Hi everyone. I was planning to do this with the next update, but Patreon finally decided to pay attention to my account and shut it down. As such, the full version of Pacha's Quest is now being made available for free. You can download the full version off Mega https://mega.nz/file/4XIQXSKL#LRv4i.....ERfUcF2QjPfLkM although if you copy across any saved made from the free version, you'll need to send Pacha to an inn and sleep before the Patreon content will be unlocked.

Thanks again to everyone who is still following this. The next version (allowing you to complete the main plotline) is still under progress, but it is going to be at least a few more months until it's finished, I'm afraid, After that, there may be a little more added to fix some bits that I'm still not happy with and add a few bits of side quests that ended up getting overlooked, but the game as a whole is nearing completion.

So I kind of messed up and left the new area that was supposed to be available in in the Patreon version of Pacha's Quest locked. That should be fixed now so Patreons who redownload the game should be able to enter the otter village. Also, save files from a previous version can be copied from previous versions in order to keep your progress, but it is generally a good idea to send the party to sleep after doing so as that makes sure a few parameters are updated.

It's been a really long time since I last had anything to upload but more stuff is coming soon, I promise. I've been busy with one of the largest projects I've ever worked on, but it's nearly finished now and hopefully it will be ready soon. Sorry for the long delay.

My friend unknownredfox recently uploaded his first story, and it only just occurred to me that I should probably add a link to it. So here it is.
Hope you all enjoy it. It's a little kinkier than most of my stuff but a very good story.

Hunting hours is mentioned in several of my stories so I decided to create a brief explanation of how it works. The actual laws are more complex and written in garbled legalese but this explains some of the basics. This will probably get updated quite frequently as I think of more things that need explaining.

The starting concept is hunting hours. Hunting hours is a set time during which it is predation is legal in public spaces. Hunting hours usually lasts from 10 pm to 4 am, although a few places have slightly different times for this.

During hunting hours it is legal to claim people as prey as long as they are in a public place (including the streets, parks, and government buildings, although some exceptions apply to hospitals) and you can subdue them. It is definitely not legal to break into a private property to do this. Even if the prey invites a predator into their home, they are still protected.

Inversely, it is always legal for a predator to eat, or imprison to be eaten or sold later, anyone who enters their home. Basically, in public predation is allowed anywhere between 10 pm and 4 am while in a private building the owner has the final say over who can eat who. Certain legal contracts can override this allowing, for instance, a rabbit to work as an electrician and safely enter a predator’s house in order to do their job.

Likewise the legality of eating someone while in a shop is determined by the owner of the shop. Most businesses will ban their customers from eating each other, but not all. Some may choose to allow predation during hunting hours while others (that don’t care if prey species never come in) may permit it at any time but this is pretty rare.

There are some slightly more complex laws regarding prey renting a house from a predator, or a predator renting from prey. Without getting into the full details both the owner of the house and the tenant would be safe from being eaten by the other.

Once someone has been claimed as prey they are usually eaten straight away to remove the risk of them escaping but they can also be kept prisoner, either to be sold at a later point or simply until their captor feels hungry.

As a prisoner, prey have very few rights but that is not the same as none at all. They are permitted to try to escape from their captors and, should they succeed, any harm to the predator or damage to his/her property will be considered to have been inflicted in self-defense.

They also cannot be held to any contract or agreement. It is illegal for predators to attempt to extract payment of any kind from their prey, or even accept payment if it is offered. This rule isn't exactly very popular with prey who have been caught, as it prevents them from being able to bribe their captor but its introduction did lead to a massive decrease corruption.

Predators can accept payment from a third party in exchange for their prey and there are several restaurants that specialize in buying caught prey to serve to their customers. They can, of course, also accept payment from a friend of their captive in exchange from releasing them, although any agreement that the prey may have to pay their friend back for the rescue would not be legally enforceable.

Interfering with someone else's catch is a bit of a gray area. Taking someone's prey with intent to eat or sell them would be considered stealing, but helping a friend to escape is allowed.

I just started a new story and while saving it noticed just how large my unfinished stories folder has become. Not counting branches where two versions of the same story have minor changes, there is still around 100 different files in there. My pictures file is nearly as bad. No wonder I rarely have stuff to post here.

I have a lot of characters (possibly due to going through the prey ones so fast), in various different worlds and settings.
If there is anything you'd like to ask any of them about themselves or their world, here's the place to do it.

Laptop died last week so I haven't been online for a few days. As the problem was a hardware failure I'm now on a new laptop and have spent most of the day trying to get it set up the way my old one was.