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2 million words! Some of these are comments and various clots of unused text throughout the scenes that need to be deleted once I am finished. Perhaps not a true 2 million, but just about.

Rebel Love, Update 22: 90K of new content.

This only affects the Rebel Despair's Demise Path.

If you are the chancellor or a councillor, explore the Despair's Demise as some folks give way to revelry, while others question their arrival in green lands as 'too good to be true'.

Or be labelled a 'pretender' and rot in a cell.

Finally commit to an RO: Sera with Coireal, Sera alone, or Gibleti.

Or, have a final knees-up with your Roachpede pals.

During the morning after, the green paradise finally shows its true colours.

Tomorrow, I will begin 'Royal Love'. I hope to get it out before the end of the month. This will deal with the aftermath of the royalist Despair's Demise arriving in green pastures and associated romance scenes. Some of the RO scenes will be virtually the same as the rebel ones. However, we will also get scenes with Thrayton and either Raith or Revira.

Peace and love, asland hippies!

HINT: The quickest way to join the zombie and ghoul path is to choose the Testing Start for the slave. When Krayvas bullies you in the slave pit, resist. The bully will overcome you… Yep, he will kill our poor MC.

Yonder Sentinels and Scholars, Dwarven Legionaries, Ghouls and Slaves all have their stories extended here.

Begin the battle of New Yeirshee, an outmatched foe.

Break through the lines and go mage hunting or enter the ruins of New Yeirshee.

Form a squad after the battle and stamp the Cold Pact’s authority on the scattered communities of southeastern Zthullu using mercy or brutality. Forge your reputation.

Encounter the Zthullu Zoomers and Ashland Angels gangs.

Gain respect to aid your rise in the Cold Pact.

Of course, ghouls can handle things with their own increased savagery.

As a slave, further your schemes with Scram to, one day, take a stand.

Perhaps we blackmail Krayvas, found at the scene of a murder.

We might charm a rather weird group of Yonders, a book group with Frans among them, who have made a little reading corner in an old storeroom.

We could venture into a tomb containing wayward Enshrined, powerful undead set aside by the liches, deemed failures and called Deshrined.

Or, we may uncover a secret group of sneakers hiding in the lower vents, ex-slaves eking out a living through theft.

Finally, put all the pieces of our plan together and decide on a more peaceful or militant approach.

You, or Scram, will get pickled.

This all builds up to the next update, when we arrive at the hulk of the Pale Lady. Events there will leave us not as a new recruit but as someone of great interest to the Cold Pact.

Help me squish any typos and bugs! Only together can we prevail!

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Continue the story as a Krog-Tier Patreon, gaining access to lore, polls and the latest build:

Another update has just been released for the HG Forums, with 1.48 million words in the bag and roughly 50,000 words added in this update.

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We take our place in our sanctum aboard an empowered Despair’s Demise. The Basilisk guides us from the Grand Array in Grandardagrd. We are the harbingers of the Certain Future…

Apparently, not quite yet…

*Overpower the Cold Pact Crawler Grey Torment in a display of overwhelming efficiency and might. Hopefully.

*Investigate the cause of persistent errors under the suspicious gaze of the Collective. Rise to a position of trust, or be declared an erroneous variable in the machine of Certain Destiny.

*Find out more about Avalina’s intentions. Perhaps from a bond which will have far-reaching ramifications in Book 2.

*Investigate a Zthullan anomaly, a cavern strewn with dragon bones and traces of an element known as pre-ether.

*Endure an attack from the Bastion Knights and an old friend, now turned foe.

*Wrestle control from the Basilisk… Or fail and damn yourself.

Thanks to everyone supporting me. Please report bugs and typos, if you can. You can post them in the comments or DM me.

Godspeed!

New Patreon, Krog-Tier UPDATE 17, Cold Torment

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Hi, rugged dwarves, downtrodden masses and those with a passing interest in necromancy,

With the Cold Torment update, 95k, we have crossed the 1.5 million mark. 1.57 million words in total, exploring the adventures of our MC and the bleak lands of Zthullu.

We take 1 of 3 paths: that of a dwarven legionary, an aspiring Yonder Sentinel or a slave. Misbehaviour and/or failure risks us being turned into a zombie, so watch out! The zombie path is not yet implemented.

*As a dwarf, join the 5th Cavern Deep Legion and earn a place in the ranks of the Grey Torment's garrison. You'll train in martial skills and, perhaps, tinker with gadgets.

*Non-dwarves can join the hopefuls vying for a place among the Yonder scholars and sentinels, potentially, one day, becoming a citizen of Yonderfolde. Train with a farsnipe and learn some of the magical arts used to power the Grey Torment, as well as mess with the undead. Charm a wraith or an undead orc and turn a zombie into a ghoul.

*Or become a slave, pushing the cranks to power the vast coils. Suffer bullying and indignities... and plot against your oppressors.

*I have also linked all appropriate paths, including failed Road Pirates, to the Grey Torment. Here, you are destined for slavery.

