Progress 09.06.2025 and Changelog for ToaM 0.42.0

Hello all!

Monday and a release day... yay.

So there is not really that much to talk about, started rendering 0.43.0 and starting writing 0.47.0 later today. That's kind of it, really. Although I do a small request. There is a fairly important event in this update, not talking about the first event but something that happens at the end. I would appreciate if names wouldn't be mentioned since it would constitute a major spoiler for those who haven't been able to play it yet... And since the render would be a spoiler, let's have something else.

Random render, or maybe not. ToaM is basically done plot point wise. It's just writing all down. That's the easy bit. Now the plot points are moving towards Sorcerer 2, X event, Y event. How things start, and so on. How things end. All of those, I have a hefty amount of notes regarding things already. This is something I've considered, and it was mentioned in the gorgon epilogue bit. The Gorgoneion, it is a protective symbol from evil (or talisman), but it is also the shield that Athena made from Medusa's head after Perseus had chopped it off. So here comes the question, do I want to "merge" the Fiery Fangs and Gorgon lines in Sorcerer 2? Answer depends how I would do branching in Sorcerer 2. If I want to keep it simple I should merge the branches from Sorcerer, if I want to make things complicated I keep them separated. This could be easier the event that would allow merging them relatively easy, story wise.

Then I'll give you this as a bonus of sorts. There are three things I hate: interior design, clothing design, and hair design. Interior design is simple, I'm a minimalist. So a table, single chair, and a bed are perfectly valid furnishing for a room. Clothing and hair? Clothing is more... problematic with generously proportioned figures. Most noticeable is the shrink wrapping around the chest area. Then there is the thing: clothing reflects of your personality. So you need to think, would a character wear this or that clothing piece? Sometimes something more outrageous might fit better than you originally thought. Hair is... Gods, I miss Terminus, so easy there. With hair, it is a similar thing, but in additionally to personality it needs to fit the face shape and things. So depending on the character I might end up spending a few hours selecting both clothes and hair. Males are easy in that regard, just put them in a suit and some sort of short hair and done. For her clothing will be issue, so I need to find what fits... that's just a few hours of work going through all the clothes... Anyway to the important things now...

Changelog: ToaM 0.42.0

• 385 renders

• Implemented the next part of the story

• 1 hidden image

• Codex updated

• Grammar, spelling, and other fixes (Thanks to Adry, Shaddy, BryonSmothers3DX, Bread, Oaiki, Horny Toad, Michael Hamill, Orion, Fey)

Release schedule:

• $15 Tier: As soon as the post has had its final touches and links been verified.

• $10 Tier: 11th of June

• $5 Tier: 12th of June

• $3 Tier: 13th of June

• Public: 23rd of June

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