To Play With Magic will not be deleted.

When you're making big announcements, sometimes you need to start with things that only make sense after you've read the rest. Something you don't want people to gloss over.

I've received a lot of feedback on TPWM over the years. Enough that I'm posting a re-write, as a second story, under the original title for the series, The Forerunner Initiative. I intend to release the chapters rapidly, each arc being posted in the first five days of each week. This will bring the revised version up to speed in five weeks. Chapters will continue to be posted to both versions until the new version is caught up.

The first arc is already posted, and a direct link can be found in the after chapter notes.

A brief summary of changes can be found below.

It includes:

- Almost nothing was removed, though several scenes have been altered to varying degrees.

- Renamed Flights to Desh'ila

- Renamed Progression Points to Progression Marks and Advancement Points to Ascension Crests

- Changed the starting end dates of the main plot.

- Tipan gets a new class

- A complete line by line reread/rewrite. Lots of little changes that improve the overall quality, in my opinion.

- A new introduction to chapter 1.00, starting at her papa's clinic.

- Lots of rewritten scenes through the first half of the first arc, which ends with chapter 1.31 Wyonna

-Proper renumbering of chapters 1.31 to 1.95.

-several additional chapters towards the end of the Fallen City of Lescado arc (the one with the Giant spider robot, Fallen Triplets, and Training scenarios) Specifically chapter 2.26, 2.27 and 2.28 are rewritten, and chapters 2.00, 2.24, 2.25, 2.29, 2.30, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33 are all new.

-rewrites for arc/volume 3 (Glimmering Sands, Researcher/Minister Folthka, Battle with Ivicka) are light, except hopefully improved foreshadowing of Aethop's Daughters (the dolls), little more action for Lord Thansome, and just making Glimmering Sands part of the arc a bit less jank.

-rewrite for arc/volume 4 (Elementalist's peak/Desh Atun/Taken) Adding a chapter after/during 2.27 (which will become 4.27), A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea.

-Only going to have minor line edits for book 5. Already gone over the damn thing like 3 times at this point