Hello,
I know that this is only a few days after the last update, but I do have news for you all. First of all, due to a gesture of scheduled kindness at the Institution, I have been permitted a rest of about 2 weeks and 2 days, which means, you lucky things, that I now have time enough to work on the editing of chapter 11 of The Art of Subconscious Illusion: Rewritten, and perhaps to start writing chapter 12 while I'm at it. Of course, with so much of the end of this fic needing a good shake-and-plan-up, you can expect that much of my time of then on will be towards chapters 14 and 15 of NoHoper, one of which just needs an edit, and another that will need a full write-up first.
If I find time/chance to work on the Adaptation (by Silver Pard) continuation, Yagami Girls, then there may well be a chapter of that for you, which will appear in Omake Discharge (I will tell you which chapter it starts on before hand, and will notify you now that the chapters in which there is another installment of Yagami Girls will start with 'YG' in the selection tab. With this in mind, the selection tab code for Omake Discharge is:
Discharge#: The typical chapter start - all chapters will begin with this and be succeeded by whatever number chapter it is. Every chapter is known in the world of this fic as a 'Discharge'. Every number that appears in chapter selection labels with be in Roman Numerals (the # sign here means the number). After that, each chapter can be grouped into a certain type, which will be numbered in their own category. After that, the codes are:
- Teaser#: The chapter code for a 'teaser' short, which means that it is a try-out/sneak-peak of a possible story. If the possible story also has an entry on my ff.net profile as an up-and-coming story, that entry will tell you what chapter(s) of OD contain it already.
- Omake#: The chapter code for a short story derived from an existing story. This will be followed by a code of no more than four or five letters, which will tell you which story it's related to. For example, if it was an omake for The Art of Subconscious Illusion: Rewritten, the code would be 'AoSI: R#'. For NoHoper, it would be 'NH#', for Fame Less than Infamy, 'FLtI#', for White Apples, 'WA#', for Ave Maria, 'AM#', and so on.
- YG#: The chapter code for an installment of the Yagami Girls omake series, which will be a permanent fixture of Omake Discharge. This series is particularly numbered on its own count so that an avid fan could read it from start to finish without being interrupted by the other chapters. For those of you interested in reading it, do go and read Adaptation by Silver Pard, because it IS a continuation of that.
- Short#: The chapter code for an original short story, the content of which has never been seen in a fic of mine or will be seen in a fic of mine: It is literally a story too short to be classified as a story of its own. If it becomes a story of its own later, then it does, but it won't be recategorised as a 'Teaser' because that wouldn't be fair.
An example: The first chapter of Omake Discharge (which can be read
here), Discharge I, is the first Teaser of the collection fic, and a teaser to the up-and-coming fic, 'Holy Scriptures'. Thusly, it's chapter code is 'Discharge I: Teaser I'.
Hopefully, you'll enjoy this fic, as a break from some of the heaviness of my usual writings and as your answer to a quick buzz of Takada without the long long chapters that you usually get. Do be warned, the updates may be sporadic, and will completely depend on what esle I'm doing.
Next in the news, as all the main characters (more or less) of White Apples have received a design, I will make time to start some Teaser art, which will be put up on my account on deviant-art for you to enjoy. This also seems to correspond with my wish to one day draw it into a doujinshi so that it can be enjoyed by a wider audience. As my dear sweet
ZeroPanda has done something amazing for me lately, I can now go ahead and do so much more of this fic that I couldn't before, and you'll soon see why.
As a forewarning of epic proportions, there will be one day in particular on which there will be no work: April 12th, which so happens to be my birthday. While there may be an update or two on this day to celebrate, there will likely be little else, because I will be celebrating, and I will not be torn away from that for nothing and no one.
After all that, and with nothing else to say, I think it's time to say goodbye for a little while. I will update again soon, but until I start getting into a regular pattern, I can't tell you when.
Thanks all,
Ruin Takada XXX