Not actually a chapter, but I felt like you all deserved to know what's going on, and why I've gone silent suddenly. A while ago I had a hard drive failure, and since I don't follow good IT practices of course nothing at all was backed up. Sadly, that includes all of my work for this story. All I have left are the published chapters here.
What you all may or may not realize is I had written out a lot of background, both things that "happened" in the world before the game went live, and things that were going on in other places during the story. The world had thousands of years of history at this point that could come up in the story line eventually, and now that's all gone. Additionally, I had maps of the world, spreadsheets for all the character stats, and a list of every character and place that had been mentioned so far, and details about them all to maintain consistency. All of this in addition to the roadmap for the future of the story. (Yes, I really wasn't just making this up as it went. It just seemed that way sometimes sadly.)
The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
Anyway, now I'm stuck. I remember some of the general details, but I write these things down for a reason. All that information went away, and took a lot of my motivation with it. I've tried to reconstruct it to some degree, but I just don't feel it. When I first created it, it just flowed naturally, but now it's just not. And every time I try I just get frustrated and stop shortly thereafter.
I'm not completely giving up on this story. I want to continue to write of Lilith and her adventures in SWO, but unfortunately SWO as it was is gone. I still know about the world and where the story was going. But if I can't get these details reconstructed, I don't believe I'll be able to continue the story properly. And I don't feel that would be fair to you, me, or the characters.
Hopefully, this won't be the end. I'll keep trying to rebuild it. But don't expect any updates to come soon. Sorry to disappoint everyone.