Original public post on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/88444432

A fire on the beach, looks like they've reached their destination. Where exactly on the beach though...

It's going to be hard for me to show you guys promo's of this update without giving away where MC took them. Because, they're going to be there until the evening of the second day of the update. I even had to change the file name of the image I uploaded, because that would have done it!

Ok, so we're at let's say roughly 1200 lines of code, we have 297 static images rendered "Zoey you're usually further ahead than this at three weeks!" and 21 Animations! Yes, that's why we don't have as many lines of code or renders yet. Because, the amount of animations I normally do for an entire update, I've been doing in the last week and a half (actually the last update only had 11, but I've done more in the past). The 21st should finish rendering during the night tonight, so tomorrow I can finally start finishing the other parts of the scenes, then move on! Don't get me wrong, I like doing them, but gheesh! Also, I couldn't write ahead much, because of the way these are laid out. I need to know exactly what happened during them in order to reference dialogue via variables in the content that comes after. There wasn't going to be any moving forward, then going back and finishing the dialogue for these later, like I normally do. Too many moving parts for that (no pun intended).

What are the animations of? Umm... Sexy times of course! 3/5's of the planned H scenes for this update are very close to the beginning (I'm sure you could have probably guessed that with them leaving together early in the morning from the club, so I don't see it as very spoilery telling you). The reason there's so many is because of pathing. You'll be able to see two of them if you've met the conditions (or all three if you've met the conditions and wanna save before I give you the option for the first two, more on that below). But, at the very least you'll get the one with Lydia by herself. If you don't qualify for the other two, or simply don't want to see them. I'm giving you a choice this time, if you want the two of them together, or just Lydia alone, whether you have the variable for both of them or not. 

There will be no penalty with Mary, if you choose just Lydia. And, speaking of Mary, wonder what the third scene is, and when it will happen (it's very soon after the first two, but time wise it'll make sense)? I'm also giving you a choice on this scene as well. Again, if you qualify (usually I'd base it on points and likely still will in the future, but in this scenario a choice makes sense). I'm trying to be as vague on details as possible, but I also want you guys to understand just how huge of an undertaking and time sync these scenes have been. . 

I usually do four of five H scenes over the course of an entire update, and they are spread out. But not this time, you'll only get two more after these. Also, I had to render these at 5000 iterations per frame, (I normally do 2000-3000 depending on the location). But, because the environment was too noisy to do them lower, and they would have looked bad, I did them at 5000. So, I've done the equivalent of 1260 regular renders (I do them all at 5000), time wise in the last week and a half. Now, they'll be postworked, then made into video files and compressed as normal, but it's still gonna add to the size of the update a little bit, having done this many. Plus, we have the other two scenes with animations, that will happen later in the update.

Once dialogue is written for these first three and the foreplay stuff is done, the lines of code will be much more! I'd say it's possible it could get to around 2000 at that point (probably not that much, but close). Like I said before, as much as I enjoy doing this part of it, I'll be happy to have the chance to move the story forward (not that they aren't part of it, but you get what I'm saying).

Lot's of really cool stuff planned for this one, including Barb's birthday party at the end of the second day, which MC and Mary talked about in the last update. Also they'll be scenes that take place away from this location of course, as well as some visitors who stop by. There's also the lunch with Mary's Mom, more info to come on MC's Dad, and a whole lot more stuff than that I won't mention. Plus, I'm sure some things I don't even have outlined that will be added!

Think that's about it for now, I'll check back in with you guys in a couple of weeks. Hopefully this time on Wednesday like normal, but I figured since I couldn't really do much but wait for these animations to finish tonight, I'd go ahead and do the dev update today.

As always, hope you are all doing well! Cheers! 

P.S. - I can type freely now for as long as I want with very little pain, so that's no longer going to be an issue! No ones happier about that than me, I assure you! I was a little concerned about a month ago if I'd have pain forever in this finger, but it looks like that's not going to be the case. Which is a relief!