Dev Blog for Beneath a Bloodred Dawn IF WIP

Demo Status: In progress|| Target Demo Drop: Early 2026

[kpeverlyfiction]

"Beneath a Bloodred Dawn: Book 1 The Awakening" Master List (Updated August 2025:)

🩸 Beneath a Bloodred Dawn (BABRD) — Master List

by K.P. Everly | kpeverlyfiction.com

Status: In Development | Demo target: Early 2026

Tags to track: #babrd if | #ifdev | #interactive fiction

📖 About

You are the Chronomancer, bound to time itself and hunted by those who fear what you might become. Will you wield time to master fate? Forge your own path? Or let it consume you? The countdown to the Bloodred Dawn begins... now.

Genre: Dark Fantasy | Romance | Time Magic

Series Length: Planned 4–5 books

Book 1: The Awakening

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🗺️ Story Map — Book 1: The Awakening

Prologue – A Dream or Not?

Ch. 1 – Finding My Footing

Ch. 2 – Faces from the Past

Ch. 3 – Escape

Ch. 4 – On the Run

Ch. 5 – Where is Safe?

Ch. 6 – Forging New Alliances

Ch. 7 – Friend or Foe?

Ch. 8 – Don’t Look Back

Ch. 9 – Awakening

Ch. 10 – TBD (Endgame setup)

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💖 Romance Options (ROs)

Ezra Talon — Assassin, Silver Scale of the Red Scales Guild (he/him)

Eleria / Elendrin / Evail — Exiled Elven Royals (player choice: she/he/they)

Rinnaria (aka Rin) — To be revealed

Ashur / Ashlyn / Ashe — To be revealed

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🌙 Core Systems & Lore

Crystal Mechanic → reflects MC’s energy, mood, and magic.

Combat Styles → melee, ranged, or magic specialization.

Familiars → cat, dog, raven, owl, or fox; each evolves with care.

Chronomancy → freezing, looping, ruptures in time.

World-Building → Sul, Solara, and the gods’ war (ongoing updates).

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📝 Snippets & Updates

August 2025: Chronomancer Snippet in development

September 2025: Crystal Awakening Snippet in development

October 2025: Rin Reveal Trailer in development

(more coming soon)

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✨ Support & Links

Tumblr: follow the tag #babrd if

Website: kpeverlyfiction.com

CoG Forum Thread: (link when updated)

Patreon: coming soon

[sofia-d-asb]

This was genuinely one of the most well written, soul sucking text games/visual novels/novellas I've ever read. I played Stan's route, and oh my god the pining, misery, mystery, push pull, ect... it was so good. Thank you for your amazing writing and excellent characterizations! It's not often I am impressed by someone's work, and even less so that I am compelled to tell them that directly! Hope there's more in the future <3

Thank you so very much! ❤❤❤

[chenria]

With the current weather making it too hot to do much of anything I at least had enough energy and motivation to finish this little fanart of Cyril Lavignac of "Arcadie Cold Lands".

[sofia-d-asb]

😍

[sofia-d-asb]

Choked, gagged and coughed blood. Jaw dropped when I got Cyril's *best* ending and I'm afraid of failure now.

Loved the sequel, it's really seamless from one game to the other and all the choices got even more nerve wrecking. I really enjoyed the nvl style too! The QoL of the new format is really comfortable. Congrats and thank you for the new game I genuinely loved it ToT

Thank you ❤

[kpeverlyfiction]

I absolutely need to read this IF now!!!

[sofia-d-asb]

If you've purchased Arcadie II: Cold Lands on Steam, please leave a review if you can.

It truly helps!

Thank you ❤

[sofia-d-asb]

🔥 RELEASE DATE 🔥

⭐Wishlist the game on Steam!

@interact-if

[when-life-gives-you-lemons-if]

Submitted!

Hey… um… it's done.

I just submitted When Life Gives You Lemons to Hosted Games. Here are some FAQs:

1: When will the game come out? A: I don't know yet. Hosted Games will have someone read through the entire game, and they'll send me feedback on anything they want changed or removed. That process takes some time, so please hang in there. I'll share updates as soon as I know more.

2: How much will the game cost? A: I don't know. As the author, I don't decide the price. Hosted Games does, and we'll only find out once the game is released.

3: How many words is the game? A: Notepad says it's around 901,582 words (including code), but it could be a bit less. I was hoping to hit a million, but it is what it is.

4: How many chapters are there in total? A: 12 chapters.

5: Who are the ROs? A: There are 6 ROs in total: the teacher, the neighbor, the ex/childhood friend, the cop, the barista, and the boss/co-worker. All are gender-selectable.

6: So what now? A: I need to finalize The Wedding for release in June on Steam and Itch.io. After that, I'll focus on Patreon content, (I've been neglecting Patreon for a while. 😭) then on finishing A Taste of Heat (formerly Spices of the Heart).

Please consider buying the game when it comes out. As the author, I will mostly receive about 25% of the revenue, while Hosted Games takes 75%. It sucks, but that's how it works.

The public demo on COGDemos will be taken down on May 15.

This game started as side content for Patreon and officially went live in July 2022. It's crazy to think that four years later, it's become something people love, and hopefully it'll get released. Thank you again to everyone for the love and support. 💕

I can die now, and you'll have this to remember me.

[anathemafiction]

Quick! Top 5 list of favorite books

This is near impossible. The list keeps changing, but at this exact moment, in no particular order…

1984 by George Orwell

LOTR trilogy by Tolkien (no, it's not cheating)

Memorial do Convento by José Saramago (my goat, fav writer of all time)

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

If you meant favorite IF books, however, here.

