#twos update

i know what you guys are thinking.

ava, it’s been two years. where the hell have you been, loca?

i won’t lie to any of you. i do not have some spectacular excuse about why i disappeared aside from life just kinda stuck me in the butt with a fork.

the reason for my sudden reappearance? i read the first book in the amelia peabody series ‘crocodile on the sandbank’ by elizabeth peters, and whenever amelia started poking someone with her parasol, i found myself thinking about how a parasol would be a fun weapon option for mc.

so, for the first time in two years i opened twine…and found that everything had been deleted.

thankfully, i had the foresight to save a copy to my desktop, so i got it all back without any issue.

i’ve bulked out chapter one a little, changed the plot a little (you’re finding clues first rather than just going straight to the temple a la movie two style) because i thought it made more sense and would allow for a bit more bonding between the characters. i’ve got the stats to work (by reducing them to their most basic form i’m not even going to lie), and i’ve added oblivious/perceptive and protective/protected (are you more likely to throw yourself between someone and a mummy or are you more likely to need rescuing?).

i can’t say that i’ve gotten very far into chapter two yet (i’m on the first page…passage? tile?) because i’ve been focusing on chapter one, stats, and relearning twine, but i have a plan!

you guys looking at me like:

i know. what a load of bollox, right? i left for *two years*. most og if authors have up and left without a word. the trust is dead. i understand. i’m not going to make a single promise, but i am actively writing chapter two right now. like my laptop is in my lap, twine open:

has my writing improved? god no! but are we all going to smile and pretend it has? hell yeah!

anywho! i don’t even know if anyone still cares about the wrath of sekhmet or if the if community is still even that active, but i’ll just be minding my own business here, writing and crying in pure frustration over code.

the good news: i’m like 70% done writing wise with chapter two! yay!

the less good news: i feel like every time i take a step forward, i take three steps back with twine.

picture this: i’m having a great time. the writing is flowing, i’ve figured out the stats, i’m not far from putting everything into twine and beginning to code. i get the sudden idea to check that everything still works on mobile because i haven’t opened sekhmet’s wrath on my phone in two years.

it doesn’t work.

then my wifi decides to have an absolute head fit and my laptop takes 85 years to do anything because of it, so i can’t even look into the mobile coding and figure it out.

i got so frustrated, i shut my laptop down and had to lap round my house a few times.

hopefully my wifi will decide to sort itself out by tomorrow and i can actually try and figure this out.

this heat is not helping, my brain feels frazzled. if anyone uses awmorgan’s (innerdemons-if) template and has fixed the mobile issue, please let me know.