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gonna be honest i thought i'd made them public already but i didnt ksndjhsnbds sorry chapter 4 has taken up 90% of my focus lately

o valentine special

e valentine special

dakota valentine special

valenreign valentine special

blake valentine special

victoria valentine special

seven valentine special

august valentine special

g valentine special

play here. intro post.

Happy New Year!! I thought I’d start off 2025 strong with a new holiday special, out now as a new collection of shorts. Hopefully this fluff tides you over until Chapter 12.

IN THIS STORY.

Tease a (very) flustered A

Question a blushing Blane

Make a move on N

Change K’s mind on holidays

Turn the tables on Rylan

Thank you all for a wonderful 2024. Here’s to hoping 2025 is not filled with writing blocks and instead, brings us the romance lock…? Cough cough. I’ll talk to you all very soon! I hope you enjoy these shorts as much as I had fun writing them <3

LINKS

Shorts (play here !!)

Patreon

I was going to release this alongside Chapter 2, but I felt bad with the amount of time it's taking to complete, so I'm releasing this earlier than planned.

In this new opening, you will be able to:

Go on a raid.

Go berserk (optional, of course).

Kill!

And finally, be punished by the Jarl.

Merry Crisis Chapter 5

In this chapter:

Nat arrives in Singapore!! Things come to a head!

Attend Nat's conference panel discussion, then head for lunch along the river 🍛

Make dumplings for dinner with Qiu (and sleepover at their place) 🥟

Watch a Malay horror movie and have dinner with Shay (and sleepover) 👻

Go for a bike ride 🚴‍♀️or hang out at the winter funfair with Nat 🎪 (then head to their hotel room for the night) 🛏

Commit to your RO of choice + some rejections (though the full suite of consequences for your actions will come over the next 2 days)

Word count: Around 50-60k with code depending on how ruthless my eventual editing is

This update will also come with some edits to the previous chapters, which may or may not improve the continuity between routes...*

P.S. with this chapter, we are now 6/8 chapters in (counting the prologue and epilogue)!

*I am still going through a herculean combing-through of stats and branching paths with the help of my wonderful beta testers. Things should be sorted out soon!!

Release dates:

Non beta tested: 28 Dec (~10pm GMT-5)

Beta tested: 1 Jan same time

New Chapter Released!

Hello again! Hope your winter has gone well ❄️

With the public release of this new chapter we’re continuing with the Crown's development as a monarch, while romance and courtly intrigue build further:

Friendship scenes to deepen your Crown's relationship with the other characters outside of your main love interest

Diverging paths depending on whether you chose to meet the peri trader in disguise, or arrange a meeting with Kham instead

Within those diverging paths, you will make further decisions on how to handle the peri trader and/or Kham, with big consequences for future chapters

Romance specific scenes, of course, with your chosen love interest!

A and R both have very different scenes for their high romance and low romance routes! D and X romancers are in the clear... for now

If you find any coding errors, typos, pronoun mistakes and such while playing, you can report those through this form! Thank you for all your patience and support, I hope you enjoy the new chapter with the nearing end of 2024 💖

For those that are unfamiliar with the game

A Tale of Crowns is a high fantasy romance story, told in the form of a text-based interactive novel with choice mechanics. The setting is inspired by Kurdish culture as well as other historical settings in the Middle East such as Ancient Persia, but it also draws heavily from other cultures and countries in the region.

Your character is native to Arsur, a vast empire overseen by a single ruler known as the Crown. Unlike traditional monarchies, however, the title is not inherited through blood. Whenever the Crown dies, their famed golden eyes pass on to the one chosen by the Spirits of this world to be the new Crown. In this story, your MC takes on that role.

There are four different love interests to choose from, whose genders will be customized to suit the preferences of your Crown. You can find more info about them on the blog page!

Also note that this current version of the game is safe for those 16 years and older.

Like the premise so far? Play it and give it a try! The entire game is free!

