#illren

It started more than 5 years ago, with small, sweet stories. Some awkward drawing style... That migrated to a more realistic style almost photographic style for art.

As they released tons of stories, the characters would be reused on other stories as extras and side characters. It might sound lazy to some people. I think it's funny as you have a photographic MC and then, their mother is drawer and painted in the old style.

They started giving us stars to play, and charging Rosy Diamonds for premium choices.

The stories became more s*x driven. But some stories got set aside. And we're left with no sequel or a proper closure. Like The Flower and Thorns one. I really loved playing it years ago. At that time, I was still able to buy diamonds on Google. Now it's not allowed in Brazil anymore. They never gave me an answer why they left Brazil. What made me stop playing the game, since I couldn't farm enough diamonds to play things properly. Even though I know the choices doesn't matter that much. It's like:

"annoying character is calling you. Pay 12 diamonds to answer it. OR don't answer it for free"

You choose the free option, just to read the next panel telling you someone picked your cellphone for you, answered it an made you talk to whoever was on the other side of the call.

A couple months ago I restarted playing it.

Here's my question: what story is ILLREN from???

Seriously we make the worst fandom ever. There's no Wikia on the stories, there's no images about the stories. Even Stardust Works' social media is kinda dead. Last post is like from 2 years ago.

I even started a Google Sheet listing all the 271 books they have inside the Moments App. (9 are openly LGBTQIAP+, the others are probably a side LI, if any)

It's a lot. I may have started and / or ended around 30 books.

So ILLREN is from

Detroit Underworld: Psychic.

Out of the 20 chapters (from 30) I've already played so far... No sight of the character.

But we saw:

Vampire

Warlock

Succubus

Troll (why did you have to blink right at that moment, Terrance?

Werewolf

And whatever Nick Gorgeous is....

Yest. The cards move and talk, level up and boost some things in the game.

The sad part:

I found a community on Facebook and since the app haven't been updated in the last 2 years and the stories didn't have anything new for quite some time, we were speculating that Stardust Works is no more. The company from the App on Apple Store changed, as if the app was purchased by some other company and this company doesn't have any plans to it, so they are just gonna let it die.

No responses to the fan base on their e-mails and social media.

Speaking of Social Media.... Moments twitter-X account has been dead in the last 2 years.

The community group I mentioned also contacted some authors from the stories of the aforementioned app. The response in general was a big "I don't know."

Word is this company purchased Stardust Works and offered new contracts to the authors that paid less and some left the platform. In the end no one knows what's going to happen in the future to Moments.

I really cherished this app. Now I'm sad and just playing to my heart's content until it's over... While I still hope it's back on it's tracks in the future.

I really, really hope this doesn't become a Storyscape all over again.