Whoo, alright! The first volume of The True Endgame is officially complete. To those of you who might still be worrying about this despite me saying I wouldn’t be doing it multiple times already: no, I am not going to take any of this down for Kindle Unlimited. One, I don’t like being exclusive to a single service. Two, I feel like that would be a major slap in the face to any potential new/future readers. I will be self-publishing a revised and edited version of the story with some exclusive bonus content on Amazon and other online retailers that allow self-publishing, but that’s it. And yes, the story will continue updating daily at 6pm EST.

What else… oh! I’ll just go ahead and copy-paste this from my Patreon:

Alright, volume one is finished, and we're now in volume two! From here on out, you can expect a more focused plot line that still has slice of life here and there rather than being predominantly slice of life. There will still be enough to warrant calling it slice of life, I believe, but there is going to be actual conflict that lasts more than a single chapter (or patch series) now. It's been fun reading what some of you have been guessing about what's going to happen in the comments here and on Discord. All I can say is that nothing is ever as cut and dry as it seems, I like to fuck with my readers' expectations, and I am not against making my characters lose/die/suffer, so you have been warned.

That last sentence was a bit ominous, but don't worry. The story isn't going to suddenly turn grimdark or anything like that, and it will always be relatively lighthearted.

To those of you who update reviews as you go, now would probably be a pretty great time to update your review if you’d like to. Furthermore, any new reviews and ratings at all would be a huge help to me.

Speaking of reviews, a certain Darwen has finally overtaken Jericho's spot on RRL's top reviews. Jericho's reign as the top review on RRL lasted a good two months or so, but alas, it is time for a new review to take his place. Now everybody gets to see my new title!

Other than that stuff, I have part of (3k words right now, but I plan on adding more to it) the first chapter of my upcoming new story on Patreon right now. I’ll be posting it to RRL once I have a good enough bank of it stored up. I have another story I’m planning on writing, but it would deal heavily and frequently with sexual content. I emailed RRL’s admin(s) several days ago with questions regarding some things, so we'll see how that goes.

Back to TTE, I’m super glad about just how well received it has been thus far. Over 1k followers, a decent number of patrons, etc. You are all seriously awesome, and I am genuinely appreciative to all of you who continue reading. Reviews/ratings for the story are generally positive as well.

Alright, in closing, soon if you pay a minimum of $10 on my Patreon then you will be 14 chapters ahead of free releases for every story. So, if I’m publishing three stories, you’ll be a total of 42 early-access chapters ahead of what is publicly available if you follow all three by paying $10 a month. I've got 7 chapters ahead right now for the $5 tier, and I plan on having the other 7 for a total of 14 up by the end of the weekend. Oh, and I'm also posting exclusive art to the $5 tier now.

Thank you for your tremendous support thus far, and I look forward to continuing providing you with this story!

I'll also be rearranging and naming the chapters on here. The bonus chapters will all be put at the end of this volume after this announcement, and the chapters will be renamed to switch to the new naming system I'm using on Patreon. They will basically look like this now: "[Vol 2. pt. 1] Patch 1.0: The Wolf and the Serpent"

No more patch 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and so on. I consider every patch series one "real" chapter. For example, everything from 10.0 to 10.5 is just one chapter. So rather than go 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and so on, I will just keep 10.0 while the "pt. 1" number increases with every upload.

You're also more than welcome to ask me any questions you might have! I guess I've never really said this before, but you are welcome to ask me questions in the comments of any chapter or on Discord. I'll answer any questions I can as long as they wouldn't require me saying spoilers.

I hope you look forward to the second volume!