Hey guys. It's been a bit on my end, mostly due to some setbacks here and there. What time I've had has partially been put towards considering how the world will be presented by the time the RP starts. It makes sense for some points of interest to already exist of course, but like I said, there will be plenty to discover over the course of the story. As of now, the plan is to further divide each of the current three regions of Aurora into interconnected divisions, then down to their points of interest. And finally, depending on the point of interest, further consideration can be put into the services and whatnot that are supported there.

Likely not the best way to explain it, but next week I'd like to take that meaningful stab at an example: That of Tidal Town. It will be located within a prominent division of the Crescent Coastlands called Glistening Gulf (as of this post). Doing things this way already ensures a notable undertaking for me, so to spare myself in the short term I believe I'll forgo writing any sort of descriptions for divisions like this gulf. That said, the plan is to take a little inspiration from text-based RPGs and set a reusable format for POIs like Tidal Town for when players enter them in the IC. Might sound strange but even if any participating player can read everything there is to read in places like towns, their characters can only know and do so much given their circumstances. How much a character can reasonably do in a day is something that future me will have to decide on at some point.

Now as far as what Tidal should have on offer at the outset, right now I'm thinking that an open market, a guild hall and a post office would make for a good start. I'll get started on that when I get the chance and give an update next week when I feel like I've made enough progress. Wish I had something to show now, but I wanted some kind of update to keep myself from fixating on the lack of one, if nothing else. Anyway, yes I'm still alive and should still be next week. The first step is always the hardest and this project is the first of its kind for me so it's almost nothing but first steps. Like always, thanks to anyone waiting patiently for this, even if it's out of curiosity, and take care.