Path of the Playthings (A Contents Page with Added AJ Flair)
by TravisNSpud
Hey, guys! Alyssa here, your favourite plaything. (And if I’m not your favourite, what’s wrong with you? I rock.) I’ve realised that since Jelly and I started writing both our stories simultaneously, some of you folks may be confused about the timeline, the order to read the chapters, especially with the crossovers (like the brain-cation saga). And we don’t want you confused. The only people getting confused should be me and Jelly, when our Master meddles with our minds. So I’m gonna help you guys out, and recap the timeline of the whole Exploring Together saga. I could’ve done this as a bullet-pointed list, but where’s the fun in that? Still, I’d consider this less of a story, and more of a contents page with added AJ flair.
Anywho, the original Exploring Together story began in May. (Aha, but you’re thinking, May of what year? My lips are sealed. If I tell you how long ago that was, you’ll know how much material we have yet to share with you guys! Suffice to say it was a while ago, though...) Chapters 1 to 7 took place on two separate nights, Saturday and Thursday, over the course of a single week. Then chapter 8, the Mental Montage, covered June to December, right the way up to the New Year countdown (or Richard’s mindfuckery version of it). Chapters 9 to 11 happened in mid-January.
Then we begin the two sequels, which is where it gets an eeny teeny bit more complicated. The first five Continued Adventures happen early in the year, like, January to March, and don’t mention Jelly at all (even though we met her and started dating her during that time), so I’d read them before starting Turning Into Jelly. Her first chapter starts by covering the beginning of our relationship with her (we’re talking Jan to Feb), and then skips to the night we introduced her to our hypnokinkery; chapters 2-4 then take place the next night and depict her first session.
The next chunk of chapters, set in early April, are the first big crossover event (we’re like the MCU of hypno smut). I’d do Continued Adventures chapters 6 and 7, and then either chapter 8 (Danielle’s POV) or Turning Into Jelly 5 next. TIJ 6 and 7 are next, and then the crucial TCA 9. After that TIJ 8 and TCA 10 and 11 take place in May, and can be read in any order really.
As for the other stuff with our hypnokink friends - from the elaborately-titled Travis N. Spud’s Consensual Hypnokink Crossover of Chaos (excuse me while I gasp for breath) - their stories are mixed in amongst ours. Hailee and Milo had already been together for a couple of years before Richard and I got started with hypno stuff, so Guessing Game’s kind of a prequel. The other ‘Hailee Tales’ happen roughly when they were released in relation to our stuff; same goes for Cool Story, Bro and Hypnocrite. User Friendly starts out in the fall of ‘year 2’, simultaneous with TIJ’s concluding chapters, and leads up to the con in August.
Alright, fine, I’ll do it as a list too, just to make it super clear. Yeesh. You guys are so needy! (Sorry sorry I can’t stop bratting don’t be mad...)
Couple of years earlier: Hailee Tales: Guessing Game
May (year 1) to January (year 2): Exploring Together
January to February (year 2):
The Continued Adventures: Earworm
TCA: Someone Changes Their Mind (and It’s Not Me)
February: Hailee Tales: Party Favour
January to March: Turning Into Jelly: Introduction to Hypno-Kink
March:
TIJ: Hit Me With Your Best Drop
TIJ: Jellies Wobble But They Don’t Fall Down
April:
TCA: Brain-cation (Part One and Part Two)
TCA: Danielle’s Too Dumb to Come Up With a Chapter Title
May:
TCA: Nobody Puts AJ in the Corner (Except Her Master, Obviously)
June:
TCA: The Boop De Snoot... of DOOM!
TIJ: The Fantabulous Dehumanisation of Jelly Blair
June to November: TIJ: Available Now
October:
November: User Friendly: Chapter Four
December:
December to February (year 3): User Friendly: Chapter Six
March: TIJ: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Spiral
June: Server Chat
July: TCA: Good Comeback
August: Crossover of Chaos
I’ll update this page when we release more stuff. If I remember. And if Richard hasn’t trapped me in a mind prison, or put Dani in control of our body, or turned us into a chicken, or... Yeah, you get the idea.
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