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Campo Largo VN
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Furry visual novel about an anxious deer on a mission in South America...

Writer and artist: @toledo.bsky.social
Just rediscovered this sketch I did of the top-down room layout of the Campo Largo "pench"!

(An Anglicization of "pensión," "pench" was missionary lingo for their residences.)

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October 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
On narrative structure:

Campo Largo has two major points of divergence, leading to four routes.

The current build follows one thread from the first point of divergence (after the prayer pictured below; choose "...my mission...") to the second.

Other routes will come later! ;)

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August 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We're on fvn.li now! :D

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August 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
T-minus 2 days!

Many thanks to @dusktheburr.bsky.social, one of CL's beta readers, for surreptitiously adding the project to the massive mosaic of FVN references near Echo, UT, on wplace.live!

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August 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We join Elder Hartley as the year 2008 kicks off!

2008 is three years before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ran its "I'm a Mormon" ad campaign, and ten years before the LDS president ceased all use of "Mormon."

So "Mormon" still appears all over!

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August 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
T-minus 3 days!

Every missionary is assigned a companion.

You need to stay in each other's presence 24/7 for, generally, 6-12 weeks — so they're a big deal!

Elder Hartley, our protagonist, has been with Elder Brooks (possum) for 12 weeks.

... Now who will be his new companion?

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August 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
T-minus 4 days!

Q: Where is Elder Hartley serving his mission?

A: The northeast corner of the South American nation of Paraná, which bears a certain resemblance to a certain nation in our world. He's been stationed near Conquista, the capital of Llano province — until now.

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August 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
T-minus 5 days!

Every six weeks, there's a chance that LDS missionaries will get transferred to a new "area" — a different location, with a different companion.

Who decides these assignments?

The mission president!

Presidente Billings oversees the missionaries across four provinces.

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August 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
T-minus 6 days!

Meet our protagonist: Elder Travis Hartley!

Like most male missionaries, he's 19. He hails from the American Midwest, and he's been on his mission for six months — but all in a single city so far.

But now he's getting promoted and reassigned: new place, new companion...

#FurryVN
August 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Left a little something at The Burrow in Bothell, WA!

(Caption courtesy of @regoneth.bsky.social, lol)
August 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Side note from Toledo:

I'm amused that the last time I played Civ VI, probably my most-played video game ever, was the week I got the idea for and started writing Campo Largo.
August 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In Murray, Utah.
July 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The main menu now has social media icons :D

#FurryVN
July 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Elder Travis Hartley has been a missionary in the South American nation of Paraná for six months.

And now he'll have a brand-new missionary as a companion — and is reassigned to a town that hasn't had missionaries for years.

What's on his heart has he prepares to leave for Campo Largo?

#FurryVN
July 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Progress update:

- desktop and Android icons
- text resizes on phones
- subtitle screens improved, visuals and text cleaned up
- chapter selection screen now functions
- credits for fonts assembled
- Itch.io page drafted, including screenshots

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July 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At long last, after more than two months, I'm back into Campo Largo's code!

Doing some clean-up of visuals and transitions in preparation for a first release!

(Sidenote: it's kind of uncanny that I managed to get photos of a place where I actually lived in this thing, haha.)
July 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Thanks! :D

I actually borrowed the overall look from an LDS Church ad campaign from 2012, heh. It was perfect!

www.deseret.com/2012/10/2/20...
July 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Welcome, new folks!

Maybe you saw the little cards (below) at Anthrocon!

We're glad you're here, and happy to say that we're aiming for a first release in... AUGUST!

Looking forward to sharing this story with y'all!
July 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
IT HAPPENED AGAIN LOL

I invented "Tres Lagunas" ("Three Ponds") as a generic, geographically descriptive name of the sort that's common locally

And the Toba, one of the local indigenous groups, had named a real place exactly that

LOL
May 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ha. Within five minutes of starting to read this morning:

Hypothesis confirmed! It's a translation of an indigenous name.
April 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Obviously, the above was an April Fool's joke.

But not the first time I've drawn Elder Bronson, heh!

www.furaffinity.net/view/47257481/
April 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I had a stroke of inspiration: Elder Hartley now has a third potential companion, and I had to start his sprite!

Welcome to every FVN fan's favorite Mormon!

I'll share updates from the Elder Bronson route when I have them.

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April 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Oh hey, there's a marten in Campo Largo, too! :D

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March 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thumbnails for a couple new sprites, heh!

(Just to show how these begin.)
February 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm 60% through the script of Route 1, coding the visuals!

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And I think this could be an itch.io preview image:
January 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM