Dark Maiden Update & Darksinger Password

There's a new Dark Maiden update for Darksinger & Duskweaver members. It contains the DMR goddess dream, the remainder of the moonday, the next dream, and a brief scene post-wakeup which will allow you to see the steady integration of the Wyransith translations as the MC learns. If there are no objections, I'm going to go ahead and continue writing the remainder of Dark Maiden Night III that way we can get our first Night III completion & full intimacy scene nailed down. Remember to get the new password below.

LINK: Darksinger Edition

PASS: apples

Housekeeping

• Dream #4 (not to be confused w/#3 the Lirael/Selyra dream) is completely different from the dreams you will have in Classic and Fated Mates. The scenario that plays out is exclusive to Dark Maiden Route and it is one of the formative experiences in your MC's youth.

• I'm going through and lightly modifying some Wyransith grammar this week, so if you see grammar in the new content that is a bit different than previous passages that's part of the new structure. I'll be streamlining the irregular verbs to make it more readable for attentive players.

• I'll be updating the credits tomorrow with the current members of Darksinger & Duskweaver and will start updating them the first of every month.

• I had to start a new save game (lost my old one in computer apocalypse) and so I won't see if there are any coding conflicts with previous versions. Let me know if you see any rogue variables or Kerach's dynamics aren't displaying properly in your profile.

Wyransith

Anadhir - to breathe
Diol - safe
Dralen - soon
Huneth - dream
Hunleth - nightmare
Kethil - insular
Merine - to eat
Skelth - to suffer
Suvran - isles/islands
Suvrantafryk - Islari tongue (the Islari language)
Ynvel - another [person]
Zharu - then

Conclusion

I was a bit iffy publishing this one tonight. It's quite long. Even removing the third dream (which is actually a bit different in DMR) it's over 30 new passages and over 10,000 new words, actually tipping the rework over 100,000 words! However, I know a lot of you are excited to get to the sexy stuff, so I wasn't sure if it would feel satisfying if it ended without that. If you're one such reader, hang tight a few days and I'll deliver the goods.

For everyone else, I actually enjoyed playing through this update, seeing the MC's curious interactions with Kerach, watching her reluctantly conform to their routines, and I especially loved the dream. As I was writing it I worried it would be overly long/tedious. Maybe it is, but I generally have a low threshold for boredom with my own work and I actually enjoyed(?) reading Baby MC's latest memory. I think it really sets the stage for making the Dark Maiden MC a unique character and I love how the MCs are slowly but surely diverging from one another as the prelude progresses.

Thanks again for your patience while I got my bearings.

-Mortish