So, first, before anything else, I'd like to apologise for my, frankly, atrociously long absence, with minimal-to-no communication. Uni... did not go well for me. At all.

I ended up with a pretty bad case of depression, though thankfully I never reached a point of needing anti-depressants ad the like, which severely negatively affected both my work at Uni - causing me to both never do anything close to well, despite Maths beign one of my best subjects, as well as to drop out after my second year there, for reasons I'll get to shortly - as well as my time outside of Uni, hence why I wnet so completely dark.

Fortunately, I have really good parents. My mother realised something was wrong almost immediately, but both her and my father were constantly stonewalled by the Uni on grounds of "privacy protection" despite the fact that we'd signed paperwork negating that. Coupled with my own stubborn refusal to acknowledge the problem even existing, and my talent at lying to myself about things being better than they actually were, and you can see why it took a while to fget things sorted.

Eventually, my mum cornered me late at noght, when I was too tired to lie to myself about how things were, never mind anyone else, and got me to acknowledge how bad things had become. I have been recovering since then.

That was a couple years back, and I have made progress, while simultaneoudly hampering that progress at times by trying to make promises I wasn't yet ready to keep regarding my writing. My apologies to anyone I contacted in the intermediary time regarding potential updates to these stories, I should not have made what promises I did.

Not too long before the new year, I made my biggest step forward - returning to work on various projects, which, in theory, included my writing. The only problem was, the "schedule" I had worked out for myself, was not able to accomodate much beyond some Youtube stuff I'm also doing.

The good news, is that I've managed to get an actually workable schedule now, one that allows me to dedicate a good amount of time to writing, allowing me to make a proper return.

Which leads us to the topic of the title. I am both announcing the long-overdue death of both my stories, as well as the eventual rewriting of both as well. Starting with my piece of original fiction,

The Dungeon Gods

It has simply been too long to continue things precisely where I left off, not helped by me losing most of my old notes and data on this story, as I hadn't yet got into a habit of properly backing such things up online at the time I was writing it.

As such, before I rewrite it proper, I'm going to be rereading everything I've written, including the extra information in the Notebook. I'm then going to give serious consideration to how I'm going to handle the systems in the story, in order to avoid falling into some of the older pitfalls that caused me many problems behind the scenes. One thing of particular note I'm going to be giving serious consideraton too, is possibly adjusting the game-like litRPG systems to make them less rigid, and maybe replacing them with a more narrative-based system instead.

Once I've reached a point where I feel satisfied with what I've got, I will begin actually rewriting the story itself, and will be borrwing methodology from my Youtube upload system. Full details on that will be found on the section titled "The New Upload Schedule".

Once I'm ready to begin uploading the rewritten work, I will do so under the name "The Dungeon Gods: Evolution" in one of two main ways, which I'd like your feedback on.

The first Idea I had, was that I'd simply delete the old work already here, rename the title, using the already existant page, but the thought has occured to me that some value might still be had in leaving the old chapters up for people to see, as well as the problem of the existing reviews for the old work being wrongfully linked to the new one.

The second, and one I feel more and more like I should use, is to upload the rewrite as a new story entirely, leaving only a link to it here upon its release, and adding a [DEAD] tag to the title of the old work.

All of this will likely take a while regardless, so don't expect any actual story updates for a while.

Now, to move onto,

World Keeper AU

Much like with TDG, it has simply been too long to continue right away, and a good amount of my notes are also long gone. Unlike TDG, this was a fanwork of World Keeper, and that story has progressed siginificantly since I started writing WKAU, and I haven't been keeping up with it.

As such, before rewriting, I will not only be rereading everything already present, but I also want to read through all of World Keeper. This will make it easier tog et back into writing my own story, as well as make it easier for me to see just how much of an AU I intend to make it regarding things that hadn't yet been showcased when writing WKAU, but, from what I'm given to understand, have likely now been revealed in canon.

Once I'm satisfied, I'll start the actual rewrite, and much like with TDG, the new schedule for the uploading will be in the "The New Upload Schedule" section.

Once I'm ready to begin uploading the rewritten work, I will do so under the name "World Keeper: Reboot Error" in one of two main ways, much like with TDG, which I'd like your feedback on.

The first Idea I had, was that I'd simply delete the old work already here, rename the title, using the already existant page, but the thought has occured to me that some value might still be had in leaving the old chapters up for people to see, as well as the problem of the existing reviews for the old work being wrongfully linked to the new one.

The second, and one I feel more and more like I should use, is to upload the rewrite as a new story entirely, leaving only a link to it here upon its release, and adding a [DEAD] tag to the title of the old work.

All of this will likely take a while regardless, so don't expect any actual story updates for a while.

Now, finally, we get to,

The New Upload Schedule

The schedule I intend to use for both writing and uploading is similar to the one I now use for rcording videos for Youtube, and part of my new working schedule. With regards to the writing, all that needs to be said is that I now have a priod of approximaely 24-30 hours per month I'll be spending writing, and doing things directly related to my writing. This should hopefully allow me to more consistently produce at least some content for all fo you.

Chapters will, like before, be a minimum of 1000 words long, not including chapter titles and A/N sections. Whenever a chapter is finished, it'll be added to the baclog for chatpers to be uploaded. When chapters are resent in the backlog, they will be uploaded every Wednesday (British Time), preferably around midday to ensure they seem to be on a Wed regardless of timezone.

It is worth noting that, when I say they will be uploaded every Wednesday, that is only if there are any chapters done to upload. To make it easier for you, the readers, to know how much more you can expect when a chpter uploads, I will add a count of how many chapters are currently in the backlog to the post-chapter A/N.

My various stories no longer will have seperate upload days, but will insted upload on Wed regardless, so long as no chapter for that story has been uploaded that week. That means that, if I have a chapter for both WKRE and TDGE available at Wed, and none have been uploaded yet that week, both will upload.

That covers everything. Thank you all again, for all the support you've given me, and sorry, again, for how little I've posted in recen times.