State of Decay #12 (September 2025): Small updates + Imminent first anniversary rambling.

Well, it’s that August SoD I discussed last time, I thought this thing was just going to end up as a sentence or two, but it’ll be *just* a touch longer as I worked on some stuff (slightly) that isn’t stuff I’ll put in the anniversary blog post; still nothing of any value, but it’s better than what I expected, which was nothing. Also, I can just fill some space with pointless nattering about the anniversary, nice!

This month has been so long for me, obviously it’s only been as long as any other month, but to me it feels like this one has dragged and dragged - From heatwaves to more heatwaves to another heatwave just after it seemed like they were done for the year, I’ve been pretty miserable and mostly unable to work on stuff due to said heatwaves. The saving grace this month was that when it *wasn’t* warm, I did a decent amount, well, a little amount, but still a little bit; most of it pertains for stuff for September fourth, but in terms of stuff for the here and now: I’ve done a little more work on sound effects, still far less than I should have, but any progress is progress when it’s something that isn’t fun. I also did a few things here and there, just a bunch of super tiny things whenever I felt like it, nothing worth noting though… I guess I’ve slightly updated the website here and there again, just to make it a touch nicer; I’ll stop mentioning this from now on though, unless it’s vaguely major/notable~

Anyway - September fourth, Toparo’s (admittedly entirely technical, mostly arbitrary and unearned) first anniversary… Just four days until Silks- I mean, just four days until the finished website and “There Once Was A Monster in Wonderland” were released to the world one whole year ago… Hmm… is it too early to claim my own creation is making me feel old? Yes, yes it is, give it a few more years~

Also, I’ve only just realised that the “A” in “There Once Was A Monster in Wonderland” should probably be lowercase. Uhh oops? I’ll probably fix that soon haha.

Anyway, anyway, anniversary! What’s happening? What isn’t happening? What was *going* to happen that isn’t going to end up happening? There’s a few things in each camp, (as of writing) there is only one (1) thing that is completely 100% done and has been for a while, but there should hopefully be a small and tiny second thing that *should* get done in the next week; that small thing is a small consolation prize for the thing that was supposed to be *the* thing, but ended up missing out due to the rampant heatwaves + I decided to make it a touch bigger because I knew I’d be missing September fourth by a decent margin anyway. Should come out this year though!

That’s for the anniversary day though~ I’ll need to put my nose to the grindstone to ensure everything’s ready, so that’s that for this one (^^; Though it’s not like anyone is reading this at time of posting lol.

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This month’s crystal ball grazing: You’ll need a second plan to get through this month, but if you play it off right, it’ll look like you never had one.