Just a little heads-up! The next part of the update will be back to the one picture per panel format! Please let me know which one you prefer so i know more which one to lean into in the future updates and posts! Thank you! :]
The time has come for the Memento Mori Chapter 1 release!
Chapter 1 (~15,000 words) is now up on itch.io. ⋆˙⟡♡⟡⋆˙
With the prologue, the game is now at about 24,000 words in total!
Aside from advancements to the story, the update features new UI and other cosmetic changes. You need to restart your game. If you play from your prologue save, the game will not work.
I will be following the tag "mementomori-if"!
If you send reaction asks containing spoilers, I'll answer them with the tag "mmspoilers", so mute that tag if you want to! Please feel free to tell me your thoughts and reactions to the update, I love reading all of your messages ♡♡♡
I'll wait a few days before responding to asks that contain spoilers, but know I read each and every one of them.
Please heed the warnings that show on the game's sidebar. Things get worse before they get better.
Please send me a message if you notice any bugs. I playtest everything but when you've read your own writing this many times...
Finally, I posted the playlist I listen to while writing Memento Mori! If you want to get a feel for the game's atmosphere, you can listen to said playlist here:
Thank you all again, I'm sending you so much love! ⋆。゚☁︎。⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。⋆
Cheye
“Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”― Remy de Gourmont
Serialized media is so good I love you serialized media. I love you experiencing a story slowly I love you waiting and building excitement and theorizing every week/month between releases. I love you trails of breadcrumbs I love you cliffhangers and mysteries and suspense. I love you looking forward to installments I love you regular release schedules I love you having a story become part of your routine. I love you serialized media.
Y'all, I have NEVER recommended such sus stuff, let alone FANFICS, but this one deserves it, okay?
I've been staying up until 4am the past 3 nights in a row to read an ongoing Hazbin Hotel fanfiction with 32 chapters and 145,000 words that I have now finished catching up on. To put it plainly, it is an absolute MASTERPIECE. Somehow, the author has perfectly captured how it would feel to form relationships (both platonic and romantic) with the characters and not make it feel like their personalities were manipulated.
I don't usually like stories that use such sensitive trigger tags, but it was recommended to me by a fellow Vox simp and OH MY GOD, IT'S NOT EVEN JUST THE VOX CONTENT THAT I CARE ABOUT ANYMORE, IT'S LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT IT! THE PLOT IS GENUINELY GOOD, AND I WANT TO SEE HOW IT ENDS!
PLEASE, if you're into sus Vox/Readers, SUPER slow-burn Alastor/Readers, or stories with mild Baxter/Reader content on the side, GO READ The Medusa Complex over on Ao3!
⚠️ WARNING! IT HAS EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TOPICS WITHIN IT, SO READ THE DAMN AO3 TAGS! ⚠️
I feel like no one talks about how medic is probably the only one who knows what pyro's face looks like under the mask. I mean he is the team's doctor after all, he'd have to know pyro's biology or genetic makeup at least to some extent to be able to heal them properly.
Even if medic hasn't gotten pyro to take their mask off, he's probably collected their dna and can come up with a rough guesstimate off of that alone
For the WIP title game: hurt/comfort Morphienne??? 👀💓👀💓
(And thank you for tagging me!!)
💖💖💖 I hope you have as much with this as I have!
I actually only just got a chunk of this WIP done tonight! The main premise of this fic is that Hell attacks the Dreaming, and part of Dream's defenses includes automatically reabsorbing the essence of any killed nightmares and dreams. It has...some side effects.
Here's a quick snippet:
When the last of the demons fall, and the Dreaming is once again safe, Dream collapses onto the floor of the throne room, crying in agony as he tries to soothe the hurt of death for a thousand different entities residing within him. The dreams are loud in their sorrow, and it is so much, so much, too much.
Fiddler’s Green is the first to be resurrected, and then Gault. It is all he can manage before Dream is reduced to a sobbing, useless mess.
Lucienne holds him throughout the night, whispering words of comfort to Dream, and all that reside within him. It soothes the ache by the tiniest fraction, and he is grateful for her embrace.
With writing being one of my passions, you would think that I would have better words to articulate how excited I am for this demo release, and how grateful I am to everyone who has been nothing but supportive.
One month after creating the Memento Mori intro post, I'm releasing the prologue. I think that's pretty cool.
You can consider this to be Part 1 of the demo, as I anticipate the demo to be all the way up to Chapter 2 or 3.
The prologue sits at about 9,000 words, including all choices and branching.
Reminder that Memento Mori is rated 18+ for violence, gore, explicit language, sexual themes, drug and alcohol use, and other material that may be disturbing to some readers.
In case the link at the top of the post acts up, here is another link to the demo: https://etherealshadows.itch.io/mementomori
I will be following the tag "mementomori-if"!
If you send reaction asks containing spoilers, I'll answer them with the tag "mmspoilers", so mute that tag if you want to!
Please send me a message if you notice any bugs. I've played and replayed the demo so many times that I think each line is seared into my cornea, but I know that there will be things I've missed.
Thank you all again, I'm sending you so much love! ⋆。゚☁︎。⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。⋆
Cheye
"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red." -Clive Barker "Books of Blood"