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Bonus Pairing: Bouncy Bounties AltEnd
🕑 Added 2019-01-08 17:58:29 +0000 UTCAnd the long-delayed holidays present is finally over! Gosh, I really, really liked writing this one. Overall, Limini presented a really fun character to explore, and her interactions with the slime girls—who are known to be dumb, but honestly, aren't that dumb—were a true delight.
Included the first chapter among the attachments, in case you like to read it all together. :)
Also, I have a little announcement to make about the future of these AltEnds.
Changes to AltEnds Inbound
I've rough drafted the other two AltEnds, and you know what? In total, these three alternate endings (for Honey Trap, Bouncy Bounties and Heavy Fog) are around 10,000 words. They'll probably be close to 11k-12k when they're edited. Writing them all at once has helped me realize how... long they're getting, and I'm a little bit worried, because that's a pretty big workload!
I could aim to shorten them, but I think a lot of people really enjoy the "Bad End" aspect of this Patreon, and hey, I do, too! I'm thinking about new options. I might consider, for instance, charging for them separately—but as a sixth installment in the month, so anyone who doesn't feel it's fair to pay for them can just cap their pledges lower than that.
I'm going to start broadening them, so that BPs don't always have to be the hardest chapter of the month. Starting this month, the "Bad End" will be determined from all five stories, and my lovelies will choose which story they want an alternate ending from.
For instance, if this January I write a Bonus Pairing where a holstaur subdues a pack of lust sprites, a chapter of Intrepid Pawns where Brist escapes a Thriae soldier, a one-shot where a king narrowly escapes a lamia only to fall for a belly dancing genie, a chapter where Senya is rescued from a brainwashing alraune, and a story where Alrek defeats the Brat Baroness, you'd all vote on the alternate ending—and maybe the king would fall to the lamia after all, or the lust sprites would overwhelm the holstaur.
Whichever AltEnd you chose would be written over the next month, and uploaded at the very end of February.
Let me know your thoughts!
Spoilers: Just a warning, this alt-end devolves into very self-indulgent "dumb bimbo" pampering towards the end. I'm not sure if Limini's ultimate mistake in her bad end is totally clear, but I tried to make it easy to work out what was happening to her. If you're still confused, let's just say that slime girls are... conductive.
I honestly just drowned in this story. Not to TMI, but it pushed all of my buttons even as it encouraged me to try some new techniques. There's a reason it went so long, and a reason it took me so long to write. I hope you all like it as much as I did, because rest assured, the cowgirl will be back.
Comments
Lorelei
And seven months later, I actually post it! ;P
Lorelei
I was hoping this could be a great compromise! It gives me more wiggle room with deadlines, makes BPs less inherently arduous, and, as a fun bonus, makes it so I don't have to try as hard to come up with ways to make BPs honestly meant to be one-sided (like "Alrek vs. Goblin Maid") into plausible match-ups where either side can dominate the other. Sometimes, a Bonus Pairing can be just, well, a curbstomp. ;)
MoistSupreme
A few seconds into reading that you were going to change the alt ending format, I was thinking the worst. Honestly being able to vote for a bad ending from a variety of different stories could be pretty cool :0
Theresa Pigeon
Really looking forward to the Honey Trap alt-end!
Mike Sanderson
+1 for the bad ends being a major bonus to the stories for me. :D
Titan7
This was a great Alt Ending for the Bouncy Bounties. I like your idea in regard to the Bad ends and looking forward to help vote for more when stories come out. Also looking forward to the Alt Ending of Heavy Fog and the other story.
Lorelei
I don't plan to stop doing the bad ends! The plan is more to broaden their scope (so, readers can ask for a Bad End to the Bonus Pairing, but they can also decide they want to see a Bad End for some other story instead) and ideally make it so those who are okay with it can pitch in a little to make them worth the increasing level of work they require. :P
Raava
Personally, I really like the bad ends, but I can understand the bonus pairings being long and I respect if you want to cut down on the work you're spending on them so you have a better balance between your various literary projects. It's also nice that you ask your readers for their thoughts on this; maybe I'm just not used to it but it comes across more genuine :) Also I reread the entire thing and mmmm do I love Senya's scenes <3
