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Upcoming Plans and New Project Announcement!
🕑 Added 2023-05-09 18:30:01 +0000 UTCDear subscribers, thank you for your patience while the Patreon has been lying fallow. I'm going to be restarting payments and regular updates on here from June because... drumroll... I will be putting up a brand new early access demo on June 6th.
And while you wait, here is an early announcement for what that new demo is going to be!
Honor Bound: book 4 in the Crème de la Crème series
You're a promising officer in the Teranese military, a force which has not seen major engagement in decades but which holds vast influence. Thanks to an injury, you're no longer in the field. Thanks to the circumstances of that injury, you've been quietly reassigned.
Now you're to be the bodyguard to the child of a famous scientist who is attending a wilderness boarding school for the children of the richest and most powerful figures of Teran society.
According to your commanding officer, it's an easy assignment. The school sits close to your own hometown, so you'll be familiar with the area; you can recover your health and get your career back on track. What could go wrong?
Bond with those around you or impress with aloof competence. Be a kind, trusted confidante to your charge, or a strict, stern caretaker. Work hard for glowing reports from your charge, your military superiors, or the Headteacher to get your life back on track - or risk it all as you uncover secrets that put you and everyone around you in peril.
- Play as male, female, or non-binary; cis or trans; gay, straight, or bisexual; asexual and/or aromantic; allosexual and/or alloromantic; monogamous or polyamorous
- Befriend or romance a severe military officer, a bold, easygoing outdoors expert, a determined and overworked priest, an earnest but airheaded fellow bodyguard, or the anxious, serious single parent of your charge.
- Shape the school life of your teenage charge: encourage her to make friends or sabotage her rivals, let her slack off or push her to achieve.
- Protect the school, town, and your charge from natural disasters and criminals, or use chaos to further your agendas. Build a warm community, stand apart to focus on yourself, or push tensions higher in a place where gossip is rife.
- Negotiate a cushy promotion, or open other doors, through heroic or devious actions. Or become such a disaster that only bandits will give you the time of day.
- Unearth and thwart shadowy schemes, or enact them yourself for your own ends.
This tightly-knit desert boarding school is a sanctuary for artists and scientists of the future to flourish. But as danger closes in, how far will you go for your ambitions, your commanders, and your country?
Playable Prologue
As a sneak peek before the first chapter goes up here, I've made a short playable prologue which takes place several months before the start of the game. It won't be part of the demo or full game, but instead is a little introduction to your MC, their situation, and the setting.
Here it is! I'd love to hear what you think!
Comments
Hannah Powell-Smith
I'm so glad you enjoyed! Teran is drawn from a big mixture of inspirations - it's been fun to "travel" outside Westerlin for this game!
Hannah Powell-Smith
It's OK, I didn't take it as rude - just intrigued and with questions, which is all good :D The questions will be answered in time, though the MC may continue to be confused for a bit, haha! Alva is their mentor which has opened some doors for them and made some things possible that wouldn't be otherwise, though that will also add some pressures to their situation...
emelsi
Where was I rude?
Jinx
You don't need to be rude about it 🤨
Jinx
😂 I can tell you from experience, that the description of anastasia and brain injury, is quite precise. 🙂 I really enjoyed the detail, grate start. 🤔 am I to take it that teranise culture is inspired by Greece, given the name options and that of the characters? 😄 I am looking forward to hearing about your progress.
emelsi
Wow, I am intrigued! I think the biggest "Huh?!" for me is why a freaking Field Marshal has anything to do with a junior officer. MC must be connected as hell...
