





Hello everyone! I'm writing a quick announcement to let you know that my newest VN, Cage of Roses, has finally been released!
I say 'finally' because I wrote the script for this VN all the way back in early 2021. It took about 4 years for me to get this project pieced together, but I'm very glad that I stuck with it until the bitter end!
I think the art by Rock CR and the music by Sarah Mancuso is especially lovely, and it really adds to the overall atmosphere of the story. They really went all-in on the pretty visuals and the ominous, eerie music, and I think it all comes together really nicely!
It's been a dream of mine to write a spooky vampire story for over a decade, and I'm very happy I was finally able to do that. I hope I did the idea justice!
You can check out the VN here if you're interested:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2993720
Please let me know if you run into any bugs or typos, and I'll do my best to fix them within a reasonable timeframe.
Thank you, as always, for your support over the years. It's very much appreciated, and I hope you'll all enjoy my newest yuri story!
- ebi x
[ 2025-02-16 23:34:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
Takaoka Mayo is a twenty-four-year-old woman without any particular plans in life, nor any particular career goals. For several years, she’s been drifting between low-paid part-time jobs, while living with her parents: her nagging mother and her kind-hearted father.
Mayo is unmotivated and lazy at the best of times, but she does have a passion: namely, Princess Luluna from the popular light novel series, The Forest of the Elves and the Pressured Princess, written by one Tsuchimi Rui.
Mayo’s love for Princess Luluna is so great, her room is full of Elf Forest merchandise. Her walls are covered in posters of Luluna’s smiling face, and she owns several Luluna figures, much to the bemusement of her best friend, Nina.
Despite Mayo’s intense, borderline obsessive love for Elf Forest, she’s content to pine after her fictional waifu from afar – that is, until one day, when a friend of her family’s, Sae, offers Mayo an incredible job offer.
Sae works as a publisher at a company called Horizon, which – as it happens – is the very same company which publishes Tsuchimi Rui’s Elf Forest.
Sae tells Mayo, to her disbelief, that she knows Elf Forest’s elusive author personally – and, what’s more, she’s worried about them. Rui has been in something of a slump during the last few months, and the creation of Elf Forest’s ninth volume has stalled. Sae is looking for a housekeeper to take care of Rui’s chores, so Rui can focus exclusively on their writing: a job she decides to delegate to Mayo.
Mayo, of course, is overjoyed at the prospect of meeting her idol, and instantly accepts – but soon, she learns Tsuchimi Rui isn’t at all like she imagined.
Contrary to Mayo’s beliefs, Tsuchimi Rui is not a middle-aged man, but a young woman only a few years older than she is: a reclusive, awkward hermit who, despite being sub five feet tall, has a biting tongue and a needle-sharp personality.
This woman’s real name is Komikado Hijiri – and, at Sae’s behest, Mayo finds herself living under Hijiri’s roof.
Mayo and Hijiri get off to an uneasy start, but as time passes, the pair begin to grow closer. Mayo begins to grow fond of Hijiri, yet still, she finds herself wondering: who is her real waifu? Princess Luluna, or the misanthropic author who created her?
- 100,000 words of text (approx 4-6 hours of reading)
- A linear story with no choices/branches
- Detailed character and background artwork
- An original soundtrack
- One short, grumpy writer
- A cute lesbian love story
- A happy ending!
- OS: x86/x86_64
- Processor: 1 GzMemory: 512 MB RAM
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or similar
- Processor: Intel Core i5. AMD equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon / NVIDIA Geforce
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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