Somewhere in the north west of a land you wake up in a room that is locked, from the outside. In a small town you did not fall asleep in, it’s simply known as the Market, an isolated area built around the magic of nature, ecosystems, and the checks and balances involved in that. Most residents have some sort of magic and thus a role in maintaining the environment.
Some say they knew you as a child but your memories of those times are not quite all there, can you trust those in the town that you have found yourself lured to in? What are you doing here? Why can't you leave?
Customize your name, nicknames, pronouns, gender, sexuality, physical appearance, personality, etc. some through interactive choices and some through selections
Meet the four gender-locked romanceable characters: The Metalsmith, The Second-in-Command, The Herbalist, and The Gardener - click keep reading to learn more about them!
The ROs have grown up together (and you for some of the beginning of it?) slowly learn more about the intricacies in their relationships
Get some of your childhood memories back?
With an ecosystem that almost seems alive, try to parse out its intentions and survive while doing so
Manage the new thing, (magic?) that unlocks within you for your time at the Market
While you won’t die, for some reason or another, you certainly can get injured throughout the story
Except at the end of it all you’ll have a couple choices to make… which you might not survive
(They're all bi/pan/queer so you can't be locked out of someone's route because of your gender. Polyamorous routes TBA)
Nicola (they/them) - The Metalsmith
Magic: Sunlight
Height: 5 feet 8 inches / 1.73 meters
Traits: Charismatic, Responsible, Stressed
General Appearance: Appearing 24 they have wavy ginger hair that ends just above their shoulders and amber colored eyes. They are lean and toned with particularly strong arm and back muscles due to smithing and a more middling shade of golden brown skin. Due to an accident with their siblings when they were younger they have a natural slit in their right eyebrow.
Helena (she/her) - The Second-in-Command
Magic: Temperature Regulation
Height: 5 feet 3 inches / 1.60 meters
Traits: Kind, Polite, Distant
General Appearance: She has straight shoulder-length dark brown nearly black hair, typically styled into a wolf cut and appears 23. She has an average build leaning towards curvy and fair beige skin. She has a beauty mark on her left cheek and monolidded gray eyes.
Lynn (she/her) - The Herbalist
Magic: Air + Water
Height: 5 feet 5 inches / 1.65 meters
Traits: Genuine, Outgoing, Lost
General Appearance: With toned arms and a toned back she has an otherwise average build. She has coily dark brown nearly black hair in chest-length microlocs and warm dark brown skin. Her eyes are dark brown, she appears 24, and has a gap tooth smile.
Cedar (he/him) - The Gardener
Magic: Soil + Communicate with Plants
Height: 6 feet 2 inches / 1.88 meters
Traits: Strong, Gentle, Guarded
General Appearance: He has a functionally muscular build and wavy dark brown, nearly black hair that goes down to his mid-back, typically tied into a low ponytail. With a slightly cooler shade of dark brown skin he has light brown eyes. He appears to be 25, has a long straight nose, and dimples when he smiles.
Yvette (she/her) - The Head of the Market
Magic: ???
Height: 5 feet 10 inches / 1.78 meters
Traits: Well Liked, Refined, ???
General Appearance: She appears around 60 and has an angular build and stern looking features. She has cool pale skin and long white hair, due to age, that is typically tied into a low bun with a long blue ribbon. Her eyes are a dark shade of green.
Header image and word banners made with Canva by myself!
Profile picture I referenced a bluebell and cobblestone wall and drew it myself
Disclaimer: This is very much a work in progress and subject to change. This is also my first interactive fiction work and I haven't written anything creatively more seriously since I was much younger so I'm trying to get back into that rhythm. I am a university student entering my last year of school so please just keep that in mind in terms of expectations regarding updates and such. Thank you for your interest and understanding! :)
Hello everybody! I keep overthinking it so long story short this isn’t completely abandoned and I’ll be back after I graduate so summer time. I do apologize for the long long wait and sparse communication.