*We also touch the very start of a future zombie path.

*Added 3 new testing Cold Pact starts after you create your character.

Thanks to everyone supporting me. Please report bugs and typos, if you can. You can post them in the comments or DM me.

Hi, snake-wielding mages and greasy dray drivers,

We rejoin the Road Fleet as they rage ahead of the crawler to find the Dragonlander Colony. Zthullu is not accommodating.

*Relax in camp with your mates before you probe the deepest reaches of the wastes.

*Take one of 2 routes, each presenting its own hostile encounters.

*Defend the crawler from an attack by the Silver Angels.

*Fall into the grasp of corruption as the ash continent makes one final play, not with a physical attack, but with an attempt to stir your deepest fear and break your mind once and for all.

*I have added a selection of relevant background lore to read, available on the stats screen. Orc and Krog Tier patrons will have read these before.

*Added a brief ‘Player Notes’ screen, also available from the stats screen, designed to give new players a heads-up.

Next, we move onto the Basilisk Path as you, with ill intent, also try to hunt down the ‘Dragonlander Colony’. How will an empowered crawler fare with the dangers of Zthullu?

Thanks to everyone supporting me. Please report bugs and typos, if you can. You can post them in the comments or DM me.

Godspeed!

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The newest Patreon update is released too, titled ‘Spirals and Fireworks’. Here, we rejoin the Basilisk-controlled Despair’s Demise with an extra 50k of content. It is available to all Krog-tier patrons.

All our times have come

Here, but now they’re gone

Seasons don’t fear the Reaper

Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain

(We can be like they are) come on, baby

(Don’t fear the Reaper) baby, take my hand

(Don’t fear the Reaper) we’ll be able to fly

(Don’t fear the Reaper) baby, I’m your man

Spooky greetings, rotting corpses. Almost 20k, the zombie path brings our total to just under 1.59 million words, available for all Krog Tier patrons. This update will be publicly released on Cogdemos at the end of next month, combined with the rest of Update 17.

HINT: The quickest way to join the zombie path is to choose the Testing Start for the slave. When Krayvas bullies you in the slave pit, resist. The bully will overcome you… Yep, he will kill our poor MC.

The fool! His end, at your hands, will be something far, far nastier…

The Zombie Path is reached by failing. You fail during your early days in the Road Fleet, and the Cold Pact enslaves you. You fail in Brakka, and the Cold Pact enslaves you. You fail as a slave, or a Yonder Initiate, or a Dwarven Legionnaire; the Cold Pact kills you.

Yet, it is not game over. Not by a long stretch. You arise as a near-mindless zombie pushing the cranks to power the coils on the Grey Torment. But something awakens the sliver of life inside. You won’t be a zombie for long – you’ll be ‘promoted’ to something far more terrifying (see the picture).

This path is shorter and more linear than others so far. Partly, this is because, as an undead, you lack the ability to make choices; not that there aren’t choices, but they are greatly restricted. Also, to reach the zombie path, a player may have almost completed the early Slave, Yonder or Dwarf paths, meaning, in some playthroughs, this will add length to the experience.

Oh, for those who like this sort of thing, a lich may get to caress your brain sensuously… Eeek.

I end with a warning (don’t fear the censor) – things get very bloody and violent.

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Hi, rugged dwarves, downtrodden masses, and those with a passing interest in necromancy,

With the Cold Torment update, 110k, we have crossed the 1.5 million mark. 1.59 million words in total, exploring the adventures of our MC and the bleak lands of Zthullu.

We take 1 of 4 paths: that of a dwarven legionary, an aspiring Yonder Sentinel, a slave, or a zombie. Misbehaviour and/or failure risks us being turned into a zombie.

HINT: The quickest way to join the zombie and ghoul path is to choose the Testing Start for the slave. When Krayvas bullies you in the slave pit, resist. The bully will overcome you… Yep, he will kill our poor MC.

*As a dwarf, join the 5th Cavern Deep Legion and earn a place in the ranks of the Grey Torment’s garrison. You’ll train in martial skills and, perhaps, tinker with gadgets.

*Non-dwarves can join the hopefuls vying for a place among the Yonder scholars and sentinels, potentially, one day, becoming a citizen of Yonderfolde. Train with a farsnipe and learn some of the magical arts used to power the Grey Torment, as well as mess with the undead. Charm a wraith or an undead orc and turn a zombie into a ghoul.

*Or become a slave, pushing the cranks to power the vast coils. Suffer bullying and indignities… and plot against your oppressors.

*I have also linked all appropriate paths, including failed Road Pirates, to the Grey Torment. Here, you are destined for slavery.

*Become a mindless zombie, and then something much, much more horrifying…

*Added 3 new testing Cold Pact starts after you create your character.

Thanks to everyone supporting me. Please report bugs and typos, if you can. You can post them in the comments or DM me.

Godspeed!

PATREON NEWS:

The Patreon update, number 18, sees us attacking New Yeirshee as part of the Cold Pact, with 75k of new content.