I once again just inched my way through a paragraph of the epilogue of NagaTen before consciousness decided to take its leave of me. It really is dragging things out, isn’t it?

That would be the end of it, but earlier in the day, I found myself having a rather light workday and I was gripped by a sudden surge of inspiration. You see, I’m considering Return to the World as the follow-up to NagaTen and I dang near did the whole week’s quota adding to Chapters 8 and 9. I’d almost forgotten what it feels like for the words to flow so freely. I could get used to it, but the artistic temperament isn’t nearly obliging. Anyway, you can probably expect more to come on that front. Stay tuned.

I made progress on Chapters 12 and 13 of NagaTen and did more work in the peripheral materials for WttW. I plan on making some progress on EM3, but I’d also like to finish those chapters of NagaTen as well while I’m at it. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Chapter 7 of TWH and did more work in the WttW peripheral materials. I really need to buckle down more on making story progress, but we’ll see if I can actually buckle down during Golden Week. I’ll make a goal of finishing a chapter in TWH and NagaTen each. Will I pull it off? Who knows? Stay tuned.

The main thing I accomplished was writing some of Chapter 8 of RttW, but there was also some work in the WttW peripheral materials, though not as much as previously as I’ve been goofing off a lot more. Work is starting up again, which will probably do more for actual story progress (as the story progress mentioned here was done during the days I was called in to sub). I suppose TWH needs some attention, so I’ll try to work on that. Stay tuned.

I spent the whole week on the peripheral materials of WttW, to include starting up the encyclopedia, which is a bit odd, because it’s usually one of the first things I do when starting up a new world. Of course I had to further increase complexity of the systems. I’ve added a decimal place to the weights, which forced me to go back over all the item entries, and also started to factor in volume and item dimensions. Loads of fun. Keeps me out of the beer joints, I suppose. We’ll see if I accomplish any story progress this week. Stay tuned.

As you can see, I got Chapter 5 of TWH done in time for the update, and, as you’d expect, I spent the rest of my time continuing my work in WttW. And I haven’t just been working in the peripheral materials either. I’ve gotten up to Chapter 7 in RttW. That one decision I’ve had misgivings about is pretty well locked in at this point, so I’m just going to have to deal with the consequences. World-building yet character-destroying, though hopefully as I develop the story further, the context will at least make it feel organic. Just going to have to roll the dice, I guess.

Expect more of the same this week, though I will try to at least finish another chapter of NagaTen while I’m at it. Stay tuned.

I at least accomplished one of my goals, rounding out Chapter 7 of NagaTen, but I didn’t touch on TWH any. You guessed it, I spent most of my time on WttW. However, rather than the peripheral materials, I spent a fair bit of time writing on RttW. I completed Chapter 1 and then got through Chapters 2 and 3 and started on Chapter 4. I may end up scrapping a fair bit of it, though. The main character does some things I’m not happy with. It sets the tone and establishes some concepts I want to convey, but I don’t like that he’s the one to do it. I need to try writing an alternate version and see how that fits. There’s a lot of juicy conflict that can be born of the original version, but I feel I’d lose the vast majority of the audience by doing it. I don’t know.

Anyway, I need to at least get the chapter of TWH that’s due out this weekend done. I’m sure WttW will continue to occupy plenty of my time as well. Stay tuned.

As you might imagine, WttW dominated my time, though I did managed to complete two of the three parts of Chapter 7 of NagaTen, so I almost achieved my stated goal. Other than working on the peripheral materials for WttW, I wrote a fair bit on Chapter 3 of RttW as the confrontation there is something I was itching to put down on (digital) paper.

Going forward, I’d like to finish that chapter of NagaTen and then probably go back to TWH, as I don’t have any buffer built up there, unlike the soon to be released EM3. We’ll see what I get accomplished. Stay tuned.

As you can see by looking at the main site, I did in fact manage to get Chapter 4 of TWH finished in time for the update and went on to write something like a whole sentence on Chapter 5. (I’ll obviously have to do a fair bit more than that in the next three weeks.)

Of course, I’ve continued to spend most of my time in the peripheral materials for WttW. Yes, the level of detail I’m going into is insane, but I’m enjoying myself and what more can you ask for out of life? I’ve started to seed the different zones (or Trials as they’re known in-universe) with wildlife, natural resources and such and as that gets done, I’ll have a better grasp of how the global economy operates. Eventually I need to start running combat simulations to test the game balance as well. Fun, fun, fun.

Although I’m going to be continuing full speed ahead on my development of WttW, I also need to do some writing on NagaTen. I’ve still got plenty of time before it gets released, but I would like to patch the holes in Chapter 7 at the very least. We’ll see what I get accomplished. Stay tuned.

P.S. The latest post to get assailed by spammers was “On Values Dissonance” with over 500 rubbish posts. If we had a more active community, I’d like to leave that one open for discussion, but as non-spamming traffic is quite light, I’ve gone ahead and locked comments for the time being. I may open it up later if ever there’s a demand for it.

Except for spending a decent chunk of Saturday writing manga reviews, both to cover Sunday’s update and in general to work on my to-do pile, I spent the vast majority of my time continuing my work on the peripheral materials for WttW. I did streamline the job system a bit, eliminating some fifteen of the Tier 3 classes, but that was the only thing I did to reduce the complexity of the game system. I’ve added so many mechanics, you’d think I was trying set the entire universe to a mathematic formula. (Almost. I’m not quite there yet.) However, that chapter full of holes in TWH is supposed to be out Saturday, so I’m really going to have to sit down and finish it, but how can I find the time when I’m trying to calculate the rate of spoilage for cumin or the strength requirement for an orichalcum rod? I’m sure I’ll eventually get to doing what needs doing.

Oh, by the way, the Russians have been spamming the heck out of this blog. (Apparently they don’t have more pressing concerns.) I had to close comments for the old post “A View into the Pit of Madness”, as it was clogged with over 1200 spam comments. I’m sure posterity isn’t going to need a lively discussion on my efforts to get the Ranko summon in Granblue. If I see any particular post get flooded like that, I’ll close the comments there too, but in general, I’ll be keeping comments open, even if there isn’t really any commentary to be had. And that does it for now. More to come. Stay tuned.