Hey everyone it's been awhile and I'm a little sad to say that this isn't another chapter but instead an update in reply to some PM's and a review to hopefully explain what has been going on with this story, so to start is this story dead? The answer is no, when I uploaded the first chapter I thought I had finished working on all of the background details to the game system I have made for this story but as it turns out there was a little oversight in it's design and now I'm constantly having to double and tripple check everything to make sure it is working properly.
Secondly, when will the next chapter come out? I honestly don't know, I am still looking at some suggestions on how it should start seeing as I am still working on the system I figured looking into some of the PM's with suggestions on where this story should start would be a good idea and I have been considering each of them carefully, then there's the fact that I have decided to turn this into a co-op story with a friend I met on this site which means that I will be reuploading the first chapter since they have added some changes of their own to it when chapter 2 is released.
Thirdly, I have gotten more OC's then I was expecting so I'm still sorting those out too, some are very well detailed while others aren't as detailed, remember if you want your OC to have a chance of making it into this story don't forget to write down what their personality, history (Even if it isn't very detailed) likes, dislike, weapons and Semblances are and if they don't have a Semblance yet list it as unknown, most of the OC submissions I have gotten so far have left out some of these details which isn't exactly helpful since it's going to take even more time out of writing the next chapter.
Fourthly, I have gotten a couple of PM's with some critisim that has helped me see some mistakes in the first chapter which I am really greatful for and others that criticises the chapter with no constructive feedback to work with and seem more like rants on what I should have done over what I did so allow me to make something clear, while I do appreciate constructive feedback and suggestions to my stories what I do not appreciate is someone who believes they have the right to decide how I write my story, if you don't like what I write that's fine go find a story you do enjoy but don't go sending me PM's telling me my story sucks because you wanted such and such to happen and it didn't happen (I'm actually more surpriesed that this even happened with the first chapter). If you do want a story that goes a certian way you have a few options available to you, firstly write your own story and share your ideas, secondly you can make a request for that type of story by either writing a PM to an author you like or uploading the request like you would a story and hope some author likes the idea and leaves a review or PM's you letting you know that they're going to give it a try.
And with all that being said there are some things I would like to explain that were brought up in a lot of those PM's, I know the first chapter is far from my best work and overall lazy at that but there is a good reason for that, this chapter is just supposed to introduce the main character and state some facts about the world and aside from that how many other stories start off like this one? I'm certain many of you have already seen it all before and I didn't see a reason to drag it out any longer than I had, as for the stereotypes and cliches well they were only added in once I had finished and realised how dead and robotic the world actually sounded, just a few small and admittedly lazy touches here and there to bring life to an otherwise dull chapter.
And finally if anyone would be interested I am looking for some help, I have a lot of the system planned out however I am lacking a few things namely classes and skills, desiging everything for this story has been a huge undertaking and while I have started it I have yet to actually make a detailed list of skills, if you are interested in helping me with this please send me a PM and I will give you a more detailed explanation there since it might count as a little spoiler to some.
With all that being said I do hope I will be able to continue this story soon.