A different kind of birthday....

 So... this chapter took a while longer to get ready for posting for a few reasons. One of them being the christmas holidays, of course. The other being that much more happened during this chapters session than I had anticipated and planned for...

This is Antons family tree that I made before playing through this chapter. At this point I pictured that this chapter would be a relatively straightforward one.

Helene helping Anton blowing out the candles, while his aunt Kathrine cheers in the background.

Guests are invited, candles are blown out, Anton ages up and gets an additional personality trait (inherited from parents or grandparents, as per my usual scheme), cake is eaten, people socialize and have fun, his parents show him his new bedroom, maybe read him a bedtime story, everybody goes to bed and falls asleep.. and good night..

Anton eating cake with his father and brother.

Helene reading Anton a bedtime story.
 

Of course, all of the above happened, but at one point things started to go wrong.. terribly wrong...

 

Chapter 19.2 – July 2024 – Antons Birthday (When the branches break) 

Also, it's a very long chapter, perhaps my longest one yet. So it is divided into three parts. In total its length is equivalent of 19 word document pages, not counting the images. After finishing the first part you'll also get a choice on whether you want to continue reading the part with a more cleaned up language, or the original as I first wrote it. The latter will require you to sign in and features more harsh/offensive language.

This is normally the point where I would say "Enjoy", but I'm not gonna say that here... instead, I will hope that you can find it interesting, if not necessarily enjoyable..

Also, regrettably, kind of, this will be the last chapter for the Sunset Valley story for a while, as my plan is (and was before this chapter) to shift my focus to the town of Sprottenham. I'm saying regrettably since this chapter leaves this family at such a low point, and given how slowly I sometimes update and that I have to cycle through one more town again after this, it may very well be a year or more until I continue this story line, but, well... that's just how its going to be.

Until next time.