Yo, it's been a bit. I really gotta apologize for disappearing all of a sudden. I had a chapter or two prepped and to be posted in the future, which is why this story updated but I didnt respond to any comments or anything. Please know that I saw all the attention the story was getting and that I appreciated it, but was unable to get back to writing or to respond to anything.

To make a complicated story short, I was indisposed for the greater part of the last month or so. I was both without a computer to write with, and unable to write anything on my phone or something like that to at least keep the illusion of progress going. Even now, I'm still not in a position where I could begin writing again if I seriously wanted to. It wasn't a great time for me at all, and as time went on and nothing seemed to be getting better, I began to lose the motivation to continue this particular story. I still wanted to write, but this story was beginning to irk me due to what I saw as limitations in the style and my own ability to write it well.

To be completely honest, LitRPG's aren't really my thing. I've been winging it fairly hard so far, just using research and other stories that inspired me as general guides to keep myself tethered, but I'm not very happy about the story as it's currently being told. I began to write it out this way just because I got the random motivation to try my hand at a genre that I enjoyed reading with a story I've always wanted to tell. Desmond is an important character to me, for reasons I won't get into, But the form of the story as it is now just isn't the right way to tell his story and I realize that now, as unfortunate as it may be.

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I'm not too sure where I'll be going from here with the story. On one hand, I'm convinced that I can do Desmond's story justice from a different perspective and with a different overall feeling. On the other hand, I already feel bad enough as it is just having to write this whole thing up.

Realistically speaking, I'm probably going to leave this current iteration of the story off here. I have to apologize again for the people who were enjoying the story and leaving me helpful and inspiring comments. Hopefully in the future, I'll be able to start posting a better version of this story.

Until then, though, thank you all once again for giving 'The Mann, The Myth, The Legend' a read. I hope to see you again in the future when I can start writing in full again.