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Delivery for the Damned: Sneak Peek #1
🕑 Added 2021-01-01 20:33:06 +0000 UTCSo many firsts today! It's exciting!
Here's the first Patreon peek at Delivery for the Damned, my next interactive fiction project after Mind Blind. I usually work on one major project at a time (right now: Mind Blind), while the seeds of my next project begin to coalesce.
In Delivery, you'll play as a delivery person to assorted villains in dangerous lairs/castles/crypts that can’t be accessed by normal mail service. After all, evil overlords, demon royalty, and mad scientists shop online too! But their lairs aren’t always the most delivery-accessible. That’s where you come in. (The ROs in this one will all be clients inspired by villain archetypes.)
I've talked a little about the future ROs on my tumblr, and will be giving more information on them in the future. Right now, I wanted to introduce you to Lydia O'Leery (who is very eerie), a major side character who is not romanceable on account of her, er . . . let's call it health issues.
Introducing Lydia O’Leery
Golden curls, Irish features, and extremely pale skin (transparent, even).
Lydia is your former mentor. Former not because you completed your training, but because she died. Which may have been kinda-sorta-ok-definitely your fault. Whoops.
Death hasn’t stopped Lydia from continuing to be a pain in your rear, however. Her ghost still chides you on any job missteps while haunting her old room—only now, she doesn’t pay rent, forcing you to take on more jobs in order to keep your landlord happy.
Keeping your landlord happy is important: Reggie ate the last tenet who fell behind on payments.
Reggie will be introduced next time!
Choosing your history with Lydia (and how it resulted in her death) will play a major role in shaping your character. In Delivery, I'm tentatively looking at moving away from personality stats, and instead letting your character (not proficiencies, though) be set by past events that you can choose.
Comments
Jo O'Connor
Ahaha, thank you! I genuinely believe I have the most fun readers ever, because to like Mind Blind and my writing is to like puns, and people who like puns are awesome :P I'm really excited about Delivery, although the writing won't start until Mind Blind is complete. (Other than a few short stories that I wrote about its world because, well, I couldn't resist! They'll eventually be posted here.)
Megs
This sounds like an amazing idea!! I’m excited to learn more about it. (Also your wordplay always makes me smile.)
