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Progress Report
🕑 Added 2022-03-14 11:34:44 +0000 UTCAlright, sorry I've been a bit lax on the progress reports! I've been grinding away, trying to make sure I can hit all monthly targets, but I should have taken time at least a day or two ago to give an update!
Haven's Port
This is going fairly well. I've finished 5 scenes so far, 1 short of my actual target speed, but the three longest scenes got done first. As such, I'm not particularly worried about that. As you should be able to tell from the attached images, I've been focusing on the Raider Faction scenes first. Since there hasn't been much mentioned for the Raider Faction in the game, I'll do a little education here.
The Raider Faction is actually split into three components. The Raid Fleet, the Adventurer's Guild, and the Espionage Service. All three services will have jobs you can do, once you pass the tests to be a full member of the Fleet Faction. The Adventurer's Guild will give Monster Subjugation missions, the Fleet will allow you to participate in Raids as an Officer instead of a crew member, and the Espionage Service will allow you to help find targets for the raiders.
Part of the reason that these jobs call to the more Nymph oriented members of the Isles is that they each come with more risks. Lose in monster subjugation, for example...and the monsters will take what they want. The Blessing of the Isles (which you'll learn about in game) means they won't KILL you...but that doesn't mean they won't do other things. Likewise, as a member of the Espionage service, you might have to put up with the attentions of slavers in order to get the rest of the fleet a target. And, well, the Fleet itself is prone to wild parties after it's successes.
Do to these sorts of issues, a certain mindset in it's members is considered necessary for their own mental well being...
Short Stories
I'm actually hoping to finish the first short story before I crash. It's about 4.5k words in, but I think it might run a bit longer than usual. A bit too much initial setup was needed for the story elements. I'm also not quite as happy with it as I could be, but I think people will enjoy it anyway. It's simply a little less original than some of my plots, which bothers my creative side even if it doesn't have much effect on the actual quality.
As for the Poll story (Cursed Clothing/Courier continuation), I haven't actually started on that one yet. Though I've actually had the general plot outline ready since before the poll. Unless I get smacked with writer's block (rare for me, but it does happen) or some other more dramatic issue arises, there shouldn't be an issue with it getting done.
Comic/Mixed Media Short
This is...sort of going well? I actually kinda ran into an unexpected issue. In that the story I planned for wasn't going to call for enough renders. I had to do a bit of a rethink to stretch it out a little. It's still likely to be slightly shorter than usual, with perhaps 14-15 renders instead of the usual 16-17. But I don't think the quality is going to suffer any. The transformation room in question simply proved more simplistic than I originally expected. At any rate, I'm on target for completion speed, with Render 9 ongoing right now.
Wallpapers
As usual, the renders for these are actually done. I've just not gotten around to adding the text. If you haven't caught on yet, I tend to procrastinate that bit, as I don't like doing it. It's not so much that it's hard, I've just discovered that I'm kinda bad at making text titles and such look good. Making it an exercise in try-try-again until something at least doesn't look too horrible...
