Hey, hey, everybody! It’s Friday, again — but this Friday is an important one to many people. Some people even took the day off, even though it’s not a national holiday or anything. Even though it’s not something I observe, myself, I want to show my support to those who do.

Of course I’m talking about National Anime Day. I hope everyone enjoys Attack on Naruto: Brotherhood, or whatever’s popular these days.

I’ve actually started down the rabbit hole of learning After Effects! It’s not quite as daunting as I may have thought at first; but seeing what it can do makes me kinda excited to incorporate this into Mythos. Having a cool animated “opening credits sequence” could help grab the attention of people trying the game for the first time. Plus it’d set the mood for the whole game better than a dark interrogation room, followed by a cemetery. I really coulda planned that better…

I did have a panic earlier this week, as I was worried I’d have to put everything on hold due to my computer dying. Windows told me it had to restart for updates, so I just kinda rolled my eyes and restarted it to get that notification to go away (I hate having notifications on anything). After that, I started getting random crashes, with the error of “UNEXPECTED KERNEL MODE TRAP”. So I did the logical thing and went to uninstall the new update.

To which I got an error that it failed to uninstall because 🤷‍♀️.

People in my Discord were helpful, offering various troubleshooting options and possible solutions — none of which were working. I was nearly ready to do a full reinstall of Windows when I got a different crash error: “WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR”. That set off little alarm bells in the back of my tiny mind.

For those of you who have been here a while, you may remember I had these issues back when I first started working on this computer, which was solved by disabling intelppm.sys. The WHEA error was one of the ones it was throwing at me back then, so I decided to take a look. Lo and behold: The Windows Update apparently saw fit to re-enable intelppm.sys, which in turn broke my computer. So I guess every time Windows updates, I’m going to have to make sure it doesn’t re-enable the thing I’ve very deliberately disabled.

I don’t know what intelppm.sys actually does, but all I know is that my computer only works when it’s not there, so I just keep it disabled. 

Anyway, because of that familiar error, I only had one night of no-computer panic, instead of however long I’d be dealing with a fresh Windows install (which likely wouldn’t have even fixed the problem). So yay for that! 

Chapter Three General Progress:

• Side Image Re-Revamp 163 images – COMPLETE!
• Story Flow Chart – COMPLETE!
• UI Improvements – COMPLETE!
• New Music Tracks
  • As Above, So Below – COMPLETE!
  • Geraldine – COMPLETE!
  • Seventy-Five Year Trauma – COMPLETE!
  • Modred’s Legacy – COMPLETE!
  • Codito Ergo Sum – In Progress
  • The Dark Depths of Despair in my Blackened Soul (I’m Dead)
  • ???
• Learning After Effects – In Progress
• Introduction Scene by Nine – COMPLETE!
• Creation of New Characters – COMPLETE!
• New Mythos Logo (commissioned) – COMPLETE!
• Sex Animations
• Chapter Three Title Screen
• Organization of Daz Assets – COMPLETE!
• New Opening Title Sequence – In Progress (Storyboarding)

Chapter Three Scene Progress:

• Scene: Apologies to the Serling Estate – COMPLETE!
• Scene: A Little Help from my Friends – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Yeah, About That… – COMPLETE!
• Scene: It Goes to 11 – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Shantay, You Stay – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Your Call is Very Important to Us – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Reach Out and Touch Someone – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Fuck the Police
  • Writing – COMPLETE
  • Coding – In Progress
• Scene: Ah, My Goddess!
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Touched by an Angel
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Magic, the Gathering
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Grumpy Old Men
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Werther’s Original
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: The Lyin’ Bitch and her Wardrobe
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Ventrilo Harassment
• Scene: It’s Been Revoked
• Scene: Who Ya Gonna Call?
• Scene: Cry Little Sister
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
  • Coding – In Progress
• Scene: Fancy
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
• Scene: My Immortal
  • Writing – In Progress
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Keep the Legends Alive!

– Nine