[sofia-d-asb]

Looking for Beta testers!

I'm looking for people interested in beta testing the final version of Arcadie II: Cold Lands.

Only on PC/macOS/Linux computers

You will be credited as a beta tester (unless you prefer to remain anonymous)

You will be testing the final version of Arcadie II: Cold Lands

I am looking for feedback on:

plot, pacing, choices

bugs and continuity errors

typos

Interested? Fill out this form!

[artsyaprilmr]

Victoria please just one chance 😭❤️

[infamous-if]

CHAPTER 5 PATREON (ALPHA) UPDATE

Latest update -> CHAPTER 5 (04/27/2026)

✮ CHAPTER 5: 230K WORDS ✮

BAND TIER: APRIL 27 2026

FAN TIER: MAY 13TH 2026

The cast of BotB season four has touched down in a new state: Ohio! That's right—they're infiltrated G's backyard (and maybe someone else's?) Unfortunately, the rockstar isn't happy about this development considering the people who have decided to show their faces here. Meanwhile certain rumors are tainting the BOTB brand while the home lives of the ROs are starting to creep up on them. Will there even be a tour? Who knows?

As usual, MC remains in the center of it all. Their plans for their future comes into question when they're forced with new faces and possibilities. That is…if they even have a career by the end of this. For some MCs they should probably keep in mind to think with their head and not their…you know!

Hi! It's been a long time coming but I'm excited to share the Chapter 5 alpha demo! Thank you for your patience and enthusiasm :) Please read until the end. Without fail I get questions that are answered in this post almost immediately after publishing it aha

I'm calling it an alpha demo because, and not to get all sad and lame, after the death of my family member I did not feel like adding more to my plate (aka beta testers). Writing took up much of my time already and it just hasn't been the right time to include other people into the process. Of course, that must change, and I will be getting beta testers soon now that the alpha is out. As always, the chapters are subject to change and improve as time goes on.

So with that said if there are errors im all ears! I will try to be as timely as possible.

NOTE: if you're band tier sub from late march to april expired, please send me a message so I can send you my email and send the demo. In the email be sure to add your email, subscription tier and proof! *If not proof then I can use your email to search it up!* Band tiers will get it immediately + fan tiers will be put on a list to get it in May!

PLAY ON PATREON

[infamous-if]

finally finishing final playtests ! chapter 5 is

nearly 200k words 🥲

has a soft lock in (the first lock in infamous!) (but soft?!)

smut

has the most stat dependent dialogue in any chapter

the most plot info ever revealed so far!

The most thorough playtests I’ve ever had to do for a chapter! In the homestretch rn! the surprise drop is right around the corner and im positively buzzing (even if my fingers hurt from playtesting the past 2 weeks)

[barbwritesstuff]

I genuinely think interactive fiction is an underappreciated art form.

[barbwritesstuff]

I hope you know I still think about sergi every once in a while. I re-read blood moon last week!! I love sergi I need to kiss that big mean angry man's face. he's so fine omg??

on a more serious note, coming back to this game after coming to terms with the fact that I'm disabled irl, has been sort of soothing in a manner? we don't always see characters with disabilities in IFs, or at least I haven't much. would sergi find any comfort if his partner was a disabled person as well? (whether physically or mentally, I got both anyway). there's a level of comfort to it in my eyes, don't have to feel guilty for "holding" an able bodied person back or have to pretend to be okay some days

I know this is pretty small fries, but it's worth mentioning that the howling the werewolves experience in Blood Moon was inspired by my tinnitus. I experienced a physical change in 2020, I didn't like it, but I also knew it was a forever thing, so I was going to have to learn to live with it. Suddenly (and in hindsight unsurprisingly) I started writing about werewolves that have to listen to the moon screaming at them all the time, but they distract themselves by living loud, loving lives.

The werewolves are very familiar with physical and mental difference (they're not able to seek medical attention very easily so disability is probably more common in werewolf populations than human ones) and their elite gamer strat for overcoming all the baggage that comes with it is love.

Those motherfuckers love each other, need each other, and support each other through everything. Abled packmates and disabled packmates are all still packmates.

Sergi is profoundly injured during Blood Moon, both mentally and physically, but he isn't less of a man werewolf for it, and he wouldn't consider a disabled person less interesting as a mate either. That's just not the way the wolves think, and especially not Sergi.

💙

[infamous-if]

it's april and chapter 5 will be looked at by people other than me (and my friends) this month…NERVOUS

[infamous-if]

got to exercise my romantic muscles with the ROs (some more than others) this chapter 🥲

[infamous-if]

February 2026

I hope the start of the year has been great for everyone :) or as great as it can be with everything!

The start of the year has been a weird one. And not a very good one for me. Unfortunately I've been dealing with a death in the family. It was not sudden but it sucks all the same. Thankfully writing and other hobbies are always a welcome distraction.

I know! Amy take a break be a normal human person for once but I have taken a quiet one but I realized that having an idle mind makes things worse for me. I like being productive. It gives me something to do.

August's special should be up tomorrow. As for Chapter 5, I've been playing through the whole demo to make sure everything is how i want it to be with chapter 5's addition. I haven't been working on the demo as much as I was hoping for due to this recent development but I keep on truckin.' I secretly feared I'd get a people asking me whats up but surprisingly—and completely unprompted—have been told to take breaks??! I love u guys lolol

Chapter 5 is a good bright spot because of how much I love it. There are awkward dinners, parties, impromptu performances, overbearing paps, scandal, unhealthy habits and mistakes made. It's the essence of Infamous and I'm excited for everyone to read it ! :)