A few notes.

I’ll be monitoring and will answer specific questions, but won’t spoil the next story.

* Tom’s third life (fourth if you count tutorial and earth separately) will be continuing after a hiatus in four weeks. I consider it a new series and it will be called Unhinged Fury.

* It’s reincarnated but into the body of a small child not a baby. There are no parents or close siblings to worry about. DEUS would not allow that to occur.

* You know my writing style by this point. What I’m going to try to do differently from fate points is the following.

* Push a faster pace.

* Have more defined personality and speech patterns in minor characters.

* Story will introduce new lore and build on the previous one.

* I haven’t seen a mass exit from patreon, (Though a couple of people (literally) complained) about being unwilling to read reincarnated in a young kid.

* In terms of progress, it has taken me 100k words to set the scene and world build (7 weeks of story time). 30ish chapters.

* My plan is the next year to be knocked over in fifteen chapters.

* Then ten or so chapters per year after that…. Stuff’s happening and I can’t just skip to the end.

* I intend to take this life to the end of the competition but… (see note below)

Why Re-set and reincarnate?

I did not intend to do a reset and a reincarnation story. Fate points were always intended to finish with the troll fight. The dragon fight was supposed to end with Tom dying and Everlyn successful fighting to resurrect him, but at the end of the dragon fight patreons (at least the vocal ones) wanted the story to reset.

I thought about it and got excited about the concept. This is probably influenced by Elydes and Singer Sailor Merchant Mage being my must read when they release each new chapter for over twelve months. Having said that my version will be nothing like theirs. Both MCs in those books are very much, “I need to grow more power to control my destiny type of MC” and then why they are weak events keep directing their life. Tom is going to have more agency than that and an overarching aim (win the competition and then smaller specific goals.) He will also suffer far heavier restrictions to age fifteen than those MC’s were hit with.

So to summary the reset was kind of accidental but it also makes a lot of sense.

* Tom’s build was kind of all over the place. True Dreaming has advantages, but also screwed up lots of stuff. I was kind of fixing that (i.e getting rid of exhaustion but it was still problematic.)

* There were far scenes for when they emerged into the underground, but the last section was killing leaders of a species. I do real characters so Tom and others were going to feel shit about that. Which is real and all that, but is not great reading. This avoids that.

Finally, there are business advantages to this decision.

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I killed fate points early chapters because I was unhappy with quality. I was getting new readers, but a large number of people had read and rejected the story months (a year and a half ago) because of issues with it being unedited and some rough patches. The amazon chapters fix a lot of these issues, but those who started and abandoned are not coming back while it is on RR.

Unhinged Fury allows me to do a fresh start that uses my improved writing skills to attract new readers. It also allows me to get on rising stars again.

What I regret about ending it here.

* Clare and Keikain had a role. There was a point to them taking the bloodline. It was planned out; it made sense and was key to the endgame and I don’t get to show that. It’ll probably crop up in the next book, so I’m not elaborating further… maybe on discord, but not here.

* I had a cool scene planned. Post trial, the surviving wador was going to be hunted by a random giant. Tom was going to true dream them and actively blow out their eyes. They couldn’t drop the precognition blocking skill because then the giant would find them. The wador lead, recognising the situation would beg Tom to stop and then he wouldn’t and then boom he would get them killed.

* I was positioning for Selena and Everlyn to both be trying to get Tom, and that won’t happen now.

Unhinged Fury plan

I want to be strategic with my release.

I will start posting on this story on the 20th June (might be a few days early). Release here will be as follows.

* Five chapters on release

* Three chapters a week MWF

Then three weeks after that 11th of July or there abouts I’ll be releasing for RR consumers proper.

* 6 chapters day one.

* A chapter every day for a month.

This means that the new book will catch the published chapters on this earlier somewhere in late July. At his point I will stop updating on this story.

I’m going to ask everyone not to switch to the new book until that point for a couple of reasons.

* I want to be able to see the retention rate of new readers to the story. This is an important metric for me.

* I want new readers to think they are starting a story with a heap of rich lore and give suggestions to make it better.

* For new readers, it’s important to keep the comment section clean at least for the earlier chapters. They do not have the opportunity to read fate points without going to my patreon. They don’t need to know about it.

I’m writing a book that will have lots of easter eggs for existing readers but can also be appreciated by new ones. I want to be able to see if I’m successfully achieving those aims.

Feel free to ask anything you want. Providing it’s not spoiling the new book, I’ll answer. If you message me directly, I might even answer if it is a spoiler…