ANNOUNCEMENT

No, guys. I'm sorry – this ain't a new chapter but an announcement…and as in ninety-five cases out of hundred, I'm afraid mine isn't a messenger of good news.

For starters, I'd like to assure you I haven't dropped the series or put it on hold. Chapter two and three are in the works and were still undergoing changes a few days ago...but unfortunately I have suffered an important and untimely setback in the form of a catastrophic hardware crash – the 160Gb partition where I had stored the drafts for Ch2 and Ch3 was lost along with 60Gb worth of scanlations, fansubs, mp3, pdf files, program installers and a flock of miscellaneous things I need greatly for work and whatnot.

I tried to retrieve the lost data thanks to a file recovery program (finding a good freeware wasn't easy at all) but results have been meagre so far. Considering the few things I managed to find, I'm not sure if I'll be able to locate and restore the missing chapters…provided they are intact in the first place. Most files I succeeded in bringing back were either corrupt or missing parts.

For now I'll try to rewrite ch2 and 3 starting with duplicates I saved less than a week ago in a different partition, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to release them, as I'm no good at hugging deadlines and making haste. Thankfully, next week will most likely grant me more time to spend on this – and hopefully upload chapter two on FFN.

Cheers nevertheless,

R334 (AKA Hellion3 / Soultaker7)