[May Password] & Night VI - Unaligned Zealot - Valdricht Route

The Nightborn Edition has a new update for Night VI. If you are a Zealot who hasn't chosen to bend to The Weaver's will and happened to be kissed by Valdricht on Night V, then you can look forward to a steamy interlude, a fresh helping of lore & backstory, and a very different post-fitting scene. While this route, and really this whole night, is fairly Valdricht-focused, rest assured that the second half of Night VI and/or Night VII will open the door (read: the bed) to Serax.

The Nightborn Edition: LINK

May Password: nytharadidit

Note, if you ended Night V kissing Serax, hang tight a little longer, I want to ensure that storyline is satisfying. Right now, it's just Valdricht chasing Serax off and having a whole long scene with him. If that ends up being how the first half of the night progresses, rest assured we'll still have some Serax-focused stuff in the second half of the night. I want to ensure you're able to sideline Valdricht in favor of Serax, should you choose, but Serax isn't exactly being charming enough to merit that sort of commitment, at least not with the Unaligned Zealot, sadly. It might just have to be that way, for the moment.

When I update the route, I'm going to remove the ending code that automatically routes you to the RO you have the highest bond with and let you choose which RO you want to have comfort you, that way you can easily explore both options and you also don't get baited into thinking you can seduce Serax away from Valdricht, at least this early.

I've already started implementing some changes based on the feedback from the last post. One thing I hinted at is the game modes are going to get changed. Right now, my plan is to make the Bound/Unbound distinction be closer to what it is in the free version, meaning Valdricht and Serax will be lovers regardless of mode but your sex scenes will be strictly MFM/MF in Bound Mode. The MF options will still be exclusive to the Patreon version and perhaps better, depending on how much drama you like.

This change will mean a lot less writing and coding for me, but it will also mean that the MF route(s) will have a lot of added tension should you choose to go down that path. In short, you get a homewrecker option and there will be angst galore. It won't necessarily mean completely alienating the other RO, there will be paths where you can keep the peace, but they won't make it easy for you to choose harmony.

My priority in streamlining things like this is that we're getting up to the pregnancy romance part of the story and I don't want to have to cut corners on giving unique storylines there because I'm juggling a bunch of game modes. It would be a lot easier to keep the game mode changes isolated to the sex scenes and instead focus on writing unique storylines if, as one example, you opt to have Valdricht's child in the NSFW route but you're also not reconciled with him for the whole choking thing, etc. There are so many little details I want to take time to write out, but it's hard to do that when I have to spend hours writing different passages depending on whether or not Valdricht & Serax are in a relationship. Let me know what you think about that, it's not set in stone yet and ultimately my goal is to ensure you guys have the story you want, even if it takes longer. I am not remotely near any state approximating burnout, I love this story and I'm happy to write it every day.

I'm still on track to get the NSFW Heretic route out this weekend, it's completely different from the other routes. The Heretic route will be out next week and it's similar to the Aligned Zealot route, but with some key differences. After that, I'm going to go ahead and finish the other half of the Heretic NSFW route first since it'll be the fastest. That'll likely be out next weekend.

Lastly, as for the alternate POV scene, if you are an Unbound Zealot and you submitted a profile, and you're a darksinger member, let me know so I can plug your MC into the next alternate POV scene. It'll be a darksinger member exclusive and I don't want to publish it only to realize that the MC's creator can't read it, I'd feel awful. The alternate POV scene will likely be out this weekend as well, but might get pushed to Monday if I get tangled up in code.

-Mortish