I thought this might be better in a note of its own instead of a comment. Bear with me for a bit of info dump.

There’s a chunk of Risa’s story that I never intended to write, primarily because it’s a bit out of my comfort zone, but also because planning it out felt overwhelming. The original ending I had planned for Unlockable Content would have taken place before The Thing I didn’t Want to Write (TM), but as the story evolved, I realized this would have made it an unfair cliffhanger. So I planned a new ending, this one taking place after The Thing I didn’t Want to Write (TM), essentially summarizing ALL the things that happen during that time. That’s the ending that I wrote and planned to post last week. It didn’t sit quite right with me, however, which is why I postponed posting it so that I could reassess whether or not I wanted to expand on it.

To be clear, last week’s note about ending the story was not a cry for attention with continuing to write as the reward for getting it or a prank or anything of the sort (though I do understand if all this reads that way). I just wasn’t willing to admit that I might actually have to write The Thing (TM). I legitimately thought I’d be posting the summary-type ending this week, maybe with a bit more expanding on things, but mostly as is.

If I’m being perfectly honest, I still kind of don’t want to write The Thing (TM). On top of the original reasons, I’ve been feeling burned out with this story lately (perhaps this is obvious from all the delays?) and there’s a huge part of me that wants to be done and move on. Still, I do love these characters and this story world. Reassessing where the story is right now, I think I do need to write The Thing (TM) to do them justice.

So, all that said, if you’re willing to keep being patient with me and what I assume will continue to be an update schedule filled with delays (not helped by my recently-adopted dog needing extra attention to fix his extreme fearfulness), then I’ll do my best to properly wrap this up. Starting with another delay this week so I can figure out how much of a timeskip needs to happen for the next update.

Sorry y’all, I’ve been and will continue to be for the near-future a super floppy person. If you’re not already subscribed in some way for update notifications, might be a good time to make that happen. Otherwise, check back again after the first week in November and there should be at least one new update.

The good news is that writing is still happening (albeit much slower than I’d like). The bad news is that I’ve been working backwards so, while the ending is written, there are still gaps to flesh out between Cutscene 31 and that.

I’m going to take a bit more time before posting the next update. The panic-inducing work situation took a few days of worrying to resolve, but things are mostly back to normal now. I’m still working on the update and hope to have it out by the weekend. Sorry all!