Heya, Chordies! It's Bowser :3.

It's that time again! The newest installment for our short story series, Chord Progressions: Staccato, is up and running on Patreon!

Staccato is our Patreon exclusive series available to tier 2 or tier 3 subscribers.  Sign up today to get access to the newest story plus all five of the other short stories.

The newest entry is titled Combust. It serves as a sequel to Spark, and Smolder. This one's canonical for Chester's route in the mainline series.

In this entry, we join Darrell and Trent the morning after their Friday night out on the town.  Trent slept over at Darrell's house after being too drunk to get himself home. As the day progresses, the boys find themselves more and more drawn to each other, but can't quite figure out how to say it. Will this blossoming romance be a bust, or will they be able to find the words they're looking for?

Combust includes:

• ~10k words (biggest Staccato yet!)
• New character scene (CG) made by Jim.
• Our newest sprite, Derek Adler! Mady by Drake, designed by Arcadia.
• New voice acting for Derek by the lovely Icefang.
• New background, Darrell's bedroom, made by Jim.

This is by far the most ambitious side story project we've worked on. If you guys really love this, maybe I'll keep the trend going with the next one! That said, this took a lot of time. I followed the passion and vision and this is where it took me. I'm hoping it pays off!

That's all I got for you! Take care, friends :3.