Good evening friends, I hope this "chapter" finds you cozy and warm. I'm going to tell you about what's going on with your favorite Royal Road® periodical: QQQQ.

First off, I am not dead. Using some construction paper and a broken CRT TV, I was able to verify this by using methods I won't go into detail about right now.

It's quite the opposite really; I have been hard at work breathing life into several new chapters for your consumption.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, shivers will race up and down your reptilian nervous system; reminding it of long-lost horrors from several millienia ago.

They say that a true work of art is never finished, and so I must attest that QQQQ is not a true work of art. It will be finished, stamped, notorized, mailed to the authorities, and used as evidence in a future court trial to assist me in my plea of insanity.

I am not done writing it, not by any means, but I will be soon. By my measures, QQQQ will be completed by no later than August 17th 11:34:0254 PM, in the year of our lord two thousand, twenty and one. (Unless my CRT TV un-breaks itself, and then I will have to postpone until after I can take it to the un-mechanics.)

As it currently stands at this time, QQQQ is in its πth arc. That is, this chapter is placed just as the third arc has started.

This arc has just barely begun for you, but for me, it's ancient history! Been there, done that, now get it out of my sight!

QQQQ will have 5 arcs total. (Or at least a number similar to 5, depending on how many chapters of Power Rangers fanficition I can slip inside. My editors say none, but enough of Tommy Oliver's muscular thighs and I can make them do anything.)

Some of you may have read this far, or perhaps this is your very first chapter, and you think it makes no sense.

The observant of you will understand what exactly it is that I've been trying to say through this story.

The VERY observant of you will understand that what I'm trying to say doesn't make very much sense either.

However: It is one thing to be entertainingly nonsensical, and another to be frustratingly nonsensical.

I believe that I am guilty in doing that; some chapters of QQQQ may be more annoying to read than fun.

I have been secretly updating certain chapters to re-write some very awkward phrasing, removing some minor plot threads that hella won't go nowhere, and at least one instance of replacing a Simpson's reference with an Antiques Roadshow reference. I will likely continue to silently edit chapters I feel are lacking, especially the early ones.

Of particular note to all you QQQQuperfans is a major new section in the beginning of the very first chapter.

As that's where (most) new readers begin, I want it to showcase the very best I have to offer. It still doesn't do that, though.

Some other bits and bobs were re-fijiggled as well, but nothing that will alter your understanding (or lack thereof) of the plot.

New chapters will be released daily, beginning February 12th. It will run until the current arc is fully finished, and I have well begun on the next.

That is all that I wish to say concerning the topic of QQQQ.

So;

Are you all well?

Are you eating your greens?

Are you flossing your teeth?

Are you remembering to take a few minutes to sit and appreciate life swirling around you?

I won't say discouraging things to you if not. I certainly could stand to do more of them myself.

This world is a shame. By the time you understand what you're doing, it seems that it's already time to move to the next.

I hope you don't hold your own lack of understanding against yourself.

Should you need any help with this, I will be here writing for you; helping us both to understand this world just a little bit less.

Thank you very much for reading this message and for reading QQQQ. I truly appreciate all of you and the smiles you've given me day-to-day.

-Hugs and kissies,

skyhighebooks (Tower Hufham)