Thread:SeaniiBoi/@comment-3452092-20171119044143/@comment-3452092-20171211000718

Based off what I've seen It Lives In the Woods is going to end soon. Right now including It Lives In the Woods we have four stories going on:
 * High School Story, Book 2
 * It Lives In the Woods
 * The Royal Romance, Book 2
 * The Sophomore, Book 2

Next week Home for the Holidays starts up. We suspect it's going to be short and if it is, this doesn't apply, because a two chapter story would end soon enough for this. Let's assume for the moment that it's not ending soon. Or it's going to be more than two chapters at least. Instead let's look at the other stories and potential end times.

High School Story, Book 2 is winding down (just as I am finally able to stand reading it, again, but it's definitely winding down). However, I don't see it ending before the year ends. It's probably got at least enough chapters left to get it through the end of the year.

The Royal Romance, Book 2 is also winding down, but honestly, I think we have a ways to go with it. We still have to find Tariq, confront him, bring him back, get him to talk to the press, and end Madeleine's reign as future queen. I'm still of the mindset that if you don't end up with the king, Olivia will, more and more as I see her emotional shell starting to crack and you see her feelings for him. My guess is that there are at least six more chapters for that story, maybe more, so mid January at least.

The Sophomore, Book 2 just started. We are still in chapter one. It's not ending any time soon. We have at least four more months of it, maybe five.

So I don't see any of them ending before the end of the year and unless Home for the Holidays is only a couple of chapters long, it's not ending before the end of the years either. That means there will be five books running at the same time. Okay, no big deal right. That's normal for Pixelberry. And that's exactly the problem. That's normal. I don't know if you have been paying attention, but apparently there is confirmation that Endless Summer, Book 3 is supposed to come out in December. I love that. It's my favorite series. . . but that makes six stories and I've only seen one week where they were updating six stories at once. Still, they did update six all at once one week. One was ending the same week another was ending and it wouldn't have happened except they skipped a week with Hero, Book 1 to work more on the book finale and had four the week before.

So maybe they could be convinced to give us a couple weeks of six since they gave us a couple weeks of four. Except, it wouldn't be six. It would be seven, because Endless Summer, Book 3 isn't the only one that supposed to start in December. There is also Red Carpet Diaries and it's supposed to come out during the Holidays 2017. There's only one more Holiday (or group of Holidays, I guess since there are three or four all bunched together) left this year and that's in December. If it didn't say 2017, it could come out in January, but this implies December.

So that's seven and I don't know about you, but I've never seen them do seven which tells me Home for the Holidays is going to be short (and since it's not known to be connected to anything else, I don't know why. Give us a holiday specially for something we already have, anything we already have . . . except The Sophomore. There are already a lot of those) and It Lives In the Woods is ending soon.

I hate that, but the math seems to say it's ending soon. There is all of that above, plus we only have four more collectables to get and we have gotten two at once more than once, so we easily could get all four in the next two weeks or maybe the next three. I want it to keep going, but yeah, it doesn't seem likely.

As to whom my MC is going after, Lucas. He caught my Nina's attention pretty early on and she really wants to make things work with him. . . only she can't afford diamonds to do anything with him since she keeps spending the few I give her to use on helping Dan. . . who currently has better nerve than Lucas, which is fully bizarre. Lindsey apparently really likes Connor, so I'm going to let her have him when I do her playthrough. Adam says Ava all the way for him and Simon likes Stacy. Mari and Tasha haven't told me who they like and I haven't gotten around to making the other two boys. One of the four of them will end up with Andy, but I don't know which yet and the other three. . . well, there are only five LIs, so :(. I want Noah and Dan to be LIs. I kind of want Lily to be one, too, but I get that they have a story line going on there and having her as a love interest would make it so you knew the outcome of her story line and they don't want that. Although really, it could just be that if you picked her, she'd have to choose between the two later down the line and not that things were going to go poorly between her and Britney. Still they made that choice, so it is what it is.

(In case you are wondering why I have six MCs, I played the first two chapters three seven times with six different characters to see if gender played any role in responses as it does . . . once . . . in Endless Summer, Books 1 and to see the faces of the little versions of the MC in chapter 2. After six playthroughs, I decided I wanted to stop, so the last two guys didn't get made and Tasha got abandoned for Nina [Face 2, Close Shave, Rock N Roll High School], my original MC.)

Yes, more genres would be super awesome and so would a PCU. That would be sweet. Crossovers, legit crossovers or mashups rather than just cameos, would be awesome, too. Seriously, why does Leo never visit his family? Is it because having him visit would require them to commit to which ending for Rules of Engagement they preferred? And let's have the MC of The Haunting of Braidwood Manor show up in The Sophomore. It's already been established that she attends with them, so why not. Or Victor could work at the coffee show with Zig. He sure seems to work there. I'm pretty sure Endless Summer is already in the works, but could a flashback with a situation involving one of the older students/graduates (Becca, James, Darrin, Madison, Edgar) show Sean and Craig playing in a football game. Or maybe a flashback in Endless Summer, Book 3 could include more of their past or even bring them into their past and show interactions with and of these characters. . . Darrin seems the most likely since he had to be on the team with Sean and Craig. Based off what we know Darrin might well have been Sean's backup like Chris was Darrin's. All three guys were Hartfeld quarterbacks.

So many options they could go with to make this happen and that's just a few more in addition to those you mentioned.

With a little bit of work (not sure how much, but it can't be that much more than they already are) they could let players choose if Leo is married to the MC of Rules of Engagement or not. They could let you choose if the MC of The Haunting of Braidwood Manor is dating Victor or if she saves Eleanor and is dating her and what she looks like and what her name is. Or even have the game ask if you want to pull data from the other two books to include things from them or start with a default.

- M