Orla had been clear in her instructions. You can't afford another mistake.

chapter 005.

adopt a dog!

realize there's people gunning for your head! (literally)

give echo a crisis for once

have a chat with orla. or two.

try to uncover the mystery that is dante/delilah and fail </3

general info.

changes to relationship stats have been made: once you choose 5 [♡] romance options, the code will recognize it as you choosing a romance path and will allow for different flavour text and the ROs initiating romantic moments since interest has been made clear

that doesn't mean that you're locked out of other routes!

choosing 3 [♡] options during the poly route between jax, orla and merc, now means that you're interested in pursuing that route as well

hidden stats keep track of bold and shy romantic options. choosing one or the other 3 different times throughout a single route means you'll have flavour text that recognizes the merc's personality while perusing that RO

the relationship stats visible refer to the general closeness of the merc and a certain RO and will come into play later

scenes change depending on the disturbed/sane and merciful/ruthless stats throughout the chapter

the prosthetics options are now available without choosing to have a hand prosthetic and the code has been overhauled in the prologue and throughout the other chapters

a new choice and text has appeared in the prologue where you now decide on chest details of your merc

a new stat has been implemented - obedient/defiant to keep track of how merc operates while on jobs with clear orders

all saves are broken! please start a new game as a lot of the code has changed

progress.

192k -> 267k (+ 75k)

Here at Soulmates Inc we specialize in chance meetings!

As a soul-link, your job is to guide two people entrusted in your care to one another in a fateful meeting, for they are each other's soulmates. Aided by the soul-link powers, you will craft a story that will be told over and over to others, changed and misremembered or kept as faithful as humanly possible. Without your help, they would not find one another.

P.S.: a regular reminder to refrain from referring to yourself or your coworkers as Cupid.

|| LINK to the demo || [119k +30k]

In this update:

plan how to save your career

it's also high time to involve the management (that's always pleasant)

potentially make a life-altering decision

flex your game over texts

reveals and speculations, but do you find the sources trustworthy?

SPICY SNIPPETS (im aware I haven't finished them I will do it one of these days) (please take note these were before f!O was added I did not purposely exclude her)

F!SEVEN | M!SEVEN ORION | VICTORIA

DRABBLES (half of these were written in the early days of infamous)

ORION DRABBLE VALENREIGN POLY PROMPT ORION PROMPT #1 SEVEN PROMPT VICTORIA PROMPT SEBASTIAN PROMPT SEVEN FIRST KISS DRABBLE SEVEN POV OF MC'S BOTB AUDITION ROWAN CRUSH ON MC AU DRABBLE SEVEN RANDOM PROMPT SEVEN LETTER TO MC (when they were in their pride and prejudice era)

✭INFAMOUS UPDATE IS HERE ✭

238K -> 457K WORDS

Please read this post before playing! It's finally here! After five months of writing and rewriting and salvaging and crying and sweating and bleeding I finally finished sort of kind of! Firstly, I want to thank you for your patience and understanding over this duration of this rewrite. It was stressful at times but I'm happy with the end result and I hope everyone else will be too :)

This will be the last chapter I release without beta testers/other sets of eyes so expect errors. I can playtest until my fingers turn blue but I'm just one person </3 I'm bound to have missed stuff.

Please let me know of errors! I tested it a few times with no problems but we know how it goes lol

IN THIS CHAPTER THREE UPDATE:

drama

mayhem

chaos

some betrayal

some surprises

just...read it lmao

PROLOGUE - CHAPTER 2 CHANGES:

**chapter two was too large of a file to upload on dd so I had to split it last minute and I uhhhh dont know how that translates in the demo but it should work lol please let me know if its wonky!**

fixed up grammatical errors and typos

expanded some scenes and added some more choices

you can now choose that your mc has "changed" in some way (drinking, no longer drinking, partier, no longer a partier, negative, positive, attached, detached, or a general default. I was asked to add an MC who "gets around" or hookups a lot but I'm still debating on whether I'll add that since there's already quite a bit lolol)

you can choose to have changed your band's genre before/after seven

TECHNICAL CHANGES:

you will be able to explicitly state your sexuality in the beginning. this was a big ask and I apologize for not doing it earlier! I wasn't good at coding when I started and I knew I always wanted to make the genders separate from MC's sexuality but I didn't know how to do that at the start :) So you can still choose the genders of the ROs for story purposes and variety. IF YOU DO NOT SEE ROMANCE OPTIONS THAT IS NOT A BUG. You simply chose a RO gender that doesn't correlate with the sexuality you chose for your MC. Having said that, if you do see a romance option available and it's not supposed to be there please let me know! That means I may have missed it coding-wise.

the stats have been all fixed! I've added all the necessary variables and such. The stat portion of the game has been updated with the appropriate pages but they're not finished. Still, the stats should be fine.

