Special Days

**Special Days** is a fan-expansion mod of *Doki Doki Literature Club!* It restores DDLC after its ending. This is a horror mod with glitches but it also has some light moments. The mod includes a fair amount of new poems, written both by Wyrmcast and the poet named "Just Monika." This mod is non-linear and so far contains 13 released chapters.

## Plot summary

The mod has branching choices and there are two major routes. The main "Monika route" continues through the festival. The other major route is the so-called "Sayori glitched route," which in actuality has little to do with Sayori. There are some secrets within the mod.

## Development

Solitary development of Special Days was started by its original author Wyrmcast on December 10th, 2017. The mod was originally named under the working title "Monika's Day". That name continued to be used until the end of December, when it was decided to rename the mod to Special Days. The earliest versions of the mod were intended to be a Monika mod with comedic elements.

First public announcement of the mod was made on January 1st of 2018 (New Years Day). Also at this time, support was requested by the original author for other people to assist, so a team was formed.

A new animated main menu for the mod was constructed by mid-January and a video demonstrating that was released soon afterward. By this point, the mod was decided to be essentially a horror mod.

It was intended by the team for a beta release of the mod to be made by the end of March. Full completion of the mod was aimed for about June. Many art teasers for the mod were released.

The team unfortunately didn't hold together. After various disagreements, former members naminejamie and BippityZop of the Special Days team left to form the DDLC Re:Coded mod team on March 16th, 2018. The Re:Coded mod was based around the first version of the school festival day that was originally created for Special Days. That first version of the festival day can still more or less be found in the Re:Coded demo, albeit expanded and with Wyrmcast's parts of the writing replaced. It was cut and replaced by a totally different version of the festival created completely by Wyrmcast in the current version of Special Days.

On January 10th, 2018, the Discord server for the Special Days mod was created. The server was closed on August 28th, 2019. But a replacement server for it was opened on November 8th, 2019, for support purposes. On January 18th, 2020, the server was deleted again.

Development of new updates for the mod was put on hold on February 7th, 2019. New content development was resumed on October 31st, 2019.

### Cut content

There was a second week Natsuki route and a second week Yuri route, both of which had been about 50% completed by March 16th, 2018. These routes had been intended to start after the school festival day. The second week Natuski and Yuri routes had writing and most of the art done by BippityZop and naminejamie, with programming and copy-editing of the writing done by Wyrmcast. With the team split between the Special Days and Re:Coded teams, plus other reasons, these routes were cut and not completed. The Natsuki route had been a particular point of contention. These routes have not found their way into either the latest versions of Special Days nor Re:Coded.

## The Poems:

*Our Meadow (Sayori's last poem, as seen in act 3.)*

“Get out of my meadow,

Before you trample on the flowers

Which are so neatly arranged.

Look at the little bird fly by,

It flutters in the air.

So cute.

Get out of my meadow before i show you whats in it.

Get out of my meadow before i show you what i really think.

Get out of my meadow before i loose my mind.

But if you want to stay in my meadow

That's okay too.”

## Credits

### Special Days Team members

**Creator & Lead Designer:**

* Wyrmcast

**Co-Poet:**

* Just Monika.

**Logo Artist:**

* Erni

**Proofreader:**

* Punchingwood1234

## Release history

The first version of the Special Days PC demo was released on March 28th, 2018. The second released shortly thereafter on April 1st, 2018. The last PC demo version was released on August 5th, 2018.

The 0.3.0 beta version of the mod was released on November 10th, 2018. This version is available for download on the website Dropbox, as of September 4th, 2021‎.

Version 0.4.0 beta was released on November 19th, 2019. Downloads were available on Nexus Mods until September 4th, 2021‎. The mod was removed by its author from that website, due to disagreement with a policy change by Nexus Mods which attempted to strip mod authors of certain rights to their own work. This version is available for download on the website Dropbox as of October 18th, 2021‎.