Terminal Quickies: A Case of Conception - Part 1

Hello everyone,

It's been a while... Again... 😓 But, I've got some content I've been meaning to post here on the blog for some time that I'm going to start getting around to starting with this one!

Other than the places you can support my work (SubscribeStar & Patreon + the supporter Discord that you get access to for being a supporter), the only other place I really post is on my Twitter. Where I'm not quite as active as I should be, but at least more active than on this blog! (Yes, I will go and responds to the big backlog of blog comments soon after this)

At some point in the near future, I plan on opening up parts of my Discord Server to the public, so that more people can easily follow along with me, the Terminal Desires community & and keep up with what's going on. And before I get into the main topic of today's post, v0.10 is still several months away at least. I have confidence that it will be out before the end of 2021. I hope to have v0.11 out by then as well. It is the biggest release to date and a massive overhaul of the game's prologue so far. Check the Roadmap here for more details on what's being added. I'll try to put together a basic summary blog here at some point too. Keep in mind that I took 2 unpaid months off this year where I paused my incoming support. So v0.10's only really been in active development for just over 4 months. Apologies, but you will just have to continue waiting. I can't give release date estimations anymore because I always end up missing them and disappointing people. I hate it too, but it will be done when it's done. There will be Alpha & Beta Releases for supporters to try out, but they will primarily be for locating bugs, because there will probably be a lot this time cause of all the changes and new features. 😅

 

Right, now what the heck are "Terminal Quickies"!?

Terminal Quickies are a collection of canon stories set in the Terminal Desires universe written by me and accompanied by illustrations from various artists. For "A Case of Conception" this is a story centered around he character of Lara Wells and fleshes out her life as an associate attorney in Hardwood City (Where Tiffany & Terry are from) roughly 1-2 months before the events of the game (where we see her masquerading as a bimbo maid). It is also a great opportunity to expand on the world, introduce new characters (who may show up in the game later...) and divulge some information that doesn't really fit inside of the game's already bloated exposition dumps! And of course, Lara's story here is being illustrated by the wonderful popsiclebunny! 

With this post, I am finally making the first part of this story available to the public. However, Part 2 is available right now (Two more pieces of art & around 5000 more words) to all $1+ supporters over on SubscribeStar OR Patreon. From now on, every time a Terminal Quickies story receives an update over on those platforms, I will come and release the previous installment to you all on the blog here. 👍  Since it is important to have access to some of this information/lore since it is all canon after all and you never know what seeds I may be planting inside of these things for future game events! 😈

 

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY IN PDF FORM.

Also, here are some reference renders I did of Lara's design for her attorney look. 😘

 

 

Thanks for your patience, more posts soon. I have to share with you all the first pages of the Terminal Juggs Comic that I've been working on so that people actually know what to expect from that SubscribeStar project.

~ Jim