“You wanted to see me?”
The office of Campbell Graves, President and Founder of CIRCE, has always stuck me as unusual and uncomfortable. On the highest floor of the headquarters building, an extravagant view can be seen from the expanse of glass covering a quarter of the wall in the completely circular and embarrassingly sparse office.
A plain desk with a few drawers adorns the middle, with one uncomfortable chair behinds it and two more in front. A laptop, lid down as always, lays atop. On the east wall, a couch as rigid and unwelcoming as the chairs. West wall, a single bookshelf, tall but not wide, almost entirely filled.
WARNING: This post will be highly spoilerific. If you have not completed our game, Fuyu no Tabi, I would avoid reading this post until you do so, unless you want to have all the fun ruined before you go into it. Also, I promised a few people I wouldn’t write this until the end of the month, but I got impatient. Seriously, don’t read this yet. Fuyu no Tabi first. And finally, this thing is kinda loooooooooooooooong. So really, skip the whole damn thing.
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Ryou and the Fuyu cast stumble upon a massive blood stain on the floor of a cornered off room in the snowed-in lodge they are staying in. No body turns up, but one of their own, Souichirou, has completely vanished from the house, leading everyone to the same conclusion. Murder. Thus we reach the entrance to the murder maze of Fuyu no Tabi… What lies at the exit? Does the exit even exist? How do we reach it? Ryou finally pieces it together, the snow dies down, the path clears, and they follow the route to the end of the maze to discover that the identity of the culprit is…….
I’ve been kinda quiet here lately for good reason. Most of February was spent working on a longer term project with the guys at Team BG which we’re all pretty excited about. Progress is steady, which is a pretty significant surprise coming from my end, and we hope to pick it back up right where we left off once April starts.
But the current development was our attempting that wily ol’ challenge, Nanoreno, for this year. There was a bit of talking and planning in that last week of February when suddenly Enerccio hit upon a really exciting idea that we all thought was worth pursuing. And now that things are beginning to wrap up, I can look back and say it definitely was. The writing for this project was quite a ride and it’s been really fun. There’s this pretty long span in the middle that I had to write that I couldn’t stop thinking on, getting more and more excited. “Oh, maybe I can include this…” “I definitely have to touch on that…” “If it were me, I’d bring up this…” “Damn, man, this is too much fun.” For what’s usually a high pressure time for most of the EVN scene, I sure had a blast. ‘Course, having a co-writer takes off a bit of the pressure.
Fufufufufu… only 10 days into the new decade, and I’ve already finished a very small game, one that I had quit before… Much like Araiah had, this one was given a chance at a revival, and I took it, surprising myself. AND I actually managed to finish it… I dunno if they put anything in the water around here recently to make me get so much more done instead of lazying away for months, but I don’t hate it ( unless whatever chemical causes cancer… and then it’s a very passive hate ).
In the end, it is significantly different and significantly smaller than the original plan, but that’s the move you have to make to see some things to completion. I didn’t like where it was going, so I sent it in the opposite direction, thanks to a little outside suggestion that’s come since quitting it in round one. And man, has it turned out better. At the very least easier to write. I pounded away a surprising 1500 words one night to finish the thing up, which is way beyond my usual attention span.
But I’m keeping it to myself for a little while~~~ I do hope that those who haven’t seen the cookie wrapped inside this little project get a kick out of it, and I hope those that already have, get a kick out of the wrapping. I did… it was a really fun and breezy experience. Now if all things can go so smoothly for me.
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