Hello, all. It's EyesOfChaos here, finally back from my extended, unannounced and unplanned hiatus!

Yeah, in all seriousness, though, sorry for the long wait. To make a long story short, a combination of various real life problems just wore me down until I didn't have any drive or energy to write-or pursue any of my hobbies, for that matter. And only just now, an entire year later, am I finally resolving the last of those problems.

well, actually I got everything figured out about two or so months ago, but I really just wanted to wait until the anniversary of my unexpected disappearance to make a return. Y'know, for dramatic purposes. And also because human beings can't help but arbitrarily attach meaning to things which coincide with memories in which they felt particularly strong emotions.

and I'll just put this dictionary away now.

All jokes aside, now that I've got my creative spirit back, I'm going to have to work feverishly to build back up to where I was before life got in the way, especially since I had to start all over again.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention; the phone I was using to write and store documents on died and took everything with it. And since FanFiction only holds onto docs for 90 days, all of my work got deleted. Meaning that I had to rebuild the entire framework of this story again, and more or less from scratch, with a marginal amount of content supplemented from memory.

And while yes, you could argue that I could simply use the two previous chapters as groundwork to build off of, they only give me the barest hints of what I was planning on doing before I dropped the ball into the Grand Canyon.

They are, after all, literal tutorial chapters created specifically to get all of the nitty-gritty 'game' stuff sorted out before I moved on to the actual story. Only, I never got to do that, and all you were left with was, essentially, exposition-dump chapters.

Now, before you all get up in arms, I'm not going to delete the story again. I will never do that again. I promise that on my (admittedly little) worth as a writer. No, I'm simply going to remake the first two chapters with the new ideas that have been storming around in my brain ever since I got my creative spirit back-and in fact, they'll probably end up being even longer than they were before.

And no, I'm not just going to add more content for the sake of making the story longer. Everything I'm planning on including will be solely for the sake of making the two previous chapters more interesting and impactful-well, as much as a prologue can be, anyway-as well as giving the viewer a clearer, more concise grasp on the MC's personality before we dive headlong into their story.

And speaking of which, I'm switching the main character back to Ryder because I feel like he didn't get his chance in the spotlight before I hit the reset button. So nyeh heh heh heh heh.

But don't despair, though. Elliot will get his chance, just not with Gaming DxD, because that's Ryder's tale to tell. I have… other plans for ol' Eli.

but yeah. I'm back, and hopefully not going anywhere anytime soon for quite as long as before. Now, mind you, I can't promise any particularly concise dates for when I'll start posting actual content again, but I can say that I will officially start posting again sometime in September, so you won't have to wait quite as long before hearing from me this time.

Oh! But I actually do have good news; I finally have a computer again! I mean, it's a crappy little Acer One that can't play most games, but hey, it does what I need it to! That means no more agonizingly slow typing on mobile, which in turn means that I can crank out chapters far quicker!

And finally…

huh. Actually, that was all I had for today's news docket. Go figure.

Welp, that concludes your yearly Gaming DxD news bulletin! Please check back in with us on August 31, 2019 for your next installment!

sorry. That one was in poor taste. I'll see myself out the door, thank you.

So! With that out of the way, this is EyesOfChaos, signing off (but not for that long this time)!