Announcement (Patreon)

Hello All, I just wanted to alert/point out a few things that I have been feeling and what I've seen commented on recent chapters. This is not a hate post or a shit post, I value the feedback and this is not me coming at you for voicing an opinion.

Mostly because I feel it is warranted.

I don't know when it started, but I've felt like the chapters after the Orc finale of the last arc have been... muddled and chaotic. Too down in the weeds without a lot of substance and then rushed and chaotic afterward trying to make up for it. I know of a few reasons for that but I will get into that later.

Right now, I spent the weekend trying to come up with a solution for how to go forward. I could just right the ship now and try to corral the story back on line, but I feel that will do more harm than good. Another option is to go back and fix where I went wrong, but that presents a different set of issues.

At first, I was going to offer a poll. One option for going back and redoing those chapters while the other was to forge ahead, but I decided not to. One, I couldn't honestly offer a poll when I heavily favor one of the options. It felt wrong to give you guys a choice when I'd already made up 90% of my mind. Second, after thought, and heavily leaning for one side, it would be difficult to shift gears in my head if the other option was chosen.

That being said, I should touch on why this happened, or at least why I think it happened.

Originally, when I first planned out the arc following the System Test, there was going to be a sizeable time skip. Not huge or anything, but enough for things to settle and grow from that point. But as the time to pull the trigger grew near, I just kept adding things and describing other scenes that ballooned the word count. I got too stuck in the weeds, I feel, trying to describe too many things that didn't necessarily need it. Not that I dislike what I've written, just that it could have been done better, and honestly, shorter.

Afterward, I rushed the time skip and it didn't come off well. Making two wrongs and making them doubly worse.

This is coming to a head now because I feel like I'm repeating the same mistakes and the pendulum will just swing in the other direction.

Now that that's out there, there are a few things I have to sadly announce.

I will be going back and redoing the chapters following what is currently published on RR. Some of the chapters will be kept, but I'm not sure in what fashion or what that will look like. I know this is abrupt and this solution has issues, it's just what I feel will do the end product best, and that's what matters to me.

Right now, as I think ahead, I'm hoping to take the week and do that. (6/16-6/20).

Where the issues come in are how to start reposting them. There will be times when information in a chapter you guys have already read reappears, or in some cases, whole chapters. There's just no way around that.

I'm still brainstorming how I'm going to go about it and any ideas you guys have are welcome in this regard. Or if anything else you feel I should know comes to mind. I know this isn't exactly what you guys want to hear, but I also don't want to continue writing what I have been. A re-write is never fun, but I feel it is the right choice.

For Clarity, there will be no chapter today, and likely won't be for the next few days. I will read what you guys say about how to move forward and come up with the best plan I can think of, but that won't happen today or tomorrow.

Thank you guys for the support and I apologize with the lack of chapters for the coming days.