Progress this week has been really strong! The second ship section started to feel like it was ballooning out of control, and some paths felt like only a few players were going to see them. I had a think about it though and decided to cut some of the content that was going to be in this particular ship section and move it to the next one. That way I could focus this part around the tense conversation in the kitchen which i'm already working on, and giving it lots of different outcomes.
Posting here some Gunner romance dialogue from my notebook which is going in later; wanted to post some outline notes but decided i should keep those to myself. Speaking of the Gunner romance, I've had to make some decisions on how to trigger the romance options; originally i had some counters for how many times you choose flirty dialogue with the crewmates, but decided to write in some more flirting dialogue in the early parts and have them simply flag the crew member as ready to be romanced, so to speak. Then when it's important later the appropriate dialogue to move that subplot forward will be unlocked, as well as extra flavor lines during the main narrative that otherwise wouldn't be present.
I hope you're all doing alright. Thanks for reading!