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I call this doodle "Bleeding out in the snow (prettily)"

Sketch commission for @doodledoos111

their DnD Characters

Dooded my DnD oc Fawn! He has no tongue but makes up for it with his big, hollow heart!

DEMO TBA

Your brother had sent you a letter begging you not to follow him into Nightingale Manor, for the two of you would not survive it. You paid him no mind. Now, the two of you must fight to survive horrors beyond comprehension.

You and your older brother, Rakan Oscen, led the Miracle Workers: a team of misfit master thieves. Three months ago, Rakan left your headquarters in Nova Lagoa for the lush land of Viscaria, where the famed Nightingale Manor stands. Inside it, lives a Baron and Baroness, who house a pair of exuberant jewels sought after by many.

Your brother went to Viscaria in order to case the place, get to know the Baron and Baroness's schedules, the ins and outs of their routines. However, he never came back. Instead, he sent you a letter warning you to stay far away, even though his distress was palpable. But how could you turn your back when your brother is in mortal peril?

Inside the Manor, strange things and even stranger residents await...

• Customize your Player Character: name, appearance, pronouns, gender, sexuality, and how they perceive the world and are perceived in turn.

• Meet a colorful cast of characters. Bond, antagonize, or romance them.

• Solve the mysteries surrounding Nightingale Manor.

• Try to leave with your life. And the jewels.

GABRIEL I. ROSENHEIM is the Baron of Viscaria and a man of distinguished pedigree. For all his titles and riches, however, Lord Viscaria has always stood apart from his peers. The people who've met Gabriel describe him as a polite, quiet, kind man, very different from others. But how much of that perception is colored by fear?

AGE: in his forties.

WILLOW J. SYCAMORE is a notorious author under the pen name 'Jude Ozara'. As a woman, Willow has found that life and society are rarely kind to her and her inventions. They don't see her mind, only whether her beauty is good enough to attract a husband. Still, Willow perseveres in her defiance, in her unwillingness to please others.

AGE: in her mid twenties.

RAKAN OSCEN is the Player Character's only brother, older by four years. He is clever, if a little too daring for your tastes, always throwing himself head first into trouble, like an angered bull. Handsome to boost, he uses both his looks and streetsmart cunning to always get what he wants. And by that he usually means whatever you want.

AGE: twenty-five.

More will be added soon, as the characters become more relevant!

The Inane Nightingale was made with an 18+ audience in mind, as it deals with themes such as violence, themes of horror, toxic relationships (some with big age gaps), and more. Player discretion is advised.

@interact-if

Oh my I wonder who this could be

The two people you miss can’t possibly be names starting with I and J right?

ANOTHER DOODE FOR @neverland-if 's IF!!!

Torn between the primal pull towards his Sire and mourning the life that was stolen from him.

I wanted it to give Dark Wedding vibes! 🩸

References under the cut.

I was doing a sort of study on some manga panels from Vampire Hunter D and ended up doodling my MC in @neverland-if ! 🎷

High off his rocker on Remy blood. I don't think he remembers which state he is currently in.

References under the cut!

Doodled my MC Wrath from @gardenofbones-if !!!

Doodled my OC Seth in @infamous-if .

So i did another thingie for my Ares from @god-syndicate-if . 🦀

I was listening to Ethel Cain's Hard times and this part really struck me as Ares-themed. "I am poison in the water and unhappy." Specifically how their thoughts can sometimes take very dark and self-deprecating turns and how they perceived as harbingers of destruction by the other gods. My friend Opal @sorrows-if helped me conceptualize it better. "The petals ink the water, symbolizing that even though the flowers at first glance seem beautiful and harmless, they hide something dark, like Ares' anger and negative thoughts."

Also a huge thank you to my friend, the shy field mouse, for helping me figure out watercolors! 🪱

Never again ahahaaha ha aaa ..

Reference image for the poppy below!

I doodled my Ares for @god-syndicate-if 's IF!

He's a violent and snarky shit with a heart of ... brass. 🐒 Everyone's man, biceps big enough for all the ROs to hang off of.

Doodled my OC Seth in the @costasul-if universe! 🐠

Left home, grew his hair out, and completed his metamorphosis into a beefcake. 🍖

He thought he had lost his guppy keychain for a few months (later found it between the couch cushions) and was feeling super homesick, so he got a guppy-inspired tattoo. He wanted to back out as soon as the coloring phase started but he persevered, through lots of snot and tears. For the aesthetic. 🙂‍↕️

Guppy's back home yeyyy!

The tattoo reference I used is below the cut!

DEMO LINK | INTRO POST | ROMANCE OPTIONS

Happy April 1st, otherwise known as Chapter 2 Release Day!

THE LOADING TIMES ARE BETTER as of August last year. If you couldn't get the game to load when it launched, and still want to play, please try again and let me know how it goes! I have more improvements planned to make it faster, but those will take some time.

