Hello everyone, and thanks for your patience!

  We've been waiting to make this first update since even before we launched the demo back in September (three months went by so fast!), and we really appreciate the support you've given our project thus far. Please keep sharing your thoughts and reactions to the project as it's been motivating us to push towards the next big milestones we have planned for early 2024 to get this project (fully) in the ring!

  Here's what we've got for you, most important things in bold for a quick skim:

• As mentioned some time back over in our Discord (links available on our developer profile!), Larein is hard at work preparing the final versions of the wrestling outfit sprites, so please enjoy this humorous internal reference image that highlights what you can expect to see compared to the current build!
• Equally important, we're presently reviewing the near-final drafts of the remaining backgrounds we needed to swap in for us to legally be able to accept donations towards further developing the project; Keira has once again turned in some amazing work, and this will be the catalyst for the first update when we can push it out!
• We will also be cleaning up the typos we found after launch, but as they were fairly minor and we thought this all would be going up FAR sooner, we opted to leave them untouched as more text will need to be altered to reflect the addition of the new backgrounds being added in!
• As a bonus tidbit as gratitude for the patience: we've also begun drafting the good and bad endings for all possible routes in the story! We have only three paths to finish the two sets of endings for, and will be reviewing the completed ones collectively very soon. We hope this further reassures you all about our commitment to the story past the current block of chapters available since, much like Eiichiro Oda, we're aiming to have our endgame set to make sure we know where our (...or should we say YOUR?) possible journeys will conclude as we wait to see what form the middle of the story ultimately takes. (All based on our final gameplay scope and available resources at that time!)

  An exact update release window is TBD, but we'll let you know both here and on all our socials plus Discord when we have a final date nailed down; we're currently looking to make this part of the annual "Christmas Present" drop that we try to do for our flagship projects/viDEEo essays at Digital Era Entertainment, so we hope to have it up and ready by December 25th.

  Thank you again for the support, and we look to post again soon!

Sincerely,

DEE Dev Team