Hello All (Audience and Characters alike),

This is where I explain what has happened.

My first attempt at writing this story is actually at the back now, with all its poor formatting, and all the rest of the evidinces of first attempts at things better than failure.

The more recent crack at printing the source code of a dungeon has been labeled as R1 - at the start of the chapter name. This stands for "Rewrite 1".

During the course of writing, I found from the comments that wish fulfilment does not make for an attractive narrative. I also found it to be unsatisfying when all conflict is easily resolved, unreflective of any form of reality that I am aware of. Along with a few other personal reasons of a spiritual nature, I believed it best to abandon that particular effort as a severely flawed basic premise rendered it unsalvageable.

This novel's true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.

I am sincerely grateful to @Alice from the group Inked on RRL's Discord server for providing the cover art for this story, and a few other bits and pieces of concept art as well.

On occasion, I think, "What about that story I was / still am writing on RRL? When am I going to work on that?" This has happened more than once or twice, when I have found my life full to the eyeballs of things that need doing. I am an electrician, and between looking for jobs, doing work for someone, and helping friends and family, life very quickly finds itself fully occupied. This is especially so when I realize I would much rather spend my time in the mind numingly boring fashion of gaming... or the slightly more exciting worlds that render themselves in my imagination with RRL's contents as source code.

Hence, I promise that I will at least try to spend some time writing during each week. I cannot speak for the events of real life being conducive to this effort.

Yours faithfully,

The Author

DraconisViridis, The Green Dragon