chapter 12 draft

Hello, happy holiday season, and best wishes for the coming new year! There have been more people choosing to follow (presumably for this project) in December than the whole year before then. Welcome!

A few heads-up:

1. I need to work on a paying gig for a while.

2. Despite having done a “soft-change” to the project title, I kept the URL the same since it has been linked in a few places, and I’ve also kept the StoryTitle value of the project and only changed the StoryDisplayTitle value. This is not ideal. But to change it in StoryTitle (from “Long Live the Emperor” to “For Whose Majesty”) will cause previous save files to be unrecognizable by the updated code when that happens. This change will happen eventually, I just haven’t decided whether to pull off the band-aid now or later. Doing another 300+ clicks to re-create a save file is a lot of investment for a casual reader. I will try to give people advanced warning so they can prepare if they want. I think I might have figured out how to work around this issue (intercept save file deserialization in onLoad, change save.id to match what’s expected, then let the engine do the rest). We’ll see in the next update if old save files can still be recognized.

So far…

• 223,253 words (based on illume proofing method calculation)
• average of 337 clicks per read-through
• Chapter 12 draft is not extensively tested, so I would appreciate feedback on obvious textual or link errors.

Thank you for your interest and patience. 😊