Alright so it's been a minute since a chapter has come out here. Feel I owe a bit of an explanation and status update to you all.

First of all, I want to be clear that I'm not on hiatus. The next chapter is ~66% done. Just a final scene to write and some meat to put on its bones.

As for why it's taking so long, well...there's three reasons:

1) Baldur's Gate 3 came out. I mean, disastrous. Who could have foreseen this? Truly just a catastrophic event for all involved.

2) I work in academia, and for those paying attention to their calendar, you may note that the summer is ending. This leads to a fall semester/start of classes, which in turn requires a lot of prep work for my particular field. Which is to say, work has been busy.

Love what you're reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.

3) I broke a tooth. I legitimately could not tell you how (and, apparently, neither can my dentist), but it's as painful as you might imagine, and that pain births distraction, which is not conducive to writing. I'm making due as best I can with it in wait of upcoming surgery to have it removed, but in the meantime, my mood and motivations for pursuing my hobbies have taken a bit of a hit, making my writing more infrequent still.

Suffice to say that the windows in which I find time to write have shrunk considerably as of late, and I've been occupying that time with alternatives (like trying to romance a certain barbarian tiefling...) more often than not. But the next chapter is slowly but surely coming along. I want it out by this weekend, but don't know if that'll happen. Fingers crossed, though!

- C