on Dav, even though he's the only character not implemented at all yet. The solution? Make him weird!
I happened to be reading a section in The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe where the main character is crossing an ocean, and some strange watery priests board her ship to bless the voyage. It reminded me that Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince includes a "Merperson Village" which has hitherto remained the only thing remotely like that in the setting. Until now!
With Dav as a merman, suddenly I'm a bit more inspired to write his dialogue:
This process plays out a lot for me when I'm making stuff, which is why everything is often so weird in my games...
