Burning Academia: Chapter 2 Release
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Burning Academia is a 17+ paranormal dark academia IF about family, magic, school politics, and the ghosts which haunt you.
Total Word Count (w/code): 89.2k
Words Added (w/code): 47.9k
Chapter 2 Features:
Have a weird encounter at work
Enjoy an almost normal day for once, or another bad one
No really, if you have a bad day this time it's on you
3 endings, each with their own lasting consequences
3 achievements, if that's your kind of thing
Content Warnings:
Severe: Discussions and depictions of death, gaslighting, emotionally unstable parent
Moderate: Scopophobia (eyes/staring), references to alcoholism, references to unhealthy coping mechanisms
Mild: possession
Chapter 1 Change log:
Added piercing and facial hair options during the customization screen
a handful of variable fixes
gonna be honest, I edited this chapter a few months ago and I don't remember what else I fixed, but I remembering fixing them
Upcoming in Chapter 3:
Consequences for your actions...or not
Go to your magic elective and listen to the voice in your head roast your professor
Pop quiz, because said professor hates you
Hit up the town, go to the freshman party, or break into one of the school buildings. You can even do two of those things, if you're lucky
Notes:
Chapter 1 saves might not work, but if you have any saves from the end of the prologue, those should work so you don't have to start completely from the beginning if you don't want! I'd recommend keeping a save for a chapter prior from now on, ie keeping a chapter 1 save for chapter 3, since there's always a possibility I will need to fix or adjust things in chapter 2.
Also I just wanted to give a vague update schedule. So 3 things: Zoe's backstory is going to be released in July! This is the only thing with a set time frame for release. Next, I want to focus on updating/fixing the UI before anything else, just because it's kinda been bothering me. This will be the next "game update" for BA. After the UI release will come Chapter 3. I'm hoping chapter 3 doesn't take 5 months this time, but that's up to life which has had a sniper riffle on me for the whole of 2024, so we'll see.
Lastly, as always, if I broke something feel free to send an ask or submit it through the google doc here!
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like don't get me wrong i am not immune to feelings of smug "oh i never liked them, i totally called that they were terrible", because frankly it's a very human thing to feel validated when someone you dislike is outed as sucking for what are perceived as more valid reasons. the problem with that line of thinking though, and the reason i try to tamp down on the urge to be smug about these things coming to light, is that it's frankly really fucking disrespectful to the people who did enjoy these creators, who admired and respected them, and more importantly, it's disrespectful as fuck to the victims of these people.
i feel like especially in cases of creators being revealed to be abusers it treads WAY too close to celebrating the fact that someone was abused--like, yeah, it feels good to be validated that you were right about someone's bad vibes, but when that involves someone being fucking hurt (especially when the someones in question are children) it just feels really fucking wrong to be happy about that. i just hate that this victim blamey attitude is so common in online spaces, especially ones that are otherwise claiming to be progressive.
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