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I'm currently working on updating all of the recently edited chapters (read as: the revamped version of the earlier chapters) to post them again. They'll be originally posted to my personal account so I can keep up with them more easily but once they've all been posted and the links edited properly into the chapter links in my personal journal, I'll make a copy of that journal and post it here for easy access. After that, I'll work on setting the chapters into their proper category. Until then, you might notice some disruptions with preexisting links and in the flow of the story itself; that comes from the massive changes that have taken place throughout it.

The way I work on this story is as follows:
1) Create chapter layouts and choose chapter themes.
2) Type out a rough draft of the chapters as a whole using said layouts.
3) Retype the rough draft as a "final" draft (or I hope it's final, at any rate) on my FanFiction.Net account.
4) Copy the text and paste it to a new deviation submission form to upload to dA.
5) Fix the connective links from previous to present chapter pages.
6) Update the journal links to the chapters just published.
7) Celebrate accomplishment.
8) Mourn the fact that there are so many chapters left to be written virtually solo.

Because of this process, any changes that take place in the story on its main location (FF.Net, which can be found here) need to then be edited into the existing chapters on dA. That involves a lot of troublesome work with both accounts that I just don't have the patience or mental fortitude to deal with when I need to edit so much on both accounts. It's simpler for me to just dump everything onto my primary one and then adjust the journal on the RoC group account's journal and information as needed. And, as I'm pretty much the only one working on this monster anymore, I'll be doing this in the way that's simplest for me, personally.

So, I hope you can please be patient with me as these changes will take a little bit longer than I'd like them to and might change the sound of the story and, indeed, the characters within its pages as it takes place. If things seem too different, feel free to go back over the chapters and scan to see what's changed so you can follow the recent additions.

I hope to be able to keep up with the chapter-by-chapter posts better this way so that I won't have a massive landslide of posts to make when I do finally get around to posting them. Because of the separate accounts I've been dreading posting the new chapters and, as such, have sorely neglected this account's progress on the story. The FF.Net version has at least 15 chapters more than this one does currently, which is inexcusable and frustrates me to no end. It would be better to have some help with it, but as that's not currently possible, I'll have to work with the options open to me.

That said, thank you all for your patience. I hope to continue the story at a steady pace and finish it before I die (although my goal is actually to finish it within this current year. I doubt that will happen, but I can try. *sobs*)

Please enjoy the story, and leave reviews/comments if you do. I've worked very hard on it - particularly on the research involved in it.

That's all for now; I'm off to try to fix my sanity.