Hey all! Just here for a couple of quick bookkeeping things. The first is my current plan for what the update schedule will be like now that I have a job, and to keep those people who skip author's notes in the loop now that I have more information. Having polled my patrons, the official day the single weekly chapter of The Way Ahead will be released on come the new year is Wednesday. The time is TBD and will probably be a fair bit looser than it has been in the past, but I don't really know. Thus, the first chapter of the new year will (probably) be January 5th. If life craziness happens, that may become the 12th, but hopefully the 5th will happen.

This will mean no more half-chapter splits as well, so there will also be no more awkwardly paced posts that don't flow well overall. Patreon will remain 8 chapters ahead, which now translates to two months of posts, and if by some miracle I manage to write a second chapter in a week it will be going to increasing the buffer even more.

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The second thing is a message to everyone who might not be reading this on RoyalRoad.com, but instead on whatever pirate site is deciding to scrape The Way Ahead today. If you're reading this anywhere else, it's posted without my permission, and if you had to pay for it you're being seriously ripped off.

Anyway, Merry Christmas, and I'll see you all in January!

-Daedalus