And now - the update is finally live!

YEAR OF AGES

This is more a collection of vignettes (starring your MC) than a single storyline, but that is very intentional - everything here serves a purpose! Depending on your choices and how fast you read, it should be anywhere from 1-2 hours of new content.

It will, however, certainly break your saves.

There now a "skip to chapter" index, so you can set your most important variables there instead of speedrunning through the original demo! Unless, of course, you haven't played since release day and are interested in seeing what changed with the previous update[s] à la the arson route and some new descriptions of the servant and the guard.

Chapter 2 is also the prelude to what I am calling your first "companion cutscene" in the next chapter; not that your choices in THIS update won't echo through the narrative and future gameplay.

Because they will.

For now, I hope you enjoy version 0.2.0!

Note: there are NEW content warnings for this chapter, so although there is a possibility of spoilers, consider re-reading them if you have any concerns.

IN THIS CHAPTER

Lose all track of time and your grasp on reality.

Encounter the Land which binds you...

Adopt a tiny winged friend [optional].

Get to know the servant and the guard slightly better.

4 new achievements.

Unlock a new codex page and item.

Training montage. Git gud, scrub.

Flirt with the Younger Twin - or return to your senses.

Find more reasons to hate the Younger Twin - or understand them?

Enjoy a hazy conversation with your benefactor [mostly optional].

Suffer [not optional].

FEATURES

100,000+ total words

carefully curated soundscape

a few original background WIPs

codex pages under construction

4 in-progress personality variants

chapter index for returning players

CHANGELOG

you can set your MC's height now!

custom titles for saves [THIS TOOK SO LONG PLEASE APPRECIATE MY EFFORTS]

new chapter selection page to set the important variables

the affection stat for the Younger Twin will not appear unless you either flirt once [deceptively or genuinely] or find them physically attractive

currently overhauling the trust / affection stats, so the skip feature might be a bit broken until a future update [I am frankly too tired to tear Chapter 1's code apart atm]

finally eradicated an error [repeated word] on the introductory page that has been making my eye twitch for months now

new codex background image [was changed in an unofficial patch for load times so may not be new to most of you]

a few minor changes to Chapter 1

UPDATE NOTES

Ignore if you don't want any spoilers!

As with the previous chapter, don't sweat too many of your decisions here... although if you managed to make U (the Younger Twin) unhappy with their chosen mortal by the end of Chapter 1, your experience might be slightly different in tone.

Not an abundance of Z (the Elder Twin) content, but they'll have their time to shimmer and shine like the ghostly ethereal being they are in the coming chapters! Trust!

The entire story is a slow-burn and this chapter is no exception, so grab your tea and settle in.

If you have any suggestions or possible improvements, my inbox is open! Even if I can't reply to everything, I'll see it and take it into consideration for future edits. This update has spent sooooo much time in limbo, but rest assured I've poured my heart into it for you. Once again, this is all early access, my first attempt at coding anything ever, and my very first IF, so please be kind!

✦ Play Virtue’s End

Last updated: October the 15th, 2024

In a dark world overrun by monsters from the shadow plane, you exist as a hybrid monster hunter called a helvling, a human whose very soul has been Bound to one such entity. Travelling from warded settlement to warded settlement with your surly human Keeper, Shea, you have the thankless task of defending the common folk against these unimaginable horrors from Hel.

Usually, a fate such as yours is only reserved for the lowest of criminals, as penance for their loathsome deeds… You wouldn’t know if your fate has been deserved, however, since upon completion of your Binding seven years ago, all former memories of your human life have been lost.

You’ve been moulded into a weapon by the Virtuous Order, trained to be an unfeeling and ruthlessly efficient hunter… But is that who you truly are? 

Who are you?

Virtue’s End is an interactive dark fantasy horror story set in a gritty, medieval world. It is rated 18+ due to violence, strong language, explicit sexual content, and mature themes. Additionally, the story heavily features religious undertones. A comprehensive list of content warnings is available at the start of the game.

✦ Customise your helvling, including pronouns, gender identity, physical appearance, personality, etc.

✦ Be magickally Bound to one of four different helspawn entities, all of which have their own unique appearance and abilities: the deadly basilisk, the mighty sylvan, the alluring nokken, or the terrifying barghest.

✦ Find your way in a world that treats you with scorn whilst trying to retain what’s left of your humanity—or embrace the monster within.

✦ Build bonds with a variety of characters that you will meet in your travels: your stern-faced Keeper, a compassionate Knight-Templar, an enigmatic Empire agent, or a mysterious Magicker on the run.

✦ Combat terrifying creatures and entities from the distorted shadow plane known as Hel… or negotiate with them.

✦ Uncover clues to the mysterious origins of a world-breaking event known as the Catastrophe, which ushered in an era of darkness hundreds of years ago.

✦ And perhaps finally discover the truth of your forgotten past…