so! there will still be quite a while as I learn to code both for the game itself and for the neocities page it will go up on but! would you all rather I release the demo with just the prologue which will largely be character customization and some story setup (basically no to few story relevant choices, well those are still relevant but I hope yk what I mean) or should I post the demo when I have either part or all of chapter 1 written, edited, coded, playtested, etc.? I’m setting this for one week because there’s plenty of time before any of those options come to fruition
It has been quite a while and I apologize for that! Let me be blunt, I think considering the rest of my final year as an undergraduate student I will only be able to work on ADAM during my longer holiday breaks. So that means upcoming winter break (after finals 😬) starting mid to late December. My next and final semester will have a higher class workload than what I am currently working with now so... 😭. However, after I graduate and enter the job search 💀 I will have more time to consistently work on ADAM.
I think I need to warn you guys do not expect frequent updates! So to clarify I will not be posting progress updates every other week. I unfortunately had to bring my friend to the ER again, I have quite a few big school projects due these next two weeks, and I feel like I’m starting to get sick. Nothing beyond some bits of outlining have happened these past weeks.
I do want to say though I am not stopping work on A Day at the Market! I just want to be straightforward about what you all should expect for now.
ROs favorite places (on the body) to kiss and be kissed? 👀
hehhehe thanks for this ask anon :) mild nsfw below the cut!
(still figuring out formatting for asks but this an option I like)
Nicola:
To kiss: your lips, they like to nip at them in particular and leave them swollen and flushed
Be kissed: their cheeks or more generally their face, they blush quite easily and love when you leave a succession of kisses all over
Helena:
To kiss: your neck, even if not to leave any marks she loves the way she can still hear and directly feel the small differences in your breathing and pulse against her lips
Be kissed: the inside areas of her wrists are somewhat sensitive and she loves quick pecks there or licks in... other situations
Lynn:
To kiss: your chest, more specifically at the juncture of your chest and ribs she loves placing featherlight kisses along those lines
Be kissed: her thighs, she prefers hidden marks on herself and adores a light bite or two on her inner thighs
Cedar:
To kiss: your hands for sure! he's always one to kiss each fingertip or brush his lips across your knuckles in passing
Be kissed: around his ears, give a light suck on his earlobes and you'll send shivers down his spine
Hiii lovely author! I was wondering, say MC has a jealous episode. How do the ROs react? Who's flustered, annoyed, teasing, enjoying it, completely oblivious, etc?
hi hi lovely anon!! ooooh fun, thanks for the ask :)
well, considering the relationships, and past relationships, the ROs have this isn’t completely out of the ballpark to occur in the game so I’m going to be a bit more general rather than full on scenarios!
⬇️ answer below ⬇️
Nicola
They catch on quite quick, all it takes is a comment or a look from you and their mouth will pull to the side into a small smirk. That is before they apply the proper correction measures needed for the situation.
Helena
She's a bit oblivious, never quite fully certain someone is flirting rather than simply being friendly or requiring something from her. So when you come up to her perhaps more possessive than usual? She's not questioning it really.
Lynn
Her head tilts to the side, eyes falling to half lidded as she realizes that you're jealous. She's definitely more on the teasing side, not by further interacting with who might have caused the jealousy but in little quips to you.
Cedar
He might take a bit to catch on but he's fast to shower you with affection and reassurance, especially if this is a one off situation. Internally he definitely preens a little at feeling desired.
In case you didn't catch the posts, not much has progressed this past week ish due to the full body rash I have that was an allergic reaction to all the wisdom tooth medication I had to take 😞
I went to the allergist and got given new medicine which seems to be taking affect, but I am definitely still itchy. So I've been taking it fairly easy and just doing some mild editing, answering asks, and expanding my outline for chapter 1.
The coding was put on a very temporary pause as that takes me a level of focus I don't have with the itchiness. I should be getting back to it these next couple of days as I get less itchy!
Here are some things I added later on to the last progress update so I figured I should add them here too (updated because of the demo poll results! thanks for voting :D):
I will likely put the demo on both neocities and itch for now and will adapt what gets put on which platform as things unfold further with that situation.