You will now have confessionals in the stat page! The feature still isn't a thing yet because I haven't come up with the confessionals lolol but you can click on it to see what it's about. Essentially, as you progress through the story you will be able to see confessionals from the cast of Infamous throughout. They disappear and appear periodically so if you miss it, THAT'S IT! You won't get a chance to see them again until MC watches an episode where it's relevant.

There is now a: Discography page, Infamous wiki, botb cast and staff page, and other characters page for organization. Those are not finished but they're there!

I changed a few stat names but their functions remain the same.

You will be able to choose how you would like to be described (masculine, feminine, neither, both).

O is officially gender-selectable.

You can set the genders of the ROs at the start or wait till you meet them.

Despite how nightmare riddled it was, you can't help but crave it; sinking into a bed. A mattress, a couch. Anything that allows you to curl up semi comfortably and pass out for the foreseeable future.  Or better yet; finding a willing body to sink into. Memories to root through as your own body lies somewhere. Lost to the world. Your own nightmares kept at bay by slipping into those of others. Always slipping. In and out and away from what comes back to haunt you yourself. 

chapter four.

meet the mirage family members!

have another crisis

have a not-date! or don't bc it's what he deserves

watch orla be deranged for a change

blow up some relationships!

the merciful/ruthless stat determines the intensity of the orla scene later on (!)

progress.

126k -> 192k (+ 66k)

The Valentine's specials from Patreon are now public!

They all add up to about 67k words in total! I hope I fixed what was wrong when I first posted it but I have terrible memory and even worse at going back to things once I'm done with them so haha if there are any errors just lmk! Enjoy!

O QUINN VALENTINE SHORT

G REIGN VALENTINE SHORT

VICTORIA VALENTINE SHORT

AUGUST VALENTINE SHORT

SEBASTIAN VALENTINE SHORT

SEVEN VALENTINE SHORT

BLAKE VALENTINE SHORT

E VALENTINE SHORT

DAKOTA VALENTINE SHORT

Demo Update (July, 10, 2024): Episode 1

EPISODE 1 UPDATE: +100,433 WORDS

Hi Hello. Yes, I know. :< I went dark again! This time it was because I ended up changing more last minute and didn't want to moan on about the excuses so I hunched away to work on it in silence. :> I think I've made it clear through my actions that I am not a social media person so I tend to neglect the 502 Tumblr when I write. Sorry :< A lot happened in my life since posting the pilot but I did say I would never abandon 502 and I meant it. I struggled with my work/life balance since starting an IF (it's a lot of work) but I'm glad I'm here to I can update the demo now!

What to expect:

⛟ Another day in apartment 502

⛟ Spend some time with one of the roommates.

⛟ Have your orientation at your job and meet a familiar face!

Some things to take note of:

The news anchor route is not available. I didn't like the direction I was taking it and haven't figured out what I want to do with it. It's not gone permanently but this update it'll be blocked off :<

Stats are still not updating. I ended up changing them multiple times and realized I wanted to wait another update to figure out what stats I want to focus on. The story gives me many directions to go on when it comes to stats and I want to make sure I hone in on the stats that will apply the most of MC's story. The stats are there so you won't get any errors but they won't move or anything and they'll most likely change.

There may be some inconsistencies, typos, errors or things that don't match. The product of writing half the chapter over nine months ago and going through many changes. :< Please let me know if you find errors. You 100% will in a 100k chapter.

The latest chapter (27th Dec) is AVAILABLE right now for EVERYONE! :) I'm sorry that it took longer than I thought it would, but I'm so excited to finally share it and can't wait to hear what you guys think!

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Features: 

The lead-up to the Nat surprise (!)

Visit a columbarium with your family (to commemorate your grandparents 👴👵 and relive some childhood memories!) <Flesh out your MC's family life>

OR: Skip the columbarium family trip and have lunch with Qiu (at their workplace 💼; or lunch with Shay (includes an optional boxing 🥊 session and the potential to meet someone dear to them🍲).

Meet Qiu or Shay at a 'winter'-themed  funfair/carnival in the evening (or save it for a future Nat date)🧸🎄🍻 <win stuffed animals, drink mulled wine, sit on the lawn and... experience... snow(?)>

Bonus scenes at night if you choose not to go to the funfair (e.g. board games with Joony, write a song if you're a musician etc.) 

Wordcount: 67k (this brings the total wordcount to ~220k words!)

Can't wait to share it with you guys!