About nine years ago, you lost everything. Your family. Your home. Your mother raised you and your siblings isolated from the rest of the supernatural world, careful to keep the fact that you were phoenixes a secret. But they still came for you. You were kidnapped by cultists and experimented on for years. Eventually, you escaped. But you were no longer alone in your body. Through the years, and living with a demon in your head, you grew to learn about the supernatural world and your place in it. You became a hunter, killing the dangerous monsters that lurk in the dark. You found a comfortable routine, but things are suddenly brought crashing back when a teenager is murdered and you are sent to investigate.
Work together with your newly formed team of Hunters to investigate a cult.
Learn more about your powers as a phoenix.
Find out the truth about what happened to you and why.
Do something about the demonic passenger stuck sharing your body.
Discover what happened to your family, for better or worse.
Find love with one of your new team members.
Maybe get your life together?
Play it here.
Romance Options
Isabelle – She is an Agent of the Council. Stubborn and quick to anger, she is reluctantly working with you on the case. She has had to learn how to be charming, but prefers to be blunt.
Eris – A fellow Hunter for the Company and your assigned partner for this case. She is flirty and mischievous. She tends to get herself into trouble, but is able to get herself out of it. Mostly.
Charlie – She's a PI with a knack for digging into things she shouldn't. You've crossed paths with her a few times before, though she is still unaware of the supernatural world lurking just under her nose.
Jarrod – He is a mage and, though he doesn't work for the Council, is tagging along to help your new team with the case. He is sweet and tends to be more than a little nervous.
Marshall – He is an Agent of the Council and hard to read. He is part of the team you are stuck working with. He takes everything a bit too seriously and tends to be rather rigid in his beliefs.
Content Warnings: violence, gore, drug & alcohol use, strong language, abuse, mentions of suicide
Still here. Things have been bad and I haven't gotten much done. I've been working on stuff, trying to get back in the habit of writing again. I wanted to wait until I had more to say, but I don't know when I'll actually have something concrete.
Thanks to anyone who sent messages and sorry I haven't responded. I am still working on this and whisper, just very slowly.
I hate to go through this all over again. On July 23rd, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.
This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, and some creators were banned without warning. Any funds banned creators have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.
This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors like Mastercard and Visa threatening to pull their services.
The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.
Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!
Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide.
Graphic, contact info, alt text, and script by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:
⊘Anti-Censorship Campaign ⊘ ⟡ Complaint Letter Template Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about
Paypal:
Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
Hours: 6am - 6pm PT
Online (for non-users or logged out - UK bc US site ONLY allows logged in users)
Mastercard:
Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Online form
Visa:
Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
Non-US numbers
Online form
Script:
Customer Complaint Dept,
This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses.
These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line.
The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices:
1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products.
2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions.
Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them.
If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Customer
***
OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO
Sign this petition from the ACLU:
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find your reps’ contact information on 5calls.org.
Script, from here:
Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME],
-or-
Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME],
My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents.
I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa.
Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship.
Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation.
Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment.
Thank you for taking the time to listen today.
UPDATE: Apparently it is Stripe specifically putting the pressure on Itch.io:
“The open case we have with Stripe right now is probably most critical right now. They apparently are or will be making a determination on the eligibility of our entire platform soon. Do what you want with that information”
Contact info for Stripe can be found here and here:
I just wanted to make a little quicklist of actions I've seen posted around that you can take in regards to the payment services restricting what we are and aren't allowed to buy and sell. Most of these take under a minute. Feel free to add to it!
Petition
Change.org (US)
ACLU (US)
Parliament (UK)
Call
Mastercard (US): +1-914 249-2000
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): +1 (650) 432-3200
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113
Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309
Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767
Contact Your Rep in Support this Bill (US)
Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.
Wait, I'm dumb and slow so please forgive me. But seeing that ask mentioning that now we know what mc is right from the beginning got me wondering, was that always the plan? Like, one of the plots for the first version of the story would be finding out that mc is a phoenix?
Let's be honest. His child version of our oc had the worst experience Of his Existence, it's not surprising we had that theory in our head You may or may not have a surprise waiting for us. like have killed Charlie.
Most of our theories behind closed doors. When you were still in choice of games was that you might have planned to kill her off in the most gruesome way to traumatize Character and get him back in his drinking habit And might want more revenge than normal.
A crap I got that mixed up. I remember the secretary from the last game. And the life of me, I can't remember her name. That you didn't put in the romance section. But she was slowly becoming a romance character by a lot of us. But in reality we thought something terrible will happen.
I'm pretty sure you got it right. I changed Charlie's role in the rewrite, so she doesn't work for Bennett anymore. I'm still curious what theories you guys have or had about her.
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