First of all, best wishes for 2022!
I had a nice break the last couple weeks, but now it's time to get to work on the next episode. I don't have much to tell just yet. I've written some of the story and started creating scenes/renders yesterday.
The Nikki/Cara dilemma still exists, so I'm skipping that for now until I have a solution I'm happy with.
There will be somewhat of an ending if you are on a certain path in this episode. What I mean by that is, you will close so many relationships at the same time that you skip lots of other content. Be warned.
I changed the look of John (Iris' dad) a bit. I hated the beard texture but that was the only bigger beard I had that looked okay-ish. Also, he needed more tattoos, so I changed that too. So next time you see him, he has a shorter beard (he shaved a bit) and totally different tattoos. The images of episode 8, where he's seen, will be changed at some point, but that's no priority as of now. I'll do that once time allows it. Don't even know if he'll be featured in this episode yet, so...
That's it for now. I guess I'll have more to say once I'm a bit further along or once the problems start to pile up.